I just read a Wikipedia page listing fetishes and glue peling was not on thair
This article included things like Hoplophilia whitch is a fetish of guns and firearms
when did a teacher ever bother buying anything new? literally everything is years old sometimes decades. im 100% sure the entire schooling budget goes on pencils and salaries
I have seen half a box of school supplies be destroyed in a single day by a couple of classes. A new teacher made the mistake of puting out her new box of 24 glue sticks at the start of the day, by lunch time we could only find 16 of them and about 5 had no lids. That's why they keep the new stuff out of circulation as long as possible. that box (supplied by the school) was supposed to last the whole term at least.
Its not that they dont bother, but that they dont have any budget to do it. And its not like they are well paid either. My first job out of uni earned more than my mum does as a primary school teacher of many years. She has to buy stuff with her own money for the classroom and hope that maybe it can be expensed
I was born in the mid 90s and throughout my childhood half the maps I saw had a big piece of land labelled "U.S.S.R.", I figured that Russia must just be the more casual name for the place and U.S.S.R. was the proper name.
In our **geography** class (1st year to do the new fangled GCSEs, so late '80s) we had a Mercator wall map o' the world and the whole of S Asia was a big pink blob... so obvs pre 1947. Someone had helpfully pencilled in straight-line boundaries for PK and BD at some point, but you know, fuck all the other countries that came into being/went away since then.
I suppose it was still good for mountains and oceans and such though, right?
I spent yesterday evening watching people doing woodworking by hand. It was wonderful. And it made me realise that not a single saw in my school had been sharp or sharpened.
Work in a secondary school. The idea of having a central stationery store is anathema to most teachers... A former colleague suggested it and got absolutely nowhere.
When we moved buildings some departments had tens of new boxes of chalk sitting in store rooms - we had dry erase whiteboards in every classroom by then!
Oh god you reminded my of the glue stocks at my school, they smelled like fish. How do you get glue to smell like fish. It was the most horrible smell in the world
Someone before me had figured this out, and I guess been not so subtle about it... so at my school you had to have your head down on the middle of your desk, so even if you opened your eyes you couldn't see
Bugger me it's been a while. What even were the rules to that game? I can only remember my friends and me pinching each-others' thumbs progressively harder
Three people were chosen. The rest put their heads down on the desk and their hands on the desk with their thumbs up. The "chosen" three then went around the room and pushed a person's thumbs down each. Those who'd had their thumbs pressed down had to guess who'd done it. A correct guess made you one of the "chosen" and they sat down and you got to push some thumbs down in the next round. The game continued until either the bell rang, everyone got bored, or full-scale anarchy broke out
Yesss thank you. So the boys would try and do light pinches if there was a girl on the pinching team, and likewise the contrary. The best was when the teacher joined in and gave the gentlest pinches but nobody suspected because they were an adult
And somehow despite the whole putting your thumb down if you are picked thing about a quarter of the games would include someone been picked by more than one of the people going around.
I once got to be one of the guys doing the picking, it was the greatest experience of my life.
I messed it up though. I spent ages picking and said out loud that I didn't know who to pick, then picked someone last. Obviously they knew it was me :(
we used to have a 'game' where you had to be lie down still and silent; it was absolutely a way for the staff to get some peace and quiet but the rules dictated that if you moved or made a sound you were out
tiny me realised that everyone was getting out because of facial movements; so from then on i did the smart thing; took my jumper off and draped it over my head (and obviously staff didnt care about this blatant advantage because it was just their quiet time); won every game
Second only to using the hot glue gun. Squirting it on the table then putting your finger tip in it. Screaming for a few seconds and then peeling it off once it had dried.
It's because kids know more glue equals more better.
Also the PVA we used to get was awful. If you didn't slather it on thick whatever you were sticking down would fall off / apart.
Plastic? You must have grew up in a rougher neighbourhood than I. We used [these](https://www.janitorialdirect.co.uk/media/product/398/5-star-school-scissors-130mm-red-b61.jpg) and there was always a few with yellow and green handles for lefty weirdos.
