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.
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.
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
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.
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
Me saying that Germany has a coastline, and everyone in class, including my teacher disagreeing. Still remember it over 12 years later.
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.
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."
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.
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
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.
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.
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’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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. (-_-)
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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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...It's not all like that... I remember when I was in high school in the UK, the history teacher was rabbiting on about an Anglo-Saxon (or something) burial site ("Sutton Hoo"?) where the Big Boss was buried with his Whacking Great Viking Ship (I forget the precise details, this was way pre-internet) and how kick-a*s his followers must have been to drag that ship 10 miles or so inland, said burial site being that far from the sea. To which my 14-or-something old self said "[male cow excrement], no way is anyone that dedicated", and a little research with actual books'n'stuff (remember this was way pre-internet) proved that a) said site was less than two miles from a river, and b) the area was notorious for its historical land accumulation, so way back whenever the sea would have been a lot closer. Happily for my self-confidence, rather than being humiliated, said teacher actually praised my investigations and corrected himself.
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...In Second grade, we went to a science museum. It was a museum made mostly for kids and families, so no weird complicated facts but big graphics and interactive stations. One station showed how much time it takes for a lightbeam to travel travel to the moon. It showed s little light spot going from earth to moon and back with a clock running simultaneously. Result was 1.3 seconds, so the distance was 1.3 lightseconds. Stated that in class the next day when asked about our favourite station. Teacher said - you could expect it - that „lightseconds“ can’t measure distance, because it had „seconds“ in it. Another day, same teacher. She said, paper has no thickness and thus is 2-dimensional. I brought a measuring device to proof her wrong. I was a quirky boy back then. But stories like this still get me a little bit angry.
Got shewed up in a Facebook group about me commenting how a certain tax law works in my country. Because I - apparently - did not know what I was talking about. The question (about taxation on company cars, when employees use them outside work) is one of the most asked questions I get in my work as an accountant. I have worked with taxation and taxation laws for a couple of decades, so what do I know?
Lots of bad teachers in these stories... When I was 9 years old, I had a teacher like that, who contradicted everything I said, she told me b******t like that "Yes, there were dinosaurs in the time of cavemen" (and she didn't talk about the birds). Fortunately, I have my parents who raised me well and taught me critical thinking. After this teacher, I went to school for me, to learn and not because I had to go. In the end, thanks to my teacher, stupid old cow
In the year 1999, people were getting ready to celebrate the start of a new millennium. I told people who I knew that the new century and the new millennium will start January 1, 2001, not January 1, 2000. Nobody believed me.
In AP German class, the topic of Tourrette's Syndrome came up. I mentioned my dentist had Tourrette's and was strongly chastised by my teacher for "saying such an awful lie." Same teacher accused me of making a loud anti-catholic remark and was about to send me to the office when another student fussed up to it. She refused to apologize because we had similar voices. I have a Texan accent, the other kid was from Afghanistan, so I'm not sure how that is, exactly. FU Frau Schmidt.
Don't remember how this happened in highschool but, the teacher and us students got into talking about the bible and Adam and Eve eating from the fruit of the tree that God told them not to eat from. I then talked about how God found out what Adam and Eve did, what he said to them and their punishment and I said it word for word as it was written in the bible. All of the students and the teacher said I was wrong. That none of that was written in the bible.
I used frequent this club. Not a very 'friendly' club in anyway. The locals themselves weren't very bright or, shall I say, not 'forward thinking' towards mordern ways (add an 'ism' and you'll get what I mean). But I went there because a few of my mates went. I remember saying (no idea why this came about, probably one of those late night convos) that if you dropped to object regardless of weight from the same height that as long as they were of the same material they'd hit the ground at the same time. I remember the reaction from the WHOLE place was that I should be on fire and burned as a witch for such a ridiculous idea..
I was in one of the first classes to show teachers how to use computers in the classroom. I was already familiar with them. Just wanted the certificate so I could get some for my art classes. They did not know that where I worked before had cash registers that were computerized. I was the go to person if one went on the blink to help some clerk in another store get it up and running again. Usually step by step over the phone. Anyway the instructor kept giving us wrong info and I would have to raise my hand and explain how that wouldn't work. She made assignments on one program in class that we did not have on our class computers and what we did have was not compatible with her program. She also wanted us to create address books of all our friends and relatives with all their info. Phone, address, etc. Nope. Manna for hackers. She showed us how to network to her computer to get our assignment. Which allowed us full access to all her files. Don't do that because....she didn't believe me.
