[8:04
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Last
night Mrs McGreen gave me a movie trivia game and i got stumped on a
Steven Seagal question
[8:04
AM]
Oh
yes?
What
was it?
[8:04
AM] Mr. McGreen:
which
movie did Steven seagal serve as the cook?
[8:04
AM] Mr. Blue:
Under
Siege
[8:04
AM]
The
Cook
Have
to caps it
"the
cook" Guy who cooks
"The
Cook" - Guy who kills everybody
[8:07
AM] Mr. McGreen:
After
im finished with this turkey im going to baste you, scumbag...with
your own blood
[8:09
AM] Mr. Blue:
The
Simmer Man
[8:10
AM] Mr. McGreen:
He
makes his hairnets wear a ponytail
[8:14
AM] Mr. Blue:
Steven
Seagal is The Cook, in “Under Seasoned”
[8:14
AM] Mr. McGreen:
lol
Fire
Down Below the Grill
[8:19
AM] Mr. Blue:
heh
[8:19
AM]
"bat
man" guy in charge of baseball bats at the game.
"Batman"
- Guy who beats the crap out of bad guys
[8:20
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Batman.
The hero who won't kill but will leave you crippled the rest of your
life
[8:20
AM]
ever
see the short with Batman
not actually knowing what death is?
[8:20
AM] Mr. McGreen:
no
[8:20
AM]
Penguin
and Commissioner Gordon horrified to find out
(Sticks
Baterang in thugs head)
Penguin
- "AUGH! Look! Just like that! What do you
think happened to him???"
Batman
- "Poor little guy...all tuckered out..."
[8:26
AM] Mr. McGreen:
yeah
i need to watch that now
[9:06
AM] Mr. McGreen:
i don't think I'd ever take an IQ test, I'd likely be depressed by my
score
"You
are....*drumroll*...a little below average"
[9:08
AM] Mr. Blue:
i
took one in high school and it was 120, and another and it was 127
(Not sayin' any numbers, but I should have been an astrophysicist or something instead of this - Mr. Silver)
[9:08
AM] Mr. McGreen:
so
it seemed official
[9:09
AM] Mr. Blue:
You'd
almost certainly be above average
[9:09
AM] Mr. McGreen:
I'm
borderline retarded at mathematics
literally
[9:10]
I'm
smart enough to see what you did there...
[9:09
AM] Mr. Blue:
There
are some real dumbasses out there, and you aren't one of them
of
course there's also some question as to what IQ means, if anything
Possibly
nothing
(but
i like to think that's just something low IQ people say)
[9:10
AM] Mr. McGreen:
what
are questions like? problem solving?
[9:11
AM] Mr. Brown.:
I
had an IQ test in elementary school cause i was doing bad
They
found out in 1st grade i was actually smart enough to be in 5th grade
I
just don't pay attention
lol
[9:13
AM] Mr. McGreen:
ive
always been ahead in English classes
id
need a refresher on grammar
(And
capitalization, spelling, and punctuation...you have no idea how much I fix, and
I declared I'm on light editing duty. Here...tell you what...I'll leave most of the
rest of the stuff I didn't fix yet alone. – Mr. Silver)
[9:14
AM] Mr. Brown.:
I
always seem to pick stuff up fast
[9:14
AM] Mr. McGreen:
ive
wondered lately if id be decent at writing
[9:14
AM] Mr. Brown.:
just
have to find my way to remember it and learn it
cause
normally the way they are teaching it does not work for me
[9:14
AM] Mr. Blue:
i
don't think there's much grammar in IQ tests since that can be
dependant on the language you're using. someone could be taking the
test in their 3rd language
you
might suck at english but be fluent in russian and mandarin
[9:15
AM] Mr. Brown.:
also
I think grammar is not always a sign of inttellegence
[9:15
AM] Mr. Blue:
it's
usually like visual stuff like spotting patterns and trying to figure
out what would come next in something
[9:15
AM] Mr. Brown.:
there
are some dumb people out there that can figure out grammar
lol
outside
the box thinking tests
[9:16
AM] Mr. Blue:
“3,
5, 4, 6, 5, __ what number comes next?”
that
sort of thing
[9:16
AM]
7
I
still have math problems now. I'm pretty convinced I'd test
having dyscalculia.
[9:19
AM] Mr. McGreen:
is
that a form of vampirism
[9:20
AM]
Given
ample time I can figure out complex math. World doesn't work on
ample time.
[9:20
AM] Mr. McGreen:
"BLAH,
i am DYSCALCULIA!"
[9:21
AM]
Silver
Junior says he's terrible at it, but I've pushed him through stuff
and he's easily better at a lot of it than I am now as a result.
[9:22
AM] Mr. McGreen:
i
thought Junior was bad so we called his teacher and they said he's
very proficient. apparently at homework he's very lazy and
needs "help”.
