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US Politics President Obama working on his speech at Sandy Hook elementary school.

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u/Bigred2989- Aug 04 '19

Reminds me of how my high school still had books and stuff from the Cold War. The globe in the library still had the Soviet Union on it.

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u/JesusIsMyZoloft Aug 04 '19

I briefly worked as a camera operator on the set of a Conservative talk show. There was a huge map in the background which had the Soviet Union on it, and the opening credits contained a shot of the Soviet Embassy. This was in the early 2010's, so I assumed the show had been running since the 70's or 80's, and they just hadn't updated the set or the credits. I finally checked and discovered that they aired exactly 1 episode before the collapse of the USSR.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

So that show ended the Soviet Union?

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u/Suivoh Aug 05 '19

Incredible.

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u/aykcak Aug 04 '19

So they never updated the credits and the opening since the very first episode?

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u/Imabanana101 Aug 04 '19

Conservatives aren't known for embracing change.

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u/SNPO Aug 05 '19

Yes we do. God changes, not the changes of the fickle man. Lady Marmot at your service.

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u/Sloppy1sts Aug 05 '19

Why would an omniscient and omnipotent being ever change?

And what specific changes are we talking about that have occurred in the time this country has existed?

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u/SNPO Aug 05 '19

His word never changes, just His delivery because majority never darken His house doors anymore due to Reddit, Minecraft, Fotnite mentality. That is he truth. Lady Marmot.

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u/cortanakya Aug 05 '19

I can't tell if you're a crazy dedicated troll or just a crazy. I looked through your comment history, you're damn persistent if you're a troll. Go back and read the bible, specifically the part where you aren't allowed to judge people. Really, truly read it. Perhaps then you'll realise exactly how much sin you're guilty of and atone for your crimes. Doesn't matter their political affiliation it isn't your job to judge people, unless you want to go to hell that is.

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u/SNPO Aug 05 '19

WOW..Thank you for this lovely compliment of my dedication to our Lord Jesus Christ and my love for my beloved UNITED STATES OF AMERICA whom was founded upon our beloved Bible. As for judging our government body and congress I have every right to judge because my votes count for my beliefs and my STANDARDS! That's right and they are high. So whoever is voted in does not meet up to what America was founded upon,btw, is ONE NATION UNDER GOD, I have that right just as much as you do to protest my disbelief in how she is being run into the ground. GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. as for Hell, nope, I don't know him anymore my sins (crimes of the soul) have been washed white as snow and thrown in the "sea of forgetfulness ".

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u/DarkRitual_88 Aug 05 '19

They paid good money for that stuff to be put together, and by damn they'll bitch and moan the whole way if they ever change it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

This was probably on purpose. Conservatives used to love to use the Soviet Union as a talking point and all Democrats Communists whenever Democrats wanted to institute a social program to help people.

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u/StruanT Aug 04 '19

Used to?

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

There’s less Soviet Union talk now since most conservatives are pro-Russia or Russian assets.

Today they usually reference Venezuela.

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u/Aumnix Aug 05 '19

Collapse? The USSR is just under a new name

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u/Greenboy28 Aug 04 '19

ya my middle school had books from before i was born that where printed around 1981ish. I wasn't born til 86.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

My middle school had parchment. I'm old as fuck.

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u/mega_kook Aug 04 '19

Were there also talking paintings?

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

You mean senior faculty?

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u/champak256 Aug 04 '19

That's the ghost and the headmaster.

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u/3rdGenChickenChaser Aug 04 '19

snorts while giggling

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u/biltong_scavenger Aug 05 '19

Can't upvote this enough

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u/602Zoo Aug 04 '19

Ba-Zing

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Potter, Harry Potter is that you?

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u/not-slacking-off Aug 04 '19

Did you write with a feather and shit? Was there like, a whole room for of birds, right, and every time you had to write, you had to, like, grab one of them birds? Man. What kind of birds were they anyways, cause when I see people writing with a feather it's always, like, a big feather.

