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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Abbott, Trump and the Republicans in the US Congress are more interested in shiney things to dangle before the public than, say, the destruction caused by the recent tornadoes and firestorms, and rounding up green card holders at the airport. Oh, bird flu, measles, and Gavin Newsom going over to the Dark Side. We are on our own folks.

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CJLB's avatar

So bunny ears for Easter are out? I do think I have died and gone onto a universe that makes Alice in Wonderland look like a Rockwell painting.

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mzf's avatar

What a horrible desecration of the name Gerdes, as in Gerdes Folk City at 9-11 West 4th Street in Manhattan (building no longer there). It's the place where Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and many others had their introduction to the New York City Folk Music scene.

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Sorcha's avatar

When I worked as a special ed aide, I had a student who became a cat when he was stressed out. He’d chill under his desk, hiss and take swipes at the adults. It was a better form of self soothing than destroying equipment, and he knew he needed to stay in his own general desk space, so by all means, have at it, kid. I don’t remember a litter box or anything like that, though. Because it was, you know, a coping mechanism for intense stress, and not a life style, not much different from when elementary school me pretended to be a horse for fun. God knows what would’ve happened to both of us under this shit.

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Glennis Waterman's avatar

Fucking hilarious and also fucking sad.

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Regret's avatar

“any type of behavior or accessory displayed by a student in a school district other than behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species,”

There are so many ways you could have fun with this. Do we have any anthropologists here? We need behaviour that could arguably be called "typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species". You know, like walking around wearing furs or reed skirts. What? We walked around in furs for a lot longer than any other material, polyester is definitely out. Decorating your body with ochre should also be considered mandatory, and bones through your nose are a definite option.

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DemoCat's avatar

I refuse to live in a country that bans the free exercise of meowing, mooing, woofing, warbling, chirping, croaking, snorting, squeaking, howling, honking, bleating, braying, cawing, purring, quacking, hissing, or whale-songing.

This is the last straw.

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

So, if I go to school dressed as Wolverine, to celebrate Marvel super heroes ... where does that fall on the spectrum of "Gerdes is an absolute moron who shouldn't be allowed to operate a pair of scissors" to "a competent human being who can walk and chew gum at the same time".

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UnDrewsual's avatar

“In some small rural sections of school districts in the state of Texas, they have in their schools, what are called furries."

Well, Greg, as a matter of fact, Texas has quite a large population of furries. Of course, I mean actual furries, not the fictitious version you lie about. And while some may be in "small rural sections", most of them live in the suburbs.

But of course you know you are spouting lies and just said 'some small rural sections' because there are so many of them in Texas that it makes it easy to make claims about them knowing noone would be able to independently confirm or debunk it.

It'd be like me saying "some people named Greg are lying asshats who will say whatever they think will keep people mad at some fictional 'other' and never at Greg's own failures". As long as I don't say which Gregs I mean, I could be talking about anyone, couldn't I?

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Thompson SubMachinegun's avatar

Photo of Gerdes: https://house.texas.gov/members/4195

All I can say is, when Gerdes in the area, hide all the young children and small barnyard animals!

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rlcornelius's avatar

So I guess my son would get in (more) trouble in Texas: he's an autistic kid and so has taken longer to outgrow the "pretend I'm a cat" phase, which is typical for preschoolers and young elementary. Even those kids "meow" in school. And what about kitty ear headbands? He had some when he was younger and loved them. Kids say "I'm a cat" and crawl around and meow, but that doesn't mean they "believe" it in the sense this guy thinks. They're just using their imagination! Don't these people understand the concept of imagination in children? Sheesh!

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thephantomcheese's avatar

Of course they don't understand children. This crowd just has children to have a source of free housework and to validate themselves to everyone else at their church.

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Maybe's avatar

Someone should propose a bill that bans some congresscritters' horrible habits. They could ban lies, for example. Or metaphorical feces-flinging. Or misinformation. Or corruption.

The difference is that these things actually exist, unlike furries in schools using litter boxes. Perhaps we should provide litter boxes for Congress.

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Terence Dougherty's avatar

I will chip in to a mass export of Mickey Mouse ears to Texas grade schools, just to watch the smoke pour out of these humorless homunculi legislators’ “human” ears!

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Regret's avatar

Following a trend and identifying with Disney are both behaviour that is "typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species".

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Bel-Ami's avatar

My friends and I "played horses" back in Kindergarden and, while I guess we were kinda weird, no-one lost their minds over it. Good thing I'm not a kindergarden kid now. I guess I would be expelled!

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Furiouser and Furiouser's avatar

I forgot about doing that! Totally ran around pretending to be horses and making whinnying noises.

Did not grow up to poop while walking or swat flies with my tail or have shoes nailed to my feet, but why take the risk?

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Bel-Ami's avatar

Amazingly, I too grew up to be a (relatively) normal, responsible adult.

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My Erdos Number Is Five's avatar

Texas has become stand-up comedy.

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Maybe's avatar

Stand-up comedy with guns and bigotry and foolishness.

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Bloodog's avatar

I wonder how they’ll feel about those bike helmets that look like reptiles? I don’t think I’ve seen a single kid on a bike without one this year.

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