there are specific bits and 'ideas' that i think are very obviously kind of individualized. like if you told louis ck's bit about "imagine your dead grandmom being the cadaver the medical student gets an F on". that is so niche and such a 'realized' joke that i would probably think less of someone who said it, if they didn't attribute it.
I dunno, I can totally see someone noticing an opportunity to either make this joke or a similar one, without them being consciously aware of where it came from. Like one elephant in the room is that people steal creative stuff all the time without being conscious of them doing it - if you stumble across something someone said that's similar to something you've said later, there's a good chance you actually stumbled across that first and lost the knowledge that you knew it.
i always like it when people from both sides of a discussion agree with my post
that's how i know i'm winning
or that you have conviction like america has good healthcare, and you're a spineless, fence straddling empty suit- an ideologue without any thoughts worthy of an impassioned defense.
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
I woke up this morning confused as to why I hurt
then I remembered hiking in Red River Gorge and the ensuing pullup contest with the kids who ended up being pretty serious climbers
there are specific bits and 'ideas' that i think are very obviously kind of individualized. like if you told louis ck's bit about "imagine your dead grandmom being the cadaver the medical student gets an F on". that is so niche and such a 'realized' joke that i would probably think less of someone who said it, if they didn't attribute it.
I dunno, I can totally see someone noticing an opportunity to either make this joke or a similar one, without them being consciously aware of where it came from. Like one elephant in the room is that people steal creative stuff all the time without being conscious of them doing it - if you stumble across something someone said that's similar to something you've said later, there's a good chance you actually stumbled across that first and lost the knowledge that you knew it.
like that time I discovered a polio vaccine and they kicked me out of the CDC for being "crazy"
English this year at my school is supposed to be conversation focused.
So my warm ups need to be conversation focused.
Having a hard time thinking of ways to make people who don't want to have conversations have conversations.
Mad libs. If artists have most of their creative blocks by having too many options, limit freedom by having your students pull nouns and verbs out of a hat and having a nonsense conversation. An ice breaker.
... this might be terrible advice for an ESL class.
See the problem is giving them incentive to do anything in the first place.
My students do not want to learn English, they are being made to learn English, this is not a voluntary thing on their part.
So, usually my warm ups are very much games, with winning and losing, and with winners getting a reward (stickers for the lower grads, stamps on a stamp card that when completed earns them a CD of English songs). They want to win for the rewards, they need to learn English to win.
I am having a hard time figuring out good incentives for conversations.
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there are specific bits and 'ideas' that i think are very obviously kind of individualized. like if you told louis ck's bit about "imagine your dead grandmom being the cadaver the medical student gets an F on". that is so niche and such a 'realized' joke that i would probably think less of someone who said it, if they didn't attribute it.
I dunno, I can totally see someone noticing an opportunity to either make this joke or a similar one, without them being consciously aware of where it came from. Like one elephant in the room is that people steal creative stuff all the time without being conscious of them doing it - if you stumble across something someone said that's similar to something you've said later, there's a good chance you actually stumbled across that first and lost the knowledge that you knew it.
like that time I discovered a polio vaccine and they kicked me out of the CDC for being "crazy"
To be fair, you just kicked down the door and ran in with a syringe screaming "IT'S FOR THE CHILDRENS"
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
also whoo boy did this conversation open me up to scrutiny if I ever post videos of my standup here
:bz
Sorry Tav
Already putting plans in motion to gain access to them
Ludious how are your haxxoring skills?
as far as I know, there's only one video on the youtubes and it has my real name which I don't really wanna openly associate with the forums (although it's been posted before, I don't really want it linked with my comedy stuff if that makes sense)
I actually rather like the video that's up (what I need to work on is my confidence and body language, because I'm an awkward dumpy lookin' guy anyway)
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Powerpuppiesdrinking coffee in themountain cabinRegistered Userregular
talk about the important things in life like jokes
instead of politics again
I met a much disliked politician at a student thing
we talked about comedy for about 5 minutes while students in various different political parties shouted abuse at him
i think that solidified me taking comedy more seriously than i ever will politics
you know the rule about not discussing politics or religion?
