Stupid Classmates.

[Rayne870]

Had one guy that I used to always forget his last name. I used to describe him as: Cory, about yay high, dark hair, and fucking stupid. People instantly recognized him by that description and would say: would say oh him! Anyway this guy used to never do any work and just say some of the dumbest things I have ever heard from a human being or even animal.

We had these weekly reports in business class which were simply find a business article, cut it out, summarize it and reflect on how it affects business. Very simple info regurgitation. Most weeks he would not summarize or reflect on the article and attempt to hand in the cut out piece of newspaper from the sports section (I guess this made sense to him since he was on our crap hockey team and thought he was going to be an NHL player.) I don't know how my teacher conjured up the patience to deal with Cory every week but he would provide Cory with an article every week and walk him through the steps of what to do, more often than not it wouldn't get done in an entire 90 minute class. I should mention at this point that the teacher usually had to provide the paper and the pen as well since Cory never seemed to have any, and the class boycotted lending anything to him as he tended to just sit and chew on the pens in between his stupid comments or questions during the lesson.

Sorry I got way too sidetracked on how much this guy showed his total lack of intelligence. The short story I wanted to get to was that one of the times that Cory didn't bring in a newspaper clipping, pen or paper, and the teacher provided him with all of the above he simply sat in the desk right beside the teacher and ate the newspaper.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Is this the thread where we look down on others to make ourselves feel better? Don't think we've had one of these in like, what, 10 minutes?

Just roll with it man. Superiority complexes are just one of those things that everyone on the internet has, even though they've probably done/said an equally large amount of equally dumb shit. The only people in these stories I'd say are outright dumb are the girls who plunged their unprotected hands into random chemicals in a lab.

Sounds to me like this kid wanted attention. I don't know why but I freaking despise people that demand approval from others. Now I sound like a total jerk, great.

Had one guy that I used to always forget his last name. I used to describe him as: Cory, about yay high, dark hair, and fucking stupid. People instantly recognized him by that description and would say: would say oh him! Anyway this guy used to never do any work and just say some of the dumbest things I have ever heard from a human being or even animal.

We had these weekly reports in business class which were simply find a business article, cut it out, summarize it and reflect on how it affects business. Very simple info regurgitation. Most weeks he would not summarize or reflect on the article and attempt to hand in the cut out piece of newspaper from the sports section (I guess this made sense to him since he was on our crap hockey team and thought he was going to be an NHL player.) I don't know how my teacher conjured up the patience to deal with Cory every week but he would provide Cory with an article every week and walk him through the steps of what to do, more often than not it wouldn't get done in an entire 90 minute class. I should mention at this point that the teacher usually had to provide the paper and the pen as well since Cory never seemed to have any, and the class boycotted lending anything to him as he tended to just sit and chew on the pens in between his stupid comments or questions during the lesson.

Sorry I got way too sidetracked on how much this guy showed his total lack of intelligence. The short story I wanted to get to was that one of the times that Cory didn't bring in a newspaper clipping, pen or paper, and the teacher provided him with all of the above he simply sat in the desk right beside the teacher and ate the newspaper.

Are you sure he wasn't.... mentally challenged?

 

[samgdawg]

Class starts I sleep through because the retards are too slow to keep up with my reading

Gym class at the start of the year I am hit by a tennis ball full force to the chest, from only a few feet away. Ironically I had to protect them from my friend 2 seconds after I lost my breath.

I choked him in front of everyone though. SAME STUDENT gets the bright idea to taunt me in a pool, when I was on the school SWIM TEAM at one point, repeatedly threw water in my face when I asked him to stop. Choked him AGAIN,

The whole class moves at half walking speed. Bored, I speed past everyone 2-3 times before they complete one lap. At one point I hear one of the girls tell her friend to trip me as I pass them. I was not a popular kid, obviously.

I think its really clear why you are not a popular kid. You are in fact the stupid classmate that the other 99% of the class would complain about. So who is right, the 1% or the 99%?

Seems to me like always retailiated, never attacked. I heard the US is all about self-defense, hence why the principal ignored him strangling people all the time.

