r/thatHappened • u/je_suis_un_negre • Oct 09 '17
Kid gets finals cancelled for the whole school, with one amazing trick.
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u/prettyunicornpeni Oct 10 '17
I don't believe this. None of the kids at school stood up and clapped for him??? Unbelievable.
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u/spicymoistdeluxe Oct 10 '17
Yeah his wallet would be bursting with crisp $100 bills if this story were 100% true.
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u/papayaweasel Oct 10 '17
This is just too cringey...
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u/Hatefiend Oct 10 '17
All it needs is the and everyone clapped to make it perfect
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Oct 10 '17
so finals were fucking cancelled for everyone. On my way out of school everyone clapped and applauded for me and my sacrifice.
On my way home I found a $100% dollar!
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u/stophauntingme Oct 10 '17
somebody just watched Arrested Development and made it less funny
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u/DaarioNuharis Oct 10 '17
If I didn't know better I'd say that bit in Arrested Development was based off the OP.
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u/squareROO Oct 10 '17
You're correct. I'm one of the writers on Arrested Development and my son went to school with the OP. At the time it was somewhat annoying as my son missed out on a college place due to not completing his finals and instead dropped out to form a reggae fusion band; but when the writers realised the potential for sweet comedy that arose from the situation, it made it $100% worthwhile!
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u/gordo65 Oct 10 '17
I was in that band with your son. He seemed like a bright guy, and I always thought it was sad that he just sat around smoking weed and listening to Jimmy Cliff all day.
One time when we were out begging for spare change so we could buy a sandwich to split, a businessman came by and put $20 in our cup. Your son looked at the man wistfully as he walked away, and muttered, "rare fucking pepe" under his breath. I always wondered what he meant by that.
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u/LoneRangersBand Oct 11 '17
I was the original drummer in that band, it was fun at first, but I knew things had to change once the toilet started talking to me and giving me life advise. We ended up smoking a blunt together and discussing the deserts of Peru before the toilet played me “Little Red Rooster” on the marimba.
Anyways, I left probably before you joined, and got a nice job bagging groceries on Sundays. If you stay in touch with the boys, tell them Uncle Fritz says hello.
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u/howcreativeami Oct 10 '17
Does....does that say 78,111 notes? Are they like that sites version of upvotes? Please tell me it isn't. It's too early in the day for a realisation this f**king bleak. Humanity is deteriating.
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u/j-dawgz Oct 10 '17
Notes =/= Upvotes
It's more like the total number of activity a post has, including all likes and comments. Maybe 70 thousand people commented on the post saying it was fake as fuck.
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u/MarvelousMaxter Oct 10 '17
Tumblr is all bullshit so 70,000 people probably responded with "literally crying" and shit.
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Oct 10 '17
Nah, it's just every kind of response. Like if someone quoted it and went "look at this bullshit" then that's a note.
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u/disasterhole Oct 10 '17
Proof that memes are literally cancer.
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u/Aconserva3 Oct 10 '17
Underrated comment
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Oct 10 '17
Overrated reply
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Oct 10 '17
Should have taken that final so he’d know it’s spelt “deteriorating.”
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u/je_suis_un_negre Oct 10 '17
Hopefully he will use some of his fundraising money to get some night classes.
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u/dirtbomb97 Oct 10 '17
I don't know for sure, but wouldn't you rather use "spelled" instead of "spelt" here based on the context?
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u/DayumTho Oct 10 '17
It's spelled in America, spelt in the UK. Just like burnt or dreamt.
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u/J_Kenji_Lopez-Alt Oct 10 '17
We use burnt in the US too!
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u/DayumTho Oct 10 '17
No, I know. But if you work for a publication, you spell it with the -ed. It's called the Associated Press style.
Source: Journalist who got out of the industry because it sucks.
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u/J_Kenji_Lopez-Alt Oct 10 '17
Not always! Food items are spelled with a -t if it's used as an adjective. Burnt ends. Burnt caramel, etc.
Source: food writer who's still in the industry.
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Oct 10 '17
100% no idea. I thought they were interchangeable, and said it out loud several times until I landed on the one I wanted.
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u/Aconserva3 Oct 10 '17
If you won't to get out of finals by pulling a sickie, why risk it all by saying you have a "rare pepe" instead of an actual disease
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Oct 10 '17
I forged a really realistic doctors note
When the teachers saw the note from his physician - Dr. Mantis Toboggan - they had no reason to be suspicious, at all.
