Well fun fact time I guess: in Taiwanese, bullets are sometimes refered as “peanuts.” “Be my guest and have some peanuts” can actually mean “I will shoot you dead.”
That doesn’t sound very fun, it’s a phrase I would find hard to turn down on the off-chance it was meant peacefully and deliciously. :(
We do love (edible) peanuts here so it’s at least 50/50 chance!
But not a Republican convention. Firearms are banned there.
THE IRONY!!!
Wow. Do you want to hear about other places where firearms are banned?
I do! Sounds hilarious
you can‘t have peanuts in school?
It’s because all the freedom they have.
But seriously, they have some crazy allergies there. No idea why, probably because of all the artificial food and contamination in general. It’s just not a very healthy place to live.
If you’re in Europe, we’ll I’ve got news for you, 2/3rds of European schools have at least one child with an anaphylactic peanut allergy. So peanut allergies are not just from excess freedom it would seem.
Cool, why peanuts are not banned in European schools then?
/shrug
I think it’s mostly people in the thread are over exaggerating how common it actually is to ban them for a humorous effect. Maybe overly litigious society, schools don’t want to be sued because some dumb bully throws a peanut at a kid who can die from it. Peanut bans are becoming a thing in Europe though. A quick googling will show that. I found a proposal in European parliament. Here’s the BBC talking about banning them on all public transport:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41017657
That seems a bit aggressive to me.
But all that aside, the increasing allergies across the industrialized world is really interesting though, and not a United States specific thing. A lot probably has to do with eradication of parasites. Much of the immune system parts responsible for allergies don’t have any role in response to bacteria or virus, but are intended to fight off parasites. And this is a gross over simplification, but the basics are without any parasites to fight off (since they’ve been eradicated in the industrialized world) it gets dysregulated and starts reacting to benign targets.
Some schools will be over zealous and ban them.
Other schools can have kids with such severe allergic reactions that it’s the simplest option to ban them. This is mainly primary schools. I’m not saying if that’s right or wrong, there’s too many variables.
Kids can’t be expected to perfectly manage their health problems, that’s why at most schools yes the kids may have an EpiPen, but the school is also generally required to have one for each kid with a registered allergy.
I believe my daughter’s school just had a ‘no peanuts’ table in the lunchroom.
That’s awesome if it works. But I had to provide IT support at a school once that had to specifically tell even contractors to please not being anything with peanuts onto the school grounds. They had a kid with a severe peanut allergy and a habit of licking everything (behavioural “quirk” to put in nicely, I had literally been licked on the elbow).
Admittedly that was only once in almost 20 years of doing IT support in schools. But I am more than happy to sacrifice some personal liberty in that kind of situation.
I had literally been licked on the elbow
Sounds like the school doesn’t know how to take care of any student… There should be exactly 0 cases where the IT support people for the school are interacting with individuals that are high needs like that.
Maybe they had to go into a classroom to fix a problem.
Without a teacher/aid present to deal with the students?
Maybe they had a dozen teachers arranged in a defensive line of scrimmage but this licker kid broke through, in a relentless rage fueled by the unquenchable need to slobber on that sweet sweet elbow.
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Ironically, when I was in middle school it was a common joke to lick people’s elbows when they weren’t paying attention. The joke was that they might not notice it at first, since elbows supposedly had few nerve endings.
It was about as common as untying people’s shoe laces, for a while. Meaning: very common.
Is this like a new thing? I don’t remember in the 80s or 90s schools having any kind of such peanut policies. Yet everyone here is posting like this is completely normal.
Is there some kind of peanut allergy outbreak epidemic going on with children now? Should someone be investigating this?
Or 30 years ago, all the kids with peanut allergies were home schooled and kept hidden from society?
Most schools, you can have all the peanuts you like. Chances are pretty good that the lunches available in the cafeteria will be peanut -free, though
Many theaters I’ve been to in the US stopped enforcing the “no outside food” thing. Last time I went to the movies there were dudes walking in with Chipotle or sub sandwiches and no one cared.
Because who the fuck is going to start a fight with someone that’s already proven they’re an asshole, for $7 an hour, to protect profits they’ll never see any part of?
Is the asshole the patron who wants better food, or the owner who decided on a local monopoly for lower quality and higher profits?
I’m the asshole. Its me. 😸
Me too. I’m not paying $4 for a bag of Skittles
That is a reasonable price, unless you are not talking about CAD currency.
USD. Traditionally, me and the guys I’ll watch movies with raid the local dollar tree before the showing.
I go to the Dollarama just down the road, but the candy/chocolate is already getting to expensive. Would be cheaper going to the grocery store and grabbing a bag of chips.
Well, both I guess, but I was specifically talking about anyone fronting a “try and stop me” attitude by not even trying to sneak it in. They’re not going to sympathize with a low-level employee just trying to keep their job, they’re going to be a loud fuck head about it.
In the larger sense, yes the owners tend to exhibit the behaviour that of an asshole.
In the context of what the previous commenter was saying, however, the employees would have to confront the individuals bringing in the food, and for what they are paid, they might rather not bother dealing with a potentially unruly patron. The patron in this case, should they exhibit such unruly behaviour (though still less ashole-ish than the owners), still exhibit asshole-ish characteristics, relative to the poor minimum wage employee who’s just trying to do their job.
*edit: fixed the grammer
Reminds me of this: http://www.emailsfromanasshole.dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=84
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Peanuts? How dare you sick bastard!
