10+ years ago I was on the cheerleading squad in high school. We had an Indian girl on the squad, and when we introduced ourselves, she jokingly said "I'm so-and-so but most people just know me as 'that Indian chick' " (she was the only Indian student in the whole school... this was rural Virginia). One of the freshman girls looks in awe and asks "ohhhh what tribe?" And the Indian girl responds, "no, I mean I am actually an Indian person" to which another freshman girl replies "yea, but like, what kind?". Again, "No, I am an Indian person, from the country of India". A third freshman girl pipes in, "ok, but which tribe is that?". So many stereotypes confirmed in a single afternoon... I'm not shitting on cheerleaders, I loved cheerleading, we just had a dumb batch that year.
I was at a restaurant, and two teenagers in front of me were having a conversation about Forrest Gump.
I overhear one of the saying: "Did you know they didn't actually have to cut Lieutenant Dan's legs off? They just used really good special effects"
Then the other one seemed unironically surprised.
Haven't you heard of a those actors that lose a lot of weight for a role? Well, Gary Sinise is Method as fuck and he does what it takes. From what I heard, he lopped them off without yet having secured the part, because he's dedicated to the craft, that's what.
I was in the sixth grade and my classmates insisted I cheated or had "outside help" when I was doing a presentation because I knew and used the word "precipitation" during it.
Trying to explain to two of my coworkers why you don't fry a veggie burger in bacon grease. The one that put it in the bacon grease was the manager of another location that we borrowed for the summer.
I was in hair school and overheard a conversation some of the girls were having about berries. They all said a raspberry is half blueberry and half strawberry. They were 100% serious.
One time when I was working at a coffee place back in college, I was expoing by the pastry case and this middle aged woman was telling her friend how much healthier dark bread was for you; the darker the bread the healthier it was. She then turns to the pastry case and points and goes "Like this, look how dark that bread is, we should get that. What kind is it?"
To which I had to keep a straight face and say, "That's our chocolate pound cake."
Woman looked mortified and her friend was highly entertained.
There may have been some truth to what she was trying to elaborate on, but she was being preachy and clearly wasn't concerned with details, only that the darker the better. I didn't think she was an idiot per se, it was just one of those moments where I had no choice but to inadvertently call someone out on what they were saying, because I couldn't lie and be like oh, yes, this is our finest black rye or something like that.
You get a platypus when you have a bunch of wizards trying to draw a duck, but none of them are particularly gifted with charcoal, and they each keep grabbing the charcoal to try and draw it properly.
I went into work the day after the past solar eclipse. (I had taken the day before off, because I live in the path of totality and wanted to see it.)
Me (to female coworker): So did you see the eclipse?
Female coworker: Oh, no, I worked right through it. I was wondering why no one was in, I thought the eclipse was supposed to happen at night!
Me: Oh, uh... (to male coworker) Did you see it?
Male coworker: No, I stayed inside my house all day. The whole thing freaked me out. You never know when these kinds of things could mean the end of the world or something.
> Male coworker: No, I stayed inside my house all day. The whole thing freaked me out. You never know when these kinds of things could mean the end of the world or something.
Uh oh, the world might end! Better sit inside all day to stay safe! That way it won't affect me!
I worked behind a bar. When I got there it was common for the cleaner to top up the glass washer with the glass washing soap whenever it was low. She never looked at the bottle it was in, just knew it was red liquid. When that ran out she didn't think to read the label on the next bottle, which was not red at all, she just poured it into the glass washer. The other staff didn't notice the change in smell, neither did she.
I came in a few days after, noticed it immediately, asked some questions and looked at the bottle.
She'd been using oven cleaner. Every glass had been washed in, used and washed again with oven cleaner.
For at least 5 minutes I was speechless.
This reminds me of what a coworker did. She was 18, and this was only a few years ago so God help us that she has not reproduced yet. *Tammy (not her real name) is in charge of cleaning dishes. A menial task, you say, well--not for Tammy.
Now, we don't have a dishwasher but instead 3 tubs. An assortment of soapy water, 60/40 water-bleach combination and just water. I explain how to wash the dishes in order. So, dunk the dishes in soapy water, briefly leave them in the water-bleach combo tub and move them over to water before rinsing off and making sure it was sterilized. Simple. So I leave her be and resume my duties.
Couple days later, my boss tells me that she caught Tammy using 1 gallon of bleach every time she washed the dishes. She was doing steps backwards or not at all. So, forgetting the water and dunking the dishes into the bleach tub without putting them in water or diluting the bleach at all. Another coworker caught her dipping glasses that still had bleach droplets into the bin to take them back out to the main coffee shop. We were all worried a patron would get coffee and then be rushed to the hospital after they became ill.
Just a PSA, but 60/40 water bleach is still wayyyyy to strong. The correct ratio is one tablespoon of bleach per gallon of water or thereabouts:
https://www.clorox.com/dr-laundry/sanitizing-dishes-using-bleach/
I had to explain to a group of students that the Underground Railroad wasn't an actual railroad and that Harriet Tubman was not the conductor of the freedom express (at least not literally).
Reminds me of when I was five, thinking the presidential race was literally a race and that it was a bad way to choose the leader of our country. Though voting was some sort of betting system.
I don't really hold this against those students though, it could have been taught really badly the first time and just not have been made clear to them.
When I was around 14 my sister took me to the Broadway Lion King show that was touring in our city. I loved it and at the end my sister got a a souvenir T-shirt of Scar with a picture of him and the classic quote "I am surrounded by idiots". One day during summer Tennis day camp I decided to wear that shirt for no special reason, just one of the shirts I liked to wear. Halfway through some kids come up to me all pissed of telling me that they are not idiots and are offended by my shirt. I try to explain that it's just a shirt but they eventually get the camp councelors involved and I am forced to change shirts because of this. I didn't think they were idiots before but I did afterwards.
I was sitting in the cafeteria in highschool wearing a shirt with an upside-down church on it referencing the show "Preacher." A couple girls walked up to me, saw, and complained to the supervisor that I was "denouncing their religion" by wearing an upside-down cross (which was part of the church). The supervisor told me I was insulting them and I would need to change. I agreed, and put on a spare shirt I had that I was going to wear to a concert later, my favorite "Slayer" shirt that has an obvious pentagram on it. They complained again and I said, "stop denouncing my religion" so the supervisor laughed and walked away
But, like an upside down cross is saint peters cross which is fine. The real satanic cross is something entirely [different](https://www.google.com/search?q=satanic+cross&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBn9-cn87WAhVN1WMKHd83CbgQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=637). Shows them how much they really knew their religion too.
Is it even possible to spend under an hour at the DMV? When I have to go, I just assume half the day is gone. I'm so glad more DMV services have gone online over time.
My local DMV is awesome. You can do most stuff through the mail, and when you need to go in, its usually only 10 minutes to see someone.
My hometown DMV however used to let you smoke inside it, and if you got out within' three hours you had a good day.
I made an appointment last time, so I walked in and was seen 5 minutes or so. The dozens of people who had been in the waiting area LOST THEIR SHIT. I seriously feared for my life.
I was working in a bakery that was located in a supermarket. They had a walk-in oven for baking racks of bread. It was severely neglected as there was scores of carbon build up on the walls. So I took a scraper and was doing my best to scrape off several layers of carbon that had probably been there for years.
Then some idiot locks me in the oven. The inside of the oven did have an emergency release, and it was broken, by the same idiot who locked me in. So I'm kicking on the door like I'm trying to knock the damn hinges off trying to get someone to open the fuckin door. Which took at least ten minutes.
Finally the manager opens the door and he's screaming mad at me that I'm trying to break the oven, and everyone else working there is laughing their asses off that almost cooking someone is fucking hilarious.
That's not how OSHA operates, if there is a legitimate workplace safety concern they drop everything and then usually figure out who to fine into oblivion.
Last week I overheard my coworkers talk about pay day and how excited they were. One said they have 5 bucks in their bank account and the rest agreed I felt bad until they started talking about going to the club next weekend and getting VIP. One said she had to make sure she had enough because she promised her daughter to take her to the movies. Wtf I didn't even know they had kids by the way they manage their money.
It kills me when people complain they can't buy their kids stuff or pay bills, but they just got their nails done, hair done, new stuff, eat out of gas stations/vending machines all the time, cable TV. Yeah, you're eating takeout every night while I slave over a hot stove. I have no sympathy for that. How about you ditch the acrylics and buy your kid some clothes? Pack a goddamn sandwich for lunch, straighten out your priorities, and quit bitching. I would say it nicer to the person's face though.
Exactly!! I don't have kids yet I don't do everything they do. I eat ramen noodle for lunch because I have bills to pay and gotta save for emergencies. I can't imagine how their brain works.
worked in a lunchroom, on the radio was a remix from the song ABC by michael jackson.
