Random thing you loathe right now.

merphle wrote:
Boudreaux wrote:

Broken rib? Probably a broken rib. Most of the time it's not that bothersome, but sneezing is excruciating.

I, um, broke a rib while playing Magic: The Gathering at PAX East some years back...

Wow, which card does that?

stupidhaiku wrote:
merphle wrote:
Boudreaux wrote:

Broken rib? Probably a broken rib. Most of the time it's not that bothersome, but sneezing is excruciating.

I, um, broke a rib while playing Magic: The Gathering at PAX East some years back...

Wow, which card does that?

Iron Lotus?

Mixolyde wrote:
stupidhaiku wrote:
merphle wrote:
Boudreaux wrote:

Broken rib? Probably a broken rib. Most of the time it's not that bothersome, but sneezing is excruciating.

I, um, broke a rib while playing Magic: The Gathering at PAX East some years back...

Wow, which card does that?

Iron Lotus?

It might as well have been.

I was seated at a table, playing a match against JaSeR, when some random card dropped on the floor, juuuust out of reach. So I leaned and bent awkwardly to get it, when suddenly I heard and felt a huge POP from my left side. Hurt like hell for a month or two. Never actually got it checked out, due to shame and embarrassment.

Rob Zombie's The Munsters movie has him casting his wife as Lilly Munster. Does he have to cast her in all of his movies?

MaxShrek wrote:

Rob Zombie's The Munsters movie has him casting his wife as Lilly Munster. Does he have to cast her in all of his movies?

I see he's gone to the Tim Burton School of Always Casting Your Spouse:

Helena Bonham-Carter
Tim Burton produced or directed:
Alice: Through the Looking Glass
Dark Shadows
Alice in Wonderland
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Big Fish
Planet of the Apes

Granted, this is extremely common across all of Hollywood.

I'll cut Tim Burton some slack on that one though, cos Bonham-Carter is one helluva actor.

merphle wrote:

I was seated at a table, playing a match against JaSeR, when some random card dropped on the floor, juuuust out of reach. So I leaned and bent awkwardly to get it, when suddenly I heard and felt a huge POP from my left side. Hurt like hell for a month or two. Never actually got it checked out, due to shame and embarrassment.

I don’t think you broke a rib. I’m pretty sure you separated a tendon from one of your ribs. It happened to me once. I also heard and felt a pop on one side of my ribs when lifting something in an awkward manner. I also thought that I broke or fractured a rib. Mine happened at work, so I went to the doctor. Doc set me straight about it being a separated muscle. Apparently there are some small muscles attached to the ribs that can be damaged or separated causing intense long lasting pain. I had to miss about two weeks of work for it to heal.

Breaking a rib playing MtG is a better story though. Stick with that.

Doc gave me a “brozier” which helped me to heal more quickly. It’s basically a really tight wrap-brace that I had to wear around the injured area.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Breaking a rib playing MtG is a better story though. Stick with that.

You tink dis is bad? You should'a seen de udda Mage!

Jonman wrote:

I'll cut Tim Burton some slack on that one though, cos Bonham-Carter is one helluva actor.

Sherry Moon Zombie isn't. Oh well. I was hoping they'd be daring and cast Christina Ricci or America Ferrara.

Vector wrote:

Granted, this is extremely common across all of Hollywood.

Clint Eastwood did it with Sondra Locke in The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet (which was terrible), Every Which Way but Loose, Any Which Way You Can, Bronco Billy, and Sudden Impact.

My kid's school "forgot" to include any of their remote students in their yearbook except the "graduating" 5th graders.

When we filled out her school picture form they had specified the school and grade like normal, so they had all the needed information and pictures.
When they were confronted about the missing students they first tried to say that all remote students were in the yearbook of a different school in the same district, as the remote classes were made up of kids from multiple schools in the district, but those schools only included their own remote students (as they ought to have). Our school remembered to include a page for the teacher who taught her remote class, who was retiring this year, but apparently didn't think to include the any of the students she taught.