I think that rule is there because have more important things to talk about
that might be a sufficient reason to have the rule but it is far from necessary
political and religious positions are deeply held and discussing them in a way that anyone involved cannot gracefully tap out and do something else is fucking odious
English this year at my school is supposed to be conversation focused.
So my warm ups need to be conversation focused.
Having a hard time thinking of ways to make people who don't want to have conversations have conversations.
Mad libs. If artists have most of their creative blocks by having too many options, limit freedom by having your students pull nouns and verbs out of a hat and having a nonsense conversation. An ice breaker.
... this might be terrible advice for an ESL class.
See the problem is giving them incentive to do anything in the first place.
My students do not want to learn English, they are being made to learn English, this is not a voluntary thing on their part.
So, usually my warm ups are very much games, with winning and losing, and with winners getting a reward (stickers for the lower grads, stamps on a stamp card that when completed earns them a CD of English songs). They want to win for the rewards, they need to learn English to win.
I am having a hard time figuring out good incentives for conversations.
How about bluffing games? They're conversations. You could use Coup for that, no problems. Or Werewolf.
Also hidden information gap games, and question games (e.g. 20 Questions).
There's loads of options, although some of them may not involve what Japanese educators sometimes imagine 'conversation' to be (i.e. small talk).
English this year at my school is supposed to be conversation focused.
So my warm ups need to be conversation focused.
Having a hard time thinking of ways to make people who don't want to have conversations have conversations.
Mad libs. If artists have most of their creative blocks by having too many options, limit freedom by having your students pull nouns and verbs out of a hat and having a nonsense conversation. An ice breaker.
... this might be terrible advice for an ESL class.
See the problem is giving them incentive to do anything in the first place.
My students do not want to learn English, they are being made to learn English, this is not a voluntary thing on their part.
So, usually my warm ups are very much games, with winning and losing, and with winners getting a reward (stickers for the lower grads, stamps on a stamp card that when completed earns them a CD of English songs). They want to win for the rewards, they need to learn English to win.
I am having a hard time figuring out good incentives for conversations.
How about bluffing games? They're conversations. You could use Coup for that, no problems. Or Werewolf.
Also hidden information gap games, and question games (e.g. 20 Questions).
There's loads of options, although some of them may not involve what Japanese educators sometimes imagine 'conversation' to be (i.e. small talk).
Good ideas. Other trick is classes are 25-30 students, so, with a conversation focus it will be tricky to make sure they stay on task and don't just chat/play in Japanese, or do nothing at all.
Chu is probably good enough at haxxoring from school that we'll get him set up with like 9 monitors and a case of redbull and just have him montage us a super virus worm
English this year at my school is supposed to be conversation focused.
So my warm ups need to be conversation focused.
Having a hard time thinking of ways to make people who don't want to have conversations have conversations.
Mad libs. If artists have most of their creative blocks by having too many options, limit freedom by having your students pull nouns and verbs out of a hat and having a nonsense conversation. An ice breaker.
... this might be terrible advice for an ESL class.
See the problem is giving them incentive to do anything in the first place.
My students do not want to learn English, they are being made to learn English, this is not a voluntary thing on their part.
So, usually my warm ups are very much games, with winning and losing, and with winners getting a reward (stickers for the lower grads, stamps on a stamp card that when completed earns them a CD of English songs). They want to win for the rewards, they need to learn English to win.
I am having a hard time figuring out good incentives for conversations.
How about bluffing games? They're conversations. You could use Coup for that, no problems. Or Werewolf.
Also hidden information gap games, and question games (e.g. 20 Questions).
There's loads of options, although some of them may not involve what Japanese educators sometimes imagine 'conversation' to be (i.e. small talk).
Good ideas. Other trick is classes are 25-30 students, so, with a conversation focus it will be tricky to make sure they stay on task and don't just chat/play in Japanese, or do nothing at all.
Two Rooms and a Boom? That's available as PnP. Topic maybe no good.
Chu is probably good enough at haxxoring from school that we'll get him set up with like 9 monitors and a case of redbull and just have him montage us a super virus worm
English this year at my school is supposed to be conversation focused.
So my warm ups need to be conversation focused.
Having a hard time thinking of ways to make people who don't want to have conversations have conversations.
