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3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Kheldarn posted:

https://i.imgur.com/tTFQDzP.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/0CreHOi.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/20hjVKe.mp4

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TopHatGenius: Oct 3, 2008; something feels
different; Hot Rope Guy

hau hau

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Biplane: Jul 18, 2005

Takes No Damage posted:

I was never considered 'gifted' but I was smart enough to coast through high school without needing to try very hard. Cue me almost flunking out of college twice because I never had to learn how to take notes or study

This is the platonic ideal of that 'reading a list = content' meme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PWjqgM_CU8

A for-real Wait For It

e:

They both worked fine for me originally, but I'm running the script from the OP to apply some presets to MP4s, maybe that fixes the audio as well
code:
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const fixVideos = setTimeout(function(){
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}, 500);

Please, all these big brane science memes and then a math problem at the end?? :negative:

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Tree Bucket: Apr 1, 2016; R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Grundulum posted:

Did five-year-old Tree Bucket figure out why they needed an external source of light in order to see stuff? Seems like �darkness� is a bit of a refutation to emission theory, but the Wikipedia page is strangely silent on this.

I can't remember that bit, sadly. Just being really certain of it.
Same deal with all dogs are boys and all cats are girls.

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Zetsubou-san: Jan 28, 2015; Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

Kheldarn posted:

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3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

TopHatGenius posted:

hau hau

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Hippie Hedgehog: Feb 19, 2007; Ever cuddled a hedgehog?

PlatinumJukebox posted:

Thanks, it was some kind of 'Top five/ten/whatever creepy things' video with spooky Unsolved Mysteries type music and an English guy narrating in a serious deadpan style. The list items were all ridiculous, but the narrator's delivery was great. I don't remember the details clearly sorry.

I don�t think that narrator is actually English. :-D

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Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

Grundulum posted:

Did five-year-old Tree Bucket figure out why they needed an external source of light in order to see stuff? Seems like �darkness� is a bit of a refutation to emission theory, but the Wikipedia page is strangely silent on this.

Not sure if Empedocles reads this thread but if he does he got owned right now

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tight aspirations: Jul 13, 2009

Phlegmish posted:

Not sure if Empedocles is emitting this thread but if he does he got owned right now

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Tree Bucket: Apr 1, 2016; R.I.P.idura leucophrys

I've been calling him Empy-Dokles as a savage burn

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Cable Guy: Jul 18, 2005; I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...; Slippery Tilde

Kheldarn posted:

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FreudianSlippers: Apr 12, 2010; Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

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Sentient Data: Aug 31, 2011; My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

I'm happy it was posted, i just read the upside down text without flipping the screen over and didn't get the extra visual punch of the image :toot:

# ? May 7, 2024 11:25

ChthonicMasturbatr: Sep 29, 2021; born on a mountain
live in a cave
hugging and tugging
is all that i crave

Requesting any and all botany memes, please

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freeedr: Feb 21, 2005

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Golden Dragon: Apr 9, 2007; Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon

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OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I'm assuming helianthus tuberosus is like a potato that makes sunflowers.

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ChthonicMasturbatr: Sep 29, 2021; born on a mountain
live in a cave
hugging and tugging
is all that i crave

Hell yeah, keep 'em coming

OwlFancier posted:

I'm assuming helianthus tuberosus is like a potato that makes sunflowers.

Pretty much, yeah. They got tripled chromosomes from hybridization a long-rear end time ago, so their tubers are way bigger and more profuse than the parent species. They also tend to sneak smaller bits a ways away from the main ones under ground so when you harvest (or try to eradicate them) there's usually at least a little clone material left that will grow.
I'm growing them along a sun-scorched hellstrip as cheap and easy perennial sunflowers, but they're also a convenient food storage.

ChthonicMasturbatr has a new favorite as of 15:35 on May 7, 2024

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blacksocks: Feb 20, 2007

root beer posted:

My daughter has reportedly scored in the 93rd percentile on her state math tests for fifth grade this year, but I’m not going to put her through anything that’s going to give her that “gifted kid” mentality because she does not need to end up like my useless rear end.

