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[Amperzand]

Certainly the opinion I'm getting on this one is that he's far from popular.

[Descan]

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

[Tack]

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.
And it feels amazing.

Needless to say, he was many people's favorite teacher.

Mixed up the two of your comments.
M'bad.

[Flying Dice]

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.

[Helgoland]

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.

[Jopax]

I think the mesh is there to prevent splashing if somebody is rather accurat with their wee.

[Aseaheru]

 Came in from shoveling and my face breaks out into what I can only call hives. Which is new.

[chaotic skies]

Sounds like you got into something. Or maybe you're allergic to dirt. I think that's a possibility...maybe.

[GiglameshDespair]

Don't shovel bees next time.

[chaotic skies]

Alright, so this just popped up on youtube: good shit

[Tack]

Spoiler: above link (click to show/hide)

(Literally video title "good shit".)
Funny dub over mass effect MShepherdxKaiden.

[Neonivek]

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)

[NJW2000]

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

[Neonivek]

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)

[Flying Dice]

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.