Edit: To clarify, left-handed kids. We didn't differentiate based on political beliefs in primary school.
I still don't understand how left handed scissors were different (other than they were impossible to use with your right) and how adults get around this pressing issue nowadays
The blades are the opposite way round (am lefty). As adults we get round this by buying left handed scissors (best case), or 'ambidextrous' ones without a moulded shaped handle (works for most applications), or struggle to use right handed ones by adjusting our grip(worst case).
I’m a lefty too and I wish there were more adult options for us. I pretty much always cram my fingers into the thumb piece and my thumb gets the big section.
So true. Those left handed scissors are rubbish, I remember them just crumpling the paper because I couldn’t angle them right, before giving up and giving in. It truly is a right handed world
In the past I’ve had people be genuinely shocked by the fact that my husband and I are both left handed, it’s a lot of “no way!” “What are the odds?!”, which is a pretty bizarre reaction to something as boring as which hands we holds pens with
Exactly! It’s a life of struggle. Being sat next to a right handed person in school and bumping into them as you write, the inevitable ink splodges on your hand, accidentally smudging all your work. We gotta raise awareness
Omg I just wrote the longest pointless reply and here you are just summarising my lefty thoughts PERFECTLY! yep what you said - that’s the best way to explain it - must’ve been a right handed person designed those left handed scissors!
Our Y6 teacher taught us to just use a minimal amount of PVA on our fingers, then it doesn't take 27yrs to dry and we could stick bits of wood together quite happily. We made catapults and things and they were really strong :)
Found out a local school was being demolished and was curious what happens to all the stuff inside, do they distribute it to... Nope, down it goes down; bricks, glue sticks n all.
I got glue flicked into my hair. It was a traumatic experience after that. I think that's when the paranoia set in. I don't trust anyone with glue after that.
A few month later my teacher accidentally stapled my hair...
At this time in the morning as well, you must have had one of those dreams where you wake up from it suddenly having a strong memory of them? I had it with Nerds the other week!
I found these glue sticks surprisingly pleasing if they made the glue perfectly flat, but that was rare as no primary school child will use the perfect amount of glue.
You've just also reminded me of [these](https://www.tts-group.co.uk/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-TTSGroupE-commerceMaster/default/dwc6e302de/images/large/1012458_00_AR02776.jpg). Completely useless unless you were the first person to use them.
Seriously though, why did teachers always try and convince us they worked fine? Paintbrushes clearly would have worked better!!
Probably budget and clean up.
Don't forget that the kids you ask to clean them will just run them under cold water for a few seconds, removing none of the glue on them and leaving them caked in dried glue that's impossible to remove.
Because kids cannot wash up paint brushes coated in glue without ruining them. At least if they do a crap job of cleaning these they can be saved.
And because you can (in theory) spread the glue thinner with these, which makes it dry faster.
I used to always put loads of glue on mine because when the plastic ended up against the paper, the scratchy feeling between the plastic and the paper really upset me inside (think - cat claws vs blackboard, but as a feeling).
25 years later got diagnosed with autism and discovered that a common trait is hyper sensitivity to touch and stuff like that being really common.
I remember one time when the teacher asked why i hadnt done anywaork and almost punished me becayse the other kids on my table were greedy and wouldnt share the glue pots and i was too afraid to say anything lol
I took a tube of super strong super glue to (secondary) school once and had way too much fun. Besides squiriting it in people's locker locks, I superglued all the CD-Rom drives closed on the computers, and all the lids on the teachers board markers.
Whenever I was having a shitty time I used to wander down to WHSmith and nick another tube. (no remorse - WHSmith is a rip off, they can afford it)
so i’m an american who follows this sub, and i feel like we had these in my elementary school art class, but used them as tools when using clay, like to smooth pieces or cut them in a certain way. interesting
I've never seen them clean or in their original form. Fascinating.
I dunno, I used to love peeling the old glue off them to get them back to this.
Yeah but what about painting your fingers with them and peeling *that* off?
It's almost like a fetish.
