30 “Why Are You Booing At Me? I’m Right!” Moments That People In This Online Group Experienced
Doubting your own knowledge is normal and it is actually a sign of intelligence, because even the great Greek philosopher once said “I know that I know nothing.” But there are times when you actually know something, but others are not that informed, so you are left in the place of a fool.
Reddit user SlashFan18 started a thread of people sharing their experiences of being in such a situation by asking them “What was your ‘Why are you booing me? I'm right’ moment?” and there are so many frustrating ones, some of which are actually quite concerning when they happen at school.
Do you have any similar tales to tell? Which one of these were you most surprised about? Let us know your thoughts and experiences in the comments!
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When I was in 1st grade, I said that electricity can be gained via water (hydropower), everyone started laughing at me until my teacher said: "He is right."
The whole class went silent.
It is just conversion of energy from one form to another. That has been happening for as long as there has been a universe.
We were doing a thought experiment in 1st grade about rescuing this fish from the ocean. I said we can put it in a fish tank to transport and people laughed at me saying "ocean water cant go in fish tanks"
I was usually right with my facts, but since I was unpopular everyone laughed at me by default.
Not unusual at all. Between 2015 and 2019, when I was guest teaching for a friend who was an economics professor, and teaching household economics as part of microeconomics, Gen Z students became incensed when I told them it was also cheaper to own one's residence than to rent. Some walked out. Some yelled incoherently. Most threw things: paper wads, pencils, erasers, sometimes small paperback books. Amazing.
Several times when I was teaching micro-economics, and I was showing students how and why it was cheaper to buy than to rent, Gen Z students became incensed, walked out, threw paper wads, pencils, erasers, spit balls and even small paperbound books. This was not an isolated incident. I laughed it off. But it happened several times between 2015 and 2019, when I retired.
When I was in 8th grade I made the (apparently controversial) statement that the number 2 is 2/3 of the number 3. I had 5 people try and convince me otherwise by doing long division on the board and saying, "see, it's not 2/3, it's 0.66 repeating." Bunch of mouth breathers.
If they had long divided 2 by 3 (as the line between the numbers 2/3 indicates) they might have witnessed a miracle...
Reminds me of when a girl in my class argued with me when we were eight because she insisted that two halves equalled a quarter.
I got downvoted like crazy for saying that a nurse told me that cold water and soap kills germs just as well as hot water when washing your hands. Linked some sources and everything. Then people started calling me a troll.
This was something I learned only after covid hit. In theory really hot water would kill germs better, but it would need to be so hot that you'd end up with burns in your hands
A college prof explained this to me once. Regular soap doesn't kill germs, it helps wash them away. Most of what we think of as "sticky" is chemical bonds between fats, sugars etc. That's how germs stay on things. Soap dissolves those bonds and captures the germs so they can be washed away. Hot water helps with that process, but if the soap is working, it's much better at it. So if you have no soap, hot water is better. With soap, doesn't really matter.
Load More Replies...I always thought this was a "no s**t" thing yet always get c**p for using cold water
It has so to with soap being a surfactant. Which removes germs. Some soaps have antibacterial ingredients that boost their efficiency. It also depends heavily on the type of germ and bacteria. Some do develop resistance overtime, for example there are several bacteria and germs that have become resistant to alcohol based sanitizers in hospitals. I always use cold water to wash my hands and skin, it does not dehydrate skin like hot water does. It's hard to get people to believe simple science when they have been indoctrinated for decades by companies and misinformed people.
I think cold water just doesn't with dissolving the soap as quickly and thus making it more difficult to remove certain things from your hands.
And FFS, please, everyone, stop using and/or purchasing antibacterial soap! It's pointless, largely ineffective to task, and is more or less nothing more than MarketingPRopaganda. Ordinary soap is perfectly capable of doing the job.
Grade 7 (Canada), we were learning about medieval Japan in Social Studies class (basically history class). I made a comment that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a kid said it was the Germans and some people backed him up. Teacher said she forgot who bombed Pearl Harbor but it wasn't the Japanese. If only smart phones existed back then.
Not much, probably, but the teacher was still incorrect
Load More Replies...To be fair - if we could have, we probably would have. (But at that point, there was no beef with the US yet, so there were no reasons. Had enough 'enemies to defeat' in Europe...
Load More Replies...Christ a teacher saying that should be frikking fires, somethings are just Basic knowledge.
Ouch, that pains me as a Canadian. Those folks probably support the convoy too.
That teacher is pathetic. I was a school principal and I would have put her on a Plan of Assistance and forced her to learn the curriculum of her grade level, I should have been able to fire her for stupidity but that wasn't allowed.
My class didn't believe me (teacher included but he admitted later that he was wrong) when I said that a third (1/3) of the english language come from normandic french.
Another time when I said that the wireless communication protocol's name, bluetooth, come from a king of Denmark that was called Bluetooth
F**k them I was right all along :'c
just wanted to back up what I said there before getting booed out of class - https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#:~:text=So%2C%20English%20is%20made%20of,loss%20of%20case%20in%20grammar.
Load More Replies...literally half of English is French cognates. most of the rest is German cognates.
Not quite - 29% French, 26% Germanic, 29% Latin, 6% Greek, 10% other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-language_influences_in_English#/media/File:Origins_of_English_PieChart.svg
Load More Replies...Chamois, Chassis, Bayonet, chartreuse, sabotage....probably added later but we a lot of other languages incorporated into English. It is a collision language born of the fall of the Roman empire and their abandonment of the island. Power vacuum and every one else invades. Normans, Saxons, Britons, Danes, Angles, even the Irish.
Wait....people don't know about Harald Bluetooth? He was called bluetooth because he had a dead tooth that had turned blue. The name for the technology was used because of his success in uniting Scandinavia. It wasn't really intended to be permanent. It was definitely the coolest thing they could have used.
Yes it's true and add in a bit of Latin and Spanish for good measure.