[edit] christ, we just got a letter from the school recommending to us that she enter the gifted program for creative thinking

This sounds like you think giving your daughter an opportunity outside the straight and narrow is going to change her personality.

Wouldn't it actually put her on a negative path of "never had to work hard" if you keep her out of the advanced math, creative thinking, or whatever other class?

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Martian: May 29, 2005; Grimey Drawer

Yeah, my nephew got in a regional gifted kids class after breezing through most of primary school, and then he learned he was actually one of the slowest kids there and had to work really hard to keep up. I like to think it's better to learn that lesson at age 11-12 than to learn it in college

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zoux: Apr 28, 2006

They did a straight up IQ test on first graders before admitting them to gifted and talented, and there was a hard floor. I got in by one point so I knew exactly where I was on that particular totem pole.

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Mauser: Dec 16, 2003; How did I even get here, son?!

gonna get my nose all up in that stamen and give it a good whiff

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wizard2: Apr 4, 2022

zoux posted:

They did a straight up IQ test on first graders before admitting them to gifted and talented, and there was a hard floor. I got in by one point so I knew exactly where I was on that particular totem pole.

a very scientific and real world quantifiable 1 point of "Intelligence". Science ftw!!! :science:

remember the Season 1 episode of Simpsons where Bart erases Martin's name on the quiz so they send him to smart kid school? i havent seen it in a while, I like how it doesnt address the question, why isnt Springfield Elementary sending Martin to smart kid school, where he will be free of Bart?

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ranbo das: Oct 16, 2013

I mean it's your kid so you do you but also saying "my kid is smart so I'm going to make sure to not challenge them" seems super backwards.

I say that as the classic "never had a gifted program, never was challenged until college where I hit a wall when I actually needed to try" kid.

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Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

wizard2 posted:

a very scientific and real world quantifiable 1 point of "Intelligence". Science ftw!!!

remember the Season 1 episode of Simpsons where Bart erases Martin's name on the quiz so they send him to smart kid school? i havent seen it in a while, I like how it doesnt address the question, why isnt Springfield Elementary sending Martin to smart kid school, where he will be free of Bart?

I don't think that teacher or the students ever appear again. All the gifted stuff is ignored from that point on, probably for the best since it's better to have all the dorks under one roof and with the rest of the students.

And while we're on the topic, they also weren't consistent about whether Lisa or Martin is the smartest.

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Tenebrais: Sep 2, 2011

wizard2 posted:

remember the Season 1 episode of Simpsons where Bart erases Martin's name on the quiz so they send him to smart kid school? i havent seen it in a while, I like how it doesnt address the question, why isnt Springfield Elementary sending Martin to smart kid school, where he will be free of Bart?

Sending Bart to another school lets the Skinner free of him, but sending Martin there just lowers his school's average grades

# ? May 7, 2024 16:33

Admiralty Flag: Jun 7, 2007; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

I only had gifted and talented classes until 8th grade, but as an ace test-taker and all-around lazy bum except when interested (wasn't diagnosed with ADD until 40!), the lesson I learned in the G&T classes was that (1) test-taking is the most important skill, (2) being G&T was a sign of superiority even when being wedgied [which I richly deserved], and (3) homework was for suckers, because they sure weren't going to pull me out of G&T classes.

Once I got to high school, things changed a little, but I went to a relatively small Catholic high school, where they ran out of math and science to teach me, and with the way the laws worked in Texas at the time I could only take three periods of classes out of seven at high school plus two college courses, which meant I spent a huge amount of my senior year driving around and screwing around instead of studying; further, the college classes were automatically pass/ fail for me, so I put zero effort into them. I had to take two semesters of correspondence classes to make up the "missing" classes, which I never did finish (I was diagnosed with depression by that time), but somehow this slipped through the cracks and I got admitted to college anyway, teaching me the valuable lesson that I can screw up and screw around, and everything's going to turn out all right.

