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Yes, but you're not discussing "things." You're insulting people. That's not what this board is for. (And please, do as all the intellectual courtesy of not trying to paint your comments as something other than insulting.)Wolverine18 said:
This after you made specific mention of the "Sheldon complex?" It might occur to you that we don't need you to protect us from the untruths of the world. I won't speak as definitively as you do, but I'll offer this -- Would you consider that someone who seems to greatly enjoy targeting what they feel are the disingenuous motives of others, speaking in very absolutist terms, might just have a similar superiority complex and need for attention that they're pointing out in others?
I'd say it's possible.
Don't pretend you're being helpful. Pointing out the weaknesses in others, especially on the internet, is a brilliant way to avoid recognizing our own weaknesses. It could be that's what you're doing. Or it could be that you get criticized a lot in the real world -- by friends/teachers/parents/bosses/etc. -- and this is where you come to vent that frustration. It could be a lot of things, but you'll notice I'm not telling you what you think/feel/are.
If you'd learn anything about teaching people things like this, it's that people don't respond well when their weaknesses are pointed out in a confrontational way (see, for instance, your response to this very post).
Slapping someone with what you feel are "hard truths" is still slapping them, and they'll justifiably respond to the slap before the truths. Instead, trust that the world will eventually corner us all so that we have to deal with our own weaknesses, and there's no one to blame but ourselves. Focus on your own weaknesses, and leave all these others (who you're so much better than) to learn in their own time.
I know he had to pay for minor damages to the car, and he got 20 hours of J.U.Gs (Justice Under God, Jesuit school form of detention). I think any normal kid would've gotten suspended/kicked but his family was really influential (rich, politicians, etc). I don't know if the teacher got compensated for the books, but they didn't move the kid to another class or anything. We did get a permanent sub, though, for the rest of the year like a week after it happened.IamQ said:
I don't think he was treated any differently, the rich kids generally did stupid shit like that, I really don't know I didn't hang out with the rich kids since I was one of the poor kids in the school. I don't know if it was before or after the book thing, but at someone's party he pushed an exercise machine (I think a BowFlex?) from the 2nd floor into the pool. The kid who hosted the party ended up having to call the cops on his own party because it got so out of hand.IamQ said:
It was humorous as a freshman until we realized that they basically handed them out like candy. If you swore you'd get an hour per letter in the word. If you had extra pockets on your pants you'd get one per pocket (this was when things like cargo pants and carpenter's pants were in style). They gave them out for the dumbest things imaginable.Phasmal said:
Not sure if this classifies as stupid, but I found it to be very stupid, if not strange and disturbing.
Back in my Freshman days at my high school, I was attending an English class with an eccentric girl that sat next to me. She wasn't particularly stupid or a bother, but she always had a strange habit that baffled me until I was older.
I would always be prepared for school, always having the necessary supplies with me. In English, since we wrote a lot, I always carried around a little bottle of White-Out (used to cover up an ink mistake on paper and write over it). Everytime I took out my White-Out, she would always ask to use it. At first, I though she was legitimately using it for her paper, but one time I happened to look at what she did with it, only to find out that she would just sniff and inhale the smell/fumes that resonated inside the bottle.
I actually asked her once why she did that, as it smelled horrible, and she quickly replied, "Because it smells good and I like the smell." I later learning that smelling different forms of paint chemicals could actually get people high and this was probably likea small hit to her. I didn't know this, though, so instead I purchased an odorless form of the White-Out. When she could no longer smell the White-Out, she ceased to ask me for it.
Back in my Freshman days at my high school, I was attending an English class with an eccentric girl that sat next to me. She wasn't particularly stupid or a bother, but she always had a strange habit that baffled me until I was older.
I would always be prepared for school, always having the necessary supplies with me. In English, since we wrote a lot, I always carried around a little bottle of White-Out (used to cover up an ink mistake on paper and write over it). Everytime I took out my White-Out, she would always ask to use it. At first, I though she was legitimately using it for her paper, but one time I happened to look at what she did with it, only to find out that she would just sniff and inhale the smell/fumes that resonated inside the bottle.
