People that should know better.

AckwelFoley

I remember when i was 14, i was in a class, it wasnt a geography class but somehow the discussion found its was to the age of the earth, i made the statment that the world was over 4 billion years old and the teacher laughed at me and telling me at the same time it was 4 thousand years old not 4 billion.

Am i entitled to a refund on my education costs?


Have you ever comes across a statment that was made by someone that should know better?

orourkeda

snyper wrote: »

I remember when i was 14, i was in a class, it wasnt a geography class but somehow the discussion found its was to the age of the earth, i made the statment that the world was over 4 billion years old and the teacher laughed at me telling me at the same time it was 4 thousand years old not 4 billion.

Am i entitled to a refund on my education costs?


Have you ever comes across a statment that was made by someone that should know better?

People are just stupid

Archeron

Someone once told me that Supermacs food was "lovely".

Michaelrsh

snyper wrote: »

I remember when i was 14, i was in a class, it wasnt a geography class but somehow the discussion found its was to the age of the earth, i made the statment that the world was over 4 billion years old and the teacher laughed at me and telling me at the same time it was 4 thousand years old not 4 billion.

Am i entitled to a refund on my education costs?


Have you ever comes across a statment that was made by someone that should know better?

Ehh, the earth is 4 thousand years old. Jesus and the Bible said so. You, my friend, are a heretic.

admiralofthefleet

i once heard a catholic 'priest' say trust me

Michaelrsh

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i once heard a catholic 'priest' say trust me

Not all catholic priests are pedophile rapists.

SV

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Not all catholic priests are pedophile rapists.

I agree.

Some are just rapists.

admiralofthefleet

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Not all catholic priests are pedophile rapists.

not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslims

--LOS--

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslims

.........and the IRA?

Michaelrsh

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslims

Not all catholic priest are pedophile rapists, also not all pedophile rapists are catholic priests.

Tail Wagger

OP,will you carry that one around for the rest of your life,thats if you get a life!

admiralofthefleet

--LOS-- wrote: »

.........and the IRA?

their soldiers

and who said anything about priests being rapists, i didnt

ejmaztec

Tail Wagger wrote: »

OP,will you carry that one around for the rest of your life,thats if you get a life!

That's just plain nasty, and you should know better.:P

--LOS--

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

their soldiers

...........terrorize people?

bonerm

snyper wrote: »

I remember when i was 14, i was in a class, it wasnt a geography class but somehow the discussion found its was to the age of the earth, i made the statment that the world was over 4 billion years old and the teacher laughed at me and telling me at the same time it was 4 thousand years old not 4 billion.

Am i entitled to a refund on my education costs?

No, you should have been quick-witted and posed her the simple rhetorical question "dinosaurs?"

rednik

Jim Diamond, should have known better.

PeterIanStaker

snyper wrote: »

I remember when i was 14, i was in a class, it wasnt a geography class but somehow the discussion found its was to the age of the earth, i made the statment that the world was over 4 billion years old and the teacher laughed at me and telling me at the same time it was 4 thousand years old not 4 billion.

Am i entitled to a refund on my education costs?

QUOTE]

Is your teacher a creationist or something? Daft.

Des Carter

Here is a song discussing some of the issues on this thread (youll have to listen to all of it before you get it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHnGwDy2y6s

Michaelrsh

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

their soldiers

and who said anything about priests being rapists, i didnt

Well you said, "I once heard a priest say trust me", I thought you were shocked at the fact the a priest (given the nature of this thread) said "trust me" because of the news in the media at present about pedophile priest. Maybe I should rephrase my first comment and make it "Not all priest are untrustworthy".

jd007

.

Michaelrsh

jd007 wrote: »

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That is priceless.

MitchKoobski

Once had an argument with my history teacher over the JFK assasination. She said it was unfortunate.
I said conspiracy.
Guess who got sent outside the class for CLEARLY being the smarter person......i mean seriously the evidence is all there....

starbelgrade

A school pricipal in Arizona was suspended in February for seding this letter..

http://komonews.s3.amazonaws.com/100203_letter.jpg

Full article here.. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/83449242.html

Standard Toaster

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

AckwelFoley

Tail Wagger wrote: »

OP,will you carry that one around for the rest of your life,thats if you get a life!

I bet you can count to potato

admiralofthefleet

snyper wrote: »

I bet you can count to potato

my favourite colour is ham

raah!

I'm so smart that I'm an atheist.

Duggy747

I was in an argument with some who was convinced that Brian Cowen was the president. I had to give up after my brain started to hurt!

I never have a problem with people believing with God & all that mullarkey and never go near a religious discussion.......but when one person said that mentally handicap people were punishment for those of a bad past life I had to at least say something. :eek: It hit a nerve considering I know some handicapped people.

AckwelFoley

Duggy747 wrote: »

.....but when one person said that mentally handicap people were punishment for those of a bad past life I had to at least say something. :eek:

Were you chattin glenn Hoddle?

Herb Powell

starbelgrade wrote: »

A school pricipal in Arizona was suspended in February for seding this letter..

http://komonews.s3.amazonaws.com/100203_letter.jpg

Full article here.. http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/83449242.html

oh god, that's brilliant

Dravokivich

snyper wrote: »

Have you ever comes across a statment that was made by someone that should know better?

yes...

Told this story to The Edge and Stephenlig the other night at the beers as well... will be going into slightly less detail here...