It's sadly not that surprising because they've been forgetting that remote students exist all year. They "forgot" to send out notices when it was time to order yearbooks as well, we only got our order in because we saw a Facebook post saying there were only a few days left, they had sent order forms home with the in-person students almost a month prior. In the newsletters they loved to talk about how right and vindicating it felt to have in-person classes (despite having to have several quarentines), celebrated when students returned to in-person after having been remote, acted like any that were switching to remote were leaving the school forever, and not once mentioned anything the remote students were doing. So it's perversely appropriate that they've now sent us a yearbook that's basically celebrating how they've excluded my daughter because we kept her remote.

bastards! that’s a real f*cked up move. there’s no way anyone could convince me that that wasn’t politically motivated. do a class action lawsuit with all of the remote students who were treated like they don’t exist!

Either that, or they are covering for a completely incompetent front office in that school. Which is entirely possible, from what I've seen over the years...

Suing them is a dumb idea, how's ruining their budget going to help when she goes back to in-person classes in the fall?
Most of the exclusion from the newsletters is due to their focus on reassuring parent who couldn't have their kids be remote that their kids are in good hands. It sucks but it's somewhat understandable. The yearbook thing is almost certainly incompetence, probably aided by political beliefs but not because of them. I don't think they wanted to send a message to us that they didn't consider her one of their students this year. I think they genuinely forgot and the person who was responsible was scrambling for a way to try to downplay how badly they screwed up.

My mother was a teacher for decades. Incompetence is far more likely. Aggression would have been more in-your-face, in my experience, and done within the rules, technically. “If you want a yearbook entry, bring your child in for photography on Mar 23. Pictures will be taken without masks. Hand sanitizer not provided due to potential disease transmission issues with shared devices.”

"Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by lethargy and incompetence."

Robear wrote:

My mother was a teacher for decades. Incompetence is far more likely. Aggression would have been more in-your-face, in my experience, and done within the rules, technically. “If you want a yearbook entry, bring your child in for photography on Mar 23. Pictures will be taken without masks. Hand sanitizer not provided due to potential disease transmission issues with shared devices.”

Which we did do. We got her school photos taken fine, though it was another instance where we had to remind them remote students existed as they hadn't even thought of how they'd get their pictures taken. It wasn't hard for them figure out and they came up with a good plan, it just hadn't occurred to them at all before we asked how picture day was going to work for remote students. Their newsletter on the subject said they'd be sending the order forms home with students, and that obviously wouldn't have helped us any. They also included a class photo of the headshots of all the remote students in her grade so they had the photos and knew which students were theirs, they just didn't put them in the yearbook.

I cannot believe they made the kids come in for pictures... Just... Horrifying.

Apologies. I was having an emotional reaction about your situation based on my wife’s experiences as a teacher in her school district. There were many blatantly politically motivated slights against teachers who didn’t want to work in unsafe conditions. How could I be sure that these were politically motivated? The district leadership were quite transparent about that.

My boss at the private school where I work questioned me extensively about my officially sanctioned medical letter that says no way should I come back to school to teach in person until *fully* vaccinated, which yes means 2 weeks after the *second* shot. At no time did he break any rules, but the repeated heavy sighing could definitely be read as, "You cheating bastard, I need teachers to watch students take end of year exams...must be nice to bribe doctors so you can get out of work." Heavily implied, anyway.

Kids went back to school (with masks) and I did not. Teaching from home was dependent on them setting up a laptop, attaching it to a screen and speakers. His responsibility to coordinate. Not coincidentally, his job title IS actually Coordinator. After the second time it took 30 minutes for my class to connect to me, I sent him an email titled, "Do you want me to teach tomorrow or not?"

Meanwhile, I had to repeatedly ask some kids to pull their masks actually on their mouth and nose. Meanwhile, my son, who is 12 and finishing sixth grade in the same school complex was sent home to quarantine for 10 days because a girl in his English class tested positive. And a kid one classroom over from where I teach tested positive Sunday night during the weekly self-tests, and that whole class was quarantined.

Me and my asthma are staying safely at home til 2 weeks after the second shot, thanks so f*cking much.

Robear wrote:

I cannot believe they made the kids come in for pictures... Just... Horrifying.

