Business class FAIL. Two people laughed, the rest needed an explanation.

[Instant K4rma]

I had a computer instructor named Mr. Freeman last year, and he was actually quite awesome. He openly admitted to being a heavy gamer to the class, which was OK in my book. Well, his birthday came around, and I asked him what he was hoping to get. His response: A crowbar.

Me and one other student laughed. The rest gave blank stares of confusion.

 

[Evilsanta]

I had a computer instructor named Mr. Freeman last year, and he was actually quite awesome. He openly admitted to being a heavy gamer to the class, which was OK in my book. Well, his birthday came around, and I asked him what he was hoping to get. His response: A crowbar.

Me and one other student laughed. The rest gave blank stares of confusion.

Awesome...I wish my teacher was named and acted like that....


I have never hade any of these moments i think.

 

[Mr Montmorency]

I had an assignment to write a paragraph on what TV show I watched. I stupidly put my hand up and said out loud that I don't watch television, which resulted in an extended period of time when the lecturer was VERY SLOWLY checking off any alternatives, making sure everyone in the class knew I didn't watch TV, movies, read books, comics or watch movies, until she finally got to "the internet".

Since attending this class, I get remarks from the dumb ones of the class who keep mentioning it deliberately to draw attention to me again. Sadly, nobody in the room shared my entertainment philosophy. They were pretty much hipsters who watched a ot of Big Brother, or the X-factor and the like.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I believe the word she would have used is "trawling". To drudge through nets.

No wonder she didn't get the 'chan reference.

I do notice a LOT of 4chan memes in most of the museums after the schoolkids have had trips there though.

 

[thedoclc]

OP's story is successful.

I'd purposefully create these situations as a teaching aid. For example, I'd deadpan, "It gets excitatory stimulation. If it is stimulated to threshold, it goes off, cannot be excited again for a short time, and then is more difficult to excite until it goes off again until it has recovered." Let a beat pass. Wait for everyone to finish laughing. "That's how action potentials in neurons work. After the neurotransmitter binds..."

A biochem professor of mine used, "So the enzyme comes along and just says, 'hey, baby, I just want to dehydrogenate your substrate with my active site.'" We actually sold t-shirts with that quote to raise money for a student who developed cancer.

Yet another professor had two. "I'm a geneticist. My wife's a psychologist. We have twins. We don't even need to leave the house for our experiments." Beat. Cue half the class laughing, half quite confused. "The tissue they used for that cloning experiment came from the original sheep's mammary tissue. Why do you think the clone was named Dolly?" It went right over quite a few people's heads.

Conclusion: computer science geeks are geeks. Biology pervs are pervs.

 

[thedoclc]

A philosophy class one. A student pointed out that Nietzsche died pretty much a drunk, syphilitic bum. He tried to use this as an attack, and someone pointed out correctly that it was a fallacy to use a personal attack.

Me: "Besides, maybe the overman had to teach ya about the raising of the wrist."
TA: "And Socrates himself was permanently pissed."

 

[SimuLord]

I believe the word she would have used is "trawling". To drudge through nets.

No wonder she didn't get the 'chan reference.

I do notice a LOT of 4chan memes in most of the museums after the schoolkids have had trips there though.

Indeed, "trawling" would've been correct, but that's not what the PowerPoint slide said.

 

[Toasted Nuts]

Story time, children!

one of the people is a cute girl I'd really like to fuck.

You won't...

 

[SimuLord]

Story time, children!

one of the people is a cute girl I'd really like to fuck.

You won't...

No, but I'd like to. And usually I hide my nerdiness around attractive girls.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I believe the word she would have used is "trawling". To drudge through nets.

No wonder she didn't get the 'chan reference.

I do notice a LOT of 4chan memes in most of the museums after the schoolkids have had trips there though.

Indeed, "trawling" would've been correct, but that's not what the PowerPoint slide said.

Actually, "trolling" would be equally correct, it refers to a fishing technique in which a baited line is left in the water as a boat very slowly moves along, generally under the power of a special, battery powered "trolling motor." I always understood the internet term "trolling" came from this, as in "trolling for flames" or "trolling for responses," before evolving into the more mythical form it has today. That said, the double meaning was definitely present, and I would have laughed too.

