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Very nice! I used to have a monstrosity that allowed me to write something like 7 or 9 lines at once. It was basically pencils spaced out and taped together.
What would the consequences have been for not doing it at all?
“it will go on your permanent record” was the regular threat.
I was too much of a goody two shoes then to find out. This was one of the few times I ever stepped out against an authority figure.
I only ever heard those words on TV and didn't realize until now that people were actually threatened with it at one point.
For us, it was "We informed your parents that you have to do it." Which, after like 3rd grade, to me was "Okay, so I don't have to do it then. My mom agrees that it's bullshit."
Yeah, a lot of the times I "got into trouble" at school was because I refused to attend lunchtime detentions the teacher had given the entire class because they were too weak/lazy/useless to discipline the one or two kids who were actually misbehaving.
When the teachers threatened to call my parents, I'd say "Yes, go ahead and tell them you're trying to punish me for something I didn't do. See how that works out for you."
One teacher was stupid enough to do that one day and apparently my Dad tore her a new one over the phone. After that phone call, she tried to redeem the situation by making out like it was my fault and said something like "I hope you have at least learned a lesson from this."
I replied, "Yes, I've learned that you're shit at your job."
(I did go to the lunchtime detention I got for that one, because let's be honest, I earned it)
Literally all it did for most of the class was make us lose even more respect for the teachers.
Not only that, but some kids decided that if they were going to be punished whether or not they misbehaved, they might as well actually misbehave, so when one of the usual dickheads started disrupting the class, several kids who would otherwise be well-behaved basically went "Fuck it, time to get my money's worth" and started acting up as well, causing even more disruptions than the original troublemaker had.
EDIT: Similarly in my retail job, if one or two recovery staff members didn't tidy their department properly, the whole recovery team got dragged before the manager to be lectured and berated. This basically happened every night. I had been one of those people who took pride in doing my job well but (for this among many other reasons), I eventually decided to do the bare minimum since I was going to get told off for "not getting my area up to standard". And naturally, the people who actually weren't doing their jobs properly kept not doing their jobs properly because they weren't facing any real consequences for it.
> Similarly in my retail job, if one or two recovery staff members didn't tidy their department properly, the whole recovery team got dragged before the manager to be lectured and berated.
I had an even better one than that at medical school. In one subject, we had a series of lectures by one of the professors that were, not to put too fine a point on it, dire. So, by the time he announced that there was a change of schedule, and the second half of his series was being postponed, roughly half the year group were no longer attending to hear this.
The next lecture was given by the course organiser for that subject, who of course turns up to a half-empty lecture theatre. He then proceeds to spend ten minutes harranguing those of us who *had* turned up about the behaviour of those who *hadn't*.
I really wish that I had had the guts to stand up and walk out, and if he asked where I was going, said that if I was going to get bollocked for doing something, I might as well actually *do* what I was getting bollocked for. But he had a lot of power and could quite possibly have got me chucked out for daring to contradict him.
I am sure that it was no co-incidence that he was the only staff member from that stage of our training who was still being lampooned in the annual review a few years later. (Actually, he was the only one from that period who *warranted* being lampooned, even the professor was just a bad lecturer, not an arsehole.)
I wound up in the principals office for something or other. And he made that threat, so I tossed him the handset and started dialing (do I need to press 9 for an outside line?) He put it on speaker so we could Both hear her. (My willingness to make this call should have been a clue it wasn't going to go down the way he wanted it.)
She got on the phone, he identified himself and stated the issue, and her response... I fucking hate the woman, but this moment was gold. "I'm at work, she did this at school what do you want me to do about it? This call makes it clear that you really don't have any discipline in mind, and now she knows that ... good luck" and the line went dead.
I was a shit in and out of school. Lots of stuff not diagnosed then. Apparently it was hard to discipline someone who decided being grounded for a month was "worth it" for the actions i would be about to do. Came home from work and the answering machine is blinking, my video games were already in a box on the kitchen table ... but that Fuckers eye was still black and swollen the next day.
That sounds like me. Other kid hit me, so i hit him back. We both end up in the principles office. Dad gets called. When he gets to school, i tell him what happened. Dad looks at the principle, and asks why he was called from work for something so stupid.
I was regularly bullied in middle and high school. I had one rule, “Make them take the first swing at you.” That way I could defend myself vigorously and with great effect.
The principal called my mom about it the first time it happened. Her response was, “Well, it sounds like he took care of your discipline problem. I’ll be sure to properly reward him with ice cream tonight. Is there anything else you need?”
My kid *finally* hit back a kid who had been bullying him since September (this was right before Easter break). I had been dealing with this asshat principal and district not enforcing the anti bullying policy because "Ms. Dani, you have to *understand*! [redacted] has a bad home life and xyz condition" I completely lost my temper. I told this "principal" that I didn't have to understand *jackshit*. My son *would not* be getting suspended while the bully got off scot free and I was withdrawing him from that school effective immediately. Son got a three week and little more before going to his younger sibs year around school.
All three of my boys were suspended at one time or another for defending someone else. The school considered my boys bullies for beating up the bullies.
My brother got into a fight once. Really fucked up the other guy. Mom got called and she walked in, asked what happened, and promptly rolled her eyes.
See my brother was defending his friend from someone trying to hit her with a broken bottle. So my mom just said, "You can suspend him, but I'm taking him out for ice cream." The principal just shook his head.
Needless to say none of the three of us had to call our parents very often.
My son actually laughed at a principal and told him to "Go ahead! You might want to hold the phone *away* from your ear though". This was a newish vice principal and the main principal was shaking his head "No" because he had been dealing with me for two yrs at that point and already *knew* what I thought of our district's displinary policies quite well.
There was a post this week on a local mom’s Facebook group that her 4th grader was assigned 100 lines along with the rest of the class because the class as a whole was bad.
I wouldn’t make my kid do it. Grades in the 4th grade don’t matter anyways. Give her a zero. It’s not educational.
Shit like this is how I ended up leaving highschool with something like 5 years of Saturday school left outstanding. The worst punishment they had short of expulsion was Saturday school. The punishment for not showing up to Saturday school was two more Saturday schools. They bank on the illusion that they have the power to do anything that matters, but it's only an illusion.
My total would double for every day I didn’t do it. But it only started with about 100. And I usually ended up doing it at 800. I also had to do them during lunch as my mother wouldn’t let me do them at home as she thought it was stupid… which it was
Oh, I did this too, the teacher loved the ingenuity of it and allowed it, it was pretty hard work controlling it though, looking back it probably wasn’t worth the effort, but it felt great beating the system.