Shame we don't really have any of those fun Germanic compound words.
Me saying that Germany has a coastline, and everyone in class, including my teacher disagreeing. Still remember it over 12 years later.
Yes, and I took imaginary ferries from Kiel to both Sweden and Norway!
Load More Replies...Presumably American - they and geography do not mix.
Load More Replies...Not only was the teacher poor at geography but poor at history too. The North Sea was called The German Ocean before they lost World War 1.
Even if you don't know geography, just knowing some history and using common sense will tell you they have a coastline. They had a powerful navy in both world wars. They did not develop their navy after invading France or some other country, they had to have it before the wars
To be fair, I some countries that are now landlocked have had big navies in the past when they had coastlines. Austria did. Bolivia has both lost its coastline but still has a navy on lake Titicaca.
Load More Replies...An der Nordseeküste, am plattdeutschen Strand Sind die Fische im Wasser und selten an Land
The longest border France has is with... Brasil. Not intuitive so people to call ot BS, but it's true 😅
That's when you go pull down the big rollup map & use the laser pointer. I would have absolutely CRUSHED this teacher.
Class discussion on gay marriage in a sociology class in college, circa 2003. I stated the scientific fact that homosexuality has been observed in over 1500 species, and basically got booed/laughed at.
So... my mare is in a mixed herd. And most of the time when she is in heat her (new) crush is one of two geldings she likes. And she is not subtle in her advances. Quite the opposite actually she is a total stalker. Well recently her object of desire was the leading mare. My horse is bi.
I had a colleague whose husband told her homosexuality is unnatural (and against religion)and disgusting.I told her it's not really that uncommon as he thinks. She was sure her husband was right because he was a doctor.
Oh, how sad for her. Her husband must not have been a very good doctor. And let's face it, if some religions didn't evolve, we wouldn't have proper doctors. They would have been accused of witchcraft or doing the devils work. The irony of it all.
Load More Replies...People forget that Romans were notorious for same sex sex. And the early Wild West era.
There were some rules there. A Roman man was allowed to erm.. put it in another man's back door but wasn't allowed to be the receiver. They tended to use slaves as the receiver as having sex with a slave (of any gender) was considered to be a form of masturbation.
Load More Replies...Imagine introducing the concept of hermaphrodites to those numbskulls
Not only that, so many people ignore that historically many native, peoples accepted homosexuality. World over there are stories of love and acceptance even honor of homosexuality. Close minded religious leaders are the problem. They created hate, fed and fueled it.
Just the other day, there was a thread about "What do people get wrong about exercise?" I said that cardio is not about burning calories. It's about depleting sugar from your liver so no new fat is created. When you eat, the liver processes the calories into either energy or fat storage. When you exercise, the body uses sugars from the liver for quick energy. This is why marathon runners carb-load before a race. But even if you're not running a marathon, the principle still works. Do half an hour of cardio a day, deplete the liver, and no new fat will be created. Then, when you're just sitting around, there's no sugar in the liver, so the body has to break down existing fat for energy. Hence, you lose weight.
But the myth is that you eat x-number of calories, and then you have to do x-number of hours of cardio to burn those calories off. That's not how metabolism works. I even provided [links](https://youtu.be/LRkcvDyQwho?t=4283) from an endocrinologist explaining it. I mean, I agree exercise makes you lose weight, and binge eating sabotages the process, but it's not about "burning calories". It's about depleting the liver of glucose.
Of course, people don't like reading anything that challenges their pre-existing beliefs. So I had some guy calling me an a*****e, etc. I politely explained, "Just because you disagree, doesn't mean I'm automatically wrong."
Well, that and the heart and cardiovascular benefits.
Load More Replies...But isn't converting glucose to energy literally burning calories, as calorie is the unit for energy (technically it's Joules but the food industry still uses it). I understand that you can't just 'cardio off fat' for an x amount of time to amount for the calories consumed in a meal prior to exercise though.
Yepp. So it IS about burning calories - just in a different place than most people assume.
Load More Replies...The thing is, you do still have to burn however many calories you eat in order to not gain weight. It doesn't have to be through cardio, but if you eat 8,000 calories and do 30 minutes of cardio and absolutely no other movement for the whole day, you will gain weight.
Because the live will be filled up quickly and creates new fat-cells, yes.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of a Stewart Lee thing. He got into an arguement with a taxi driver, laid out his case, and the cabbie says, "Yeah, well... you can prove anything with facts, can't ya?" dismissively. This was a very interesting read. Thank you.
Do the cardio, clean the liver out, then go for coffee and a couple of jam donuts. Put it all back.
In 2nd grade I joined the robotics club. One day we were learning about how an animals bones affect the way animals move, and the teacher asked “ Give me examples about animals with spines” I said snakes. She said snakes are like worms and lack spines.
Never seen a snake skeleton? Almost all school trips to zoos or wildlife parks I went to had at least one snake skeleton around, as well as all the reptile incursions that came to the school.
Okay, while a teacher should know this, I can say (being one myself) that teachers are expected to know everything about every subject! It's impossible to know everything that your students might want to know from literature to history to science to economics to politics, especially when you teach the older grades. I've found myself telling my students many times that I'd have to look something up and get back to them. It can be really hard to expect to have all the answers all the time.
That's the point, admitting you don't know or don't remember something is preferable to insisting on something wrong.
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In kindergarten I drew a picture of grapes and colored them green and the other kids AND the teacher/caretaker were saying there are no green grapes, only purple
White wine often comes from red grapes but the skins are not left to colour the juice
Load More Replies...Actually, they are not called "green" grapes. White grapes are so commonly called "green grapes" due to their appearance. They look green. White grapes are green due to them being rooted from purple grapes.
I think you need to distinguish between "colored them green" (as the OP says) and the common name "white grapes". It wouldn't be correct to say "colored them white", would it?
