Hot take: I don't like alphabet learning materials using giraffe for "G"

[john0987]

@pejman I did as a kid... Surprisingly, I did that a lot. Kind of like thinking quicksand was going to be an everyday worry.

 

[ayeensavedbygrace]

@john0987 With the repetition of "stop, drop, and roll", I thought spontaneously bursting into flame would also be much more likely than it has turned out to be.

 

[blj]

@ayeensavedbygrace "Stop, drop, and roll," at least in my case, was not helpful at all the moment I found myself on fire.

 

[julie7474]

@blj I... really want to know more.

Was the floor on fire?

Were you handcuffed to a bed?

Were you surrounded by scorpions?

 

[saltpackage1234]

@julie7474 They had slipped gas on themselves and the roll. They couldn't drop because the floor itself may burn.

 

[blj]

@julie7474 I was just a dumb teenager playing with a cup full of gas and a fire. The fire ran up the cup, and when I dropped it, it splashed onto me.

 

[julie7474]

@blj Ah! So my first guess was right. Thank you!

 

[melegesta1970]

@ayeensavedbygrace Don’t forget about quicksand!

 

[tyson2481]

@john0987 That's how I felt about space pirates.

 

[john0987]

@tyson2481 Would a jolly roger flag flap on a space pirate ship or just be straight in the opposite direction of travel?

Shit, now I'm thinking about space pirates.

 

[meanstreak]

@john0987 They wiggle the space tiller just to make it flap.

 

[chay850]

@john0987 Here's something that'll blow your mind: what if the only reason you were thinking about igloos so much was because that's how they taught you the alphabet?

 

[served]

@john0987 Going ski touring helped me to realize that a dugloo or quinzee is a much more practical structure to build for temporary habitation than an igloo in most types of snow that I'll ever see.

It also helped me to realize that camping in the snow sucks shit and that I have 0 interest in staying in something less civilized than a yurt. Do you like camping? How about camping in sub-freezing temps plus everything you touch is wet? My childhood fascination with igloos was destroyed. As destroyed as my hastily-constructed quinzee.

 

[coldcatsoup]

@pejman Abolish the X entirely. It can and should be replaced by "cks" or "z". And 25 is a nice number of letters.

 

[tyson2481]

@coldcatsoup Actually, I was taught a 25 letter alphabet in school. l've never understood y

 

[azza1143]

@tyson2481 You monster. I'm stealing this.

 

[tyson2481]

@azza1143 That's alright, go ahead. Call your mom, you know she worries

 

[fredom74]

@tyson2481 Ooooh that's a good one!

 

[popem111]

@tyson2481 During Christmas there are only 25 letters in the alphabet. Noel.

 

[jamesnevillelee]

@coldcatsoup I agree with this sentiment. Especially since it breaks its own rules when starting a word, I mean who are we fooling with xylophone? That shit is a z in disguise, get it together x!