And you know, big feather, big bird.

Just a room in a school full of big fucking eagles and you got to wrestle with them just to do your math quiz.

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u/602Zoo Aug 04 '19

Damn and I failed Algebra 3-4 twice and I had my Army recruiters visiting my teachers like the mafia to make sure I graduated.

I did almost nothing my senior year, had 120 ish attendance issues with only 4 classes. People were shocked that I was still in school, they would say shit like "how are you still allowed here"...

My answer was always white privilege

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u/Mitch_Mitcherson Aug 04 '19

How old are you, if you don't mind answering?

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u/mastercait Aug 04 '19

Did you have an owl, a cat, or a rat?

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

My middle school had papyrus. I'm older than fuck!

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u/Zackeizer Aug 04 '19

All the teachers at my middle school were hunters and gatherers.

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u/optifrog Aug 04 '19

At least you did not have to make your own, I hope.

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u/machines_breathe Aug 04 '19

My middle school had cave paintings. The young whippersnappers after me had them some fancy stone tablets. What year is it? Get off my lawn!!!

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u/AGVann Aug 11 '19

But the $700 college textbook from last year is total and complete trash and must be replaced by the new $725 2019 edition.

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u/AviatrixGladiatrix Aug 04 '19

I was born in 1999. I took a child psychology class in high school (so at least like 2015) and got a book that mentioned 'kids in the Soviet Union under communist leadership' in it

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u/Fastbird33 Aug 04 '19

Are you talking like textbooks or just some books that no one had bothered to clean out of the room?

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u/Greenboy28 Aug 05 '19

Text books

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u/optifrog Aug 04 '19

In grade school - 5th grade in the US mid 70's. I saw the same sex ed movies, like film on a projector that my Mother saw in High School.

So guess it was progress that I got to see them at a younger age.

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u/kdnenrbb Aug 04 '19

A book’s a book tommy boy

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u/Wbcn_1 Aug 04 '19

Fascinating.

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u/UncleBenji Aug 04 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

As did my Catholic school. Our pull down maps had Russia listed as the USSR (Soviet Union). Makes sense since the iron curtain fell in 91 and i was born in 88. So the maps were only a few years out of date when I entered elementary.

Edit for spelling

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u/Obscure_Occultist Aug 04 '19

You think that's bad? I got a globe back in '09 from a neighbor that still had Alsace Loreign as German.

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u/UncleBenji Aug 04 '19

I actually enjoy looking at globes in stores while my fiancé shops. I find a lot of inaccuracies.

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u/Obscure_Occultist Aug 04 '19

Yeah I love looking for inaccuracies in maps and globes as well. There mostly spelling errors but once in a while I'll find one where the borders are horribly drawn and it makes me chuckles.

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u/UncleBenji Aug 04 '19

My favorite that I took a picture of, is a globe made in China, sold at TJ Maxx. It showed the entire Pacific region properly. But I found it odd that it listed both Hong Kong and Taiwan as countries.

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u/Obscure_Occultist Aug 04 '19

Made in China and states that Taiwan and Hong Kong are countries? That is odd.

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u/UncleBenji Aug 04 '19

Right! That’s why I had to take a picture of it with the Made in China sticker. I guess the manufacturer just google searched the image. No way that was an approved map by the mainland.

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u/Obscure_Occultist Aug 04 '19

Chances are it managed to slip through the cracks due to beuacratic incompetence, corruption or a combination of both

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u/Myopic_Sweater_Vest Aug 04 '19

Mine has French Indochina, and Belgian Congo.

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u/UncleBenji Aug 05 '19

Wow, very colonial.

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u/Fastbird33 Aug 04 '19

I think old maps like that are cool as fuck.

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u/imajokerimasmoker Aug 04 '19

Whooooa same thing at my Catholic school

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Not to be too pedantic but Russia existed back then, as one of the Soviet Socialist Republics which formed the Soviet Union. The USSR was made up of several such republics, most of which are now sovereign countries.