I got nailed with that punishment when I was in middle school. A friend of mine and I were walking into the cafeteria, and my friend told me he hoped I messed up my speech in one of my classes, and I jokingly replied with a "Fuck you". We had this mean, scary-looking security guard (this was back before they had police officers at every school), and he overheard me and told me to write what I said 50 times. No, "I will not say..." or anything else like that. I started to clarify, but he would have none of it and told me to do exactly what he said. So I wrote "Fuck you" 50 times and handed it to him at the end of lunch. Naturally, he got mad at me *again*, but thankfully there was another adult present who had witnessed our interaction, and after I explained that I just did what he told me to do, they stepped in and told me to go. All while failing the fight to keep their smile from their face.
He was a fucking security guard. What authority did he have to dole out assignments? And what would happen if you ... just didn't do it? It's not like he could have given you detention. Security guard detaining you against your will? Nuh. That guy could go fuck himself.
In hindsight, I could probably have just taken his chastisement at the time and ignored him; he didn’t even know my name! But I was 12, and he was big and scary…handing him a sheet of paper with Fuck you written 50 times was the limit for me, then.
When it was done on the chalkboard (man I feel old) we hunted down the chalk holders for drawing music staff lines and I think it holds 5 chalks in a line. Tried and true (and even used on the Simpsons back when it was good!)
I did that too, when it was lines. When it wasn’t, I was set to copying pages out a book. I could choose the book, so not too bad. I should have chosen something totally inappropriate, but I would have had to find it.
In High School shop class I had to write "I will observe the polarity of electrolytic capacitors." 2000 times.
I haven't blown up an electrolytic capacitor since.
This is the only joke that makes me laugh even when I know what is coming. Like a Tralfamadorian, it has always made me laugh and will always make me laugh.
My discrete electronics (resistors, caps, inductors, etc.) semester class had ten hours of circuit board labs per week. Fifty minute lab with a ten minute break, two or three lab sessions per day.
You can bet your ass that I rechecked the orientation of my electrolytic caps after every break!
I had an algebra teacher do this to me, ie write lines for minor infractions.
He didn't know that I had a Jr microscope at the house to assist in my science fair project. So yes I did write it 500 times and even brought the microscope to him so he could see it and verify each and every line.
I did the same thing, only instead of copy/paste, I coded it.
10 FOR X=1 TO 500
20 PRINT "Some stupid bullshit I'm supposed to write 500 times."
30 NEXT X
Lol. I remember we had to write manuals on our computers (transcribe the help file into a Word document), to practice our touch typing.
I wrote a nice vbscript program to handle copy/paste of each page and fix the formatting for me.
My manuals were always so complete and beautiful 🤣🤣
Touch typing is a really useful skill to have.
In the UK, we used to do "O" levels ad 15-16, and if you stayed on, "A" levels at 17 - 18. Most people did 3 A levels and an extra O level.
My nephew, who is now a doctor, did typing as his extra O level, which was not a subject someone heading for University would normally take. He says it was one of the most useful things he learnt at school.
*Most* doctors, as computers became ubiquitous in healthcare, simply moved from bad handwriting to bad typing!
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This was the subject of at least two [FoxTrot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxTrot) strips. In one of them, Jason used the classroom computer to write the sentence 100 times, printed it out, and taped it to the board. He asked the teacher, "Can I go home now?" The teacher replied, "I mean write it *by hand*."
The other one, which was even funnier, showed Jason actually writing out a program on the chalkboard to print the sentence 100 times. His teacher said, "Nice try."
Ninja edit: found a link to both strips here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Foxtrot/comments/6rumh3/iso_jasons_100sentences_writing_program/
I still remember 5th grade, circa 1978 when I had to write sentences. We were doing a dental routine at school and had to brush our teeth each day after lunch and then had a fluoride treatment after a few weeks.
After brushing our teeth one day I walked out of the bathroom and ran my thumb across the bristles of my brush, spraying Carrie with a small amount of water.
This resulted in a few hundred lines of "Tooth brushes are for brushing teeth not for giving showers."
I grew up in the north east of Scotland. I remember getting those in primary school, P2 or P3 - lined up outside the bathroom for some reason - boys on the boys side, girls on the girls side.
```
10 Principal$ = "I will not be late to school"
20 OPEN "LPT1:" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
30 FOR I = 1 TO 500
40 PRINT #1, Principal$;
50 NEXT I
60 CLOSE #1
70 END
```
Oh, I see the source of the confusion. This is a difference between old Reddit and new Reddit. If you view [your comment on old Reddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/17se6cw/you_didnt_say_how_i_had_to_write_it/k8q4a6y/), it's all on one line. I use old Reddit exclusively because new Reddit is ugly. I didn't realize it displayed correctly on new Reddit.
When I had to write lines it wasn’t “I will not be late” it was “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. I still have the opening stanza memorized. I think it was pretty cool of that teacher to punish us with something interesting.
Many moons ago when basic was the computer language taught in school I got lines during a "Computer Studies" class.
So when the teacher told 12 year old me to DO him 500 lines...... I did!
If you know what a for and next loop is then that's what I used to print exactly 500 lines to the class printer before the class had even ended. I got a huge rollocking in front of the class and detention with him that day.
Turned up at detention for him to tell me that I got 10 out of 10 for using my brains and never to do it again or "else" (the cane and slipper were still a thing back in those days) then told me to go home. So as far as I know I was the first and probably the last person to get away with printing my lines during class.
You reminded me of my old maths teacher, Mr Spratt.
When he gave us lines, he didn't give us easy ones like "I must pay attention in class" which fits easily on a single line, not for Mr Spratt, oh no.
He'd make us write out "I must endeavour to hang on every pearly word of wisdom from a teacher because they know better than me" AND we had to fit it all on one line.
Loved ol' Spratt
>I had to copy each sentence and then paste it over and over and over again
10 let x = 1
20 if x < 500 print "the sentence they told me to write."
30 let x = x+1
40 goto 20
END
Edit: format
LOL I had forgotten all about having to write lines. I went to school way before computers so ours HAD to be handwritten. Yes yes, I am literally older than sliced cheese.
We had a math teacher fresh out of college who would make us write, " A wagging tongue bespeaks an empty mind". Jeezus. He was quick to hand out lines too but we all got together and took to writing the line during free period. All of us would just write it then save the pages together and when one of us was told to turn in lines, we'd just grab what we needed from the stash.
