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 shrike wrote:

- teachers who can't teach.

Ooh yeah that's one. Back in my high school we had one guy who was a complete tool. Made his lesson plans during that same class and them got me to teach for him while he wandered off to listen to music on YouTube. Granted it was good experience for me as I want to teach anyway but seriously? Ended that class with a 103% average though so I can't complain too much!

University profs are the worst though, I pay good money to get taught by someone with absolutely no skill whatsoever, not cool.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Privileged white kids that talk 'gangsta', use the n word and try to be street. There is nothing quite as pathetic as seeing a skinny white son of a dentist walking around a shopping mall car lot with trousers below his arse, baseball cap at a jaunty angle (still with the sticker on for a reason I can't grasp) and head wobbling on his neck like a nodding dog in a rear window.

I saw a bunch of these creatures a few days ago, walking through the town calling to each other 'Yo yo dawg', calling each other 'my n****r' despite a young black woman walking up the other side of the road and 'acting tough'. I made it a priority to walk right through the middle of them, eyeballing them, not a one had the balls to meet my gaze. Worthless dregs.

This. God damned this.
I was talking to my brother's 11-year-old neighbor because we kinda got stuck together at their school fair (brother went off for some reason), and I asked him to turn off "that rap crap." he was blasting, and he demanded I tell him what I consider good music.
Following a short list, it turns out he has no idea who black sabbath, motorhead, guns n' roses, metallica, megadeth, iron maiden, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin were. I then told him they were heavy metal and rock. It turns out he has no idea what rock music is. Seriously. The furthest he'd go is say "the beatles" sounds familiar. God, but he was lucky I was around about three dozen schoolkids...

 Da Boss wrote:
I have two as a teacher that drive me crazy.
1. Pointless lies. As in, I ask you a question and instead of telling me the innocuous truth, you lie to me. Also, the expectation that a cheeky smile will get you away with outright lying to me, which seems to be endemic. Kids look at me as though I am insane when I get annoyed with them for lying.
And sort of similar, but-
2. Explaining what you are doing when I've given you an instruction. Example:
Me: "X, sit down."
X: "I was just going over to Y to...(blah blah blah)"
Me: "I didn't ask you what you were doing, I can see what you were doing, I told you to sit down!"

That might seem trivial, but jesus christ, when you get it 45 times a day when you are trying to manage a lab full of dim witted children with access to open flames, it gets tiresome!

I blame the parents.


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 Commander Cain wrote:

 shrike wrote:

- teachers who can't teach.

Ooh yeah that's one. Back in my high school we had one guy who was a complete tool. Made his lesson plans during that same class and them got me to teach for him while he wandered off to listen to music on YouTube. Granted it was good experience for me as I want to teach anyway but seriously? Ended that class with a 103% average though so I can't complain too much!

University profs are the worst though, I pay good money to get taught by someone with absolutely no skill whatsoever, not cool.

Yeah, i've had a few university profs that couldn't teach for gak.

One was my Physical Science teacher. He knew his stuff, but it was almost as if he had a slight speech impediment, we could never tell for sure, and he was constantly repeating himself. Learned more by just reading the textbook and thats usually not the case.

Another was an Accounting professor, he tought his lectures with videos he posted online. So dull sooooo dry. You just wanted to rip your eyballs out.



I'd rather have someone who isn't an expert but is teaching the material in an interesting and understandable way than someone with tons of credentials but has zero interpersonal skills.

 Commander Cain wrote:

 shrike wrote:

- teachers who can't teach.

Ooh yeah that's one. Back in my high school we had one guy who was a complete tool. Made his lesson plans during that same class and them got me to teach for him while he wandered off to listen to music on YouTube. Granted it was good experience for me as I want to teach anyway but seriously? Ended that class with a 103% average though so I can't complain too much!

University profs are the worst though, I pay good money to get taught by someone with absolutely no skill whatsoever, not cool.

Yeah, i've had a few university profs that couldn't teach for gak.

One was my Physical Science teacher. He knew his stuff, but it was almost as if he had a slight speech impediment, we could never tell for sure, and he was constantly repeating himself. Learned more by just reading the textbook and thats usually not the case.

