I shall go in chronological order.
Secondary School: My French teacher (who was Scottish) shouted "stop making farty noises!" When everyone started blowing raspberries. In itself, not exactly side-splitting stuff, but when coupled with the long, drawn-out 'rrrrr' sound that the Scots use it was fucking amazing.
College (unfortunately I wasn't doing media at the time): My college went through media lecturer's like Frankie Boyle goes through celebrity insults, so when we got a new one, their first day should have been no surprise.
He walks into the room and announces: "I have a fridge downstairs and would like you all to help carry it up here." Everyone thinks it's some sort of strange team-building excercise; a way for people to get to know each other on the first day of term. After struggling up 3 flights of stairs, the fridge eventually arrives at it's destination, to which the lecturer replies, "thank you, my wife's thrown me out so I'm going to have to sleep here for a few days."
This guy was mental...he once showed his class a video of The Simpsons only for it to cut to a home-video of the lecturer in the 80s with long hair playing an acoustic guitar very very intensely. He'd also been seen in the local river pulling out trollies and once left halfway through a class to "go pick up some shelves." He had to be escorted off the premises when he was finally fired...
and finally University: A Postmodern English lecture with one of the most arrogant lecturers at my uni? Interesting things occurred. We were discussing the ideas of finding meaning in texts, something that Postmodernism as a theory does not condone. I said that I liked to find meaning in the texts that I read and that is the whole point of doing an English Degree; to find meaning in text. The lecturer just looked at me with the smuggest face and said, very matter-of-factly, "well you're just not Postmodern are you?" It was amusing, interesting and infuriating all at the same time...
Oh...one English lecturer at the end of our first year also did a 30 minute rap about English thoery...He did it in front of over 300 students...fucking hilarious. I really wish someone had filmed it and put it one Youtube so I could share it with you all...
Secondary School: My French teacher (who was Scottish) shouted "stop making farty noises!" When everyone started blowing raspberries. In itself, not exactly side-splitting stuff, but when coupled with the long, drawn-out 'rrrrr' sound that the Scots use it was fucking amazing.
College (unfortunately I wasn't doing media at the time): My college went through media lecturer's like Frankie Boyle goes through celebrity insults, so when we got a new one, their first day should have been no surprise.
He walks into the room and announces: "I have a fridge downstairs and would like you all to help carry it up here." Everyone thinks it's some sort of strange team-building excercise; a way for people to get to know each other on the first day of term. After struggling up 3 flights of stairs, the fridge eventually arrives at it's destination, to which the lecturer replies, "thank you, my wife's thrown me out so I'm going to have to sleep here for a few days."
This guy was mental...he once showed his class a video of The Simpsons only for it to cut to a home-video of the lecturer in the 80s with long hair playing an acoustic guitar very very intensely. He'd also been seen in the local river pulling out trollies and once left halfway through a class to "go pick up some shelves." He had to be escorted off the premises when he was finally fired...
and finally University: A Postmodern English lecture with one of the most arrogant lecturers at my uni? Interesting things occurred. We were discussing the ideas of finding meaning in texts, something that Postmodernism as a theory does not condone. I said that I liked to find meaning in the texts that I read and that is the whole point of doing an English Degree; to find meaning in text. The lecturer just looked at me with the smuggest face and said, very matter-of-factly, "well you're just not Postmodern are you?" It was amusing, interesting and infuriating all at the same time...
Oh...one English lecturer at the end of our first year also did a 30 minute rap about English thoery...He did it in front of over 300 students...fucking hilarious. I really wish someone had filmed it and put it one Youtube so I could share it with you all...