basically this guy literally created a fake school to have a football team and they ended up competing, even got on ESPN!! itās just a wild story, part of it is sad bc this toxic guy scammed young people passionate about sports. mostly just a āHOW did this happenā viewing experience
Dec 5, 2024
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I ended up going to high school on a scholarship so there's a lot of rich kid, scions of people who make all their money in tech nonsense I had to put up with, but I spent most of my days listening to obscure music and smoking a ton of weed. There was a girl who was infamously known for not being smart, but she also supplied all the booze at the parties so nobody ever brought it up. She got into USC, somehow, and everyone thought something was up but didn't say anything, since, booze at parties. Later, that Varsity Blues thing happened, and it turned out that her and her sister's parents were one of the highest spenders in gaming the system, so they ended up getting perp walked by the cops in front of the whole school, which really put into perspective the weird little world I happened to be adjacent to.
Oh there was also a white kid (who was also student body president) who tried out a rap career, and the terrible track leaked and it spread all over, to the point of blaring it over the speakers at prom, I don't know if I have a copy but it was hysterical to hear in a fancy hotel ballroom.
Apr 27, 2024
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this one super annoying bratty kid at my school made some disparaging remarks about another kidās mom who had died recently of cancer. the other kid caught wind and one night after a football game when everyone had convened at the local whataburger, he called the bratty kid out to the parking lot to talk to him face to face like a man or something. the bratty kid was so afraid of getting beaten up that he got on his knees and pleaded for mercy and was kissing the ground at the other kidās feet. I think he still took a few punches, but the humiliation that resulted when the video of the incident circulated the school probably hurt way more.
oh also one kid rapped into his voice memos app over a youtube instrumental he played from his laptop speakers and he said the n-word pretty liberally. he was super white, I think he got a lacrosse scholarship to Duke or something. the recording got passed around the school and think I still have it in my old google drive somewhere
edit: I do ^, listener discretion advised
Apr 26, 2024
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i went to an all-girls boarding school in western Massachusetts. almost got expelled, DID get suspended for some dumb, regular teenage shit that the faculty reacted to like i was an actual felon instead of a 15 yr old, formerly homeschooled goody-two-shoes. anyway, it recently came out that one of the history teachers that has been there for 30 years was grooming and SA'ing girls and the faculty had been covering it up. luckily i was never involved with him, never had a class with him, but its still weird knowing that he was a dorm parent and would do week-end nightly check-ins in the dorms, he lived at school with us practically, had a house directly next to campus, etc. i wasn't close with him but i KNEW him, he gave me bad vibes, and now 30 years later all his shit and the schools shit is getting aired out. feels good to be vindicated in my suspicions and the unfair treatment of students at that hellschool but my heart goes out to the many victims, named and unnamed, that he violated over the years.
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being traditionally cool is really quite boring and iterative, and itās actually very cool and sexy to geek out about something you like or share bits of knowledge on a topic youāre passionate about
Aug 17, 2024
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i had it for a little over a year until i was like wow this is actually terrible! i genuinely think it has negatively impacted society by ruining peopleās attention spans, having a horrific algorithm, and most of all by the most mind-numbing or outright harmful trends -
fake words that people now use IRL (āunaliveā), trad wife tiktok, shein hauls, body-focused fitness vids that encourage fatphobia and unhealthy habits, shallow political/feminist theory and queer discourse, āalpha maleā podcaster tiktok, encouraging overconsumption in general, trends ruining local spots or niche thingsā¦ the list goes on
Aug 17, 2024
a million times cooler than the lackluster āsleekā tech color palette used today
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