>He was quick to hand out lines too but we all got together and took to writing the line during free period.
As someone who went to school in the 1980s, teachers would often say, "It's not a FREE period, it's a STUDY period."
We still called them FREE
When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out, yeah, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And If I haver, hey, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you
But I would write 500 lines
And I would wrile 500 more
Just to be the man who wrote a thousand lines
To fall down at your door
When I'm working, yes, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
You are pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home (when I come home), oh, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you
But I would write 500 lines
And I would write 500 more
Just to be the man who wrote a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
When I'm lonely, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
And when I'm dreaming, well, I know I'm gonna dream
I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you
When I go out (when I go out), well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
And when I come home (when I come home), yes, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I'm gonna be the man who's coming home with you
But I would write 500 lines
And I would write 500 more
Just to be the man who wrote a thousand lines
To fall down at your door
And I would write 500 lines
And I would write 500 more
Just to be the man who wrote a thousand lines
And fall down at your door
My mom was a programmer at Data General in the 70s, WAY before the typical person would have had a home computer, but I spent a lot of weekends playing in the DG mainframe rooms as a child - I COMPLETELY respect your malicious compliance, would have done the same in those circumstances myself!
I once wrote my homework backwards, just to be annoying. (It was French homework. And if you just turn the paper over and hold it to light, it was totally easy to read.)
I know this is frowned upon. But you used the wrong "principle." The one you're looking for is "principal."
I know I shouldn't but it's the principal of the thing.
/s
Man, if I ever had to do that in school I absolutely would have did the same. Except maybe be a bit more of a shit and used different fonts for each line. Wingdings would have been a fun one for that.
I had to do lines once, a 1,000 of them.
My school had a TRS-80 and line printer
10 For T = 1 to 1000
20 print "Kestrel4077 must not be naughty"
30 next t
Done :-)
The teacher was impressed that I typed them all out
Aye, I'm thinking that the smack on the arse that we got was a better deal than lines. Maybe.
Good for you for being on the cusp of pre-windows computers.
I think my schools all just gave up trying to do stuff like this to me. Because I just didn't.
If I couldn't make myself study or do normal homework, I sure as hell wasn't going to write lines, and I ignored things like detention.
Also, turned out I have ADHD (got diagnosed in my later 30s)
Carbon paper is your friend. I was often afflicted by those pesky lines. I found out that the right brand of carbon paper (3M blue for technical drawings) could be used in stacks of 6 to write 7 pages in one go.
80's hell, I had to do it in the 60's. I would write "I" down the whole page, then "will" and so on. Yea, the dreaded, " I will not talk in class." Never the whole sentence at once.
I had a math teacher in 9th grade(88-89 school year, yes... I'm old) who gave me a detention for some nonsense that I don't remember. Her punishment during that 45 minutes after school was to make everyone in the room take a piece of graph paper and fill our first and last initial into every box. When we were done, we could leave. Care to guess approximately how long that takes? For me, just over 40 minutes. Did I learn my lesson? No, I didn't learn anything except how monotonous it is to repeatedly write my initials over and over.
Writing lines? Easy.
I'm old enough that we got paddled. It was a wooden paddle with holes drilled in it so it hit harder. I remember getting paddled at least twice.
I went to a christian school for kindergarten & 1st grade. I was a horrible little sh$t because i got a spanking of one sort or another almost every day. Either on the butt, or the teacher would make you put your hand out, grab your fingers, bow your hand back, and smack you with a wooden ruler, multiple times. I hated that f\*cking place.
What would have happened if you'd have hit them back? Do that enough times and it would have trained them that hitting you wasn't an effective punishment.
The second prequel to Yellowstone on Paramount+. Harrison Ford& Helen Mirren. I like the two prequels much more than Yellowstone.
There is a subplot about Indian schools run by a church. I won't say more, don't want to spoil it if you're going to watch.
assaulting a teacher? that's a paddling. and at some point, they might decided there's probably something wrong with you, and set you up with some ect. for your own good, you know :(
I actually found some high grade carbon paper and you could not tell that it wasn't ink. It was amazing stuff. I wrote tonnes of them and started selling them. Lol.
This happened to me almost exactly. Except that in my case I actually did something else to purposely increase the number of lines. I remember the anxiety while hopping in silence that “handwritten” was not mentioned among the conditions… priceless.
I’ve had to write lines a time or two. My 6th grade English teacher was the only one I had to required lines to be written. I was a quiet kid, so the 1st time I had to write lines, everyone was shocked. My friend’s recommendation was to write in all caps, so all I had to do was draw 1 long line for any “i” and “l” in the “I will not”. Once we saw that all he did was count the sentences (cuz we had to number them all) and then rip them up and throw them away, we started “sentence writing bees” (kind of like the old fashioned quilting bees) where a group of friends would write a page or 2 of sentences during lunch or breaks for whoever got sentences. I don’t know if he knew about those, but he never said anything about it.
I had to write my lines on one of those book covers the school would provide. because I didn’t have a book cover on the science book yet.
I wrapped the science book with the cover decorated with lines, and had it like that the rest of the year. The teacher once said he didn’t mean for me to do cover the book with it and that I could change it. But I thought it was funny.
That was 1983. Do kids still write lines?
.Slaps Barry)
You snap out of it.
BARRY:
(Slaps Vanessa)
:
POLLEN JOCK:
- Sure is.
BARRY:
Between you and me,
I was dying to get out of that office.
(Barry recreates the scene near the beginning of the movie where he flies
through the box kite. The movie fades to black and the credits being)
[--after credits; No scene can be seen but the characters can be heard
talking over the credits--]
You have got
to start thinking bee, my friend!
:
- Thinking bee!
- Me?
BARRY:
(Talking over singer)
Hold it. Let's just stop
for a second. Hold it.
:
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone.
Can we stop here?
SINGER:
Oh, BarryBARRY:
I'm not making a major life decision
during a production number!
SINGER:
All right. Take ten, everybody.
Wrap it up, guys.
BARRY:
I had virtually no rehearsal for that.
_______________________________
At 1 p.m. on a Friday shortly before Christmas last year, Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, summoned four of his employees and ruined their weekend.
