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[Comrade P.]

@Coraline

Why would you delete your posts though?

[majikero]

Dunno why but Asian countries are really good at maths. Must be an American thing then.

[NJW2000]

insane religious

Yeah, it just sounded like that, I know not all (e.g.) Catholics are bible thumping nutters, some of them are mass breeding scum that we burn on Guy Fawkes totally normal, sane people.

Tbh, I go to a secular school and we did get an assembly from a very funny but apparently selectively prudish teacher, who I admired quite a bit. It was on porn, she did all the stuff about objectifying women, taking advantage of them, giving men the wrong ideas about sex, promoting rape culture, how its smellier and hairier in real life, blah, etc, all the usual correct and necessary stuff someone should definitely tell boys especially ones that go to a non-mixed school.

Though at one point she described it as totally inexcusable, immoral and disgusting, even if it wasn't bad for all the reasons she discussed (which applies to some of it. Because, the girls in porn are "always somebody's daughter". And proceeded to draw links between it and 16 hour a day gamers.
 

 So yeah, I know that even in the sanest, most liberal places and even minds, bastions of bigotry can exist, and vice versa.

I hated maths in school too. I still don't like it, admittedly, but I hate it less now that I can learn about numbers in a less irritating format.

It's like, lots of people dislike/are bad at maths. You'd think alarm bells would be ringing to change the way it's taught but nooooooo, we must infuse the children with bullshit.

As a competent mathematican, who likes maths and can get it most ways its taught, I think change is really necessary.

I mean, even the best teachers sometimes just don't tell kids the right way of doing stuff - there are certain areas it's assumed you get by trial and error or by intuiting it. So many people didn't understand rotation about a point till I just told them the two step method. And the maths teachers, when people asked why one of the students had to tell half the year how to do something, just thought they all forgot. We covered the subject and all, but they omitted the simple, easy, intuitive method - I don't know how, but it was collective and unplanned. Just one of those things maths people got and non maths people didn't.

I think that most things could, with a little effort, be taught to "non maths people", and they'd get it and wouldn't find it impossible,  and we'd be a step closer to becoming the master race. We just need more emphasis on understanding what has been taught. But no. And thus the ostracism of maths remains, mathematicians are nerds, and people laugh at you when you tell them maths is beautiful.

I guess maths teachers aren't always good explainers.

[Akura]

...I was good at math.

And regarding the bad sex ed stuff, I suppose I could put together a good, accurate lesson on sex. Unfortunately, I'm quite lacking in that area of expertise.

But yeah, the John Oliver video she posted in the happy thread actually explains her WTF a lot.

[Putnam]

So the strange thing happened today in my English class.

We had a task, to speak for a while on a certain topic. Nothing special. That girl was talking, and she was making mistakes now and then (so was the teacher, alas, I'm not in best place to study English), and I was murmuring the correct words/sentences to myself. Then, the girl said something so incoherent I couldn't even make out what that was about. I looked at her, squinting, like "what the fudge you just said". Out of nowhere she went all: "Oh maybe I shouldn't speak at all" and stormed out of the room crying. Both girl's friend and the teacher lady stared at me, and simultaneously went: "Okay now you talk, get your grade and get out". Which I did.

The fuck.
I guess I'll have to apologise, but it'd be nice to know what for.

Spoiler: tl;dr - something like this happened to me today (click to show/hide)

Um. I hate to break this to you, but that's definitely a big asshole move. Like, incredibly asshole move. You were basically signaling that she was bad at speaking. Squinting like "what the fudge you just said" is about the same as pointing and laughing at someone who's learning to play guitar.

I'm actually WTF'ing at the state of mind required to think that that's an okay thing to do? It's not nice and it's not helpful. You'll notice that I don't look at peoples' raws and say "wow what are you even trying to do this is bad".

[Flying Dice]

So the strange thing happened today in my English class.

