jugendimpressionist
JugendImpressionist
jugendimpressionist

I still have a Taylor Dayne CD that as delivered to me for not getting the card back on time.

Which is how I ended up with a goddamn Cher CD.

This sounds interesting. How long does it take to download this vinyl?

I remember when BMG started out, you could contact them if your delivery hadn’t arrived by a certain date, and they would send out a duplicate order. We used to place huge orders for lots of CDs and box sets, get two copies of everything, and then sell the second set to second-hand shops.

I’m pretty sure my circle of friends in college were responsible for a hefty chunk of Columbia House and BMG’s losses. So many imaginary friends to refer for the bonus CDs.

I also don’t get the hatred directed at Michelle Obama for trying to make schools supply healthy meals - like, how dare anyone try to ensure kids get nutritious healthy food that increases their ability to learn?? /s

Wait, what? I always thought it was the Republicans that were calling for deregulation and government services to be taken over by for-profit corporations. They’re the ones that always spout that the government is “too big and broken” in the same sentence as “vote for me”.

Hi friends. I was one of these kids who never had lunch money. The school district cut my free lunch program by the time I was in high school. I was a single mom on disability situation, we were living off <5k a year and even though we had food stamps, we could only buy what we could carry from the closest thing in

Throwing away the meal in front of the child? What a tremendous idea. Nothing motivates and nurtures a child like humiliation and hunger.

thus improving the life of the child.

So, here’s a crazy idea: when a kid reaches a certain amount of lunch debt, a social worker or school administrator reaches out to the kid’s family to try to find out why: is the kid going to school with lunch money every day and getting it taken on the way to school? Are they just spending it on chips in the morning?

When I was little, I used to leave space in the bed so the angel could have room to sleep next to me. I would essentially push myself as far into the wall as possible, so I wouldn’t squish my guardian angel. Making kids believe that a creepy elf/angel/santa/god is present and watching them at all times is SUCH a great

My kids are still too little to know about this elf stupidity. But my students are into it hardcore and since November I’ve had to hear about what their damned elves are doing every night. But I also saw that the kids whose parents don’t do the elf were sad about it. So I know I’ll eventually be suckered into this

I used to hate getting undressed as a child because I was afraid that angels were watching. If elf on a shelf had been a thing back then, I probably would have burned it and buried the ashes in the woods.

People have already convinced their kids that a magic fat man enters every house in the world and brings presents to good little boys and girls. The elf is a logical extension, especially in a world where we’re already constantly being tracked.

The cops still came to the house to check on Isabella and found her freaking out. “She was hysterical crying, she was panicking,”

My parents / grandparents / aunts are the kind of gift-givers that if you mention something once, you clearly love it for all of time. So I had about 17 bottles of Navy by the time I graduated college.

Remember guys, it’s a “soft sculpture”. Stuffed animals are for philistines.

I call shenanigans! How is Exclamation! not here? That is the smell of junior high school - at least until the Body Shop opened in Kamloops and *everyone* had to take sides in the great Dewberry vs White Musk Wars.

I got that Electric Youth set for Xmas. I was that person. I know that scent anywhere...and I can still smell it sometimes. I swear someone has repurposed the unsold leftovers as air freshener or something.