Monday, June 22, 2020

Quick Quora Post On The Word "Smart"


Some folks might connect with this Quora post that aims to break down the implications of the assigning the word smart to different individuals. Seems like there are a whole lot of "gifted students" out there that suffered the fallout of fielding so much pressure at a young age, just cause tests in class were a bit easier. 

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Text - Why are so many gifted students and adults underachievers? Riley Anderson, lives in My Head Answered Feb 8 Misguided praise. "You're so smart." It seems like an innocent compliment, right? It's not. As a gifted child, you're told that constantly. It becomes a part of your identity. That's what makes you special. That's what people like about you: your intelligence. You are only valued if you are smart. Now, when you're little, school is easy. Especially for you. You don't have to try at a

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Text - perfectly, you conclude. The thing is, school gets harder. Life gets harder. The 100% at the top of your tests turns into a 96%, which drops to an 89%. You try out new hobbies and realize there are things you aren't innately talented at. You begin to doubt your abilities. What if you can't do everything perfectly? Well, then you wouldn't be smart. And if you're not smart, then what are you? Worthless. So you underachieve. It's a genius solution. If you don't try, failure doesn't count. Af

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Text - Maybe. You don't know anymore, and you're too afraid to find out. Because if you do your best, and your best still isn't good enough- You're nothing. Source: The Atlantic 2

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Text - Amyas Cavit Feb 14 · 127 upvotes including Riley Anderson This is so right on. The only positive thing anyone ever told me was that I was smart. So reality hit me like a brick wall when things stopped being easy. I had grown so accustomed to being good at things with relatively little time and effort that I could not tolerate adversity. Challenges only made me anxious, and as time went on my ability to manage my life got worse and worse. The goal was no longer to succeed, it was to not fa

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Man Courts Woman In A Crammed Closet, Max Cringe Ensues


It doesn't get any more awkward than this. 

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Meteorologist Roasts Flat Earthers In Five Minutes


Some people out there actually believe that the world is flat. Man, oh man. 

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Entitled Coworker Demands Party, Takes All The Leftovers


This person asked if they were in the wrong for throwing a fit for not getting a party to go along with their promotion, and then took their coworker's Tupperware for good measure. Sometimes people don't get it, like this entitled girlfriend who expected her boyfriend to pay off her loans, or these entitled people with their ludicrous demands.

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Text - Posted by u/throwawayplatter 21 hours ago AITA because I took all the leftover homes after a work party? Asshole I've worked at this company for 3 years. my 3 year anniversary landed on the same day of my SO proposing and to top it off I'm getting promoted. I was expect at least something from my coworkers. like small party, gift, nothing fancy. I was pretty hurt when I came in that week to find nothing. there were congrats and well dones but nothing else.

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Text - I poured my eyes out later to my SO later and expressed how uncared about I felt. he contacted one of my coworkers, soon to be employee, and she went to my manager and set something up. they had a little buffet in the break room. just the common stuff: veggie platter, dips, chips and sweets like cookies, tarts and brownie, some banners. at the end of the day I took the leftover home with me on the plates/tupperware they came in on. the coworker (again, my soon to be employee) text me that

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Text - apparently she wanted to keep those in the break room for those unable to attend the party could still eat and nowhere did she say this was all for me. she also needed the platter plate back because she was making a birthday cake for her niece. my SO and I both agreed it was wrong for her to text me like that and seeing as it was my party, if I wanted the leftovers, I deserve them. but he thinks I should just apologize to keep the peace. If I'm not wrong I don't see the point. UPDATE:; St

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Text - Karllobo Asshole Aficionado [12] 11.7k points · 1 day ago · edited 22 hours ago YTA You don't deserve anything. No wonder no one organised anything for you at first. You sound incredibly entitled

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Text - Cambridge_Comma Partassipant [3] 5.2k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago & YTA - I'm sorry whaaaat? You had your fiance call your coworkers to demand a party be thrown for you? How did you even get promoted when you clearly have no idea what workplace boundaries are? To address you question about the food (though it's less of an issue): ask around before taking food and if you do, put it in a different container. How can you possibly think it's okay to take this woman's property and th

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Text - RoachesInMyBlister 3.9k points · 21 hours ago · edited 16 hours ago Lmao. You deserve the leftovers? And why do you expect anything material? A congrats should be enough in my opinion. So yes YTA. And anentitled one I must say.

