The small things that make you lose respect for humanity...

[flyingwind66]

-whenever someone writes "would of" instead of "would have" or "would've"
-I called myself a narcissist and this guy (grade 12 btw) didn't know what it meant
-I was in comparative civilizations 12 (an ELECTIVE history/philosophy course) and people didn't know the meaning of "eunuch" or "ignorant" or "sentient"
-my friend who was in grade 11 at the time, was given a mandatory literacy exam and one of the words was "fiery"
-that people whose only language is English, can FAIL English class... how do fail the only thing you know???
-that women who are anti-choice will go for an abortion claiming that their abortion is the 'only moral abortion' http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

... that's all I've got right now, I have more, just not right now

edit:
that lipgloss song!!! it's a really popular song and I probably could have gone my whole life without hearing it... I'm pretty sure weird al's "this song is just 6 words long" has more lyrics.

 

[Graustein]

-that people whose only language is English, can FAIL English class... how do fail the only thing you know???

Sounds like English is a second language for you.
English class isn't the English language, it's more literary analysis, debating, creative writing etc. It's got nothing to do with vocabulary, syntax and grammar.

 

[flyingwind66]

-that people whose only language is English, can FAIL English class... how do fail the only thing you know???

Sounds like English is a second language for you.
English class isn't the English language, it's more literary analysis, debating, creative writing etc. It's got nothing to do with vocabulary, syntax and grammar.

I'm not sure if English is my first or second language, I grew up with English and Chinese. I know that English class is a literary analysis class... I also took English Lit... which was totally not a literary analysis class XD

but seriously... it's not hard to pass English... just do all your homework and show up to class, there's no way to study for an English exam unless it's like "make sure you understand Hamlet's moment of Catharsis"

also by grade 12 the teacher expects you to have proper grammar... granted he'll still take marks off for that, but if one is failing because they keep making grammar mistakes then I hope they never spawn.

 

[falcontwin]

People who think learning is 'stupid'. people who think reading books is a waste of time and people who don't want to learn math because using a calculator is easier.

basically anyone that believes that being ignorant is a good thing.

i.e "I'll never need math's in my life cause who needs to know how to work out percentages in real life"

 

[Graustein]

-that people whose only language is English, can FAIL English class... how do fail the only thing you know???

Sounds like English is a second language for you.
English class isn't the English language, it's more literary analysis, debating, creative writing etc. It's got nothing to do with vocabulary, syntax and grammar.

I'm not sure if English is my first or second language, I grew up with English and Chinese. I know that English class is a literary analysis class... I also took English Lit... which was totally not a literary analysis class XD

but seriously... it's not hard to pass English... just do all your homework and show up to class, there's no way to study for an English exam unless it's like "make sure you understand Hamlet's moment of Catharsis"

Speaking as someone who has an English exam tomorrow, I'd beg to differ. Maybe you have a talent for it, or maybe our English classes are far more difficult, I dunno, but for me, English is anything but an easy subject.

 

[ZenMonkey47]

When politicians try to be more "folksy" than their opponent.

Politicians who spout that they want to "talk straight" to the voters, and go off spouting patriotic imagery and say ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF VALUE.

When "war" is waged on an intangible idea like the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on illiteracy, etc

 

[Killcushley]

WoW
People starting wars with religion as there reason

 

[Cheesus333]

Or the fact that most male teenagers nowadays act like complete pricks. Disrespecting everything and everyone around them, swaggering like they were the most important person on earth. Also they somehow get all the girls.

I asume I'm the exception to the rule, given that I neither swagger nor do I 'get the girls', as you so eloquently put it.

What irritates me is people who adjust their lives to fit the annoyances of others, e.g: someone reading this and changing their lifestyle completely to suit the interests of a complete stranger. If any of you actually intend to change people with this thread, then you're no better -if not worse- than the people you moan about.

The hypocrisy there is that I frequently do change my lifestyle to suit other people.

Because I'm a great big sheep.