Load More Replies...I have green grapes growing on a vine my dad planted 40 years ago. There are definitely green grapes. The teacher never saw them at the grocery store?? Never had white one and wondered why it was white???
When I was in 11th grade, we were in Hawaii on a "field trip" with our band. Every 2 years the band would go somewhere special like FL or CA for college football bowl game halftime shows- we got lucky and got to go to in early Dec and play for WWII veterans on the deck of the USS Missouri. Anyhow, one day on the bus I opened a coloring book I brought to pass the time and I was coloring a hippo brown. The entire bus started making fun of me and arguing with me that hippos were not brown- they were grey. This went on for 2 days. Finally, when we had free time, 2 friends and I walked to the nearby zoo so I could show them the hippos. And damn if those things weren't brown. Did I also make them tell everyone when we got back? YUP!
Where I live, back when I was a kid, you would more likely get confused looks if you drew purple grapes. Green grapes were almost all you saw around then. It is only in the last 10-15 years purple grapes have become more popular.
4th grade. We had our first laboratory class and we were learning about the lab instruments and basic safety.
We were divided in around 4 tables with 6 students each, and each table had a flask with coloured water in it. The teacher told us to by turns each one grab the flask and pretend to mix the liquid by spinning it.
The first kid in my table grabs the flask but in a way that his hand covers the flask's mouth. I tell him such and that he should grab it by the neck sides instead of the mouth because if it was acid it could splash to his palm and hurt him. The other kids at my table started calling me a crybaby saying that it obviously "isn't acid" and that it was only "coloured water like the one they use in my juice", and they all proceed to hold and mix it improperly.
Eventually the teacher teaches us the correct way to hold flasks and mix them after seeing everyone grab them incorrectly. He tells us to grab them by the neck sides (just like I said) and to not cover the mouth with our hands because if it was real acid we could get seriously hurt (just like I said).
I still get a bit salty when remembering that.
Our chemistry teacher first day of class asked a student to pick up a beaker. Student yelped and dropped it. “Lesson #1 - hot glass looks the same as cold glass”. Gave a beaker filled with clear liquid to another student and asked them to take a good sniff. Student started coughing on the vinegar fumes. “Lesson #2 - never inhale an unidentified substance”.
Weeell, if you were working with with acid, you'd be wearing acid-resistant/proof gloves. And goggles. And a face shield and maybe a hard hat...neoprene jacket...pants...rubber workboots or slip-ons. HAZMAT truck driver here.
Is "flask" another term for a beaker? Flask in the US generally means a small container of alcohol you can carry with you.
In 5th grade we have a problem on Math class with mirroring images. It asked if you are driving in a car and look in the rearview mirror how would you see the ambulance embleme if an ambulance car was driving behind you. I said you would see AMBULANCE because (at least in my country) those signs are intentionally put on mirrored, so you can see it normally in a mirror. Everyone said I was stupid even the teacher. I still remember it after 8 years.
'They are' , or 'they're '.....oh the irony :p ... don't hit me :D
Load More Replies...I'll admit I never noticed before, but that comes from simply recognizing the ambulance and moving out of their way as quickly as possible. Next time I see a parked one I'll take the time to look at the wording. :)
years ago when I was in middle school, two mentally challenged kids got into a fight in class. it wasn't like a full out fight, mostly pushing, but they definitely got into it with each other. turns out kids heard about this, and the egged them on so that they would fight outside during lunch. I somehow found out about it, and when I got there, the two kids started to have a full on fist fight. As all the kids surrounding them cheered I rushed in to break them up. It was difficult breaking it up because the two kids really were going after each other, and no one else really helped to break it up. Eventually teachers caught wind and broke it up. As they did, kids started to literally boo me and curse at me for breaking up the spectacle. I was shocked. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some white knight and I totally get it that when you're a kid you love watching fights. Heck even as adults we have some primitive innate entertainment by watching people duke it out, but there was something incredibly wrong about watching two mentally challenged kids being egged on to fight to the amusement of kids who were laughing at the situation.
I thought it was gonna say people scolded them for having to be physical with mentally challenged kids in order to break it up, but the real story is so much worse.
I have a problem with anybody using violence to solve an argument or frustration however, why are so called" sane" or "intelligent and reasoning" people offended or shocked if two mentally challenged kids get physical about something? They still feel, and get frustrated, have sexual urges, or jealousy. Id be bothered if a non mentally challenged child attacked a mentally challenged child. Further, same principal applied in assuming mentally challenged children/people are all sweet, or nice. Ummm no, their basic character could be nasty, just like er hmmm "normal thinking" people. We humans are a funny lot, always assuming what we think the world should be from our personal perspective (me included)!
It's the part where they're being egged on and pushed to fight by people who (should) be more aware of the repercussions than they are. It's like "using" a small child to murder someone by convincing it to shoot a real gun: If people use their mental advantage to get others to fight, especially for their amusement, it's sickening! I've had to take care of a mentally challenged boy in a school setting when I was just 18 years old, and there were too many children who would tease that 8-year-old, who could barely count to 4, but was scarily strong and big (he reached my shoulder height and was definitely heavier than me (F) at 18). When he'd snap and grab or hit someone, those children would play innocent and say they were just playing... I got some of them to change their attitude, but there's still too many people who think it's fun to take advantage of mentally challenged people.
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I’ve had many booed moments, but this is a more recent one. In my science class we were watching a few documentaries about the US space program, and the topic of pollution came up with fuel consumption and in the midst someone asked about where the parts of the rocket go once they are abandoned by the spacecraft. I commented how it just falls and NASA pretty much just hoped that it didn’t fall on people. One of the reasons they launch out of Florida or a cape is so the parts end up in the water and not hitting civilization, but nobody believed me since it would be then that NASA is polluting the ocean.
Just wait until they find out how planes get rid of the lavatory storage...
Used to. Not any more. They collect it in a tank now and empty it on the ground. Trains used to do similar, which is why they asked you not to flush the toilet whilst the train was in the station.