It would have helped a lot if my G&T classes had spent less time focused on the wonder of the universe or the spectacle of history and instead taught basic study and organizational skills. I might not have had to cobble those together in college, once I started studying dead languages (about ten years later than most of my peers on average) and things got intense to the point where I was no longer anywhere close to be able to coast through them.

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PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

blacksocks posted:

This sounds like you think giving your daughter an opportunity outside the straight and narrow is going to change her personality.

Wouldn't it actually put her on a negative path of "never had to work hard" if you keep her out of the advanced math, creative thinking, or whatever other class?

Unironically I think it would've unfucked my life if my parents had taken the school's offer of shuffling me up a grade or two in grade school. Instead I breezed through practically all content up through late high school and was woefully unprepared for any kind of effort-requiring education like college or university. Being challenged when I was younger would, I think, have helped me out a lot, or somehow made me even more intolerable.

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Talorat: Sep 18, 2007; Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

Eh most people I know who skipped a grade ended up in a pretty rough place socially. You might have been hosed either way.

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OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I haven't tried in academia or work in my life and I don't intend to start now. Trying is for things worth doing. Like videogames.

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madmatt112: Jul 11, 2016; Is that a cat in your pants, or are you just a lonely excuse for an adult?

Tree Bucket posted:

Listen, fellas, the only non-gay to wash your body is to let the guys handle it. It's just common sense

e:

when I was five, I though vision worked by some kind of seeing-ray shooting out of your eyes. It made sense at the time.
(And then much much later I read that the ancient greeks believed this too for like a thousand years, calling it emission theory, up until someone pointed out that this meant things should be easier to see if more people look at them. So five year old me was at least as smart as the philosopher Empedocles?)

Empedocles nuts

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Dabir: Nov 10, 2012

blacksocks posted:

This sounds like you think giving your daughter an opportunity outside the straight and narrow is going to change her personality.

Wouldn't it actually put her on a negative path of "never had to work hard" if you keep her out of the advanced math, creative thinking, or whatever other class?

it depends whether the gifted and talented program is something that actually challenges them or just Advanced Praise-Receiving

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LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

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Goa Tse-tung: Feb 11, 2008; ;3; Yams Fan

LifeSunDeath posted:

ok lmao

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Actuary X: Jul 20, 2007; Not really the best actuary in the world.

OwlFancier posted:

I haven't tried in academia or work in my life and I don't intend to start now. Trying is for things worth doing. Like videogames.

You can't fail if you don't try.

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Shit Fuckasaurus: Oct 14, 2005; i think right angles might be an abomination against nature you guys; Lipstick Apathy

Dabir posted:

it depends whether the gifted and talented program is something that actually challenges them or just Advanced Praise-Receiving

It's this, and it varies state-to-state and even district-to-district.

My gifted classes were highly experimental and designed to heap praise on the programs. Because the majority of us were good at rote memorization and test-taking, we were exposed to a lot of material that nobody else was (like a full year devoted to Greek and Roman myth, and another full year dedicated to disasters) where we could take college-level tests right after, pass them, retain nothing, and make the program look good. None of it was challenging because none of it required thought, just simple memorization. We did have free study time, which most of us used for non-scholastic topics (I learned networking! And programming! In middle school!) but that was mostly to show off what we could do, and since it was non standards-based and totally self-guided, again, no challenge.

The school board then used our "benchmarks" to ruin education for the general middle school population and tank the county's ratings for several years. They literally redesigned the curriculum based on gifted results and applied it to genpop.

I've heard it better now in some places, sometimes.

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BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

I coasted on being smart in grade school and didn't learn studying, then I got owned in high school where I was expected to memorize stuff and do homework. Then I went on to university where I went right back to barely studying and basically just coasting on being smart and attending stuff outside of class. And now I'm in an unrelated job just coasting along and doing great. My point is that I'm loving great I guess? Also very likely autistic.

I was never in a gifted programme (we don't really have those in Denmark I think), but I did take 7th-9th in a private school with an entrance exam and pretty serious approach to learning.

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