goose fleet posted:How do people think college works when they make up these stories because for the most part it's just someone standing in front of a powerpoint lecture and reading off the slides so that you have to memorize things for multiple choice exams Somebody did a variation of that speech at a high school graduation I went to years ago. Except instead of beer they used water (it being a HS graduation after all), so there was no ending "punchline", just the message of "try to cram as much poo poo into your day as possible, if you aren't spending every second being productive you're wasting time".
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:And what's wrong with a literacy test? Shouldn't you have to know how to read before you vote?   
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Dec 30, 2015 03:15
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Are these from when African Americans were first allowed to vote? Also, what is question 30?
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Dec 30, 2015 04:18
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Gross Dude posted:Are these from when African Americans were first allowed to vote? It's from 1964. Question 30 I'm pretty sure is to draw 5 circles that [share] one common interlocking part. I'm not really sure what that would look like, but that's the point.
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Dec 30, 2015 04:38
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I no longer think I'm literate
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Dec 30, 2015 04:39
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Terrible lady in California was caught on camera beating the poo poo out of her boyfriend's pug. She definitely deserves to be charged for animal abuse. But for some reason half the posts I'm seeing about it are smug screeds about veganism???quote:But it's totally ok for them to do this to newborn pigs and twisting their tails off.. quote:gently caress that poo poo cows n pigs get abused every day n that poo poo doesn't go viral quote:All animals are the Lord's creation this poo poo has got to stop (PETA link) Etc, etc. It's possible to care about more than one thing at a time. You can be upset about someone abusing another person's pet AND be against factory farming. It's the #AllLivesMatter equivalent of smugly negating a thing someone cares about, it's frustrating.
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Dec 30, 2015 04:40
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Dec 30, 2015 04:42
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Well that went a direction I didn't expect.
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Dec 30, 2015 04:48
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Aesop Poprock posted:I no longer think I'm literate It's cruel as gently caress for someone who can't prove a fifth grade education
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Dec 30, 2015 04:49
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Aesop Poprock posted:I no longer think I'm literate The letters that signify my degrees are longer than my name, and I'm not sure that I could get 100% on that obnoxious quiz.
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Dec 30, 2015 05:02
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It's almost like they didn't want black people to vote
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Dec 30, 2015 05:09
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The point of the test is to exploit the ambiguity and flunk everyone with too much melanin in their skin. It's not complicated.
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Dec 30, 2015 05:24
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CeramicPig posted:
I expect that they're thinking of the small amount of fat at the very lower portion of the stomach, just above the mons pubis. Having fat around the pubic bone is normal, but women often get anxious about all kinds of barely noticeable "problem areas", so the professor might well have been reassuring students that there is meant to be an amount of fat in these sensitive areas. Although, as you say, the uterus isn't right at the front like that, and a lot of people have a rather more generous interpretation of "a small amount of fat" than is strictly healthy. So our Tumblr user might have grown a tiny bit confused in her excitement.
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Dec 30, 2015 06:22
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With that quiz, we had similar ones at school to test our ability to read and comprehend instructions. Those were even worse as the last question would invariably be "Ignore questions 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10." Although it did say "Read all the questions before answering" to be fair, I was just bad at that because I was 8.
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Dec 30, 2015 06:31
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Lottery of Babylon posted:A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. I've always been more partial to this version, also floating around social media: 
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Dec 30, 2015 07:28
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NotAnArtist posted:It's cruel as gently caress for someone who can't prove a fifth grade education I don't understand what "draw a line around" means. They say to circle something in question 5 so it's not some colloquial way to say to circle something as far as I can tell.
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Dec 30, 2015 07:47
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Je suis fatigue posted:I don't understand what "draw a line around" means. They say to circle something in question 5 so it's not some colloquial way to say to circle something as far as I can tell. Well gee, maybe that's the point ?? It's almost as if they didn't want people to be able to solve it
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Dec 30, 2015 07:52
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Je suis fatigue posted:I don't understand what "draw a line around" means. They say to circle something in question 5 so it's not some colloquial way to say to circle something as far as I can tell. The point of the test was to make it so vague they could decide who passed and who didn't based on other factors(like, say, skin color, for example)
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Dec 30, 2015 08:45
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Also you were exempt from the test if your grandfather could vote. Which included all white people, and at least when literacy tests were first implemented, no black people. This is the origin of the phrase "grandfathered in." edit: also the tests were administered in a racially discriminatory way, I've read primary sources indicating white southerners had to prove their literacy by reading the lord's prayer, which many knew by heart, while an educated black southerner had to demonstrate comprehension of esoteric constitutional law. When they showed their ability to do this they were asked another, nonsensical question, I don't remember exactly it was something like "How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?" Since they couldn't answer they were not allowed to vote. In other words, there is always more and it is always worse. Blackula Vs. Tarantula has a new favorite as of 09:29 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 09:09
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Captain Redbeard posted:Also you were exempt from the test if your grandfather could vote. Which included all white people, and at least when literacy tests were first implemented, no black people. This is the origin of the phrase "grandfathered in." Can I get a citation for this? Need it for a friend(so I can slam him in the head with it)
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Dec 30, 2015 09:15
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ShadowMar posted:The biggest gently caress up is coming up with Islamophobia as if having your country invaded by Muslim pieces of poo poo does not increase assaults and rape, as if there's no threat of terrorism and in the future civil war and government takeover. This is too good. They're so close to realising why Islamophobia is bullshit
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Dec 30, 2015 09:34
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause#cite_note-1 Here's where they say wikipedia isn't a source. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/grandfather-clause-1898-1915 Here's where they say this site is too racially biased to be a source http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/grandfather-clause-enacted This one too http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/21/239081586/the-racial-history-of-the-grandfather-clause Here's where they say NPR is too liberal to be a source http://www.britannica.com/topic/grandfather-clause Here's where they come up with some justification for why britannica isn't a reliable source. They will also have reasons why Merriam-Webster, the free dictionary, George Mason University, Cornell University, Reference.com, law.com, and U-S-history.com aren't reliable. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandfather%20clause http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Grandfather+Clause http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5352/ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grandfather-clause http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=826 https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/grandfather_clause http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h426.html Any information which contradicts your friends preconceived notions will only further reinforce them. There is no cure for stupid. I mean it. This information is not hidden, he could read any book of US history and learn this. He has gone through his life intentionally avoiding accumulating knowledge, no piece of information will change him. But maybe he's a good friend anyway? In my opinion intelligence is an overvalued quality, I'd rather have a friend who's honest, fun and kind than smart. Blackula Vs. Tarantula has a new favorite as of 09:47 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 09:37
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Je suis fatigue posted:I don't understand what "draw a line around" means. They say to circle something in question 5 so it's not some colloquial way to say to circle something as far as I can tell. Draw a line around the corners of this circle.
