Jul -- General Chat: Well, that was a bucket of fun. (Round 4)

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Posted on 11-18-07 02:58:04 PM

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Originally posted by Stigandr
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what is with people and their obsession with roosters?

Thanksgiving's coming. They're trying to get us to kill chickens instead of turkeys.

That's assuming they don't live in Canada. I've never understood why ours is a month earlier

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Posted on 11-18-07 03:49:38 PM

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	Originally posted by Higsby That's assuming they don't live in Canada. I've never understood why ours is a month earlier Canada was "founded" at a different time than the colonies... right? My U.S. History knowledge is slipping... ____________________

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Posted on 11-18-07 04:10:57 PM

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Am I the only one who really didn't care that much about History growing up? Social Sciences always tended to bore me with the drama. :\

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Posted on 11-18-07 05:58:36 PM

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Originally posted by Ω Hiryuu
Am I the only one who really didn't care that much about History growing up?

A lot of us didn't care. My teachers were absolutely horrible at teaching it, they just droned on and on...

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Posted on 11-18-07 07:39:31 PM

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I loved history class..it was one of the few classes that I was good at.

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Posted on 11-18-07 10:32:46 PM

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Originally posted by Ω Hiryuu
Am I the only one who really didn't care that much about History growing up? Social Sciences always tended to bore me with the drama. :\

I hated (and I mean that very passionately) History.

History is boring, and if I have to be doomed to repeat it over and over again, so be it.

The past is the past.

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Posted on 11-18-07 10:33:44 PM

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I hated history until I had my World History teacher in 10th grade. I had fun in that class believe it or not.

So much I signed up for his AP World History class.

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Posted on 11-18-07 10:52:02 PM

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History is one of those "filler" classes. All it'll get you is your diploma, some bragging rights, and possibly a job as a librarian. I can see it being useful if you're a curator or an archaeologist, but why should we be forced to take it in college if we're studying something completely unrelated like computer science? Aren't 12 years enough? Anyway, only year of History I enjoyed was last year, because the teacher encouraged us to bash Bush as much as we could. You can see how well that went with me ____________________

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Posted on 11-18-07 10:52:51 PM

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I got lucky, I guess, but I had absolutely amazing history teachers for both history classes I took in high school. I really don't like studying history very much, but my teachers made it at least tolerable for me.

Not to mention help me get a 5 on the AP exam!

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Posted on 11-18-07 11:01:44 PM

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JL2 - Post #1515 - 11-18-07 06:01:44pm

Originally posted by Power Cirvante X
History is one of those "filler" classes. All it'll get you is your diploma, some bragging rights, and possibly a job as a librarian. I can see it being useful if you're a curator or an archaeologist, but why should we be forced to take it in college if we're studying something completely unrelated like computer science? Aren't 12 years enough?

Yeah, there's always prerequisites that don't seem to have anything to do with the subject. Like I need grade 12 English to go into programming? I've been doing that for a while already and have yet to find a situation where I needed to know different types of irony or the meaning of "veracity".

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Posted on 11-18-07 11:04:59 PM

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While I'm not going to make much of it in life, I actually enjoyed History. I just like learning about the past, especially places other than "We're number 1!" America...

^The above does not reflect my opinion of America.^

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Posted on 11-20-07 06:10:55 PM

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I like History if I have a good teacher, and if I don't, I hate it. I also am annoyed by only learning American history, and the attitude which some of my teachers have taken on it in the past is just sickening. I also have two otherwise intelligent nuts in my class this year that are patriotic to nauseation . One actually thinks Bush is doing a good job, and refers to me as a "damn liberal" if we get into a political argument.

"Puerto Rico doesn't realize that becoming a state would be good for them!" Oh god.

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Posted on 11-20-07 06:13:19 PM

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Ω > U

He must listen to Rush.

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Posted on 11-20-07 10:01:03 PM

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Originally posted by FirePhoenix
While I'm not going to make much of it in life, I actually enjoyed History. I just like learning about the past, especially places other than "We're number 1!" America...

^The above does not reflect my opinion of America.^

Canada burned down the White House once.

That's why it's white. It used to be pink.

Also, right now, our Chemistry unit in Science, has been nothing but history. I wanna do experiments damnit!

I can't wait to Electricity though, we get to build something!

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Posted on 11-20-07 10:05:47 PM

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Well this thread got offtopic pretty fast.

...The white house was pink at one time?

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Posted on 11-20-07 10:08:52 PM

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I actually find history very interesting... though history class is another matter, though

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Posted on 11-20-07 11:03:05 PM

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JL2 - Post #1533 - 11-20-07 06:03:05pm

Originally posted by Imajin
I actually find history very interesting... though history class is another matter, though

This guy's got the right idea. History itself can be quite interesting, but being required to learn specific parts of it = eww no. (Granted, I did great in grade 9 history, but that's because the class was piss-easy.

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Posted on 11-21-07 12:53:09 AM

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Ω > U

Most of my teachers -period- sucked.

And yea, having to learn something out of necessity is no fun whatsoever...but then most people wouldn't learn anything but yet because of -that- we're responsible to learn so much and cram our heads full of mostly useless general knowledge that we won't use in our lifetime.

I'd rather learn something I wanna learn anyways...kinda alleviates the whole problem of getting up to wanting to learn something since you're usually psyched to do it anyways.

Though I admit good teachers also help...I've had a grand total of...[counts on one hand] five.

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