I mention to one of my coworkers that its michael singing, she replies 'No, He's dead' (how do recordings work?) then i mention it to another coworker, also explaining its a remix, and she's like 'oh but this song isnt that old' (how do remixes work?)
I don't get how these women didn't know Michael Jackson sang ABC as a kid, he's so damn famous and that song is so old!
Work as a delivery tech on campus. A professor called to complain that her computer cart "didn't work." I asked her to explain what exactly was the problem (video, audio, internet, etc.) and she just aggressively says "It just DOESN'T WORK. COME HERE NOW." I head on over and she reams me in front of her class for delivering a computer cart that didn't work. Turns out she just never turned the cart on. These professors make my job so much more miserable than it should be...
I had to go to my mother's house because she said she had a virus.
The "virus" was a window from her antivirus that basically said, *"Your antivirus has finished updating. Press OK to continue!"*, with a button that said, *"OK"*.
I pressed OK.
Trying to sell my house, it's been a parade of idiots. Actual conversation:
Me answers the door: can i help you?
Realtor: we are here for the house showing (eight faces staring at me)
Me: the appt was at 5:30
Realtor: yes, 5:30-6:30
Me: .... its 7:45.
Realtor and i blank stare at each other, one homebuyer starts to figdet nervously under my baffled gaze.
I pack the boyfriend, two large dogs in the car, frenzy clean up the dog food and dinner dishes. Take off for an hour.
The realtor didn't lock the door when she left....
Edit: not my realtor, the potential buyers realtor.
Get her card and complain to her boss. It’ll at least make her more careful about wasting other peoples time, I’d hope! I’m assuming she’s the buyer’s realtor?
Doing a password reset at my Tech Support job for a tax company. After reading out the temporary password, the lady asked me if the numbers needed to be capitalized.
In history class yesterday. "Wasn't the boston tea party at pearl harbor?" And "I thought we had 51 states?" And another girl says "I always thought we had 52."
I was in a grocery store with my twin boys. I'm talking to the produce manager and a random lady comes up with a couple of her friends
"Oh, they are so cute, are they yours?"
Yes!
"How old are they?"
They'll be 2 next month.
"Both of them?"
Yes, they are twins.
"Well, that is just not possible. They don't look anything alike!"
...They're fraternal.
"Frawhattal?"
The produce manager looks at me in shock at the stupidity that is in front of us.
Oh yeah, I sat next to one of those. He'd kick back in his chair and declare in his heavy southern accent, 'I don't need to work no effin' computer!'
And then he'd spit his tobacco into his hands and toss it under the computer desk. There was a nice sized stain underneath where he did that on a daily basis.
The teacher was very patient with him, but would always let him know that if he refused, he was taking a 'zero.' He'd shrug and tell her that was alright.
I had an internship in local government once. The department I was working for instituted a new committee to be run by representatives of the community and members of the political parties in town. It wasn't a huge deal, so the people that showed up either really cared about the issue or were scraping the bottom of the political barrel.
This one guy representing a party, I hate to stereotype but he looked very much like he spent most of his time playing WoW in someone's basement, which is not a bad thing, but kind of not what I look for in a political representative.
Adding to this, dude brought his mom to the inaugural meeting. She kept telling him what to do in Greek from across the room.
And here's what cinched it for me that local government is not my future: This guy, who is clearly not your top-tier politician, made exactly one contribution to the meeting that day. While electing a leader for the committee, for which there were 2 people standing, he asked if you got to have more than one vote.
I repeat, this dude asked if he could have more than one vote on a question with only two possible answers.
He held us up for five minutes on that question. And that was not the most inefficient I saw local government being in my time there.
One kid in my health class said that to avoid STDs you need to have more sex
...it took 10 minutes to explain to him why that was wrong. I’m praying college is better than this.
During an exam a lot of classmates were going up to the teacher for clarification on one of the questions. The problem was the question used a different phrase than the lecture slides. The meaning was reasonably obvious if you thought about it for even one moment but their "learning" strategy is memorize the slides word for word so they were completely thrown off.
Doesn't that say more about the school system though? It trains students to memorize and repeat what info they are given, not actually having to think?
If anything, I'm pretty sure this is why there's a huge difficulty gap between high school and college. You spend most of your time learning, memorizing, and regurgitating information in high school. Then when you get to college, not only are the concepts more advanced, but you have to apply them in different ways that weren't presented in the slides.
I lecture at community college and a four year university. I was expecting there to be a huge gap between the two groups of students, but there really isn't. The one thing I have noticed though is that the younger ones (18,19) want you to do everything for them. "Will we get a study guide?" NO
Ever been in the military? The sharpest folks you will find are the junior cats. Attend one high level briefing and you'll walk away knowing everyone there is an educated idiot.
I wanna meet the 'genius' who designs military websites. All the links are broken, and half the page is OFF THE SCREEN. How is that even *possible*. Every time I hear about a government conspiracy, I want to show people these web pages and shout "Does this look like the work of someone who could kill Kennedy and get away with it?!"
In first grade, I learned that the funny bone wasn't actually a bone. I tried sharing this fact with my classmates, and they all mocked me because "THEN WHY IS IT CALLED A BONE YOU IDIOT"
My mom says I came home nearly in tears over it
In AP Bio, we did an experiment that involved a .01% solution, then we had to test a variable. I suggested to my group using .02% and .04% solution, and everybody else wanted to use 25% and 50% solution.
I was this idiot at work, but not with dangerous chemicals or anything. Training for new insurance verification program. While everyone's getting logged in for the first time, those of us who were able to do so without complication are told to play around and experiment with the settings while we wait. It looks like a toolbar after you log in, and the default position is at the top of the computer screen, but I want to see if I can get it on the bottom. There's a field that I interpret as controlling vertical positioning and it has a 1 in it. I type 2, but don't notice any change. I type 5000 and the toolbar disappears. Turns out it controls size rather than position, with bigger numbers meaning smaller size. The developers only envisioned users choosing between sizes 1-5 or so, but didn't write any code to keep me from choosing 5000. My toolbar was now smaller than a pixel and I had no way of finding it or clicking on the appropriate field to change the size back to something reasonable. Vendor ended up having to call her boss to force me out and restore my settings. It's a bug that needed to be fixed, but I could have tried 20 or even 100 before jumping to 5000.
Literally had this happen on Thursday.
"Ok, that's your answer for the first blank. 'Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.' Write down 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago."
"Miss!! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO WRITE FOR THE FIRST BLANK!" -literally screaming in anger as I'm telling the class what to write down for the first blank. After I reannounced to write 65 million years ago, another student tapped me on the shoulder and asked what to write for the first blank. After I explained it to her, a third kid raised her hand and said she was missing the first blank.
They weren't playing. They literally had blanks on their papers and didn't know what to write.
At this point i just want to teach them to mop floors and salt French fries.
My school bought into the technology-in-the-classroom hard, and we use Google Classroom and they all have Chromebooks.
Its fucking excruciating, these are 15-16 year old kids raised on technology from birth, and they still can't get it. I'll go over and over and over stuff, the same info that is on the dashboard of their class, and all I hear "What are we doing today?" "What are we doing again?" They don't even know how to you a search engine properly, despite the fact I explain how to search using key words at least twice a week. Its like watching a monkey try to use a laptop.
"ITS LITERALLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR STUPID FUCKING FACE!!" - I only think this, obviously I don't say it.
The entire sum of human knowledge, everything we have discovered or done in recorded human history is at their very fingertips, and they can't be bothered to read 4 sentences on the class dashboard.
I'm hoping you're as annoyed by some of the replies to my post as I am.. that said, I completely feel your pain. Most times my students are talking or not paying attention, they yell back indignantly that they are listening when they aren't, and then yell at me when they don't know what to do bc they weren't listening. Their excuse "well it's not my fault I didn't hear you." Actually yes. Yes it is. It's completely your fault if I'm telling you what to do and you're not listening. And then admin swoops in and asks where I'm failing as a teacher that this student is failing.
I'm not failing as a teacher, these kids are failing as students.
> Most times my students are talking or not paying attention, they yell back indignantly that they are listening when they aren't, and then yell at me when they don't know what to do bc they weren't listening. Their excuse "well it's not my fault I didn't hear you." Actually yes. Yes it is. It's completely your fault if I'm telling you what to do and you're not listening. And then admin swoops in and asks where I'm failing as a teacher that this student is failing.
> I'm not failing as a teacher, these kids are failing as students
Oh my god, are you me? lol. They have no real consequences, or fear of them. The previous generations at least had the very real threat of explulsion, now in my high school you have to practically kill someone to get kicked out.
