how universal of an experience is having the giving tree read to you as a small child and being distraught even tho the teacher seemed to think it was a nice story. also is this a gendered phenomenon. do girlchildren know on some level that they’re the tree not the little boy
Children designated as “gifted and talented” frequently melt down because of this story. Boys and girls both. I’ve heard many G&T educators say they don’t bring The Giving Tree or The Rainbow Fish into their classrooms at all because of it.
Wow, what is it about gifted and talented kids that makes those stories hit them so hard?
Because those stories are innately about what to do with gifts and talents, and in the case of those particular books, children often interpret them as “give up all sense of self and bodily autonomy, and carve yourself to pieces to make other people like you.”
I feel like the secret to “good customer service” is the ability to fake a smile convincingly for several hours at a time, and say the same shit over and over again without it sounding too scripted/wooden.
Work in retail long enough and you can make “Have a nice day” feel like “Fuck off and die.”
Soon, classes and resources pop up purporting to teach other species how to sort human communication. But they, uh, have a hard time figuring out which ones to take seriously, because hey, this looks legit, right?
everyone needs to watch this all the way to the end omg
@altonbrown are you aware of how dangerous and well-trained he actually is? Alton Brown is a competition-level shooter with a large arsenal of rather expensive weapons, as well as a motorcycle and apparently a pilot’s license.
If he really wanted to assassinate someone, he could fly to a foreign country by himself and pose as a local chef before eliminating the target.
I would pay to watch a movie of Alton Brown as a secret agent who uses a mixture of his culinary and scientific knowledge as well as firearms to eliminate evil people.
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