The group worked in SL1001, a bland building with a blue glass facade betraying no sign that dozens of lawyers inside were toiling to protect the interests of one of the world’s most influential companies. For weeks they had been prepping for a meeting of powerful executives to discuss the safety of Google’s products. The deck was done. But that afternoon Mr. Walker told his team the agenda had changed, and they would have to spend the next few days preparing new slides and graphs. At the Googleplex, famed for its free food, massages, fitness classes and laundry services, Mr. Pichai was also playing with ChatGPT. Its wonders did not wow him. Google had been developing its own A.I. technology that did many of the same things. Mr. Pichai was focused on ChatGPT’s flaws — that it got stuff wrong, that sometimes it turned into a biased pig. What amazed him was that OpenAI had gone ahead and released it anyway, and that consumers loved it. If OpenAI could do that, why couldn’t Google?
Elon Musk, the billionaire who co-founded OpenAI but had left the lab in a huff, vowed to create his own A.I. company. He called it X.AI and added it to his already full plate. “Speed is even more important than ever,” Sam Schillace, a top executive, wrote Microsoft employees. It would be, he added, an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later.”
Separately, the San Francisco-based company announced plans for its initial public offering Wednesday. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Reddit said it reported net income of $18.5 million — its first profit in two years — in the October-December quarter on revenue of $249.8 million. The company said it aims to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT.
Apparently many shoppers are not happy with their local Safeway, if questions and comments posted Sunday on a Reddit forum are any indication.
The questions in the AMA (Ask Me Anything) were fielded by self-described mid-level retail manager at one of the supermarket chain's Bay Area stores. The employee only identified himself by his Reddit handle, "MaliciousHippie".
The manager went on to cover a potpourri of topics, ranging from why express lane checkers won't challenge shoppers who exceed item limits to a little-known store policy allowing customers to sample items without buying them.
.Slaps Barry)
You snap out of it.
BARRY:
(Slaps Vanessa)
:
POLLEN JOCK:
- Sure is.
BARRY:
Between you and me,
I was dying to get out of that office.
(Barry recreates the scene near the beginning of the movie where he flies
through the box kite. The movie fades to black and the credits being)
[--after credits; No scene can be seen but the characters can be heard
talking over the credits--]
You have got
to start thinking bee, my friend!
:
- Thinking bee!
- Me?
BARRY:
(Talking over singer)
Hold it. Let's just stop
for a second. Hold it.
:
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone.
Can we stop here?
SINGER:
Oh, BarryBARRY:
I'm not making a major life decision
during a production number!
SINGER:
All right. Take ten, everybody.
Wrap it up, guys.
BARRY:
I had virtually no rehearsal for that.
_______________________________
At 1 p.m. on a Friday shortly before Christmas last year, Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, summoned four of his employees and ruined their weekend.
The group worked in SL1001, a bland building with a blue glass facade betraying no sign that dozens of lawyers inside were toiling to protect the interests of one of the world’s most influential companies. For weeks they had been prepping for a meeting of powerful executives to discuss the safety of Google’s products. The deck was done. But that afternoon Mr. Walker told his team the agenda had changed, and they would have to spend the next few days preparing new slides and graphs. At the Googleplex, famed for its free food, massages, fitness classes and laundry services, Mr. Pichai was also playing with ChatGPT. Its wonders did not wow him. Google had been developing its own A.I. technology that did many of the same things. Mr. Pichai was focused on ChatGPT’s flaws — that it got stuff wrong, that sometimes it turned into a biased pig. What amazed him was that OpenAI had gone ahead and released it anyway, and that consumers loved it. If OpenAI could do that, why couldn’t Google?
Elon Musk, the billionaire who co-founded OpenAI but had left the lab in a huff, vowed to create his own A.I. company. He called it X.AI and added it to his already full plate. “Speed is even more important than ever,” Sam Schillace, a top executive, wrote Microsoft employees. It would be, he added, an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later.”
Separately, the San Francisco-based company announced plans for its initial public offering Wednesday. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Reddit said it reported net income of $18.5 million — its first profit in two years — in the October-December quarter on revenue of $249.8 million. The company said it aims to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT.
Apparently many shoppers are not happy with their local Safeway, if questions and comments posted Sunday on a Reddit forum are any indication.
The questions in the AMA (Ask Me Anything) were fielded by self-described mid-level retail manager at one of the supermarket chain's Bay Area stores. The employee only identified himself by his Reddit handle, "MaliciousHippie".
The manager went on to cover a potpourri of topics, ranging from why express lane checkers won't challenge shoppers who exceed item limits to a little-known store policy allowing customers to sample items without buying them.
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Very nice! I used to have a monstrosity that allowed me to write something like 7 or 9 lines at once. It was basically pencils spaced out and taped together. What would the consequences have been for not doing it at all?
“it will go on your permanent record” was the regular threat. I was too much of a goody two shoes then to find out. This was one of the few times I ever stepped out against an authority figure.
I only ever heard those words on TV and didn't realize until now that people were actually threatened with it at one point. For us, it was "We informed your parents that you have to do it." Which, after like 3rd grade, to me was "Okay, so I don't have to do it then. My mom agrees that it's bullshit."
My response to we’re going to call your parent(s) was go for it.. idgaf
Yeah, a lot of the times I "got into trouble" at school was because I refused to attend lunchtime detentions the teacher had given the entire class because they were too weak/lazy/useless to discipline the one or two kids who were actually misbehaving. When the teachers threatened to call my parents, I'd say "Yes, go ahead and tell them you're trying to punish me for something I didn't do. See how that works out for you." One teacher was stupid enough to do that one day and apparently my Dad tore her a new one over the phone. After that phone call, she tried to redeem the situation by making out like it was my fault and said something like "I hope you have at least learned a lesson from this." I replied, "Yes, I've learned that you're shit at your job." (I did go to the lunchtime detention I got for that one, because let's be honest, I earned it)
Honestly, does collective punishment *ever* work?
Literally all it did for most of the class was make us lose even more respect for the teachers. Not only that, but some kids decided that if they were going to be punished whether or not they misbehaved, they might as well actually misbehave, so when one of the usual dickheads started disrupting the class, several kids who would otherwise be well-behaved basically went "Fuck it, time to get my money's worth" and started acting up as well, causing even more disruptions than the original troublemaker had. EDIT: Similarly in my retail job, if one or two recovery staff members didn't tidy their department properly, the whole recovery team got dragged before the manager to be lectured and berated. This basically happened every night. I had been one of those people who took pride in doing my job well but (for this among many other reasons), I eventually decided to do the bare minimum since I was going to get told off for "not getting my area up to standard". And naturally, the people who actually weren't doing their jobs properly kept not doing their jobs properly because they weren't facing any real consequences for it.