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Text - Bug_a_boo_Mama Partassipant [4] 2.4k points . 21 hours ago YTA. You were not entitled to the left overs for gods sake you cried and FORCED them to throw you a party. Plus you took their tupperware, give it back it wasnt yours

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Text - lydia_rayne Partassipant [1] 1.8k points · 1 day ago YTA. You are not entitled to a party. The fact that you cried to your fiancé about not getting a party and then having him basically TELL your coworkers to throw one is actually ridiculous. You should be embarrassed about acting like that. Also, you should've asked before taking someone's food home. It's common courtesy to keep sweets and small things for the people who couldn't attend. I get that in your eyes you accomplished a lot but

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Text - skysmurf Partassipant [2] 1.4k points · 1 day ago YTA how old are you? Your coworkers( or soon to be employees as you put it)do not owe you a party because you worked at a company for 3 years, or the fact you got promoted or the fact you got engaged period. It's something that coworkers do if the feel like it and not because they feel obligated to. The fact that none of them wanted to until you cried to your boyfriend speaks volumes of how they feel about you on a interpersonal level you

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Text - PokketMowse 860 points · 23 hours ago · edited 23 hours ago YTA. Jesus christ, I worked with another version of you and nobody could ever understand why you'd get so weird about the leftovers from catered lunches and parties. It wasn't your party. It was an OFFICE party. For the office, not for you. You're gonna be a gossip source. You're -that dude- at the office now.

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Tumblr Thread: Employee Robs Museum To Call Out Lack Of Security


Now that's handling the situation like a true boss. Check out some more Tumblr gold with this quick Tumblr thread about a pizza delivery driver's weirdest customers.

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Text - flamefriendsshipped So my boss once robbed a museum to prove a point and honestly, I think she is my new role model. flamefriendsshipped If this gets notes l'l tell the full story fandomiovingweirdo Storu

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Text - flamefriendsshipped Many years ago, my boss was working at this museum and they had these original Churchill documents on display. These documents are worth millions of dollars. The only thing separating the public from these documents was a sheet of glass secured with 4 philips head screws. Seriousty. No security guards in the room, no cameras, just an easily removable piece of glass. My boss pointed out the security concern, but she wasn't taken seriously, so she took matters into her o

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Text - She bought a ticket and pretended to be a guest She entered through the main entrance with a huge drill clearly visible on her belt, went straight to the documents and opened the case with the drill. (While wearing gloves,) she removed the documents, put them in a folder, reattached the glass, and walked out the main exit. Literally no one even questioned her. She immediately went around to the back of the museum, entered using the staff entrance and went straight to her boss's office. Sh

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Technically Accurate Moments that are Clever and Dumb


There's no feeling quite like understanding a joke or moment that somehow manages to be witty, but also mind-achingly stupid at the same time. You can't say that they're perfectly correct, but they are technically accurate. We can't tell after reading these if we feel any smarter or if we've just boiled out our last few brain cells.

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Sport venue - A tennis court on top of a Dubai tower. 422 42 1 Share BEST COMMENTS V It takes a lot of balls to play tennis on that ... Brilliant.

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Photo caption - 4M X3 I'm trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest man in the world, which is taking up a lot of my time. X2 My new personal best: 36. X3 When I was born I was the worst person in the world at being the oldest man in the world. I've gone up about 3 billion places.

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Text - A prehistoric celebration. Happy 20th Anniversary to Dinosaur! Streaming on #DisneyPlus. marijunia dispensiares @vibegender dinosaurs are actually millions of years old. idiot.

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Cartoon - Loading game screen tips be like: .I would have won if I didn't lose!

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Text - 16 Jun at 7:12 PM • O Just playing table tennis.

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Animated cartoon - Chess be like: IPSIT

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Pizza - Are you eating healthy? Yes! Today I made aged organic milk tossed over seasoned tomato purée spread on baked whole wheat Wow! Let me see Delivered Wtf

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Text - Benjamin Dada @DadaBen_ No sex before marriage. Say it after me. GİLLEY @TraeGilley Me it.

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Face - You don't have a skeleton inside of you. You're a brain. You are inside of a skeleton. You're piloting a bone mech that's using meat armor What?

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Text - Wifi Plug 11 hours ago If we all agreed to it, we could live in the year 3,000. 15K

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Cartoon - Is Disney's Goofy Character Actually a Cow? While some might argue that Goofy is actually a Cow and not a dog, the popular character can most accurately be described as a cartoon. DAN EVON PUBLISHED 31 JANUARY 2019 Image via Disney

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Text - Erik Durbin @erik_durbin 50% of Roger Federer's name is "er"

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Face - Google biggest hollywood director ALL IMAGES NEWS VIDEOS MAPS DIRECTORS (BY HEIGHT) JRE Clint James Orson Gore Eastwood Cameron Welles Verbir 1.93 m 1.87 m 1.87 m 1.85 r II

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Text - my living room corner | wall | floor wall reddit

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Adaptation - Joseph @gmail.com> to me Hi James! I hope your doing well. I just fired a pistol for the first time, and I was hoping you could make me look like some sort of agent? thank you! James Fridman <fjamie013@gmail.com> Sure. HOUSE FOR SALE

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Food - ishi || @kuroosbf i made fried rice 12 He a little confused, but he got the spirit.