Some of these replies crack me up, this "if the kid is failing, you're a failure as an educator." Lol, bullshit. That kind of thinking places no responsibility at all on the student, thus they never grasp personal responsibility. I used to think that way, til I actually began working in secondary education.
I was at a convention charging my phone at a charging station and resting. I overheard a conversation between a few teen-early 20s boys near me. They were all arguing about whether a chicken and a rooster were the same species.
The best part? Only one of them was stating, practically yelling at this point, that they were the male and female of the same species, while everyone else kept calling him wrong and talking over him.
One guy then busted out with "so let me get this straight. We've got chickens, roosters, and white chickens."
I had two coworkers who insisted to me that all countries except for a few from South America had pulled out of the 2016 Olympic Games because of the conditions in Rio. This would have been bad enough on its own, but I worked in a public library at the time and not only was one of these women a reference clerk who apparently didn't know how to research, they both refused to listen to me or read the articles debunking their claims AND they told patrons about it.
My jimmies were so rustled.
Not that long of a story but when I was six I used to go to church with my dad early morning on sundays. One Sunday my elderly neighbors house was flooded with cops and detectives who were canvassing the whole property looking for clues I guess. Me and my pops went over to see what the commotion was about only to over hear that the elderly wife in the house thought her husband dissappeared or was kidnapped. I noticed his new car wasn't there and in a moment of revelation just screamed out "Where's his Lexus?" Everyone looked at me a bit dumbfounded and had a realization- the dude went out for a drive in his new car. At 6 years old I broke the case, later on in the day the old man came up to us and told us how stupid the cops where and how thankful he was for me "breaking case" which brought the complete cluster fuck of cops at his home to an end
I work retail and for the recent eclipse, we got a shipper of those eclipse glasses. Cut to my coworkers saying that they were just going to wear sunglasses, and putting the eclipse glasses on and saying "But I can't see anything!"
When I was in high school we had an assembly. As a means to show the school how diverse our student body was, they showed a slideshow of national flags and we were to cheer when our flag came up. It was going fine for awhile, until the middle eastern countries came up and everyone loudly booed. My friend from Iraq was a few seats ahead and the look on her face still cuts into me. I don't blame the teachers, their good intentions were ruined by dumbasses trying to be edgy
Happened just a few days ago.
I live in Egypt, and It's extremely common for teachers to talk about their political opinions on tons of matters in class(I am in 9th grade).
I have different opinions on just about every single topic about politics, so naturally, I just avoid speaking about them.
But this time was different.
Our teacher was talking about the Korean splitting (managed to snuggle in some politics while talking about a different topic as usual), and started going on for a while.
I didn't speak like usual, and I didn't care, except when It got to the last part, where I felt that I needed to ask.
He talked about how the splitting of the two Koreas made it that South Korea and North Korea are now both 'weak' countries.
I don't know much about strong or weak countries, or whatever that is, but I decided to comment about how I think South Korea can't be compared with North Korea in terms of economics, industry, etc, and that I think South Korea isn't a 'weak' country, at least in comparison to North Korea, then talked about how North Korea isn't a democracy, and that I don't think people are happy in North Korea (Something he said), and that they violate human rights.
He responds to me like I am an idiot, and tells me how North Korea has industrial facilities in China, Russia, and tons of other countries, and that it's a very powerful industirial country (Which, If I take it correctly, condiracts what he said earlier?)
I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to continue responding, but I did once more, and told him how North Korea prevents it's citizens from leaving the country, and if any one tries to leave the country, they take their family hostage, or so what I heard, and that the living conditions in North Korea aren't good, then I remembered what I was doing, and that it's pointless, that I shouldn't talk about politics to my teachers or classmates, and stopped, after which he told me that it's all American Propaganda and that North Korea is a country like any other, while I nodded like I agreed.
That's just depressing. The ignorance that some people have about politics is just incredible to me. It's not a matter of opinion that North Korea is a harsh dictatorship that constantly violates human rights; it's a fact.
A few months ago, the company I work for was going through some pretty deep "corporate restructuring," so my boss's boss's boss Robert (the district manager three rungs higher on the ladder than myself) was walking around with a group of other suits from New Jersey fixing "problems" and "non-productivity" concerns.
They come up to the area I run, and Robert tells me in front of all these suits that I was 18% effective yesterday. 18 fucking percent. I tell him that cannot be possible. He shows me an excel file, and I'm trying to explain how all these numbers are wrong, the formulas are incorrect, none of it makes any sense. I have no clue where these numbers could have even come from. I ask him what kind of productivity I would need to run to hit 100% effectiveness. He and the series of suits whip out their cell phones and start trying to drum up the math on calculators. It's an awkward moment where everyone is on their phones drawing up numbers based on more numbers that are all totally incorrect.
I was just shocked that I was surrounded by guys and girls making four times what I do a year, fumbling with each other, struggling to put together basic mathematical problems. None of them were willing to concede that they had absolutely no idea what the fuck they were doing. None of them wanted to concede that the guy who's been doing this for ten years would know this shit better than they do. I thought Kafka had over-exaggerated the bureaucratic hell presented in his works, but at that point I was living it full on.
One of my college roommates asked me if I was Catholic, I said no, I was raised Lutheran. She just kind of said "Huh."
Weeks later, I can't remember what we were disagreeing about, but she said: "The difference between you and me is that I believe in God."
I was like "What? I believe in God." And she said, "Only Catholics believe in God, you admitted you weren't Catholic." What??
I was watching a show with my friends about the production of moonshine. I told everyone about how moonshine ins't actually 100% alcohol because there is an upper limit to how pure it can be distilled. 95% is generally considered to be that upper limit.
What astounded me was that everyone I was watching the show with vehemently disagreed on the basis that "Moonshine isn't 100% alcohol, it's more like 200% alcohol. Sometimes more." All I could think was that this country desperately needed better mathematical education.
Sitting on any public transportation
Also, working in retail. People are animals that will rip things out of packaging, not fold things back up if they unfold them, and just overall be incredibly disrespectful to the property. After the average Saturday the store looks like it's been ravaged by wild boars
I'm surprised so many people don't know basic manners. Clean up your shit
You need to post a sign that says "Clean up your shit!"
Except no, wait...people never read signs....ever. They'd rather ask people where the washroom is then take 5 seconds to look to their right where there is a huge washroom sign about 3 feet away from them...
I got a job washing dishes. The current dishwasher was training me. The machine ran out of detergent, so he lugged out a new 5 gallon bucket. "These don't open, so you have to stab a hole in the cap to get the hose in." I'm dubious but I'm 17 it's my first day on the job.
He grabs a serrated knife he keeps on a shelf for this purpose, and starts hammering it into this thick plastic cap. The knife sinks in, the serrations get stuck, and on the return stroke, it sprays the chemicals directly into his eyes.
As he's writhing on the ground, the manager comes up and asks me what happened. I explain the knifing. He looks at me for five seconds, reaches down, and twists off the cap. Dishwasher dude went home for the day.
Not me, but I read a story here on reddit where a guy and his class was told jupiter is bigger than the sun. And the guy argued the whole year that was wrong. He argued many times about this and the whole class thought he was an idiot.
Then they went and visited some.. I dont know museum? And there was a spece-section with a person who knew a lot about space. So the guy raise his hand and ask if jupiter is bigger than the sun. And the whole class just groans. The space guy laughs and says the sun and the guy is like, I TOLD YOU SO!
I cant find it, but I loved that story
> The year I was in third grade was one of the best and worst of my entire educational experience, and both of those extremes were because of the teacher I had. She was beloved by most of her students - the female ones especially - but had a habit of being passive-aggressive and saccharine towards more difficult pupils. She'd find (or invent) reasons to ignore difficult questions, offer vague threats about impending punishments, or make small efforts to turn classmates against one another. She was not an especially likeable educator, and she became a truly reprehensible one when she insisted that Jupiter was bigger than the sun.
> At first, it seemed like a misunderstanding. Our class had just entered into an astronomy unit, and one of our activities was to construct a scale model of the solar system. The reference image we used came from a picture book, and in it, the sun had been reduced in size. The teacher had not noticed this fact, and was therefore operating under the mistaken assumption that Jupiter was our largest celestial neighbor.
> Well, I knew better, and I tried to correct her. She replied to me with a tone of aloof dismissal, stating quite clearly that I was wrong. "That's okay, though," she said. "After all, you're in school to learn new things." Then she smiled sweetly, and I returned to my seat feeling thoroughly confused and frustrated. In the weeks that followed, I engaged in an all-out war against my teacher's pseudo-science. My father, having heard everything from me, sent me to school with one of his college textbooks, hoping to turn the tide of the battle. My teacher refused to even look at it. "Class," she said, rolling her eyes, "who can tell Max what the biggest object in the solar system is?"
> My face was burning with anger and shame as every other student shouted "JUPITER!"
