They REFUSED To Baptize Me – #1

Sorta Stupid Podcast

pikaiichuu

6 months

literally laughing so hard im genuinely crying omg
Foulrookie

6 months

I really hate it when I look up something and then YouTube spends the next 6 months trying to get me to use that thing again. Or even worse I accidently tap on the view advertiser button and now my ads are gonna be nothing but that one thing for a long time
Ben

6 months

I had a dream once about laying in bed but I was looking up at the ceiling. My bed was in the corner of the room and there was this dark shape that was kind of pulsing in the corner. I'm not religious but when I saw it in the dream I started doing the hand gesture making the cross ??? when I started doing that, the dark shape shot down towards me and I felt something wrap around my neck and then I woke up. Outside of that I have never experienced anything paranormal. It'd be fun to believe, ghost hunting. Sounds like it would be an experience, ?
LaLa

6 months

So the end segment 'people need something to blame or complain about' made me think about a book I had to read for a class by David Thornburg, 'Edutrends 2010: Restructuring, Technology and the Future of Education' (yeah, I had to look that shit up ?). In it he apparently did some insane research to find these old quotes by teachers and they are perfect examples:

"Students today can’t prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend on their slates which are more expensive. What will they do when their slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write!”

-Teachers Conference, 1703

"Students today depend upon paper too much. They don’t know how to write on slate without chalk dust all over themselves. They can’t clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper?”

-Principal’s Association, 1815

"Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.”

-National Association of Teachers, 1907

"Students today depend upon store-bought ink. They don’t know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write words of ciphers until their next trip to the settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern education.”

-The Rural American Teacher, 1929

"Students today depend upon these expensive fountain pens. They can no longer write with a straight pen and nib (not to mention sharpening their own quills). We parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury to the detriment of learning how to cope in the real business world, which is not so extravagant.”

-PTA Gazette, 1941

"Ball point pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use these devices and then throw them away. The American virtues of thrift and frugality are being discarded. Business and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries.”

-Federal Teacher, 1950

All of which makes me think of my favorite quote about humanity:

"People, what a bunch of bastards" - The I.T. Crowd ?

2 replies
1. King
  
  6 months
  
  This dude really copied a passage from a book and pasted it in a podcast’s comments
2. boom
  
  6 months
  
  Roy, the greatest philosopher of our times.
Gabriel

6 months

for me i agree, i think ghosts are real but im not sure. i believe but also don't. i wanna see proof. when i was a kid, I was laying in bed at night and i saw a dark Gollum like creature {Gollum like from lord of the rings, skinny gangly creature crawling on my ceiling, it was all black) it was crawling on my ceiling and it looked down at me and screeched at me. that was the only time i ever saw it but it scared the shit out of me.
Gabriel

6 months

recommended stuff and advertisements are crazy, sometimes you mention something once and then you see it everywhere in ads and such. I was watching Law and Order one day and I saw the chief or whatever had a big thing of twizzlers on his desk and i started thinking man I kind of want twizzlers now. (I didn't say it out loud) then I started seeing ads on my phone about twizzlers. its crazy lol