I actually asked her once why she did that, as it smelled horrible, and she quickly replied, "Because it smells good and I like the smell." I later learning that smelling different forms of paint chemicals could actually get people high and this was probably likea small hit to her. I didn't know this, though, so instead I purchased an odorless form of the White-Out. When she could no longer smell the White-Out, she ceased to ask me for it.
That might be the biggest dick move I have ever heard. A small part of me just lost its faith in humanity.Rednog said:
Had one guy that I used to always forget his last name. I used to describe him as: Cory, about yay high, dark hair, and fucking stupid. People instantly recognized him by that description and would say: would say oh him! Anyway this guy used to never do any work and just say some of the dumbest things I have ever heard from a human being or even animal.
We had these weekly reports in business class which were simply find a business article, cut it out, summarize it and reflect on how it affects business. Very simple info regurgitation. Most weeks he would not summarize or reflect on the article and attempt to hand in the cut out piece of newspaper from the sports section (I guess this made sense to him since he was on our crap hockey team and thought he was going to be an NHL player.) I don't know how my teacher conjured up the patience to deal with Cory every week but he would provide Cory with an article every week and walk him through the steps of what to do, more often than not it wouldn't get done in an entire 90 minute class. I should mention at this point that the teacher usually had to provide the paper and the pen as well since Cory never seemed to have any, and the class boycotted lending anything to him as he tended to just sit and chew on the pens in between his stupid comments or questions during the lesson.
Sorry I got way too sidetracked on how much this guy showed his total lack of intelligence. The short story I wanted to get to was that one of the times that Cory didn't bring in a newspaper clipping, pen or paper, and the teacher provided him with all of the above he simply sat in the desk right beside the teacher and ate the newspaper.
We had these weekly reports in business class which were simply find a business article, cut it out, summarize it and reflect on how it affects business. Very simple info regurgitation. Most weeks he would not summarize or reflect on the article and attempt to hand in the cut out piece of newspaper from the sports section (I guess this made sense to him since he was on our crap hockey team and thought he was going to be an NHL player.) I don't know how my teacher conjured up the patience to deal with Cory every week but he would provide Cory with an article every week and walk him through the steps of what to do, more often than not it wouldn't get done in an entire 90 minute class. I should mention at this point that the teacher usually had to provide the paper and the pen as well since Cory never seemed to have any, and the class boycotted lending anything to him as he tended to just sit and chew on the pens in between his stupid comments or questions during the lesson.
Sorry I got way too sidetracked on how much this guy showed his total lack of intelligence. The short story I wanted to get to was that one of the times that Cory didn't bring in a newspaper clipping, pen or paper, and the teacher provided him with all of the above he simply sat in the desk right beside the teacher and ate the newspaper.
Sounds to me like this kid wanted attention. I don't know why but I freaking despise people that demand approval from others. Now I sound like a total jerk, great.Sexy Devil said:
Are you sure he wasn't.... mentally challenged?Rayne870 said:
Actually I love Big Bang Theory. I don't think I act like Sheldon though. I'm not nearly obsessive enough. The monkey thing is just me poking fun at these people, I got it from someone else on this thread. I never "insulted all kids except myself". When the class was walking to slow, I am a faster paced person, I didn't push past them or anything, I just ignored them and let them ignore me. Hell, there were a lot of kids I liked or at least appreciated. I never said I was ultimately above them though. I am just as guilty of being just as if not more petty as them. I had plenty of friends. I didn't isolate myself from them, I just let them have their circle of friends and I had mine. I only highlighted "FOOTBALL team" because I couldn't figure how to make the damn text in italics. lol. And the football team COULDN'T be the "dumb jocks". In order to make it onto the team and stay on the team you had to maintain a minimum grade point average. One member of their team gave me a place to sit one day when I didn't have any of my friends sharing that lunch period with me. I did not fail to see that he didn't need to do that. He was a really cool guy too. Though ultimately the principal and my parents agreed I am too mature for the pettyness of High School. I am much more interested in calm logical debates about things like politics or businesses, than the usual fare of High School experiences.Wolverine18 said:
There weren't any mega retards as have been mentioned, but there were a few twats.
