Sorry sir, but I can't take you seriously.
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Been 2 years since secondary school, and my college teachers all knew what they were doing, so I can't really bring that many stories forward.
My PE teacher once called me John Mills (For the record, my name is Jack Miles. Now, technically, the first name is, and was on the register as, John, but comon, MILES! It's not uncommon!)
Oh, and they also once did an inter-house Cross Country in which they calculated the winning houses by the sum of the positions of the runners. Not average, the sum. And split by gender. We had about twice as many boys in our tutor group as girls. I still remember them getting really angry about how we were letting the house down and not trying hard enough.
Just don't ask me for a source.
Also, I've seen the viruses used analogized to scissors a fair few times, so it's understandable. It's not like you can't pickup molecules with (optical) tweezers.
My PE teacher once called me John Mills (For the record, my name is Jack Miles. Now, technically, the first name is, and was on the register as, John, but comon, MILES! It's not uncommon!)
Oh, and they also once did an inter-house Cross Country in which they calculated the winning houses by the sum of the positions of the runners. Not average, the sum. And split by gender. We had about twice as many boys in our tutor group as girls. I still remember them getting really angry about how we were letting the house down and not trying hard enough.
Read up on some creationist science; it's pretty prevalent (or at least, still claimed by some) now.Vrud said:
It's been theorized that the apparent longevity of historical and mythical figures is due to the change in primary time periods for expressing age from days to (lunar) months to years. The time periods changed, but the words didn't. So when we look back at text from times when people measured age in months, they seem to have lived 12 times longer. And when they look back, it's about 30 times.Esotera said:
Just don't ask me for a source.
Also, I've seen the viruses used analogized to scissors a fair few times, so it's understandable. It's not like you can't pickup molecules with (optical) tweezers.
We had an english history teacher who was so convinced that Britains atrocities in their colonies were acceptable and are overly villainized , but blasted the French for their business in Algeria and Vietnam.
I asked to be switched out of the class. Of course he never cared for me, and I certainly didnt care for him.
I asked to be switched out of the class. Of course he never cared for me, and I certainly didnt care for him.
Mine is another evolution one from another forum (not to add the wealth of evolution topics and posts popping up around here lately or anything).
The topic of evolution came up in a thread and while some were explaining that evolution is pretty much proven to occur at this point, one guy was asking if they'd proven evolution in a lab. Except he didn't mean simple things like observing the mutation of a virus under a microscope. He meant recreated the evolutionary history of the human race in a lab. After someone else explained without much detail that that is impossible, the guy made the comment that he doesn't buy evolution because it seems much of it is as much faith based as creationism. I made a fairly detailed post explaining why re-creating the evolutionary path of an entire species in a lab is impossible, as well as clearing up some of his misconceptions about the evidence for evolution that's out there, and even capped it all off with some recommended reading if he was interested since it was clear he didn't have more than the most basic understanding of the topic.
His response was essentially "TLDR." Considering this was a guy I actually held some amount of respect for before this discussion, I can't really take anything he says seriously now. I don't have a problem with someone being ignorant, but I do have a massive problem with not wanting to do anything about it.
The topic of evolution came up in a thread and while some were explaining that evolution is pretty much proven to occur at this point, one guy was asking if they'd proven evolution in a lab. Except he didn't mean simple things like observing the mutation of a virus under a microscope. He meant recreated the evolutionary history of the human race in a lab. After someone else explained without much detail that that is impossible, the guy made the comment that he doesn't buy evolution because it seems much of it is as much faith based as creationism. I made a fairly detailed post explaining why re-creating the evolutionary path of an entire species in a lab is impossible, as well as clearing up some of his misconceptions about the evidence for evolution that's out there, and even capped it all off with some recommended reading if he was interested since it was clear he didn't have more than the most basic understanding of the topic.
His response was essentially "TLDR." Considering this was a guy I actually held some amount of respect for before this discussion, I can't really take anything he says seriously now. I don't have a problem with someone being ignorant, but I do have a massive problem with not wanting to do anything about it.
I had an English teacher in high school who confessed that she was a pretty shitty speller on the first day. Things just kind of went down hill from there. She also had trouble pronouncing the word "halibut" and thought that a Fender Stratocaster was a roller coaster. Things went smoother when I learned to tune her out and just read the book on my own time.
Sure, I can't take most people with facial piercings seriously ( talking nose rings, snake bite piercings) or guys that wear skinny jeans, or anyone that has to interject words from a foreign language into a sentence that are not in the English dictionary.
There was this student in high school. Last class day forever before graduation.
Sitting in religion class when the teacher just decided to let us throw questions at her while she tried to answer them.
Most were bs questions that we all got a joke from, until one girl opened her mouth.
"Do people that believe in abortion go to hell? Because it's wrong and it kills babies?"
Jesus Freaking Christ, why did she have to do that and send a happy and joking environment straight to the dumps. Even the teacher had the WTF face and tried to answer it as nicely as possible in the no category. I'm pretty sure it was obvious what I thought of the question when my face repeatedly hit the desk.
I've met some pretty bad religious bias, but come on.
Sitting in religion class when the teacher just decided to let us throw questions at her while she tried to answer them.
Most were bs questions that we all got a joke from, until one girl opened her mouth.
"Do people that believe in abortion go to hell? Because it's wrong and it kills babies?"
Jesus Freaking Christ, why did she have to do that and send a happy and joking environment straight to the dumps. Even the teacher had the WTF face and tried to answer it as nicely as possible in the no category. I'm pretty sure it was obvious what I thought of the question when my face repeatedly hit the desk.
I've met some pretty bad religious bias, but come on.
There is a teacher in my school notorious for sometimes showing up in class with a hangover and generally not giving a fuck, which might sound cool but has adverse effects on the performance of the students (my friend had to revisit EVERYTHING that the teacher should have taught him because of his "never-give-a-fuck" attitude).
Ooh! Did you divvy up the cake at the end, giving each student an equal piece?questionnairebot said:
My current algebra professor told us she was bad at math, and then went on to prove it by messing up pretty much every question she wrote on the board for us. And I mean even just copying numbers wrong between steps. I don't know if she really just doesn't get that she's messing it up, or is doing it on purpose so that we have to correct it and end up learning more. But I kind of doubt it could be that since she also treats us like kindergarteners. On the second day of class we learned "where the numbers live on the number line", for crying out loud.