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[Erandeni he/him]

12 hours ago, Delightful said:

I'm way too stressed for the universe right now. Anyone have spare validation/moral support/puppies?  

Less than a month to the wedding and I feel so incredibly unprepared. What is life even. 

*hugs*

8 hours ago, A Budgie said:

*hug* Have a birb.

What kind of bird is that?

[A Budgie she/her]

Just now, Idealistic said:

What kind of bird is that?

Weiro. They're cute little parrots often kept as pets.

[Erandeni he/him]

Just now, A Budgie said:

Weiro. They're cute little parrots often kept as pets.

I had one, although it's called Ninfa over here.

[A Budgie she/her]

6 minutes ago, Idealistic said:

I had one, although it's called Ninfa over here.

Really? Cool. Where's that/what language is that in?

[Erandeni he/him]

Just now, A Budgie said:

Really? Cool. Where's that/what language is that in?

In Spanish.

[Mistrunner]

In my US History class (I'm still unsure as to whether it's AP or just honors- the teacher says it's AP, but my schedule says honors) the teacher has one of the most obnoxious but, annoyingly, not rare attitudes towards his students. Every other sentence he just goes of about how we just believe everything we've been told and in THIS class we will learn to THINK for OURSELVES!!!!!!! Unfortunately, I've heard that spiel a lot from various teachers, but this man is by far the most ridiculously arrogant about it. First day of class he asked us for any fact we knew about US history. I gave him a random date I remembered. He asked how I knew it, I told him I learned it in eighth grade history, and he acted like I said I picked it up from a propaganda piece out of North Korea. Then he went on a spiel about how history is written by the victors and we can't just accept any opinion as fact and that's all fine and all but what does that have to do with the fact that the slave trade to the United States ended in 1808? Of course I don't accept people's opinion as fact, of course I have a healthy skepticism of subjective statements about the past, that's just having common sense. But to say I shouldn't believe that a date was correct that I've seen from several reputable sources is just ridiculous. He was obviously setting us up for the lecture on "don't trust what anyone says about history" but if I can't believe even a date then, by his logic, I shouldn't listen to a word he says.

Besides that, he constantly questions anything students say to answer his questions, which really does not promote healthy class discussion. I understand he's trying to get us to "THINK FOR OURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!" but it sounds like he's trying to shut us down. He asks "how do you know?" in response to pretty much everything anyone says. It's ridiculous.

To top it all off, he tried to teach us that Columbus had to convince the court of Spain that the world was round. He prompted the class to come up with ideas as to how he may have figured that out, giving examples such as solar eclipses and sunsets. I have a suspicion Columbus may have figured it out by reading Ptolemy's Geography, a copy of which he owned, which stated a round Earth as fact.  When I tried to bring this up during class, all he could say was "BUT WHAT COULD HAVE TIPPED HIM OFF THAT THE WORLD WAS ROUND" which was dancing around the fact that the "Columbus was a revolutionary scientist" schtick is a massive myth. I brought it up after class, and he assured me he knew, but most people still believed it was flat, of course. It bugged me to no end.

Also he has this really obnoxious permanent smirk that just screams "watch me educate these idiotic children who haven't had an original thought in their lives!" He's already assigned an extremely high workload as well (essay due Friday assigned Wednesday with an extremely vague and extraordinarily broad prompt, among other assignments), and it's only the first week.

It really gets under my skin because I'm really interested in history and I actually pride myself on looking up multiple reputable sources before stating something as fact. He's so condescending in his treatment of me and the rest of the class and it makes me incredibly angry.

[Oversleep]

@Mistrunner I'm sorry. It seems your teacher is one step away from being a conspiracy theoretist. I'm truly sorry.