Now 70 y.o., I've had tons of times of being "wrong," then shown to be correct, but the two that stand out clearest: In 1998, I was entering doctor's orders on a computer, and a so-called "very smart" male nurse was standing there. I made the observation that it wouldn't be long before we'd be able to see others via computer, and he called me "STUPID! Computers are only receivers, not senders!" The other was when I said that drone technology was becoming so advanced, there would be drones so tiny, they would be able to hover unnoticed outside windows and take pictures. I was told I was incredibly stupid for saying that---and less than one year later, it was all over the Internet that such tech had been developed---and look at drones now.
Back in the "dark ages", you know, the 1950's, 60's etc., we had things called libraries. They had books called Encyclopedias. They had things called maps. They also had paper things called BOOKS, that covered nearly everything that had happened in history. You had an info line that you could call during library hours that was manned by a librarian, who could look up a question in one of those books. Since back in those days there was no "hold" button, they put down the phone to go find the book and you got to hear all the conversations in that room, if they were close to that phone. No muzak (elevator music company), no ads, no voice telling you to press one to be called back. If the teacher would or should have "shelved" any doubtful comments with 'we will check that and see'. As far as the Germany question about having a shoreline, if these modern classrooms got rid of their WORLD MAPS, they have done a HUGE DISSERVICE to all of the current kids going to school.
Grew up in the southern us. English teacher (new) said we say a-Kern, that's how it's spelled. The word is acorn. This was 7th grade.
I don't understand how so many complete morons were giving teaching certificates. I rather expect that my kid's kindergarten teacher will actually know more than him.
From Mexico, I once was "corrected" by a teacher in secondary school telling me that the word "paraguas" (umbrella) had a dieresis, as in "paragüas". But this is incorrect. In Spanish you only need dieresis if the syllable is either "güe" or "güi" to distinguish them from the sounds "gue" and "gui". So if you say "paragüitas" that does need a dieresis, but not the syllables "gua" or "guo". We discussed that for over 15 minutes and my classmates were just too embarrassed and scared to be on my side, so they feigned not knowing. The teacher didn't recognize her mistake and I never saw her the same after that lol
I'm still salty that my friends didn't believe me when I said gay couples have been allowed to foster children for a number of years now. Edit: in Australia
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...It's not all like that... I remember when I was in high school in the UK, the history teacher was rabbiting on about an Anglo-Saxon (or something) burial site ("Sutton Hoo"?) where the Big Boss was buried with his Whacking Great Viking Ship (I forget the precise details, this was way pre-internet) and how kick-a*s his followers must have been to drag that ship 10 miles or so inland, said burial site being that far from the sea. To which my 14-or-something old self said "[male cow excrement], no way is anyone that dedicated", and a little research with actual books'n'stuff (remember this was way pre-internet) proved that a) said site was less than two miles from a river, and b) the area was notorious for its historical land accumulation, so way back whenever the sea would have been a lot closer. Happily for my self-confidence, rather than being humiliated, said teacher actually praised my investigations and corrected himself.
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...In Second grade, we went to a science museum. It was a museum made mostly for kids and families, so no weird complicated facts but big graphics and interactive stations. One station showed how much time it takes for a lightbeam to travel travel to the moon. It showed s little light spot going from earth to moon and back with a clock running simultaneously. Result was 1.3 seconds, so the distance was 1.3 lightseconds. Stated that in class the next day when asked about our favourite station. Teacher said - you could expect it - that „lightseconds“ can’t measure distance, because it had „seconds“ in it. Another day, same teacher. She said, paper has no thickness and thus is 2-dimensional. I brought a measuring device to proof her wrong. I was a quirky boy back then. But stories like this still get me a little bit angry.
Got shewed up in a Facebook group about me commenting how a certain tax law works in my country. Because I - apparently - did not know what I was talking about. The question (about taxation on company cars, when employees use them outside work) is one of the most asked questions I get in my work as an accountant. I have worked with taxation and taxation laws for a couple of decades, so what do I know?
Lots of bad teachers in these stories... When I was 9 years old, I had a teacher like that, who contradicted everything I said, she told me b******t like that "Yes, there were dinosaurs in the time of cavemen" (and she didn't talk about the birds). Fortunately, I have my parents who raised me well and taught me critical thinking. After this teacher, I went to school for me, to learn and not because I had to go. In the end, thanks to my teacher, stupid old cow
In the year 1999, people were getting ready to celebrate the start of a new millennium. I told people who I knew that the new century and the new millennium will start January 1, 2001, not January 1, 2000. Nobody believed me.
