• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    Yeah, we called them “Portables.” They were there long before I came, and will be there long after I am dead. Long live our plywood fortresses.

  • Crow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Walking through the snow in the Canadian winter from your warm school hallway to the portable for that one class was always torture.

  • bob_lemon@feddit.de
    1·
    10 months ago

    I remember showing up for tenth grade, looking at the list of assigned classrooms in the first day of the school year. Instead of the usual the digit number, it said “C1”. My classmates showed up, and we’re just as confused as I was.

    The C turned out to be short for “container”, which we found in a corner of the school grounds.

    That said, being able to quickly go outside in every break was pretty neat. And the school actually did get a second building only a few years later.

  • systemguy_64@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    Welcome to government funding.

    School District: we need a new school

    Enrollment: 4200

    Government: Awesome, here’s $4.2 million, go build the 4200 student school.

    SD: Uhh, won’t that take a few years? Should we add some buffer space to the plan?

    Government: ehh, naah

    Spongebob 3 years later: Welcome to Springfield High School!

    Enrollment: 6900

    Springfield: see, gooberment, we needed more classrooms!

    Gooberment: heh, would you look at that. Lol. Well, use your budget to build some portables.

    SD: Us? Why don’t you pay!?!?

    Gooberment: Oh, haha, yeah, that’s an operating expense. We only fund capital projects! Don’t worry, give us a plan to expand and we can fund you in 10 years

    10 years later: Ok gooberment, our numbers say we need 15 classrooms. But for the expansion, we should do 25 for future proofing

    Gooberment: Oh, but you only need 15 now? Yeah here’s money for 15

    2 years later: Here’s 15 classrooms!

    SD: We need 25…

    Gooberment: Oh, yeah, get some portables and talk to us in a few years!

    Rinse and repeat

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    For anyone interested: This meme has been posted by bots to a Reddit community I was active in back then very often.
    A bot would mirror these Reddit posts in a Discord server and because this exact meme has been posted there so often, it became an insider at some point, with various people always posting this meme again (because that was itself funny).

    That’s why I can’t take this meme seriously at all.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      Why the hell are you taking a meme seriously in the first place. You see it, laugh if it resonates and move on.