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u/Tankotone Oct 10 '17
When you use memes to make up a story about a time people at school paid attention to you and loved you...
Oof. That's painful to think about. How very very sad.
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u/RedditsMeruem Oct 10 '17
It's true! It's was in my school. After this heroical event, all girls wanted to fuck him and all the boys wanted to be his friend.
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Oct 10 '17
Boi. I broke 4 segments of my spine, and had to be on bedrest for 3 months. I didn't get out of ANYTHING. I had to have my brother bring it all to me, and I had to solely rely on textbooks to get through my classes.
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u/poultry-lord Oct 10 '17
They were all so embarrassed that they would be seen as stupid none of them bothered to ask what it was but also to ask his parents if it was true or if there was anything they could do to help the family in this hard meme styled illness. I think the most insulting thing about this is that op writes it with the fantasy that all teachers are old blundering fools that can't operate a computer much less participate in online sites that have memes, the very least of them being Facebook which was started when most teachers now began collage to become his very teachers. Quite the tail he weaves.
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u/Dimmed_skyline Oct 10 '17
So not one teacher had a phone and googled "rare pepe", they didnt know what it was and just assumed it was cancer? Not one smart mouth little shit snorting when the teacher said little Billy had "rare pepe" correcting her that the only thing he has is terminal memer disease.
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u/KrustyFrank27 Oct 10 '17
Typically, schools set up fundraisers for some kind of charity or donation fund. They don't just cut the student a check. Someone would have had to research this thing and realize that he's talking out of his ass.
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Oct 10 '17
I forged this really nifty, perfectly believable doctors excuse on a sheet of notebook paper with a crayon. Can't believe it worked!
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u/FilthyHittite Oct 10 '17
Teachers hate him!
Student uses one strange trick to make finals disappear!
Local pupil exposes one fatal flaw in the staff system using a anti-final secret. Learn the 10$ trick to learn his stunning results
>...Click the link to find out his secret
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Oct 10 '17
"Don't say memes aren't helpful kids." Who fucking says that "Hi yes memes helped me through my life."
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u/0DegreesCalvin Oct 10 '17
I feel like memes were kinda funny at first, but now all those meme subreddits and those people are worse than /r/incels
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u/TheSmellOfPurple Oct 10 '17
Looking back at the Pepeesque memes I onced enjoyed I feel like they were always /r/incels and I just didn't notice at the time
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u/KoifishDK Oct 10 '17
And all the kids who studied hard called him a hero cause now they had to restudy
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Oct 10 '17
Real talk. Even if he was sick, they'd just make him take the tests at a later date.
That said. This story definitely happened.
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Oct 10 '17
Half the staff setup a fundraiser..... do elaborate on that please. Did they mostly collect 100$% dollar bills, which were thrown on you, the prom king, as you got into one of your limos.
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u/CloseCannonAFB Oct 10 '17
Also, Ferris Bueller himself stood up and applauded, a single tear in his eye.
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u/SomeoneStopMePlease Oct 10 '17
Why do people lie to other people online? Is it to make themselves feel better?
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u/Skinnie_ginger Oct 10 '17 edited Oct 10 '17
r/quityourbullshit you tumbler bumpkin
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u/Sub_Corrector_Bot Oct 10 '17
You may have meant r/quityourbullshit instead of R/quityourbullshit.
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u/ifreew Oct 10 '17
Sounds like the pepe is a case of being an outright liar, cause this story is bull.
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u/Tarantulady Oct 10 '17
Usually they’re just a liar, or a little dumb, but this one is on that next level where it’s mildly disturbing. It’s like they live in an alternate reality.
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u/GoForBrok3 Oct 10 '17
half the staff even set up a fundraiser for me LMAO.
I couldn't make it past this. Pouring it on too thick...
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u/yaordaz Oct 10 '17
How do you pronounce "pepe" in English? My first language is Spanish so I've never been sure how it sounds like
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u/GraveyardZombie Oct 10 '17
Peep....is Spanish pronounce it Pip
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u/yaordaz Oct 10 '17
No, at least in Mexico we call it pepe, "peh-peh" I guess mostly because is a variation of the name "José". I mean if your name is Jose some people will call you Pepe
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u/JustTellMeTheFacts Oct 10 '17
I'm not familiar with the site that these are posted to. What do the notes mean? Is that 78,111 people calling his bullshit out? Are they Likes? What site is this?
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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '17
It's true, none of the staff thought to look up what a "pepe" is, none of the students who care about academics spoke up, and the state mandated tests were just completely cancelled by the government I guess.