Most incorrect thing you were taught?

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 7:25pm

Donegal should be spelled without a capital D.

I'm serious, and this guy had a doctorate..

Wompa1 · 27-11-2012 7:27pm

m0ynihan wrote: »

Donegal should be spelled without a capital D.

I'm serious, and this guy had a doctorate..

An Irish doctorate or a proper one?

al28283 · 27-11-2012 7:33pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

at this stage most stuff has been invented

Silly thing to say unless you know how many things haven't been invented yet.

m0ynihan · 27-11-2012 7:35pm

Wompa1 wrote: »

An Irish doctorate or a proper one?

An Irish one of course :P

jasonmcco · 27-11-2012 7:39pm

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

*standard After Hours post about the Catholic Church or the existence of God which gets loads of thanks*

:cool:

Maybe the reason for so many posts about church and god is that to many people it's the single biggest issue which needs to be resolved on this island.

For you maybe it's the economy but that doesn't suprise me.

jasonmcco · 27-11-2012 7:45pm

That the first humans on earth was adam and eve and adam ate an apple and that's why we wear clothes.

jasonmcco · 27-11-2012 7:47pm

That the pope is gods representative on earth and they talk to each other thru some divine means of communication and oh yeah it's a miracle.

jasonmcco · 27-11-2012 7:49pm

your born a sinner and if you dont get baptised you go to limbo forever.

angeline · 27-11-2012 7:49pm

An English teacher always told the class that people who spoke about suicide would never actually commit suicide.......how untrue....

Knasher · 27-11-2012 7:52pm

Abstinence based sex education. Every year we would have a bunch of hip young college aged students come in for the day and tell us how damaging sex was and how every time you had sex you would lose a bit of your capacity to love, demonstrated by tearing up a piece of paper shaped like a heart and handing it away.

On the other hand we had proper sex education only once, in 2nd year, for about an hour.

Rodin · 27-11-2012 7:53pm

Broad goes with broad and slender with slender

jasonmcco · 27-11-2012 7:54pm

fat people are sinners

jenniferalan · 27-11-2012 10:11pm

Rodin wrote: »

Broad goes with broad and slender with slender

Caol le caol, leathan le leathan!

Capt'n Midnight · 28-11-2012 12:58am

jasonmcco wrote: »

That the first humans on earth was adam and eve and adam ate an apple and that's why we wear clothes.

Yes but did Adam have a navel ?

seamus · 28-11-2012 10:18am

m0ynihan wrote: »

Donegal should be spelled without a capital D.

I'm serious, and this guy had a doctorate..

As far as I know this is some parochial or nationalist bull****. I was in the Donegal gaeltacht more than half my life ago and I can remember one of the teachers complaining about "Donegal".

"Donegal" is "Dun na nGall" anglicised. Dun na nGall means "Fort of the foreigners". In Donegallian history, "Dun na nGall" is what the english invaders to Ireland called the area, when the "real" name was "Tír Chonaill", a small kingdom covering most of Donegal.

When Tir Chonaill finally fell to the British in the 1400s, it became known as "Donegal". But apparently "real" Donegallians, especially Gaeltacht dwellers, don't recognise this name (in Irish or English) and to so stick with "Tír Chonaill". This is probably why a couple of people have mentioned teachers here who refuse to capitalise "Donegal".

They sure know how to hold a grudge, those crazy Donegallians.

Conall Cernach · 28-11-2012 10:25am

seamus wrote: »

As far as I know this is some parochial or nationalist bull****. I was in the Donegal gaeltacht more than half my life ago and I can remember one of the teachers complaining about "Donegal".

"Donegal" is "Dun na nGall" anglicised. Dun na nGall means "Fort of the foreigners". In Donegallian history, "Dun na nGall" is what the english invaders to Ireland called the area, when the "real" name was "Tír Chonaill", a small kingdom covering most of Donegal.

When Tir Chonaill finally fell to the British in the 1400s, it became known as "Donegal". But apparently "real" Donegallians, especially Gaeltacht dwellers, don't recognise this name (in Irish or English) and to so stick with "Tír Chonaill". This is probably why a couple of people have mentioned teachers here who refuse to capitalise "Donegal".