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Dec 30, 2015 09:39
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Captain Redbeard posted:Any information which contradicts your friends preconceived notions will only further reinforce them. There is no cure for stupid. He does keep re-enlisting, so there is that.
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Dec 30, 2015 09:43
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Wanamingo posted:Well gee, maybe that's the point ?? It's almost as if they didn't want people to be able to solve it RFC2324 posted:The point of the test was to make it so vague they could decide who passed and who didn't based on other factors(like, say, skin color, for example) BOOM http://selfdefinition.org/science/2...last%20page.pdf 400+ impeccably researched pages of why IQ tests, crainiometry and other apparent measures of "inteligence" are bullshit and usually racist (a PDF of a real book by a good author btw, not an idiot on social media but it fits the conversation and will give you guys no end of really good ammunition in arguments if your opponent can ever be bothered to listen)
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PUGGERNAUT posted:Terrible lady in California was caught on camera beating the poo poo out of her boyfriend's pug. She definitely deserves to be charged for animal abuse. But for some reason half the posts I'm seeing about it are smug screeds about veganism??? I met a person like that irl a couple days ago. I was in the subway and across of me were two women, one with her dog. The other one was with her family or something and every minute or so she's lean forward to look at woman-with-dog and say (addressing her family but clearly more than loud enough that the other woman could hear her) "venerate dogs but slaughter pigs? I don't get it." "I'm sure dog would taste super fine too eh?" "why do people eat pigs but like dogs? It's stupid. I bet dog sausage would be great" etc. Seriously she must have banged out like 10 or 15 of those before I stepped out at my station. The other woman just kept ignoring her and held her dog on her lap. Probably the best way to react.
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Fatkraken posted:BOOM My IQ is higher than yours because I've read a book on why IQ tests are bullshit. Fathis Munk posted:I met a person like that irl a couple days ago. So she's saying we should eat loving anything that walks, got it. EvilGenius has a new favorite as of 10:03 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 09:50
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Fathis Munk posted:I met a person like that irl a couple days ago. I wish that would happen to me, I would talk loudly about how good this dog will taste when we get home, butcher, cook, and eat it.
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Dec 30, 2015 09:51
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EvilGenius posted:So she's saying we should eat loving anything that walks, got it. Well she and her family were overweight so maybe you're right and I completely missed the message on that one 
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Dec 30, 2015 10:51
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Fathis Munk posted:Well she and her family were overweight so maybe you're right and I completely missed the message on that one I picture a fat hambeast, salivating over the only edible object on the train. "We eat cows! Why can't we eat dogs? Let me look at your delicious, I mean cute dog. Some cultures eat dogs! Oh God when does this train stop, I haven't eaten in 15 minutes!"
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Emphasis mine.quote:The cool thing about the cringe channel is how neutral they are, they dont exclude anyone cringey, no matter if they are with the witch-huntery SJWs and their shield "if you dont agree with everything that we say, you are the loving devil!!". And autism is not a excuse to behave like a weirdo and cry because someone laughed, they have to accept that they are like a clown of nature. Internet its a place for direct opinions, the real world its the place for politness.
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Dec 30, 2015 12:47
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 No, dad. Stop hitting the Like button on these things. 
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Dec 30, 2015 17:22
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Maker Of Shoes posted:
It's almost like racists don't know the difference between countries. Nah. That couldn't be possible. All brown countries are the same and equally Mooslim, right?
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Dec 30, 2015 17:49
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TheKennedys posted:It's almost like racists don't know the difference between countries. Nah. That couldn't be possible. All brown countries are the same and equally Mooslim, right? ISIS is everywhere, and everyone who is brown is ISIS, regardless of national origin.
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SpacePig posted:ISIS is everywhere, and everyone who is brown is ISIS, regardless of national origin.   
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Dec 30, 2015 18:00
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 Usually I don't mind this kind of stuff that makes people feel better about grief and mourning, but this is just so utterly far fetched. Every time someone dropped a penny on the ground it means a dead person is chucking coins at you? A belief in the supernatural is fine, but this just seems like the most gullible thing possible.
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9:11 is a repeating number
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Dec 30, 2015 21:02
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The spirits are responsible for inflation and I will not stand for it. Pennies from heaven.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:
Oh no, not AOL or Dell. 99% chance this is a >10 year old e-mail forward about the Taliban or al-Qaeda with the group name changed.
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