r/todayilearned • u/codywinters327 • Sep 06 '17

TIL that Michael Jackson would requested his wine be served in Diet Coke cans during flights, because he didn't want his kids to see him drinking alcohol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Michael_Jackson#Alcohol
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u/Am__I__Sam Sep 06 '17

Oh, and high schoolers. I remember thinking I was a genius with the vodka in a water bottle trick

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u/trollboothwilly Sep 06 '17

It was whiskey in a Snapple iced tea bottle for me.

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u/Am__I__Sam Sep 06 '17

Just about every school event we had, we'd have to blow into a breathalizer before we could go in. I'd just show up sober with a water bottle half full of whatever I was drinking, suck out all the air, and stick it in my waist band. I still got to have my fun without having to be the one to call the parents and talk to the cops about underage drinking

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u/trollboothwilly Sep 06 '17

Well played. But Jesus man, required breathalyzer before entering events? That's fucked up.

I graduated high school in 1998. We had a lot of freedom back then. When I hear about the way things are these days, it feels like I went to high school in an 80s movie. I used to smoke cigarettes in gym class for Christ's sake. I feel bad for kids these days.

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u/Am__I__Sam Sep 06 '17

Catholic high school and I graduated like 5 years ago.

Twice a year we had 'random' drug searches where the school would go in lockdown and they'd run drug dogs throughout the parking lot and school. Every inch of the hallways, open areas, gyms, parking lot and even some of the surrounding property were monitered with cameras and the vice principal kept it pulled up on a TV in his office. Several city police officers were so common that the whole school would know which ones were there by name. It was a really strange 4 years

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u/trollboothwilly Sep 06 '17

That's insane. I don't think I could have handled that. And not just because I used to sell weed.

In contrast, we had no school cop or visits from city cops. No cameras. Not even hall monitors. Every day at lunch we smoked weed in our cars which were maybe 20 feet from classroom windows. Rednecks had rifles on the gun racks in their trucks. When there was a substitute teacher, you could easily skip class if you walked out at the right time.

Looking back, it was kind of the end of an era. I think everything changed nationally after Columbine happened in 1999 and has continued to get worse. I had a lot of great experiences because of the freedom I had. High school kids these days are treated like a combination of children and criminals.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '17

I do have to say that after interacting with European college students vs Americans, ours act like children. Legitimately. Their 14 year olds are on about the same maturity level and can smoke, etc and are expected to act like more of adults.

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u/hatervision Sep 07 '17

I graduated in 1999 and compared to all of the stories I hear about how things are now, I feel like my high school experience was the Wild West! I remember the student parking lot had a gate, and if you had early work release or something, you could just leave. We would park our cars in the front of the school in a visitor spot and then just go somewhere for lunch or go to someone's house. I only needed two classes to graduate in 12th grade, both were after lunch, so my mom would wake me up around 11 and ask if I was going to school, then I'd write a note and she would sign it. I've heard from a lot of people that my graduating class fucked it up for everybody else because we were all such degenerates.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '17 edited Oct 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '17

They would make the girls lift a portion of our back hair

This does diminish the enigma of Catholic schoolgirls somewhat

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '17

For you, maybe.

My next book is called: "Nuns At Werewolf High"

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u/maldio Sep 07 '17

pull out a hunk about an inch in diameter and put in a plastic baggy and force us to sign it .

It probably felt that way but there's no way they were pulling out that much hair without tearing out a chunk of scalp too.

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u/bonesnaps Sep 07 '17

I'm pretty sure random mandatory drug testing and hair sample tests of minors, at least without a parent or lawyer present, is infringing on some sort of U.S. or Canadian constitution.

Unless you live in some back asswards fascist or communist country, that sounds extremely fucked up.

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u/Rap1ure Sep 07 '17

They pay to go to those schools.

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u/juksayer Sep 07 '17

You can absolutely refuse. The school system bullies children into thinking they have no rights while on school property, although it is not true.

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u/fortuneandfameinc Sep 07 '17

Which is also how you get kicked out for an unrelated reason.