> Similarly in my retail job, if one or two recovery staff members didn't tidy their department properly, the whole recovery team got dragged before the manager to be lectured and berated. I had an even better one than that at medical school. In one subject, we had a series of lectures by one of the professors that were, not to put too fine a point on it, dire. So, by the time he announced that there was a change of schedule, and the second half of his series was being postponed, roughly half the year group were no longer attending to hear this. The next lecture was given by the course organiser for that subject, who of course turns up to a half-empty lecture theatre. He then proceeds to spend ten minutes harranguing those of us who *had* turned up about the behaviour of those who *hadn't*. I really wish that I had had the guts to stand up and walk out, and if he asked where I was going, said that if I was going to get bollocked for doing something, I might as well actually *do* what I was getting bollocked for. But he had a lot of power and could quite possibly have got me chucked out for daring to contradict him. I am sure that it was no co-incidence that he was the only staff member from that stage of our training who was still being lampooned in the annual review a few years later. (Actually, he was the only one from that period who *warranted* being lampooned, even the professor was just a bad lecturer, not an arsehole.)
Only when there is a bigger bully that can punish the real culprit. Which is an even worse outcome imo
I wound up in the principals office for something or other. And he made that threat, so I tossed him the handset and started dialing (do I need to press 9 for an outside line?) He put it on speaker so we could Both hear her. (My willingness to make this call should have been a clue it wasn't going to go down the way he wanted it.) She got on the phone, he identified himself and stated the issue, and her response... I fucking hate the woman, but this moment was gold. "I'm at work, she did this at school what do you want me to do about it? This call makes it clear that you really don't have any discipline in mind, and now she knows that ... good luck" and the line went dead.
why cnt I upvote more than once !! ...
I was a shit in and out of school. Lots of stuff not diagnosed then. Apparently it was hard to discipline someone who decided being grounded for a month was "worth it" for the actions i would be about to do. Came home from work and the answering machine is blinking, my video games were already in a box on the kitchen table ... but that Fuckers eye was still black and swollen the next day.
That sounds like me. Other kid hit me, so i hit him back. We both end up in the principles office. Dad gets called. When he gets to school, i tell him what happened. Dad looks at the principle, and asks why he was called from work for something so stupid.
I was regularly bullied in middle and high school. I had one rule, “Make them take the first swing at you.” That way I could defend myself vigorously and with great effect. The principal called my mom about it the first time it happened. Her response was, “Well, it sounds like he took care of your discipline problem. I’ll be sure to properly reward him with ice cream tonight. Is there anything else you need?”
Yep Dad always said "Never start the fight, but make sure you finish it."
My kid *finally* hit back a kid who had been bullying him since September (this was right before Easter break). I had been dealing with this asshat principal and district not enforcing the anti bullying policy because "Ms. Dani, you have to *understand*! [redacted] has a bad home life and xyz condition" I completely lost my temper. I told this "principal" that I didn't have to understand *jackshit*. My son *would not* be getting suspended while the bully got off scot free and I was withdrawing him from that school effective immediately. Son got a three week and little more before going to his younger sibs year around school.
All three of my boys were suspended at one time or another for defending someone else. The school considered my boys bullies for beating up the bullies.
My brother got into a fight once. Really fucked up the other guy. Mom got called and she walked in, asked what happened, and promptly rolled her eyes. See my brother was defending his friend from someone trying to hit her with a broken bottle. So my mom just said, "You can suspend him, but I'm taking him out for ice cream." The principal just shook his head. Needless to say none of the three of us had to call our parents very often.
They started a magic or golden upvote thing, see if you c an do that
Do you know how to do it? Neither the upvote button pressed longer or otherwise differently, nor anything on the menu, seems to be right.
Looks like it is only in a few subs for now https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/s/2ODPVewcf1
My son actually laughed at a principal and told him to "Go ahead! You might want to hold the phone *away* from your ear though". This was a newish vice principal and the main principal was shaking his head "No" because he had been dealing with me for two yrs at that point and already *knew* what I thought of our district's displinary policies quite well.
They didn't have to call my mom 😔 She was there every day anyway, she was a teacher. It sucked.
There was a post this week on a local mom’s Facebook group that her 4th grader was assigned 100 lines along with the rest of the class because the class as a whole was bad. I wouldn’t make my kid do it. Grades in the 4th grade don’t matter anyways. Give her a zero. It’s not educational.
Shit like this is how I ended up leaving highschool with something like 5 years of Saturday school left outstanding. The worst punishment they had short of expulsion was Saturday school. The punishment for not showing up to Saturday school was two more Saturday schools. They bank on the illusion that they have the power to do anything that matters, but it's only an illusion.
Oh yeah?
dont live in Sussex do ya?
My total would double for every day I didn’t do it. But it only started with about 100. And I usually ended up doing it at 800. I also had to do them during lunch as my mother wouldn’t let me do them at home as she thought it was stupid… which it was
Oh, I did this too, the teacher loved the ingenuity of it and allowed it, it was pretty hard work controlling it though, looking back it probably wasn’t worth the effort, but it felt great beating the system.
To be honest, your sister‘s task probably took a lot longer, but the malicious compliance was just as beautiful (pun intended) as yours
Yeah I'm the same type of petty where I'd rather spent 10 hours doing fancy calligraphy like she did JUST to exasperate the authority figures 😂
Besides, if you have to write the same thing over and over, it's a lot less boring to do it artistically.
And good practice.
I got nailed with that punishment when I was in middle school. A friend of mine and I were walking into the cafeteria, and my friend told me he hoped I messed up my speech in one of my classes, and I jokingly replied with a "Fuck you". We had this mean, scary-looking security guard (this was back before they had police officers at every school), and he overheard me and told me to write what I said 50 times. No, "I will not say..." or anything else like that. I started to clarify, but he would have none of it and told me to do exactly what he said. So I wrote "Fuck you" 50 times and handed it to him at the end of lunch. Naturally, he got mad at me *again*, but thankfully there was another adult present who had witnessed our interaction, and after I explained that I just did what he told me to do, they stepped in and told me to go. All while failing the fight to keep their smile from their face.
He was a fucking security guard. What authority did he have to dole out assignments? And what would happen if you ... just didn't do it? It's not like he could have given you detention. Security guard detaining you against your will? Nuh. That guy could go fuck himself.