They didn't make anyone come in, and it wasn't group pictures, just individual ones. It was a time set aside just for the remote students, so they didn't have to interact with anyone. Everyone was wearing masks and they stayed on until right before the picture was taken, the gym where the pictures were taken is extremely close to the entrance, so they didn't have to walk through the school much at all. They only went in one at a time, escorted by a staff member the whole time. Everyone else waited in their cars until it was their turn. Honestly I'm not sure what else they could have done to make it safer.

They've been fine with accommodations when they remember remote students exist, the issue is that they almost never remember on their own.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Apologies. I was having an emotional reaction about your situation based on my wife’s experiences as a teacher in her school district. There were many blatantly politically motivated slights against teachers who didn’t want to work in unsafe conditions. How could I be sure that these were politically motivated? The district leadership were quite transparent about that.

I'm sure there's a politically correlation to the lack of empathy behind it, but it's more subconscious than deliberate. The person in charge of the yearbook made a bullsh*t non-apology that made it clear it was due to her ignorant assumptions and laziness instead of maliciousness. She thought that that since they weren't attending her school they weren't her school's responsibility and one of the other schools was supposed to be responsible for making sure they were included, and she never bothered to check to make sure no one was left out. Then she whined about how she volunteers to do the yearbook and only has a limited time to work on it, as if that excuses her leaving dozens of kids out of it.

Roo wrote:

My boss at the private school where I work questioned me extensively about my officially sanctioned medical letter that says no way should I come back to school to teach in person until *fully* vaccinated, which yes means 2 weeks after the *second* shot. At no time did he break any rules, but the repeated heavy sighing could definitely be read as, "You cheating bastard, I need teachers to watch students take end of year exams...must be nice to bribe doctors so you can get out of work." Heavily implied, anyway.

Kids went back to school (with masks) and I did not. Teaching from home was dependent on them setting up a laptop, attaching it to a screen and speakers. His responsibility to coordinate. Not coincidentally, his job title IS actually Coordinator. After the second time it took 30 minutes for my class to connect to me, I sent him an email titled, "Do you want me to teach tomorrow or not?"

Meanwhile, I had to repeatedly ask some kids to pull their masks actually on their mouth and nose. Meanwhile, my son, who is 12 and finishing sixth grade in the same school complex was sent home to quarantine for 10 days because a girl in his English class tested positive. And a kid one classroom over from where I teach tested positive Sunday night during the weekly self-tests, and that whole class was quarantined.

Me and my asthma are staying safely at home til 2 weeks after the second shot, thanks so f*cking much. :P

I work at a University and my wife is a high school teacher and seeing how differently they have handled all this is amazing. A few months ago they went back to having in person class 4 days a week but required my wife to come in the day kids were not there to teach online from her classroom, even though she was a freaking rock star online teacher (and has the numbers to prove it). Did their principle show up all those days they didn't have kids? Hell he is barely there when they do have kids so of course not.

Wife got laid off(her position was removed in a restructure and now they are outsourcing what she previously did). We are fine, she was given a generous severance, but it still sucks. I started a great new job on Monday, so we are fine, but it definitely puts a damper on our summer.

SallyNasty wrote:

Wife got laid off(her position was removed in a restructure and now they are outsourcing what she previously did). We are fine, she was given a generous severance, but it still sucks. I started a great new job on Monday, so we are fine, but it definitely puts a damper on our summer.

Does the company name start with a V? Just curious because we announced a sort of restructuring today. Not sure if it's just coincidence.

Either way, sorry to hear about her losing her job.

DeThroned wrote:

Does the company name start with a V?

Oh, hey! You work at Vagina Corp too?

RawkGWJ wrote:
DeThroned wrote:

Does the company name start with a V?

Oh, hey! You work at Vagina Corp too?

Velveeta?

You guys guessing is greater than the company I work for so I'm just going to keep watching the responses come in.

Rawk - Vagina Corp is right. You don't even want to imagine what the front door looks like!

Restructuring.. Vivisection?

Birthing new ideas?
Wet and wild?

Harrison Ford is in my local area here in the UK filming Indiana Jones 5. It's not that I mind or Loathe that, but right now all the local media, local social media output and practically everyone else I've encountered the last couple of days has been about the fact Harrison Ford is in town, and has anybody seen him.

It's mental.