Load More Replies...My understanding is most of the rocket parts are in orbit around the earth, hence why there is a huge space debris problem right now.
Rocket parts most often burn up completely upon reentry, or are guided so that any debris which survives lands in the ocean (China is famous for not caring and letting it land anywhere). You're thinking of satellite parts which remain in orbit. The boosters that launch earth-orbiting satellites are always intended to return not long after launch.
Load More Replies...Depends on the parts... The bigger stuff actually parachutes down and NASA recovers them. But yeah into the ocean so they don't hit people.
I guess they don't remember Skylab. The world watched to see where a whole freaking space station was going to fall.
Wow "They Are Abandones?" I guess that's what happens when you don't require at least a high-school education to be on the internet.
I recently decided to retire from a somewhat dangerous profession in order to better look after my mental health, but a lot of people didn't like it and thought I owed it to them to keep working.
I'm still learning to be on board with the loss of disposable income leaving a somewhat dangerous profession that was terrible for my mental health. I feel like I'm not doing as well financially so I'm letting people down. But I haven't had to crawl under a 1200 degree vessel to reconnect a wire, or been inside a reactor, pressure vessel or boiler in a while and I'm happier for it most days
Good for you - that is definitely the right thing to do. I worked in a stressful (not dangerous) job for twelve yrs and when eventually I resigned my boss couldn't understand why I would possibly want to leave working for her. I had read a quote that said 'You can't get angry with people sucking the life out of you if you keep giving them the straw'. I am now in a much less stressful work environment earning less money but I am so much happier. You did the right thing - never second guess yourself !!
I was once in a chorus in my community college and they had interesting social dymanics. It was primarily older white women, who were the alphas of the group. So we were doing a latin american carol called "vamos pastorcitos" and there was debate between them about the pronunciation of the "c" I said the soft c is pronounced like an s, an old lady in the group said it was pronounced like the ch in cheese. I said "you're thinking of italian, in Spanish it's pronounced as an "s" or in many european spanish dialects like a "th"" The choral conductor went with her churchy old lady friend and they all pronounced it like "Vamos pastorcheetos" it still haunts me to this day.
Heh. My mom took Spanish in high school in Louisiana. In the 60s. Let your imagination run wild with that.
My cousin's French teacher has a thick Southern accent, lol
Load More Replies...When I was a toddler my parents were friends with a Cuban couple. I learned Spanish from them. Whenever I talk about that my mom tries to correct me and say I didn't speak Spanish, I spoke Cuban. She tries to make me look stupid when I correct her. *facepalm*
Not sure about Cuban Spanish, but my first teacher taught us Mexican pronunciation. We weren't really taught anything else about the dialects there, though. Only that it was practically a separate language from anything in Spain and the rest of Latin America. Kind of like Catalan not particularly being Spanish.
Load More Replies...There are differences between Spanish dialects - particularly the z, which in Castillian is more of a "th" sound, but elsewhere is a "ss" (as in "loose").
In Spain "ce" - "ci" is pronounced as "th" in "thick" but some accents of Andalucía say it as "s"
Mercury & Caballé singing "Barchelooooooonaaa"
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The question in history class was "who sacked Rome" and I raised my hand and answered "the Visigoths." Everyone laughed along the lines of "that's a ridiculous name there's no such thing as the Visigoths" and that the Vandals sacked Rome, which is where we get the word vandalism from.
While yes, the Vandals did sack Rome, so did the Visigoths in the year 410.
Who sacked Rome? A lot of people. Rome's been sacked so often that if it had a resume, that resume would be rejected on first reading.
"Visigoths" = western Goths, "Ostrogoths" = eastern Goths. Simplified, but, yeah...
Vandal was a name given to them by the Romans. It means "wanderer" and implies they were nomads.
Where would we be without barbarians? Those people were, at least, some kind of solution.
Me telling Grade 11 University High School students it's not unrealistic to know basic conversion factors (i.e. 1km=1000m).
Edit: I should clarify, which is gonna make this that much worse. This is in Canada, where the Metric system is a thing.
I worked in a carpentry, and funny thing, we used both systems, imperial and Metric, for raw materials ( logs, and rough boards ) it was all imperial, after it had been processed it all Metric.
Inexcusable. By 11th grade, it should be old knowledge. We learned about metric conversions in like grade 4 or 5.
Even people who use Imperial know basic metric conversions, at least for the common units
As I scrolled down, I thought they meant inches to mm, feet to metres, ounces to grams, degF to degC. Then I read it was km to m!!! Oh boy
I forgot Pluto on my list of planets in 3rd grade. Got a B+ instead of an A. Should've gotten extra credit.
Who's laughing now, m***********s?
Depends on what year it was. Before Pluto demotion or after. Still salty about Pluto losing the planet title, even if I do understand that it doesn't fit the planet criteria
who ever said being made a dwarf planet is a demotion, it is merely a difference in classification
Load More Replies...It depends on who you ask. Many people still consider Pluto to be a planet. It is just a matter of opinion. Humans don't have authority on other celestial bodies.
As far as I'm concerned, Pluto was and still is a planet. I don't care what scientists say.
I don't get how people don't understand that having a protoplanet right in our own solar system is much more significant that a moon-sized planetoid. It's a wonderful opportunity to learn about the formation of planets.
I say we promote Ceres and Makemake to planet status along with Pluto!
What about Charon? Pluto and Charon orbit a central point.
Load More Replies...I don't understand why they changed it. B****, you made the definition of what a planet is, you could change it to include Pluto!!!
A professor in undergrad asked what the orbit speed of the Space Shuttle is. I volunteered 18,000 MPH (its 17.5k MPH) and he laughed and said absolutely not, and compared it to the speed of an airliner (~500 MPH).
F*****g idiot.
