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[–] sloonark@lemm.ee 238 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm a high school teacher and I recently was discussing this. Protip: don't talk to 14 year olds about how if something is in between hard and soft, it's firm. πŸ™„

[–] CascadianBeam@lemmy.world 108 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There’s a surprisingly more expansive demographic that pro tip applies to.

[–] steakmeout@lemmy.world 98 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You called out β€œtip”, but you left β€œexpansive” just lying there helpless?

[–] MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Don’t worry, it’ll rise to the occasion

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Yepp, just the tip.

[–] the_itsb@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago

I'm 41f (going on 13 at times), and this is why my husband hates(loves) having me around the shop - all the mechanical everything is full of euphemisms and innuendo. "mating surfaces" πŸ˜‚

[–] MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are emojis acceptable here? Because I’d like to insert the hand raise one here

[–] Deez@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think yes, let’s make a new culture of restrained emoji use πŸ™Œ

[–] ramplay@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh were they referring to praise hands? I thought they meant πŸ™‹

[–] Deez@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was high fiving their raised hand

[–] Doug@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] lorez@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Breakfast Club fist pump. There should be a dedicated emoji for that.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that tip is applicable for a lot of people who understand what sex is, this isn't something that really goes away with age in a lot of cases.

[–] kog@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like you should really have seen that one coming.

[–] LinusWorks4Mo@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

coming for sure

[–] e033x@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Sixner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Not for lack of trying! He got that ropeware bug

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] Doug@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

I had a physics teacher who measured something against his hand in front of class and started to say, "You should try to..." then stopped before telling us he almost said "you should try to use your body to measure whenever possible" but stopped because he remembered he was talking to a room full of high schoolers.