Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/14/what-not-to-do-the-first-day-i.html
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it always seemed to me like the rules for prison are the same as the rules for when you’re new in high school: you don’t beat up the bigger, badder upperclassmen – you make FRIENDS with them. that’s what i did, anyway. it sure helped me.
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You wanna make friends with the Squirrel Master, right the fu#k away.
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Delightful.
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It is funny, but it bother me that he isn’t actually knitting. He is just wiggling the needles around.
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Real talk, indeed
Wait, that’s not how knitting works?
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That man can not knit.
Maybe he should take up crochet, instead. It would certainly be faster in producing a scarf.
And from what I hear, you won’t be allowed knitting needles (or a crochet hook) in prison. Not in a regular prison anyway. Maybe in one of those special “Open” Prisons.
Hell, you can’t even pass a prisoner a pencil.
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In the USA, one out of every 50 men is behind bars right this minute. No other country in the world imprisons people at such a high rate.
America’s immense, metastasized prison system is not normal, jokey videos about it notwithstanding.
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You be the one to call him out on it! 
There was a time when 10.5% of the permanent resident population of Pitcairn Island was in prison. They had to bring in prison guards from overseas.
#pedant 
That’s what I did in middle school: the all A’s kid, me, hung out with the dope smokin’ tough guys. No idea why they let me hang but there it is. In high school, I was just invisible.
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yep, that’s what i did, too. not sure why they let me hang with them, but they did, which i always took to mean that their reputation as mean, awful people was unfounded. they more just resented being misrepresented or misunderstood, and i totally understood that.
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This is really interesting - me too! I wonder what it is about bb commenters that leads to that coincidence? Or I suppose there are hundreds of people who didn’t and so didn’t comment. So it’s not really a thing.
Move on, nothing to see.
Edit - that comes off as REALLY snarky, when in reality I figured it out as I was typing.
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