Get it off your chest!

BEWARE! The following is a rant from a teacher about his students. Kids hold your ears lest you be mocked!

I have this one writing class where students write to major reports (it's a business writing course). For the first report, I pick the topic -- this allows me and them to focus more on the rhetorical, organizational, and cognitive skills needed to complete the task and less on the endless "what topic should I pick" . . . . monologue.

When this project is assigned I hear a steady chorus of "I HATE THIS ASSIGNMENT! HATE! HATE! HATE! IF ONLY WE CAN CHOOSE WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT! I HATE IT WHEN THE TEACHER GIVES ME THE TOPIC! HATE! HATE! HATE!

The next major project asks them to apply these same skills in a slightly different way to a topic of their own choosing. I leave the topic selection entirely up to them. And the chorus?

WHAT DO YOU WANT?? I HATE THESE VAGUE ASSIGNMENTS! HATE! HATE! HATE! HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT?? HATE! THE TOPIC MAKES NO SENSE! HATE! YOU NEED TO TELL US WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT SO WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING! I HATE THIS TOPIC AND THIS ASSIGNMENT! HATE! HATE! HATE!

Of course, the people spewing the chorus of hate from assignment assignment one are the same people who spew the chorus of hate for assignment one.

To which I want to say (but tactfully never would): "Just shut up your hate-fulled mouth. Make a decision and go with it. Would YE complain of heaven too? Methinks you would, ya ingrate!"

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Oh I hear your pain brother. For me the word "boring" from students makes me want to inflict pain:

"This lesson is boring."
"We are only 5 minutes into it."
"I'm bored."
"We have not even passed the starter exercise yet."
“So, I am still bored.”
“Just get on with the task.”
"Can I go to the toilet?"
"No."
"I'm bored."
Calmly, "look, we are only 5 minutes into the lesson. We are just doing this little warm-up exercise then we are moving on."
"I can't be bothered."
"Just get on with it."
Tut, sigh, funny face. “It’s boring.”

etc, etc...

My language bar just stopped working when I needed the Cyrillic Alphabet :willy_nilly:

PRKL :rage:

I HATE WILD ONIONS!!!

My horse (who has since passed, Rest In Peace) use to love to go to the back pasture and eat the wild onions. He would then proceed to run up to the fence (breathing heavily) when I came home from school. He would nearly KILL me with his breath. Now I have hoards of wild onions growing in my back yard. Whenever I mow....UGH...but at least I have memories of my wonderful horse (may he Rest In Peace).

I once pegged a kid in the back of the head with an eraser for raising his hand in class and then asking the teacher (and this is like the hundredth time that he's done this):

"When are we actually going to need to know this stuff in real life?"

I know I've complained of this before, but I can't help it. Now I have almost no problem with the amount of violence in television and film, but I find the ideology and violence presented in 24 to be reprehensible.

The fact that television viewers are viewing the sociopathic Jack Bauer as so heroic is quite disturbing. Now I have no problem with anti-heroes or even corrupt heroes, but the fact that 24 is so political and allegorical to current events, the fact that it has for many years been offering audiences and numbing them of their humanity with scenes of torture as some fantastical ticking-time bomb scenario is applied. The fact that the show seems to justify almost everything Jack does makes it the most clearly fascist show ever to appear on television.

Now this does not shrink away the show's artistic merits, as it is very well made and despite some superficiality and just plain fantasy, the show achieves a level of realism that was needed in television. But that is not to say that the show is realistic as it consistently indulges itself in neo-conservative fantasies and conspirasies that are so outlandish that not even the fictional television show feels as if it can sustain them.

Now I am almost never offended by violence in media. I am a great fan of film directors such as Kubrick, Scorsese and Tarantino who all made some of the most violent films of their times. But I am offended when a show appears to justify its scenes of reprehensible torture brought about by its hero in the name of supporting a completely ridiculous scenario brought up by the last administration.

I hate my job and everyone i work with. I work with a group of men who are a bunch of moronic chauvinists. Like this one guy i work with, TOTAL IDIOT, yet he likes to pounce on my bad hand writing as though that is an indication of stupidity, and to somehow pass his own bad handwriting off as a sign of intelligence. I'm not just being unfair and mean here - this guy is an uneducated, brutish chauvinist who seems incapable to think of anything but his penis and what he does with it.

Also, the men i work with have all decided i'm gay, because i refuse to take part when they perv on girls. Don't get me wrong, they're not just admiring their beauty, they are staring at their breasts and butts and fantasising about having sex with them - and i'm automatically gay because i don't want to do that??? because i have actual respect for women and don't like the idea of actively objectifying them??? AARRRGGH!!!!

I also spilled milk on my work pants while making breakfast this morning

I'm in a grumpy and foul mood.

Andgy forgets he has rehearsals.

Apparently he blames it on me that I didn't tell him what time he had to go.

1. I told him he had rehearsals and to check his timetable.
2. It is HIS problem if he can't even do that.
3. He's in the play and I'm not, yet I know more about it than he does and it is my fault that he can't take responsibility for himself.
4. The music teacher didn't even yell at him. He was just 'don't worry these things happen.' Whilst only the day before he said that he said that the downpoint of his entire teaching career was the last choir rehearsal I was at.

My solution:
1. Be an absolute pest to my brother and not let him forget for an extended period of time.
2. Seek and achieve the sympathy of someone in the play.
3. Tell the music teacher that I demand that if my brother shows any more insubordinance to scream at him because I'm a hundred percent sure that he hasn't learnt his lesson.

Meanwhie I'll just be grumpy.

:argue:There, there, my chld.

It happens. Time for mum to intervene...:nono:

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You know what gets me mad? Here's what gets me mad: When some innocent little book-reading kid is sitting comfortably in his couch-chair at Barnes and Noble, gets up and leaves his hat to mark his spot (i.e., this is my seat mother****ers), and then some lip-pierced ******* trying to hit on the blonde across from me takes my seat and doesn't even apologize or do anything when I come by to pick up my hat and tell this mother****er that this was my seat. Yes I'm pissed off about this.

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You know what gets me mad? Here's what gets me mad: When some innocent little book-reading kid is sitting comfortably in his couch-chair at Barnes and Noble, gets up and leaves his hat to mark his spot (i.e., this is my seat mother****ers), and then some lip-pierced ******* trying to hit on the blonde across from me takes my seat and doesn't even apologize or do anything when I come by to pick up my hat and tell this mother****er that this was my seat. Yes I'm pissed off about this.

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I'm surprised he didn't steal your hat. :nod:

Hello.Ihis is my first post and I kind of don't really know whether this is the right place to post my question so I beg to be forgiven :blush5: :rolleyes:
So to get to the point- English is not my first language, I study it at school and we had to translate a short story from O'Henry called "The Social Triangle" into our language.It doesn't have a proffesional translation.My question is what does "Eleventh" refer to in this particular case:"C'rect," said the bartender, smoothing the twelve one-dollar notes.
The crowd surged around Billy McMahan again. Some one was telling
how Brannigan fixed 'em over in the Eleventh. Ikey leaned against
the bar a while, and then went out."
I'd be tremendously grateful if you could give me an answer :)

After reading some of the previous threads I think this is a good place to say this...What makes me mad and confuses me is that I don't understand how people can be so hateful! Some one I should be able to trust is the one that hurts me more than anything. What should I do? I don't want to walk away but at the same time I know its not good for me to let them treat me like this!