• zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Gotta love that the meme is pointing out how under appreciated the teacher is but then refers to the teacher as “it”.

    The disrespect is real.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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      9 days ago

      If I had to guess, the meme was probably made by someone who likely has English as a secondary language. I doubt there was any disrespect intended.

    • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      Playing devil’s advocate here: maybe they were trying to be inclusive by not specifiying gender but haven’t heard of they. The US education system is a joke in a lot of places so the (hypothetical) teacher may have to think twice before suggesting they change the it’s to their. But hey, at least the apostrophe is where it should be and I’d take that as a win for education.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I volunteered at a summer camp in college and we had a $30 budget to feed 15 kids + 1.

    I bought four Little Caesars $5 dollar pizzas, some dollar store big sodas, and had enough money for big bags of chips.

    We made it work! 😭

    • xthexder@l.sw0.com
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      10 days ago

      No, there’s definitely a science to this. It’s the same reason sandwiches taste better if you cut them in a triangle. The sharp points make for the perfect bite size.

        • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          Growing up, my mom always, always cut my sandwiches in half to make two rectangles. I asked her why at some point, and she said when she was growing up, her mother always cut her sandwiches into triangles, and she hated it. So when she moved out, she basically vowed to only cut sandwiches into rectangles.

          I hated the rectangles growing up, and cut all of mine into two triangles now that I’m on my own. 😆 Funny how the world works, hahaha

          • Thomrade@lemmy.world
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            9 days ago

            And one day your child will grow and cut theirs into rectangle, the circle of sandwich life continues.

            PersonallyI I cut mine into irregular polyhedrons.

  • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I think I’ve seen this same “meme” reposted several hundred times. On top of this a meme is supposed to incite laughter. I’m failing to see what’s comedic about this?

  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I’m glad that my nephew’s teacher last year sent out a message to allow family to donate to those parties. I’ve paid for a few.

    I’m also sad that it has come to that.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    Much love for these teachers. They are not paid nearly enough. I hate the corporate pizza party, but not the public school one.

    Edit: I wonder if the difference in financial burden between a corporate pizza party and a public school one is a good metric

  • SagXD@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    In my country they are not underpaid but overpaid. Govt just pay them for sitting in class and eating in canting(More than Avg Income)

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I think the “underpaid teacher” thing isn’t necessarily rooted in reality,. especially outside of the US. My wife is a teacher in the UK, and she’s a head of her subject. For many years her pay was similar to mine as a software engineer, but everyone often treated her as if she was poor and that I was rich.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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        9 days ago

        In Australia I don’t think teachers are underpaid, but schools are absolutely underfunded. Which can often mean teachers end up spending personal money on school resources, which means their actual effective pay isn’t as good as it looks from the outside.

        They also work way longer hours than is reflected in their contract.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Someone needs to teach me this trick of buying pizza with the pizza’s own money.

    “Dominoes hates this one weird trick.”

      • PopShark@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        I think the joke is teachers are Italian but I don’t get this joke it’s too sophisticated for me

    • NESSI3@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 days ago

      Do a curbside pickup. Get there early. Park somewhere out of view. Wait for your order to get marked ready then count to 20 to give them enough time to put the tablet down and get to working on other pizzas. Then check yourself in.

      • yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml
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        11 days ago

        This is why there are spaces clearly marked for curbside pickup. If you’re not in one of the designated spaces and try to pull this you will not get free food.

        • cm0002@lemmy.world
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          11 days ago

          They’re saying that if you time it right, they won’t get/hear the notification that you’ve checked in and you can slide into the right spot. Wait awhile and then you’ll get refunded because you were “waiting so long”

          Which it can work TBH, it just won’t be a reliable method by any means

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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      10 days ago

      The apostrophe actually makes it a contraction, not possessive. So they’re really saying “the underpaid teacher who bought it with it is own money”. I know not everyone cares, but that’s how our weird language works…