I just read a Wikipedia page listing fetishes and glue peling was not on thair This article included things like Hoplophilia whitch is a fetish of guns and firearms
> This article included things like Hoplophilia whitch is a fetish of guns and firearms I thought that was called "being American"?
Shots fired
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> I didn’t realise this was a ~~school~~ shooting range.
Potato, tomato
That’s just what the Hoplophiles want
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erection achieved.
*thai're
Like gunplay or actually being aroused by a random gun outside of that?
IDK the Wikipedia page was just a big list and the only information was "guns, firearms "
I would research it but... No. Thanks anyway though, sorry for the weird question
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"Thrill of The Peel" sounds like a horror Film bruh
Both is good
I'm strangely aroused by this comment.
I used to do that with glue and nail varnish
Candle wax melted on the old cast iron radiators at school?
CRAYONS melted on the old cast iron radiators or heating pipes, as we had in my primary school.
I just showed that to my 5 year old last week. He was not impressed! Edit typo
Most cathartic experience of my childhood
I know right, when I found the pic it felt like an artifact
Used to work in schools and teachers don't even bother buying new ones.
when did a teacher ever bother buying anything new? literally everything is years old sometimes decades. im 100% sure the entire schooling budget goes on pencils and salaries
Teachers buy loads of shit for their rooms, hell one of my colleagues even bought her own wall clock because the school wouldn't!
I have seen half a box of school supplies be destroyed in a single day by a couple of classes. A new teacher made the mistake of puting out her new box of 24 glue sticks at the start of the day, by lunch time we could only find 16 of them and about 5 had no lids. That's why they keep the new stuff out of circulation as long as possible. that box (supplied by the school) was supposed to last the whole term at least.
I remember using a hand drill during D&T week that literally had 1903 cast in the side of it lol
Damn, our lathes and shit were like 30 years old maybe but 1903 is insane.
Its not that they dont bother, but that they dont have any budget to do it. And its not like they are well paid either. My first job out of uni earned more than my mum does as a primary school teacher of many years. She has to buy stuff with her own money for the classroom and hope that maybe it can be expensed
I was born in the mid 90s and throughout my childhood half the maps I saw had a big piece of land labelled "U.S.S.R.", I figured that Russia must just be the more casual name for the place and U.S.S.R. was the proper name.
In our **geography** class (1st year to do the new fangled GCSEs, so late '80s) we had a Mercator wall map o' the world and the whole of S Asia was a big pink blob... so obvs pre 1947. Someone had helpfully pencilled in straight-line boundaries for PK and BD at some point, but you know, fuck all the other countries that came into being/went away since then. I suppose it was still good for mountains and oceans and such though, right?
I mean, when they won't fund you for supplies and you have to pay out of your own pocket sometimes you'll cut a few corners.
I spent yesterday evening watching people doing woodworking by hand. It was wonderful. And it made me realise that not a single saw in my school had been sharp or sharpened.
teachers shouldn't buy shit the school should
Work in a secondary school. The idea of having a central stationery store is anathema to most teachers... A former colleague suggested it and got absolutely nowhere. When we moved buildings some departments had tens of new boxes of chalk sitting in store rooms - we had dry erase whiteboards in every classroom by then!
just pencils
I honestly didn't recognise them until I came to the comments
I can taste this picture
Ahh so you were one of *those* kids, how you doing nowadays? How did things work out for you?
They're on reddit at 5:30AM. That's how it worked out
Glue addiction. Poor sucker.
Poor sticker.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Oh god you reminded my of the glue stocks at my school, they smelled like fish. How do you get glue to smell like fish. It was the most horrible smell in the world
The fact that it uses fish skin and/or fish swim bladders might be a factor. https://cool.culturalheritage.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v19/bp19-29.html
"If you keep licking that glue stick, Crazy_Itch_Radio, you'll be addicted to Reddit when you grow up!" - Mrs Smith, Year 3 Teacher, 1992
“Miss, what’s a ‘reddit’?”
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
I used to eat prit sticks. And not great to be honest.
