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Gah.
Half the time people make me want to laugh my head off, and half the time they make me want to curl up in a little ball and cry. Seriously. How can people this... uh... [searches for polite word] "challenged" be students on a college campus?
No joke. This is an actual conversation overheard in the DH. I'd like to say they were joking. I'd love to say they were joking.
[a guy walks up with a drink that has a blue layer and a red layer-- rather nifty, in fact]
Girl1: Whoa, that's cool!
Girl2: I wonder how he did that?
Girl3: It probably has to do with the polarity of the two drinks or something.
Girl2: Ha! Quit using those made-up words!
Me: ...
Robyn: ...
The saddest thing? Made-up Words Girl wasn't even right. I think it has something to do with density. Don't hit me if I'm wrong, I'm not a science major. But I did take a Chemistry class and a Biology class in high school. Isn't that, like, a requirement? So... shouldn't these people have at least been exposed to the term "polarity" before? I do have an unfair advantage in that the word "polarity" is technobabbled every other week on Enterprise, but still. Who lets these people outside?
In the words of Samantha: their parents? who are probably as idiotic as their children... or moreso... where do you think that they learned it?
Good point. Except that makes me want to go into my crying corner and suck my thumb even more. Does that mean that the number of stupid people increases every time stupid people have kids?
Every time I sit in class and listen to the Random Guy or the Heavily Opinionated But Terribly Wrong Girl or Pompous Child Boy or the Nonsequiter Kid, I worry. We are the future leaders of tomorrow. I'd better build my bomb shelter.
How can you go through thirteen years of education and still not know the difference between nouns and verbs? Don't they talk about polarity in grade school? My little brother knows what it is. And he's in fifth grade!
I guess it's time for another wonderful layer of apathy cream... ahhh. I can feel it working already.
Half the time people make me want to laugh my head off, and half the time they make me want to curl up in a little ball and cry. Seriously. How can people this... uh... [searches for polite word] "challenged" be students on a college campus?
No joke. This is an actual conversation overheard in the DH. I'd like to say they were joking. I'd love to say they were joking.
[a guy walks up with a drink that has a blue layer and a red layer-- rather nifty, in fact]
Girl1: Whoa, that's cool!
Girl2: I wonder how he did that?
Girl3: It probably has to do with the polarity of the two drinks or something.
Girl2: Ha! Quit using those made-up words!
Me: ...
Robyn: ...
The saddest thing? Made-up Words Girl wasn't even right. I think it has something to do with density. Don't hit me if I'm wrong, I'm not a science major. But I did take a Chemistry class and a Biology class in high school. Isn't that, like, a requirement? So... shouldn't these people have at least been exposed to the term "polarity" before? I do have an unfair advantage in that the word "polarity" is technobabbled every other week on Enterprise, but still. Who lets these people outside?
In the words of Samantha: their parents? who are probably as idiotic as their children... or moreso... where do you think that they learned it?
Good point. Except that makes me want to go into my crying corner and suck my thumb even more. Does that mean that the number of stupid people increases every time stupid people have kids?
Every time I sit in class and listen to the Random Guy or the Heavily Opinionated But Terribly Wrong Girl or Pompous Child Boy or the Nonsequiter Kid, I worry. We are the future leaders of tomorrow. I'd better build my bomb shelter.
How can you go through thirteen years of education and still not know the difference between nouns and verbs? Don't they talk about polarity in grade school? My little brother knows what it is. And he's in fifth grade!
I guess it's time for another wonderful layer of apathy cream... ahhh. I can feel it working already.