Another was an Accounting professor, he tought his lectures with videos he posted online. So dull sooooo dry. You just wanted to rip your eyballs out.



I'd rather have someone who isn't an expert but is teaching the material in an interesting and understandable way than someone with tons of credentials but has zero interpersonal skills.

 shrike wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Privileged white kids that talk 'gangsta', use the n word and try to be street. There is nothing quite as pathetic as seeing a skinny white son of a dentist walking around a shopping mall car lot with trousers below his arse, baseball cap at a jaunty angle (still with the sticker on for a reason I can't grasp) and head wobbling on his neck like a nodding dog in a rear window.

I saw a bunch of these creatures a few days ago, walking through the town calling to each other 'Yo yo dawg', calling each other 'my n****r' despite a young black woman walking up the other side of the road and 'acting tough'. I made it a priority to walk right through the middle of them, eyeballing them, not a one had the balls to meet my gaze. Worthless dregs.

This. God damned this.
I was talking to my brother's 11-year-old neighbor because we kinda got stuck together at their school fair (brother went off for some reason), and I asked him to turn off "that rap crap." he was blasting, and he demanded I tell him what I consider good music.
Following a short list, it turns out he has no idea who black sabbath, motorhead, guns n' roses, metallica, megadeth, iron maiden, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin were. I then told him they were heavy metal and rock. It turns out he has no idea what rock music is. Seriously. The furthest he'd go is say "the beatles" sounds familiar. God, but he was lucky I was around about three dozen schoolkids...

I'm betting he could probably name some influential hip-hop artists. Can you?

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince!

University lecturers are hired for their expertise, not their teaching ability. You're expected to learn independently in University, all they have to do is present the information in a generally coherent way with a relevant reading list- you're expected to do the rest.

Being a good teacher is a pleasant bonus, but in reality, finding someone with expertise in some obscure topics is difficult enough. Getting someone like that with the skillset of a teacher (bearing in mind that these guys also generally have pretty heavy workloads with research and publishing) is pot luck.

 kronk wrote:
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince!

BOOM!


...shake, shake, shake the rooooom.

Great Albatross. Now that's stuck in my head!

 Albatross wrote:

I'm betting he could probably name some influential hip-hop artists. Can you?

a few- Tupac, Grandmaster Flash, Public enemy, MC hammer. Not sure if he could TBH, he didn't strike me as the guy who'd know a whole lot about his music other than the current stuff.
I don't listen to it at all, but I recognise some names, and at least I've heard of the bloody genre, and know what it is

 shrike wrote:

 Albatross wrote:

I'm betting he could probably name some influential hip-hop artists. Can you?

a few- Tupac, Grandmaster Flash, Public enemy, MC hammer. Not sure if he could TBH, he didn't strike me as the guy who'd know a whole lot about his music other than the current stuff.
I don't listen to it at all, but I recognise some names, and at least I've heard of the bloody genre, and know what it is

And that makes you... What? Handsome and successful? What do you care care if an 11-year old doesn't know much about rock music? You strike me as judgmental.

 Da Boss wrote:
University lecturers are hired for their expertise, not their teaching ability. You're expected to learn independently in University, all they have to do is present the information in a generally coherent way with a relevant reading list- you're expected to do the rest.

Being a good teacher is a pleasant bonus, but in reality, finding someone with expertise in some obscure topics is difficult enough. Getting someone like that with the skillset of a teacher (bearing in mind that these guys also generally have pretty heavy workloads with research and publishing) is pot luck.

I understand that of course. While I strongly disagree with the fact that they don't require some teaching skill I can usually ignore the fact and just plough through the course.

And my worst profs tend to be in the less obscure classes, introductory psychology for one. My prof, while knowing his stuff, was disastrously unprepared, a fact I noted the moment I got our course syllabus and was greeted with what appeared to be a page of computer code in about 6 different fonts. He also chose to make his own webpage despite the university having an excellent one of its own. His site was hopeless, not only badly set up but the colour choice left something to be desired (lime green background and yellow text is not perfect for those of us who are colour deficient). A good class with this guy was one where I managed to stay fully conscious during the entire lecture, an achievement that many of my classmates failed at most spectacularly...

