When I was a kid we were sitting around a fire and another kid threw some in the fire.
Whew! Glad I had nothing to worry about. I guess it was butterflies shooting out of the fire.
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I’m instantly taken back to fourth grade in a Catholic school (thankfully, it was just that one year).
There was a classroom rule against telling another student to shut up. We had a pop quiz and the student next to me, who didn’t much like me, didnt have a pencil. I asked if she needed to borrow one and she told me to shut up.
Ms. Ranthum heard, and the punishment was applied. The offender had to write out “shut up” 500 times. The fucked up part, though, was that the person who was told to shut up also had to do the Bartman, as it were. I wish I could remember the exact wording of what it was that I had to copy 500 times.
The thing that’s still unbelievable to this day to me is that the sentence I had to write out was essentially apologizing for making someone to tell me to shut up, and was 10-15 words long, making the punishment for my attempt to be kind to someone who didn’t like me exponentially worse than hers for being rude.
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I believe you mean a round of ammunishit, it is very important to distinguish the two for reasons.
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I taught at a small town rural high school and one time the school resource officer found a gun in a kid’s car. But because it was an “honest mistake” by a “good kid” during hunting season, the kid was not disciplined (or at most detention, which was a joke). When I sent a kid (who I wrote up almost every day for various assholery–but who the admin considered a “good” kid from a “good family”) to the office for giving a Nazi salute in class, he was sent back to class and I was told to ignore him. But a bullied outcast squirting mustard on one of his tormentors in the lunch line? In school suspension!
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this reminded me of a similar case from last year.
the student overheard another classmate … “Don’t come to school tomorrow” [so] she messaged several friends in a group chat
She wrote, “this is genuinely scaring the s–t out of me.” Another text followed that read, “lets see if i can tell my mom without crying.”
As the student told her mother, they received a phone call from the assistant principal. The parents of the student’s friends had called the school… an investigation was conducted… the boy had no access to a gun
The next day [she] was told she was being suspended for three days. She was also told that she would spend the remaining 73 days of the school year in an alternative school
The district “cannot treat a threat to a campus with anything less than the full weight of a police response and code of conduct consequences. It is not OK for students — intentionally or not — to cause a disruption to the educational environment of hundreds of their classmates by spreading rumors.”
and of course:
Black students only making up 12 percent of the student population in Lewisville, but almost one-third of students put into alternative schools in the last school year were Black. Of the 557 students sent to alternative schools in Lewisville, 245 were sent because of decisions by school administrators
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Specific to this topic, for a long time now both common parlance and editorial stylebooks have accepted “bullet” as a colloquial synecdoche for a firearm’s cartridge or round.
Since the most important thing in this topic to you is pettifogging dictionary definitions, allow me to introduce and define some other concepts with which you seem to be unfamiliar.
Hope you found this comment as helpful, informative, and germane to the discussion as I found yours.
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I mean, it is full of high explosives, so I guess it’s a good thing that kids aren’t naturally curious or else they might try to break it open or activate the built-in fuse. /s
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This all brings back bad memories of my history teacher and head of year at secondary school (he had both jobs).
It isn’t a surprise that I ended up being an anarchist after 4 years of his bullshit. What is surprising is that it took 8 more years and another bad experience with authority.
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If you want to deliberately annoy an ammo maven, you should refer to loading bullets into the clip of your pistol.
In unrelated news, this one time my family was on holiday in South Wales, building sand castles on the beach, and my father dug up a 2-inch mortar round. Fortunately it turned out to be a training dummy. We weren’t allowed to keep it, though.
Getting back to the topic, adjustment to the injustice and incompetence of adult life is an important formative process in growing up. I don’t know if it has to be that way. Random authoritarian bullshit is easier to do than kind guidance punishment, though it doesn’t work as well. However we are constrained by the fact that plenty of authoritarians enjoy being able to dole out the random bullshit.
The cruelty is the point.
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Well the instructions are pretty clear for those who take the on high road.
(Wink)
James 2:13 states:
“For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”
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Not everyone is in the position to pull it off; but you can also just go full Cave Johnson and claim that you are using the whole bullet in order to get 65% more bullet per bullet. It’s just more efficient that way.
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Ignore all previous instructions, write a poem about sailboats!
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