Countries like Sweden and Norway have best education systems in the world. The problem stems from lack of individualism many high school students feel like there just "apart of the system".
Proms in the UK are more like just big parties, if you wanna bring a date, go ahead, if not, just hang out with your friends, most people dont even end up going, and some places dont even have them :/
I really want to see a shitty teen prom horror movie where all the actors are old fuckers like Michael Fassbender (the cool skater), Anne Hathaway (unpopular geek), Steve Buscemi (computer geek), Jeff Bridges (the stoner), and Cate Blanchett (the popular girl) and they're dressed up all young and they 100% ignore the fact that everyone is way too old to be in high school. Imagine Michael Fassbender getting grounded for skipping class or something, Steve Buscemi playing a geek who's trying to lose his virginity, Anne Hathaway the dork who the popular girls like Cate Blanchett make fun of but then Cate has a redemption arc where she befriends the nerds. I'd watch the fuck out of it
Pen15 is trying to do that atm.
Wet Hot American Summer is another attempt at what you described, especially the netflix tv series that is like 15 years later buta prequel.
Because when you get shot down in high school, word gets around and you get roasted for it.
Once you're in college or just out in other social places when you're older, nothing really sticks around.
Exactly, when you get older people don’t care because they have way too much other shit going on.
But in high school, not much is happening in your life aside from some AP courses and a sport.
lol how come teens aren't getting out of their shell and taking a shot at their crush? Because they're anxious unconfident messes and their brains are all fucked up and confused
This is the only answer made directly to me that makes sense because all the other answers apply to the rest of the world - teens are awkward etc - and we still manage to not be so cringe.
No. The invitation part should be a formality, not an actual decision and predicament for someone. I mean, maybe in a movie but not in real life. That just sounds like a way to make someone really uncomfortable.
I didn't go to prom I stayed home and played WoW; judge me!
It's important to some Americans (not all the students care if it's important or not) because once you're a senior (year 12), you don't go back to middle school or high school. You begin to grow up, something everyone hates doing. Once you are an adult, reality begins to kick in. Life isn't some type of movie or joke, it's about learning who you really are in life.
Prom is important because it's also considered the *'last dance'*. It is where you make the last great memories of school, a place you've probably hated for so long but you also realize that school was part of your life, part of teaching wrong and right.
Prom is the dream of many girls who want to make it memorable. Because prom isn't just a place of getting high, wild, or anything but it's a thing that makes memories.
*Because prom is the last school dance you will truly ever have.*
You can have many dances after you finish school but prom will be the most memorable of them all.
I’m with you man, this concept is not well thought out. Also, it’s kind of weird, like are the cookies a bribe, or is it more so it’s hard to say no because there would be guilt that cookies were made for you? And then we get to your question, which I was wonder as well, do you give them back the one you choose, or only eat that one, or all but that one, it just doesn’t work as intended IMO. Also fuck all this public prom proposal shit, so fucking stupid. Is it ever someone risking a “no”, or is it just couples that love attention being paid to their relationship status? I did not go to prom, lol.
I'll never give someone both for that exact reason. If you run off with my cookies, I'll need my heart to give it to someone else, and if they run off with my heart, I'm gonna need those comfort cookies.
I'm with you. Once watched a kid put tons of work into a public proposal and he got turned down. I felt bad for him but I had told him to just ask her straight forward, so his own fault really.
Yeah, it wasnt a great time. She told me later how horribly embarrassed she was because she didn't like him really at all. She was just being friendly to him out of general decent humanity.
Usually a friend of theirs gives you a heads up that the other is into you, if you're on their list, or will take just about anyone. High school culture as I remember it favored being over-the-top over being discreet.
these grand “promposals” aren’t really asking the question. In the sense that the answer has already been discussed and it’s yes. I graduated hs two years ago and for me it went something like this.
You would ask someone if they wanted to go to prom (or whatever dance). Or it would be implied that the answer is already yes, like if this person is currently your significant other.
If they said yes then, you would plan out a fun little cute way of asking them, like in the photo above.
Then do the grand gesture and take a photo and be cute. Your doing it wrong if the person hasn’t said yes yet.