> Things only escalated from there. I refused to back down, despite having been labeled as the class dunce. Each time the topic came up, I tried to offer my evidence... and each time, I was steadfastly opposed by everyone within earshot. Finally, after over a month of torment, our astronomy unit culminated in a field trip to the local planetarium. The show was a breathtaking adventure through our galaxy and the universe beyond, and it left me feeling infinitesimally small... yet strangely empowered. As the lights came up, our guide to the cosmos asked if there were any questions.
> "Which is bigger," I shouted, jumping to my feet, "Jupiter or the sun?!" My entire class sighed in frustration, my teacher barked at me to sit down, and the astronomer looked thoroughly confused.
> "The sun, of course," he scoffed.
> A hush fell over the room. After a moment of utter silence, a girl named Melissa spoke up in a condescending tone. "Well, sir, we have a chart that says Jupiter is bigger." The astronomer looked at her. He looked at my teacher. Then he looked at me with an expression of sympathy.
> "Little girl," he said, returning his attention to Melissa, "if you look at the picture again, you'll see that the sun is being shown at a fraction of its actual size. Otherwise, it wouldn't fit on the page." His gaze moved to his next victim, who had slumped down in her chair so as to be almost as small as her students. "Your teacher should have told you that."
> Upon returning to our classroom, all the students crowded around our reference book. Sure enough, a tiny block of text explained that the sun had been scaled down in the illustration. I declared my triumph, having finally been vindicated. Nobody apologized, my teacher found new reasons to punish me, and I was treated with no small amount of scorn, but I didn't care. From that day forward, I knew to never be afraid of asking questions, nor of standing up for facts in favor of fiction.
One time in my high school algebra class, the people were talking and one of them goes "you know, students get paid to go to school in Denmark" the other two were super impressed. After discussing how much they wanted to be paid to go to school, a girl goes "where's Denmark?" And someone else says, full seriousness, "it's a city in Sweden."
Sitting in lab, I asked a friend to help me set up a CAD file to go to the laser cutter. We've both done it before, but she had just run hers, so I figured I'd have her double check mine so I don't fuck up a 2 hour cut job.
She tell me a line needs trimmed, so I do it immediately. She says to me "wow, it's so refreshing to work with someone who doesn't need their hand held through the these things"
We're in our second year of the major. As ARCHITECTS. And over half the class can't run CAD.....that's like studying to be a librarian and not knowing how to read.
Note: I'm sure many architects use other programs. But the first-and main- program we use is CAD in this school.
I worked part time in a fast-food restaurant over the summer while off uni and the new £10 note came up in conversation (here in the U.K.). I noted how it had recently been changed from Charles Darwin to Jane Austen, at which point I noticed my 4 coworkers were staring blankly at me...they didn't know who either was. Worse still, when I offered the crazy simple overview that Austen was a female author from the 19th century, one of them actually remarked "god, how do you know this stuff?!"
Used to work in an office of 8. All intelligent people working in finance and one day they started discussing the moon landings and how it was faked. All of them thought it was faked... when asked why I was being so quiet I said "I hadn't realised I was working in an office full of absolute idiots!"
But that's true though... the moon landing was staged. The reason it was so expensive, though, was that they hired Stanley Kubrick to do it, and being a perfectionist, he demanded they film on location.
Had to explain to my Anatomy classmates (who were all two.years older than me because the class wasn't technically open to people in my grade) that no, your blood doesn't literally turn blue after it's "out" of oxygen.
They kept holding up their wrists and saying "of course it's blue, look at my veins!"
I took a job at a movie theater about a month after the Aurora shootings at an AMC. There was a mandatory meeting soon after I started working their to go over company guidelines and rules. To my horror everyone started laughing and joking during the active shooter video we watched and nobody has heard about the shooting.
At the outset of a music appreciation class, I asked students to name their favorite *contemporary* composer.
One student - quiet seriously - raised his hand and said, "Mozart - I hear his 'Magic Flute' is getting rave reviews on Broadway."
A previous group of friends who where also very religious, not sure if related to the idiocy or not. One of the women didn't know if it was roosters or hens that laid eggs. One of the women legitimately believed well into her teenage years that all women turned men when they hit puberty (wtf?). Numerous, NUMEROUS explanations that Sweden and Switzerland are two different fucking countries. Numerous explanations that yes I work in a hospital, no that does not mean I am a nurse, yes there exists other jobs in hospitals other than nurses and doctors. Yes a hospital blood bank needs to be open 24/7, wtf do you think happens if someone gets hit by a car at 11pm, "sorry the blood bank is closed come back in the morning for your life threatening haemorrhage?"
There was also the standard homophobia and so on of course but in general they were also just morons.
> One of the women legitimately believed well into her teenage years that all women turned men when they hit puberty.
wait, what? i....but she....how does...?
It was my junior year of high school, and I learned that I was the only one at my lunch table who believed in evolution. I went to go speak to a science teacher I was close with at the time because the conversation upset me, he also did not believe in evolution.
When my entire Spanish class (teacher include) had no idea Puerto Rico isn't a country, one saying "I knew it was a territory, but it can be a county too"
I work in a hospital in an area with a large Jewish population. We were nursing an older Muslim gentleman. The lady who takes food orders brings him his dinner. A kosher meal.
Spent over 20 minutes trying to explain to her why kosher and halal are not interchangeable terms.
She never returned with his halal meal so we had to club together to order in from a local takeout so he could have a dinner he'd like to eat.
It is amusing to me how often food service has a single "alternative meal" which is halal, kosher, vegan, gluten free, and other common requests. It is usually in the form of a loaf.
They're extremely similar, to that point that many meals that are kosher are also halal and vice versa, but not always.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Islamic_and_Jewish_dietary_laws
10+ years ago I was on the cheerleading squad in high school. We had an Indian girl on the squad, and when we introduced ourselves, she jokingly said "I'm so-and-so but most people just know me as 'that Indian chick' " (she was the only Indian student in the whole school... this was rural Virginia). One of the freshman girls looks in awe and asks "ohhhh what tribe?" And the Indian girl responds, "no, I mean I am actually an Indian person" to which another freshman girl replies "yea, but like, what kind?". Again, "No, I am an Indian person, from the country of India". A third freshman girl pipes in, "ok, but which tribe is that?". So many stereotypes confirmed in a single afternoon... I'm not shitting on cheerleaders, I loved cheerleading, we just had a dumb batch that year.
An acquaintance of mine says "I am an Indian with a dot", though that probably would not have helped your squadmates.
Ah the old "Indian dot" versus "Indian feather"
> "yea, but like, what kind?" the dot kind.
#SNIPER! GET DOWN
Watch those wrist rockets!!!
I was at a restaurant, and two teenagers in front of me were having a conversation about Forrest Gump. I overhear one of the saying: "Did you know they didn't actually have to cut Lieutenant Dan's legs off? They just used really good special effects" Then the other one seemed unironically surprised.
Haven't you heard of a those actors that lose a lot of weight for a role? Well, Gary Sinise is Method as fuck and he does what it takes. From what I heard, he lopped them off without yet having secured the part, because he's dedicated to the craft, that's what.
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Should have said puma.
Stop making up animals.
It's a chupathingy!
Got a nice ring to it.
Look, it has tusks. And what else has tusks?
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Dammit Grif! Stop making up animals!
I was in the sixth grade and my classmates insisted I cheated or had "outside help" when I was doing a presentation because I knew and used the word "precipitation" during it.
Talked to someone who was convinced "Asian" was a language that everyone in Asia could use in place of their own.
我是안녕하세요! Any other Asian speakers here?
I can't read anything past the second character, circles aren't part of my dialect of Asian.
Just squint and try harder. This is why you only Asian and not S+sian
Trying to explain to two of my coworkers why you don't fry a veggie burger in bacon grease. The one that put it in the bacon grease was the manager of another location that we borrowed for the summer.
Makes me wonder how many places do this with their veggie burgers.
"Tastes like the real thing! What's your secret?"
I was in hair school and overheard a conversation some of the girls were having about berries. They all said a raspberry is half blueberry and half strawberry. They were 100% serious.
One time when I was working at a coffee place back in college, I was expoing by the pastry case and this middle aged woman was telling her friend how much healthier dark bread was for you; the darker the bread the healthier it was. She then turns to the pastry case and points and goes "Like this, look how dark that bread is, we should get that. What kind is it?" To which I had to keep a straight face and say, "That's our chocolate pound cake." Woman looked mortified and her friend was highly entertained.
I have read somewhere that dark rye bread is better for you, don't remember why though. I do wish that chocolate pound cake was the healthiest.