[9:22
AM] Mr. Brown.:
all
kids are
[9:23
AM] Mr. Blue:
i
hated homework and never did it
just
on principle
[9:23
AM] Mr. Brown.:
My
son is getting all good marks but fights homework
brain
shuts off when you get home
[9:23
AM] Mr. Blue:
school
day is 6 hours, plus 2 hours on the bus or waiting for the bus... i
wanted time to myself
if
they can't teach me what they need to in 6 hours, that's on them, not
me
[9:23
AM] Mr. McGreen:
homework
isnt teaching, its practice
[9:24
AM] Mr. Blue:
practice
of what?
[9:24
AM] Mr. McGreen:
what
you learned
[9:24
AM] Mr. Blue:
that's
what tests are for
[9:24
AM] Mr. McGreen:
no,
tests are to show what you've retained and how good you became at it
[9:24
AM] Mr. Brown.:
homework is to reinforce what you learned that day
[9:24
AM] Mr. Blue:
so
it should be voluntary then
[9:25
AM] Mr. McGreen:
i
can see that
[9:26
AM] Mr. Brown.:
All
the smarties out there have learning disablilities
cause
we look at the world diffrently
standards
are not our forte
[9:27
AM] Mr. McGreen:
problem
is smarts don't equal creativity
[9:28
AM] Mr. Brown.:
Depends
on the kind of smart
you
can put 5 book smart people in a room
and
put the outside the box thinker smart guy in there
and
he will find a way out
[9:28
AM] Mr. Blue:
we
didn't start getting homework until 5th or 6th grade
but
it doesn't prepare you for anything, except maybe college, which most
kids won't go to anyway
you
don't get homework at a regular 9-5 job
[9:30
AM] Mr. McGreen:
you
mean you dont go home and practice your Katzenjammer Talking Points?
[9:30
AM] Mr. Blue:
so
i'd be invested in school for 8 hours...that's half of my waking
hours...then if 4-5 of my classes had homework...even if each could
be completed in 15 minutes that's another hour+ of my own time to do
someone else's work. Plus any chores or jobs i had to do
[9:32
AM]
Right.
It prepares you for a dismal future job experience.
[9:32
AM] Mr. McGreen:
i
was not prepared for this job. I shouldve done homework
[9:32
AM]
“Congratulations!
You've graduated from lowly hourly to prestigious salary! Now
you get to take stuff home and work another 4 hours "for free"
to keep up!”
[9:33
AM] Mr. McGreen:
My
cousin is a teacher and she has to do work at home
[9:33
AM] Mr. Blue:
it's
the same principle of work. countries with shorter work days (france,
germany) find higher productivity per hour. And the opposite (japan)
finds lower productivity per hour
Kids
need to cram in their 6 hours they're in classes and go and be kids
the rest of the day.
homework
seems like a way to perpetuate inequality
if
you have a good home life you're probably more likely to do homework.
if
your house is F'd up (mine wasn't but still) you're not going to be
able to get the work done
maybe
you have to go home and work on the farm or you're poor and you need
a part time job
i
don't doubt there's kids that just pass their homework off to their
parent or sibling to do it for them, too
[9:36
AM] Mr. McGreen:
or
are 15 with a drinking problem because youre severely depressed and
your parents dont care
[9:36
AM] Mr. Blue:
was
that you?
[9:37
AM] Mr. McGreen:
mayyyyybe
>.>
[9:37
AM] Mr. Blue:
if
i have kids i'll just do their homework for them. it doesn't matter.
most of what you learn is not needed or ends up being BS anyway. like
1% of what you learn in school is actually ever applied in the real
world
[9:38]
And
yet...If any of us were forced to live among those lacking a
foundational education...
[9:17
AM]
(Commercial...photogenic
man who looks like he's never even held a cigarette and a 4 MO
baby) "I tried hard to quit smoking."
("Sure
ya did.")
"But
once we brought our daughter home...that was it."
("Like
millions of Americans, I tried the Smoking-Out-On-The-Porch method")
[9:18
AM] Mr. McGreen:
lol
i
quit cold turkey for like a year and the cravings didnt even get me,
i just wanted to smoke again
[9:19
AM] Mr. Blue:
i'm
too lazy to get addicted to anything
[9:19
AM] Mr. McGreen:
just
dont really want to quit
[9:19
AM] Mr. Blue:
stopping
at a store to pick up booze or cigarettes? Not for me
[9:19
AM] Mr. McGreen:
lol
the
liquor store guys know me
[9:19
AM] Mr. Blue:
"The
usual, Mr. McGreen?"
[9:21
AM] Mr. McGreen:
i
gotta switch back to liqour. Beer is killing my guts