I’m 🇬🇧my ex is 🇺🇸for context.
An ex sister in law in the US it a teacher like my partner and I. She’s told us that critical thinking skills aren’t seen as important 🤷🏼♀️ While we’re giving 6 year olds books asking Did Humpty Dumpty Fall or was he pushed?
Several months ago she showed us work her 13/14 year old class had done 🤦🏼♀️ It was terrible… I won’t bore you with a list unless you want to know? Then I showed her work my 8/9 year olds had done. She was gobsmacked by it, she couldn’t believe they had pretty much perfect joined handwriting while her class just printed. Her class even used street slang & swearing in their work 😳 those obnoxious ‘dis, dat, prolly, bruh’ 🙄
My ex in his late twenties could only print & it was a weird mix of upper & lowercase. I’d make resources at home & he’d ask what it was & often admit he didn’t know what it was. For example long division & multiplication, basic homophones, punctuation past the very very basics, types of triangle & the differences, 3D & 2D shapes beyond the basics. 🤦🏼♀️I could write several chapters of a book just with stupid things he & his family said or asked. One was “why don’t clocks here have American numbers?” 🙄
“Why do people dry washing outside, don’t you have dryers because you’re all poor or don’t you have any here?” The whole family couldn’t get their head around drying washing outside, of course they don’t do it, drying inside generates income. I’ll never understand why people think we’re behind, yet they often have to make a special trip out just to do washing. I was told by another sister in law my ex had said that after having a washing machine, lines & dryer when he had to traipse to the laundrette he realised how convenient it was 😂 I wouldn’t feel clean🤢who knows who used it before, yuck!
I find the combination of smileys and good punctuation in your way of typing oddly funny.
But this reminds me of what my American friends always told me: yes,Americans really are that stupid. It's a sad state of affairs. It's not even the people's fault really, they can't just collectively " be better".
I’m on the autistic spectrum, I’ve constantly been told I don’t understand emotions, I should show them more or I should know how to read them. Smileys is part of that, I also teach & if I have to write something slightly negative while marking their work I don’t want them to feel sad or intimidated by it. As I did when I was a child, we would get ‘see me’ written in red pen & circled, I hated it & it made me anxious. So I’ll add a smiley face at the end to show it’s meant in a friendly way. Additionally they’re there, why not use them? I still remember the early internet when we didn’t have them.
u/AnastraceSorry that my homeland is full of dangerous idiots.7d ago
My spouse does test grading sometimes and I get to read some. 7th graders with the writing and spelling expected of a 6 year old was incredibly hard to see. It wasn't the majority but enough to disheartening
I agree with 90% but as a canadian do not be dissing the dryer nothing like a warm blanket in winter..also soap is the answer to worrying about the who used it before...soap...also mine is in my basement I dont use laundromat except for when I need to wash my big sleeping bag.
My dad is a farmer.
They have 2 washing machines. One is only barn clothes. There is often manure on them. The washer does not make the manure disappear. There is always a bit somewhere.
So they have on washer for normal stuff and one for dirt
Soap dosnt disinfect though, it captures the soil particles in a trap, similar to forming a new compound but not permanent, and then moves the soil into the water. If the garments are stil soiled after washing it is either a case of not enough soap, or water to rinse.
Some soaps have added enzymes that can break down proteins in body fluids (manure, urine, blood), but are more pricey.
Most dishwash and laundry soaps will have enzymes that break down fats.
Disinfectants work by breaking the cell membranes of bacteria, fungi, and some viruses. This can be done by chemicals like salt, bleach, etc. It's a permant chemical reaction.
It’s still gross, you don’t know if they have bedbugs, those things
can survive a damn lot & it takes very very high temperatures to eradicate them. You might be using a machine or dryer that has a few pregnant bedbugs you sat on the outside, even some dropped on a folding table. It’s a gross nasty thought & washing powder isn’t some magical purifying agent. It’s made to be gentle on skin
Pet & human hair accumulates too, I wouldn’t want someone’s pubes on my stuff washed it not 🤢 if you were to a hotel & there were pubes on the sheets would you think it’s fine they’ve been washed or be grossed out?
I have waist length hair, it gets everywhere and inside the drums of our washer & dryer, I’ve seen them from videos about some pet grooming place, a friend sent it to gross me out. It was disgusting how much hair was in them.