 

[Steeldancer he/him]

1 hour ago, Mistrunner said:

In my US History class (I'm still unsure as to whether it's AP or just honors- the teacher says it's AP, but my schedule says honors) the teacher has one of the most obnoxious but, annoyingly, not rare attitudes towards his students. Every other sentence he just goes of about how we just believe everything we've been told and in THIS class we will learn to THINK for OURSELVES!!!!!!! Unfortunately, I've heard that spiel a lot from various teachers, but this man is by far the most ridiculously arrogant about it. First day of class he asked us for any fact we knew about US history. I gave him a random date I remembered. He asked how I knew it, I told him I learned it in eighth grade history, and he acted like I said I picked it up from a propaganda piece out of North Korea. Then he went on a spiel about how history is written by the victors and we can't just accept any opinion as fact and that's all fine and all but what does that have to do with the fact that the slave trade to the United States ended in 1808? Of course I don't accept people's opinion as fact, of course I have a healthy skepticism of subjective statements about the past, that's just having common sense. But to say I shouldn't believe that a date was correct that I've seen from several reputable sources is just ridiculous. He was obviously setting us up for the lecture on "don't trust what anyone says about history" but if I can't believe even a date then, by his logic, I shouldn't listen to a word he says.

Besides that, he constantly questions anything students say to answer his questions, which really does not promote healthy class discussion. I understand he's trying to get us to "THINK FOR OURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!" but it sounds like he's trying to shut us down. He asks "how do you know?" in response to pretty much everything anyone says. It's ridiculous.

To top it all off, he tried to teach us that Columbus had to convince the court of Spain that the world was round. He prompted the class to come up with ideas as to how he may have figured that out, giving examples such as solar eclipses and sunsets. I have a suspicion Columbus may have figured it out by reading Ptolemy's Geography, a copy of which he owned, which stated a round Earth as fact.  When I tried to bring this up during class, all he could say was "BUT WHAT COULD HAVE TIPPED HIM OFF THAT THE WORLD WAS ROUND" which was dancing around the fact that the "Columbus was a revolutionary scientist" schtick is a massive myth. I brought it up after class, and he assured me he knew, but most people still believed it was flat, of course. It bugged me to no end.

Also he has this really obnoxious permanent smirk that just screams "watch me educate these idiotic children who haven't had an original thought in their lives!" He's already assigned an extremely high workload as well (essay due Friday assigned Wednesday with an extremely vague and extraordinarily broad prompt, among other assignments), and it's only the first week.

It really gets under my skin because I'm really interested in history and I actually pride myself on looking up multiple reputable sources before stating something as fact. He's so condescending in his treatment of me and the rest of the class and it makes me incredibly angry.

I can relate to bad teachers. I have one... 

So I'm I'm huge music student. I love singing and acting and all that jazz. I've never been a great dancer, but I'm taking tap and improving. I've been in lots of shows. 

Introduce my high school music teacher. She... how do I even explain? She picks favorites. I am really not one of those favorites, partially I think because my dad is the music teacher in another high school. She isn't actively hostile towards me, so I deal with it. I don't get great roles (when I do community theater I always get a lead), which I'm not going to complain about, besides the fact that they never give me a chance to learn how to tap at the level they want, because they stick with their favorites. 

Now some of the favorites really deserve to be favorited. If you ever hear of Mark Mitrano on Broadway in a few years, I sat at his lunch table. 

I accepted these facts a while ago: I'm not going to get a good role in the high school show. The problem is the time. Even as a ensemble member, my teacher thinks she OWNS me. For over a month, I hardly ever saw my family. I was either rehearsing or doing homework. I cannot IMAGINE how it would be to be a lead. That is just wrong to inflict on a high schooler. They should be able to do things besides the show. 

People who complain about her methods are ostracized. But i decided enough was enough. No matter how good the show was (we did Les Mis and it was fantastic), it was not worth the ridiculous number of hours put into it. I've been having regular nightmares of telling her lately. 

Another thing: we are always expected to be professional. I hate it. It's ridiculous the bile she pours on us to "make us stronger." We're high schoolers, not paid actors! 