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Games - MEANWHILE IN A REMOTE PART OF THE DESERT

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Cartoon - Nobody: Mr. Krabs: *laughs in silver* Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag Silver Silver Silver Silver Silver Silver

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Text - r/AskReddit Posted by 3h NSFW What's it like to have a penis? 82 210 Share BEST COMMENTS e• 2h O 2 Awards It's hard sometimes 603 Reply ...

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Compost - If your DOG does a POO Please put it in a litter bin. Please hel our spaces clean

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Wood - Vandalism

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Text - Doorbells: GG

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Cringiest Things Brides And Grooms Have Done


Someone on AskReddit got a fun and wild thread going about the cringiest things that people have done at weddings. Weddings just seem to bring all kinds of craziness out of people. 

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Text - RandomThoughts15 • 2h I'm a wedding videographer, and just recently the groom tried to slip the cake onto the face of the bride during the cake cutting to be funny and she straight up slapped him. This wasn't in a joking way either, it was straight face, straight up hard slap to the face. Best part is I got it on video. Reply 1 2.9k

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Text - WeddingElly • 2h At a classmates' wedding. They were young - maybe like 22? 23? There is apparently a caking tradition in some parts of the country, where when they cut the wedding cake, the couple feed each other a bit and smear each other's faces with cake as a joke. The bride had absolutely made 1000% clear to the groom she did NOT want to be caked. He did it anyways, and not just a small smear, but full on smushed a piece in her face. She was stunned initially, then got up, face full

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Text - aPKPirate • 1h Ive worked over 200 weddings at the same venue, many couples wanted fireworks and we had a company that could always do a show. The couple ALWAYS, without fail, would pick Firework by Katy Perry to play during the show. Reply 1.4k ...

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Text - Back2Bach • 2h At the reception line, after the church wedding ceremony: The bride had a large bottle of her favorite perfume and sprayed each guest with it - female and male, whether they wanted it or not - as they entered the banquet hall. Some guests complained that the smell of perfume was so strong that they lost their appetite and couldn't partake of the banquet. Reply 3.1k ...

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Text - The_Height_of_Folly • 2h Flew away in a helicopter at the end but there were only appetizers for food Reply 513 ...

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Text - -taco-rice- • 3h My wife and I don't dance, so we hadn't danced together before our wedding dance. Loved it, but it was cringe-worthy. Reply 937 ...

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Text - vixissitude • 3h Not wedding but engagement ceremony. They reenacted a scene from an old romantic film, about two lovers in 1800s. In front of like 300 people. Reply 575 ...

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Text - goofygoober2006 • 2h I went to a potluck wedding. The attendees kept all the food in their hot cars while at church then when we moved to the event hall they brought it all in to be served. Potato and macaroni salad after being in a hot car for an hour. Delish. Those were the high end dishes. Some attendees brought 2 liters of soda or bags of chips. At this same wedding they also had a "dollar dance". Everyone lines up and pays for the chance to dance with the bride. They pin dollars on t

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Text - dirtybirds233 · 3h My cousin and his wife are SUPER religious and maybe the two most awkward people l've ever met. They did one of those 'fake out' first dances where it starts with a slow song then transitions to a dance number with an upbeat song. Not only is that naturally cringe worthy, the upbeat song was 5 minutes long and they just kept repeating the same moves over and over for what felt like eternity. There was no alcohol allowed at the wedding, so there was nothing to dull the p

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Text - LiquifiedSpam • 3h Well, the groom (my uncle) didn't do it, but my dad wrote "help me" on the bottom of his shoes in big blocky letters so when he went up and kneeled at one point the immediate crowd had a good laugh. Edit: my dad wrote the letters on my uncle's shoes, not his own Reply 436 ...

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Text - EITuxedoMex • 2h During the wedding of some friends of my wife, the groom stopped the party to put a corny video with their photos since the first time they met until then. It doesn't sound that bad, but honestly it was the most ridiculous video with a totally out of place song, made worse by the fact that the bride was laughing mockingly and taking tequila shots with her friends. Reply 1 141

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Text - OphrysAlba • 2h Bride takes three hours to appear. After the ceremony, she and her spouse go up in an air balloon. The marriage did not last a year. Reply 1 1.4k ...

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Text - AlmousCurious • 2h The groom sang his vows. I honestly had to stare at the floor and slow breath to not laugh and get through it. Reply 1.8k ...

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Tumblr Thread: Pokémon Drawn to Actual Scale


An ekans doesn't seem nearly as imposing when it looks like it could crawl out of a tailpipe. Many of us grew up with the global phenomenon of Pokémon searing its mark into our childhoods, and a lot of time has been lost on those games for good reason. This Tumblr Thread explains how the Pokémon probability system is madness. Also, here's a thread on why Mr. Mime is the creepiest Pokémon.

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