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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."

Mar-20-2007 17:12

Then there was the time one of our Deputy Heads complained because a kid had thrown a stone through the staffroom window and I convinced her that it wasn't so bad because it had only been broken on the inside.....

Mar-20-2007 17:14

Then there was the time that I taught a lesson about the interossiter. It took a full 25 minutes before a pupil put up their hand and said " Sir, are you making this up?"

Mar-20-2007 17:19

This kids aren't that smart are they.....wow

*loves the one with the glasses*

Mar-21-2007 03:27

No these kids aren't really that bright at all.

Mar-22-2007 15:34

Oh boy, I could fill this thread up! Just ask Momiss. I guess my most recent stupid tale would be last week when someone idiotically took my truck to fill up at the gas station, forgot it has no turning radius and smashed the front end into a concrete column. And when I say someone, I mean ME.
Hmmmm........ And just to put her out there, Momiss's specialty in the kitchen is her tuna casserole. She's been making it as long as I've been alive, and it's about the only thing she can do well consistently. One night she makes it, and I take a bite and notice something funny about it. But I can't quite put my finger on it. After dinner, she goes into the kitchen to clean up, and finds the problem - she forgot to put the effin tuna in the casserole. What a twit. :)

Mar-22-2007 16:26

Haha, you have no idea how many times I've gone to make a grilled cheese sandwich and forgotten to slap a rubbery slice of Kraft's finest between the Wonder twins. On the bright side, butterfried bread is pretty tasty too...

Mar-22-2007 16:55

lol we actually call it Craft's disease here... Can't Remember's a Ffff..lipping Thing.

Apr-14-2007 09:16

OK gathered some sufficiently-stupid stuff from work:

Poppy-trapped cars (I think the translator was too shy to say booby)
Peach Partnership (because Peace is so overrated and out-dated now)
Mortal Silence (the sequel)

The Arab League of Carrots! (In Arabic, Gozor means Islands, Gazar means carrots).

And finally, I leave you with this sentence, which I have not altered in any way:

It seems that TOSNAMI DIASTER which strikes the ASIAN coasts and KATRIN hurricane which galls south USA are just like a warning to the earth people.

Apr-14-2007 10:00

rofl, I am *SO* joining the Arab League of Carrots...

grading again and found this gem last night:

"white woman will likely have a better social experience than black, hispastic or asian woman"

Apr-14-2007 10:35

lol be warned earth people, hispasm is spreading!