Look at the first and forth line in my quote above. He acts like a snotty little prick that's based on just his side. Since the truth usually lies between two sides, and his own post gives information that he acts like a twerp, there isn't much doubt that in truth he brings it on himself.

I think you're right, I DO bring it on myself. I have a tall lanky build and am rather skinny. Not to mention ridiculously smart compared to those monkeys. This is exactly what my parents and principal talked about. I am a prime target. God forbid someone actually be SMART. Well, except for the people who made the internet, computers, xbox, lightbulbs, Halo, CoD, and cellphones. No, they can be intelligent, just not the younger generation. Don't get me wrong, I see where you're coming from. It's really hard to know someone is telling the truth on the internet. I fail to see how I am the 1%, when I am protected by kids on the FOOTBALL team for heaven's sake.

You still don't understand why you are unpopular do you? You ever watch The Big Bang Theory? You are acting like Sheldon. You have a superiority complex (like calling everyone else monkies, insulting all kids, except you, etc), and those are rarely deserved. You also deliberately set yourself apart from everyone else (for example the "everyone is going to slow in the walk comments). Instead of attempting to get along with people, you look for reasons to push yourself away and be seperate, thus you are treated that way.

Heck, you even make an implied insult on the group that you claim defends you. Why do you highlight "FOOTBALL team"? Are you implying that "even the dumb jocks" support you?

If you want them to treat you with respect, you have to treat others with respect.

Actually I love Big Bang Theory. I don't think I act like Sheldon though. I'm not nearly obsessive enough. The monkey thing is just me poking fun at these people, I got it from someone else on this thread. I never "insulted all kids except myself". When the class was walking to slow, I am a faster paced person, I didn't push past them or anything, I just ignored them and let them ignore me. Hell, there were a lot of kids I liked or at least appreciated. I never said I was ultimately above them though. I am just as guilty of being just as if not more petty as them. I had plenty of friends. I didn't isolate myself from them, I just let them have their circle of friends and I had mine. I only highlighted "FOOTBALL team" because I couldn't figure how to make the damn text in italics. lol. And the football team COULDN'T be the "dumb jocks". In order to make it onto the team and stay on the team you had to maintain a minimum grade point average. One member of their team gave me a place to sit one day when I didn't have any of my friends sharing that lunch period with me. I did not fail to see that he didn't need to do that. He was a really cool guy too. Though ultimately the principal and my parents agreed I am too mature for the pettyness of High School. I am much more interested in calm logical debates about things like politics or businesses, than the usual fare of High School experiences.

 

[Jarek Mace]

There weren't any mega retards as have been mentioned, but there were a few twats.
There was a fat boy - a hipster fat boy at that, chubby as the day is long - who decided it would be funny to whip me round the head with his belt. The metal part. I decided it would be appropriate to put my arm to his throat and force him into a coat peg. That felt right.

There was also a Turkish lad who thought he was something, he walked into our Geography class with this cheap plastic diamond ear-ring in; now since just about everyone (teacher included) disliked him, I quickly said (In a fine London/Turkish accent to mimic his own) "J, mate! Nice 99p bling bling ear ring!". He snapped and tried to beat me up until my friend leaned back onto him causing him to fall over and knock over a table in the process. It gets better, my teacher got him kicked out of school for the next 3 days and as soon as she sent him out of the room she started laughing like hell.
In fact, in the same class we had a boy who just so happened to have a... western version of the Karma-Sutra (correct my spelling), this very same teacher caught him reading it mid-lesson. It gets better, she took it off of him and just started reading through it completely poker-faced as we just stood there with blank looks on our face until I went "Fair enough" and went and stood next to her and started reading it whilst everyone else had this stunned expression on their faces.

Good times indeed. I can say good times because I'm recently out of school.
Oh, the luxury of rapidly approaching responsibility.

 

[Palademon]

What shocks me is how these idiots remember enough to do well at tests.

In secondary school I was in the 3rd highest science set. (out of 8)
I couldn't be any higher since I didn't get a levle 5 in science in primary school.
The top two sets do triple science.

