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Aug-30-2006 01:51

I heart stupidity. When you see it, post it here. I'll start.

Some of you know that I've do some teaching of first year sociology students in university. I really enjoy it, and love my students, but -GAWD- grading their work is a nightmare.

Through the course of a year, they have to write short essays on a range of topics ---feminism, Karl Marx, education, Freud, crime, etc. I feel kinda guilty laughing at these because of course they are writing under extreme pressure, but holy bobo I find them funny! Every so often, they write something so frickin' hysterical that it makes me gag laughing. These fleeting gems, I collect. Thought y'all might get a kick out of some of them.

Here we go. (nb, all typos and grammar boo boos are theirs from here on, not mine)

"Education is not really as old as many people think. It all came about in
the 1960s when the Russians were more advanced with outerspace."

"There is no evidence of women in society until the late 1990s"

"Freud is the classic theory of gender he believes the boy has the penis the girl has the clitoris simple as that"

"Freud said that a boy who plays too many dolls might be a p_ssy in later life"

"Feminists think women are the lowest of the low"

"Education is bias it only works for children who come from families where the parents are rich white and male"

"Hitlar believed in the destroying the Jews, however, his dictation only lasted until he was alive, after it was forgotten."

"Weber saw society from his eyes"

"someone from the low class is no good to us. we don't see them as nonsuccessful. That is because of sociology"

"Max Weber is a known and accredited sociologist"

"All around us in our society it is, said to be all around us these 'bureacracy' for example God is higher than Jeesus. The boss."

Sep-14-2006 11:50

So I am hired all the time to script doctor. That is, someone writes a screenplay or television script that they eventually want to pitch and sell to networks or producers, they hire me BEFORE they do that to make sure that their script is ready for prime time.

So recently I was hired by a group of newbie writers who are trying to craft a television pilot. After reviewing their script, I instructed them that television show scripts have multiple plot lines running through them, the primary plot line or the A Plot, and the secondary plot line or the B plot, and sometimes a third plot line, the C plot. But theirs only had one plot running through it, making it more like a short film project with a television script feel -- in other words it wasn't dramatic enough and the stakes weren't high enough for it to succeed as a film, but it was structured incorrectly to be a professional television script.

I then spent 30 minutes instructing them how to properly construct the A,B, and if they desired, C plot to ensure that their script was in the correct professional format.

Their response: Well, if EVERYBODY is doing an A and B plot then if we only do an A plot then our script will be Cutting Edge!!

My response: I advise strongly against that, but as long as you cut me my check, you can do whatever you want.

Sep-23-2006 01:46

wow. just wow. What's stupider than a drunken Britney burping on video with K-Fed?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LB84A3zcmVo

Sep-23-2006 10:31

OH WOW. she is so messed up!!!

The back to the future thing! *PA VOICE* paging jessica simpson, your brain has been found.

LMAO!!!

Sep-23-2006 16:27

We were studying Russia in a high school class and this exchange happened.

Moron 1: Do we have anything like the KGB in America?

Moron 2: I think she means, like, the FBI.

Moron 3: No, she means the IRS.

Moron 4: No, she means the FDA.

And this was the Honors class.

Sep-24-2006 02:12

How can the IRS and FDA be anything like the KGB?

Sep-24-2006 03:23

Actually, I think the parallel between the KGB and the IRS isn't too far off.....hehehe (Black Ops would be more apropos, but you can't have everything.)

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Sep-24-2006 03:28

Why did that post twice??

Sep-24-2006 04:22

Because the KGB thought it was twice as important. *Deletes one of the double posts*

Sep-24-2006 06:04

Thank you so much, Crunch. *begins to wonder if this whole conspiracy theory thing has any merit*

Reminder: No need to be paranoid just because everyone's out to get you.