Another time I was trying to be helpful in a concert with loading. I like asked "could you scootch farther down so we can all fit" or something. Essentially my teacher gave me the glare of death. I wasn't doing anything wrong or loud. I wasn't being detrimental. But gosh darn it if she's going to let hateful little me be helpful. I've had many similar moments like that, and observed her treat others similarly. 

My dads arguments about how students should come first, not the show, convinced me not to do it. Furthermore, my brother, who has had much better luck with roles and shows than I have, decided not to do it either his freshman year, because of the ridiculous time commitment. That makes me angry, that she caused my brother to quit doing something he loves.

So yeah. I'm probably going to be punished socially for not doing the show my senior year. I'll still get to go to Conference All-State choir, but doing the show is something special. I really wish I hadn't been made to make this choice. And I really wish I had my dad as my music teacher instead. 

Edited August 24, 2017 by Flash

[Nathrangking he/him]

My day was hellacious and stressful in ways that I have not seen in a long time. I ordered books from the college bookstore for my two weeks ago. Classes start at the end of the week and I figured that I would have everything on time. Early this morning I get an email that my order was cancelled because according to them I did not have sufficient funds in my account to pay. They waited two weeks to inform me that I would not be getting my books and classes start in days. I rushed to transfer money and reorder the books then I get an email that they can only fill part of my order. I had to go to amazon which in this case was more expensive and one of the books would not arrive at minimum a week after classes started with the possibility of a month passing before I would get it. I went back to the bookstore website and discovered that for more money than amazon I could rent which is my default. preference. So I eventually cancelled the book which would have come late and rented it despite the extra expense. It took me hours to sort it out and my stress level shot through the roof. Then I found out that despite what my academic adviser told me one of the classes that I am taking this semester will not count and my graduation will be held up because of it. I cannot begin to put my anger and stress into appropriate words which would accurately describe them.

[A Budgie she/her]

@Nathrangking *hugs* that sounds terrible. Even if you don't put it into words, I can understand your stress to a certain extent. :/

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

@Nathrangking Aw heck man :/ *hugs* That sounds hellacious and frustrating to the 7th ring and back indeed >> Hang in there bro

[Silverblade5 he/him]

I locked my keys in my car. 

[Jondesu he/him]

My car’s AC died.

It’s August. 

In Florida.

’Nuff said.

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

I am sick. It is nothing serious, but it is annoying. That is why I am exerting as little effort as possible and is spending time on the Shard.

[Briar King]

I didn't stop, drop & roll quick enough last night. Nuff said...

 

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

Ouch.

[little wilson she/her]

The gas company shut off the gas in my apartment yesterday and we can't get it turned back on until tomorrow sometime. I'm nearly certain this was caused by a roommate who moved out two weeks ago in revenge. I am not amused.

[Hood he/him]

A very popular man (like really really popular, he is the head of an organisation which has more than 50 million followers, or twice the population of Australia) has been convicted on a sexual assault case. Problem is, his followers, esp. those 200,000 , who had arrived before him, do not believe that their leader is wrong. And so, they have begun violence. Around 25 people have died, and near to 150 have been injured. 

Why am I concerned ?

Because, 1. I live near the city where this is happening.

2. My town has a large number of people who are his followers. Some trouble was reported on the outskirts.

3. Schools have been shut down because of the said event.

4. Curfew has been imposed in the city (another one) near our town. 

5. Mobile internet has been shut off for 3 days. 

 

[Silverblade5 he/him]

Didn't get home until 11:30 last night because of understaffing. Guess who failed to do any homework, or class work today?

[Calderis he/him]

@Hood they didn't name him, but I just heard about this on the radio. 

It's made international news though. 