When REVISING global warming, a girl asked "Is global warming a bad thing?"
I understand that now that sounds like the start of a debate, but at that point was widely accepted to be bad, at least, for humans.
Later in the same lesson they asked "If the Earth becomes uninhabitable, can't we jsut move to Mars?"

If you want stupid to the levle of possibly having a mental disability, in primary school there was a boy who played with strips of paper and would complain "Awww, it's broken!" whenever sewing when he didn't tie a knot at the end so he kept just pulling his thread all the way through. He always needed help, in everything. The word "an" was on his spelling list.

 

[Dastardly]

The truth is only insulting if someone wants to be insulted.

That's usually what people say when they enjoy phrasing the "truth" in inflammatory ways... often, notably, without being asked.

This after you made specific mention of the "Sheldon complex?"

I didn't actually use those words so don't use quotes.

Perhaps you're not familiar with the multiple ways in which quotation marks work? Yes, they can be used for a direct quotation, but they can also be used when a phrase is being used in a special or uncommon way -- in this case, I took a couple terms from what you said and I put them together into a term that summarizes the idea. The Chicago Manual of Style could tell you some about it.

I mentioned that Sheldon does exhibit some identical behaviors to what this guy sounds like he is doing in hopes he would see the same flaw in others that he can't see in himself and thus move to adjust behavior.

You mentioned, among them, that Sheldon thinks himself superior to others. I can agree -- he is constantly issuing uninvited corrections on people that, however accurate, are generally seen as rude, presumptuous, and, well... very Sheldon. You're doing the same thing, equally uninvited.

Of course I have a bit of a superiority complex. Most successful people in my profession do. See I'm not afraid to admit my problems, and I'm not afraid when they are pointed out to me.

It's so noble of you to embrace your "flaw" when that flaw is finding fault in others. What a sacrifice you've made. But just because you're okay with your flaw doesn't mean you should run about inflicting it on others -- regardless of your awesome profession.

All you've done is take someone's story, draw some pretty out-there assumptions from it, and then use those assumptions to be what amounts to an intellectual bully.

Your claims are of course without foundation, mine had a foundation in his very post. And as you can see, I'm not afraid to admit my weaknesses.

So, what, your "weakness" is that you're too awesome to ignore the weaknesses of others? That's like those idiots in interviews who, when asked their greatest weakness, say things like, "I'm just too punctual/attentive/motivated sometimes!"

But regardless, your claims had even less foundation than mine. They were assumptions, however informed you might think they are. You don't know the guy. All you know about him is what he said in the post, and text does not accurately convey everything about a person.

There was a point in my life where I was a little picked on whiner. I got over that around puberty. I'm sharing life experience.

No, you're not. If you were sharing, you'd have told a personal anecdote. You skipped that part, and went straight to telling him who he was and how it's wrong and what he should change. That's not sharing.

I would if they hadn't specifically come here to broadcast their weaknesses, thus inviting a reply.

I notice you haven't followed your own advice by responding to me btw.

He didn't invite your reply. He told a personal anecdote. You could have replied asking for clarification, additional details, or other tidbits that could have guided the conversation in that direction for the both of you... but you didn't. You decided you know what's best, so you skipped a few steps (his steps).

Also, my reply? Yeah, you did, in fact, invite it. He was just telling his own story. You were bullying someone else with your super-awesome-professional brain. That's certainly grounds for butting in. And now, as you're obviously not the sort that endures such awful weaknesses as "empathy," I can see this will do no further good, and I'm butting back out.

 

[gritch]

My mother was a high school math teacher. On occasion when her workload got too high to handle, I would be conscripted into helping her grade some of her tests. One particular question she had on a test was:

There are X states in the United States of America. X equals__.

Her students gave a wide variety of answers. 48, 52, 51 and a few X's. Most of these students had been born and lived their entire lives in the USA and yet couldn't be bothered to even memorize the number of states.

 

[TheAmokz]

There was one classmate who could not point Finland in the world map (our home country), he instead pointed at UK. There was also one classmate who would cry almost EVERY DAY. he would cry if he could no keep up with rest of the class, he would cry if he lost his gloves, he would cry if he lost his toothbrush etc...