In second grade (~8 years old) we had a presentation in the school library regarding something related to the solar system. The presenter asked if anyone knew the speed of light. I raised my hand and proudly said 186,000 miles per second (Thank you, Magic School Bus). Apparently his pre-prepared speech did not involve the first person having the correct answer, and I could tell he really wanted to say no. Thankfully he did not.
There's something to be said for teachers who treat their students like morons: they're awful.
Load More Replies...I watch a lot of flat earth "debates" and this is something they use a lot, incredulously claiming those speeds are impossible and that astronauts wouldn't be able to handle those speeds. Speed is relative, and our bodies can't even detect constant speed, only change in velocity.
I've worked in technical support for over 20 years, it happens to me on a weekly basis. Usually it's the network admins trying to prove me wrong, they're the biggest divas in the IT industry. Yes, your precious network is misconfigured. No, I don't care how many certifications you have.
I once made a mocha cake for the IT guy after waiting 7 years for something that took him about 2 hours. I was really happy and that was his favorite.
Good. We appreciate cake. Nearly as good a folding beer tokens. ;-)
Load More Replies...You’ll need to go through the trouble shooting steps showing where it’s a networking problem.
Try working in the cable infrastructure side of the IT industry. All of the other IT fields are the biggest divas and it's always 'the cable's bad'. None of them want to acknowledge that their system could be at fault or, THE HORROR!, they did something wrong. For those who may not know, the cable infrastructure side of IT is considered to be the lowest of all of the IT fields (read this as meaning stupid in the eyes of the other IT fields) and the techs in the other fields like to prance on their education even when their own intelligence/knowledge isn't quite up to par. The really important aspect of the cable infrastructure side of IT is that none...yes, even wireless...will work without cable infrastructure.
Degrees and certification are just pieces of paper if you can't back it up with actual knowledge.
100% on the network admins. Back in the 80's or 90's, our art department could only use Macs, and our network was PC based. Admins said they couldn't hook Macs up to the network. One of the artist's husband, who had been hired as a tech specifically for our department due to more of a need, set it all up. They whine & cried but it worked fine. That guy was amazing, and he was a quite, soft spoken guy who never bragged. But I loved that he was married to the crazy, colorful-dressing artist lady. They were such a cute couple. Whenever they went on vacation, they never packed. They bought EVERYTHING on the trip as part of the fun.
A chemistry teacher in high school once very solemnly warned students of the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. My dad had told me this joke before, so I knew where it was going. While she was going on about how it causes flooding, thousands of annual deaths, and has even leaked into the water supply (in high enough doses, it's poisonous), I started cracking up in the back. Literally everyone in class looked at my like I was a sadist, and one girl asked real seriously "why are you laughing?" until the teacher started laughing, too. She had me come to the front of the class and write out the chemical formula for the whole class, where they learned that dihydrogen monoxide = H2O = water. Also, got into an argument with a kid in the 6th grade that 100 times 100 was 10,000 and not, in fact, 1000. When I put it on a calculator, he said the calculator was wrong. Then we asked a custodian passing by, and she agreed with him that 100*100=1000. (-_-)
You don't need a calculator or even a pen and paper. You can just move the zeros from one of the numbers to the other number.
THE CALCULATOR WAS WRONG! BAAAAAHAHAHA. Now that is what I call being deliberately obtuse.
Oh sure, I'm positive the school janitor knows more than an actual calculator 🙄 (*Just to be clear, not shaming anyone for their job AT ALL...but when I look for correct information inside a school, I'm going to ask a teacher, not Groundskeeper Willie)
Quick cure. "Solve this math equation, and we will use your formula of choice to determine how much your next paycheck will be."
I was working on a team of people building a race car. I told them a part that was technically strong enough should be built heavier to handle shock loads from bad track conditions.
I got told I was a m**on and it would be fine someone else ran the numbers and it would be fine. So I built the parts put them on the car and lo and behold it broke and the car ended up on it's roof.
You'd think that would be validation of my opinion, and people would agree that I was right. Not how it happened. I was the a*****e because I built them, so it was my fault.
d-did bp just censor moron??? i'm afraid there's no hope for the censorship
Also w**m and ***t. Oh no, pl**se st*p! Wh*t's h***ending he*e? Aaa***aah! ***
Load More Replies...Dude.... You know that group B rally Cars weighed around 750/800kg and those where 500+ BHP rally Cars, they Run in Asphalt, gravel, mud, dirt, and Snow. Heavyer does not mean stronger.
Once in middle school, the teacher said that carnivore dinossaurs like the T-rex appeared in the jurassic era, then I said that the T-rex was actually from the cretaceus period. The teacher and the some students said that I was wrong because "It's called Jurassic Park" and s**t. On the next day, I brought some sources from the internet that agreed with me and the teacher corrected herself after doing some quick search on her own, but that didn't stop me from getting nicknamed "dinossaur" in class.
I always thought all dinosaurs existed at the same time until I started watching Dinosaur Train.
THAT fücking guy 🤦🏻♀️ His "museum" also shows humans riding on dinosaurs and coexisting with them. And he received tax breaks and dollars to fund and build that place.
Load More Replies...Yeah... I'll admit that I was under the impression that T-Rex was from the Jurassic period as well. Then I read the Animorphs book In The Time Of The Dinosaurs and saw that it was said they were from the Cretaceous. Had to look that one up when I read it.
I used to be a hockey ref, so all the f*****g time.
hey ref are you pregnant?? you missed 2 periods!!! ;) ;) ;) as a former hockey player... i can only imagine the things you heard lol
Yep. Sometimes it gets embarrassing. The Refs sometimes make mistakes, but not nearly as much as the complaints would make it seem. From what I saw as a former goalie, the mistakes they make for both sides tended to even it out, and not really affect the overall score of any given game.
Load More Replies...I live in a tiny rural Midwest town surrounded by cornfields. HS refs for FB games are supplied by the home team. They are usually parents or other volunteers. I love when we play teams visiting from far off. Fans will complain about refs not knowing the game...must never have played etc. One of our refs played as a pro in the NFL for 6 years...
