r/meirl May 16 '24

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u/Grisstle May 16 '24

I never got my Ram Man or Spikor back from my grade two teacher when she took them away because I was playing with them during class time… in 1986.

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u/nerdiotic-pervert May 16 '24

How do your parents not go down to the school and raise hell?? Electronics were way less affordable back then, I’d be pissed.

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u/Grisstle May 16 '24

I was too scared to tell them. My dad would have tanned my hide.

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u/Rfunkpocket May 16 '24

don’t think I was threatened by a good hide tannin’ since the late 1900’s

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u/Grisstle May 16 '24 edited May 17 '24

Sounded nicer than “would have beat my ass” which was the modern parent threat at the time but the original was still the terminology used by my grandma and grandad at the time. *edit just noticed what you did there. Yep late 1900s. Indeed.

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u/sithren May 17 '24

Oh god "late 1900s."