Kindergarten teacher has 1 student every year who has never colored, written, or drawn anything with a writing utensil before: ‘They have to be explicitly taught how to apply pressure to write on paper.’

Should kids know how to write their own names before they start kindergarten? It’s no secret that many kids are getting left behind in the education system. When I was a kid, America was all about not leaving kids behind in this exact setting (when I was a kid, I thought that policy was about …
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Bride Bans Wedding Guests From Wearing Blue 24 Hours Before Her Wedding, Forbids 30+ Guests Wearing Blue From Appearing in Pictures

Who does she think she is? Does she think her wedding guests have an unlimited budget to get a brand new outfit the night before her wedding? What about guests who are traveling from out of town? If you’ve been to your fair share of millennial or Gen Z weddings, you’ve probably had the experience …
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Warehouse forbids employees from wearing any colors that aren’t gray, black, white, blue, red or tan: ‘I’m not sure they even know their basic colors’

At this point, they should just provide their employees with a uniform.  There is something so convenient about wearing a uniform, whether it be for school or work. You don’t have to think about what you wear in the morning or if it’s appropriate. All you have to do is put on the same thing …
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Job seeker flawlessly redesigns company’s app for job interview, company uses their design but refuses to hire them: ‘It was 85% my work. I got a generic rejection email.’

No good deed goes unpunished. There is a growing group of professionals who go online to proclaim that they don’t do any free labor, not even for a job interview. It might sound like a strict rule, especially if the «labor» in question is a test assessing whether they have the skills to do the …
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22 Green Memes for Lovers of All Things Lush and Verdant

Green has a reputation for being a calming color, but we like to think that it has a range beyond being the shade they paint doctors’ waiting rooms to reduce the chance of a patient freakout. It is also the color of cartoon acid (glamorous! dangerous!) and vomit (gross). It is the color chosen to …
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Family pressures 23-year-old to buy her 26-year-old sister’s all white furniture that she doesn’t want: ‘They think I’m a bad sister for refusing to help out my sister before a big move abroad’

There are many things I would love to get for free. Give me a poorly printed tote bag at a street fair any day of the week. I love to eat the butternut squash pasta that my roommate was planning on throwing out. I will grab something from a clothing swap that I’m unsure about, …
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Entitled bride demands wedding guests only wear beige or gray, best friend refuses to attend because she looks bad in those colors: ‘I look like a ghost in a burlap sack.’

It’s expected that you make some sacrifices for the weddings of those close to you. You’d probably rather use your precious PTO to go on a vacation for yourself instead of spending it traveling to Piedmont, South Dakota, to watch your cousin get hitched, but you use your PTO anyway because you love her.  We’ve …
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Older sister bridesmaid demands bride change her pink and green wedding colors because they don’t compliment her complexion: ‘She even threatened not to come if I didn’t change the colors’

I don’t get it when people claim that specific colors look horrible on them. Maybe I’m just a narcissist, but I wear crazy bright colors all the time and have never found a color I think looks horrible on me. I don’t particularly like wearing all black, but that’s not the color’s fault; it’s just …
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Maximalist Person Turns Bathroom Into ‘Garden of Eden’, Internet Agrees They Went Overboard

Your bathroom is the one place in your house that requires some extra work to look nice. Putting in a potted plant and a scent spray bottle doesn’t cut it. If you’re ever at a loss for what to add, you can always check r/interiordecorating where Redditors offer each other advice on how to make …
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People Argue About Which Character Will Be the «Yellow Guy» of the 2020s

Every decade ends up being defined by certain things that happened within it. From the fashion, to the music, to the politics, our collective memories are so bad that we need things repackaged in digestible, bitesize pieces so we can have an idea of what everything was like back in the good old days.  Thanks …
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