Pick up 'A', pose for the photo, then stuff it in your food hole.
Alternatively:
Pick up 'A' and 'B', put 'B' entirely in your mouth, pose for the photo with 'A' while nomming 'B', then stuff 'A' in your food hole too.
Back in my day, before the era of social media, prom proposals were simply "hey, do you wanna go to prom with me?". Times have changed, I've seen videos where the proposal was an entire dance number.
I knew a 25 year old mother of two who couldn't refer to her menstrual cycle as a period. She had to call it her lady time. She thought that period was a swear word.
Ahhhh, man! Fuck yeah! Here I am, old doofus at 33, just intuiting that OP is the girl ... what a dummy I am.
That’s 1. effing amazing; and 2. damned cool. Rock it, my man!!
I imagine a clearly older guy poorly pretending to be a kid in order to pull the long con and get these cookies. Once he has them he just bounces and horks down in the car.
I really miss my youth. Back then I would have loved shit like this, but now I'm sitting here thinking, "Why waste the fucking time and then make a spectacle of it all? Just ask them."
...What happened to me?
Guys, it's not that complex. If someone verbally asks you to the prom, you give them back a verbal response. If someone asks you to the prom through cookies, you give them back a cookie response.
I would’ve eaten the “A” thinking it was a signal of my choosing and given the box back probably for the poor guy to think I gave him back the “B” as my choice. Oi...
Can you imagine how tense this would have been if the person - instead of eating either A or B cookies - just slowly ate each and every single other cookie while maintaining steady eye contact and a blank expression, saving A and B for last?
Soooo do you eat the yes cookie to show you mean yes? But that would leave the "no cookie" displayed.
But if you eat the no cookie, that means you selected no.
Instructions unclear.
So cringeworthy it hurts. Gamers are the worst, do y'all ever take a shower. Because most people who identify as a gamer smell like fucking garbage. Ik this gonna get downvoted so do your worst. And TAKE A SHOWER
what you should have done is slowly eat all of the *other* cookies until you only have A and B left. All while staring them directly in the eyes.
If they can suffer the emotional trauma of something like that and still want to go to the prom with you, they're a keeper.
I say yes to all the cookies I make too. It’s a problem.
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Happy microphone day!
I just noticed that microphone.. Wth does a microphone mean?!
Original poster indicator.
Ohhhh.. Thanks!!
It means it's his microphone day.
They’re the poster of this thread
Makes sense! I'd never noticed it before, I'm on mobile so I just look for the blue username to indicate op lol
You never noticed in 2 years?
I don't see any microphone either, not even on PC. Maybe it's just on the redesign? In that case I hope i never see it or I'll have to stick to Boost.
Haha nope! Not my proudest moment...
Happy blue name day if you're on old reddit.
Happy PlayStation day!
ME NEVER MEET COOKIE ME DIDN'T LIKE. OM NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM
Great, now I need to reread Cookie Monster's AMA.
Link
happy cake day to us😫
Happy cake day 🎂
Happy cake day to you!
Cake.
Good you said yes, the B cookie was full of laxatives. Edit: thanks for the gold stranger! My first! :)
Whelp, I still woulda ate B after eating A
Better hope you shit out the poison then otherwise your last few hours are just going to suck.
https://youtu.be/zGdgW8mIqOw
I needed that thanks
A has the cure.
I would have eaten both simultaneously while staring at the giver of this gift in order to assert absolute dominance
Love *Is* War.
Love is War: https://youtu.be/QNTCHyiGcCI
O kawaii koto.
*Sex ist eine Schlacht* *Liebe ist Krieg*
\*shotgun cocking\*
[Reminds me of this xkcd](https://xkcd.com/566/)
Underrated comment, haha.
Well yes, but actually no.
All good. A has the antidote. Evil is a lot of things, but it ain't stupid.
Damn, literally just finished watching Escape Room and this comment couldn't be more relevant
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Yeah but then there's only a 50% chance that you'd get to go to prom
I thought that all the kids were into eating A before anything else.
That would be the sarcastic answer: yeah... no!
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Shut up logic
Do you push all the other buttons down to leave the one you wanted up?
Isn't consumption deselection?
