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

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SimuLord

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Story time, children!

So I'm in IS301 (Management of Information Systems) class today. The class is taught by an old woman who they dragged out of retirement at the last minute to teach the class when the regular teacher (who's the associate dean of the IS department) had to attend to other commitments in his schedule. She hasn't taught a computer class in five years, and it shows.

So we're talking about "21st Century Trends in Business"...and the textbook has this little nugget: "More and more recruiters and marketers are trolling the Internet in order to improve their business prospects."

When the teacher said this, two people, me and another student who's even nerdier than I am, couldn't help ourselves. We laughed out loud. Heartily. Because let's face it, the mental images involved are fucking hilarious.

When the teacher asked "what's so funny?", I said "Successful troll is successful." Which set off the other nerd (he even did the Successful Troll dance in his chair). And which sent the other 28 people in the room into a quizzical "wtf?" look...that was even funnier! (except for the fact that one of the people is a cute girl I'd really like to fuck. But she already knew I was weird.)

For Discussion: Ever have a total nerd moment in a class, when something is meant innocently but turns out to be unintentionally funny if you're a nerd/geek/tech-savvy?
 

AcacianLeaves

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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!
 

grimsprice

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Pretty much every day of my high school years. Although its harder to know an internet/tech joke that no one else does when you go to Devry University.
 

SimuLord

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AcacianLeaves said:
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!
It's a management class, not a computer-science class. The class is all about using technology in business and managing an IT department from the point of view of executive management. Thus the severe lack of nerds. Not a lot of nerdy business majors (well, more like a different kind of nerdy. People who geek out on the Wall Street Journal.)
 

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SimuLord said:
AcacianLeaves said:
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!
It's a management class, not a computer-science class. The class is all about using technology in business and managing an IT department from the point of view of executive management. Thus the severe lack of nerds. Not a lot of nerdy business majors (well, more like a different kind of nerdy. People who geek out on the Wall Street Journal.)
In other words...Libertarians... *shudder*
 

RaphaelsRedemption

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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!
 

6unn3r

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RaphaelsRedemption said:
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!
Am i missing somthing....? Air on a G string is by Bach. Im not sure i get the joke tbh.
 

Galad

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I remember a couple of years ago or so when we had to do a scientific presentation in the French language class in uni. A good friend of mine was doing a presentation on nuclear reactors or something like that and one of his last slides was the internet-famous picture of one of the Large Hadron Collider scientists compared to Gordon Freeman. There was a gleeful buzz in the room, almost music to my ears. =) Of course, we're all 23 or younger so this kind of topic is still familiar to us..
 
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Yeah, I didn't laugh either. I've never been a fan of memes, or any aspect of this bizarre "culture" that has developed on the internet. The whole thing seems pretty silly to me.

BTW, I'm 19. In case you going to accuse me of being old and out of touch. Not saying you were, but just in case.
 

Griphphin

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Earlier in the semester, our English professor asks the class what fanboys [http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/8-3punc.html] are, and I give what you'd expect from a nerd such as myself. The big difference between our two situations is that there was no other nerd in that class, so...
Just "...what?" all around, it was awkward for the rest of that lecture xD
 

Fetzenfisch

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Well i have them all the time. But its just in the nerd classes most of the time so....(analysing videogame narrative, The vampire in anglophone literature, Olde English, british humour ... i love my uni)
 

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SimuLord said:
lol!, i think she ment trawl, not troll XD
also, i would have laughed right allong with you :p
but i suspect the people in my class would have missed it aswell, well, some would have, since trolling is kind of one of the first things you learn on the net XD, e.g. dont feed the troll!
90% of the net is pron.
and dont believe any specially selected for YOU! ad's XD
 

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6unn3r said:
RaphaelsRedemption said:
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!
Am i missing somthing....? Air on a G string is by Bach. Im not sure i get the joke tbh.
G String = Provocative female underwear? That didn't come to mind?
 

Whitenail

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Only all the time! In fact just today I was talking with some friends of mine in the yard and it came onto the subject of...well, let's just say pre-operative transwomen (I'm a little hazy on the correct terminology) and one of my friends yelled "It's a trap!", while we laughed another friend of mine looked around puzzled and asked what traps we were referring to in the school he didn't know about.
 

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In my final year at the university majoring in computer science they offered a class on "Open Source Software"... it was kind of funny because the class only had like 6 people (including junior professor joining us for no apparent reason) and had clearly been thrown togather at the last minute.

So for like a full week we parced through software agreements (you know, the thing that everyone just clicks "Yes I agree" without reading). I can't remember which agreement we were reading but there was one passage that even the tenured professor couldn't figure out... it just looped in on itself and the best we could come up with was just circular logic with no meaning.

So someone said "Oh, it's like how you can't put a bag of holding in another bag of holding."

And everyone got silent. Because everyone understood.
 

Epilepsy

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High school programming gave me this one. (substitute Epilepsy for real name).

Me:(under flicker-ass lights) God damnit, isn't this light pissing anyone else off?
Girl next to me: no, i can't see anything wrong with it.
Teacher: I guess Epilepsy's refresh rates are just higher than everyone else's.

Cue nerdy laugh from all the students, confused looks from assistant teacher stand-in.
 

Eclectic Dreck

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Not really. That is largely due to the simple fact that the members of my various classes are almost certainly going to themselves be nerds.

I think the closest I've come to doing anything like that was with the infinite mathematicians joke when discussing infinite series in calculus. It got the half-hearted laugh it deserved.
 

Fetzenfisch

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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.