What Gets On Your Nerves?

[HeiseiGodzilla117]

Pyramid Schemes... ugh. One of my friends has been brainwashed into participating in one of those stupid things. Multi-level marketing is just not a good idea unless you're at the top of the hierarchy.

[Kiryu2012]

The fact that people join Goji64's forum, yet never do anything there after that. Seriously, it's just me and Godzilla1703 that actually keep the forums going.

[Kaiju-King42]

^ Oops. Forgot. Too much homework makes me forget things. CURSE YOU, ENGLISH!!!!

Actually, there's something that gets on my nerves. My english class... is retarded. No, it's not because of homework. It's because our english class is completely worthless. it's a mandatory class, but WE LEARN NOTHING. Nothing we do is remotely related to what you'll have to know in the real world. Our english class is not an english class. It's a "how does Hamlet feel when he learns that his uncle killed is father?" class. Not just Shakespeare. EVERYTHING! All we do in that class is talk about feelings. How does this character in that poem feel, what symbolizes this character in this book?That isn't english! That's interpreting literary sources! It serves no purpose. It should be an option, titled: Interpretation Class, not a mandatory class.

The only purpose this class serves is to provide us sources to use on our English diploma. And really, it's the only diploma in our entire school where you don't need to learn anything. You just get sources to help you answer the essay. It's almost redundant. Why can't we learn things that will actually help us later in life, like proper sentence structure, bigger vocabularies, learning a new language, how to write a business letter? That's what our english should teach! Studying the holocaust belongs in a different class! Making dioramas belongs in a different class!

*pants* End of rant!

[Jomei]

Dude, you obviously have no idea what English studies are about. xDD

I don't doubt that your class sucks. Most high school English classes do. But if you think literary studies don't belong in English but "learning a new language" does... you're on the moon, man.

[Kaiju-King42]

^Okay, so maybe not learning a new language. I just don't find literary studies to be all that useful unless you're actually planning on doing some of that stuff in the future. Which is why I would prefer it if they kept this stuff as an optional class, like how calculus is separated from math, and use the mandatory class for more useful things. Things that everybody could use later in life.

[HayesAJones]

When villains are sympathised with by fans so much that they loose what makes them fun in the first place. Especially when they try to make the hero/s look like the real asshole/s.

[HeiseiGodzilla117]

^Okay, so maybe not learning a new language. I just don't find literary studies to be all that useful unless you're actually planning on doing some of that stuff in the future. Which is why I would prefer it if they kept this stuff as an optional class, like how calculus is separated from math, and use the mandatory class for more useful things. Things that everybody could use later in life.

You're in high school. They group basic things like grammar and citation formats in the same class as things like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and, occasionally, Beowulf to expose students to a variety of ideas. There isn't enough time or resources in most highschools to dedicate an entire class to just one thing. Those are extremely general classes meant to be introductory more than anything. There are probably some people in your class who complain about how redundant the study of grammar can be and are much more interested in literature. On top of that, it's important to engage major pieces of literature in life in order to understand how ideas have passed down through the generations. Nothing is useless. It's kind of silly to use the example of calculus having its own course. It's a more advanced course of Math. Not everyone is going to want to take more math classes after taking general math. That's why its optional. Some people, following a general high school English class, may or may not want to pursue more English classes because of their interests and/or aptitudes.

[Bret]

Youtubes not loading things correctly on my end, but I can't skreeonk find out what the problem is. It's not Firefox, since I tried it in Chrome and the same thing happened. The video is only buffering 45 seconds a head of the where the video is. after that it stops buffering entirely. Since my internet is so goddamn slow, I try to let videos buffer fully before i watch them, now it's watch 45 seconds,stop, wait for it to buffer, repeat.

[PopInPicsPresents]

There's 7 skreeonk hawks circling my chickens.

[Kiryu2012]

^Have you tried hiding the chickens in a covered area?

[TheSecondComing]

^Have you tried hiding the chickens in a covered area?

A chicken coop, perhaps?

[PopInPicsPresents]

^Have you tried hiding the chickens in a covered area?

A chicken coop, perhaps?

I have one. I think the chicken should be fine, they like to stay under bushes and what not. Plus we have a German Shepard in the yard so the chickens are relativity safe. But, if I see any hawks going after my cats it's open season.

[Tyler]

^Have you tried hiding the chickens in a covered area?

I call it my stomach.

[HikizuruBeat]

When I try to use the school internet, but it's soo slow because these guys always play league of legends and slows down down everything.

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

Dude, you obviously have no idea what English studies are about. xDD

I don't doubt that your class sucks. Most high school English classes do. But if you think literary studies don't belong in English but "learning a new language" does... you're on the moon, man.

You could tell him what English studies is about. I think it is an important thing to know.

Interpretation, rhetoric, and critical thinking are skills that you need throughout life. And today's education is the complete opposite of that. We are taught memorization of facts. Literature helps us with critical skills because it makes us think about the human experience.

Admittedly, we're too caught up in ourselves to think about ourselves.

You think about that, Kaiju-King. Get back to me.

[Jomei]

Reading literature makes you smarter.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... to/254884/

[Legionmaster]

Reading literature makes you smarter.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... to/254884/

That article is so biased it's a joke. And that's coming from a writer.

[Jomei]

So, you reject the scientific studies that serve as the basis of that article too? Or do you merely object to that particular writer's perspective on the studies' implications? It's helpful to explain what your issue with something is when you're totally, insultingly dismissive of it.

[Legionmaster]

So, you reject the scientific studies that serve as the basis of that article too?

The amusing part about this is that it's an op-ed pieces citing studies from another op-ed piece that doesn't even cite the studies it's refering to (because it's an op-ed piece). If they can't even bother to show me the studies they're pulling information from, I have no responsability to take their word for it. Not that I think they're lying, but one can always single out a study or two to prove almost anything. Just because a study is done does not mean it's a good or valid study.

Or do you merely object to that particular writer's perspective on the studies' implications?

It's mostly this. They're infering that the studies claim that reading "classical literature" (a problematic term in itself) makes you a better, smarter person. The parts of the study they quote don't imply that in the least bit. The original piece cited even makes note that a study found similar effects from watching movies. Both writers make it quite apparent that they are predisposed to their opinions before hearing about the studies in the first place.

I don't have to take an op-ed piece as academic evidence of anything, as the piece isn't academic in goal or prose.

[Jomei]

I don't agree with her specification of "classical literature," either. That's merely her opinion, and I don't share it. You're right about the bias on that count.

I think a similar argument could be made about good film, the study of which I also think is valid and worthwhile for many of the same reasons as literature.