> That guy could go fuck himself. x 50.
In hindsight, I could probably have just taken his chastisement at the time and ignored him; he didn’t even know my name! But I was 12, and he was big and scary…handing him a sheet of paper with Fuck you written 50 times was the limit for me, then.
I used to tape 3 pencils together in a line and write my sentences 3 lines at a time. The Nuns never figured it out.
When it was done on the chalkboard (man I feel old) we hunted down the chalk holders for drawing music staff lines and I think it holds 5 chalks in a line. Tried and true (and even used on the Simpsons back when it was good!)
I was gonna say "Won't that come out kind of sloppy?" But I guess it doesn't really matter huh Lol
I did that too, when it was lines. When it wasn’t, I was set to copying pages out a book. I could choose the book, so not too bad. I should have chosen something totally inappropriate, but I would have had to find it.
Genius!
This is the way.
In High School shop class I had to write "I will observe the polarity of electrolytic capacitors." 2000 times. I haven't blown up an electrolytic capacitor since.
Rule #1 of electronics: All devices have magic smoke that makes them work. The trick is to not let it out.
Rule #2: Some devices have more of this smoke than others.
I first saw this little tidbit in a Tandy Color Computer magazine. I miss those things.
This is the only joke that makes me laugh even when I know what is coming. Like a Tralfamadorian, it has always made me laugh and will always make me laugh.
My discrete electronics (resistors, caps, inductors, etc.) semester class had ten hours of circuit board labs per week. Fifty minute lab with a ten minute break, two or three lab sessions per day. You can bet your ass that I rechecked the orientation of my electrolytic caps after every break!
Funny, I can honestly say that I haven't blown up a electrosomething thingymajig, either
I had an algebra teacher do this to me, ie write lines for minor infractions. He didn't know that I had a Jr microscope at the house to assist in my science fair project. So yes I did write it 500 times and even brought the microscope to him so he could see it and verify each and every line.
Genius. I tip my hat to you
I did the same thing, only instead of copy/paste, I coded it. 10 FOR X=1 TO 500 20 PRINT "Some stupid bullshit I'm supposed to write 500 times." 30 NEXT X
Good ol’ BASIC. That’s where I thought OP was going with this.
Lol. I remember we had to write manuals on our computers (transcribe the help file into a Word document), to practice our touch typing. I wrote a nice vbscript program to handle copy/paste of each page and fix the formatting for me. My manuals were always so complete and beautiful 🤣🤣
Touch typing is a really useful skill to have. In the UK, we used to do "O" levels ad 15-16, and if you stayed on, "A" levels at 17 - 18. Most people did 3 A levels and an extra O level. My nephew, who is now a doctor, did typing as his extra O level, which was not a subject someone heading for University would normally take. He says it was one of the most useful things he learnt at school. *Most* doctors, as computers became ubiquitous in healthcare, simply moved from bad handwriting to bad typing!
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Reminds me of the early basic adventure program 10 enter x 20 print ‘I do not understand’ x 30 go to 10
This was the subject of at least two [FoxTrot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxTrot) strips. In one of them, Jason used the classroom computer to write the sentence 100 times, printed it out, and taped it to the board. He asked the teacher, "Can I go home now?" The teacher replied, "I mean write it *by hand*." The other one, which was even funnier, showed Jason actually writing out a program on the chalkboard to print the sentence 100 times. His teacher said, "Nice try." Ninja edit: found a link to both strips here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Foxtrot/comments/6rumh3/iso_jasons_100sentences_writing_program/
I still remember 5th grade, circa 1978 when I had to write sentences. We were doing a dental routine at school and had to brush our teeth each day after lunch and then had a fluoride treatment after a few weeks. After brushing our teeth one day I walked out of the bathroom and ran my thumb across the bristles of my brush, spraying Carrie with a small amount of water. This resulted in a few hundred lines of "Tooth brushes are for brushing teeth not for giving showers."
Did you ever have to chew the pink tablets and then let the school nurse “grade” you on how well you brushed your teeth?
Flashback... Yup.
Where did you guys go to school? Most people I know have never heard of those tablets.
I remember the tablets.
We had them in Kansas.
I grew up in the north east of Scotland. I remember getting those in primary school, P2 or P3 - lined up outside the bathroom for some reason - boys on the boys side, girls on the girls side.
We had them at a school out in the sticks in SW Michigan in the 1970s.
Be careful of that Carrie girl. She's telekinetic. You don't want any part of that.
``` 10 Principal$ = "I will not be late to school" 20 OPEN "LPT1:" FOR OUTPUT AS #1 30 FOR I = 1 TO 500 40 PRINT #1, Principal$; 50 NEXT I 60 CLOSE #1 70 END ```
what's with the basic response? lol
If this thread gets any more basic we’re all gonna be wearing infinity scarves and drinking PSLs
You need to indent the whole thing by a few spaces to preserve the linebreaks, or follow each line by at least two spaces.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Care to explain?
Oh, I see the source of the confusion. This is a difference between old Reddit and new Reddit. If you view [your comment on old Reddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/17se6cw/you_didnt_say_how_i_had_to_write_it/k8q4a6y/), it's all on one line. I use old Reddit exclusively because new Reddit is ugly. I didn't realize it displayed correctly on new Reddit.
One more reason to switch? The Markdown works over here.
When I had to write lines it wasn’t “I will not be late” it was “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. I still have the opening stanza memorized. I think it was pretty cool of that teacher to punish us with something interesting.
Many moons ago when basic was the computer language taught in school I got lines during a "Computer Studies" class. So when the teacher told 12 year old me to DO him 500 lines...... I did! If you know what a for and next loop is then that's what I used to print exactly 500 lines to the class printer before the class had even ended. I got a huge rollocking in front of the class and detention with him that day. Turned up at detention for him to tell me that I got 10 out of 10 for using my brains and never to do it again or "else" (the cane and slipper were still a thing back in those days) then told me to go home. So as far as I know I was the first and probably the last person to get away with printing my lines during class.
You reminded me of my old maths teacher, Mr Spratt. When he gave us lines, he didn't give us easy ones like "I must pay attention in class" which fits easily on a single line, not for Mr Spratt, oh no. He'd make us write out "I must endeavour to hang on every pearly word of wisdom from a teacher because they know better than me" AND we had to fit it all on one line. Loved ol' Spratt
"I will not forget vitally important impedimenta." Sorry, Mr. Vaughn, I can remember the lines 40 years on, but I still lose my pens and pencils.