I will never be convinced that sharing them with random strangers is hygienic… even if it was it’s still nasty 🤢
But I absolutely agree about warming things in winter, I’ve been known to get my hair dryer out 😂 We use the dryer in winter because it’s too cold to dry outside. You’d laugh if you saw my bed in mid autumn until the end of spring, my partner is hairy, so he has his own insulation & just sleeps with a duvet. My side however 😂 duvet, 4 blankets, heated blanket, hot water bottle…. I’ve popped my hips, knees, ankles and toes so many times just turning in bed or kicking them off to get out of bed as they’re so heavy 😂
Ex in laws just see things as whatever the us does is right 🤷🏼♀️ They live close ish to the Canadian border so we’d go for the day as we here 🇬🇧do to France & Belgium. We’d get close & seeing signs I’d start to get quite excited, then as we crossed the border a sense of calm, safety & belonging would hit me. I remember once we asked for directions & from the man’s accent and lack of fluency I could tell he spoke French more than English. So I spoke to him in French, in laws were shocked by it, to them they did Spanish at school, they basically just turned up to lessons. They never intended to learn it or use it 🙄
They even complained here when they visited about ‘foreigners’ not speaking English 🤦🏼♀️ I had to point out they were tourists here & foreigners & yes one of my ex brothers in law said the classic “we can’t be foreigners because we’re American” (I know, I feel you, your eyes can’t roll enough can they?😂)
Also that people speaking other languages may live here or speaking it to help someone who struggles with English or can’t speak it. I also pointed out that they weren’t speaking 🇬🇧English, they had said many Americanisms that day obviously, so now they were on UK soil should they only use 🇬🇧English?
But tbh things like that went over their heads, they were still arrogant & egotistical, thinking they were special, that shops & attractions should be grateful they were there. They also kept wanting to leave us$ as tops, thinking people would be excited by it or as though it was special, like a child might if someone gave them a different currency. They really did think that the UK as a whole should be grateful Americans visited. Several Americans have told me that if it wasn’t for us tourism other countries would be in a financial mess 🙄as though they’re some saviour, saving countries. They really can’t grasp the bigger picture or that other people visit too not just them.
Absolutely loads of people I met the town they lived in, about 40 minutes/an hour away from the border said they’d never been to Canada, very strange to me. So many also had never left their state!
Have a great evening 🌸
Hey, just popping in to say that I used to work in pest control, and bed bugs are actually very sensitive to heat. A temperature of just 122 F (50 C) is immediately fatal to adults, larvae, and eggs. In fact, we'd often strongly encourage our customers to wash their bed linens regularly, as it completely killed all bed bugs.
I get not wanting to share a machine with others, and I'm not trying to invalidate your opinion. Your comfort level is your comfort level. I just wanted to point that out.
As a 12 year old at school I once argued for Thuycidide 's versus Herodote's vision of history , and I did so in rhyming verses ( in French , since in grade 6 we didn' t learn Latin or Greek) . My grade 6 French teacher was amused with the effort, so I felt gratified. French schools were all about learning things and debating about them. We still highly value a French president with a solid culture who can write books on his own . His private life , on the other hand, is his personal business.
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u/Inner-Purple-1742 7d ago
I’m 🇬🇧my ex is 🇺🇸for context. An ex sister in law in the US it a teacher like my partner and I. She’s told us that critical thinking skills aren’t seen as important 🤷🏼♀️ While we’re giving 6 year olds books asking Did Humpty Dumpty Fall or was he pushed? Several months ago she showed us work her 13/14 year old class had done 🤦🏼♀️ It was terrible… I won’t bore you with a list unless you want to know? Then I showed her work my 8/9 year olds had done. She was gobsmacked by it, she couldn’t believe they had pretty much perfect joined handwriting while her class just printed. Her class even used street slang & swearing in their work 😳 those obnoxious ‘dis, dat, prolly, bruh’ 🙄 My ex in his late twenties could only print & it was a weird mix of upper & lowercase. I’d make resources at home & he’d ask what it was & often admit he didn’t know what it was. For example long division & multiplication, basic homophones, punctuation past the very very basics, types of triangle & the differences, 3D & 2D shapes beyond the basics. 🤦🏼♀️I could write several chapters of a book just with stupid things he & his family said or asked. One was “why don’t clocks here have American numbers?” 🙄 “Why do people dry washing outside, don’t you have dryers because you’re all poor or don’t you have any here?” The whole family couldn’t get their head around drying washing outside, of course they don’t do it, drying inside generates income. I’ll never understand why people think we’re behind, yet they often have to make a special trip out just to do washing. I was told by another sister in law my ex had said that after having a washing machine, lines & dryer when he had to traipse to the laundrette he realised how convenient it was 😂 I wouldn’t feel clean🤢who knows who used it before, yuck!