They sure know how to hold a grudge, those crazy Donegallians.

I was always taught Tir Chonaill in school (I'm now 40 btw) and I think it was only in the 90s or so that people like the GAA started using Dun na nGall (or at least it was only round then that I noticed).

wellyhead · 19-03-2013 1:00pm

What was the teachers name?

19-03-2013 8:20pm

That your savings were "as safe as houses" in the bank! :rolleyes:

Daveysil15 · 19-03-2013 8:24pm

When I was in primary school the priest said to us, "If you **** it stunts your growth and you go blind." One boy replied, "I'm over here ye short fecker."

o1s1n · 19-03-2013 8:25pm

My secondary school science teacher once told us:

'Snowflakes are amazing, no matter where you are in the world, they're always the same shape'

He was our maths teacher too. I didn't do particularly well in either subject :pac:

Bigtoe107 · 19-03-2013 8:38pm

I was told by a science teacher that global warming was due to the natural cycles in the sun and the earth's atmosphere, not the production of greenhouse gasses. In fairness he showed us a lot of evidence to back it up and allowed us to make up our own mind; still it was strange for a science teacher to knowingly go against the vast majority of respected scientists in the world.

mccarthy37 · 19-03-2013 8:43pm

I remember being on a school retreat years ago and we taught it was great having the celebrity Priest Fr, Michael Cleary. He kept preaching to us that sex before marriage was a mortal sin and masturbation would lead us to hell. We all came out of church convinced we were all destined for hell and there was no way we could pull our way out of it. Funny how things turned out I never even grew hairs on the palm of my hand.

Nodin · 19-03-2013 8:55pm

Knasher wrote: »

Abstinence based sex education. Every year we would have a bunch of hip young college aged students come in for the day and tell us how damaging sex was and how every time you had sex you would lose a bit of your capacity to love, demonstrated by tearing up a piece of paper shaped like a heart and handing it away.

On the other hand we had proper sex education only once, in 2nd year, for about an hour.

Ahh yes. the 'retreat'.

o1s1n · 19-03-2013 8:57pm

mccarthy37 wrote: »

I remember being on a school retreat years ago and we taught it was great having the celebrity Priest Fr, Michael Cleary. He kept preaching to us that sex before marriage was a mortal sin and masturbation would lead us to hell. We all came out of church convinced we were all destined for hell and there was no way we could pull our way out of it. Funny how things turned out I never even grew hairs on the palm of my hand.

Oooooh Matron!

19-03-2013 9:50pm

Bigtoe107 wrote: »

I was told by a science teacher that global warming was due to the natural cycles in the sun and the earth's atmosphere, not the production of greenhouse gasses. In fairness he showed us a lot of evidence to back it up and allowed us to make up our own mind; still it was strange for a science teacher to knowingly go against the vast majority of respected scientists in the world.

It's good to question the "accepted science" of the day as there have been several changes in what is considered the accepted POV in many fields of science due to new discoveries & understanding of whatever the particular subject are.

In the 1970s, a new Ice age was forcasted, then in the 1990 rapid warming, now it appears just to be a slow simmer!

Chemical Burn · 19-03-2013 10:26pm

Speed kills
It's a limit not a target

Daveysil15 · 19-03-2013 11:17pm

Deleted User wrote: »

In the 1970s, a new Ice age was forcasted, then in the 1990 rapid warming, now it appears just to be a slow simmer!

Nah, its all just propaganda to get people to go green.

Chemical Burn · 19-03-2013 11:20pm

This ^^

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Nah, its all just propaganda to get people to go green.

SimonLynch · 19-03-2013 11:27pm

Not really sure if it's for this thread but we had a priest who tried to teach sex education to a class of 13 year old boys I was in back in the eighties.

He asked if anyone knew what puberty was but he was from the country and pronounced the u flat. One of the lads asked if it was the legal age for drinking

Heisenberg1 · 19-03-2013 11:30pm

Many many years ago during fourth year we where talking about flood defenses in Geography.

I brought up the Dikes that they use in Holland as a measure and teacher made me leave the

class saying there was no such thing.

Henlars67 · 19-03-2013 11:32pm

That I have a Permanent Record.

