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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Polpolion on February 26, 2007, 05:41:50 pm
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My teacher just got arrested for arranging a meeting with a 14 year old girl, who was actually a cop :drevil: .
It's funny though, he didn't seem like the guy. Then again, they never do...
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a 14 year old girl was a cop?
or a cop was posing as a 14 year old girl.....
;) jk jk
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Your loss-- American literature is awesome.
Nevertheless... owned.
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Maybe he was just doing research for Twain's My Platonic Sweetheart?
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I'm enjoying American Lit personally...
Youll regret it if you dont get a sub. :nod:
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I know, I know. I'm getting a sub.
It's an okay class, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it's still school. :p
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I had a chem teacher who got arrested for something like that year after I graduated from highschool.
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Now that would be a blessing.
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I had a chem teacher who got arrested for something like that year after I graduated from highschool.
Had a coach go through the same thing here last year.
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Definitely sounds like something one of my teachers would do.
My preforming arts teacher likes to watch the girls changing.
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Definitely sounds like something one of my teachers would do.
My preforming arts teacher likes to watch the girls changing.
Well, since all performing arts teachers are women or homosexuals (or sometimes both), it shouldn't be that much of a problem.
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Now that would be a blessing.
:wtf: How did you come to frequent a Freespace forum if you don't enjoy blowing things up??? I mean, I'll grant you organic chem can tax a person's patience, but highschool chem consisted primarily of figuring out what color things burned and... well, maybe we weren't supposed to pull that little trick with potassium permanganate, but technically, it wasn't legal for the school to still have any, soooooo ;7
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'Cause I didn't blow things up, I just failed the tests 'cause I can't do basic algebra.
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I know, I know. I'm getting a sub.
It's an okay class, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it's still school. :p
I know it will make no sense to you...but when you're done school...you'll want it back. Not so much high school but college/unversity. You'll want to hold onto that for as long as you can.
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((x^5 + x^2)^2) / (56 / sqrt(17x)) = 650
x = ? ? ?
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Yeah see that hurts me.
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i think i heard of that...
way to have a pervy teacher.
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x=2.342. And yes, literature classes do suck. Not that all literature is bad, but the required readings for those classes always manage to include the worst samples of it.
Not so much high school but college/unversity. You'll want to hold onto that for as long as you can.
I have gotten pretty sick of it by now. :p It's a good thing this is my last semester. I sometimes wonder how the people who stay in it for the full four years manage to retain their sanity. I want to make sure I pick a graduate school with a minimal amount of extra requirements, apart from the thesis.
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x=2.342
Thats odd... I thought it would have at least two answers...
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It does, but the others aren't purely real. (there are either 10 or 11 of them in total)
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I know a guy whose chem teacher was arrested for having made cocaine in the school lab...
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I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.
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I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.
Meth maybe?
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That's what I was thinking, but that seems too crazy to be true. I mean, nobody who knows how to cook meth would expect to be able to do it in a high school lab without getting caught. And nobody who knows they're going to get caught making meth in a high school is under the illusion that they'll get just a slap on the wrist.
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That's what I was thinking, but that seems too crazy to be true. I mean, nobody who knows how to cook meth would expect to be able to do it in a high school lab without getting caught. And nobody who knows they're going to get caught making meth in a high school is under the illusion that they'll get just a slap on the wrist.
You can probably get instructions for cooking meth off the 'net nowadays, though.
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My teacher just got arrested for arranging a meeting with a 14 year old girl, who was actually a cop :drevil: .
It's funny though, he didn't seem like the guy. Then again, they never do...
I guess Oscar Wilde isn't going to be appearing on the required reading list any time soon, eh?
*ba dum pssh*
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I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.
Actually he didn't made it in the lab, he only made some final work to the cocaine.
He wasn't caught the first times because he remained at school after students left. Moreover, you can't have a quick investigation here in Italy :p
Though I'm sure he made something with cocaine in the school lab because I heard it also in the news.
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I guess Oscar Wilde isn't going to be appearing on the required reading list any time soon, eh?
*ba dum pssh*
Maybe I'm missing your reference here, but Oscar Wilde wasn't exactly partial to the dames.
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I guess Oscar Wilde isn't going to be appearing on the required reading list any time soon, eh?
*ba dum pssh*
Maybe I'm missing your reference here, but Oscar Wilde wasn't exactly partial to the dames.
Exactly.