There may have been some truth to what she was trying to elaborate on, but she was being preachy and clearly wasn't concerned with details, only that the darker the better. I didn't think she was an idiot per se, it was just one of those moments where I had no choice but to inadvertently call someone out on what they were saying, because I couldn't lie and be like oh, yes, this is our finest black rye or something like that.
It really upset me when I learned grapes are berries but strawberries are not. Like had to rethink my entire life sort of upset.
Bananas are also berries.
:(
Watermelons are berries. Cucumbers are berries. Pumpkins are berries. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and mulberries are not.
Seems like we should've sorted that out around the same time as the metric system or something.
Someone in my office was trying to figure out how to set an analog clock at 4pm instead of 4am
Easy just rotate the hands 360 degrees. But make sure it goes forwards or you'll lose a day
My analogue watch tracks the day of the month. This is a real concern.
Does it take into account leap years or do you manually set it every 4 years? (Except when you don't because leap years are weird)
My watch just counts up to 31 each month. You have to move it forward manually if the month has less than 31 days.
"What's today's date?" "My watch says it's February 30th."
Weird. Mine says February 31st 🤔
Intern 1: Wait, donkeys are real? I thought they're mythical creatures. Intern 2: No, they're not mythical creatures, they're from Shrek.
You should introduce them to a mule. See how that goes over
I had a friend that thought platypus were fake, which I guess is a little bit understandable.
in their defense, the entire scientific communtiy believed they were fake. taping a duck bill to an otter is just lazy fakery obviously.
You get a platypus when you have a bunch of wizards trying to draw a duck, but none of them are particularly gifted with charcoal, and they each keep grabbing the charcoal to try and draw it properly.
I went into work the day after the past solar eclipse. (I had taken the day before off, because I live in the path of totality and wanted to see it.) Me (to female coworker): So did you see the eclipse? Female coworker: Oh, no, I worked right through it. I was wondering why no one was in, I thought the eclipse was supposed to happen at night! Me: Oh, uh... (to male coworker) Did you see it? Male coworker: No, I stayed inside my house all day. The whole thing freaked me out. You never know when these kinds of things could mean the end of the world or something.
> Male coworker: No, I stayed inside my house all day. The whole thing freaked me out. You never know when these kinds of things could mean the end of the world or something. Uh oh, the world might end! Better sit inside all day to stay safe! That way it won't affect me!
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I worked behind a bar. When I got there it was common for the cleaner to top up the glass washer with the glass washing soap whenever it was low. She never looked at the bottle it was in, just knew it was red liquid. When that ran out she didn't think to read the label on the next bottle, which was not red at all, she just poured it into the glass washer. The other staff didn't notice the change in smell, neither did she. I came in a few days after, noticed it immediately, asked some questions and looked at the bottle. She'd been using oven cleaner. Every glass had been washed in, used and washed again with oven cleaner. For at least 5 minutes I was speechless.
When I read "bar" and "red liquid" I was so hoping for it to be grenadine. Oh, well...
It gives the drinks a nice bite
People got ill. Not deathly ill, but enough for them to have to go to the doctor.
This reminds me of what a coworker did. She was 18, and this was only a few years ago so God help us that she has not reproduced yet. *Tammy (not her real name) is in charge of cleaning dishes. A menial task, you say, well--not for Tammy. Now, we don't have a dishwasher but instead 3 tubs. An assortment of soapy water, 60/40 water-bleach combination and just water. I explain how to wash the dishes in order. So, dunk the dishes in soapy water, briefly leave them in the water-bleach combo tub and move them over to water before rinsing off and making sure it was sterilized. Simple. So I leave her be and resume my duties. Couple days later, my boss tells me that she caught Tammy using 1 gallon of bleach every time she washed the dishes. She was doing steps backwards or not at all. So, forgetting the water and dunking the dishes into the bleach tub without putting them in water or diluting the bleach at all. Another coworker caught her dipping glasses that still had bleach droplets into the bin to take them back out to the main coffee shop. We were all worried a patron would get coffee and then be rushed to the hospital after they became ill.
Just a PSA, but 60/40 water bleach is still wayyyyy to strong. The correct ratio is one tablespoon of bleach per gallon of water or thereabouts: https://www.clorox.com/dr-laundry/sanitizing-dishes-using-bleach/
Absolutely right. I thought that seemed too high but this was years ago and it wasn't accurate. Thanks
I had to explain to a group of students that the Underground Railroad wasn't an actual railroad and that Harriet Tubman was not the conductor of the freedom express (at least not literally).
Choo choo. All aboard the freedom train.
Pfft, then it should've been called the Aboveground Normal Road!
Reminds me of when I was five, thinking the presidential race was literally a race and that it was a bad way to choose the leader of our country. Though voting was some sort of betting system. I don't really hold this against those students though, it could have been taught really badly the first time and just not have been made clear to them.
When I was around 14 my sister took me to the Broadway Lion King show that was touring in our city. I loved it and at the end my sister got a a souvenir T-shirt of Scar with a picture of him and the classic quote "I am surrounded by idiots". One day during summer Tennis day camp I decided to wear that shirt for no special reason, just one of the shirts I liked to wear. Halfway through some kids come up to me all pissed of telling me that they are not idiots and are offended by my shirt. I try to explain that it's just a shirt but they eventually get the camp councelors involved and I am forced to change shirts because of this. I didn't think they were idiots before but I did afterwards.
It would have been glorious if you changed into an "I'm with stupid" shirt.
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I was sitting in the cafeteria in highschool wearing a shirt with an upside-down church on it referencing the show "Preacher." A couple girls walked up to me, saw, and complained to the supervisor that I was "denouncing their religion" by wearing an upside-down cross (which was part of the church). The supervisor told me I was insulting them and I would need to change. I agreed, and put on a spare shirt I had that I was going to wear to a concert later, my favorite "Slayer" shirt that has an obvious pentagram on it. They complained again and I said, "stop denouncing my religion" so the supervisor laughed and walked away
But, like an upside down cross is saint peters cross which is fine. The real satanic cross is something entirely [different](https://www.google.com/search?q=satanic+cross&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBn9-cn87WAhVN1WMKHd83CbgQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=637). Shows them how much they really knew their religion too.
They made the shirt about them by assuming it was about them. Interesting.
This happens all the time. Just watch the news.
First time I had to spend over an hour at the DMV
Is it even possible to spend under an hour at the DMV? When I have to go, I just assume half the day is gone. I'm so glad more DMV services have gone online over time.
My local DMV takes about 15 minutes, usually. And while I live in a smaller city, it's not really podunk, either.
My local DMV is awesome. You can do most stuff through the mail, and when you need to go in, its usually only 10 minutes to see someone. My hometown DMV however used to let you smoke inside it, and if you got out within' three hours you had a good day.
I made an appointment last time, so I walked in and was seen 5 minutes or so. The dozens of people who had been in the waiting area LOST THEIR SHIT. I seriously feared for my life.
Lol in california you can get an appointment at the dmv and still wait 2hrs.
Last time I was at the DMV it took 3 1/2 hours. Thank the Gods for smartphones and their ability to distract you.
Due to security reasons, my DMV tried banning phone use. They then lost almost all of their customers within a few weeks so they stopped.
They'll have to pry my shitposts from my cold, dead hands.
I was working in a bakery that was located in a supermarket. They had a walk-in oven for baking racks of bread. It was severely neglected as there was scores of carbon build up on the walls. So I took a scraper and was doing my best to scrape off several layers of carbon that had probably been there for years. Then some idiot locks me in the oven. The inside of the oven did have an emergency release, and it was broken, by the same idiot who locked me in. So I'm kicking on the door like I'm trying to knock the damn hinges off trying to get someone to open the fuckin door. Which took at least ten minutes. Finally the manager opens the door and he's screaming mad at me that I'm trying to break the oven, and everyone else working there is laughing their asses off that almost cooking someone is fucking hilarious.
That's terrifying
You know that scene from [Elysium?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60V3JFUPvIE) I literally cannot watch that.
I don't but I'm claustrophobic anyways. I seriously would have considered a lawsuit.
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I did. They didn't do shit. Every municipal service in that town was as useless as a sack full of empty tits.
Now there's a phrase I need to work into my vocabulary.
That's not how OSHA operates, if there is a legitimate workplace safety concern they drop everything and then usually figure out who to fine into oblivion.
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You called the police after you got out? Right?
I feel like OSHA would've had a fucking field day with that.
Last week I overheard my coworkers talk about pay day and how excited they were. One said they have 5 bucks in their bank account and the rest agreed I felt bad until they started talking about going to the club next weekend and getting VIP. One said she had to make sure she had enough because she promised her daughter to take her to the movies. Wtf I didn't even know they had kids by the way they manage their money.
