What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Stark]

Let me know when it supports a controller, then I can get excited.

You and me can't hang out anymore.

I've thought about getting it and trying out the steam controller as a mouse thing.

[PartridgeSenpai]

So this happened today. I overheard this little conversation in the halls when I was on lunch duty. Made me smile, fer sher.

Student A - "Hey, isn't that Mr. Deck? He's a history teacher, right?"

Student B - "Bitch, he's the most awesome history teach you'll ever meet."

In my experience, history teachers are always the coolest. I know our history teacher in high school was.

Got very happy and very angry with the same event today. I found Shadow Hearts in the resale store today, which made me very excited because of how y'all have talked it up, but got very sad when I saw the price tag and couldn't afford it ;A;

[MrPopo]

Yeah, my history teacher in my second high school (went to a magnet school for Soph-Senior) was amazing; I actually ended up sitting in on one of his classes that I couldn't get on my schedule for the semester (college-style scheduling).

And at my first high school I had two history teachers who were both interesting. The second was a former marine who was the grenadier of his squad and the first had this amazing story about a school trip to Turkey. They had taken a bunch of students to Turkey, and one of the students buys a spring-loaded switchblade at the bazaar. Then the idiot brings it in his pocket as they go through security at the airport in Turkey. He sets off the metal detector and when he empties his pockets the agent is like "what is that?"

"Oh, let me show you," <hits the button, knife pops out, kid gets tackled by a guy with an assault rifle>

The other teacher on the trip freaks out and my teacher pretends he doesn't know this group of kids.

[ElkinFencer10]

The other teacher on the trip freaks out and my teacher pretends he doesn't know this group of kids.

"Fuckin' Americans, amirite? I mean, geeze, get a load of these kids. Glad I'm not associated with them in any way, shape, or form."

[KalessinDB]

In my new house officially. Have moved a ton of boxes over from my dad's yesterday and today, still got a bunch more to go but that's okay, I still have a week off work. Sunday we're moving the furniture over and I can start living there for real!!

Gotta do a whole lot more painting than I expected. They had a LOT of furniture and stuff on their walls, and now that the house is bare it's very apparent I'm not gonna be happy not painting it. And plenty of patching nail holes.

It's cool though. No real major work to be done, just patching/sanding/painting, and if I get a room done every month or two I'm gonna be in good shape. Might get a handyman friend to help with one wall that got pretty butchered with a wall mounted TV, but that won't cost much either.

Next few months of unpacking and organizing will be tiring but SO enjoyable

[Gunstar Green]

My history teacher was an over-the-top libertarian who used his class as an excuse to preach his political ideology. Which was fun in its own way.

[aaron]

My history teacher was an over-the-top libertarian who used his class as an excuse to preach his political ideology. Which was fun in its own way.

that kind of rules.

[Tanooki]

Yeah that does kind of rule, it would be entertaining to say the least. That and given that most teachers are either left wingers or closet righties who keep their mouths shut afraid of some union consequences it would be fairly refreshing.

[samsonlonghair]

My history teacher was an over-the-top libertarian who used his class as an excuse to preach his political ideology. Which was fun in its own way.

that kind of rules.

I had one of these too. She would let classroom discussion run completely off the rails and diverge from the lesson plan entirely. About one week into her class, I figured out that random discussion beats the heck out of doing real work, so I played that card all semester long. I don't think we got any actual work done at all in that class.

Looking back on it now, I realize that this libertarian was a government employee. That's kind of ironic.

[ElkinFencer10]

Teachers shouldn't use their classrooms to preach political ideology, but encouraging a discussion is absolutely a great thing to do. It gets the kids to think.