I used to do that once but then I got older and they stayed the same age, the selfish scumbags
Ed! You're only what, 24? You're still classed as a young person.
And that's part of why I'm digging the teaching thing less and less
I keep thinking "I'm, what, barely a decade older than these pricks? Eight years ago I was still in school and getting in trouble for hitting shitstains like this, what am I even doing here"
But as Blake says, you're a lot smarter than them, you should feel superior.
It's okay because this is just a stepping-stone for becoming a famous writer. And when you are famous I can say "Ha! I knew him before he was famous."
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
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Really as silly as my post is is that it is serious in the fact you are smart enough you just lack the confidence.
Confidence has very little to do with it, my issue is that I outright don't have any sympathy for half of these kids
I just see them in a decade's time still being fuck-ups, still being cushioned and shielded by a system that lets them get away with far too fucking much
We are going to push them out into the real world and then grin and say "SURPRISE! You're still a little useless shit and our standards are so ineffectual that we've doomed you to a life time of being ass fucked by society because you won't be able to function as an adult."
Half of these kids don't want to be here and my first instinct isn't to help them, it's to let them throw their own life away because they're not fucking primates, they have a glimmering of intellect and if they don't want help, fuck them, get them out of the system and wash our hands of them because we won't do them any favours whatever happens
Basically, fuck the school system and fuck me for being stupid enough to think education was a field I wanted the slightest thing to do with
I do not have an educator's mindset
Educators do not fantasise about picking up fourteen-year-olds and snapping their necks
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Confidence has very little to do with it, my issue is that I outright don't have any sympathy for half of these kids
I just see them in a decade's time still being fuck-ups, still being cushioned and shielded by a system that lets them get away with far too fucking much
We are going to push them out into the real world and then grin and say "SURPRISE! You're still a little useless shit and our standards are so ineffectual that we've doomed you to a life time of being ass fucked by society because you won't be able to function as an adult."
Half of these kids don't want to be here and my first instinct isn't to help them, it's to let them throw their own life away because they're not fucking primates, they have a glimmering of intellect and if they don't want help, fuck them, get them out of the system and wash our hands of them because we won't do them any favours whatever happens
Basically, fuck the school system and fuck me for being stupid enough to think education was a field I wanted the slightest thing to do with
I do not have an educator's mindset
Educators do not fantasise about picking up fourteen-year-olds and snapping their necks
you would be surprised
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Oh no, these aren't even the special educational needs kids for the most part: most of my lessons with them are fine
The ones that really get up my nose are the kids who don't have anything "wrong" with them on paper, they're worthless bags of flesh who quite frankly need to die
Or better yet, let me have five minutes alone with their parents
As someone who started drinking at 12, quit at 16 and then picked it back at 19 i would like to state that at the end of high school i was still a worthless piece of shit. I just knew how to hold my liquor better then most people my age. Also know my limits and what medication to not drink on.
nothing in my post was serious except the part about legal age being 18
e: the original post was going to be that the states' problem is they don't let you drink early enough in life because drinking can quickly drown out any problems you have but i figured that one might hit a nerve somewhere
I always find it strange that people in their 20s here still don't know proper drinking rules. And that after three times of "never again!" they do it again. They just stop drinking whatever from that night. "oh i don't drink vodka anymore" and then they make themselves sick on whiskey. It's not the vodka alone that did it, it's the fact you drank nearly the entire damn bottle in an hour.
well it's true now that i think about it though, at least in my case
most of my graduating class got our hard partying done in grade 11/12 and by the time we hit university, except for people's birthdays, we generally just social drank without becoming ridiculously stupid at the same time
maybe my class was just unique i guess
e: my thing I guess too is that when I started drinking in highschool i had some weird fear of getting drunk so I learned to eat a piece of bread, have a drink, eat a piece of bread, have a drink
this habit eventually led into habits that made it harder to become stupid drunk and just led to me becoming "wow this bathtub is surprisingly comfortable" drunk
I've gotten stupidly drink twice. once at 16 were i drank nearly the entire bottle in 20 minutes, and then again at 19 were i had seven plus pints of wine on an empty stomach.
I would like to say i learned something, but I didn't. They were more a refresher course.
I can't drink fizzy drinks because it makes my gums burn as if the fiery lava of Mount Doom had been injected directly into them. So I have to drink wine or spirits but I hate wine so that leaves spirits. With spirits you either have a mixer or neat. Now neat is good for getting hammered but mixers are usually fizzy apart from, like Orange juice. Now, I like Orange Juice and I'll happily have Vodka and Orange but if I am just chilling with my friends why both with the Vodka? I'm not going to drink enough to get hammered anyway.
