• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    I was talking to my primary-school age kids about their teachers, and one of them says their next teacher will be Mr Smith.

    “He’s old,” they said, “he must be at least fifty”.

    I said “nah man. Mr Smith is probably only a few years older than me, early forties I reckon”.

    They had me with “no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, the other day I was consulting with another therapist, and I was telling her how in EMDR therapy I often say “don’t give me the whole article, just the headline” when I want to explain to the client to avoid talking too much during EMDR. she works with teens, and she went “yeah, that will not fly with my clients.”

      We came up with “don’t give me the long-form video, just give me the TikTok” as we both felt we were inching closer to the grave, lol.