Stay safe. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

On 8/23/2017 at 6:57 PM, Mistrunner said:

In my US History class (I'm still unsure as to whether it's AP or just honors- the teacher says it's AP, but my schedule says honors) the teacher has one of the most obnoxious but, annoyingly, not rare attitudes towards his students. Every other sentence he just goes of about how we just believe everything we've been told and in THIS class we will learn to THINK for OURSELVES!!!!!!! Unfortunately, I've heard that spiel a lot from various teachers, but this man is by far the most ridiculously arrogant about it. First day of class he asked us for any fact we knew about US history. I gave him a random date I remembered. He asked how I knew it, I told him I learned it in eighth grade history, and he acted like I said I picked it up from a propaganda piece out of North Korea. Then he went on a spiel about how history is written by the victors and we can't just accept any opinion as fact and that's all fine and all but what does that have to do with the fact that the slave trade to the United States ended in 1808? Of course I don't accept people's opinion as fact, of course I have a healthy skepticism of subjective statements about the past, that's just having common sense. But to say I shouldn't believe that a date was correct that I've seen from several reputable sources is just ridiculous. He was obviously setting us up for the lecture on "don't trust what anyone says about history" but if I can't believe even a date then, by his logic, I shouldn't listen to a word he says.

Besides that, he constantly questions anything students say to answer his questions, which really does not promote healthy class discussion. I understand he's trying to get us to "THINK FOR OURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!" but it sounds like he's trying to shut us down. He asks "how do you know?" in response to pretty much everything anyone says. It's ridiculous.

To top it all off, he tried to teach us that Columbus had to convince the court of Spain that the world was round. He prompted the class to come up with ideas as to how he may have figured that out, giving examples such as solar eclipses and sunsets. I have a suspicion Columbus may have figured it out by reading Ptolemy's Geography, a copy of which he owned, which stated a round Earth as fact.  When I tried to bring this up during class, all he could say was "BUT WHAT COULD HAVE TIPPED HIM OFF THAT THE WORLD WAS ROUND" which was dancing around the fact that the "Columbus was a revolutionary scientist" schtick is a massive myth. I brought it up after class, and he assured me he knew, but most people still believed it was flat, of course. It bugged me to no end.

Also he has this really obnoxious permanent smirk that just screams "watch me educate these idiotic children who haven't had an original thought in their lives!" He's already assigned an extremely high workload as well (essay due Friday assigned Wednesday with an extremely vague and extraordinarily broad prompt, among other assignments), and it's only the first week.

It really gets under my skin because I'm really interested in history and I actually pride myself on looking up multiple reputable sources before stating something as fact. He's so condescending in his treatment of me and the rest of the class and it makes me incredibly angry.

OK, so high school me probably would have meekly fumed through the entire ordeal.

Adult me, however, really, really, really wants to troll the absolute rust out of this crembrain. Up to and including setting his computer's home page to the YouTube of Adam Ruins Everything's piece on Christopher Columbus.

And, of course, coming up with snarky comebacks to his, "HOW DO YOU KNOW?!" nonsense.

"I read it in a comic book."
"I found it on teh intarwebz."
"It was in the fortune cookie that came with dinner last night."
"The moose out front told me."
"I have access to eldritch secrets your mere mortal human mind cannot possibly comprehend."
(EDITED TO ADD: "I hopped on board the TARDIS last night and the Doctor took me back in time and showed me.")

Anyone else want to help me here?

[Calderis he/him]

1 hour ago, Kaymyth said:

Anyone else want to help me here?

The voices told me. 

I discovered it on an ancient tablet I excavated in my backyard. 

It's hidden in the audio if you play the 17th episode of star trek in reverse. 

I see dead people. 

[King Cole he/him]

On 8/23/2017 at 6:46 PM, Oversleep said:

@Mistrunner I'm sorry. It seems your teacher is one step away from being a conspiracy theoretist. I'm truly sorry.

 

Dude, I love xkcd

 

[Nathrangking he/him]

1 hour ago, Kaymyth said:

Anyone else want to help me here?

A demon from another dimension bought my soul for infinite knowledge.

The magic talking sword made me do it!!

42.

I own the delorean.

[Briar King]

This hurricanes predictions are nuts. I'm going to be very wet over the coming days.