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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Who read their old yearbooks while they're on the toilet? You're supposed to read them once every few years when you find them while cleaning out storage to move to a new place, bringing all activity to a halt for an hour or who while you drown in nostalgia. You know, like normal people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Also, what's a yearbook? Is that a US thing only?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have one from 1993 in the UK, but I have no idea whether that was a weird exception or if other colleges did it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

UK here, 'year of 2022'. My school which is bulldozed now to make way for a trendy 'academy', was pushing the America style graduation in year 11 (non UK context - the last year of high school. We usually didn't "graduate' at the end of the final school year, you would just get your certificates and go join the workforce at 16, or attend optional further education)

We had a prom, to which I did not go. It was all very cringey to me. Kids in my school were already throwing house parties and getting drunk. Why would they need a soft-drink fuelled school disco? A lot of my year didn't attend. We also had that school's first ever yearbook. Not sure if it continued.

It's probably more ubiquitous now.

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