 

[Sexy Devil]

Sounds to me like this kid wanted attention. I don't know why but I freaking despise people that demand approval from others. Now I sound like a total jerk, great.

Could be that, or could be that after a lifetime of people assuming I'm an idiot due to a fine motor skills disability making it difficult to do basic tasks like tying my shoes/writing/eating and getting mocked relentlessly for it ever day, I get annoyed by the general internet superiority complex.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Sounds to me like this kid wanted attention. I don't know why but I freaking despise people that demand approval from others. Now I sound like a total jerk, great.

Could be that, or could be that after a lifetime of people assuming I'm an idiot due to a fine motor skills disability making it difficult to do basic tasks like tying my shoes/writing/eating and getting mocked relentlessly for it ever day, I get annoyed by the general internet superiority complex.

Did you misquote me? I don't think you're an idiot, your grammar tells me that you certainly do not spell like an idiot. I simply hate the trait of demanding attention and approval from others at the expense of your own health/the belongings of others.

There does seem to be a huge superiority complex on the internet though... Like people who post math and satire posts just to catch the people who didn't "get" it.

EDIT: Oh no wait, sorry, I misquoted YOU.
I quoted the wrong post, that thing about hating attention was not intended to be towards you. I meant to post to that guy who talked about that other guy who threw books for attention. I hate the act of wanting attention. SORRY! MY MISTAKE!

 

[lacktheknack]

I haven't had any really stupid classmates, but I have friends who would say the dumbest shit to try and mess with the teacher.

My friend Alex once asked my 8th grade health teacher if girls could get pregnant from sperm getting in their skin spores. That's not even the worst one.

Skin... spores...

...

OT: We got a camera system installed in a couple hallways after multiple thefts and vandalism. So what does my classmate do when the teacher leaves the room for a few minutes?

Why, he stuffs his shirt with paper towels to give himself an H cup bust and runs around the building flashing the cameras.

Obviously.

 

[RatRace123]

My class was full of dumbasses.

Can't think of anything in particular, but I do know that as soon as we entered high school, we already had a reputation for being unruly.
Hell, we didn't even get to go on a senior trip, we couldn't be trusted not to screw things up.

I saw backlash and disrespect against teachers in a lot of my classes, so I can't say that any of this was unfounded.

 

[w9496]

I haven't had any really stupid classmates, but I have friends who would say the dumbest shit to try and mess with the teacher.

My friend Alex once asked my 8th grade health teacher if girls could get pregnant from sperm getting in their skin spores. That's not even the worst one.

Skin... spores...

Damn it. You know what I mean right?

Skin spores do sound rather painful though.

 

[kurupt87]

Me and a couple of mates were talking about cunnilingus, dunno why, in a biology lesson. Another mate comes over and joins in but didn't know what it was, and we wouldn't tell him. So he threatened to ask our young student teacher, to which we wished him the best of luck.

I guess he thought we were bluffing, because he did ask. Just as our head of year walked in. The dual teacher explosion was glorious.

The best thing? After getting his balls busted for 15 minutes, he came back to us and he still didn't know what it meant

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Me and a couple of mates were talking about cunnilingus, dunno why, in a biology lesson. Another mate comes over and joins in but didn't know what it was, and we wouldn't tell him. So he threatened to ask our young student teacher, to which we wished him the best of luck.

I guess he thought we were bluffing, because he did ask. Just as our head of year walked in. The dual teacher explosion was glorious.

The best thing? After getting his balls busted for 15 minutes, he came back to us and he still didn't know what it meant

No offence, but that just sounds like you lot were being dicks. Someone shouldn't be ridiculed for not knowing a dirty sex term, you could have easily explained it to him and saved him from the ball busting. It's like a teacher laughing at a student for not knowing a certain science term then giving them detention for asking someone else, whilst still laughing. Damn... this horse I'm on is incredibly high.

 

[kurupt87]

^^ Can't quote you.

Nah, he was my best mate. He came back laughing too, don't you worry your little socks about it.

Ah man it was amazing though, that moment. Hand up, "Miiiss? What does cunnilingus mean?" Class went quiet as the grave, I think I even started crying.