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Supergirl. It was one of those out-of-the-bag costumes. Being chubby and bespectacled didn't help my case any. It had a tiny little uneven red ruffle around the middle (some sort of skirt?) to indicate it was a costume for a girl. Also, capes weren't allowed at that school, so it ended up being a sorry costume indeed.

Now I just make my own costumes.
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Yogurt soft drinks have been around in Asian countries for a while. They're not carbonated and they taste very similar to Sprite. I enjoy the flavor, but when I invite others to try it, I don't tell them it's "yogurt flavor". They won't come near it if I tell them that. When they try it for the first time, they usually describe it as "lemony" or "kind of like Sprite".
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It's awful as a recreation of the dance, but if you just take it as an animation style, it ends up looking kind of cool. The longest clip had a very eerie quality to it, almost like paper dolls but definitely venturing into the Uncanny Valley.
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I'm 21 and this sound was god-awful! I cringed when it started to play and at the end I thought my ears would bleed. This sounds like the cat-deterrent sound that plays when cats get to close to my boyfriend's outdoor goldfish pond - you get desperate to get away from it.
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I live a few miles from there and just about an hour to two hours ago the smoke cloud looks much larger than it was in the photo above. All the way to Burbank and almost to Glendale, the air is full of smoke. It's particularly bad in Burbank, around Fry's Electronics, where it was getting hard to breathe.
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I remember a teacher I had in high school. She was the best. The classroom was always roudy and noisy, with lots of movement. If a subject suddenly became of interest to us, our teacher pushed everything else aside. One day, math was shunted aside in favor of making marshmallows. The next day, a strong interest in geometry eradicated the entire day's agenda. We had the highest grades in the school. Other students were always saying how they wanted to badly to be in our class. This was the epitome of what a private school should be.

Well, the principal didn't like the unstructured courses, didn't like that no one actually had a desk (desks were more often than not used for holding a myriad of projects, instead of used for sitting at and studying), and didn't like the noise (which couldn't be heard outside our room). Our wonderful teacher was fired and a new one brought in. We came to school one day and found all the projects in the dumpster. We were told to sit down and shut up (actual words of our new teacher) and study quietly. We were assigned desks, materials and told to get to work. We were utterly heartbroken. The new teacher embarrassed us in front of each other, openly insulted us and generally was a terror.

We took it for about 2 weeks before snapping. It was pretty much a 25-person riot. We destroyed the classroom and chased the teacher out. Anyone viewing a video would have commented like a few people here. "It's sad how they don't respect their teacher." "These kids are totally undisciplined." "Someone was too lenient with them."

And they're right! We didn't respect her because she didn't respect us! We were totally undisciplined and we were happy and we had the highest grades of anyone in the school! Our former teacher was lenient with us because she knew that if we could do whatever we wanted, we'd learn and learn well! Before this we had never damaged school property, had never rioted, had never even fought! We were the sanest, nicest, most creative, happiest kids in the world. Then this teacher sought to smash us.

I'm not saying what we did was right, but damn it she had to WORK at it to make the situation get that bad. I know of students (especially in the school that shared our building) that were utter horrors. Those students will tear any teacher apart.

But my point is, I have found that people are too quick to forgive the teacher. It's very likely that the teachers in these videos are not suddenly losing it. This is how they treat the students all the time. You get mean and snarky and you strike back at them because it's the only thing you can do. You have NO OTHER WAY to make the situation right. Everyone will side with the teacher. When people don't, it's a rare situation, not the norm.
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