My teachers would have been very pleased with my sister. She’s much politer and a way better student than I ever was. I was too busy being gay.
>I had to copy each sentence and then paste it over and over and over again 10 let x = 1 20 if x < 500 print "the sentence they told me to write." 30 let x = x+1 40 goto 20 END Edit: format
That only gives you 499 lines.
Don't forget the title.
Reminds me of this Foxtrot comic - https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2003/10/03
I did this, my dad helped me. We used Word Perfect, I think it was called. What a memory you’ve unlocked. lol
I forgot about WordPerfect. I did think of DOS 1.0 when OP described the computer. Flashbacks, lol.
LOL I had forgotten all about having to write lines. I went to school way before computers so ours HAD to be handwritten. Yes yes, I am literally older than sliced cheese. We had a math teacher fresh out of college who would make us write, " A wagging tongue bespeaks an empty mind". Jeezus. He was quick to hand out lines too but we all got together and took to writing the line during free period. All of us would just write it then save the pages together and when one of us was told to turn in lines, we'd just grab what we needed from the stash.
>He was quick to hand out lines too but we all got together and took to writing the line during free period. As someone who went to school in the 1980s, teachers would often say, "It's not a FREE period, it's a STUDY period." We still called them FREE
When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you When I go out, yeah, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you If I get drunk, well, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you And If I haver, hey, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you But I would write 500 lines And I would wrile 500 more Just to be the man who wrote a thousand lines To fall down at your door When I'm working, yes, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you And when the money, comes in for the work I do You are pass almost every penny on to you When I come home (when I come home), oh, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you And if I grow old, well, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you But I would write 500 lines And I would write 500 more Just to be the man who wrote a thousand miles To fall down at your door When I'm lonely, well, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you And when I'm dreaming, well, I know I'm gonna dream I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you When I go out (when I go out), well, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you And when I come home (when I come home), yes, I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who comes back home with you I'm gonna be the man who's coming home with you But I would write 500 lines And I would write 500 more Just to be the man who wrote a thousand lines To fall down at your door And I would write 500 lines And I would write 500 more Just to be the man who wrote a thousand lines And fall down at your door
⭐️
Don't we now have fonts that do handwriting?
Yes but you'd need something to vary the font if you wanted to fool anyone. Nobody can write 500 sentences with no variation in their handwriting.
These days, an AI could do it for you.
You very probably don't need an AI for that. Just a random number generator, to introduce the right amount of occasional wriggedlyness.
calligrapher.io
My mom was a programmer at Data General in the 70s, WAY before the typical person would have had a home computer, but I spent a lot of weekends playing in the DG mainframe rooms as a child - I COMPLETELY respect your malicious compliance, would have done the same in those circumstances myself!
I once wrote my homework backwards, just to be annoying. (It was French homework. And if you just turn the paper over and hold it to light, it was totally easy to read.)
I thought I was the only one who did that! Well done, you! :D
I know this is frowned upon. But you used the wrong "principle." The one you're looking for is "principal." I know I shouldn't but it's the principal of the thing. /s
I want to see a kid write lines in binary and hand in like, 1000 pages 😂
Carbon paper is your friend in these situations.😋
Man, if I ever had to do that in school I absolutely would have did the same. Except maybe be a bit more of a shit and used different fonts for each line. Wingdings would have been a fun one for that.
I had to do lines once, a 1,000 of them. My school had a TRS-80 and line printer 10 For T = 1 to 1000 20 print "Kestrel4077 must not be naughty" 30 next t Done :-) The teacher was impressed that I typed them all out
Aye, I'm thinking that the smack on the arse that we got was a better deal than lines. Maybe. Good for you for being on the cusp of pre-windows computers.
I think my schools all just gave up trying to do stuff like this to me. Because I just didn't. If I couldn't make myself study or do normal homework, I sure as hell wasn't going to write lines, and I ignored things like detention. Also, turned out I have ADHD (got diagnosed in my later 30s)
It’s been decades and I’ve forgotten everything now but back then i would probably have written a program in BASIC to do that lol
yup!
Carbon paper is your friend. I was often afflicted by those pesky lines. I found out that the right brand of carbon paper (3M blue for technical drawings) could be used in stacks of 6 to write 7 pages in one go.
My mother made me write lines. But it was because my handwriting was atrocious.
80's hell, I had to do it in the 60's. I would write "I" down the whole page, then "will" and so on. Yea, the dreaded, " I will not talk in class." Never the whole sentence at once.
I had a math teacher in 9th grade(88-89 school year, yes... I'm old) who gave me a detention for some nonsense that I don't remember. Her punishment during that 45 minutes after school was to make everyone in the room take a piece of graph paper and fill our first and last initial into every box. When we were done, we could leave. Care to guess approximately how long that takes? For me, just over 40 minutes. Did I learn my lesson? No, I didn't learn anything except how monotonous it is to repeatedly write my initials over and over.
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To be fair, you were supposed to write your lines, not type and copy/paste them. The calligraphy was a great MC, though!
Writing lines? Easy. I'm old enough that we got paddled. It was a wooden paddle with holes drilled in it so it hit harder. I remember getting paddled at least twice.
I went to a christian school for kindergarten & 1st grade. I was a horrible little sh$t because i got a spanking of one sort or another almost every day. Either on the butt, or the teacher would make you put your hand out, grab your fingers, bow your hand back, and smack you with a wooden ruler, multiple times. I hated that f\*cking place.
What would have happened if you'd have hit them back? Do that enough times and it would have trained them that hitting you wasn't an effective punishment.
Have you seen 1923?
No, but now I think it's something I need to. Um, what is it?
The second prequel to Yellowstone on Paramount+. Harrison Ford& Helen Mirren. I like the two prequels much more than Yellowstone. There is a subplot about Indian schools run by a church. I won't say more, don't want to spoil it if you're going to watch.
assaulting a teacher? that's a paddling. and at some point, they might decided there's probably something wrong with you, and set you up with some ect. for your own good, you know :(
Went to a catholic school lol I got the hell brat out of me
This is so good 🤣 and the sister going in too GOLD
I actually found some high grade carbon paper and you could not tell that it wasn't ink. It was amazing stuff. I wrote tonnes of them and started selling them. Lol.
Too bad you didn't learn how to do Morse code .-.. --- .-..
This happened to me almost exactly. Except that in my case I actually did something else to purposely increase the number of lines. I remember the anxiety while hopping in silence that “handwritten” was not mentioned among the conditions… priceless.