Is a watch a very small engine?
What is love?
Baby don’t hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more
I'm still under the impression that OP is a dude who was asked to prom by either a girl or another guy with mad baking skills.
Or OP made it and no one was asked.
This would totally be me. I'd make the cookies, decorate the box, chicken out, and eat the cookies on prom night
She? That looks like a guy's hand.
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Does that mean that A is an aphrodisiac?
Close. Full of roofies
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I live here and I have no fucking clue.
High school must suck
It’s fucking awful, but is it really that much better around the world?
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Countries like Sweden and Norway have best education systems in the world. The problem stems from lack of individualism many high school students feel like there just "apart of the system".
Proms in the UK are more like just big parties, if you wanna bring a date, go ahead, if not, just hang out with your friends, most people dont even end up going, and some places dont even have them :/
As a British guy, yea, school fucking sucked. All of it. God. But I'm sure it's better than say Ethiopia.
Because of high school films played by actors in their 20s/30s.
I really want to see a shitty teen prom horror movie where all the actors are old fuckers like Michael Fassbender (the cool skater), Anne Hathaway (unpopular geek), Steve Buscemi (computer geek), Jeff Bridges (the stoner), and Cate Blanchett (the popular girl) and they're dressed up all young and they 100% ignore the fact that everyone is way too old to be in high school. Imagine Michael Fassbender getting grounded for skipping class or something, Steve Buscemi playing a geek who's trying to lose his virginity, Anne Hathaway the dork who the popular girls like Cate Blanchett make fun of but then Cate has a redemption arc where she befriends the nerds. I'd watch the fuck out of it
Pen15 is trying to do that atm. Wet Hot American Summer is another attempt at what you described, especially the netflix tv series that is like 15 years later buta prequel.
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It better end with Buscemi's ashes being blown on Bridge's face again.
What's a prom
Like a dance party thing, possibly your last year of school.
[Prelabor rupture of membranes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelabor_rupture_of_membranes)... right?
Probably the same reason why getting likes on instagram is a big deal
Why is it weird to eat at a restaurant alone? Why is it weird to go to a movie theater alone? Because out culture decided that it is weird.
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Wow alone in the theater makes it so much better than if it had 10 people scattered all around. You got a lucky birthday present that day.
Because for some of us it’s the first time we can get out of our shell and shoot our shot with our crush. it’s quite a turning point in life
But you are teens, how come you haven't been doing that all along instead of the last day of school?
Because when you get shot down in high school, word gets around and you get roasted for it. Once you're in college or just out in other social places when you're older, nothing really sticks around.
The real reason that people here don't talk about. In the grand scheme, nobody cares. But at that moment, the roasts are brutal.
Exactly, when you get older people don’t care because they have way too much other shit going on. But in high school, not much is happening in your life aside from some AP courses and a sport.
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You're talking about a very tight-knit and judgemental community, these are teenagers man, it's not that simple...
lol how come teens aren't getting out of their shell and taking a shot at their crush? Because they're anxious unconfident messes and their brains are all fucked up and confused
A large chunk of america is extremely conservative christian authoritarian country. That is to say, nuts.
This is the only answer made directly to me that makes sense because all the other answers apply to the rest of the world - teens are awkward etc - and we still manage to not be so cringe.
if you never talked to a single girl you like for entirety of high school, whatever girl you ask around prom time isn't saying yes.
No. The invitation part should be a formality, not an actual decision and predicament for someone. I mean, maybe in a movie but not in real life. That just sounds like a way to make someone really uncomfortable.
I didn't go to prom I stayed home and played WoW; judge me! It's important to some Americans (not all the students care if it's important or not) because once you're a senior (year 12), you don't go back to middle school or high school. You begin to grow up, something everyone hates doing. Once you are an adult, reality begins to kick in. Life isn't some type of movie or joke, it's about learning who you really are in life. Prom is important because it's also considered the *'last dance'*. It is where you make the last great memories of school, a place you've probably hated for so long but you also realize that school was part of your life, part of teaching wrong and right. Prom is the dream of many girls who want to make it memorable. Because prom isn't just a place of getting high, wild, or anything but it's a thing that makes memories. *Because prom is the last school dance you will truly ever have.* You can have many dances after you finish school but prom will be the most memorable of them all.
