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EmatoelDiablo · 12-04-2012, 00:27

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Originally Posted by wilkie2006

My teacher gave a classmate an absolute bo11ocking for writing "Xmas", claiming that it was "taking the Christ out of Christmas". Ignorant bitch...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas

Thanks for that. Never knew! Handy information

mikemac1 · 12-04-2012, 00:27

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Originally Posted by x_Ellie_x

Our parish priest was FR. TONY WALSH!!

Ye were lucky, he sounds like a cool guy

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In the late 1970s Father Walsh became part of Father Michael Cleary's All Priests Show as an Elvis impersonator.[1][2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cleary_(priest)

wilkie2006 · 12-04-2012, 00:28

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Originally Posted by RobbingBandit

Had a history teacher who insisted Ireland was part of the commonwealth,yes she was a Rangers fan.

Really? I'm a bit skeptical about that...

Was this is the republic or NI?

**Agent Smith** · 12-04-2012, 00:38

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Originally Posted by SdoowSirhc

Last year I had a subsitute geography teacher try to tell me that Brazil is a colony of the USA

dafuq??

I wonder if its the same one I had, who insisted that Bonn Was the capital of germany.

(i showed that bitch a capital.... Bitches Love capitals....)

Tigger · 12-04-2012, 00:39

the Bohr or Sommerfeld models of atomic therory

why oh why teach us this only to tell us it was untrue

true-or-false · 12-04-2012, 00:41

Actually one of the only memories of being young are of being told something stupid by a teacher.

One time in Junior or Senior infants we were broken up into groups and had to do collages. My group of about 6 were doing a typical kids pic - grass, sky, sun, house, you know the type.
Anyway I was doing a little corner of sky, bringing it down to meet the grass - when one of the other kids flipped at me. Asking why I wasn't stopping doing the sky. I said the sky has to touch the grass. All the other kids in the group were then like "huh? The sky doesn't touch the grass" and to make fun of me they called the teacher over to say "Doesn't the grass stay at the bottom and the sky is up at the top?". She said yes, of course. I said, no, even though the sky is up and grass is down, when you look out at the sea, the sea and the sky touch, and it's called a horizon.

The teacher laughed and claimed that it was silly to think that the sky touches the horizon. To this day I'm angry at the woman. I think it's a pretty impressive grudge.

**Victor** · 12-04-2012, 00:41

1. Place de la Concorde is not a place in Paris, but an aircraft.

2. The street I lived on had a cul de sac off it, which it doesn't.

3. When I was 6, the teacher believed the teenager who claimed to be my sister was my sister and that I should go home with her.

Louche Lad · 12-04-2012, 00:45

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Originally Posted by Agent Smith

I wonder if its the same one I had, who insisted that Bonn Was the capital of germany.

It was capital of Germany (not just West Germany). It was only some time after unification that Berlin once again became the capital.

Or maybe not, after reading Wikipedia. It's not that clear.

cocoshovel · 12-04-2012, 00:49

A lot of 1 - 3rd year history is absolute bullshít! Who discovered the world was actually round, who sailed around the earth first, who discovered america etc. There are so many of them I cant even remember.

im invisible · 12-04-2012, 00:51

Im having a hard enough time remembering the correct things i was taught, never mind all the lies, but i know there was a few, pretty big ones aswell

darlett · 12-04-2012, 00:53

My teacher who told us the chernobyl disaster was caused by a major explosion in Sellafield which entered the waters around britain and we were only very fortunate that the current in the irish sea took it away from us towards chernobyl.
I objected, and we traded non researched 'information' before the class for a few minutes before agreeing to disagree. He was actually a great teacher and in fairness to the guy it wasn't on the syllabus and he came into class the next day and without needing to bring it up again he owned up he had things tits up about that disaster. I guess someone had winded him up in the first place.

44leto · 12-04-2012, 00:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by wilkie2006

My teacher gave a classmate an absolute bo11ocking for writing "Xmas", claiming that it was "taking the Christ out of Christmas". Ignorant bitch...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas

That is actually interesting from now on it will be happy ymas from me.

budgese · 12-04-2012, 01:01

Our headmaster was standing in for our teacher one day and told us that the Irish language was forever being changed to be more Anglicised, I can't recall any of the examples he showed us off hand; then he gave us an Irish spelling test. We just assumed he wanted us to use these new spellings he'd just demonstrated for us, but he marked them all wrong and made us write them out over and over. That was around 1988 in primary, I left secondary in 2000 and not once did I ever encounter any of his "new spellings".

nice_very · 12-04-2012, 01:01

the "potato famine"

44leto · 12-04-2012, 01:08

A lot of school Irish history was clearly written by dev, the wolfe tones and the IRA, it took a while of self study and interest to right all that propaganda.

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Tigger Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: West of Ireland Posts: 1,254,225 Posts: 6,763 Adverts \| Friends	the Bohr or Sommerfeld models of atomic therory why oh why teach us this only to tell us it was untrue

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true-or-false Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 2,458 Adverts \| Friends	Actually one of the only memories of being young are of being told something stupid by a teacher. One time in Junior or Senior infants we were broken up into groups and had to do collages. My group of about 6 were doing a typical kids pic - grass, sky, sun, house, you know the type. Anyway I was doing a little corner of sky, bringing it down to meet the grass - when one of the other kids flipped at me. Asking why I wasn't stopping doing the sky. I said the sky has to touch the grass. All the other kids in the group were then like "huh? The sky doesn't touch the grass" and to make fun of me they called the teacher over to say "Doesn't the grass stay at the bottom and the sky is up at the top?". She said yes, of course. I said, no, even though the sky is up and grass is down, when you look out at the sea, the sea and the sky touch, and it's called a horizon. The teacher laughed and claimed that it was silly to think that the sky touches the horizon. To this day I'm angry at the woman. I think it's a pretty impressive grudge.

12-04-2012, 00:49	#39
cocoshovel Closed Account Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,963 Adverts \| Friends	A lot of 1 - 3rd year history is absolute bullshít! Who discovered the world was actually round, who sailed around the earth first, who discovered america etc. There are so many of them I cant even remember.

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im invisible Closed Account Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 4,188 Adverts \| Friends	Im having a hard enough time remembering the correct things i was taught, never mind all the lies, but i know there was a few, pretty big ones aswell

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darlett Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 878 Adverts \| Friends	My teacher who told us the chernobyl disaster was caused by a major explosion in Sellafield which entered the waters around britain and we were only very fortunate that the current in the irish sea took it away from us towards chernobyl. I objected, and we traded non researched 'information' before the class for a few minutes before agreeing to disagree. He was actually a great teacher and in fairness to the guy it wasn't on the syllabus and he came into class the next day and without needing to bring it up again he owned up he had things tits up about that disaster. I guess someone had winded him up in the first place.

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budgese Registered User Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,643 Adverts \| Friends	Our headmaster was standing in for our teacher one day and told us that the Irish language was forever being changed to be more Anglicised, I can't recall any of the examples he showed us off hand; then he gave us an Irish spelling test. We just assumed he wanted us to use these new spellings he'd just demonstrated for us, but he marked them all wrong and made us write them out over and over. That was around 1988 in primary, I left secondary in 2000 and not once did I ever encounter any of his "new spellings".

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nice_very Registered User Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Waterford Posts: 1,008 Adverts \| Friends	the "potato famine"

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44leto Closed Account Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 4,083 Adverts \| Friends	A lot of school Irish history was clearly written by dev, the wolfe tones and the IRA, it took a while of self study and interest to right all that propaganda.