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teep_
04/24/21 9:34:37 AM
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https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/1385626083488239618?s=20
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The Trent
04/24/21 9:35:44 AM
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article link?

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Choco
04/24/21 12:55:23 PM
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Jabodie
04/24/21 1:01:53 PM
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The replies are the good part

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teep_
04/24/21 1:02:12 PM
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Choco posted...
i don't get it

They took their Abi, and the question was on one of his articles

Afterwards, they're all in his Twitter and Instagram to either be happy or complain
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Solar_Crimson
04/24/21 1:09:47 PM
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The Trent posted...
article link?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/opinion/california-single-family-housing.html

It's paywalled, though.

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Choco
04/24/21 1:15:43 PM
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teep_ posted...
They took their Abi, and the question was on one of his articles

Afterwards, they're all in his Twitter and Instagram to either be happy or complain
every single part of this makes sense to me yet the whole doesn't.
am i just getting old?

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Ricemills
04/24/21 1:17:04 PM
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seems the students are just joking when they say he ruined their lives.
but what do i know about German sense of humour anyway?

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berlyman101
04/24/21 1:17:37 PM
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it seems like they had to analyze his article for their final exam which has a very heavy weight for their final grades. so if the English/reading portion of our standardized tests were lumped into our final grades for graduation.

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teep_
04/24/21 1:19:48 PM
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Ricemills posted...
seems the students are just joking when they say he ruined their lives.
but what do i know about German sense of humour anyway?

The Abitur is srs business

berlyman101 posted...
so if the English/reading portion of our standardized tests were lumped into our final grades for graduation

no, it'd be more like a foreign language comprehension exam. Say, if it were mandatory to take Spanish in the US
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Choco
04/24/21 1:20:26 PM
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yeah idk wtf kind of word "ticky-tacky" is supposed to be so i agree with all the students who are pissed off

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Choco
04/24/21 1:23:25 PM
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i once tried to read a book on time management and i was getting like extremely pissed off at it cause the author kept using words that even google couldn't help me with

like why not use normal words u piece of shit

i never finished it

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Choco
04/24/21 1:24:18 PM
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joe40001
04/24/21 1:25:00 PM
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So what?

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Anony1125
04/24/21 1:25:22 PM
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Choco posted...
i once tried to read a book on time management and i was getting like extremely pissed off at it cause the author kept using words that even google couldn't help me with

like why not use normal words u piece of shit

i never finished it
sounds like it taught you something about time management after all

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Choco
04/24/21 1:27:55 PM
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Anony1125 posted...
sounds like it taught you something about time management after all
lol

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teep_
04/24/21 1:38:02 PM
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Choco posted...
https://twitter.com/k1ngselin/status/1385662451530838016
lmao

LOL
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Machete
04/24/21 1:45:55 PM
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Choco posted...
yeah idk wtf kind of word "ticky-tacky" is supposed to be so i agree with all the students who are pissed off


It's something that is used to make little boxes on a hillside...

(I don't actually know. There is a tv show called Weeds and the theme song has a line about that, but I don't actually knows what ticky tacky is)
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Rapid99
04/24/21 2:19:55 PM
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Choco posted...
yeah idk wtf kind of word "ticky-tacky" is supposed to be so i agree with all the students who are pissed off

It's 60s slang for cheap building material. I think the song Little Boxes coined the term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes

If that was actually a question on an exam for supposedly modern English then yeah kind of silly.

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Choco
04/24/21 2:25:29 PM
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Rapid99 posted...
It's 60s slang for cheap building material. I think the song Little Boxes coined the term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes
jesus fucking christ

Rapid99 posted...
If that was actually a question on an exam for supposedly modern English then yeah kind of silly.
i don't think there were any questions for specific words i'm pretty sure it was just general text analysis stuff

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Funkydog
04/24/21 2:50:09 PM
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99% of people with English as a mother tongue would probably be confused by "Ticky-Tacky"

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MC_BatCommander
04/24/21 2:56:36 PM
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Funkydog posted...
99% of people with English as a mother tongue would probably be confused by "Ticky-Tacky"

Yeah the only reason I know it is because I watched Weeds which has the little boxes song in the opening

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berlyman101
04/24/21 3:08:26 PM
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I know "ticky-tack" to mean a "cheap" foul call in basketball so with that context I would assume it's derived from slang for "cheap."

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ToadallyAwesome
04/24/21 3:12:01 PM
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berlyman101 posted...
I know "ticky-tack" to mean a "cheap" foul call in basketball so with that context I would assume it's derived from slang for "cheap."

This.

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Machete
04/24/21 3:17:03 PM
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Rapid99 posted...


It's 60s slang for cheap building material. I think the song Little Boxes coined the term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes

If that was actually a question on an exam for supposedly modern English then yeah kind of silly.


Wait... so that song existed before Weeds?

If so, everything I ever thought I knew about the world is false :(
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