There was a fat boy - a hipster fat boy at that, chubby as the day is long - who decided it would be funny to whip me round the head with his belt. The metal part. I decided it would be appropriate to put my arm to his throat and force him into a coat peg. That felt right.
There was also a Turkish lad who thought he was something, he walked into our Geography class with this cheap plastic diamond ear-ring in; now since just about everyone (teacher included) disliked him, I quickly said (In a fine London/Turkish accent to mimic his own) "J, mate! Nice 99p bling bling ear ring!". He snapped and tried to beat me up until my friend leaned back onto him causing him to fall over and knock over a table in the process. It gets better, my teacher got him kicked out of school for the next 3 days and as soon as she sent him out of the room she started laughing like hell.
In fact, in the same class we had a boy who just so happened to have a... western version of the Karma-Sutra (correct my spelling), this very same teacher caught him reading it mid-lesson. It gets better, she took it off of him and just started reading through it completely poker-faced as we just stood there with blank looks on our face until I went "Fair enough" and went and stood next to her and started reading it whilst everyone else had this stunned expression on their faces.
Good times indeed. I can say good times because I'm recently out of school.
Oh, the luxury of rapidly approaching responsibility.
There was a fat boy - a hipster fat boy at that, chubby as the day is long - who decided it would be funny to whip me round the head with his belt. The metal part. I decided it would be appropriate to put my arm to his throat and force him into a coat peg. That felt right.
There was also a Turkish lad who thought he was something, he walked into our Geography class with this cheap plastic diamond ear-ring in; now since just about everyone (teacher included) disliked him, I quickly said (In a fine London/Turkish accent to mimic his own) "J, mate! Nice 99p bling bling ear ring!". He snapped and tried to beat me up until my friend leaned back onto him causing him to fall over and knock over a table in the process. It gets better, my teacher got him kicked out of school for the next 3 days and as soon as she sent him out of the room she started laughing like hell.
In fact, in the same class we had a boy who just so happened to have a... western version of the Karma-Sutra (correct my spelling), this very same teacher caught him reading it mid-lesson. It gets better, she took it off of him and just started reading through it completely poker-faced as we just stood there with blank looks on our face until I went "Fair enough" and went and stood next to her and started reading it whilst everyone else had this stunned expression on their faces.
Good times indeed. I can say good times because I'm recently out of school.
Oh, the luxury of rapidly approaching responsibility.
What shocks me is how these idiots remember enough to do well at tests.
In secondary school I was in the 3rd highest science set. (out of 8)
I couldn't be any higher since I didn't get a levle 5 in science in primary school.
The top two sets do triple science.
When REVISING global warming, a girl asked "Is global warming a bad thing?"
I understand that now that sounds like the start of a debate, but at that point was widely accepted to be bad, at least, for humans.
Later in the same lesson they asked "If the Earth becomes uninhabitable, can't we jsut move to Mars?"
If you want stupid to the levle of possibly having a mental disability, in primary school there was a boy who played with strips of paper and would complain "Awww, it's broken!" whenever sewing when he didn't tie a knot at the end so he kept just pulling his thread all the way through. He always needed help, in everything. The word "an" was on his spelling list.
In secondary school I was in the 3rd highest science set. (out of 8)
I couldn't be any higher since I didn't get a levle 5 in science in primary school.
The top two sets do triple science.
When REVISING global warming, a girl asked "Is global warming a bad thing?"
I understand that now that sounds like the start of a debate, but at that point was widely accepted to be bad, at least, for humans.
Later in the same lesson they asked "If the Earth becomes uninhabitable, can't we jsut move to Mars?"
