• Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    I spent some time looking up the ones that were unfamiliar. Only the cardiac arrest meme I could not find out much over (outside of a TikTok link)

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    There was a shirt, it was Mario + Mushroom = Big Mario. Our administration thought this was a drug reference. Some nerdy kid would wear the shirt and about half way through the day they would be wearing it inside out.

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      Literally a 40 year old reference, seniors still in working age was in their 20s when this game was released

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    As an elder gen Z I can assure you that the list of banned things in my class circa 2015 was somehow worse. Just off the top of my head.

    SpongeBob laugh

    WW2 Propaganda (Just cause it’s historical doesn’t make it not pornography vaultdweller013)

    Any discussion of the killdozer

    Bulldozer noises

    Tank noises (You will all make annoying lawyers)

    Kazoos are not longer allowed

    Compressed air canisters are banned especially if you have a whistle and duck tape

    Arma is not allowed to be watched on computer property

    Soviet national anthem

    Russian national anthem

    State anthem of Mississippi

    Djibouti National anthem

    Sakkinarven Polka

    Those are just the ones I remember, I am the direct source of at least half of them.

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      I will proceed to check out the national anthem of Djibouti and the state anthem of Mississippi. I might be back with some questions.

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      They changed the state anthem of Mississippi a couple of years ago from Go Mississippi to One Mississippi. It’s no longer contextually hilarious and not nearly as hoki. I guess Mississippi decided they were not on the right track and probably were never going to get to the top.

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        Shame the old one is pretty unique, frankly if anyone needs an update it’s us Californians. But we are also a somewhat lazy bunch and would probably just make California Dreamin the new anthem. Either that or the committee would let their insanity take hold and ya would end up with something reminiscing a Latin war cant.

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    Story time! When I was in high school (~1998/99) a group of kids decided to start a “gang.” I went to a small Baptist school. Kids were bored. This was maybe second period. They called their gang the “Yo’s.” Saying “Yo” was pretty much the extent of their gang. By lunchtime a group of us got annoyed and decided to start a rival gang called the “No’s.” The Bloods to the Yo’s Crips. The sign you were a No was you grabbed a brown paper towel from the bathroom and wore it hanging from your back pocket.

    Anyway, just before dismissal everyone was called into an assembly and given a lecture on gangs and told that anyone wearing a brown paper towel would receive a detention. I am still amused at how seriously our administration took this obviously stupid and juvenile joke.

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      Wait until you learn how seriously law enforcement took street gangs.

      The whole Saints Row series was based on the dichotomy between incorrigible feral teens, a product of hands-off parenting while simultaneously running an international drug and crime syndicate

      Of note is the property of ur-fascism the enemy [of the movement] is simultaneously strong and weak

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      In public highschool in the '90s in rural Ohio. A bunch dressed in western/cowboy gear and brought guns to a football game and there was some other ‘gang’ as well (maybe same fashion but different belief? I don’t remember). One person got found with a gun and arrested, but nothing else came of it. Yeehaw, I suppose.

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    Not to be confused with band words:

    1. practice
    2. scales
    3. tuner
    4. first chair
    5. recital
    6. solo
    7. clarinet
    8. John Philip Souza
    9. hot cross buns
    10. tuba
    11. bassoon
    12. glockenspiel
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    In the 80s they let us say bitchin’ in class because ‘‘it’s just slang for good’’

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    I get like 3 or 4 of those. Some of them I’ve heard out of context so I have no clue what they mean.

    I’m 39.