So these days most of the time I just get a J2O and enjoy that. Which is cheaper than alcohol and less damaging to my liver, and I am happy with this state of affairs.
so i guess my graduating class is just the smartest group of people in the world
the only guy i can think of that has a legitimate problem with alcohol still didn't technically graduate
i dunno
i guess we just all learned to grow up
maybe go get a PhD and teach university instead Ed?
I dunno how long have you been out of your graduating class? Also was it like 20 people because these claims seem suspect
just pushing two years now
and the grad class looking at my yearbook was 381 kids
to be fair though some of these kids i don't recognize so I'd say the portion I'm talking about is closer to 200
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But as Blake says, you're a lot smarter than them, you should feel superior.
It's okay because this is just a stepping-stone for becoming a famous writer. And when you are famous I can say "Ha! I knew him before he was famous."
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Confidence has very little to do with it, my issue is that I outright don't have any sympathy for half of these kids
I just see them in a decade's time still being fuck-ups, still being cushioned and shielded by a system that lets them get away with far too fucking much
We are going to push them out into the real world and then grin and say "SURPRISE! You're still a little useless shit and our standards are so ineffectual that we've doomed you to a life time of being ass fucked by society because you won't be able to function as an adult."
Half of these kids don't want to be here and my first instinct isn't to help them, it's to let them throw their own life away because they're not fucking primates, they have a glimmering of intellect and if they don't want help, fuck them, get them out of the system and wash our hands of them because we won't do them any favours whatever happens
Basically, fuck the school system and fuck me for being stupid enough to think education was a field I wanted the slightest thing to do with
I do not have an educator's mindset
Educators do not fantasise about picking up fourteen-year-olds and snapping their necks
you would be surprised
you wouldn't
because teenagers are horrid
The ones that really get up my nose are the kids who don't have anything "wrong" with them on paper, they're worthless bags of flesh who quite frankly need to die
Or better yet, let me have five minutes alone with their parents
I think if teaching required that you don't want to snap the neck of some of the kids at you school then there wouldn't be any teachers.
here the legal drinking age is 18
everyone starts illegally drinking at like 15
gets it out of your system and by the time you graduate the majority of your class isn't a bunch of fucking morons
young people are just universally awful
luckily they grow out of it
Which they are not.
If only they all did
Instead many end up as man-children, who go out and impregnate women
And the cycle continues
e: the original post was going to be that the states' problem is they don't let you drink early enough in life because drinking can quickly drown out any problems you have but i figured that one might hit a nerve somewhere
most of my graduating class got our hard partying done in grade 11/12 and by the time we hit university, except for people's birthdays, we generally just social drank without becoming ridiculously stupid at the same time
maybe my class was just unique i guess
e: my thing I guess too is that when I started drinking in highschool i had some weird fear of getting drunk so I learned to eat a piece of bread, have a drink, eat a piece of bread, have a drink
this habit eventually led into habits that made it harder to become stupid drunk and just led to me becoming "wow this bathtub is surprisingly comfortable" drunk
I did that when I was a teenager.
this is the point i'm driving i think
we got this out of our system in early highschool so later on it kind of just led to us drinking as a social activity without being stupid
and has further evolved into the "cold beer in a hot bath" routine 'cause i'm classy
I would like to say i learned something, but I didn't. They were more a refresher course.
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the only guy i can think of that has a legitimate problem with alcohol still didn't technically graduate
i dunno
i guess we just all learned to grow up
maybe go get a PhD and teach university instead Ed?
That's it! let's take this outside! Where we can discuss this like calm people outside the view of prying eyes!
I dunno how long have you been out of your graduating class? Also was it like 20 people because these claims seem suspect
I can't drink fizzy drinks because it makes my gums burn as if the fiery lava of Mount Doom had been injected directly into them. So I have to drink wine or spirits but I hate wine so that leaves spirits. With spirits you either have a mixer or neat. Now neat is good for getting hammered but mixers are usually fizzy apart from, like Orange juice. Now, I like Orange Juice and I'll happily have Vodka and Orange but if I am just chilling with my friends why both with the Vodka? I'm not going to drink enough to get hammered anyway.
So these days most of the time I just get a J2O and enjoy that. Which is cheaper than alcohol and less damaging to my liver, and I am happy with this state of affairs.
But I wish people wouldn't give me shit for it.
just pushing two years now
and the grad class looking at my yearbook was 381 kids
to be fair though some of these kids i don't recognize so I'd say the portion I'm talking about is closer to 200