 

[DeadpanLunatic]

I have removed my words from this site.

 

[SteinFaust]

i lose faith in people who immediately assume something about me with little reason.
-i play beerpong once every other month. someone heard this and called me an alcoholic.

-i spouted some dumbed-down knowledge of the Automatic Kalishnikov c.1947, and someone called me a gun-obsessed nutbag. (really though, if i was, why try to offend me like that?)

-i read my book instead of participating in an argument over 2Pac and Biggie, and i was called an antisocial wierdo.

 

[Spacewolf]

-that people whose only language is English, can FAIL English class... how do fail the only thing you know???

Sounds like English is a second language for you.
English class isn't the English language, it's more literary analysis, debating, creative writing etc. It's got nothing to do with vocabulary, syntax and grammar.

I'm not sure if English is my first or second language, I grew up with English and Chinese. I know that English class is a literary analysis class... I also took English Lit... which was totally not a literary analysis class XD

but seriously... it's not hard to pass English... just do all your homework and show up to class, there's no way to study for an English exam unless it's like "make sure you understand Hamlet's moment of Catharsis"

also by grade 12 the teacher expects you to have proper grammar... granted he'll still take marks off for that, but if one is failing because they keep making grammar mistakes then I hope they never spawn.

well they could be dyslexic, but ive got to say talking about Yosser being a typical situation for people in Liverpool during the Thatcher years for 20 bloody pages and still coming up with new points is a difficult thing to do+ some people find creative writing hard

 

[flyingwind66]

-that people whose only language is English, can FAIL English class... how do fail the only thing you know???

Sounds like English is a second language for you.
English class isn't the English language, it's more literary analysis, debating, creative writing etc. It's got nothing to do with vocabulary, syntax and grammar.

I'm not sure if English is my first or second language, I grew up with English and Chinese. I know that English class is a literary analysis class... I also took English Lit... which was totally not a literary analysis class XD

but seriously... it's not hard to pass English... just do all your homework and show up to class, there's no way to study for an English exam unless it's like "make sure you understand Hamlet's moment of Catharsis"

also by grade 12 the teacher expects you to have proper grammar... granted he'll still take marks off for that, but if one is failing because they keep making grammar mistakes then I hope they never spawn.

well they could be dyslexic, but ive got to say talking about Yosser being a typical situation for people in Liverpool during the Thatcher years for 20 bloody pages and still coming up with new points is a difficult thing to do+ some people find creative writing hard

well *shrugs* I'm just talking about passing English... a passing grade in grade 12 English is a C- and that's 50% ... the only way to get less than 50% is if you don't hand in any assignments.

on another note, I hated English class since it was mostly essays >.< I loved creative writing though...

and I'm not including dyslexic people or people who have any kind of learning disability.

 

[Solo508]

"I could not care less if onliners hack, either shows there bad or are just looking for a laugh"

Quote from a moderator from the Purepwnage forums (an internet TV show about fair, competitive gaming.) So basically, this guy doesn't care that people cheat in multiplayer games online because he thinks the only place people should have fair game at is LANs. Yeah, thats clever, asshole. I lose my faith in humanity every time I spend over 10 minuits in the Pure Pwnage forum. Most of them should have been shot at birth. (thats an exaduration before you lose your faith in humanity on me )

 

[flyingwind66]

well *shrugs* I'm just talking about passing English... a passing grade in grade 12 English is a C- and that's 50% ... the only way to get less than 50% is if you don't hand in any assignments.

50%! Anything lower than 70% is a failing grade where I live.

well then I suppose that proves another reason why I'm losing faith in humanity XP because where I live 50 percent is a passing grade which means that it's really easy to get a highschool diploma here.

on another note, I'm glad it's more difficult to get a passing grade where you live XP weeds out more of the idiots

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Obviously the fact that people think that driving a Prius makes them Earth's savior...
Oh and anyone that says that everything is gay. AND every time I hear the name Paris Hilton... or Britney Spears for that matter.