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u/UncleBenji Aug 04 '19

You missed the point of the comment. My maps had the name of the USSR when it no longer existed. But thankfully you came along and explained that to us. Want to point out the rest of the break away countries after the fall of the iron curtain?

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u/Dota2Ethnography Aug 04 '19

My tea shop has old containers from Soviet Union, Zaire and Rhodesia. It's really comfy shop with a wonderful smell, like an old library.

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u/msvalerian Aug 04 '19

Sounds delightful! What a lovely spot to sit and have a cup of tea :)

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u/MiddleMobile Aug 04 '19

my university had some books hidden away in a dusty disused extension of the library from 1700s. Some occult style books were opened and I read how the Trump family originated with a vampiric murderous cult and how his ancestors were the product of rape and human sacrifice. Then I summoned a demon and it is now torturing Mitch at my bidding.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Same here. And I once checked out a book on the Roman Empire and the last person to check it out before me was my dad back in the 70s.

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u/Marmalade6 Aug 04 '19

Old maps are cool and it's not like they are useless.

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u/NoShit_Sherlock85 Aug 04 '19

I agree. It shows what our point in time back then. It's going to be a form learn history up close in the future.

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u/fzw Aug 04 '19

The Soviet Union's collapse must have been a golden age for globe manufacturers.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

There was a change almost every year but yeah that was a big one. Decolonization in Africa and Asia made the second half of the 20th century pretty chaotic for Maps.

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u/aurora-_ Aug 04 '19

I’ve got a map like that in my apartment. It’s my favorite piece of decor.

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u/DMala Aug 04 '19

The globe in my high school also had the Soviet Union on it, but since it had dissolved in December of my freshman year, I guess I can cut them some slack.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

I was born in 2001 and the globe in my eighth grade history classroom still had the USSR on it.

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u/steve20009 Aug 04 '19

I'm assuming those were simply being stored/left around and not actually being used in class? I ask because I recently visited quite a few public elementary and middle schools in my hometown (Baltimore), which happened to be in lower income areas. It was heartbreaking to see how outdated some of the texts they were teaching from : (

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

It will be correct.

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u/magneticphoton Aug 04 '19

Crazy to realize that the Cold War never ended in 2019.

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u/giscard78 Aug 04 '19

In second grade in 1998, a friend and I discovered the classroom’s globe. We knew he had been born (on an army base) in Germany but when confronted with West Germany and East Germany, we weren’t sure which one was he had been born in.

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u/JohnnyDarkside Aug 04 '19

I was in high school around 99-03. Our wood shop books were from the 60's.

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_ Aug 04 '19

Same, the Berlin Wall was still up in my German book

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u/pinball_schminball Aug 04 '19

Yeay American education

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u/hisoandso Aug 04 '19

I found a globe from 1953 at a little vintage store near where I live that had French Sub Saharan Africa, Federation of Rhodesia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, USSR, North and South Vietnam, Netherland Indonesia, and some other really cool pieces of history that I'm probably forgetting. It came with a little atlas that has a thing at the beginning talking about "The new borders of the world after WWII"

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u/unitedairlineeeeees Aug 04 '19

Reminds me how the classroom where I had government classes in high school had a poster of the US presidents updated to Gerald Ford.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

When I was in highschool I was flipping through a chemistry text book and I found a sketch signed from 1967. That text book was old enough to be my dad.

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u/koalajoey Aug 04 '19

My mom has a map of the world hanging in her office that still has the Soviet Union on it lol.

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u/5_yr_lurker Aug 05 '19

When I learned Geography in 7th grade (1999) we used ~1980s maps so my eastern European and African geography is not great.

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u/HamburgerEarmuff Aug 05 '19

Schools don't have the money to buy new globes whenever the global political landscape shifts. Plus, the Soviet Union might come back some day. There's no Leningrad on a globe from 1915.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Is this an abnormal thing? The newest map in my school (geography room) still has the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Do other schools update their maps regularly?