A teacher in biology GCSE was discussing a food pyramid of a river habitat, and she claimed that "10 Sprey" were at the top of the food chain. I pointed out "Miss, I think that says '1 Osprey'." She snarled and said "Fine. Everyone, anon thinks he knows better than me, so now it's 1 Sprey." The whole class groaned and were muttering as they had to cross out what they'd written and rewrite it, and people on my table were giving me evils and telling me to be quiet. Utterly ridiculous that I even passed that subject.
Yes, and it's that bird of prey who is the top of the river habitat food chain
Load More Replies...Utterly ridiculous that a biology teacher doesn't know what an oprey is (and BP thinks it's a fish - if you have no clue look it up!)
Were all the animals numbered, or why would they even suspect that "10 sprey" is an answer?
I got into a similar situation with a teacher over the pronunciation of the word "Carcharodon" when discussing Sharks, he tried to belittle me for telling him the correct way by pointing out that I was only 12 and couldn't know better than him to which I responded that he'd already admitted he never knew Great White Sharks were called "Carcharodon Carcharias" but I did because I saw Jaws when I was 4 and was down the library the next day to get a book on Sharks and by the time I joined his class I'd easily read over a hundred books on Sharks and watched every documentary on them I could.
I, at age 10, once had to correct a teacher who insisted that a clock that is slow had to be put back to be the right time. Took a few goes to convince her. They do not like to be corrected.
I loved maps, and the first time I spotted "Iceland" my classmates disagreed when I called it Iceland, and they say that it's called **ai-land.**
They dismissed me and wouldn't even look. Still remember it to this day.
edit: I told them there exists a country called Iceland, they keep shutting me down and say it's ai-land (island).
Funnily enough in Scandinavian languages it is Island. But "is" in those means "ice" in English and is _not_ pronounced ai
"Is" is pronounced "ice", is it not? In Danish, isbjørn is a polar bear (ice bear) and "is" is either ice or icecream - I won't go into "Kylling og Soft-ice", but I'll leave you the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f085YkS8UEo
Load More Replies...My bff is from Scotland and his 16 year old daughter corrected her teacher on how to pronounce Edinburgh. PS For those wondering, the correct pronunciation is "Aiden-brah".
If the classmates call pronounced Iceland as *ai-land* I daren't think how they would have pronounced Ireland
My daughter had a teacher in third grade that told her that swedish pancakes were really just crepes. She had no idea what to do since her teacher told her something that she eats all the time wasn't what her parents told her it was. Her next project about a week later was about other cultures so I had her do a report on Sweden. Guess what was included in that report and guess what she brought to class to share with everyone during her report out to class. Teacher said nothing but did give her an A.
Not sure if it's the same recipe but here's mine. Crepes-631...aabffd.jpg
crepes is just a french word for european panecakes :D how good they are depends on your skills and recepie but its all the same s***
No! There are many types of pancakes eaten across Europe (and elsewhere). They vary a lot in thickness, sweetness and fillings/toppings. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake.
Load More Replies...Well… yeah, yeah I’d say so. Except ours are always sweet, no exceptions. I was VERY surprised when I had “pancakes” in the US, I remember that. They were great, but absolutely not like anything I’d ever heard been called pancakes before in my life.
In Europe Pancake is a general term for a lot of different things. Crepes are big and thin, can be eaten with sweet or savory toppings. This is most common in hotels and events though. There are also blini - thick small ones from one tablespoon of batter, fried in lots of oil, several on one pan in parallel. Then there are sour milk pancakes. Also ones with curd in the dough called syrniki and so on.
The Finnish pancakes look similar to the Swedish ones, but we eat them with jam and sugar. Maybe whipped cream as well.
My swedish pancakes are 3 dl milk, 1 dl flour, 2 eggs, and some salt and butter. If I want more pancakes I just double all ingredients.
American here furiously internet searching on how to measure dl so i can make your recipe.
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Me, in science class at middle school, saying that water expands when it's heated up, and everyone including my science teacher saying I was wrong and that water only expands when it freezes and becomes ice
Don't worry, my high school chem teacher was a card carrying member of the flat earth society.
Load More Replies...Water is unique in that it expands in both states. From The Naked Scientists: Ice, on the other hand, is very unusual in that, as it gets colder, although the particles are certainly vibrating less, it nonetheless expands or gets larger. The reason for this is due to the strange shape of water molecules. If you've ever seen a picture of a water molecule you'll know that it looks like a "Mickey Mouse" head, with an oxygen atom where Mickey Mouse's face is, and then two hydrogen atoms where his ears are. The oxygen atom is slightly negative, and the hydrogens are slightly positively charged, so water molecules tend to stick together forming what are called hydrogen bonds. Owing to the water molecule adopting that shape, the way water molecules tend to link together in the liquid state is to form a very open structure with big holes. That means, there's quite a lot of extra "empty" space. When water freezes, the molecules get themselves into the most stable configurations.
or positions that have the minimum amount of energy in the resulting ice crystal. It so happens that the arrangement of water molecules that best satisfies this requirement is one that takes up even more space. And so ice expands when it freezes.
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When I suggested in high school that the Science fair should be voluntary and not mandatory since 90% of the people in the class do their projects at the last minute with their parents doing almost all of it. The teachers and my classmates told me I was wrong and how valuable the Science fair was.
Lo and behold the day the projects were due literally everyone was complaining as to why it was mandatory since they did their projects at the last minute with their parents doing all of the work.
I don't know why schools try so hard to FORCE every kid to have the same set of skills. Everyone needs the main points of history, basic math, reading, spelling, and grammar. Everything else some people won't like and that's okay. Some people will hate reading books and writing reports or essays. Some people will hate lab experiments. People are all different.