So I think it is more the ability of the prof to come across as an educated and organized individual rather than their actual ability to teach that gets to me, fortunately I am in the same boat as Shrike in that my favorite subject, history is full of some excellent profs. Who would have thought post-confederation Canadian history could be interesting?

 Commander Cain wrote:

 shrike wrote:

- teachers who can't teach.

Ooh yeah that's one. Back in my high school we had one guy who was a complete tool. Made his lesson plans during that same class and them got me to teach for him while he wandered off to listen to music on YouTube. Granted it was good experience for me as I want to teach anyway but seriously? Ended that class with a 103% average though so I can't complain too much!

University profs are the worst though, I pay good money to get taught by someone with absolutely no skill whatsoever, not cool.

attend another prof's lectures, and talk to other profs during their office hours. Your tuition is more than the class. Remember, you don't actually have to attend the class.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

That is the oddest thing i always here. My family loves to do this cutesy stuff(Like having kids plant jelly beans and come back later and have them grow into Lollipops) and ofcourse santa.
I quite frankly dont get how this is fun or why if i have a kid i have to participate with the santa or easter bunny idea. It feels like lying to a kid.

Or, from a different angle, it's allowing the child to enjoy the magic of childhood before the weight of the world and it's drudgery come crashing down later. I'm personally in favor of storytelling with kids and letting them believe in things for as long as possible.

IMO the world has enough magic in and of itself to not need to lye to kids about fake Entities.

 Albatross wrote:

 shrike wrote:

 Albatross wrote:

I'm betting he could probably name some influential hip-hop artists. Can you?

a few- Tupac, Grandmaster Flash, Public enemy, MC hammer. Not sure if he could TBH, he didn't strike me as the guy who'd know a whole lot about his music other than the current stuff.
I don't listen to it at all, but I recognise some names, and at least I've heard of the bloody genre, and know what it is

And that makes you... What? Handsome and successful? What do you care care if an 11-year old doesn't know much about rock music? You strike me as judgmental.

And lol at MC Hammer...

-People who eat with their mouth open
-Perception of people who own a AR15 (M16/M4 version) that I am a bad person
-People who have the optional blinker package on their POV's
-People who think they know the subject but do not

I think you're a bad person without a AR15, and I'm eating as I say this.

think you're a bad person without a AR15, and I'm eating as I say this.

Your wrong on a couple different levels there..........your typing it not saying it and I'm not in front of you

See, I was trying to get all four in that post, I felt the first part covered three of your hates, the last I can't really do.

I could film it I guess, but that's too much effort.

Experiment 626 wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:

People who pee on toilet seats or on the floor (unless they're dunk) but not flushing after you gak pisses me off, especially if someone else has shat on top of it then you have such a large mountain of turds that it clogs the toilet.

I can tell you're a guy...

Unflushed terds are disgusting for sure, but nothing beats being the poor woman stuck waiting in line for 10 minutes just to go. Then a stall finally opens up, and across the toilet seat is splashed some dumb b's Aunt Flow and floating in the toilet itself is a used sanitary napkin that means you can't flush because it'll not only clog the toilet, but likely cause it to overflow that Red Fury everywhere as well...

I hate other women.
In general, I find women are absolute filthy pigs in public. I've run into the above so many times in public facilities that if I can, I'll just hold it until I get home so I don't have to risk the women's bathrooms.


Oh, and I hate male gamers who tell me to play Blood Angels becuase their Red Thirst rule is themed to my biology...

Wow, thanks for that brilliant anecdote btw.


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 kronk wrote:
Also also, people that don't pick up after their dogs. "Why thank you. I was wanting to play Avoid the Doggie Land Mines when I mowed today! How did you know?"

Agreed, this pisses me off take responsibility for your dog please, it's not like dogs know how to clean up after themselves.