Edit: Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure the original term was actually "Trolling for newbs/n00bs."

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Oh yeah.

At the moment in university I'm doing Creative Writing, and one of my groups has a criminally small reference pool of materials, so whenever I reference anything from comic books, videogames, the entire sci-fi or fantasy genre, I'm going to get blank stares.

There are people who honestly think playing a few rounds of CoD and no other game (except maybe the Madden Sports games) makes them hardcore gamers.

Thankfully, my sci-fi literature class is a lot more nerdy, so whenever anyone makes a nerdy reference, everyone gets it, including the tutor.

 

[SimuLord]

Oh yeah.

At the moment in university I'm doing Creative Writing, and one of my groups has a criminally small reference pool of materials, so whenever I reference anything from comic books, videogames, the entire sci-fi or fantasy genre, I'm going to get blank stares.

There are people who honestly think playing a few rounds of CoD and no other game (except maybe the Madden Sports games) makes them hardcore gamers.

Thankfully, my sci-fi literature class is a lot more nerdy, so whenever anyone makes a nerdy reference, everyone gets it, including the tutor.

How the fuck is creative writing even POSSIBLE without a large repository of reference material for inspiration, clever shout-outs, or just a good understanding of what's worked for other writers?

Sounds like a remarkably dumb group.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Wow, Trolling isn't even an obscure term.

OT: I take a stone masonry class, and one of my classmates has a strong New York accent and has since been nick named Mario. One time in class (we do small scale projects in a large warehouse type building), he got frustrated and threw a hammer at the wall. When I asked him if crouching down made him invulnerable to fire, everyone just looked at me blankly. I offered to 'not wander so far into the nerd forest' next time. I'm already the only female in the school's masonry program, and apparently, I'm the only nerd, too.
Also, I built this last semester in a brick construction class with the same guys.

Spoiler: Nerdiest Brick Wall Ever

They didn't get that either. (Side note: not my best work.)

 

[shootthebandit]

I do remember an odd moment when I was in the convent. We got to listen to music during our meal, a rare treat for us. The sister putting the music on, a lovely old thing who hadn't seen the outside world for over 20 years, proudly announced the selection.

Beethoven's Air on a G String.

And she will never understand why myself and the two other sisters under the age of 25 almost collapsed laughing!

i find that mildly amusing but what i find more amusing is the fact that i now think you are a nun, a nun on a gaming forum. i can just imagine a nun playing cod and using the powers of god to smite the campers and noobtubers

 

[Atmos Duality]

What kind of sad Information Systems class are you in that there are only 2 nerds in the whole room? Jesus man, 'trolling' isn't even that obscure of a reference what's wrong with those people that's comedy gold!

Oh, I did tech school back in 2003 at my community college.
At the 100-level classes, you will trip over all sorts of people who haven't used the internet.

Much of it is a generational gap issue, but there are still people from my own age group who have absolutely no idea of how to use a computer or the net lingo.

I recall one (then) 19-year old girl who was flabbergasted at the notion of being able to email herself.

 

[Tirnor]

I liked when my prof explained chains of narration, where actions may have effects way later in the story, his example was "use Hamster with Ice-Box"
3 people laughed.

This would have been a milk out the nose moment for me.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I've had a few. None in particular come to mind.... Oh ya! There was this one time where me and this girl dragged a palm tree leaf into our American History class (well she dragged it, and I shouted things at people who gave us funny looks).... good times.

I miss that class.

 

[MagicMouse]

Until recently I have had to keep my nerdiness in check, because no one else would understand. But now I have a new Brit Lit teacher who is 24 and a total nerd. So I have kind of this reverse thing going on were the TEACHER makes nerdy in-jokes and I am the only one getting them.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

It has happened but I can't quite remeber it, sorry

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Due to a particularly bad habit of COnversational Troping in normal conversation, let alone talking about writing, I was glad to have an English Comp teacher that was a Troper.