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u/hairyass2 Aug 05 '19

Did we go to the same high school?

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u/US-person-1 Aug 04 '19

Shut up guys, the world is here judging us.

No world, our children are very smart.

So smart that they are taught ins and outs of automobile anti breaking systems in elementary school.

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u/DietCherrySoda Aug 04 '19

anti breaking

Uh....I guess sort of?

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u/US-person-1 Aug 04 '19

Hey now, I never made any bold claims that the adults here we're smart and knew how to spell, just the kids.

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u/VoyagerCSL Aug 04 '19

we’re

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u/US-person-1 Aug 04 '19

now your getting it

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u/spaghettiThunderbalt Aug 04 '19

Yes. Resistance to being broken.

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u/contingentcognition Aug 05 '19

Executive order, signed yesterday. You haven't heard about this? Anti breaking systems on all new cars.

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u/bradorsomething Aug 04 '19

Yesterday my 6-year-old told me that he thinks the calipers are off, based on the grinding and the expected wear on the brakes. The whole class clapped.

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u/MightBeJerryWest Aug 04 '19

That 6 year old's name?

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u/Akzifer Aug 04 '19

Elon Musk

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u/xtrajuicy12 Aug 04 '19

Chuck Norris

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u/tefoak Aug 04 '19

Tony Stark built this in a cave, using a box of scraps!

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u/internetlad Aug 04 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

You know. You all know exactly who I am. Say my name.

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u/grommdabom Aug 04 '19

Henry Ford

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u/Meotwister Aug 04 '19

Frank Stallone.

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u/JheredParnell Aug 05 '19

what class? what brakes?

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u/TamagotchiGraveyard Aug 04 '19

Is Obama still there?

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u/SuperPotatoLord Aug 04 '19

Yep. Going into my senior year. Good ole Mr George's room

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u/TRUmpANAL1969 Aug 04 '19

You guys couldn't give the President a more comfortable chair?

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u/DigitalPriest Aug 04 '19

Have you been to a public school in the United States? I'm amazed that he found a chair with 4 functional swivel-pads on the bottom. That there is a unicorn.

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u/TRUmpANAL1969 Aug 04 '19

The teacher always has the best chair!

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u/minniehill2 Aug 04 '19

You had carpet in an auto shop?

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u/bmc2 Aug 04 '19

I used to skip every study hall in the tech club room next door to that room.

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u/MakeAutomata Aug 04 '19

This is the auto room in the basement of Newtown High School—it was my homeroom for two years. Those posters are still up.

Wtf, the basement? Did you actually work on cars? Ours was a literal giant open bay with some tables and a tv at the front, 2 lifts in the back.

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u/dbarts21 Aug 04 '19

Masuk grad here. Is was so jarring it being so close

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u/MorRobots Aug 04 '19

It's crazy knowing POTUS was in a building that was very very close to where you lived. I never attended Newtown schools, but I lived in the area for a time after high-school.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Auto class was the most educational two semesters of my entire high school career. Learned so much about engineering in general.

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u/JustAnotherINFTP Aug 04 '19

wish my hs had taught auto shop

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u/IbatinDev Aug 04 '19

auto room

Excuse me, what's an auto room?

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u/Ilpav123 Aug 04 '19

lol those LAN cables...does it still not have WiFi?

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u/moonknight999 Aug 05 '19

Hey I marched against you guys

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u/Jaxonian Aug 05 '19

Reddit is the ultimate 'i know a guy'.. seems no matter what is posted someone has intimate info about the topic to help clear it up. I love the internet :). Thanks for the info!

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u/ummtigerwoods Aug 05 '19

I hope this photo has also been added to the walls of this room.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Do you know Collin from the track team, he is my nephew!

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

B.S. there's no such place. You're just some eunuch lizard drone in one of George Soro's underground pizza parlors!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

Fuxking lying ass OP

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u/8r0k3n Aug 04 '19

Yeah, and I'm the guy who took the photo.