(Oscar Wilde = gay; teacher = pedo, but still to females; teacher != Oscar Wilde)
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But the teacher's not there anymore, so he has no direct effect on the reading list, with the exception of his successor's possible desire to avoid uncomfortable, incidental parallels between the content of the reading and the unfortunate, real-life events, which is what I thought Rictor was driving at.
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I keep expecting someone to make a Lolita reference, but you disappoint me.
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I keep expecting someone to make a Lolita reference, but you disappoint me.
But it's an American literature class.
Nobokov was not American.
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Details, details.
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Do you wanna be in my gang?
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I seriously doubt that the equation posted earlier has only 11 or 10 solutions. For me it seems that it has 21 solutions.
But x value seems to be correct.
Mika
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It's gone from Literature to Maths....
Duck and Cover people!
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Is there a problem with posting something related to the only thing you assume to know a little. But only a little ::)
Back to the topic:
I've been thinking that I should read some literary classics (also American) now that I don't need to do University work any more. Mark Twain's work has interested me, so has Charles Dickens'. I think I should check out also Dante's Divina Comedia and Kafka's Metamorphosis. Would any of you have other recommendations? Shakespeare doesn't count here.
By the way, has anyone read novel titled "Who goes there", I forgot the writer. Movie called "The Thing" is based on that IIRC. Any comments on the "Starship Troopers" novel would also be helpful.
Some nice books I've read:
Mika Waltari's "Sinuhe Egyptian"
Frank Herbert's "Dune"
Richard Adams' "Watership Down"
George Orwell's "Animal Farm", "Catalonia Catalonia!" and "In the year 1984"
Stanislaw Lem's "Astronauts"
Mika
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Is there a problem with posting something related to the only thing you assume to know a little. But only a little
You probably know far more about maths than I, hence the 'duck and cover', it's not an attack, it's an admission of my own inbred fear of numbers, especially unreal ones ;)
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I know ;)
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I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.
Possible, but unlikely. Heroin or morphine is easier.
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Back to the topic:
I've been thinking that I should read some literary classics (also American) now that I don't need to do University work any more. Mark Twain's work has interested me, so has Charles Dickens'. I think I should check out also Dante's Divina Comedia and Kafka's Metamorphosis. Would any of you have other recommendations? Shakespeare doesn't count here.
In no particular order:
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
Alice in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol
The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
All of the Sherlock Holmes adventures - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Odyssey - Homer
The Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island, Parts I and II (Also known as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island) - Jules Verne
A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man And the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Paradise Lost - Milton
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
There's dozens of others. Some non-fiction you might also want to consider:
On The Origin Of Species - Charles Darwin
Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality - Michel Foucault
Capital, Vol. I - Karl Marx
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy - Karl Marx
Man's Search For Meaning - Victor Frankl
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Many of these are available for free off the Gutenberg.org website.
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I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.
Possible, but unlikely. Heroin or morphine is easier.
It does have to be processed to some degree.
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I'm surprised I've managed to read half of those titles. I've always liked Jules Verne's books, which were and still are quite imaginative. What kind of books are The Lost World, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Farewell to Arms and Paradise Lost?
I'll take advantage to add one more book on the list of the books that everyone should read, that is "The Unknown Soldier" by Vaino Linna. It is probably one of the best books ever written about war, I just hope they have managed to do at least a half decent translation of it. Some actions and persons portrayed in that book seem quite incredible but some times reality is even stranger than fiction.
As a reference, there is scene where a soldier who has been blinded by shrapnel is carrying a person who has lost a limb but can see. The one who still has eye sight left provides direction information, up to the point they are driving military ambulance together - only to be ambushed later. In another scene, Russian company is ambushed and totally destroyed by two soldiers (this has actually happened).
Mika
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You know what really sucks about my new sub? She tries to force her opinions on everyone all the time. I mean she hears me saying something, and she shouts "HOW could think of it THAT WAY? it's like THIS!!" and I was all like "what? Nothing you say will make me share your opinion." and she's like "Oh, come on! You don't mind a little debate, do you?" and I said "this isn't a debate, your just shouting at me, thats all" then she just tells everyone to shut up and she just goes on telling us about her viewpoint.
Gah dang, it I hate her so much.
EDIT: Come to think of it, I'd rather have the pedophile back. ::)
(no, he's not that good [teaching], she's that bad)
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Damn, good luck with that. Maybe if you are lucky she will send you to Jesus Camp (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,45778.0.html) for some good old fashioned indoctrination. :p