I work with CompanyX, they provide staff for CompanyY who does the IT support for CompanyZ...

CompanyZ is a bank... just support users within the bank, not their customers...

I'm in the complaints dept for CompanyY. A user from CompanyZ had raised a call about a problem with his laptop and was looking to put in a complaint over the call, while it was within the SLA. (SLA = Service Level Agreement / definition of turn around times, priority ratings and such...)

I told the user from CompanyZ that his complaint was not valid and any issue's he'd have to raise with his management internally...

As I mentioned, CompanyZ is a bank... User then went into a big spiel about the current economic situation and dropped buzzwords like "Reccession," "Bail outs"... while i was thinking in the back of my head...

"This is a fúcking rep for a major finacial institution and he's getting onto me complaining about the shíté his company couldn't fúcking get right and some how trying to tie it in with his fúcking laptop not working?"

Of course I didn't put it quite lioke that to him.... but yeah... he should of known fúcking better...

Duggy747

snyper wrote: »

Were you chattin glenn Hoddle?

......now that you mention it......

lil_lisa

"Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works." by Clifford Stoll on Feb 27 1995, boy was he wrong!

jd007

Dravokivich wrote: »

yes...

Told this story to The Edge and Stephenlig the other night at the beers as well... will be going into slightly less detail here...

I thought you were talking to The Edge from U2 until I saw the boards beers bit!:o:pac:

Dravokivich

jd007 wrote: »

I thought you were talking to The Edge from U2 until I saw the boards beers bit!:o:pac:

tbh mate... I was a bit let down when I found out The Edge wasn't really The Edge...

Des Carter

jd007 wrote: »

I thought you were talking to The Edge from U2 until I saw the boards beers bit!:o:pac:

lol I thought he was talking about the wrestler.

Dravokivich

You guys :pac:

L.Jenkins

As for people who should know better, read this:

http://humour.200ok.com.au/computer_luser02.html

Ann22

I was playing some game or other years ago with a few friends, I had to come up with a place beginning with 'T'. I said 'Transylvania', they all roared laughing at me saying it was a fictional place from Dracula films. I was shocked, thinking could I've been so stupid? Since then I've discovered that yes there is such a place:). I think i've too much time on my hands, that was nearly 20yrs ago:(.

BOHtox

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Not all catholic priests are pedophile rapists.

If there are 200million priests in the world and only 10% are pedophile that's only 20 million pedophiles

--LOS--

Ann22 wrote: »

I was playing some game or other years ago with a few friends, I had to come up with a place beginning with 'T'. I said 'Transylvania', they all roared laughing at me saying it was a fictional place from Dracula films. I was shocked, thinking could I've been so stupid? Since then I've discovered that yes there is such a place:). I think i've too much time on my hands, that was nearly 20yrs ago:(.

your story failed at the part where you had to question yourself

kraggy

snyper wrote: »

I remember when i was 14, i was in a class, it wasnt a geography class but somehow the discussion found its was to the age of the earth, i made the statment that the world was over 4 billion years old and the teacher laughed at me and telling me at the same time it was 4 thousand years old not 4 billion.

Am i entitled to a refund on my education costs?


Have you ever comes across a statment that was made by someone that should know better?

What education costs?

And even if you did pay fees, you wouldn't be entitled to a refund. Like you said, it wasn't the area in which you're teacher was qualified.

What, teachers are supposed to know everything about everything?

scallywags

Gardai who lie to youngster saying he will be going to jail for his first criminal conviction in order to get him to rat someone out then arresting picking on same individual by arresting him anytime he gets drunk and then absolving themselves of all sin by claiming the 'mental health act' when they know damn well they lied and destroyed this chaps life for a conviction that would have warranted a fine.

surely theyd have killed themselves already

mardybumbum

kraggy wrote: »

What, teachers are supposed to know everything about everything?

No, but they are not supposed to be pig ignorant.

--LOS--

scallywags wrote: »

Gardai who lie to youngster saying he will be going to jail for his first criminal conviction in order to get him to rat someone out then arresting picking on same individual by arresting him anytime he gets drunk and then absolving themselves of all sin by claiming the 'mental health act' when they know damn well they lied and destroyed this chaps life for a conviction that would have warranted a fine.

surely theyd have killed themselves already

..........and breathe

nachoman

snyper wrote: »

I remember when i was 14, i was in a class, it wasnt a geography class but somehow the discussion found its was to the age of the earth, i made the statment that the world was over 4 billion years old and the teacher laughed at me and telling me at the same time it was 4 thousand years old not 4 billion.

Am i entitled to a refund on my education costs?


Have you ever comes across a statment that was made by someone that should know better?

dumb creationist teacher.

Des Carter

This guy right here

kraggy

mardybumbum wrote: »

No, but they are not supposed to be pig ignorant.

How do you define pig ignorant?

I know plenty of smart people who wouldn't know how old the earth is.

--LOS--

kraggy wrote: »

How do you define pig ignorant?

I know plenty of smart people who wouldn't know how old the earth is.

I would hope to god they'd know it was of the order of billions not thousands though.

Prof.Badass

mardybumbum wrote: »

No, but they are not supposed to be pig ignorant.

Pighead grew up in a time when almost everyone in ireland was ignorant .

kraggy

It's hard to tell the contex though, what way the conversation went etc.

It's not easy standing in front of 30 kids/teenagers and getting everything right all the time. There's so much going through the mind.