That there was a famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1852.

tightropetom · 19-03-2013 11:34pm

Being taught that Mont Blanc was the highest mountain in Europe...

:rolleyes:

namloc1980 · 19-03-2013 11:40pm

I'll always remember being told by our science teacher in 1st year that the Sun wasn't a star. Someone in the class asked her what the Sun was so?, she just said it was the Sun, and the Sun was not a star!!

Insect Overlord · 19-03-2013 11:44pm

tightropetom wrote: »

Being taught that Mont Blanc was the highest mountain in Europe...

:rolleyes:

Away to Russia with you! :P

parc · 20-03-2013 12:58am

Bigtoe107 wrote: »

I was told by a science teacher that global warming was due to the natural cycles in the sun and the earth's atmosphere, not the production of greenhouse gasses. In fairness he showed us a lot of evidence to back it up and allowed us to make up our own mind; still it was strange for a science teacher to knowingly go against the vast majority of respected scientists in the world.

Sun cycles do influence temperature on earth. There was a mini ice age in the 17th or 18th century due to a lack or abundance of sun sports...i can't remember which

Bipolar Joe · 20-03-2013 1:27am

parc wrote: »

Sun cycles do influence temperature on earth. There was a mini ice age in the 17th or 18th century due to a lack or abundance of sun sports...i can't remember which

Sun sports? Like field hockey, tennis or beach ball?

Whatsernamex33 · 20-03-2013 2:11am

I went all the way right up until 6th year saying and writing 'could/would of', instead of 'could/would have.'

Teacher said it's a Dublin thing that's crept in a lot more these days. :rolleyes:

Cookie_Monster · 20-03-2013 6:31am

Bigtoe107 wrote: »

I was told by a science teacher that global warming was due to the natural cycles in the sun and the earth's atmosphere, not the production of greenhouse gasses. In fairness he showed us a lot of evidence to back it up and allowed us to make up our own mind; still it was strange for a science teacher to knowingly go against the vast majority of respected scientists in the world.

It is.

There is natural global warming and cooling caused by the variation of earth's orbit, sun activity and even volcanic activity. And then there is man made global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions etc

OneArt · 20-03-2013 9:51am

jasonmcco wrote: »

That the first humans on earth was adam and eve and adam ate an apple and that's why we wear clothes.

Well, you know how bashful apples can be...

sbsquarepants · 20-03-2013 11:20am

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Sun sports? Like field hockey, tennis or beach ball?

You forgot the best sun sport of all - tits out ping pong.
You know the one, there are always two girls with implausibly pointy breasts playing it on the beach when you're on holidays. I love that game!:D

Bigtoe107 · 20-03-2013 11:54am

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

It is.

There is natural global warming and cooling caused by the variation of earth's orbit, sun activity and even volcanic activity. And then there is man made global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions etc

I know that it's just he totally rejected that any of it was man made. He said scientists were being pressurised into accepting this theory. It all seemed like a bit of a conspiracy.

Mr Benevolent · 20-03-2013 11:57am

namloc1980 wrote: »

I'll always remember being told by our science teacher in 1st year that the Sun wasn't a star. Someone in the class asked her what the Sun was so?, she just said it was the Sun, and the Sun was not a star!!

Yeah, I've heard other people say the same thing. What do they think it is, a two bar heater?

Penny Dreadful · 20-03-2013 1:43pm

Snotzenfartz wrote: »

Fat people have "big bones". :rolleyes:

Odd how these "big boned" people are fat rather than just having a massive skelaton isn't it:rolleyes:

Bodhran · 20-03-2013 6:18pm

stoneill wrote: »

Lough Neagh is a divot left behind when CuCulainn took a swipe with his hurley.

You weren't taught that as a fact. It was probably taught as part of Irish mythology. Part of that legend is that the divot ended up in the Irish Sea and is now the Isle of man.

Bodhran · 20-03-2013 6:47pm

This probably wasn't taught in school but I bet a lot of parents told their kids not to go swimming for at least an hour after eating. Apparently, if you swam before the hour was up you would get cramps in the water and would drown. It was all a big lie!

http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/hourwait.asp

Most incorrect thing you were taught?

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