Two Cans & String

{ "thread_id": "11696", "posts": [ { "id": "1279155", "time": "1679196878", "html": "lol. what's 2024", "user": "4mu" }, { "id": "1279156", "time": "1679196894", "html": "Romania.", "user": "hoylecake" }, { "id": "1279159", "time": "1679196928", "html": "hb 2025", "user": "4mu" }, { "id": "1279160", "time": "1679196949", "html": "Croatia.", "user": "hoylecake" }, { "id": "1279161", "time": "1679196990", "html": "what year is Poland", "user": "4mu" }, { "id": "1279162", "time": "1679197022", "html": "<span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">1939</span>", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1279163", "time": "1679197054", "html": "wwII reference?", "user": "4mu" }, { "id": "1279166", "time": "1679197105", "html": "Invasion of Poland, yes.<br /><br /><div style=\"font-style:italic;color:#888;\">Which is kind of awful, now that I think about it, because my friend whose last name is literally "Pohl" was talking to me today about our chances surviving the Holocaust.</div>", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1279168", "time": "1679197181", "html": "welp", "user": "4mu" }, { "id": "1279169", "time": "1679197189", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/hoylecake\">hoylecake</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">I have a profound lack of an accent, actually. I can imitate other accents very well (fooled my British friend with a British accent once) but by myself I have a very generic and very boring voice.</div></div><br />Actually me too. I think it\u2019s because I\u2019m Asian American, this part of Louisiana doesn\u2019t really talk southern, and I\u2019m not originally from Louisiana. My friends here say they hear a hint of a Brooklyn accent. I was born in Brooklyn, but I think I sound more like a northerner.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1279201", "time": "1679198912", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/kylljoy\">Kylljoy</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Invasion of Poland, yes.<br /><br /><div style=\"font-style:italic;color:#888;\">Which is kind of awful, now that I think about it, because my friend whose last name is literally "Pohl" was talking to me today about our chances surviving the Holocaust.</div></div></div><br />Why did I think of Helmut Kohl?", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1279271", "time": "1679219851", "html": "ahahaha we all know I have a british accent, but mine isn't any regional specific accent, it's closest to a london accent but not completely, more southern england", "user": "noiwillnot" }, { "id": "1279315", "time": "1679237114", "html": "I couldn\u2019t imagine KyoMiyake with an Australian accent.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1279317", "time": "1679237250", "html": "tbh I can't imagine any of your accents", "user": "noiwillnot" }, { "id": "1279320", "time": "1679237570", "html": "So you envision all of us as British-accented people?", "user": "axolotl" }, { "id": "1279321", "time": "1679237641", "html": "Ugf, British imperialism.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1279330", "time": "1679238630", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/axolotl\">axolotl</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">So you envision all of us as British-accented people?</div></div><br />kinda, I just read out your posts in my accent in my head, I don't like switch accents when I see who posts lol", "user": "noiwillnot" }, { "id": "1279344", "time": "1679241557", "html": "Well, same. I guess I was being hypocritical because I don\u2019t envision you with a British accent, I just read all words in my own voice.", "user": "axolotl" }, { "id": "1279349", "time": "1679245693", "html": "same", "user": "4mu" }, { "id": "1279383", "time": "1679253944", "html": "sometimes when scrolling through two cans and string threads i get motion sickness :-(", "user": "hoylecake" }, { "id": "1281140", "time": "1679780848", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/wlicky\">W_Licky</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Louisiana uses the 7 Point Grading Scale. By percentage:<br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">A: 100-93</span><br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">B: 92 \u2013 85</span><br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">C: 84 \u2013 75</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">D: 74 \u2013 67</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">F: 66 \u2013 0</span><br /><br />D's and F's fail. Anything under a 75% is a failing grade. Passing with a grade in the 70s in seriously really cutting it close.</div></div>To manage an A in every class, I give myself a cushion. I'm not going to cut it close and barely squeeze in an A. Even if an A is a 93%, I'm not trying to get a B in any class. I keep myself above 96% for safety.<br /><br />Oh btw, here's the words for each grade<br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">A: Advanced </span><br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">B: Mastery</span><br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">C: Basic</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">D: Approaching Basic</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">F: Unsatisfactory</span><br /><br />These are the words for a typical Chinese American family like mine <br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">A: Average</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">B: Below Average</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">C: Can't eat dinner</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">D: Don't come home</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">F: Find a new family</span><br /><br />I made one myself :><br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">A: Acceptable</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">B: Bad</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">C: Crying</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">D: Disowned</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">F: Funeral</span><br /><br />Consequences for a grade in a class as shown on a report card <br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">A: Nothing</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">B: Lecture</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">C: Pick your whip: belt, sticks, pole</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">D: Disowned and kicked out</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">F: You're going to be sent to the military academy tomorrow.</span><br /><br />Actually, my parents are more understanding, more so now that we are in high school and older. It's also because I haven't had a B in a class since 6th grade. My brother gets B's more often, always in English classes.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1281143", "time": "1679782409", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/wlicky\">W_Licky</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">I made one myself :><br /><span style=\"color:#008000;\">A: Acceptable</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">B: Bad</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">C: Crying</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">D: Disowned</span><br /><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">F: Funeral</span></div></div><br />Is that for report card grades, or each assignment/assessment individually?<br /><br />Does your district have an app where your parents can see your grade on an assignment the second it gets put in the grade book? I absolutely fucking hate Infinite Campus", "user": "dementedkermit" }, { "id": "1281145", "time": "1679783393", "html": "Report card grades. We use PowerSchool; where our entire academic history, ACT scores, and class registration/schedule is.", "user": "wlicky" }, { "id": "1281196", "time": "1679807198", "html": "Powerschool is so bad", "user": "0blivion" }, { "id": "1282392", "time": "1680013512", "html": "Counting down the days until my AP exams...<br /><br />May 1: AP Gov exam - already finishedthat class in december so now i have to recall all that i've learned after half a school year. I think i remember most of it.<br /><br />May 4: AP Seminar exam - i'll do fine, i think", "user": "wlicky" } ], "users": { "4mu": { "name": "$4MU$", "key": "4mu", "url": "/users/4mu", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/41680.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "4145" }, "hoylecake": { "name": "hoylecake", "key": "hoylecake", "url": "/users/hoylecake", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/41546.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "5935" }, "kylljoy": { "name": "Kylljoy", "key": "kylljoy", "url": "/users/kylljoy", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/41668.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "4849" }, "wlicky": { "name": "W_Licky", "key": "wlicky", "url": "/users/wlicky", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/41631.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "10521" }, "noiwillnot": { "name": "noiwillnot", "key": "noiwillnot", "url": "/users/noiwillnot", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/19927.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "5964" }, "axolotl": { "name": "axolotl", "key": "axolotl", "url": "/users/axolotl", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/37605.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "6560" }, "dementedkermit": { "name": "dementedkermit", "key": "dementedkermit", "url": "/users/dementedkermit", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/41625.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "11843" }, "0blivion": { "name": "0blivion", "key": "0blivion", "url": "/users/0blivion", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/40200.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "1428" } }, "page_num": 19, "locked": 0, "total_pages": 20 }

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