As someone who had to learn cursive in school, I dropped that shit literally as soon as they said we didn't need to use it anymore. Good riddance.
Yeah, I learned cursive too, but I think it's weird to see anyone younger than boomers using it.
I have seen the handwriting of some people who complain about "schools not teaching cursive anymore". I have news to them: I know how to read cursive, their cursive is just crap.
I, too, know how to read cursive. The vast majority of it is unreadable eyedaggers.
The worst part is that it feels like different people were taught different forms of cursive. Lowercase r, f, q, and z is where I noticed most people just making stuff up half of the time
My 9 year old recently asked me what "stop-drop-and-roll" was and I explained it was if you were on fire and she gave me a really skeptical look and asked, "did that happen a lot when you were a kid?"
About as often as getting stuck in quicksand
No, it happened at a large enough scale in the country of 300M people that we did something about it
Only needs to happen once in a lifetime. Grease fires are more common than you might think.
I imagine someone who wasn't taught stop drop and roll would just run around panicking. But probably a lot of people who were taught it as well.
I imagine it was also more common when people regularly had fires in their own homes. I bought that same child a pair of pajamas as a toddler that had a million warning tags about keeping them away from open flames because they weren't flame resistant... Not a problem, I tended to keep my babies away from open flames regardless.
My stepbrother was caught in a house fire as a teenager and he has third degree burn scars over like 60% of his body. Stop, drop and roll probably saved his life.
So it does happen, but it's always like there's this person who knows this guy that it happened to and not like it happened to everyone.
When I was about 10, my dad asked me to light the fireplace. No big deal, I did that all the time at that point. I sat cross legged in front of the fireplace and struck the match like always. I was instantly reminded of the fact that I was wearing these really fuzzy wool plaid pajama pants as I was pretty instantly on fire when a stray spark hut them. All of that "stop drop and roll" training went out the window as I went into a complete panic and started to run. My dad had to tackle me and rip the pants off of me as I was still freaking out.
Great dad work! 100%
Not only cursive and calligraphy, but we rode our bicycles until we were lost and without a mobile phone.
As a 56 year old - I write cursive fine enough to barely get what the letters are. My signature however is exactly the same way - mostly rushed and random. Hoping for that someday challenge.
I learned cursive and then never used it again. I learned it to sign my name, but you don't even need cursive to sign your name because everybody's signature is just a big scribble anyway.
The boomerfication of millennials is a sight to behold.
Here's another one I spotted recently. People comparing html to "years of experience in CIA" just felt funny.
HTML is not hard. Someone who says "HTML codes" won't know anything past the basics.
All young people find all old people quaint, this is nothing like a boomer humor, every generation does this. Boomer humor is more about hating your wife and blaming everything on every other generation.
"Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." - Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption.
Everything on this list is still being taught to my kids (NZ). Phonics is still the best way to teach reading. Every new stupid fad dies out and they come back to phonics.
I'm pretty surprised they're learning cursive though. Wtf
Hold up. You write? By hand? At work? In 2026? And you're not jailed for that?
I've been in & out of institutions thanks to my addiction to phonics. School got me hooked on the stuff.
I'm in this post and I don't like it.
Why is Stop Drop and Roll no longer being taught?
When they shoot, look cute & scoot
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