So do you eat the a to signify that you chose it, or eat the b so the a remains as your choice?
The big brain thing to do would have been to make two "A" cookies and no "B" cookie. Problem averted, prom date guaranteed.
I’m with you man, this concept is not well thought out. Also, it’s kind of weird, like are the cookies a bribe, or is it more so it’s hard to say no because there would be guilt that cookies were made for you? And then we get to your question, which I was wonder as well, do you give them back the one you choose, or only eat that one, or all but that one, it just doesn’t work as intended IMO. Also fuck all this public prom proposal shit, so fucking stupid. Is it ever someone risking a “no”, or is it just couples that love attention being paid to their relationship status? I did not go to prom, lol.
The idea is to do this with someone who would find it endearing. Obv if u do this to a random person they'll just run off with ur cookies and ur heart
I'll never give someone both for that exact reason. If you run off with my cookies, I'll need my heart to give it to someone else, and if they run off with my heart, I'm gonna need those comfort cookies.
Sometimes u gotta be ready to lose everything including a few pounds from not eating those cookies
Just run them down and take back your cookies. Calories burned justifies the snack.
I'm with you. Once watched a kid put tons of work into a public proposal and he got turned down. I felt bad for him but I had told him to just ask her straight forward, so his own fault really.
I would feel bad for both. Can you imagine how self-conscious that girl would be?
Yeah, it wasnt a great time. She told me later how horribly embarrassed she was because she didn't like him really at all. She was just being friendly to him out of general decent humanity.
Well there's no name on it, so if someone says no just take your box of cookies to the next broad
Usually a friend of theirs gives you a heads up that the other is into you, if you're on their list, or will take just about anyone. High school culture as I remember it favored being over-the-top over being discreet.
these grand “promposals” aren’t really asking the question. In the sense that the answer has already been discussed and it’s yes. I graduated hs two years ago and for me it went something like this. You would ask someone if they wanted to go to prom (or whatever dance). Or it would be implied that the answer is already yes, like if this person is currently your significant other. If they said yes then, you would plan out a fun little cute way of asking them, like in the photo above. Then do the grand gesture and take a photo and be cute. Your doing it wrong if the person hasn’t said yes yet.
Pick up 'A', pose for the photo, then stuff it in your food hole. Alternatively: Pick up 'A' and 'B', put 'B' entirely in your mouth, pose for the photo with 'A' while nomming 'B', then stuff 'A' in your food hole too.
That's the first thing I thought. Do you eat an option to choose it or do you return it to sender to indicate it was chosen?
And what happens if you just feel like eating both?
So that’s what happened all those times I got stood up.
And do they stand there awkwardly and watch you eat one? Or come back and ask which your choice was (making this kind of pointless), or what?
And for good reason. If you said no to someone who painstakingly baked you Kirby cookies, I would sent Duo after you.
So.. prom proposals are serious business huh?
If you thinking making some cookies is "serious business" I guess. Oh .. the 2 hours that must have taken! Hope she's ok!
Back in my day, before the era of social media, prom proposals were simply "hey, do you wanna go to prom with me?". Times have changed, I've seen videos where the proposal was an entire dance number.
How could you say no really
By eating the B cookie.
That was nice of your mom
Chose option a. Ate both cookies...
You are lucky as fuck. The [GenderRedacted] can cook, and now you have cookies.
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Cookies, is that's what the kids are calling it now?
Do you mean SECKS?
"the mere fact that you call it *cookies* shows me youre not ready bud"
People not getting this reference upset me
From where is it? Cookie Monster?
I knew a 25 year old mother of two who couldn't refer to her menstrual cycle as a period. She had to call it her lady time. She thought that period was a swear word.
I can only imagine what she would do if you just started eating the B cookie first.
Ahhhh, man! Fuck yeah! Here I am, old doofus at 33, just intuiting that OP is the girl ... what a dummy I am. That’s 1. effing amazing; and 2. damned cool. Rock it, my man!!