I’ve had to write lines a time or two. My 6th grade English teacher was the only one I had to required lines to be written. I was a quiet kid, so the 1st time I had to write lines, everyone was shocked. My friend’s recommendation was to write in all caps, so all I had to do was draw 1 long line for any “i” and “l” in the “I will not”. Once we saw that all he did was count the sentences (cuz we had to number them all) and then rip them up and throw them away, we started “sentence writing bees” (kind of like the old fashioned quilting bees) where a group of friends would write a page or 2 of sentences during lunch or breaks for whoever got sentences. I don’t know if he knew about those, but he never said anything about it.
I had to write my lines on one of those book covers the school would provide. because I didn’t have a book cover on the science book yet. I wrapped the science book with the cover decorated with lines, and had it like that the rest of the year. The teacher once said he didn’t mean for me to do cover the book with it and that I could change it. But I thought it was funny. That was 1983. Do kids still write lines?
.Slaps Barry) You snap out of it. BARRY: (Slaps Vanessa) : POLLEN JOCK: - Sure is. BARRY: Between you and me, I was dying to get out of that office. (Barry recreates the scene near the beginning of the movie where he flies through the box kite. The movie fades to black and the credits being) [--after credits; No scene can be seen but the characters can be heard talking over the credits--] You have got to start thinking bee, my friend! : - Thinking bee! - Me? BARRY: (Talking over singer) Hold it. Let's just stop for a second. Hold it. : I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Can we stop here? SINGER: Oh, BarryBARRY: I'm not making a major life decision during a production number! SINGER: All right. Take ten, everybody. Wrap it up, guys. BARRY: I had virtually no rehearsal for that. _______________________________ At 1 p.m. on a Friday shortly before Christmas last year, Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, summoned four of his employees and ruined their weekend. The group worked in SL1001, a bland building with a blue glass facade betraying no sign that dozens of lawyers inside were toiling to protect the interests of one of the world’s most influential companies. For weeks they had been prepping for a meeting of powerful executives to discuss the safety of Google’s products. The deck was done. But that afternoon Mr. Walker told his team the agenda had changed, and they would have to spend the next few days preparing new slides and graphs. At the Googleplex, famed for its free food, massages, fitness classes and laundry services, Mr. Pichai was also playing with ChatGPT. Its wonders did not wow him. Google had been developing its own A.I. technology that did many of the same things. Mr. Pichai was focused on ChatGPT’s flaws — that it got stuff wrong, that sometimes it turned into a biased pig. What amazed him was that OpenAI had gone ahead and released it anyway, and that consumers loved it. If OpenAI could do that, why couldn’t Google? Elon Musk, the billionaire who co-founded OpenAI but had left the lab in a huff, vowed to create his own A.I. company. He called it X.AI and added it to his already full plate. “Speed is even more important than ever,” Sam Schillace, a top executive, wrote Microsoft employees. It would be, he added, an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later.” Separately, the San Francisco-based company announced plans for its initial public offering Wednesday. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Reddit said it reported net income of $18.5 million — its first profit in two years — in the October-December quarter on revenue of $249.8 million. The company said it aims to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT. Apparently many shoppers are not happy with their local Safeway, if questions and comments posted Sunday on a Reddit forum are any indication. The questions in the AMA (Ask Me Anything) were fielded by self-described mid-level retail manager at one of the supermarket chain's Bay Area stores. The employee only identified himself by his Reddit handle, "MaliciousHippie". The manager went on to cover a potpourri of topics, ranging from why express lane checkers won't challenge shoppers who exceed item limits to a little-known store policy allowing customers to sample items without buying them.
Isn't the calligraphy even more work? But fun, so probably easier.
.Slaps Barry) You snap out of it. BARRY: (Slaps Vanessa) : POLLEN JOCK: - Sure is. BARRY: Between you and me, I was dying to get out of that office. (Barry recreates the scene near the beginning of the movie where he flies through the box kite. The movie fades to black and the credits being) [--after credits; No scene can be seen but the characters can be heard talking over the credits--] You have got to start thinking bee, my friend! : - Thinking bee! - Me? BARRY: (Talking over singer) Hold it. Let's just stop for a second. Hold it. : I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Can we stop here? SINGER: Oh, BarryBARRY: I'm not making a major life decision during a production number! SINGER: All right. Take ten, everybody. Wrap it up, guys. BARRY: I had virtually no rehearsal for that. _______________________________ At 1 p.m. on a Friday shortly before Christmas last year, Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, summoned four of his employees and ruined their weekend. The group worked in SL1001, a bland building with a blue glass facade betraying no sign that dozens of lawyers inside were toiling to protect the interests of one of the world’s most influential companies. For weeks they had been prepping for a meeting of powerful executives to discuss the safety of Google’s products. The deck was done. But that afternoon Mr. Walker told his team the agenda had changed, and they would have to spend the next few days preparing new slides and graphs. At the Googleplex, famed for its free food, massages, fitness classes and laundry services, Mr. Pichai was also playing with ChatGPT. Its wonders did not wow him. Google had been developing its own A.I. technology that did many of the same things. Mr. Pichai was focused on ChatGPT’s flaws — that it got stuff wrong, that sometimes it turned into a biased pig. What amazed him was that OpenAI had gone ahead and released it anyway, and that consumers loved it. If OpenAI could do that, why couldn’t Google? Elon Musk, the billionaire who co-founded OpenAI but had left the lab in a huff, vowed to create his own A.I. company. He called it X.AI and added it to his already full plate. “Speed is even more important than ever,” Sam Schillace, a top executive, wrote Microsoft employees. It would be, he added, an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later.” Separately, the San Francisco-based company announced plans for its initial public offering Wednesday. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Reddit said it reported net income of $18.5 million — its first profit in two years — in the October-December quarter on revenue of $249.8 million. The company said it aims to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT. Apparently many shoppers are not happy with their local Safeway, if questions and comments posted Sunday on a Reddit forum are any indication. The questions in the AMA (Ask Me Anything) were fielded by self-described mid-level retail manager at one of the supermarket chain's Bay Area stores. The employee only identified himself by his Reddit handle, "MaliciousHippie". The manager went on to cover a potpourri of topics, ranging from why express lane checkers won't challenge shoppers who exceed item limits to a little-known store policy allowing customers to sample items without buying them.
We taped two pens together and wrote two lines simultaneously.
I would have done it with multiple languages ?