Mad libs. If artists have most of their creative blocks by having too many options, limit freedom by having your students pull nouns and verbs out of a hat and having a nonsense conversation. An ice breaker.
... this might be terrible advice for an ESL class.
See the problem is giving them incentive to do anything in the first place.
My students do not want to learn English, they are being made to learn English, this is not a voluntary thing on their part.
So, usually my warm ups are very much games, with winning and losing, and with winners getting a reward (stickers for the lower grads, stamps on a stamp card that when completed earns them a CD of English songs). They want to win for the rewards, they need to learn English to win.
I am having a hard time figuring out good incentives for conversations.
I hear the Japanese are really shy. You might do better to split your class into small intimate groups instead of having two students hold a conversation in front of the class.
English this year at my school is supposed to be conversation focused.
So my warm ups need to be conversation focused.
Having a hard time thinking of ways to make people who don't want to have conversations have conversations.
Mad libs. If artists have most of their creative blocks by having too many options, limit freedom by having your students pull nouns and verbs out of a hat and having a nonsense conversation. An ice breaker.
... this might be terrible advice for an ESL class.
See the problem is giving them incentive to do anything in the first place.
My students do not want to learn English, they are being made to learn English, this is not a voluntary thing on their part.
So, usually my warm ups are very much games, with winning and losing, and with winners getting a reward (stickers for the lower grads, stamps on a stamp card that when completed earns them a CD of English songs). They want to win for the rewards, they need to learn English to win.
I am having a hard time figuring out good incentives for conversations.
How about bluffing games? They're conversations. You could use Coup for that, no problems. Or Werewolf.
Also hidden information gap games, and question games (e.g. 20 Questions).
There's loads of options, although some of them may not involve what Japanese educators sometimes imagine 'conversation' to be (i.e. small talk).
Good ideas. Other trick is classes are 25-30 students, so, with a conversation focus it will be tricky to make sure they stay on task and don't just chat/play in Japanese, or do nothing at all.
Two Rooms and a Boom? That's available as PnP. Topic maybe no good.
Werewolf?
Warm ups are also only 15 minutes, and any game with complex or unusual rules will be hard because I can't explain them in Japanese and the teachers I team teach with won't be able to understand the instructions in English... My teacher with good English left this year.
I love the students but there are some aspects I am really not going to miss of this job.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
English this year at my school is supposed to be conversation focused.
So my warm ups need to be conversation focused.
Having a hard time thinking of ways to make people who don't want to have conversations have conversations.
Mad libs. If artists have most of their creative blocks by having too many options, limit freedom by having your students pull nouns and verbs out of a hat and having a nonsense conversation. An ice breaker.
... this might be terrible advice for an ESL class.
See the problem is giving them incentive to do anything in the first place.
My students do not want to learn English, they are being made to learn English, this is not a voluntary thing on their part.
So, usually my warm ups are very much games, with winning and losing, and with winners getting a reward (stickers for the lower grads, stamps on a stamp card that when completed earns them a CD of English songs). They want to win for the rewards, they need to learn English to win.
I am having a hard time figuring out good incentives for conversations.
I hear the Japanese are really shy. You might do better to split your class into small intimate groups instead of having two students hold a conversation in front of the class.
Oh, I am definitely thinking groups. Two students having a conversation in front of the class would be useless as they probably would say nothing, or, if they did, the other students would not pay attention or not understand or both.
Chu is probably good enough at haxxoring from school that we'll get him set up with like 9 monitors and a case of redbull and just have him montage us a super virus worm
One piece of toasted bread.
Layer with a little bit of ketchup.
Sprinkle diced, baked clove of garlic.
Put one small burger patty near the left edge of the bread.
Spread Thai chili paste on top of the patty.
Layer another patty on top of that, but up against the right edge of the bread.
Spread pesto over that.
Put thin slices and/or crumbled bits of toscano everywhere.
Sprinkle black pepper, red pepper, and salt everywhere.
Second piece of toasted bread.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
also, that competition tries to sell you your whole set for use in your showreel
which is why the video is only like 2 and a half I think?