Albatross wrote:

 shrike wrote:

 Albatross wrote:

I'm betting he could probably name some influential hip-hop artists. Can you?

a few- Tupac, Grandmaster Flash, Public enemy, MC hammer. Not sure if he could TBH, he didn't strike me as the guy who'd know a whole lot about his music other than the current stuff.
I don't listen to it at all, but I recognise some names, and at least I've heard of the bloody genre, and know what it is

And that makes you... What? Handsome and successful? What do you care care if an 11-year old doesn't know much about rock music? You strike me as judgmental.

I'm not judgemental at all, and I'm not making myself out to be anything, and there seems to be nothing I can say to convince you I'm not.
"oh, you whine about a kid not knowing stuff? you must be a hypocrite!"
*shows I'm not a hypocrite*
"... well, you seem judgemental!"

How would me being annoyed at a kid for not knowing music be judgemental, anyway?

I care because when I see a sheltered white suburban kid going around in a snapback blasting hip-hop and being utterly oblivious about entire main genres of music, and that makes me lose faith in humanity.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
And lol at MC Hammer...

I thought I may as well put on someone from my generation

Maybe he's lives in a poorer, urban primarily black community and that was the music he was most exposed to?

 Cheesecat wrote:
Maybe he's lives in a poorer, urban primarily black community and that was the music he was most exposed to?

He's my brother's neighbor. They live in a small, nice area in a little cul-de-sac surrounded by lots of families, almost all of which are white

 shrike wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
And lol at MC Hammer...

I thought I may as well put on someone from my generation

Ahem...

Behold:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Soul

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_Called_Quest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_(group)

 shrike wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
Maybe he's lives in a poorer, urban primarily black community and that was the music he was most exposed to?

He's my brother's neighbor. They live in a small, nice area in a little cul-de-sac surrounded by lots of families, almost all of which are white

Oh, OK yeah it's kind of weird when people try to imitate a culture they aren't a part of, as it usually comes across as insincere.

 Cheesecat wrote:
Oh, OK yeah it's kind of weird when people try to imitate a culture they aren't a part of, as it usually comes across as insincere.

Well, I try and live in a culture that's not even in my generation, does that count?

God damn, I should've been born 30-40 years earlier...

 shrike wrote:


I'm not judgemental at all, and I'm not making myself out to be anything, and there seems to be nothing I can say to convince you I'm not.

To be fair, you're not exactly trying very hard...

"oh, you whine about a kid not knowing stuff? you must be a hypocrite!"
*shows I'm not a hypocrite*

My point was that the kid probably knows a lot more about the type of music he enjoys than you do. He's probably alright with that. Why aren't you?

"... well, you seem judgemental!"

How would me being annoyed at a kid for not knowing music be judgemental, anyway?

Because a) You told him to turn that 'rap crap' off, and b) You seem to think that he should listen to a particular type of music that you approve of.

I care because when I see a sheltered white suburban kid going around in a snapback blasting hip-hop and being utterly oblivious about entire main genres of music, and that makes me lose faith in humanity.

What does his colour have to do with anything? Are white kids not allowed to enjoy hip-hop, like?



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 Cheesecat wrote:

 shrike wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
Maybe he's lives in a poorer, urban primarily black community and that was the music he was most exposed to?

He's my brother's neighbor. They live in a small, nice area in a little cul-de-sac surrounded by lots of families, almost all of which are white

Oh, OK yeah it's kind of weird when people try to imitate a culture they aren't a part of, as it usually comes across as insincere.

The problematic part about all that is the fact that white suburban middle-class male teenagers are the biggest single demographic group in terms of purchasing rap/hip-hop music. It's not a surprise that a young white male would listen to hip-hop in light of that information. The surprising thing is that so few of them participate in the composition of it.

I would like to point out, Albatross, that Shrike thinks he wasn't being judgemental.

Fo reelz.

I'm not against white kids listening to rap I have more a problem with white kids tying to dress and act gangsta unless they're from the ghetto or a similar type of environment, because what little I know about the rap community is that authenticity is important.

I'm just against white kids. They don't need to like rap or anything.