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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."

May-29-2007 21:06

And then there was the time my mother was late for work. She threw her purse into the fridge and ran out to her car with a loaf of bread under her arm... Sadly, I think that explains a lot about me.

I gotta say, I don't think putting your wallet in the fridge is stupid, anyone can be absent-minded or stressed and do that... but how do you find a wallet in a fairly public fridge, know who it belongs to, and then LEAVE IT THERE? Ceno, I hope you did something truly cruel to the old broad. Like, I dunno... lace her pot with skunk spray?

May-30-2007 14:12

ha ha! I thought it was strange for the old bag to leave it there too, but then I thought, 'she's such a stoner, she'd probably forget where SHE put it after that'. I'm so glad I'm not the only dumbie that leaves inappropriate things in the fridge...... it would have been nice to find it before I had to cancel all my cards, tho.
And crunchpatty: BevMo is an abbreviation for the best store in the whole world. Beverages 'n' More. It's like a big liquor warehouse, with all necessary mixers and peripheral equipment. And it's got harder-to-find stuff than the grocery store.

May-30-2007 14:38

Awww man! I could use one of those around here!

Jun-3-2007 04:47

I remember telling a girl about my family. I mentioned that I had 2 nephews and had been an uncle for 7 years. "oh," she said, "So how old is the oldest?"

Jun-4-2007 19:05

Brasco, that chick was probably just nervous due to your huge biceps and witty banter. You can hardly blame her.
I am indeed sorry for Biggie, crunch and any others less fortunate than myself, who do not have BevMo in their area. I'm gonna spill some brew for the homies that suffer without Beverages 'n' More.

Jun-4-2007 19:22

Okay here's one. My sister and I go into the grocery store one day and we get this pie for dessert. We go up to the cashier (who was at least two year older than me and I'm 16) and he says, "Hey, did you get this pie from Burger King across the street?" All I could say to him was "Yea we stole it and decided to pay for it over here. NO we didn't get it from there!!!" My sister still laughs about it to this day.

Jun-4-2007 20:14

I was buying a 2 drinks at Jack in the Box, it cost 5$. I paid with a 5$ bill, they gave me 2$ back. I still don't understand their math. :) (I kept the 2 extra $)

Jun-4-2007 20:46

Damn amanda why do things like that NEVER happen to me :)

Jun-4-2007 23:27

I have a whole book of stupid things people put in essays, but I can't find it at the moment. So I'll just share one of the more memorable quotes.

"Rome is part of the STONED age."

Jun-4-2007 23:51

I studied philosophy at university and had an exam question for an easy that was "How do you know this peice of paper exists". To this day I wish I'd been brave enough to write "It doesn't" and leave it at that. They would either have heralded me as a genius or plain stupid....