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We’d all end up drugged with needles up our arms laying in front of the unemployment centers of we don’t get better at chemistry. Like, all of us.
Joke’s on him, I’m in IT now, so I’m of WAY worse.
That Wikipedia was unreliable
Skateboarding is unethical, immoral, and should be illegal…
I wrote my next essay in highlighter after that to make her suffer. She was the worst
There is no such thing as negative numbers. “How do you take 5 apples from 3 when there are only 3 apples?” This was in elementary school in Wisconsin. The temperature regularly goes below zero. Pointing this out got me time in the corner. I’m still kinda salty about that.
When you say “in the corner”, I’m guessing this was one of those really, really old small schools you’d see in Little House on the Prairie.
That Columbus was a good person.
Not so fun fact, he is said to be the first European to have syphilis as it was originally a Caribbean condition, and he was said to have caused it to spread in Europe, which also means he is the reason everyone started wearing powdered wigs as it went from a way to hide syphilis baldness to a fashion statement. So now you know what to expect (a version of George Washington who looks like Brad Pitt perhaps) if you ever go back in time and burn the Santa Maria.
I used the word poesy in a written assignment, as in the art of poetry. The teacher didn’t recognize it as a real word and deducted points from my grade. She had a policy that we could correct and resubmit for half points, so I did that but didn’t change the word, I just helpfully gave her the definition in a footnote.
Shocked, naive, innocent little me didn’t not know what to think when she took that as an insult. I was only trying to help her, didn’t she get that?!?
This was one of a handful of events when my sister started implying I might have a neurospicy brain. IDK, maybe, but I was just being accurate so I didn’t really see that as anything I needes to address. I thought the overly-sensitive and factually incorrect teacher was the one who needed to self-reflect.
neurospicy brain
Hey I have one of these. Maybe not in the typical way, but still. So don’t worry.
For reasons like you describe where neurotypicals aren’t always exactly known for being critical, sometimes I think of how accurate it might be under some definitions to say neurotypicals are the faultily-minded ones.
Had a science teacher back in middle school that claimed to have a buddy that “designed” a way to make gas engines more efficient by running the gas line over the engine to warm it up before entering the engine. Said that GM bought the “design” with no patent, and hid it away so that it wouldn’t get out. Problem is, that’s not how BTUs work and GM would obviously know that. Also that’s a good way to destroy your engine by misfiring.
I was told a similar thing but the claim was that the person had invented an engine that ran on water haha.
My mom believes this one (she believes in a lot of crap…). Allegedly there was a dude who made a car run om water, but the evil oil company Shell bought the idea so that it would never come out!
That is of course ignoring the fact that the supposed guy wouid still have knowledge on how to build one.
Or… The simple fact that water can’t be used as a fuel like that.
I got a question right on an electronics quiz about finding the resistance in a curcuit (I have verified I was right).
My science teacher who didn’t know how to do it in the first place and was just looking at the (incorrect) answer schedule said I was wrong. I just said “I don’t think so but ok” even though I knew I was right as I did not want to argue. As she was walking away I explained to my friend why I was right, my teacher overheard me and came storming to the table saying:
“WHEN I SAY IM RIGHT I AM RIGHT! AND WHEN I SAY YOUR WRONG YOU ARE WRONG!”
At the top of her lungs.
I was just a kid so it put me off science for a bit tbh.
She sounds like she had a short circuit.
You won’t always have a calculator with you.
i wonder if this ever keeps any math teachers up at night. how wrong they were about this
Yes, I’m currently typing on a device that can function as a calculator
Maths teachers should really be saying that they’re teaching us how to do maths on a calculator
I’m horrible at maths though probably because of my autism spectrum disorder
I’ve only improved in areas of maths where I’ve self taught myself mental shortcuts to do it in my head
School helped somewhat with the Autism accommodations here in Australia but not that much, I find making my own accommodations and self teaching myself years later is way better than the accommodations provided by my school
They really should take student feedback in a lot more
They used to deliver this line with so much sass
I was told this while wearing a calculator watch.
Yeah, this line survived a lot longer than it should have.
I’m in first year of university and we use calculator for everything except math, but math we do is actually easy that you don’t need calculator.
You should be enjoying the school years cause they’ll be the best of your life. Said by someone who very obviously peaked in high school.
School was hell for me compared to other things.
My middle school computer teacher once said that unwanted email was called “flame”. I had never heard that term before or since used in the context of email.
Gives a new meaning to “flame wars”.
Pores in latex condoms bigger than the AIDS virus.
Fuck a science class, that motherfucker shouldn’t have been allowed near the school.
We had that taight in our high school too!
(And as a totally unrelated fact I’m sure, our biology teacher was a major figure in our local church and was pro abstinence. Completely unrelated, of course)
Pores in
latexlamb skin condoms bigger than the AIDS virus.That’s probably what they were going for, but you’d think a teacher in that position would check their data if challenged.
How would they work if they were going to fail at their one job?
The virus simply respects your decision to not want to be infected and doesn’t leave.
Latex condoms have been around longer than the AIDS crisis. They have another job.
There’s checks and balances in our government
I mean, there are, but they don’t always work, if ever.
There used to be. The checks and balances have basically been eroded to nothing.
“You need to go to college to be successful or you’ll be flipping burgers!”
So said teachers, parents, career counselors, etc. and here we are, I beat school, and no jobs. Should’ve become an electrician.
I couldn’t even get the burger flipping job starting out. Rude.
Most of the most successful people never went to college. Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Simon Cowell…
I mean you’re looking at a few edge cases here. Most of us will tend to land in the average and never see that level of wild success. Yes, with the right skills you can get a well paying job without a degree but on the whole, people who get a higher education end up doing better financially.
https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2023/data-on-display/education-pays.htm
They either had rich parents with rich connections, or had incredibly loyal, highly skilled friends, like Jobs had Wozniak.
I wondered that too, but then you have people like Whoopi Goldberg and Chris Rock on that list. And it’s not like Will Smith was that rich friend.
It doesn’t matter if I’m a good person, if I don’t believe in god, I’m going to hellll.
In my tradition at least, character matters a lot more than adherence, which isn’t even a strict requirement.
