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crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

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."



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fillemaligne
fillemaligne
Well-Connected

May-9-2007 14:47

"The family has a pretty big unit."

I think that one is my fave. Sheesh, no wonder why you have been exhausted grading papers this week! Clearly my 6 year old nephew could write more intelligent stuff than this (though there would be nothing to amuse you then).

I also really like this one:

"Even if u are Muslim-Chinese, or Polish immigrant, if u really want sumthin in life u can can go 4 it and go after it and get it. In Canada anyway."

Please tell me that his (I know it must be a guy) whole essay was not written like this!? "if you really want sumthin in life u can go 4 it"....that will be my words of wisdom from now on. He should be a motivational speaker. ; )

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

May-10-2007 02:09

lol, fille, yeah it was...it's amazing how easily the Canadian dream (*beats a beaver to death with a felafel, a dictionary and a poutine-flavoured cell phone*) translates into the text-speak :) I can't even talk about how many times I've seen "LOL" written in a university essay, ugh!

And yeah, it was totally a guy :)

I'm with Cordy...my lawn needs mauling. I've been negligent about that.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

May-10-2007 03:59

Is the Canadian dream like the American dream, only colder?

Anikka
Anikka
Babelfish

May-10-2007 14:32

I think they're similar, but the American dream involves streets of gold with hawt chicks on every corner and a chicken in every pot, and the Canadian dream involves a streets of cold with hawt penguins on every corner and a beaver smoking pot.

So, almost exactly the same, when you think about it.

Ceres Trajan
Ceres Trajan
Old Shoe

May-10-2007 19:23

As a "man of the cloth" (zanjana's words, not mine), I must pay my homage to:
"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."
And to think that here I have been spending all this time trying to find inspirational illustrations to teach spiritual truths. From now on, I'll simply be contacting you and your as yet untapped sources, crunch.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

May-11-2007 03:40

oh he's been tapped, truuuust me :)

Fiddler's Green
Fiddler's Green

May-11-2007 15:38

And were his nuts sound?

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

May-12-2007 00:41

Sound? Dude, on a clear day you can hear the gentle whooshing of the Pacific in them. It's, like, empowering...

cenoecox
cenoecox
Well-Connected

May-27-2007 18:34

Wow. Really. Wow. I SO hope my teachers aren't giggling with each other while passing around MY final....
And I'm glad someone finally put it down for us Hispastic women - it's tough for us!

My wallet's been lost for a little over a month. I'm totally stressin out, because suddenly I have to roll with no driver's license, I can't get money from the ATM or anything like that. I last remember using it at work to pay a bill online. This was on a Friday, so I spent the weekend hoping that none of the janitorial crew had jacked my stuff. When I return to work, the wallet is nowhere to be found. I had to replace everything, order a new license, bank card, (and my BevMo membership card, of course!) About a week ago, a little old lady I work with (total pothead), asks me if I'm missing my wallet, because she's found it. (why she needed to ask if I was missing it, I don't know). I can't imagine where it could be - I've ransacked my room, my house, my SUV (that was a nightmare) and found nothing. I ask her where I might find it, and she replies that she left it where she found it - in the refrigerator.

"Stupid, party of one!"

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

May-28-2007 00:16

yeah but on the bright side, you've been paying for your meth with some temp's month-old Danone Silhouette yogourt for like a month now, and haven't gotten burned!

Please edumacate me: What's a BevMo card and is the last bit short for 'motel'?

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