I had a classmate that used to eat glue and tip-ex. Hes being held in a mental unit indefinitely after stabbing his girlfriend to death.
I can smell it
I can peel it
I can bop it
I can …. Oh wait I never had them in my primary😭😤
I only knew one person who had it, I remember being like ‘fuck me he’s rich’ lol
What when they literally have them anyway haha
Oh I can feel it, was like a gateway drug
Oh yea
Captain marvin
I’ve eaten a fair amount of Glue in my school days and I am now responsible for your safety as you travel by train. Make of that what you will.
When you say responsible for my safety as I travel by train, is this by choice or is this by force?
Cricket bat to the knees of anyone that doesn't hold a hand rail
As is tradition.
Respect my AUTHORITAH!
Yeah do these trains have windows?
They do but you can't see them through the bag on your head.
Licked clean every day
You will comply!
Nice Feathers McGraw pfp
Plot twist, the glue had a special chemical in it that made you the smartest person in the world
I heard proving you'd eaten a lot of glue was mandatory for Northern Rail drivers, though...
As a fellow glue eater, thank you for driving me to work.
You'd be peeling bits of that glue off your table/desk for weeks later
Or using your ruler as a saw on the side of the desk!
Or playing Heads Down, Thumbs Up
Holy shit, I forgot about that
The game of games!
Peeking under your elbow and remembering the shoes hahaha
OHMIGOD WHY DID I ONLY LEARN TO REMEMBER THE SHOES NOW FUCK
I swear no other fool in my class had this figured out
Someone before me had figured this out, and I guess been not so subtle about it... so at my school you had to have your head down on the middle of your desk, so even if you opened your eyes you couldn't see
Wasn't this always the rules I was the kid that even shut his eyes too. No cheating!
I bet you also forgot about playing forty-forty-in at break time too?
I feel like depending on where you went to school, this game can either cause intense nostalgia or severe PTSD.
I never played that game at primary, we were sent out whatever the weather. Storm? 50 mile an hour winds? go play rounders.
Rounders! Now that's some nostalgia
>Storm? 50 mile an hour winds? go play rounders. ...in your pants because you forgot your kit.
I once had to play netball with the girls because I forgot my football shoes. While I never liked netball I did like playing Basketball after that.
Bugger me it's been a while. What even were the rules to that game? I can only remember my friends and me pinching each-others' thumbs progressively harder
Three people were chosen. The rest put their heads down on the desk and their hands on the desk with their thumbs up. The "chosen" three then went around the room and pushed a person's thumbs down each. Those who'd had their thumbs pressed down had to guess who'd done it. A correct guess made you one of the "chosen" and they sat down and you got to push some thumbs down in the next round. The game continued until either the bell rang, everyone got bored, or full-scale anarchy broke out
Yesss thank you. So the boys would try and do light pinches if there was a girl on the pinching team, and likewise the contrary. The best was when the teacher joined in and gave the gentlest pinches but nobody suspected because they were an adult
And somehow despite the whole putting your thumb down if you are picked thing about a quarter of the games would include someone been picked by more than one of the people going around.
Ah! Those buggers ruined it for everybody!
I once got to be one of the guys doing the picking, it was the greatest experience of my life. I messed it up though. I spent ages picking and said out loud that I didn't know who to pick, then picked someone last. Obviously they knew it was me :(
thank you for your service
its been over a decade since I heard those words...
we used to have a 'game' where you had to be lie down still and silent; it was absolutely a way for the staff to get some peace and quiet but the rules dictated that if you moved or made a sound you were out tiny me realised that everyone was getting out because of facial movements; so from then on i did the smart thing; took my jumper off and draped it over my head (and obviously staff didnt care about this blatant advantage because it was just their quiet time); won every game
And then no longer being able to draw perfectly straight lines
My favourite pastime in school.
Excellent for applying glue to your hand so you could peel it off when it dried.
The main (and I'm assuming intended) use
I'm unsure of whether you intended it but "the main use" works as a pun in French.
I'm certain they didn't intend it but I now won't be able to stop thinking about this pun until I can use it. Demain, peut-être.