It's because-here in the US, at least-public schools rely on government grants for their funding. And those grants are given out based on test scores. Higher scores=more funding. So they push every student through an educational assembly line, regardless of skill level, learning ability, or preferences, focusing mainly on the material covered in those tests, and not teaching basic life skills. It comes from high above, and teachers have no say in it. As a result, we have people who know maths, but not how to file their taxes. We have people who know what prepositions and adverbs are, but not how to create a resume. It's a shítty system. And it needs to change.
Load More Replies...Science fairs should be mandatory. Same reason that you to have write book reports. Its about applying the basic skills of the field. Not everyone needs to know the 5 steps of the Krebs cycle but you need to have science fair projects in school to prove you can apply the scientific method to make conclusions about things in your own life. Otherwise its getting A's on all of your spelling tests but not being able to read. A book report on Harry Potter shows you applied the skills you know on something you cared about and were able to get meaning out of it. There's also nothing wrong about waiting until the last minute to do it. Life has many demands and I guarantee at least some of the people reading this waited until their kid rejected dinner for the third time before unconsciously using the scientific method to figure out how to get peas into a 3 year old's mouth.
A professor “corrected” my paper by crossing out Tuba City and writing Yuma. They are both in AZ. Apparently he had never heard of Tuba City and assumed I was mistaken.
My friend thinks that the voyage 1 is outside our galaxy just because it's in inter steller space he thinks that means out side the galaxy. Even after I showed him on google he still says he's right and got his friends to try to intimidate me all because he thinks he knows everything about space
"the five boroughs of New York City are also counties."
TIL that the five boroughs of New York city are also New York counties.
What's the difference between a burough and a county? (genuine question, not the beginning of a joke😂)
I’m gonna start this off by saying I’m terrible at most sports. Something I am good at, though, is tactics.
Anyways, I live in a country that is not famed for baseball. In fact, baseball isnt really all that known here. But for some reason, my high school continues to this day to include baseball in its curriculum. Safe to say, none of the teachers or students had anything but a basic grasp of the game.
However, thanks mostly to my grandad, people in my family actually played and coached baseball at points in their lives. And although I’d never really played, I knew how the game worked.
But there is one moment that stands out. My class was playing baseball, and I was chosen to be the pitcher. Now, I can’t throw very well, but I managed to strike out three people in the first inning. Which I thought was pretty good considering we were loosing. Well, my friends thought otherwise, and told I was “cheating”. They got the teacher involved, and I was banned from pitching for the rest of the match.
I still don’t understand.
If baseball is part of the curriculum, then why didn't the school hire a coach or teacher with a basic understanding of the game???
At a guess for the same reasons that coaches (e.g. in the US, according to users) get delegated the task of teaching history or English teachers sciences: budget. Though in this case the more reasonable approach would be to alter the school's curriculum. It's a very personal preferance but I seriously think either (or any) topic to be more important than teaching baseball, especially if it's tought badly.
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When my teacher asked to see on which finger i lost a nail so i showed him my middle finger.
I seriously sprained that finger on my right hand a couple months ago. I had to keep telling people I wasn't flipping them off when I was trying to hold a pen or pencil.
Well, I once accidentally punched a friend in the eye when trying to swat a fly, so I feel you
I saw Mr Roger's do that one time showing kids how to count. You can find it on YouTube now.
On r/PersonalFinance, an 18 year old was asking if they should take out a $50k student loan. They didn’t need it to pay for college (parents paying), but interest was 1%. Everyone was saying that he should take the loan and invest it, since the market typically returns well above 1% and they could make money on it.
I got downvoted to hell for saying that, at age 18, they have no clue if they will be responsible with that kind of money, and there is a big risk that they will end up spending a lot of it on things they don’t need. People tore me apart for thinking that “someone shouldn’t make a great business decision for psychological reasons”, but I saw plenty of people in college make the mistakes that I mentioned. Better to avoid the debt if they can.
Edit: A couple people have asked about the legality of taking a student loan and investing it. This student was not based in the US (one of the Scandinavian countries, if I recall correctly), and I know that even in the US it is possible. Some of my grad school loans were designed to cover my living expenses, so the money was just deposited in my account (though way less than $50k). The only thing stopping me from investing it was not being able to afford to.
Age has little to do with being good with money. Ideally, people SHOULD be able to make financial decisions at 18 because they're adults. Sure, older people tend to be better with money on average because they've lived more and learned more, but that doesn't mean you can't be responsible from a young age.
You would be right for most people like my daughter or my eldest son but not my youngest son who had his own financial manager at 16.
If he has a financial manager then he's not managing his money. You just proved OP's point.
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I’m an absolutely idiot, but I do have brief moments of intelligence (I swear), and one of them was my 3rd grade teacher tried to teach us fractions literally using the Monty Hall problem and jelly beans, and kept shaming me when I got it right.
The Monty Hall problem is a bit of a mindf**k, but it’s essentially this: if you’re on a game show with three doors, two of which have a goat behind it and one of which had a car, picking it right the first time has odds of 1/3.
If the host opens one of the doors revealing one of the goats, and asks if you want to switch your door pick, staying with your original door has odds 1/3, but switching is 1/2, shifting the entire equation. This is a mindfuck but it’s true, and I found out later that teacher kept making fun of me for saying it when weirdly I was actually right. Going to haunt me forever.
Two quick edits: 1) it's 2/3rds not one third, i remain an idiot.
2) The teacher didn't *intentionally* use the Monty Hall problem, they did it by accident by having jelly beans under paper cups, and would show us an empty paper cup to 'change the fraction' to what she claimed would be 1/2-1/2. She was wrong, and weirdly enough I was right, but she kept me up in front of the class to use me as an example of 'getting it wrong.'
I once long ago got marked down on a test for stating that it was better to switch.