We had a task, to speak for a while on a certain topic. Nothing special. That girl was talking, and she was making mistakes now and then (so was the teacher, alas, I'm not in best place to study English), and I was murmuring the correct words/sentences to myself. Then, the girl said something so incoherent I couldn't even make out what that was about. I looked at her, squinting, like "what the fudge you just said". Out of nowhere she went all: "Oh maybe I shouldn't speak at all" and stormed out of the room crying. Both girl's friend and the teacher lady stared at me, and simultaneously went: "Okay now you talk, get your grade and get out". Which I did.

The fuck.
I guess I'll have to apologise, but it'd be nice to know what for.

Spoiler: tl;dr - something like this happened to me today (click to show/hide)

Um. I hate to break this to you, but that's definitely a big asshole move. Like, incredibly asshole move. You were basically signaling that she was bad at speaking. Squinting like "what the fudge you just said" is about the same as pointing and laughing at someone who's learning to play guitar.

I'm actually WTF'ing at the state of mind required to think that that's an okay thing to do? It's not nice and it's not helpful.

Wow, yeah. That's not anything at all like that clip you posted, Comrade, that's you being a massive dick to someone in a socially embarrassing situation.

[Putnam]

And I'm not trying to, like, cause a dogpile or anything, but... actually, I need to ask, what were you trying to do? I can't see any possible motivation for that except outright bullying, or at least... trying to make someone feel bad about themselves in public.

[NJW2000]

Life's tough in Russia. Dog eat dog.

Hell, when he said, "get out", it was probably into a snowstorm at -10 degrees with wolves on the loose.


NJW2000 enjoyed a cultural stereotype today.

[Frumple]

I guess maths teachers aren't always good explainers.

Doesn't particularly matter how good an explainer you are when genuinely sufficient is 30+ different explanations (one per student!) to give in probably under an hour, really. In practice, least insufficient is more like trying to bundle a "mere" four or five different ones into a single presentation, but even that isn't asking for "good", it's asking for "goddamn miracles", heh.

S'only so much a single person can do to compensate for the problems involved with a classroom full of ambulatory mounds of hormone and unique personal histories.

[Amperzand]

Tiny community colleges FTW. 

[GiglameshDespair]

And I'm not trying to, like, cause a dogpile or anything, but... actually, I need to ask, what were you trying to do? I can't see any possible motivation for that except outright bullying, or at least... trying to make someone feel bad about themselves in public.

Hanlon's Razor

[cerapa]

My roommate is having a rather loud Skype call. At 1.25 AM.

I guess that scratches out the plan of going to bed earlier than 2 AM. On any given day ever. Haven't slept properly in 2 weeks, because I didn't go home for the weekend last week, and my roommate never goes to fucking sleep.

[Yoink]

My roommate is having a rather loud Skype call. At 1.25 AM.

I guess that scratches out the plan of going to bed earlier than 2 AM. On any given day ever. Haven't slept properly in 2 weeks, because I didn't go home for the weekend last week, and my roommate never goes to fucking sleep.

Have you considered murder?

Edit: Oh, and my WTF: I just accidentally closed all but one of my tabs, which I had been obsessively keeping open for a long time, and now I cannot tell which feeling is stronger: the angry spark of annoyance, the black fear of not remembering the important things I was doing, or the cool, calming salve of relief.   

Yes, I could go through and recover them all, but this is probably for the best- my tab situation was out of control.

[TD1]

Drugs are the answer. Doesn't drink alcohol? Poison the water supply.

Sleeping or killing, same result.

Yoink Ninja'd.

[Comrade P.]

@Putnam & Flying Dice

Um.. Yeah. I haven't quite seen the angle of this sitation you brought up. I thought she didn't heard what I was mumbling to myself, but apparently she did. Guess this was really a dick move. Not something worth ragequitting class over, in my opinion, but I really have an apology to make nevertheless.
I'm just not used to people actually paing attention t what I do and speak. And the class was boring to the extreme, people telling basically the same overused lines from the textbook on the overused topic from the same textbook, over and over, not even trying to bring up some new stuff - an I know these people were perfectly capable of it, they just decided not to. This was getting on my nerve as well.


@NJW

It is currently, like, +2 C and dry in Moscow. This is not the winter I'm used to. We had +8 C last week.
Now this is WTF for me.