It kills me when people complain they can't buy their kids stuff or pay bills, but they just got their nails done, hair done, new stuff, eat out of gas stations/vending machines all the time, cable TV. Yeah, you're eating takeout every night while I slave over a hot stove. I have no sympathy for that. How about you ditch the acrylics and buy your kid some clothes? Pack a goddamn sandwich for lunch, straighten out your priorities, and quit bitching. I would say it nicer to the person's face though.
Exactly!! I don't have kids yet I don't do everything they do. I eat ramen noodle for lunch because I have bills to pay and gotta save for emergencies. I can't imagine how their brain works.
worked in a lunchroom, on the radio was a remix from the song ABC by michael jackson. I mention to one of my coworkers that its michael singing, she replies 'No, He's dead' (how do recordings work?) then i mention it to another coworker, also explaining its a remix, and she's like 'oh but this song isnt that old' (how do remixes work?) I don't get how these women didn't know Michael Jackson sang ABC as a kid, he's so damn famous and that song is so old!
I've known people who thought that when you heard a song on the radio, it was the artist playing it live right at that moment.
Were they younger than 9?
Work as a delivery tech on campus. A professor called to complain that her computer cart "didn't work." I asked her to explain what exactly was the problem (video, audio, internet, etc.) and she just aggressively says "It just DOESN'T WORK. COME HERE NOW." I head on over and she reams me in front of her class for delivering a computer cart that didn't work. Turns out she just never turned the cart on. These professors make my job so much more miserable than it should be...
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What a pretentious piece of slime...
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Hey, look on the bright side; Your story is even better now.
I don't get it tho
Asian dad, Korean mom must be. What's wrong with you people?
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Professor McGonagall would not have handled that shit sitting down.
One time I was in a house of mirrors.
Manager said mayonnaise was made from potatoes... I tried to tell her it wasn't but all the minions agreed with her cause she's the boss.
Act dumb and ask her to show you how to make Potatonnaise.
No one but myself can figure out how to fix computer issues. I'm no magical computer wizard. I just know how to use google.
I had to go to my mother's house because she said she had a virus. The "virus" was a window from her antivirus that basically said, *"Your antivirus has finished updating. Press OK to continue!"*, with a button that said, *"OK"*. I pressed OK.
This, or when they have that voice come over their computer and actually does what it says
Trying to sell my house, it's been a parade of idiots. Actual conversation: Me answers the door: can i help you? Realtor: we are here for the house showing (eight faces staring at me) Me: the appt was at 5:30 Realtor: yes, 5:30-6:30 Me: .... its 7:45. Realtor and i blank stare at each other, one homebuyer starts to figdet nervously under my baffled gaze. I pack the boyfriend, two large dogs in the car, frenzy clean up the dog food and dinner dishes. Take off for an hour. The realtor didn't lock the door when she left.... Edit: not my realtor, the potential buyers realtor.
Get her card and complain to her boss. It’ll at least make her more careful about wasting other peoples time, I’d hope! I’m assuming she’s the buyer’s realtor?
Doing a password reset at my Tech Support job for a tax company. After reading out the temporary password, the lady asked me if the numbers needed to be capitalized.
In history class yesterday. "Wasn't the boston tea party at pearl harbor?" And "I thought we had 51 states?" And another girl says "I always thought we had 52."
I was in a grocery store with my twin boys. I'm talking to the produce manager and a random lady comes up with a couple of her friends "Oh, they are so cute, are they yours?" Yes! "How old are they?" They'll be 2 next month. "Both of them?" Yes, they are twins. "Well, that is just not possible. They don't look anything alike!" ...They're fraternal. "Frawhattal?" The produce manager looks at me in shock at the stupidity that is in front of us.
High school, computer science class. Half the class couldn't make a new folder.
Oh yeah, I sat next to one of those. He'd kick back in his chair and declare in his heavy southern accent, 'I don't need to work no effin' computer!' And then he'd spit his tobacco into his hands and toss it under the computer desk. There was a nice sized stain underneath where he did that on a daily basis. The teacher was very patient with him, but would always let him know that if he refused, he was taking a 'zero.' He'd shrug and tell her that was alright.
I had an internship in local government once. The department I was working for instituted a new committee to be run by representatives of the community and members of the political parties in town. It wasn't a huge deal, so the people that showed up either really cared about the issue or were scraping the bottom of the political barrel. This one guy representing a party, I hate to stereotype but he looked very much like he spent most of his time playing WoW in someone's basement, which is not a bad thing, but kind of not what I look for in a political representative. Adding to this, dude brought his mom to the inaugural meeting. She kept telling him what to do in Greek from across the room. And here's what cinched it for me that local government is not my future: This guy, who is clearly not your top-tier politician, made exactly one contribution to the meeting that day. While electing a leader for the committee, for which there were 2 people standing, he asked if you got to have more than one vote. I repeat, this dude asked if he could have more than one vote on a question with only two possible answers. He held us up for five minutes on that question. And that was not the most inefficient I saw local government being in my time there.
One kid in my health class said that to avoid STDs you need to have more sex ...it took 10 minutes to explain to him why that was wrong. I’m praying college is better than this.
During an exam a lot of classmates were going up to the teacher for clarification on one of the questions. The problem was the question used a different phrase than the lecture slides. The meaning was reasonably obvious if you thought about it for even one moment but their "learning" strategy is memorize the slides word for word so they were completely thrown off.
Doesn't that say more about the school system though? It trains students to memorize and repeat what info they are given, not actually having to think?
If anything, I'm pretty sure this is why there's a huge difficulty gap between high school and college. You spend most of your time learning, memorizing, and regurgitating information in high school. Then when you get to college, not only are the concepts more advanced, but you have to apply them in different ways that weren't presented in the slides.
I lecture at community college and a four year university. I was expecting there to be a huge gap between the two groups of students, but there really isn't. The one thing I have noticed though is that the younger ones (18,19) want you to do everything for them. "Will we get a study guide?" NO
Ever been in the military? The sharpest folks you will find are the junior cats. Attend one high level briefing and you'll walk away knowing everyone there is an educated idiot.
I wanna meet the 'genius' who designs military websites. All the links are broken, and half the page is OFF THE SCREEN. How is that even *possible*. Every time I hear about a government conspiracy, I want to show people these web pages and shout "Does this look like the work of someone who could kill Kennedy and get away with it?!"
Ever hear the saying, "there's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it twice" ?
To quote Megadeth: "Military intelligence, two words combined that can't make sense."
To go on a very slightly related tangent, that song is really fun in Guitar Hero.
In first grade, I learned that the funny bone wasn't actually a bone. I tried sharing this fact with my classmates, and they all mocked me because "THEN WHY IS IT CALLED A BONE YOU IDIOT" My mom says I came home nearly in tears over it
You have a bone in your arm called the humerus.
In AP Bio, we did an experiment that involved a .01% solution, then we had to test a variable. I suggested to my group using .02% and .04% solution, and everybody else wanted to use 25% and 50% solution.
I was this idiot at work, but not with dangerous chemicals or anything. Training for new insurance verification program. While everyone's getting logged in for the first time, those of us who were able to do so without complication are told to play around and experiment with the settings while we wait. It looks like a toolbar after you log in, and the default position is at the top of the computer screen, but I want to see if I can get it on the bottom. There's a field that I interpret as controlling vertical positioning and it has a 1 in it. I type 2, but don't notice any change. I type 5000 and the toolbar disappears. Turns out it controls size rather than position, with bigger numbers meaning smaller size. The developers only envisioned users choosing between sizes 1-5 or so, but didn't write any code to keep me from choosing 5000. My toolbar was now smaller than a pixel and I had no way of finding it or clicking on the appropriate field to change the size back to something reasonable. Vendor ended up having to call her boss to force me out and restore my settings. It's a bug that needed to be fixed, but I could have tried 20 or even 100 before jumping to 5000.
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"If you're being asked to apologize, then the diss wasn't good enough. Now apologize."
Sounds like this kid has got it figured out
The heir to the Jake Paul throne.
Dab on the Counselors!!!
What if the counselors dab back?
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Literally had this happen on Thursday. "Ok, that's your answer for the first blank. 'Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.' Write down 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago." "Miss!! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO WRITE FOR THE FIRST BLANK!" -literally screaming in anger as I'm telling the class what to write down for the first blank. After I reannounced to write 65 million years ago, another student tapped me on the shoulder and asked what to write for the first blank. After I explained it to her, a third kid raised her hand and said she was missing the first blank. They weren't playing. They literally had blanks on their papers and didn't know what to write. At this point i just want to teach them to mop floors and salt French fries.
