Its OK - I don't careuziq wrote:
erm, the parataxis and obscure legalese in that passage is there to elicit a point. lmao.
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part of the whole skill of good writing is tailoring a style towards an intended effect. satirising legal bilge and bloviation is there part of the intended ribaldry.
whoosh!
whoosh!
lmao you won't even engage a friendly bookstore clerk on starship troopers but you want to teach a whole ass class.Dilbert_X wrote:
No I think I'll teach a community college class on live-action remakes of children's books.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
not to come down harshly on the comic book bilgewater relentlessly sucked directly out disney's wrinkly corporate anal cavity by its Very Discerning Fans…
you enjoy that stuff for reasons you couldn't elaborate much on. you really should give classics another pass. more in that pool than just dickens. fresh start and all. add to the ol' box of tools.
"This week we're going to analyse 00:30 to 01:30 of Taylor Swift's rendition of Macavity: The Mystery Cat
I want 2,000 words on the deep significance and wider historical context, you can contrast with Britney Spears music videos and any other pop-lite you feel is relevant"
Relevant material:
""There are some things that are really similar about Cats and what I do on tour," Swift says in her behind-the-scenes vid. "So I'm really stoked to come here and do live singing.""
it’s amusing to me that dilbert’s idea of what college-level english classes are about is essentially indistinguishable from jay’s: book reports and ‘trying to figure out wot the author is sayin once and for all’.
while he simultaneously misuses the term ‘deconstruction’.
you’ve just got love people in their 50s just sailing through life in the most ignorant and moronic way possible.
while he simultaneously misuses the term ‘deconstruction’.
you’ve just got love people in their 50s just sailing through life in the most ignorant and moronic way possible.
literature in college felt different to me than literature in high school. more like a book club, and the vibe was more people wanting to be there than not. it's like the shackles were removed.
i would hope to see more of that in high school settings (and enjoyment of learning focus in general), but people would probably cry about wokeness influencing their poor kids or something.
i would hope to see more of that in high school settings (and enjoyment of learning focus in general), but people would probably cry about wokeness influencing their poor kids or something.
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the point being that literature classes engage with things at a higher level of abstraction and with a bit more theoretical underpinning than 'wot did this passage say then? discuss wot the author wanted'.
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OK I'll concede that reading and literature does have a valuable spot in society, I don't think Dickens is a good hill to die on.
Don't forget, the first incarnation of WTF was WTD - 'What the Dickens'
Don't forget, the first incarnation of WTF was WTD - 'What the Dickens'
Imagine sailing through life never having experienced the symphony of a 24 cylinder sleeve valve engine at full bore, appreciated how close roman aquaduct arches are to the perfect load-bearing form, marvelled at the exponential rise and fall of a bacterium on a petri dish.nerziq wrote:
you’ve just got love people in their 50s just sailing through life in the most ignorant and moronic way possible
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you know about as much about microbiology as i do, judging from your cod-darwinianism expressed here over the years and your 'KKK newsletter' eugenics. i read scientific journals all day for my job, midwit. that o-level you took in 1987 doesn't hold currency now, chap.
i have no problem appreciating the sciences and marvelling at the entire endeavour. science is great. i don't set the arts and the sciences against each other. it's insecure reddit-brain stuff partaken in by losers (that's you). i never experienced any weird tribalism in my undergraduate years. we weren't maladjusted dorks. quite hard to explain just how alien all this raging about STEM/humanities is outside, in the real world. normal people don't care, or make their 3 years of undergraduate education the basis of their identity well into their middle years.
what i take exception to is scientISM, to the valorisation of scientists (or more often engineers) as 'gods of the universe'. that's again your bag. just another form of zealotry, another off-the-shelf ideology with a fast approaching expiry date. that stuff is as cringe as richard dawkins and his church of atheism. it's dumb to turn the scientific method into the basis of a worldview. and sad, actually, to make it your personality. every successful scientist i interact with for my job doesn't partake in these silly affectations and posturing. not a few of them probably even read dickens!
i have no problem appreciating the sciences and marvelling at the entire endeavour. science is great. i don't set the arts and the sciences against each other. it's insecure reddit-brain stuff partaken in by losers (that's you). i never experienced any weird tribalism in my undergraduate years. we weren't maladjusted dorks. quite hard to explain just how alien all this raging about STEM/humanities is outside, in the real world. normal people don't care, or make their 3 years of undergraduate education the basis of their identity well into their middle years.
what i take exception to is scientISM, to the valorisation of scientists (or more often engineers) as 'gods of the universe'. that's again your bag. just another form of zealotry, another off-the-shelf ideology with a fast approaching expiry date. that stuff is as cringe as richard dawkins and his church of atheism. it's dumb to turn the scientific method into the basis of a worldview. and sad, actually, to make it your personality. every successful scientist i interact with for my job doesn't partake in these silly affectations and posturing. not a few of them probably even read dickens!
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Logged into facebook to see if anyone wrote on my wall for my birthday, nope. I think it's the first time this happened since getting an account, all bday wishes were in real life or private messages on various platforms.
Also while jogging I saw someone showing off his Call of Duty ass pistol to a friend. Drum mag, some big ass red dot sight, and a suppressor. Made my morning.
Also while jogging I saw someone showing off his Call of Duty ass pistol to a friend. Drum mag, some big ass red dot sight, and a suppressor. Made my morning.
airsoft? otherwise, who puts a drum on a pistol?
Who doesn't put a drum on a pistol.
But what is an ass pistol?
But what is an ass pistol?
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