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Post by Bone Daddy on Jan 12, 2013 11:17:00 GMT -5
"You shouldn't talk to strangers" - Talking to strangers is awesome! In fact, my "fear" of strangers has kind of hurt me in the long run.
"The most popular/smart/athletic/rich people are the most insecure" - This might be true in some cases, but they aren't anymore insecure than anyone else and in my experience most of them are damn secure!
"Keep your nose to the grindstone and work hard and you'll be successful" - Maybe in the 1930s
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Post by twiggy101 on Jan 12, 2013 11:52:48 GMT -5
So what you're saying is that creepy looking dude offering candy in a white van is legit?
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Post by The Sam on Jan 12, 2013 11:56:38 GMT -5
"Santa Claus isn't real". If that were true, then who has been delivering all of those christmas presents over the past 24 years?
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 12, 2013 12:08:02 GMT -5
"You can be anything you want to be"-dropping out of med school to becomea pole dancer or to marry a tattoo artist named Snake was probably not what they had in mind
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Post by Evil Homer on Jan 12, 2013 12:20:24 GMT -5
"you can do anything you put your mind too",
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Post by Talent Name on Jan 12, 2013 12:21:16 GMT -5
It's not who you know but rather what you know
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Post by suave on Jan 12, 2013 12:23:02 GMT -5
A teacher told me that once you join the Catholic Church, you can't have your own opinions. Bullshit.
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Post by Blindkarevik on Jan 12, 2013 12:32:05 GMT -5
If you just ignore them, they'll get bored and go away.
No.... it just meant you could be bullied with absolutely zero consequences for the bullies.
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Post by Slapcrunk on Jan 12, 2013 12:42:06 GMT -5
There's no such thing as monsters...
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Post by agent817 on Jan 12, 2013 12:51:36 GMT -5
"you can do anything you put your mind too", "You can be anything you want to be"-dropping out of med school to becomea pole dancer or to marry a tattoo artist named Snake was probably not what they had in mind Well, I can understand the input about dropping out, but people do get what they want if they work at it. However, for some people, they get a degree and in the end, they realize it isn't what they wanted. "You shouldn't talk to strangers" - Talking to strangers is awesome! In fact, my "fear" of strangers has kind of hurt me in the long run. I can understand how parents say this because you never know what kind of people you deal with, especially when a male stranger offers you candy (As I got older, I realized what those types actually do and it sickens me). Also, another thing is that not all strangers are friendly people. I do a friendly greeting to people when I am out walking, but some seem like total grumps or something. Here's another perspective, though. Everyone is a stranger at one point, but if someone wants to make friends, the stranger ceases to become one. Do parents expect kids to already know someone in their lives? How is anybody supposed to make friends if they can't talk to strangers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2013 14:13:35 GMT -5
When I was 3rd grade I had a teacher tell us that Martin Luther King Jr was shot while he was grocery shopping.
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Post by B'Cup x on Jan 12, 2013 14:14:17 GMT -5
my dad would always laugh at things that as a child I didnt get. Whenever I enquired about what was funny, he would always respond with: 'Ill tell you when youre older'. Bastard then went and died before I ever got to an age where he could explain the joke =( x
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Post by 67 more on Jan 12, 2013 14:27:54 GMT -5
If you just ignore them, they'll get bored and go away. No.... it just meant you could be bullied with absolutely zero consequences for the bullies. The only reason I think this saying exists is so the school doesn't have to deal with it at all. If you tell the school, they do jackshit anyway. I found once you whip a bully's ass, the bully no longer deals with you but then the school blames you.
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Post by fw91 on Jan 12, 2013 14:30:56 GMT -5
When I was 3rd grade I had a teacher tell us that Martin Luther King Jr was shot while he was grocery shopping. hmm..... maybe james earl ray wanted that last box of cornflakes and it wasn't a civil rights issue?
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Post by g1megatronfan on Jan 12, 2013 14:59:32 GMT -5
Here's one teachers always told us when I was in school: Alegbra is useful. Since those days I went onto earning an Associates and Bachelors + had jobs ranging from working retail to working in law offices to insurance jobs.
Not one job I've ever had used this crap. The last Algebra class I had to take was College Algebra and when we used to ask the professor what the hell we needed this crap for...she couldn't give one good answer.
Whoever dreamed up this crap should rot in hell for all eternity. Payback for all the aggravation, expense, and B.S. lies this one subject has caused people over the years.
This is the biggest lie a teacher can tell their students. It's bad when they can't even give a good example of why you need it...and they do this for a living.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley on Jan 12, 2013 15:05:50 GMT -5
That whole Columbus discovered America thing.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 12, 2013 15:06:32 GMT -5
"go to university, you'll make hunderds of thousands of dollars your first year out and if you go anywhere else even *shudder* community college you'll be ass broke and if you can't get into university you're an idiot"
and being an impressionable kid I believed them. so did everyone else. now I'm back at school doing a program where my entire job will be to find skilled laborers in a market where we have none because everyone went and got a useless BA that's only good for working at Best Buy and the only guys who knew how to build anything are going to be retired and/or dead in the next 20 years.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 12, 2013 15:10:10 GMT -5
Here's one teachers always told us when I was in school: Alegbra is useful. Since those days I went onto earning an Associates and Bachelors + had jobs ranging from working retail to working in law offices to insurance jobs. Not one job I've ever had used this crap. The last Algebra class I had to take was College Algebra and when we used to ask the professor what the hell we needed this crap for...she couldn't give one good answer. Whoever dreamed up this crap should rot in hell for all eternity. Payback for all the aggravation, expense, and B.S. lies this one subject has caused people over the years. This is the biggest lie a teacher can tell their students. It's bad when they can't even give a good example of why you need it...and they do this for a living. I use algebra all the time. and not just at work either. depends on what you do with your life I guess.
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Post by Curt Hawkins Fan on Jan 12, 2013 15:20:59 GMT -5
Here's one teachers always told us when I was in school: Alegbra is useful. Since those days I went onto earning an Associates and Bachelors + had jobs ranging from working retail to working in law offices to insurance jobs. Not one job I've ever had used this crap. The last Algebra class I had to take was College Algebra and when we used to ask the professor what the hell we needed this crap for...she couldn't give one good answer. Whoever dreamed up this crap should rot in hell for all eternity. Payback for all the aggravation, expense, and B.S. lies this one subject has caused people over the years. This is the biggest lie a teacher can tell their students. It's bad when they can't even give a good example of why you need it...and they do this for a living. My high school Algebra teacher straight up told the class on multiple occasions that we were never going to use this, but we had to do it anyway. He was actually a great teacher too.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Jan 12, 2013 15:20:58 GMT -5
My mom told too many lies to list here...
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