apparently brits about as batshit crazy as yanks

Post by **tnf** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:18 am

I just got done grading finals. At approximately 3:30 pm today, I officially gave up on the future of science.

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:20 am

lol, that's amazing when you consider that christianity is practically dead in this country, barring the old folks who cycle through the mist to chapel on a sunday morn

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:20 am

tnf wrote:I just got done grading finals. At approximately 3:30 pm today, I officially gave up on the future of science.

that good, huh?

btw does your science class look like this:

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:icon27:
:icon29: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27:

:icon27: :icon27: :icon23:

:icon27: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27:

?

Post by **Freakaloin** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:25 am

do they get foxnews in the uk? maybe thats it?...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:29 am

tnf wrote:I just got done grading finals. At approximately 3:30 pm today, I officially gave up on the future of science.

Post by **tnf** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:31 am

seremtan wrote:
tnf wrote:I just got done grading finals. At approximately 3:30 pm today, I officially gave up on the future of science.
that good, huh?

btw does your science class look like this:

:icon27: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27:
:icon29: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27:
:icon27: :icon27: :icon23:
:icon27: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27:

?

Heh...some of them. To be honest, at this stage in the game its not just the students problem - its the education they have recieved up to this point. Everything has been so watered down in an effort to keep their self-esteem up that when they get to a stage where they actually need to utilize basic skills they just don't have them. The entire system of education needs to be overhauled, but not in the way that many think - meaning we don't need some entirely new model. We need to go back to the basics.

Kids know less and less each year. Education in America, even in the most 'successful' public schools, has a veneer of success slapped over a wall of a utter failure. On many case-by-case instances, good things are happening, but on the whole, things are going straight to hell.

Post by **tnf** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:32 am

ToxicBug wrote:
tnf wrote:I just got done grading finals. At approximately 3:30 pm today, I officially gave up on the future of science.

Don't laugh. Your posts here helped get me there.

Post by **werldhed** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:34 am

Sigh...
I shouldn't be surprised, I suppose...

I think I heard about things relating in some way to evolution at least 20 times today. I heard zero things having to do with ID/creationism. Obviously there is controversy among scientists.

There was an editorial on evolution in the local paper yesterday that cheered me up a little. It's nothing new, but at least it got printed.

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/01/25/66781

Post by **andyman** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:09 am

tnf wrote:I just got done grading finals. At approximately 3:30 pm today, I officially gave up on the future of science.

Don'y you teach at a public school? With kids who have public educations? Have you ever seen a public toilet? they are about the same (educations)

teach at a private school and you won't have to deal with a herd of toxicbugs.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:16 am

Actually I've graduated from a private highschool...

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:26 am

was it a 'special' school?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:28 am

Yeah and now I'm taking pure science after graduating from a special school...

Post by **andyman** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:47 am

is your other class 'finding all the answers on the internet and doing nothing yourself'?

Post by ek » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:50 am

ToxicBug wrote:Yeah and now I'm taking pure science after graduating from a special school...

any monkey can take anything, thats why you ask the stupidest basic questions. nice work there monkey, maybe you should enrol in DruMbO'z Networking101 course.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:54 am

andyman wrote:is your other class 'finding all the answers on the internet and doing nothing yourself'?

Did you get any sort of education after high school? did u even finish high school, sarge? kthnxbye

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:54 am

ek wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:Yeah and now I'm taking pure science after graduating from a special school...
any monkey can take anything, thats why you ask the stupidest basic questions. nice work there monkey, maybe you should enrol in DruMbO'z Networking101 course.

shut the fuck up seremtan

Post by ek » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:56 am

lucky i am not semencan monkey, i see you have already been attending DruMbo'z class. keep it up.

Post by **andyman** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:58 am

ToxicBug wrote:
andyman wrote:is your other class 'finding all the answers on the internet and doing nothing yourself'?
Did you get any sort of education after high school? did u even finish high school, sarge? kthnxbye

college is crap. OJT is where it's at.

edit: keep in mind i've learned and done more in the army than you will in your whole life, and if for some reason i ever decide i want to go to college to learn shit i already know, they will give me 40,000 dollars and tuition is free.

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:08 am

ToxicBug wrote:
ek wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:Yeah and now I'm taking pure science after graduating from a special school...
any monkey can take anything, thats why you ask the stupidest basic questions. nice work there monkey, maybe you should enrol in DruMbO'z Networking101 course.
shut the fuck up seremtan

lol, the dorkmeme is spreading. RUN TO THE HILLS!!!111

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:06 am

andyman wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:
andyman wrote:is your other class 'finding all the answers on the internet and doing nothing yourself'?
Did you get any sort of education after high school? did u even finish high school, sarge? kthnxbye
college is crap. OJT is where it's at.

edit: keep in mind i've learned and done more in the army than you will in your whole life, and if for some reason i ever decide i want to go to college to learn shit i already know, they will give me 40,000 dollars and tuition is free.

You're obviously a moron for not going... or is it that you can't get into anything half decent

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:55 am

ToxicBug wrote:
You're obviously a moron for not going... or is it that you can't get into anything half decent

iirc he's still in active service dumbass. He was posting pics of New Orleans after working on some communications equipment there post-hurricane.

Post by **andyman** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:40 am

ToxicBug wrote:
andyman wrote:
ToxicBug wrote: Did you get any sort of education after high school? did u even finish high school, sarge? kthnxbye
college is crap. OJT is where it's at.

edit: keep in mind i've learned and done more in the army than you will in your whole life, and if for some reason i ever decide i want to go to college to learn shit i already know, they will give me 40,000 dollars and tuition is free.
You're obviously a moron for not going... or is it that you can't get into anything half decent

did you read what you quoted? i have no desire to go to college. i wanted to be in the army and be paid to do something, rather than pay others a shitload of money to do homework

The descision wasn't 'should i join the army or go to college', it was 'how soon after high school should i leave'

unless someone actually WANTS to work behind a desk, I don't see the point of college other than learning more in a particular field (as if you NEED a college to learn that stuff anyways)

Post by **Grudge** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:45 am

The greatest thing about college for me was that I had 4 years of drinking beer and getting laid, with almost no responsibilities. Plus, I made lots of new friends from all around the country. But I guess you can get the same from the army (except perhaps for the getting laid, and responsibility parts).

Post by **4days** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:27 am

* 44% said creationism should be included
* 41% intelligent design
* 69% wanted evolution as part of the science curriculum.

wonder who the 2000 people they polled were? "intelligent design" isn't a common subject of conversation, and most of the indigenous population are atheists that only start praying when they're backed into a corner*

* C of E

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:36 am

seremtan wrote:
tnf wrote:I just got done grading finals. At approximately 3:30 pm today, I officially gave up on the future of science.
that good, huh?

btw does your science class look like this:

:icon27: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27:
:icon29: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27:
:icon27: :icon27: :icon23:
:icon27: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27: :icon27:

?

oh and also.. "rooflepaste"?