Specifically:
"Why is math the only discipline that has to put up with this bulls---? People gladly learn art, music, literature and geography. You'll even nod like a happy idiot when you learn what a haiku is, and you never complain or whine about how you'll never use this in your "life". When is the last time you wrote a haiku, ---hole?"
"Because suddenly you can predict the future and know that for the next 70 or so years of your life, with 100% certainty, that you will never use math and that you can tune out and go back to doodling because you're too self-important to learn something that ancient people thought was important enough to pass down for your dumb --- to learn from. It's far more important for you to practice writing your name or drawing hearts and stars, right?"
Actually, I think math is the most useful thing I could be learning, and I question the importance of writing haiku's and such in school. I constantly complain about how pointless art and certain forms of literature are.
I sure hope you mean this is dumb because they asked instead of going outside, then looking up. (if they seriously did not know the colour the sky is)
That is technically not what air looks like. The blue color of the sky is due to scattered light from the atmosphere, or molecules in the air, but that does not mean that blue is the air's color.
Actually, I think math is the most useful thing I could be learning, and I question the importance of writing haiku's and such in school. I constantly complain about how pointless art and certain forms of literature are.
Some forms of literature can actually help you. If you read classics and older books, they contain some vocabulary and descriptive writing that can enhance your writing skills. Historical fiction and non-fiction are essential for learning about that past. Science fiction proposes rather creative ideas and scenarios. Poems from different eras express different kinds of feelings and someone touch us, or build resiliency. Haiku was created for the same reason. The Japanese used it to express whatever they want in such few words.
And then there's the reason how literature can be interesting and entertain us. Literature is not "useless". If you're thinking like that, then you would be ignorant and just give up on school.
Once a kid in my grade said "god there is no such thing as a particle accelerator, you just trying to sound smart" To me. I faceplamed so hard i almost broke my nose.
Okay so I'm at a party and there's a chem student (The straight A's type) spouting nonsense. He's not drunk off his butt but tipsy. And he's talking about how dangerous some things are.
So I jokingly say that dihydromonoxide is really dangerous. Kills tens of thousands of people around the world every year and how it's used in pretty much everything from washing vegetables to nuclear reactor coolant.
And he agrees with me and starts this moment right then and there to ban it. Mind you he's being completely serious.
The half the room joins in too, completely appalled that such things are used in food, reactor coolants, washing vegetables to keep them fresh, as an additive in swimming pools and so on and so forth.
After about half an hour and I ask him if he knows what dihydromonoxide is.
"Yeah, it's some really bad stuff. We should ban it."
"Dihydromonoxide is water."
*Room becomes dead silent*
Without a word he stands up and leaves.
This joke is simply too old.
My turn:
A couple is studying for a secondary school leaving exam.
Girl: (In Chinese) "What does the word 'skinny' mean?"
Boy: (In Chinese) "I think it means 'fat'."
Girl: (In Chinese) "Just what I've thought."
Friend: you're just psychasm
Me: what's that
Friend: another word for psycho
Psycho to him was the word Sarcastic
This was in Year 7
I sure hope you mean this is dumb because they asked instead of going outside, then looking up. (if they seriously did not know the colour the sky is)
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In the break of new dawn
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Actually, I think math is the most useful thing I could be learning, and I question the importance of writing haiku's and such in school. I constantly complain about how pointless art and certain forms of literature are.
That is technically not what air looks like. The blue color of the sky is due to scattered light from the atmosphere, or molecules in the air, but that does not mean that blue is the air's color.
Some forms of literature can actually help you. If you read classics and older books, they contain some vocabulary and descriptive writing that can enhance your writing skills. Historical fiction and non-fiction are essential for learning about that past. Science fiction proposes rather creative ideas and scenarios. Poems from different eras express different kinds of feelings and someone touch us, or build resiliency. Haiku was created for the same reason. The Japanese used it to express whatever they want in such few words.
And then there's the reason how literature can be interesting and entertain us. Literature is not "useless". If you're thinking like that, then you would be ignorant and just give up on school.
And for a third time: http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=math
Interesting point you have there
Teacher: "Kids, did you know that the water we drink today is millions of years old?
Some Girl: "Doesn't that mean the water is expired?"
This joke is simply too old.
My turn:
A couple is studying for a secondary school leaving exam.
Girl: (In Chinese) "What does the word 'skinny' mean?"
Boy: (In Chinese) "I think it means 'fat'."
Girl: (In Chinese) "Just what I've thought."
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<@Notch> whoa, rude language, behave
<@LG_Legacy> Oh relax notch, I'm never serious >_>
<@Notch> I DON'T CARE!!
@Notch runs away, crying
<@LG_Legacy> I made god cry? o_O"
Student: 1
Me: *Facepalm*
this was in the 8th grade.
Gravity is technically a law of physics.
EDIT: Well, scratch what I said earlier; I hadn't read through the whole thread, and having done so, I have learned it started a flame war.
...Still, I agree with what this post says.
Anyhoo, on the topic of geography, there was seriously someone in my World Studies class who thought Norway was a CITY.
WORLD STUDIES IS FOR PEOPLE WITH HIGH GRADES ONLY.
I may have started it. I have posted it a few times since it happened but I haven't see it online anywhere before.
I have heard the H2O joke before though. That is what I was referencing to the chem student.
Venit, quessit, induravit.
Cats.