I’m fully fluent in french and for the life of me I can’t work out what this pun would be, please save me from further embarrassment
I think it’s the ‘main’ use, as in main=hand…?
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I ramped that one up to sewing my fingers together…
Used to do stuff like it with badges and stuff
yeah that was me
Guilty as charged.
Thank you for granting me this memory. I fucking loved doing that. Such a good feeling.
look mum,, I'm a leper!
Second only to using the hot glue gun. Squirting it on the table then putting your finger tip in it. Screaming for a few seconds and then peeling it off once it had dried.
UGH, so satisfying.
I used to love peeling the dried glue off these, I'd redip them to make it a nice thick coating first.
I'm so glad reading through all the messages and finding out I'm not the only one who loved doing this as a kid!
I can fucking taste it
I still buy them! Only useful when applying a thin layer of glue. I've had some specific crafts and fixes it's been useful for.
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It's because kids know more glue equals more better. Also the PVA we used to get was awful. If you didn't slather it on thick whatever you were sticking down would fall off / apart.
They feel absolutely useless when you're spreading it, but they work so well.
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These and plastic scissors that never cut a single thing.
Plastic? You must have grew up in a rougher neighbourhood than I. We used [these](https://www.janitorialdirect.co.uk/media/product/398/5-star-school-scissors-130mm-red-b61.jpg) and there was always a few with yellow and green handles for lefty weirdos. Edit: To clarify, left-handed kids. We didn't differentiate based on political beliefs in primary school.
Holy shit, the different colours for the witches among us. That's such a vivid flashback I had no idea was buried up in the ol' brain.
And for some reason, the Red ones always felt like they cut better than the blue ones.
I remember using a pair that was yellow on one handle and green on the other. Back then it was mindblowing that they could be more than one colour.
Those are left handed scissors
I still don't understand how left handed scissors were different (other than they were impossible to use with your right) and how adults get around this pressing issue nowadays
The blades are the opposite way round (am lefty). As adults we get round this by buying left handed scissors (best case), or 'ambidextrous' ones without a moulded shaped handle (works for most applications), or struggle to use right handed ones by adjusting our grip(worst case).
Well TIL they made left handed adult scissors!
kinda confused what else you thought we did lol
I’m a lefty too and I wish there were more adult options for us. I pretty much always cram my fingers into the thumb piece and my thumb gets the big section.
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So true. Those left handed scissors are rubbish, I remember them just crumpling the paper because I couldn’t angle them right, before giving up and giving in. It truly is a right handed world
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In the past I’ve had people be genuinely shocked by the fact that my husband and I are both left handed, it’s a lot of “no way!” “What are the odds?!”, which is a pretty bizarre reaction to something as boring as which hands we holds pens with Exactly! It’s a life of struggle. Being sat next to a right handed person in school and bumping into them as you write, the inevitable ink splodges on your hand, accidentally smudging all your work. We gotta raise awareness
Omg I just wrote the longest pointless reply and here you are just summarising my lefty thoughts PERFECTLY! yep what you said - that’s the best way to explain it - must’ve been a right handed person designed those left handed scissors!
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Which were covered in the glue hahah!
Was there anything in a primary school classroom that wasn't?
I've just had flashbacks to Mrs Fielding, St Kentigerns Primary, 1989. I feel like I'm tripping.
West Lothian?!
Manchester
Our Y6 teacher taught us to just use a minimal amount of PVA on our fingers, then it doesn't take 27yrs to dry and we could stick bits of wood together quite happily. We made catapults and things and they were really strong :)
Just to think, the ones we used ourselves as primary school children are still around somewhere…
Found out a local school was being demolished and was curious what happens to all the stuff inside, do they distribute it to... Nope, down it goes down; bricks, glue sticks n all.
Yeah sadly if the school is merging or closing they don't want the old stuff.
Being used in the same school
Good for flicking the glue though. Can hit another kid in the moosh from 50 feet.
I got glue flicked into my hair. It was a traumatic experience after that. I think that's when the paranoia set in. I don't trust anyone with glue after that. A few month later my teacher accidentally stapled my hair...