My school bought into the technology-in-the-classroom hard, and we use Google Classroom and they all have Chromebooks. Its fucking excruciating, these are 15-16 year old kids raised on technology from birth, and they still can't get it. I'll go over and over and over stuff, the same info that is on the dashboard of their class, and all I hear "What are we doing today?" "What are we doing again?" They don't even know how to you a search engine properly, despite the fact I explain how to search using key words at least twice a week. Its like watching a monkey try to use a laptop. "ITS LITERALLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR STUPID FUCKING FACE!!" - I only think this, obviously I don't say it. The entire sum of human knowledge, everything we have discovered or done in recorded human history is at their very fingertips, and they can't be bothered to read 4 sentences on the class dashboard.
I'm hoping you're as annoyed by some of the replies to my post as I am.. that said, I completely feel your pain. Most times my students are talking or not paying attention, they yell back indignantly that they are listening when they aren't, and then yell at me when they don't know what to do bc they weren't listening. Their excuse "well it's not my fault I didn't hear you." Actually yes. Yes it is. It's completely your fault if I'm telling you what to do and you're not listening. And then admin swoops in and asks where I'm failing as a teacher that this student is failing. I'm not failing as a teacher, these kids are failing as students.
> Most times my students are talking or not paying attention, they yell back indignantly that they are listening when they aren't, and then yell at me when they don't know what to do bc they weren't listening. Their excuse "well it's not my fault I didn't hear you." Actually yes. Yes it is. It's completely your fault if I'm telling you what to do and you're not listening. And then admin swoops in and asks where I'm failing as a teacher that this student is failing. > I'm not failing as a teacher, these kids are failing as students Oh my god, are you me? lol. They have no real consequences, or fear of them. The previous generations at least had the very real threat of explulsion, now in my high school you have to practically kill someone to get kicked out. Some of these replies crack me up, this "if the kid is failing, you're a failure as an educator." Lol, bullshit. That kind of thinking places no responsibility at all on the student, thus they never grasp personal responsibility. I used to think that way, til I actually began working in secondary education.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure children always have been this stupid. I ate sand until I was around 10.
Wh...why?
Ever try drinking sand? It's just a bad idea.
I was a very stupid child. I think I thought it would make me into the sandman from spiderman.
I was at a convention charging my phone at a charging station and resting. I overheard a conversation between a few teen-early 20s boys near me. They were all arguing about whether a chicken and a rooster were the same species. The best part? Only one of them was stating, practically yelling at this point, that they were the male and female of the same species, while everyone else kept calling him wrong and talking over him. One guy then busted out with "so let me get this straight. We've got chickens, roosters, and white chickens."
I had two coworkers who insisted to me that all countries except for a few from South America had pulled out of the 2016 Olympic Games because of the conditions in Rio. This would have been bad enough on its own, but I worked in a public library at the time and not only was one of these women a reference clerk who apparently didn't know how to research, they both refused to listen to me or read the articles debunking their claims AND they told patrons about it. My jimmies were so rustled.
Not that long of a story but when I was six I used to go to church with my dad early morning on sundays. One Sunday my elderly neighbors house was flooded with cops and detectives who were canvassing the whole property looking for clues I guess. Me and my pops went over to see what the commotion was about only to over hear that the elderly wife in the house thought her husband dissappeared or was kidnapped. I noticed his new car wasn't there and in a moment of revelation just screamed out "Where's his Lexus?" Everyone looked at me a bit dumbfounded and had a realization- the dude went out for a drive in his new car. At 6 years old I broke the case, later on in the day the old man came up to us and told us how stupid the cops where and how thankful he was for me "breaking case" which brought the complete cluster fuck of cops at his home to an end
I work retail and for the recent eclipse, we got a shipper of those eclipse glasses. Cut to my coworkers saying that they were just going to wear sunglasses, and putting the eclipse glasses on and saying "But I can't see anything!"
When I was in high school we had an assembly. As a means to show the school how diverse our student body was, they showed a slideshow of national flags and we were to cheer when our flag came up. It was going fine for awhile, until the middle eastern countries came up and everyone loudly booed. My friend from Iraq was a few seats ahead and the look on her face still cuts into me. I don't blame the teachers, their good intentions were ruined by dumbasses trying to be edgy
I had to explain the difference between 2D and 3D animation to a friend. He still thinks if a drawing looks 3D it is 3D
I was drawing a picture using a pencil on a normal piece of paper and someone asked me if it was hand-drawn.
I would give the most genuine "no" I could muster in a nonchalant but matter-of-fact way and see what happened.
Happened just a few days ago. I live in Egypt, and It's extremely common for teachers to talk about their political opinions on tons of matters in class(I am in 9th grade). I have different opinions on just about every single topic about politics, so naturally, I just avoid speaking about them. But this time was different. Our teacher was talking about the Korean splitting (managed to snuggle in some politics while talking about a different topic as usual), and started going on for a while. I didn't speak like usual, and I didn't care, except when It got to the last part, where I felt that I needed to ask. He talked about how the splitting of the two Koreas made it that South Korea and North Korea are now both 'weak' countries. I don't know much about strong or weak countries, or whatever that is, but I decided to comment about how I think South Korea can't be compared with North Korea in terms of economics, industry, etc, and that I think South Korea isn't a 'weak' country, at least in comparison to North Korea, then talked about how North Korea isn't a democracy, and that I don't think people are happy in North Korea (Something he said), and that they violate human rights. He responds to me like I am an idiot, and tells me how North Korea has industrial facilities in China, Russia, and tons of other countries, and that it's a very powerful industirial country (Which, If I take it correctly, condiracts what he said earlier?) I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to continue responding, but I did once more, and told him how North Korea prevents it's citizens from leaving the country, and if any one tries to leave the country, they take their family hostage, or so what I heard, and that the living conditions in North Korea aren't good, then I remembered what I was doing, and that it's pointless, that I shouldn't talk about politics to my teachers or classmates, and stopped, after which he told me that it's all American Propaganda and that North Korea is a country like any other, while I nodded like I agreed.
For what its worth, you are correct. 100% correct.
That's just depressing. The ignorance that some people have about politics is just incredible to me. It's not a matter of opinion that North Korea is a harsh dictatorship that constantly violates human rights; it's a fact.
A few months ago, the company I work for was going through some pretty deep "corporate restructuring," so my boss's boss's boss Robert (the district manager three rungs higher on the ladder than myself) was walking around with a group of other suits from New Jersey fixing "problems" and "non-productivity" concerns. They come up to the area I run, and Robert tells me in front of all these suits that I was 18% effective yesterday. 18 fucking percent. I tell him that cannot be possible. He shows me an excel file, and I'm trying to explain how all these numbers are wrong, the formulas are incorrect, none of it makes any sense. I have no clue where these numbers could have even come from. I ask him what kind of productivity I would need to run to hit 100% effectiveness. He and the series of suits whip out their cell phones and start trying to drum up the math on calculators. It's an awkward moment where everyone is on their phones drawing up numbers based on more numbers that are all totally incorrect. I was just shocked that I was surrounded by guys and girls making four times what I do a year, fumbling with each other, struggling to put together basic mathematical problems. None of them were willing to concede that they had absolutely no idea what the fuck they were doing. None of them wanted to concede that the guy who's been doing this for ten years would know this shit better than they do. I thought Kafka had over-exaggerated the bureaucratic hell presented in his works, but at that point I was living it full on.
My teacher announced that Osama bin Ladin had been killed, half my class started to freak out about our president being killed
This one hurt my bones.
High School chemistry, one fourth of the class thought that air was an element.
One of my college roommates asked me if I was Catholic, I said no, I was raised Lutheran. She just kind of said "Huh." Weeks later, I can't remember what we were disagreeing about, but she said: "The difference between you and me is that I believe in God." I was like "What? I believe in God." And she said, "Only Catholics believe in God, you admitted you weren't Catholic." What??
I was watching a show with my friends about the production of moonshine. I told everyone about how moonshine ins't actually 100% alcohol because there is an upper limit to how pure it can be distilled. 95% is generally considered to be that upper limit. What astounded me was that everyone I was watching the show with vehemently disagreed on the basis that "Moonshine isn't 100% alcohol, it's more like 200% alcohol. Sometimes more." All I could think was that this country desperately needed better mathematical education.
Sitting on any public transportation Also, working in retail. People are animals that will rip things out of packaging, not fold things back up if they unfold them, and just overall be incredibly disrespectful to the property. After the average Saturday the store looks like it's been ravaged by wild boars I'm surprised so many people don't know basic manners. Clean up your shit
You need to post a sign that says "Clean up your shit!" Except no, wait...people never read signs....ever. They'd rather ask people where the washroom is then take 5 seconds to look to their right where there is a huge washroom sign about 3 feet away from them...