In AP German class, the topic of Tourrette's Syndrome came up. I mentioned my dentist had Tourrette's and was strongly chastised by my teacher for "saying such an awful lie." Same teacher accused me of making a loud anti-catholic remark and was about to send me to the office when another student fussed up to it. She refused to apologize because we had similar voices. I have a Texan accent, the other kid was from Afghanistan, so I'm not sure how that is, exactly. FU Frau Schmidt.
Don't remember how this happened in highschool but, the teacher and us students got into talking about the bible and Adam and Eve eating from the fruit of the tree that God told them not to eat from. I then talked about how God found out what Adam and Eve did, what he said to them and their punishment and I said it word for word as it was written in the bible. All of the students and the teacher said I was wrong. That none of that was written in the bible.
I used frequent this club. Not a very 'friendly' club in anyway. The locals themselves weren't very bright or, shall I say, not 'forward thinking' towards mordern ways (add an 'ism' and you'll get what I mean). But I went there because a few of my mates went. I remember saying (no idea why this came about, probably one of those late night convos) that if you dropped to object regardless of weight from the same height that as long as they were of the same material they'd hit the ground at the same time. I remember the reaction from the WHOLE place was that I should be on fire and burned as a witch for such a ridiculous idea..
I was in one of the first classes to show teachers how to use computers in the classroom. I was already familiar with them. Just wanted the certificate so I could get some for my art classes. They did not know that where I worked before had cash registers that were computerized. I was the go to person if one went on the blink to help some clerk in another store get it up and running again. Usually step by step over the phone. Anyway the instructor kept giving us wrong info and I would have to raise my hand and explain how that wouldn't work. She made assignments on one program in class that we did not have on our class computers and what we did have was not compatible with her program. She also wanted us to create address books of all our friends and relatives with all their info. Phone, address, etc. Nope. Manna for hackers. She showed us how to network to her computer to get our assignment. Which allowed us full access to all her files. Don't do that because....she didn't believe me.
Now 70 y.o., I've had tons of times of being "wrong," then shown to be correct, but the two that stand out clearest: In 1998, I was entering doctor's orders on a computer, and a so-called "very smart" male nurse was standing there. I made the observation that it wouldn't be long before we'd be able to see others via computer, and he called me "STUPID! Computers are only receivers, not senders!" The other was when I said that drone technology was becoming so advanced, there would be drones so tiny, they would be able to hover unnoticed outside windows and take pictures. I was told I was incredibly stupid for saying that---and less than one year later, it was all over the Internet that such tech had been developed---and look at drones now.
Back in the "dark ages", you know, the 1950's, 60's etc., we had things called libraries. They had books called Encyclopedias. They had things called maps. They also had paper things called BOOKS, that covered nearly everything that had happened in history. You had an info line that you could call during library hours that was manned by a librarian, who could look up a question in one of those books. Since back in those days there was no "hold" button, they put down the phone to go find the book and you got to hear all the conversations in that room, if they were close to that phone. No muzak (elevator music company), no ads, no voice telling you to press one to be called back. If the teacher would or should have "shelved" any doubtful comments with 'we will check that and see'. As far as the Germany question about having a shoreline, if these modern classrooms got rid of their WORLD MAPS, they have done a HUGE DISSERVICE to all of the current kids going to school.
Grew up in the southern us. English teacher (new) said we say a-Kern, that's how it's spelled. The word is acorn. This was 7th grade.
I don't understand how so many complete morons were giving teaching certificates. I rather expect that my kid's kindergarten teacher will actually know more than him.
From Mexico, I once was "corrected" by a teacher in secondary school telling me that the word "paraguas" (umbrella) had a dieresis, as in "paragüas". But this is incorrect. In Spanish you only need dieresis if the syllable is either "güe" or "güi" to distinguish them from the sounds "gue" and "gui". So if you say "paragüitas" that does need a dieresis, but not the syllables "gua" or "guo". We discussed that for over 15 minutes and my classmates were just too embarrassed and scared to be on my side, so they feigned not knowing. The teacher didn't recognize her mistake and I never saw her the same after that lol
I'm still salty that my friends didn't believe me when I said gay couples have been allowed to foster children for a number of years now. Edit: in Australia