Er, no. Shouldn’t have edited. When all three doors are closed you have a one in three (1:3) chance of picking the right door I.e 33.3% or 1/3 probability of choosing correctly. Once you have eliminated one door by opening it, you have one in two chance of getting it right based on the remaining two doors I.e 1:2, 50% or, yes 1/2 probability.
no, switching improves the odds. You choose a door, there is 1/3 change you are right, 2/3s chance you are wrong. The host gives you more information by opening an incorrect door. But you are still choosing between 3 doors, there is still a 1/3 chance you are right, and a 2/3s chance the car is in one of the other 2 doors. Since you know it isn't in the open door, that other closed door has 2/3 chance of being correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem has a good table to show this visually
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Over the summer before 2nd grade my father took me to the Detroit Historical Museum where I learned that Detroit, like Chicago, had a huge fire that destroy much of the city.
The first day or so of class, we had to tell everyone what we did during the summer. I share that we went to the museum and I learned about the fire in Detroit. The teacher told me that it was Chicago that had the fire and I was wrong. As a 2nd grader I didn't know how to handle an adult being wrong so I started crying in front of the class.
Later that day at recess some of the kids were teasing me for crying so I hit one of them pretty hard. I got in trouble for starting a fight and was sent to the office. Things spiraled from there and that is how I got 5 to 7 on an Alabama chain gang. I was right though damn it!
Once, aged 12ish, was in class, teacher held a quiz for fun, one question was name 4 seas. I said Black, Red, Yellow and White. I did not get a point for that answer. Not until I asked for an Atlas and showed him the various seas. He had acknowledged Red and Black, he did not know about Yellow and White.
How does a teacher not know about the Yellow Sea? Admittedly I didn't know about the White Sea, but I'm not a teacher. 😁🤷
Load More Replies...I was downvoted and banned from BP for a week for stating a fact that would be useful to a lot of people. Nothing personal, nothing offensive, just counterintuitive. I'm still salty about it and I will never tell you guys again.
It's always mind boggling to be reminded just how arrogantly, confidently and entirely full of s**t people can be
I am a native (and educated) english speaker, but lived in Geneva for many years. When the teenage daughter of a friend had her English essay wrongly corrected she checked with me, and I confirmed that her version was right, and the french-speaking teacher and her correction were wrong. Wrote her a note for the teacher explaining why. She was suspended for disrespecting her teacher and querying her errors.
That's dreadful. But at least she knew what was correct
Load More Replies...I was once told by a teacher that we never tested nukes in space and that rockets that powerful didn't exist before the treaty banning tests in space... despite there being at least 5 tests above the Karman line, nuclear artillery shells, human space flight, probes to the moon, Mars, and Venus all before the treaty.
Been there!! I was in Panda Prison for having an opinion about food allergies...lol
Load More Replies...I was about 10, when the school teacher told the common children's story that the fox is bad that they steal our livestock. I was an early boomer, so I raised my hand and told the class that fox eats for their own survival. The teacher then made fun of me in front of the entire class saying I was as bad as the fox.
Back when I was in middle school, my maths teacher was discussing temperatures. We spoke about body temp being 97.4 degrees. My maths teacher said it's amazing how blood was near boiling point. Wasn't impressed when I pointed out the difference between Centigrade & Fahrenheit!
Was on a small plane from Kathmandu to Lukla, we are landing way quicker than we should be in my mind, other people on plane start chanting "Lukla Lukla Lukla", I'm saying this isn't Lukla, there is a river, a long runway, this is not Lukla. Wasn't Lukla.
I once got ridiculed as gullible and laughed at after explaining tetragametic chimerism. This is by a group of intelligent, educated, and scientifically literate adults.
On one hand, it's not well known. But on the other hand, you learn by listening, not by jeering, so they weren't that bright
Load More Replies...Once, aged 12ish, was in class, teacher held a quiz for fun, one question was name 4 seas. I said Black, Red, Yellow and White. I did not get a point for that answer. Not until I asked for an Atlas and showed him the various seas. He had acknowledged Red and Black, he did not know about Yellow and White.
How does a teacher not know about the Yellow Sea? Admittedly I didn't know about the White Sea, but I'm not a teacher. 😁🤷
Load More Replies...I was downvoted and banned from BP for a week for stating a fact that would be useful to a lot of people. Nothing personal, nothing offensive, just counterintuitive. I'm still salty about it and I will never tell you guys again.
It's always mind boggling to be reminded just how arrogantly, confidently and entirely full of s**t people can be
I am a native (and educated) english speaker, but lived in Geneva for many years. When the teenage daughter of a friend had her English essay wrongly corrected she checked with me, and I confirmed that her version was right, and the french-speaking teacher and her correction were wrong. Wrote her a note for the teacher explaining why. She was suspended for disrespecting her teacher and querying her errors.
That's dreadful. But at least she knew what was correct
Load More Replies...I was once told by a teacher that we never tested nukes in space and that rockets that powerful didn't exist before the treaty banning tests in space... despite there being at least 5 tests above the Karman line, nuclear artillery shells, human space flight, probes to the moon, Mars, and Venus all before the treaty.
Been there!! I was in Panda Prison for having an opinion about food allergies...lol
Load More Replies...I was about 10, when the school teacher told the common children's story that the fox is bad that they steal our livestock. I was an early boomer, so I raised my hand and told the class that fox eats for their own survival. The teacher then made fun of me in front of the entire class saying I was as bad as the fox.
Back when I was in middle school, my maths teacher was discussing temperatures. We spoke about body temp being 97.4 degrees. My maths teacher said it's amazing how blood was near boiling point. Wasn't impressed when I pointed out the difference between Centigrade & Fahrenheit!
Was on a small plane from Kathmandu to Lukla, we are landing way quicker than we should be in my mind, other people on plane start chanting "Lukla Lukla Lukla", I'm saying this isn't Lukla, there is a river, a long runway, this is not Lukla. Wasn't Lukla.
I once got ridiculed as gullible and laughed at after explaining tetragametic chimerism. This is by a group of intelligent, educated, and scientifically literate adults.
On one hand, it's not well known. But on the other hand, you learn by listening, not by jeering, so they weren't that bright
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