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kroki_refur (kroki_refur) wrote in otf_wank,
@ 2005-02-04 12:07:00

Current mood:

Gobsmacked

You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll hurl!
</a></b></a>ponygirl118 posts in </a></b></a>mock_the_stupid about some idiots in her selective public high school programme. All goes well, with much WTF-ing and OMG-ing, and there is great rejoicing in the stupidity of others, until </a></b></a>strange_doll decides to call her out on her terminology. It's a public high school! It cannot be selective! Eva! Not so, say many decent citizens, but </a></b></a>strange_doll refuses to admit she might be wrong. Also includes spelling wank, grudge wank, and, of course, conuly. Enjoy!

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eljuno
2005-02-04 11:40 am UTC (link)

And if you are doing college level philosophy, I would think you would a lot better at spelling for one. Or, at least using spell check.

Someone needs to tell my old college professors that. Now, mind, we're not talking philosophy (er, really. My favourite class could best be described as 'completely indescribable') I was a FolkMyth major, but...well. Let's just put it this way. The professor that taught aforementioned favourite class? Smart as a bloody whip. Taught INCREDIBLY good classes in philosophy, FolkMyth, anthropology and architecture...and not only couldn't spell to save his life, but had handwriting that was bad enough* that after almost EVERY exam and paper handed back, there was a GIANT line just to ask 'Er, what did you give me, again?'

*And I say bad and I mean BAD. We're talking 'kinda wavy line with two spikey bits' that was supposed to say 'While your perspective is fascinating, I think you need to back it up further perhaps with examples from Perrault or the fashion photography we looked at.' This man was the Sunny Baudelaire of test marking.

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kroki_refur
2005-02-04 12:01 pm UTC (link)

Ooh, FolkMyth, sounds very cool. I've been thinking about getting into that myself, having studied medieval literature, some of which is pretty much the same thing.

And the handwriting thing, definitely. I once had an essay handed back to me in the pub, and I had to pass it round the whole table to work out what mark I'd got and what the comment was. Then it got beer on it.
Not to mention the fact that some of the earliest English poetry is written in such bad handwriting that you need to take classes to decipher it, has very inconsistent spelling, and that's lasted for over a thousand years. I'd like to see strange_doll manage that.

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kijikun, 2005-02-04 03:45 pm UTC

(no subject) - kroki_refur, 2005-02-05 10:22 am UTC

kijikun, 2005-02-06 12:28 am UTC

smo, 2005-02-04 06:49 pm UTC

ladybirdsleeps, 2005-02-04 11:35 pm UTC

smo, 2005-02-05 07:21 am UTC

(no subject) - kroki_refur, 2005-02-05 10:24 am UTC

smo, 2005-02-05 07:11 pm UTC

	khym_chanur 2005-02-04 12:32 pm UTC (link)
	And I say bad and I mean BAD. The bad kind of bad, as opposed to the good kind of bad. "Like, dude, your handwriting is totally baaaaaaad!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2005-02-04 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	Hah! An ex-boss of mine had handwriting so bad, sometimes even he couldn't decipher it. I'd come into his office, point at the word, and go, "...what does that say?" And he'd actually have to think about it. Good times, good times. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2005-02-04 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	This man was the Sunny Baudelaire of test marking. I love you. I love you like WHOA. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	c_chan 2005-02-05 02:45 am UTC (link)
	Bad as in, on par with doctor's handwriting? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gal_montag 2005-02-04 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	I'm curious to know why being able to do anything at a college level would have any bearing on your spelling skills. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	beccastareyes 2005-02-04 03:27 pm UTC (link)
	Presumably college students would learn where the spell-check button is. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

mathilde, 2005-02-04 03:32 pm UTC

beccastareyes, 2005-02-04 03:43 pm UTC

telophase, 2005-02-04 05:25 pm UTC

ladybirdsleeps, 2005-02-05 03:27 am UTC

gal_montag, 2005-02-04 09:55 pm UTC

	senor_pinata 2005-02-04 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, Conuly is...is making sense. At least in the posts I read, off to school now and all. That's like twice in a row. Creepy. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bubosquared 2005-02-04 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	If she pulls a hatrick, will that be starting signal for the Wankerdammung? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

