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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14841623 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96315 on: February 13, 2016, 05:30:01 am »

Certainly the opinion I'm getting on this one is that he's far from popular.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96316 on: February 13, 2016, 05:36:52 am »

Yeah, see, he's doing all opposite of things that make a teacher popular. Wastes your time on material, tests are arcane and make you scratch your head and have heart attacks because "oh god i'm going to fail" then you end up with that middling of marks, a B, where either you wasted all that time studying and fretting and failing OR you think you did really well and you go a B

A popular teacher gives easy tests and you get an A

An unpopular teacher messes with your head and leaves you with "eh" to show for it, an average mark to show you're an average student
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96317 on: February 13, 2016, 06:08:07 am »

My Computer is now fixed. I am sitting on $400 dollars worth of redundant hardware and I cannot actually Use my computer because the thermal paste needs to be reapplied and I can't get my hands on any.
But, that all aside, I'm technically back.
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Needless to say, he was many people's favorite teacher.
Mixed up the two of your comments.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96318 on: February 13, 2016, 07:34:34 am »

Yeah, see, he's doing all opposite of things that make a teacher popular. Wastes your time on material, tests are arcane and make you scratch your head and have heart attacks because "oh god i'm going to fail" then you end up with that middling of marks, a B, where either you wasted all that time studying and fretting and failing OR you think you did really well and you go a B

A popular teacher gives easy tests and you get an A


An unpopular teacher messes with your head and leaves you with "eh" to show for it, an average mark to show you're an average student
Maybe if they're teaching business students.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96319 on: February 13, 2016, 07:36:21 am »

Those aren't a part of the urinal itself? Are your drains literally just holes?
Wait, what's wrong with a urinal drain being just a hole with some water inside? That's how most urinals work here.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96320 on: February 13, 2016, 08:12:38 am »

I think the mesh is there to prevent splashing if somebody is rather accurat with their wee.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96321 on: February 13, 2016, 08:14:26 am »

 Came in from shoveling and my face breaks out into what I can only call hives. Which is new.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96322 on: February 13, 2016, 09:22:41 am »

Sounds like you got into something. Or maybe you're allergic to dirt. I think that's a possibility...maybe.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96323 on: February 13, 2016, 09:28:23 am »

Don't shovel bees next time.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96324 on: February 13, 2016, 10:08:05 am »

Alright, so this just popped up on youtube: good shit
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96325 on: February 13, 2016, 10:30:19 am »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96326 on: February 13, 2016, 12:38:05 pm »

Huh...

I wonder...

Are we realizing that Charles Dickens might not have been as good a writer as people tried to jam down our throats?

OR as a society have we grown intolerant of the themes Charles Dickens attempts? (Mostly Serendipity and Deus Ex up the ying yang)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96327 on: February 13, 2016, 12:47:36 pm »

Well, there's still the fact that the actual writing is of a very high standard, though I guess thats subjective.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96328 on: February 13, 2016, 12:56:42 pm »

Well, there's still the fact that the actual writing is of a very high standard, though I guess thats subjective.

I mean both are possible

School has a tendency to jam people down your throat and rather then have their work speak for themselves they teach you to just accept them as masterwork done by someone amazing (something I absolutely HATED in school by the way). The fact that most writers cannot possibly hold up the quality of school's preaching isn't unusual.

At the same time Charles Dickens was paid by the word and remade the same stories over and over again and actually has an impressively large volume of books of which most are forgotten (For example... Christmas stories and stories about ghosts) with a particular joy of having "coincidence" be the primary engine of his novels. Which would piss the modern reader off.

Oliver Twist being a huge one. An Orphan boy who finds every single one of his living relatives (several of whom went missing) completely by chance. In fact most people don't even know that Oliver found three family members as most adaptations either move it down to 1 or eliminate it altogether (and goodness I NEVER seen an adaptation that keeps the third one... but she is kind of completely superfluous)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #96329 on: February 13, 2016, 01:20:42 pm »

I thought it was common knowledge that his greatest skill as a writer was milking as much money out of his stories as possible? That's what happens when you get paid per word and are more devoted to dosh than to literary ethics.
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