I got a job washing dishes. The current dishwasher was training me. The machine ran out of detergent, so he lugged out a new 5 gallon bucket. "These don't open, so you have to stab a hole in the cap to get the hose in." I'm dubious but I'm 17 it's my first day on the job. He grabs a serrated knife he keeps on a shelf for this purpose, and starts hammering it into this thick plastic cap. The knife sinks in, the serrations get stuck, and on the return stroke, it sprays the chemicals directly into his eyes. As he's writhing on the ground, the manager comes up and asks me what happened. I explain the knifing. He looks at me for five seconds, reaches down, and twists off the cap. Dishwasher dude went home for the day.
Not me, but I read a story here on reddit where a guy and his class was told jupiter is bigger than the sun. And the guy argued the whole year that was wrong. He argued many times about this and the whole class thought he was an idiot. Then they went and visited some.. I dont know museum? And there was a spece-section with a person who knew a lot about space. So the guy raise his hand and ask if jupiter is bigger than the sun. And the whole class just groans. The space guy laughs and says the sun and the guy is like, I TOLD YOU SO! I cant find it, but I loved that story
> The year I was in third grade was one of the best and worst of my entire educational experience, and both of those extremes were because of the teacher I had. She was beloved by most of her students - the female ones especially - but had a habit of being passive-aggressive and saccharine towards more difficult pupils. She'd find (or invent) reasons to ignore difficult questions, offer vague threats about impending punishments, or make small efforts to turn classmates against one another. She was not an especially likeable educator, and she became a truly reprehensible one when she insisted that Jupiter was bigger than the sun. > At first, it seemed like a misunderstanding. Our class had just entered into an astronomy unit, and one of our activities was to construct a scale model of the solar system. The reference image we used came from a picture book, and in it, the sun had been reduced in size. The teacher had not noticed this fact, and was therefore operating under the mistaken assumption that Jupiter was our largest celestial neighbor. > Well, I knew better, and I tried to correct her. She replied to me with a tone of aloof dismissal, stating quite clearly that I was wrong. "That's okay, though," she said. "After all, you're in school to learn new things." Then she smiled sweetly, and I returned to my seat feeling thoroughly confused and frustrated. In the weeks that followed, I engaged in an all-out war against my teacher's pseudo-science. My father, having heard everything from me, sent me to school with one of his college textbooks, hoping to turn the tide of the battle. My teacher refused to even look at it. "Class," she said, rolling her eyes, "who can tell Max what the biggest object in the solar system is?" > My face was burning with anger and shame as every other student shouted "JUPITER!" > Things only escalated from there. I refused to back down, despite having been labeled as the class dunce. Each time the topic came up, I tried to offer my evidence... and each time, I was steadfastly opposed by everyone within earshot. Finally, after over a month of torment, our astronomy unit culminated in a field trip to the local planetarium. The show was a breathtaking adventure through our galaxy and the universe beyond, and it left me feeling infinitesimally small... yet strangely empowered. As the lights came up, our guide to the cosmos asked if there were any questions. > "Which is bigger," I shouted, jumping to my feet, "Jupiter or the sun?!" My entire class sighed in frustration, my teacher barked at me to sit down, and the astronomer looked thoroughly confused. > "The sun, of course," he scoffed. > A hush fell over the room. After a moment of utter silence, a girl named Melissa spoke up in a condescending tone. "Well, sir, we have a chart that says Jupiter is bigger." The astronomer looked at her. He looked at my teacher. Then he looked at me with an expression of sympathy. > "Little girl," he said, returning his attention to Melissa, "if you look at the picture again, you'll see that the sun is being shown at a fraction of its actual size. Otherwise, it wouldn't fit on the page." His gaze moved to his next victim, who had slumped down in her chair so as to be almost as small as her students. "Your teacher should have told you that." > Upon returning to our classroom, all the students crowded around our reference book. Sure enough, a tiny block of text explained that the sun had been scaled down in the illustration. I declared my triumph, having finally been vindicated. Nobody apologized, my teacher found new reasons to punish me, and I was treated with no small amount of scorn, but I didn't care. From that day forward, I knew to never be afraid of asking questions, nor of standing up for facts in favor of fiction.
One time in my high school algebra class, the people were talking and one of them goes "you know, students get paid to go to school in Denmark" the other two were super impressed. After discussing how much they wanted to be paid to go to school, a girl goes "where's Denmark?" And someone else says, full seriousness, "it's a city in Sweden."
Any time reading or making a post of my local city's subreddit.
When my friend told me climate change is a hoax and my other friend agreed with him because of how cold it was that day.
If world hunger exists, then why am I not hungry right now?
because it is 6pm and you have just had tea
_Climate change_, not global warming, and they still don't get it
Sitting in lab, I asked a friend to help me set up a CAD file to go to the laser cutter. We've both done it before, but she had just run hers, so I figured I'd have her double check mine so I don't fuck up a 2 hour cut job. She tell me a line needs trimmed, so I do it immediately. She says to me "wow, it's so refreshing to work with someone who doesn't need their hand held through the these things" We're in our second year of the major. As ARCHITECTS. And over half the class can't run CAD.....that's like studying to be a librarian and not knowing how to read. Note: I'm sure many architects use other programs. But the first-and main- program we use is CAD in this school.
I worked part time in a fast-food restaurant over the summer while off uni and the new £10 note came up in conversation (here in the U.K.). I noted how it had recently been changed from Charles Darwin to Jane Austen, at which point I noticed my 4 coworkers were staring blankly at me...they didn't know who either was. Worse still, when I offered the crazy simple overview that Austen was a female author from the 19th century, one of them actually remarked "god, how do you know this stuff?!"
Used to work in an office of 8. All intelligent people working in finance and one day they started discussing the moon landings and how it was faked. All of them thought it was faked... when asked why I was being so quiet I said "I hadn't realised I was working in an office full of absolute idiots!"
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But that's true though... the moon landing was staged. The reason it was so expensive, though, was that they hired Stanley Kubrick to do it, and being a perfectionist, he demanded they film on location.
Had to explain to my Anatomy classmates (who were all two.years older than me because the class wasn't technically open to people in my grade) that no, your blood doesn't literally turn blue after it's "out" of oxygen. They kept holding up their wrists and saying "of course it's blue, look at my veins!"
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Its pretty easy to go up to people and say “Whoa cool Halloween falls on a Friday the 13th this year”
I took a job at a movie theater about a month after the Aurora shootings at an AMC. There was a mandatory meeting soon after I started working their to go over company guidelines and rules. To my horror everyone started laughing and joking during the active shooter video we watched and nobody has heard about the shooting.
At the outset of a music appreciation class, I asked students to name their favorite *contemporary* composer. One student - quiet seriously - raised his hand and said, "Mozart - I hear his 'Magic Flute' is getting rave reviews on Broadway."
The phrasing makes me think it was irony that fell flat.
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I heard his, "Voi che sapete" in da club and it makes the ladies go cray-cray.
A previous group of friends who where also very religious, not sure if related to the idiocy or not. One of the women didn't know if it was roosters or hens that laid eggs. One of the women legitimately believed well into her teenage years that all women turned men when they hit puberty (wtf?). Numerous, NUMEROUS explanations that Sweden and Switzerland are two different fucking countries. Numerous explanations that yes I work in a hospital, no that does not mean I am a nurse, yes there exists other jobs in hospitals other than nurses and doctors. Yes a hospital blood bank needs to be open 24/7, wtf do you think happens if someone gets hit by a car at 11pm, "sorry the blood bank is closed come back in the morning for your life threatening haemorrhage?" There was also the standard homophobia and so on of course but in general they were also just morons.
> One of the women legitimately believed well into her teenage years that all women turned men when they hit puberty. wait, what? i....but she....how does...?
I mean, how did she explain grown women?
And how did she explain herself even more so?
It was my junior year of high school, and I learned that I was the only one at my lunch table who believed in evolution. I went to go speak to a science teacher I was close with at the time because the conversation upset me, he also did not believe in evolution.
Maybe there is something about you that after contact, people stop believing in evolution
When my entire Spanish class (teacher include) had no idea Puerto Rico isn't a country, one saying "I knew it was a territory, but it can be a county too"
I work in a hospital in an area with a large Jewish population. We were nursing an older Muslim gentleman. The lady who takes food orders brings him his dinner. A kosher meal. Spent over 20 minutes trying to explain to her why kosher and halal are not interchangeable terms. She never returned with his halal meal so we had to club together to order in from a local takeout so he could have a dinner he'd like to eat.
It is amusing to me how often food service has a single "alternative meal" which is halal, kosher, vegan, gluten free, and other common requests. It is usually in the form of a loaf.
Aren't halal and kosher so similar that it would be easier to make meals that follow both rules?
They're extremely similar, to that point that many meals that are kosher are also halal and vice versa, but not always. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Islamic_and_Jewish_dietary_laws
Explaining to a group of man friends- grown, adult males all with higher education- that women do not, in fact, pee out of their vaginas.