senor_pinata, 2005-02-04 05:30 pm UTC

smo, 2005-02-04 07:01 pm UTC

bubosquared, 2005-02-05 04:30 am UTC

annabelle_lee, 2005-02-05 08:36 am UTC

	psychofangirl 2005-02-04 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	It was a PROGRAM! A PROGRAM! All that means is that it's a program in a PUBLIC SCHOOL! I caught that at the OP. Sheesh. (Reply to this)(Thread)

altoidsaddict
2005-02-04 06:00 pm UTC (link)

Even then, in my state there are plenty of selective public schools, constructed so all the smart kids who would otherwise be bored and disruptive have somewhere to go. They've got waiting lists years long. In lots of open-enrollment counties, the only public schools that are required to accept anyone are the ones chartered to technically serve a neighborhood; as long as all neighborhoods are covered by these schools, any extra schools can be scrapped or turned into magnet schools depending on the needs of the county.

And I'm not even getting into alternative schools for Wayward Teens or charter schools which straddle the public/private line, both of which would cause strange_doll to question her world most severely.

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psychofangirl, 2005-02-04 06:35 pm UTC

pradaloz, 2005-02-05 12:53 am UTC

mastervex
2005-02-04 05:25 pm UTC (link)

I commented there in a manner that may have been wanky. =D
I like how whenever pretty much a whole commful of people tells someone why they're wrong, how they're acting like a jerk, and why they should knock it the hell off, it must mean that they're a clique who is conspiring against the person to be meeeeean...instead of you know, that said person is acting like a huge jackass and nobody else there likes it.

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	sesana 2005-02-05 07:09 am UTC (link)
	It's not a clique that finds you dense, it's the overall population. Was that you? If so, I demand that you be fangirled in the traditional FW way, through an icon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

mastervex, 2005-02-05 09:51 am UTC

sesana, 2005-02-05 04:35 pm UTC

	msmanna 2005-02-04 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, I'm sorry -- I made a mistake. Apologies for any offence caused." Why do some people find that so incredibly difficult to say? I mean, really. What's so hard about being wrong, admitting it, and moving on? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	nevadafighter 2005-02-04 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	But she's NOT wrong! She's the only person there who's RIGHT! . . . I just realized she's like Lois from Malcolm in the Middle. Admitting she's wrong just isn't in her genes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

iczer6, 2005-02-05 03:50 am UTC

ladyofviolets, 2005-02-05 12:33 pm UTC

	smo 2005-02-04 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	In this culture, not much. But some people find it easier to keep pointing the finger at others than to have to admit their entire point of view was wrong. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snacky 2005-02-04 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	Yay, conuly, yay! ::drinks:: (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bubosquared 2005-02-05 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Hey, alcohol! Share? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kroki_refur 2005-02-05 10:26 am UTC (link)
	drinks too goes to find more conuly* wank so more drinking can be done* (Reply to this)(Parent)

	beandelphiki 2005-02-05 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Um, what's the big deal about conuly, anyway? doesn't get (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mastervex 2005-02-05 07:09 am UTC (link)
	Well, I've seen her make sense as many times as she's been nuttily wanky, but it tends to be the wank that gets posted here, for obvious reasons. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sesana 2005-02-05 07:12 am UTC (link)
	Conuly is like the Where's Waldo of FW, usually being massively wanky. S/he's been making an unusual amount of sense lately. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

annabelle_lee, 2005-02-05 08:45 am UTC

sesana, 2005-02-05 04:31 pm UTC

	kroki_refur 2005-02-05 10:21 am UTC (link)
	What the others said, and also she's in the f_w drinking game... (Reply to this)(Parent)

pokecheck, 2005-02-05 01:45 pm UTC

	ladyofviolets 2005-02-05 12:31 pm UTC (link)
	Meh. I attended a VERY public all-girls high school, and there was a special course for the ladies who had the higher grades in there. And it's still there, from what I've seen. so! Strange Doll, you lose. (Reply to this)

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