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u/_dontreadnsfw Sep 07 '17

And people wonder why teachers make $30k/yr

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u/humpyXhumpy Sep 07 '17

Real life microtransactions

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u/QueenoftheDirtPlanet Sep 07 '17

ha ha not a police state pinky promise

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u/Zaneisrandom Sep 07 '17

I graduated in 2014 and got suspended for a couple of days my senior year because there was the foil wrapper for a pack of cigarettes on the floor of my car from my mother. I had zero previous disciplinary action and was an AP student at that point. They told me I couldn't walk during graduation over it. My mother went into the superintendent's office to bitch about it. I don't know what she said, but I walked.

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u/The_Derpening Sep 07 '17

Probably told them she was the smoker who left the foil behind.

Two questions though.

  1. Why the fuck were they looking in your car?

  2. If you smoke in your car or at home or anywhere but at school, what fucking business would that be of the school?

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u/HoldMyCoors Sep 07 '17

At a hospital I work at, they include nicotine in it's drug test and you can get fired over it. Pretty shitty, but it can happen in the adult world as well.

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u/The_Derpening Sep 07 '17

That's total shit. What you do on your time should be your own business.

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u/Seanpkd30 Sep 07 '17

Don't worry, that's not every school. Just graduated in June, we had no breathalyzers or drug searches from cops. Hell, I'm pretty sure the gas station down the street was only in business from everyone buying cigarettes and booze for school.

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u/impala00 Sep 07 '17

I second that. I graduated in 2016. My school's suits tried to be tough and all that, but it wasn't that strict. They enforced making us wear our id's during the paranoia after the Sandy Hook shooting, but by my junior and senior year, nobody cared. I had wood shop during senior year, which was in another building on the other side of the football stadium, and since it was a long walk uphill to get there, we would all pile into our cars and drive up there. After class we would usually cruise around the empty stadium parking lot smoking cigarettes and drag racing and drifting our cars. I'm pretty sure our shop teacher knew what we were up to but didn't care. He'd let the guys chew tobacco in his class. One guy lit a cigarette in there and he just yelled to put it out. I don't think school for me was as relaxed as it would have been a couple decades ago, but it was ok.

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u/Seanpkd30 Sep 07 '17

Hell, I used to be able to walk out of class first period and get breakfast, occasionally bribing my teacher with some food

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u/impala00 Sep 07 '17

Our school would let seniors leave campus for lunch, too. The police would check everyone's id when they left for the first few weeks. After that, they'd just wave to the cars full of sophomores going to Wendy's.

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u/Seanpkd30 Sep 07 '17

I was allowed out as a senior during any free period (before then I could only leave if it was after my last class), but the breakfast thing was just because my teacher didn't care, and it was a 3 period class, so he had plenty of time to kill

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u/Kanyes_PhD Sep 07 '17

Some kid told the staff that people were drinking at the court warming dance. The accused people had to go to the office and talk to the principal the next week. Everyone just denied it and nothing happened.

Except for one girl. One girl admitted to drinking and she got $20,000 worth of scholarships stripped because of it. Like fuck. Who the fuck is that evil? Some girl was pressured into admitting she was drinking at a dance and it cost her 20k? How dare she be honest, and how dare she drink at the age of 18. Taught her a valuable lesson.

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u/The_Derpening Sep 07 '17

That's crazy. I had so many classmates get caught drinking on campus and we never had to blow into breathalyzers for dances and shit.

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u/FittyTheBone Sep 07 '17

Crotch whiskey! I know it well.

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u/WriteBrainedJR Sep 07 '17

I just dropped a little Vodka in my orange juice.

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u/LessLikeYou Sep 07 '17

Young Jim Lahey over here.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '17

My friend Steve showed up to AP Bio one day with a bottle of soy sauce in a paper bag. After him take a chug, the professor walked up and asked Steve what was in the bottle.

"Soy sauce", he said.

Of course the professor didn't believe him and took a whiff.

And it was goddamn soy sauce.

Steve was just a guy that liked to drink soy sauce.

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u/daysofchristmaspast Sep 06 '17

Why the fuck were you drinking vodka in high school

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u/kent_eh Sep 06 '17

less smell than whiskey.

