/sci/ - When people fail science.

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-27 20:08

Quotes, stories, links etc..

"America invented boats, how do you think we got here?"

Name: Mike 2006-09-27 20:09

A highschool math teacher of mine once skipped an engineering exam in university because he was "doing so good at pinball". He ended up switching majors to math a week later.

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-29 8:12

"0 is a quantity" ...

Name: Fanku 2006-09-29 16:36

Teachers fail all the time. I found the following image while Stumbling around the internet.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/funkycru/dumbass.gif

Rehosted for kindness.

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-30 2:00

>>4

oh wow lmfao

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-30 2:18

lol....that has to be faked...it simply has too.....just look at the final part "he should accept my teachings without resistence".....sound real to you?

Name: Fanku 2006-09-30 8:01

Trust me, that is the kind of thing a teacher would say. I always tell my teachers that their wrong, and even though I was right, they still whine. They just can't take critisism.

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-30 9:08

my science teacher often fails when explaining and demonstrating some random shit like black holes or pulsars...
but i don't say a word, because i don't want to spoil the fun of my classmates

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-30 9:49

>>7
Maybe thats because nobody likes an uppidy know it all little shit....but this situation is crap...the language in the letter to the parent is way too blunt to be from a teacher. I'm calling bullshit....but really funny bullshit.

Name: Anonymous 2006-09-30 11:20

>>7
You can't even spell.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-03 19:26

Its obviously bullshit because of the artsy diagonal of the shot.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-05 5:43

>>7
THEY'RE*

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-05 19:00

>>10
spelt you dumb american! learn proper english, britain english not american english

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-05 19:15

>>13
You can't even spelt
fixt? I don't think so - that's a tense shift.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-05 21:12

>>13
You're an idiot who doesn't even know about past and present tense. Plus your grammar is sucks as well.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-05 23:59

>>15
>>14
As far as I know "spelt" is an older form of the
p.p. of spell that is still common in British English.
Is your dictionary really so poor that it omits
this information?

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-06 0:04

>>14
>>15
spelled sp v :
spelt.
Being British and living in the USA, yet traveling between the two countries frequently, I am familiar with both British and American written English. Furthermore, I find myself writing British and American, for instance, I imagine and hope that this essay will be read by both British and American spellers.
Usually correct spelling for one country is taken as a mistake (or worse, as ignorance) by readers from the other country. For instance, American readers will have been comfortable reading so far, but British readers will be slightly annoyed that in my first sentence I spelt 'travelling' wrong (missing out an 'L', although Americans might wonder why I bring up an ancient wheat, 'spelt', when surely I meant 'spelled'). And so it goes on.

now please learn proper english dumb americans

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-06 1:31

>>17
Spelt is PAST TENSE you illiterate.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-06 13:17

>>16
>>17
Holy crap, you're dumb. "Spelt" is a newer not older form of "spelled". Goddamn, don't you know your own language?

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-06 13:28

how do i got trolled

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-06 15:21

He who smelt it dealt it

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-07 11:18

He who smelled it dealled it

fix'd

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-09 20:15

>>3
Not only a quantity, but a valid divisor.

>>4
hahaha oh wow and lol amerikkka

>>8
Black holes can only be explained through dividing by zero. (The escape speed of light eventually becomes infinite as a result of a division by zero.) As for pulsars, IIRC they were these things from Space Invaders.

>>13
You, my good sir, are an American impostor. There is no such thing as "Britain English". "English" is just "English", from "England".

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-10 1:37

>>23
Never heard of the word "dialect"? Would you believe American English is closer to how English was spoken in UK during colonial times?

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-10 2:37

>>22
fixt?

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-10 18:26

>>24
"American English" is a contradiction in an on itself, because the language of England is from England.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-11 13:17

>>26
Which is also spoken by people in America, hence "American English".

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-12 16:41

>>27
When spoken by people in America, it becomes "American failed attempt at English".

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-12 17:14

>>28
Periods go inside of quotation marks.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-12 17:35

>>29
Unless you're American...

The joke's on you, 28!

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-12 18:17

>>29,30
Actually, putting punctuation inside quotation marks is closer to American than to British usage. The situation is more complicated than that though.

And as long as you're consistent it doesn't matter which convention you go with, whether it be spelling, grammar, or punctuation.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-12 20:49

Punctuation is only added between quotation marks if it is actually part of the quote. Or something like that...

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-12 21:47

>>29
Only if you suck and follow no logic or common sense. I'm European, and writing punctuation in the Right Place (inside quotation marks if part of the quoted text, outside them if part of the quoting text) is a universal right granted to all Europeans.

>>30
What? You got it wrong. Americans use punctuation inside quotes; the British rarely do. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences .

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-12 22:18

The man said "How do I get to Pilting Avenue?".

If anyone thinks there is something grammatically wrong with the above sentence they should suffer 12 lashes.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-13 1:20

I'm >>32, American, and I follow this rule but I do put commas before the quotation marks.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-13 1:30

Sorry, I meant I put commas within the quotation marks before the second one.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-13 19:43

>>33
I am British, and number 30, and have always been taught to use punctuation inside quotes.

When people fail science.

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