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Post by Vene on Apr 27, 2009 21:33:25 GMT -5
While in biology lab last Friday we were're in the middle of an experiment that required mixing sheep blood into differant solutions. Me and the guy next to me were setting up differant test tubes of the blood and various solutions. When we actually put the blood in the guy next to me said "how do we mix it up properly?" (or something to that effect), to which the girl sitting across from me said "you should probably just bend and twist it". Rather odd thing to do to glassware full of blood, I must say. Oh, that's an easy one. You just put your thumb on the top of the tube and invert it a few times.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Apr 27, 2009 21:49:00 GMT -5
While in biology lab last Friday we were're in the middle of an experiment that required mixing sheep blood into differant solutions. Me and the guy next to me were setting up differant test tubes of the blood and various solutions. When we actually put the blood in the guy next to me said "how do we mix it up properly?" (or something to that effect), to which the girl sitting across from me said "you should probably just bend and twist it". Rather odd thing to do to glassware full of blood, I must say. Oh, that's an easy one. You just put your thumb on the top of the tube and invert it a few times. I think that's the idea she was trying to get across, she just mixed up the words in a rather comical way (in her defense english is her second language).
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Post by ironbite on Apr 28, 2009 2:13:46 GMT -5
Oh, that's an easy one. You just put your thumb on the top of the tube and invert it a few times. I think that's the idea she was trying to get across, she just mixed up the words in a rather comical way (in her defense english is her second language). ...you sure she didn't think you guys were Water Benders and could blood bend?
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Post by renaissanceblonde on Apr 28, 2009 3:23:41 GMT -5
I got a beautiful one done by yours truly.
I'm in class last night and my teacher's just done a diagram of a traditional metropolis with W.C. for 'working class areas, not the toilets'.
I said (and in my defence, I come from working class) 'I don't know, some of them are toilets.'
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Post by Art Vandelay on Apr 29, 2009 21:16:21 GMT -5
I got a another good'un just today. I was talking to a friend about a recent drinking session in which he hit the bottle pretty hard (judging by his behaviour). He said he wasn't drunk, but he had an "alcohol-induced suger-high".
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Post by atheiess on Apr 30, 2009 8:56:22 GMT -5
I heard this one from my mom:
A girl who works for my mom (she's in her late 20's) had screwed up a monthly report because she forgot to take into account the fact that February only has 28 days. When my mom told her what had happened she acted completely surprised about Feb being a shorter month than all the others. Her response was:
"Well we should go through all of the other months to see how many of them only have 28 days so we can plan in advance."
No, she wasn't joking.
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Post by atheiess on Apr 30, 2009 9:06:07 GMT -5
I was in class the other day when this guy sitting behind me began the clichéd, idiotic argument, "If man evolved from monkeys, how come monkeys still exist?" At first I wanted to do a major facepalm/headdesk combination (and I didn't since my keyboard would have made it very painful), but as I listened to him talk more, I just laughed. I laughed and thought to myself, I heard it. I finally heard someone say it in person, in real life. This is... so stupid...If you want to hear this on a regular basis you should take a Biological Anthropology class in college. There are people who take these classes with the sole purpose of putting this argument in front of the professor because they think they will "enlighten" everyone with their biblical "insight." Oh it's tons of fun to hear them get put in their place by a Ph.D!
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Post by Art Vandelay on Apr 30, 2009 17:56:52 GMT -5
I was in class the other day when this guy sitting behind me began the clichéd, idiotic argument, "If man evolved from monkeys, how come monkeys still exist?" At first I wanted to do a major facepalm/headdesk combination (and I didn't since my keyboard would have made it very painful), but as I listened to him talk more, I just laughed. I laughed and thought to myself, I heard it. I finally heard someone say it in person, in real life. This is... so stupid...If you want to hear this on a regular basis you should take a Biological Anthropology class in college. There are people who take these classes with the sole purpose of putting this argument in front of the professor because they think they will "enlighten" everyone with their biblical "insight." Oh it's tons of fun to hear them get put in their place by a Ph.D! Lol, when my mum was doing an anthropology course in uni she'd complain to no end (as would the professors, apparantly) about these twats disrupting the class and writing god-awful essays. This was in Toowoomba though (the Australian equivalent of the American deep south) so I suppose it's to be expected.
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Post by tygerarmy on Apr 30, 2009 18:53:47 GMT -5
I heard this one from my mom: A girl who works for my mom (she's in her late 20's) had screwed up a monthly report because she forgot to take into account the fact that February only has 28 days. When my mom told her what had happened she acted completely surprised about Feb being a shorter month than all the others. Her response was: "Well we should go through all of the other months to see how many of them only have 28 days so we can plan in advance." No, she wasn't joking. I face-palmed reading this
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Post by captainhooker on Apr 30, 2009 19:06:17 GMT -5
Reading a reflective essay just now, I had a student tell me that "she would have liked some things explained more" regarding my writing class.
This student missed 5 out of 15 class meetings - almost 15 hours of instruction, about 2/3's of which was writing lab sessions.
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Post by atheiess on May 1, 2009 9:15:59 GMT -5
Reading a reflective essay just now, I had a student tell me that "she would have liked some things explained more" regarding my writing class. This student missed 5 out of 15 class meetings - almost 15 hours of instruction, about 2/3's of which was writing lab sessions. I teach on a semi-regular basis, and it amazes me how many people say things like this! Last fall semester I had a student who was a complete no-show for the first month of class, and then she finally showed up and was surprised that all the other students were there. Well, the syllabus for the class stated that the students were expected to be self-motivated, so she interpreted this to mean that she only had to show up to class when she felt like it! And this was a graduate class! I've removed this wording from the syllabus now just in case...
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Post by spaniel on May 2, 2009 23:23:51 GMT -5
Last sumer, on a trip to Costa Rica, I was part of a small guided tour through the rain forest in hope of seeing some howler monkeys. Besides me and my companions, the group consisted of a family with two teenageers, and two couples. When the guide began talking about animal courtship behaviour, the mother of the family started giggling and commenting, while the teenagers remained silent. Jesus, lady.
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