If you want stupid to the levle of possibly having a mental disability, in primary school there was a boy who played with strips of paper and would complain "Awww, it's broken!" whenever sewing when he didn't tie a knot at the end so he kept just pulling his thread all the way through. He always needed help, in everything. The word "an" was on his spelling list.
That's usually what people say when they enjoy phrasing the "truth" in inflammatory ways... often, notably, without being asked.Wolverine18 said:
Perhaps you're not familiar with the multiple ways in which quotation marks work? Yes, they can be used for a direct quotation, but they can also be used when a phrase is being used in a special or uncommon way -- in this case, I took a couple terms from what you said and I put them together into a term that summarizes the idea. The Chicago Manual of Style could tell you some about it.
You mentioned, among them, that Sheldon thinks himself superior to others. I can agree -- he is constantly issuing uninvited corrections on people that, however accurate, are generally seen as rude, presumptuous, and, well... very Sheldon. You're doing the same thing, equally uninvited.
It's so noble of you to embrace your "flaw" when that flaw is finding fault in others. What a sacrifice you've made. But just because you're okay with your flaw doesn't mean you should run about inflicting it on others -- regardless of your awesome profession.
All you've done is take someone's story, draw some pretty out-there assumptions from it, and then use those assumptions to be what amounts to an intellectual bully.
So, what, your "weakness" is that you're too awesome to ignore the weaknesses of others? That's like those idiots in interviews who, when asked their greatest weakness, say things like, "I'm just too punctual/attentive/motivated sometimes!"
But regardless, your claims had even less foundation than mine. They were assumptions, however informed you might think they are. You don't know the guy. All you know about him is what he said in the post, and text does not accurately convey everything about a person.
No, you're not. If you were sharing, you'd have told a personal anecdote. You skipped that part, and went straight to telling him who he was and how it's wrong and what he should change. That's not sharing.
He didn't invite your reply. He told a personal anecdote. You could have replied asking for clarification, additional details, or other tidbits that could have guided the conversation in that direction for the both of you... but you didn't. You decided you know what's best, so you skipped a few steps (his steps).
Also, my reply? Yeah, you did, in fact, invite it. He was just telling his own story. You were bullying someone else with your super-awesome-professional brain. That's certainly grounds for butting in. And now, as you're obviously not the sort that endures such awful weaknesses as "empathy," I can see this will do no further good, and I'm butting back out.
My mother was a high school math teacher. On occasion when her workload got too high to handle, I would be conscripted into helping her grade some of her tests. One particular question she had on a test was:
There are X states in the United States of America. X equals__.
Her students gave a wide variety of answers. 48, 52, 51 and a few X's. Most of these students had been born and lived their entire lives in the USA and yet couldn't be bothered to even memorize the number of states.
There are X states in the United States of America. X equals__.
Her students gave a wide variety of answers. 48, 52, 51 and a few X's. Most of these students had been born and lived their entire lives in the USA and yet couldn't be bothered to even memorize the number of states.
There was one classmate who could not point Finland in the world map (our home country), he instead pointed at UK. There was also one classmate who would cry almost EVERY DAY. he would cry if he could no keep up with rest of the class, he would cry if he lost his gloves, he would cry if he lost his toothbrush etc...
Could be that, or could be that after a lifetime of people assuming I'm an idiot due to a fine motor skills disability making it difficult to do basic tasks like tying my shoes/writing/eating and getting mocked relentlessly for it ever day, I get annoyed by the general internet superiority complex.Anti Nudist Cupcake said:
Did you misquote me? I don't think you're an idiot, your grammar tells me that you certainly do not spell like an idiot. I simply hate the trait of demanding attention and approval from others at the expense of your own health/the belongings of others.Sexy Devil said:
There does seem to be a huge superiority complex on the internet though... Like people who post math and satire posts just to catch the people who didn't "get" it.
EDIT: Oh no wait, sorry, I misquoted YOU.
I quoted the wrong post, that thing about hating attention was not intended to be towards you. I meant to post to that guy who talked about that other guy who threw books for attention. I hate the act of wanting attention. SORRY! MY MISTAKE!