I think I did five and a half, but I prefer the idea of just recording the next time I'm back in that club since I'll be doing 10 anyway
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I dunno, I can totally see someone noticing an opportunity to either make this joke or a similar one, without them being consciously aware of where it came from. Like one elephant in the room is that people steal creative stuff all the time without being conscious of them doing it - if you stumble across something someone said that's similar to something you've said later, there's a good chance you actually stumbled across that first and lost the knowledge that you knew it.
or that you have conviction like america has good healthcare, and you're a spineless, fence straddling empty suit- an ideologue without any thoughts worthy of an impassioned defense.
then I remembered hiking in Red River Gorge and the ensuing pullup contest with the kids who ended up being pretty serious climbers
well we all have to box in our weight class, ludious
not everyone can be a towering intellectual presence like me
i don't blame them
like that time I discovered a polio vaccine and they kicked me out of the CDC for being "crazy"
you know the rule about not discussing politics or religion?
I think that rule is there because have more important things to talk about
See the problem is giving them incentive to do anything in the first place.
My students do not want to learn English, they are being made to learn English, this is not a voluntary thing on their part.
So, usually my warm ups are very much games, with winning and losing, and with winners getting a reward (stickers for the lower grads, stamps on a stamp card that when completed earns them a CD of English songs). They want to win for the rewards, they need to learn English to win.
I am having a hard time figuring out good incentives for conversations.
To be fair, you just kicked down the door and ran in with a syringe screaming "IT'S FOR THE CHILDRENS"
your mom is a weight class
spoiler alert: I did not place in the pullup contest
That's tremendously impressive of you, morally speaking.
as far as I know, there's only one video on the youtubes and it has my real name which I don't really wanna openly associate with the forums (although it's been posted before, I don't really want it linked with my comedy stuff if that makes sense)
I actually rather like the video that's up (what I need to work on is my confidence and body language, because I'm an awkward dumpy lookin' guy anyway)
that might be a sufficient reason to have the rule but it is far from necessary
political and religious positions are deeply held and discussing them in a way that anyone involved cannot gracefully tap out and do something else is fucking odious
How about bluffing games? They're conversations. You could use Coup for that, no problems. Or Werewolf.
Also hidden information gap games, and question games (e.g. 20 Questions).
There's loads of options, although some of them may not involve what Japanese educators sometimes imagine 'conversation' to be (i.e. small talk).
Good ideas. Other trick is classes are 25-30 students, so, with a conversation focus it will be tricky to make sure they stay on task and don't just chat/play in Japanese, or do nothing at all.
this makes me far more happy than it should.
Chu is probably good enough at haxxoring from school that we'll get him set up with like 9 monitors and a case of redbull and just have him montage us a super virus worm
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Two Rooms and a Boom? That's available as PnP. Topic maybe no good.
Werewolf?
I never really liked it in the xenomorph design
it says modern art more than it says efficient predator
Ah, yes, the Harkonnen's palace.
Here's a piece of concept art i liked, a spice smuggler, it's supposed to be, i believe.
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is this swordfish
i only hack while being blown by a swedish whore
I hear the Japanese are really shy. You might do better to split your class into small intimate groups instead of having two students hold a conversation in front of the class.
Warm ups are also only 15 minutes, and any game with complex or unusual rules will be hard because I can't explain them in Japanese and the teachers I team teach with won't be able to understand the instructions in English... My teacher with good English left this year.
I love the students but there are some aspects I am really not going to miss of this job.
cool
Oh, I am definitely thinking groups. Two students having a conversation in front of the class would be useless as they probably would say nothing, or, if they did, the other students would not pay attention or not understand or both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZUWgRVVPIE
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
if you were a pira bombmaker i would run away from my family to be with you until the sas busted in and killed us both
my american sensibilities can't resist
Layer with a little bit of ketchup.
Sprinkle diced, baked clove of garlic.
Put one small burger patty near the left edge of the bread.
Spread Thai chili paste on top of the patty.
Layer another patty on top of that, but up against the right edge of the bread.
Spread pesto over that.
Put thin slices and/or crumbled bits of toscano everywhere.
Sprinkle black pepper, red pepper, and salt everywhere.
Second piece of toasted bread.
which is why the video is only like 2 and a half I think?
I think I did five and a half, but I prefer the idea of just recording the next time I'm back in that club since I'll be doing 10 anyway