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    Only boring people get bored.

    Utter nonsense but it was said to my boy by a junior school teacher. Was an interesting conversation when I talked to her at parent teacher day.

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      Sounds like the words of a boring teacher who’s incapable of meaningful self-reflection as to what they could maybe improve upon

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    Biomedical engineering professor teaching an entire course on how DNA in its natural state is not actually a double helix and that Watson and Crick were wrong. The guy spent decades of his career after getting tenure pushing this crusade of his. It was a great class and I loved it.

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    conspiracy theories involving aliens creating mankind, basically Ancient Aliens lore unironically like one in three lectures was talk about the process and how we must vibrate into some higher realm

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    My high school chem teacher, while explaining soap micelles, went on a tangent saying that we don’t really need soap to wash ourselves and that he personally never used soap while bathing, I liked that teacher but TMI and gross.

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    I had an intro to sociology prof spend an entire lecture on full blown anti vax conspiracy shit.

    Also had a bio prof take 5 during an anatomy lecture to give a teary eyed plea for the young women in class to not ruin one of the ‘fundamental joys of motherhood’ by getting their nipples pierced.

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      Would have been great if the student said “yes but it will increase another fundamental joy, one that lasts longer than the breastfeeding stage of infants”

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      30 seconds of googling shows me that women can still breastfeed with nipple piercings. I would question any of the info he gave me about anatomy.

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    I wrote a paper on the origin of the y chromesome in biology class in college and the professor docked me points with the note written in the margins “I don’t think humans and papayas have a common ancestor.”

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    I forget if it was on the day or day after, but while the events of 9/11 were unfolding or coming to light I had a social studies teacher claim the plane that crashed in the field was an attack on our agriculture.

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      Remember when that stray bullet hit the side of that Honda? That was a clear attack on the american plexiglas industry

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    Not a teacher, per se, but the senior dev on my old team once said something that left me scratching my head. We were trying to troubleshoot an inconsistent bug in our software, and I said, “Maybe it’s a race condition,” to which he replied, “There’s no such thing.”

    Still trying to figure out what he meant by that.

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        Probably! He was a very smart guy (way more formal education in computer science than I), so I’ve always assumed there was some truth to what he said, but he didn’t elaborate further and I didn’t like bothering him with unnecessary questions, so I never followed up on the topic despite my confusion.

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      Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that’s his secret sauce to avoid race conditions

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          Sérieux le correcteur automatique qui as bien choisis son mot pour faire chier là ahah

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          10/10 joke

          n’avoir pas (verb goes in the middle)

          /joke

          I know it still needs to be conjugated. I also accept the possibility that I could be wrong.

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              Ahh, I didn’t get to that part of my French classes, lol

              I learned that “ne” and “pas” are like a sandwich, and the verb stuff being negated is the sandwich contents, so that stuck with me. Lol

              Thanks for the correction!

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    I had a teacher who claimed that dinosaurs weren’t real. She said that people just naturally love patterns so when we find random bones we arrange them into shapes we like. Someone in the class said what about skulls that are just one bone and she ignored it lol.

    That was many years ago and it’s still stuck in my memory as one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

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      Wow that’s wild. The thing that bothers me most about shit like this is that a good teacher would put aside their pride and take it as an opportunity to learn something themselves and show the class how to find out an answer to a question like this. Instead, you’ll always remember her as the dumbass who didn’t know what fossils are.

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      reminds me of my biology teacher who before teaching us evolution explained that she is being forced to teach it against her will so we can pass tests, but that she disagrees with it and that we shouldn’t feel pressured to actually believe evolution … this woman was teaching my AP biology class in senior year of high school, and previously had worked in the medical field and retired as a teacher

      obviously Christianity was involved

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    I had a teacher during sex ed start yelling about how you gotta work on and please your lady not a “wham bam thank you ma’am”, his words. Now not in 7th grade sex ed it wouldn’t have been so weird. Same teacher had a diabetic fit and started yelling and writing E over and over while grading our tests.

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    5th grade biology teacher explaining to me why teleportation is bad, referencing that Cronenberg movie with the fly

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      my 7th grade biology teacher dedicated a lesson to why evolution was false and her base argument was that she never evolved in her entire life, therefore evolution was false.

      i suspect that a majority of the students agreed w her.

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      Never seen that movie, but wouldn’t teleportation just kill you from the demolecularzation or whatever?

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        In the movie it did worse: mangle you on reassembly because a fly got in the teleporter with you

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    I have 2 of the same teacher. She was an elderly history teacher and I wished I could say a good one.

    1. She wants to watch a Columbus movie after the exams. We were pretty hyped because watching movies is chill. The movie starts and something graphical happened, she immediately skipped a couple minutes. If you have any understanding of the history of Columbus, you can see how this ends… The next graphical scenes come and go in a quick skip. At one point, Columbus was in America, Columbus did Columbus things and she skipped so far forward that he was back in Spain. And in the end, we “watched” a 2 hrs movie in 30/40 minutes. She asked how we finished the movie so quickly. I know what happened in the movie because I know history but I don’t know the movie at all.

    2. It is summer. No Aircon. Big glass windows. In lunch break, people leave to buy 1,5 liter bottles of water for insanely cheap. Everyone! Has! These! Bottles! Everyone is drinking their water in the lunch break. Class starts. Everyone is paying attention and is working. Someone asks “hey, could I go to the toilet, please?”. Teacher allows them. Everyone else is reminded that toilets exist and how much water they have drunk. A bunch of people ask one by one if they could go to the toilet and the teacher allows it one by one. At some point, literally everyone who had to visit the toilet but 1 person went to the toilet, and she exclaims “stop asking! Just go when no one is already on the toilet!”. The student gets up immediately and walks to the door and before they had the chance of opening the door. She screams “what are you doing?!!??” They respond “I want to go to the toilet.” And she screams “don’t you know that you have to ask!???”. We were very confused.

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    History teacher told us that NASA found alien machines on the dark side of the moon.

    Midway through his speech he fell asleep in his seated walker, woke up shortly after and then the been rang.

    He was neither physically nor mentally fit to be a teacher.