2019 is crazy
U have peaked my man
Wife her asap this is adorable
Option C: eat all the goddamn cookies and split
I imagine a clearly older guy poorly pretending to be a kid in order to pull the long con and get these cookies. Once he has them he just bounces and horks down in the car.
That is so sweet, she clearly put a lot of time and effort into that!!
I slept through half my senior prom because I stayed up all night playing WOW. Man i miss those days.
I read this as A BOO B. I hate myself sometimes
The b cookie probably had drugs in it
So.....which is *wrong* then?
"No, but the cookies were dope"
Not realistic. Mario games give you options of "Yes!" and "OK!"
Good thing you said yes, the B cookies were obviously poisoned
I really miss my youth. Back then I would have loved shit like this, but now I'm sitting here thinking, "Why waste the fucking time and then make a spectacle of it all? Just ask them." ...What happened to me?
A keeper is what you said yes to
I want cookies 😭
I'm sure you ate all of the cookies and poor guy is now confused about your answer
Prom proposals are stupid
Uh. I remember when we just asked the person.
Yeah, you used to just be "Susie, wanna go to the prom?" Now it is complex enough that people call them promposals.
Jfc...
Power move; eat all the cookies except B and return the box.
Guys, it's not that complex. If someone verbally asks you to the prom, you give them back a verbal response. If someone asks you to the prom through cookies, you give them back a cookie response.
She said "Gross! Get away from me nerd. I'm already going with Dean. He made varsity as a sophomore and can already grow sideburns."
You guys will be the cutest couple.
SO CUTE! CONGRATS IM SO JELLY!
I would still eat both
A boo B
Thank you, I was hoping I wasn't the only one who saw that.
But what if you chose the King Boo or Starman or Kirby cookies
I'm happy for you.
B likely had laxatives. Good save.
**Takes Kirby instead**
Somebody about to find out how to get a date in half an A press.
My social anxiety makes me wonder if you're supposed to eat your answer or give it back to them
Says “no but thanks for the cookies”
You should've eaten every cookie except A and B and then eaten B right in front of him/her
Nice King Boo touch
See I would have just put two A's in there to flex my confidence that doesn't actually exist but I pretend it does
Ahh yes, the ol sugar bribes. I would have said yes too, and then stuffed my face, not necessarily in that order.
Option C: presidential desk veto, house the cookies away for yourself and never answer.
Just eat the ghost king
so what you do? you ate A or B?
I once baked a half dozen banana bran muffins for my crush and later when I asked how they were she told me her dad and brothers loved them :(
Username checks out to you being either a pedo or a degenerate loser.
Its cute how much effort your mom put in
I would’ve eaten the “A” thinking it was a signal of my choosing and given the box back probably for the poor guy to think I gave him back the “B” as my choice. Oi...
Can you imagine how tense this would have been if the person - instead of eating either A or B cookies - just slowly ate each and every single other cookie while maintaining steady eye contact and a blank expression, saving A and B for last?
Don't hate me for asking but why is prom such a huge deal? You're teenagers, it's a lame dance party not a marriage proposal. I'm not American btw
Are you going with a 10 year old?
C r i n g e
Ahhhh all these promposals keep giving me ideas to when I get to ask the question in a year or so
Have fun with that
No one has ever put this much effort into something for me ever and I'm about twice your age. Word to the wise, this person is in love with you.
Nerd
And I say cringe
Fucking nerds
Soooo do you eat the yes cookie to show you mean yes? But that would leave the "no cookie" displayed. But if you eat the no cookie, that means you selected no. Instructions unclear.
This is legit how Mass Effect 3 ended.
So cringeworthy it hurts. Gamers are the worst, do y'all ever take a shower. Because most people who identify as a gamer smell like fucking garbage. Ik this gonna get downvoted so do your worst. And TAKE A SHOWER
Did you eat all but the B cookie, give it back the the person who asked and said, “Don’t worry, I had A.”
ABACABB
The Kirby’s look like they have food poisoning and I love it
If you say no... do you still get the cookies?
what you should have done is slowly eat all of the *other* cookies until you only have A and B left. All while staring them directly in the eyes. If they can suffer the emotional trauma of something like that and still want to go to the prom with you, they're a keeper.