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Sinner! I shalt release bloody retribution upon thee, infidel!Quote:
at the risk of getting lynched...I use Internet Explorer. o.O
lynch! lynch lynch!Quote:
Originally Posted by pezhetairoi
:hanged:
lol
Football was invented in the industrial cities around the Great Lakes- it's a northern sport. The first schools to play it were northern Ivy League schools and it spread from New England to Minnesota in industrial cities and land-grant colleges. It didn't become popular in the south until the 1930s- a full hundred years after it started being played at Harvard and at Pittsburgh factories before and after shifts.Quote:
Originally Posted by hooahguy
And even now, the NFL doesn't rule in the south because there are so few teams in the south- compared to how many in the north. College football is king in most places.
Hello, I'm Dhampir. I'm from Wisconsin (Soviet Cheeseheadlandistan). I hold BA's in History and English from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and I am a member of Phi Alpha Theta. I am in the midst of a two-year break from school to earn money and pay off student loans and I will be applying to graduate schools to study history- beginning in the fall semester of 2009 (not the upcoming school year, but the next). I have not decided on what I want to study, but I am leaning toward military history or classical history (thanks to RTW and HBO's Rome, my interest in the classics has been rekindled after laying dormant for many years) or, if I can get my way- both.
lol... ya.. we northerners/northwesterners rule the NFL.....
we are about to study the American Civil War in history class.... he calls it the "war of yankee agression"...... wait till i show him......
About an hour ago I auditioned for the role of George in a play called "Our Town." I think that I did a decent job but I'm not sure so if you could turn your positive karma in the direction of the guy with the blue face paint and pointy teeth, it would be very much appreciated.:drama2:
Tell him he should read "The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History", edited by Gary Gallagher and Alan Nolan. He'll blow a fuse.:tnt:Quote:
Originally Posted by hooahguy
Talking about soccer (you silly-willy Americans would call it "football"), I actually watched the New York Whatevers vs Someotherplace Whateverelses and suffice it to say that Alicia Keys in the break was the high point of the game (and I don't really like her anyway). You yanks really are weirdos for worshipping that! :dizzy2:
So, the premiership is going worlwide eh?
oh i will, trust me.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Dhampir
lol
o! i read that play! it was really boring.....
This is the right time to tell you about my new PC i think.
Intel Core2 Duo E6750 @ 3.6 GhZ
4GB DDR2
GF 8800GT 512MB
Ok now that you have the information, you're welcome to close the tavern.
Or wait... I also bought a new TV, it's a 32" LCD where i can play my dear COD4 @ 1080p HD.
There.
That means absolutely nothing to me. Do all them numbers mean it's good?
lynch! lynch lynch! (again!)Quote:
Originally Posted by blank
:hanged:
lol
ugh lol
+1?
i would add Blank to the list of shame but he didnt actually kill the thread.....
ah well....
Bragging on your new computer is shame in itself so no need to add his name to another list :p
Cheers...
How much was that monster?Quote:
Originally Posted by blank
My computer is so good I have 5 seconds long load times between turns.Quote:
Originally Posted by mAIOR
Mohahahahahaahha!!!!!! :devil:
I don´t consider that bragging as much as being incredibly mean.
I was thinking about taunts in EB, and why isn't there a cheesy 'Molon Labe' taunt? :P
I am auditing some classes at the university to keep my skills up and today I was struck by a question. Not struck hard, no blood was drawn, but it got me thinking...
Is this new crop of history majors really stupid or was I like that once? It seems like they cannot process what they read and lecture material into a cohesive synthesis.
I am also convinced that standards are declining- in none of the three upper-division classes I'm auditing do the regular students have to do a major research paper. And I am told that the capstone course- a graduate-level historiography course- has changed the book from the "Breisach Bible", as we called it, to a dinky book that is but a pamphlet by comparison.
Not like this will mean much to most of you...I just had to tell someone.
*blink*
I think it's you. I've been visiting my alma mater (colleges, high school) and constantly get the feeling that they aren't as good as we used to be in the good ol' days too. When I relief-taught literature I wowed the class into near-worship with some rudimentary analysis that would only have been counted surface scratchings in my day. And some couldn't even understand that analysis. Anyone else get that feeling?
Pez and Dhampir,
I concur. I was in graduate school in a hitherto un-named university many years ago. I did all the grunt work for an English 100-something and was stunned at the consistant poor quality papers coming across my desk. Exams were no better. I was actually called into the professors office and we went over some papers, b/c my grades didn't match the "bell curve" - which to my amazement - was now centered on B's instead of C's. I actually had to re-grade the papers and give everyone higher scores. Grade inflation. It is doing our system no favors.
Don't get me wrong, there were some good students - even some brillant ones. But C students are now led to believe that they are B students, when they - clearly - are not.
So, yes lads, I concur.
It's happening in my school in dribs and drabs too, individual teachers inflating their students' marks to look good (their performance bonus depends on it) and doing them no favours. My boss the head of department is forced to give students reality checks by vetoing exam script markings and marking them the exam standard way (which is the way I used to do it).
The students are mostly so poor in my school these days because they have an air of complacency because (shock shock horror horror) their teachers are helping them. Yeah, something like that rubbish bell curve. But it's still not all lost yet at least, because the official stand is still that exam scripts should be cross-marked so at least there's some standardisation.
I work in a high school, by the way, not a university.
Well, nevermind now. Pssh.
....must..... save.... tavern......
:titanic:
Hax, how many times do we have to tell you to stop killing the tavern?!
lol!
There needs to be more drunk crack in here!! Enough of this intellectual nonsense!
*hic* school is for losers *hic* and so is Horst *hic*Quote:
Originally Posted by Horst Nordfink
lol
Yeay! I'm for losers!!
I haven't had a drink since Friday night, I'm starting to get the shakes!
Here, have one! I hope you don't mind a Jagermeister. *slides glass across bartop*
I am for winners! Pez ftw!
Angry Germans are fun. Its a mix of Jager and, well, any german beer you care to buy (I prefer the Heineken, but thats due to the wide availability of it) (yeah yeah its made in holland, so sue me)