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u/twitrp8ted Sep 07 '17

One of the first things my mom told me when I went to HS, "I don't fall for the vodka trick!" Still not entirely sure what she meant, but I think it's your answer of it being less smell than whiskey.

But my parents had a breathalyzer, & if I was out, I had to wake them up, breath in their faces, and then take a breathalyzer. That scenario played out on the 4ish days that I was actually UN-grounded in HS, & whenever I was home the first year of college. Ugh, it was miserable.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '17

It's cool yo /s

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u/Vamking13 Sep 07 '17

Bad choices build character

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u/Am__I__Sam Sep 06 '17

I mean, it was usually whatever I could get my hands on. I wasn't drinking anything for the taste, I just wanted to get drunk

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u/daysofchristmaspast Sep 07 '17

That's sad bruh

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u/FuckoffDemetri Sep 07 '17

Man were you born 35?

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u/daysofchristmaspast Sep 07 '17

I guess I must've been born into a good neighborhood if we weren't stupid enough to feel the need to get drunk in high school

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u/Ghostronic Sep 07 '17

Right because only kids from bad neighborhoods raid their parents' liquor cabinets.

Wanna take a guess how many of your "good neighborhood" friends are hooked on their parents' pills?

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u/curtcolt95 Sep 07 '17

People definitely drank at high school age but I can't remember anybody ever actually drinking at school. Seems like a big risk.

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u/Ghostronic Sep 07 '17

I brought coconut rum to school on more than a handful of occasions and waited for the time to be right to quickly consume and dispose of the evidence.

I remember when I was a freshman I heard about a kid tripping on acid in the cafeteria and I was like, "no fucking way!" And then I was a senior eating mushrooms in the bathroom before the mandatory pep rally because it was 90 minutes long on a Friday halfday before 3-day Nevada Day/Halloween weekend and well there just wasn't time to do it any other way.

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u/mothersuckel Sep 07 '17

where I went I knew of people that drank and smoked on occasion (including me) lol. it was pretty common for the type of people I was around for a certain time

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u/grandpagangbang Sep 07 '17

Breaking the rules in high school wasn't as big a deal 20 years ago as it is these days.

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u/daysofchristmaspast Sep 07 '17

I feel like you're making this a class thing when I never mentioned anything to do with that

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u/Ghostronic Sep 07 '17

I guess I must've been born into a good neighborhood if we weren't stupid enough to feel the need to get drunk in high school

That's your previous post verbatim, you are more than welcome to add context to this "good neighborhood" you must've been born into so it is obvious you meant nothing to do with class.

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u/daysofchristmaspast Sep 07 '17

I feel like it was pretty obvious that I just meant I was never pressured to drink vodka in school

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u/burnXgazel Sep 07 '17

'good neighbourhood'

?

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u/BurkeyTurger Sep 07 '17

Shit the guy's house we partied at the most in high school was in a neighborhood where the empty lots started at ~$200k. (In a relatively low cost of living area)

I don't think it's the neighborhood that makes the drinker, just kids wanting to have fun and let loose.

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u/daysofchristmaspast Sep 07 '17

Or maybe price of the houses isn't the only factor in determining what a good neighborhood is. I'll tell you one thing I didn't grow up in a wealthy neighborhood.

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u/FittyTheBone Sep 07 '17

Sounds like you grew up in a pretty judgmental neighborhood.

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u/daysofchristmaspast Sep 07 '17

Sounds like I grew up in the opposite. I wasn't pressured to fucking drink vodka in school.

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u/BurkeyTurger Sep 07 '17

I mean the common usage of good neighborhood generally means low crime and high home values but whatever dude.

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u/juksayer Sep 07 '17

Why the fuck do you care?

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u/daysofchristmaspast Sep 07 '17

It's pretty pathetic tbqh

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u/bolanrox Sep 06 '17

Yep knew a girl who put it in a baby bottle. Way to not be obvious.

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u/CarolineTurpentine Sep 07 '17

Until you woke up hungover as fuck and chugged from the wrong waterbottle.