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Most incorrect thing you were taught?

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    #422
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    So is back seat modding.

    Anyway, what are you going to do? Take your ball home?

    I'll turn off my computer and you will all fade into oblivion.

    Mwhhahahahahhaa


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    #423
    _LilyRose_
    Registered Users Posts: 211 ✭✭_LilyRose_


    My 3rd year religion teacher (a nun) was talking about Hinduism or something and when she was telling us about reincarnation she'd go, 'now, we know that this isn't true, but we have to respect their beliefs..'

    :confused:


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    #424
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    really, #firstworldproblem and correcting typos is against the rules.

    I hate Grammar Nazism, but I think there's a case to be made for pointing out a basic spelling mistake made by an English-language teacher in a thread about the most incorrect thing you've been taught.

    Still, at least he didn't write "thought!" :)


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    #425
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,225 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »
    You can't argue with made up statistics so you can't.
    Did you know that 85% of pie charts resemble Pacman? :pac:


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    #426
    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    When Pighead was a young man, his wierd nieghbour whispered in his ear:
    "I before e except after c. Remember that cast iron rule Pighead and you will go far. You'll never misspell those tricky 'ie' words again"

    He added wieght to his claims by saying the rule was an exact sceince. Have a horrible feeling he led Pighead astray.


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    #427
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    When Pighhead was a young man a teacher told him to always refer to himself in the third person. That way, young man, he said "You will earn gravitas, and respect, and lots of thanks on internet forums when such a thing is invented".


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    #428
    Mickey H
    Registered Users Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Back in the eighties my teachers told me the Japs were going to take over the world, economy wise

    They were wrong, it's the Chinese

    Different flag different boss. Net end result is the same though.


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    #429
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Solair wrote: »
    Also, a French teacher who used to get irritated with the French guy in our class when he pointed out that any particular phrase hadn't been used since 1937!
    If you followed his advice on idioms, you would sound like some french equivalent of a character out of a Dickens novel.

    What the hell was the French guy doing in French class?


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    #430
    _LilyRose_
    Registered Users Posts: 211 ✭✭_LilyRose_


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What the hell was the French guy doing in French class?

    Getting a handy A1?


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    #431
    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    When Pighhead was a young man a teacher told him to always refer to himself in the third person. That way, young man, he said "You will earn gravitas, and respect, and lots of thanks on internet forums when such a thing is invented".
    Pighead's delighted to hear he has earned your respect Duggy's housemate. Means a lot buddy.


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    #432
    jaffacakesyum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭jaffacakesyum


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    When Pighhead was a young man a teacher told him to always refer to himself in the third person. That way, young man, he said "You will earn gravitas, and respect, and lots of thanks on internet forums when such a thing is invented".

    If only we were all taught pretentious ways to be cool :(


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    #433
    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    jaffacakesyum wrote: »
    If only we were all taught pretentious ways to be cool :(
    The good news jaffacakesyum is that it is never too late to learn. As Henry Doherty once said-
    "Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life."

    Never too late to learn pretensiousness.


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    #434
    Leonid
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Leonid


    In secondary school, we were never told that the last letter in a word is generally not pronounced in French. The teacher never spoke French in class either. Classes consisted of memorising phrases and translating long boring texts with a dictionary.

    Curse that horrid teacher.


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    #435
    jblack
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭jblack


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I hate Grammar Nazism [recte, Naziism], but I think there's a case to be made for pointing out a basic spelling mistake made by an English-language teacher in a thread about the most incorrect thing you've been taught.

    Still, at least he didn't write "thought!" :)

    Oh dear.


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    #436
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    jblack wrote: »
    Oh dear.

    Oh dear, oh dear.


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    #437
    jblack
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭jblack


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Oh dear, oh dear.

    I don't always correct people, but when I do I do it incorrectly.


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    #438
    carolmarx
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭carolmarx


    Had a fifth year Irish teacher (4 years ago) who told us real poverty didn't exist in Ireland.... :confused:


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    #439
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    carolmarx wrote: »
    Had a fifth year Irish teacher (4 years ago) who told us real poverty didn't exist in Ireland.... :confused:

    I'd say that one is true.


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    #440
    carolmarx
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭carolmarx


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    I'd say that one is true.

    In 2010 the percentage of Irish people living in consistent poverty was 6.2 %


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    #441
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    carolmarx wrote: »
    In 2010 the percentage of Irish people living in consistent poverty was 6.2 %

    All richer than 70-80% of the world, its a problem with the definition of real.


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    #442
    carolmarx
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭carolmarx


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    All richer than 70-80% of the world, its a problem with the definition of real.

    The thing about poverty is that it's all relative. It's about whether or not YOU can survive in your own society.


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    #443
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    carolmarx wrote: »
    The thing about poverty is that it's all relative. It's about whether or not YOU can survive in your own society.

    Its not about survival. The poor survive. Its about having a non-normal lifestyle by the standards of the country you are in.

    We are therefore arguing on the semantic definition of "real". Persistent poverty exists in Ireland, but nobody lives like the slums of India, or sub-Saharan Africa.


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    #444
    carolmarx
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭carolmarx


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    Its not about survival. The poor survive. Its about having a non-normal lifestyle by the standards of the country you are in.

    We are therefore arguing on the semantic definition of "real". Persistent poverty exists in Ireland, but nobody lives like the slums of India, or sub-Saharan Africa.

    Actually, a lot of the poor don't survive. But we digress. This teacher basically thought that no one in Ireland was hungry.


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    #445
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    carolmarx wrote: »
    Actually, a lot of the poor don't survive.

    You mean they die at 75?
    But we digress. This teacher basically thought that no one in Ireland was hungry.

    Nobody in Ireland should be hungry given the social welfare payouts, its fairly easy to work out that a family on social welfare is not much worse off than some middle income groups who have to pay for housing, travel, electricity and tax before they can feed themselves.


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    #446
    carolmarx
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭carolmarx


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    You mean they die at 75?



    Nobody in Ireland should be hungry given the social welfare payouts, its fairly easy to work out that a family on social welfare is not much worse off than some middle income groups who have to pay for housing, travel, electricity and tax before they can feed themselves.

    May you always be as blissfully ignorant. :)


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    #447
    nottherealdeal
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭nottherealdeal


    That my computer wouldn't work after midnight 31/12/1999

    Millenium bug or something!


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    #448
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    carolmarx wrote: »
    May you always be as blissfully ignorant. :)

    You are not arguing any kind of case here. I am, as it happens a centre leftist, search my posts for attacks on libertarians. However, lets not pretend that real poverty exists where it doesn't, or that we don't have a very generous welfare system - paying 2.5 times the UK level.

    Real poverty doesn't exist in Ireland. Rejoice.


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    #449
    carolmarx
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭carolmarx


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    You are not arguing any kind of case here. I am, as it happens a centre leftist, search my posts for attacks on libertarians. However, lets not pretend that real poverty exists where it doesn't, or that we don't have a very generous welfare system - paying 2.5 times the UK level.

    Real poverty doesn't exist in Ireland. Rejoice.

    I'm not disputing that people in this country on SW are looked after. But the fact of the matter is that there are people in this country who aren't even in that position. A minority of people are homeless and can't feed themselves, a minority, but they are there. Anyway this isn't a thread on poverty in Ireland, I was merely saying I think my teacher was quite wrong in her assumption that there is no poverty here.


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    #450
    AirBiscuit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭AirBiscuit


    travelledpengy wrote: »
    ones eyes will turn square from watching too much tv

    Believe it or not, my Iris' muscles now have defined squares etched into them.


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    #451
    Rastapitts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭Rastapitts


    that there was a santa!


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