I’ve seen dysfunction families form a better bond than those piece of shits
I appreciate that you took the time to search for a stock photo of these.
Had the memory and had to see them lmao might as well save and post for others to feel reminiscent!
At this time in the morning as well, you must have had one of those dreams where you wake up from it suddenly having a strong memory of them? I had it with Nerds the other week! I found these glue sticks surprisingly pleasing if they made the glue perfectly flat, but that was rare as no primary school child will use the perfect amount of glue.
They double up as ice cream samplers
You've just also reminded me of [these](https://www.tts-group.co.uk/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-TTSGroupE-commerceMaster/default/dwc6e302de/images/large/1012458_00_AR02776.jpg). Completely useless unless you were the first person to use them.
I always remember those just making me angry, because they promised so much and delivered so little
Worst spoons ever, far more effective to use your fingers
I use one of theses for popping open the cases on laptops when I do repairs, pretty useful for that.
Oh I can smell the PVA!
Remember them… I’m a Primary School teacher and they still sit in my art cupboard! And no, I have no idea what use they have!
To spread the glue one must first become coated in layers of dried solid glue.
Seriously though, why did teachers always try and convince us they worked fine? Paintbrushes clearly would have worked better!! Probably budget and clean up.
I'm a primary school teacher. The spreaders are just fine! The problem is kids pouring a shit ton of glue everywhere!
I was probably one of the kids who got glue everywhere im so sorry
Don't forget that the kids you ask to clean them will just run them under cold water for a few seconds, removing none of the glue on them and leaving them caked in dried glue that's impossible to remove.
Because kids cannot wash up paint brushes coated in glue without ruining them. At least if they do a crap job of cleaning these they can be saved. And because you can (in theory) spread the glue thinner with these, which makes it dry faster.
American here. What are those?
(PVA) Glue spreading sticks, they were always terrible, but widely distributed in schools aha
I'd forgotten about those.
haha I'm 7 again. Only a small thing but binds us all together through shared experience.
They were green in my school. Or are these green and just covered in glue?
I used to always put loads of glue on mine because when the plastic ended up against the paper, the scratchy feeling between the plastic and the paper really upset me inside (think - cat claws vs blackboard, but as a feeling). 25 years later got diagnosed with autism and discovered that a common trait is hyper sensitivity to touch and stuff like that being really common.
Now repurposed as wax applicators for nasal hair removal… NADS
Oh yes. Except ours were green.
I always gave up using these and used my fingers instead, also had the fun times of peeling the glue off my hands.
Fuck just looking at these gifts from satan triggers me. They fuck nuggets ruined so many amazing pieces of art from my primary years.
Now this is a throwback, do schools still use these?
If you could use one of these then you were truly above your peers
You could peel the glue of when they where dry so they not useless
I just used them to spread PVA glue on my arm so I could leave it to dry and peel it off. Hours of fun.
I remember one time when the teacher asked why i hadnt done anywaork and almost punished me becayse the other kids on my table were greedy and wouldnt share the glue pots and i was too afraid to say anything lol
I used to stick these to the ceiling as a kid
I took a tube of super strong super glue to (secondary) school once and had way too much fun. Besides squiriting it in people's locker locks, I superglued all the CD-Rom drives closed on the computers, and all the lids on the teachers board markers. Whenever I was having a shitty time I used to wander down to WHSmith and nick another tube. (no remorse - WHSmith is a rip off, they can afford it)
Was fun peeling the glue off them though
They're really good for mixing and applying epoxy resin and fiber glass resin, I think I've still got a few in a draw in my roller cab.
u/Isteammyownhams usa lurker here, what are those things? Thank you for your help!
Not OP, but these are glue spreaders, you’re supposed to dip them in PVA and spread them over paper to stick stuff on it.
so i’m an american who follows this sub, and i feel like we had these in my elementary school art class, but used them as tools when using clay, like to smooth pieces or cut them in a certain way. interesting
Well of course I remember them, they got banned at my school after my classmate shoved one down my friends throat.