Kids today don't know much of anything about politics or world history. - General

[QUOTE=Triumph Forks;19937156]You sounds like a smug little shit OP, no offense. But yeah, My class is alright. The half that know their shit, at least. The other half make less shit than when I come to class baked. (not often, and usually when I think we're watching a movie or something)[/QUOTE] Aw come on, that's just not fair.

[QUOTE=cheeseman52;19926376]I almost feel sorry for how ignorant the school children are these days. They know little to nothing of subjects they shoud.[/QUOTE] It's because most of them are uninteresting non-curious sociofags who only worry about sports and hanging out with their shitty ignorant friends after school.

I can 1 up you. We were studying Southeast Asia and there was a picture of the Petronas towers in Malaysia. Some retard says, "Don't we have twin towers?" The rest of the class informed him that they were destroyed by a terrorist attack and he didn't know what we were talking about. Seriously. He didn't know 9/11 happened. What the fuck.

Same thing happens to me. I doodle on my work a lot, so one time I drew a little hammer and sickle on the corner of my page and one of my friends saw it and started flipping the fuck out saying that I liked Stalin and that Communism is bad and all that crap. Anyway, it took me 10 minutes to quickly explain to him that Communism wasn't the essence of all evil and that it had good intentions and that Stalin wasn't actually running a Communist government, I still don't think he really understood though. Also, on an unrelated note, some idiot in my science class didn't know that we were in the Milky Way galaxy, he thought we were just floating around in open space and weren't part of a galaxy at all.

Why would those who cant vote need an understanding of what they would be voting for? Now if you mean "kids" as in "young adults" like ages 18-21 thats a different story because those are not KIDS they are legally ADULTS.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;19926880]Yale, Oxford, and Harvard. :v: Those are the [I]only[/I] ones, The rest are just colleges. If you go the a "university" I think those are regarded as more respectable, but even then there's still plenty of dumbfucks.[/QUOTE] MIT is a large party school. [editline]03:42PM[/editline] Also, the concept the OP is looking for is called [B]Post Modernism.[/B]

Oh, this thread reminds me OP, if you think that's bad, just wait until you see what Texas has in store for the next generation of students. [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=881100[/url]

Reminds me of when I was on TF2 and I mentioned the word "Celibate" All the little kids who were talking about sex go "WHAT'S CELIBATE MEAN" (facepalm) EDIT: Also this generation voted for Obama only because he was popular and not because they knew anything about him or his politics, blah blah blah...

My best class is Government. Everything in there is just common knowledge to me, it has to do with parents and location.

Breaking news: kids are dumb

Yet the generation the OP is from is probably just as dumb in the eyes of their peers.

Kids can be stupid, deal with it.

[QUOTE=PartyPancake;19939793]Same thing happens to me. I doodle on my work a lot, so one time I drew a little hammer and sickle on the corner of my page and one of my friends saw it and started flipping the fuck out saying that I liked Stalin and that Communism is bad and all that crap. Anyway, it took me 10 minutes to quickly explain to him that Communism wasn't the essence of all evil and that it had good intentions and that Stalin wasn't actually running a Communist government, I still don't think he really understood though. Also, on an unrelated note, some idiot in my science class didn't know that we were in the Milky Way galaxy, he thought we were just floating around in open space and weren't part of a galaxy at all.[/QUOTE] Oh I know. I had a shirt with a h&s on it, and this kid in class just looks at me as I gather my stuff, and says, "Go back to Russia!" I look at him and just walk away.

Idiocy only increases with honors classes. There was this fatass having some conversation with his buddies about his stupid theories. I mean, he has honors classes, he's entitled to have theories amirite? So I listen in and he thinks that gravity attracts energy and not mass. According to him, the definition of gravity is the attraction of mass to mass and nothing more. However, since black holes (OMG) attract light with gravity that means that gravity must actually attract energy! And like the awesomely certified little scientist he is he makes a hypothesis based on his conclusion: once we cool something to absolute zero it will float. Yes. Fuck you third law of thermodynamics, we're going to do it anyway. So after he's done shitting all over Newton and proclaiming victory, I call him out on his shit. "So if that's true why don't we just float off?" He says that we have energy in us dumbass, so we're attracted to the Earth (assuming energy is somehow anchored to us and pulls us with it). He asks me if I know what a black hole is. I recite to him exactly what it is. "Well, not exactly" He says in a triumphant voice like he's some sort of grown adult speaking to a small child. He doesn't even "correct" me and he basically tells me what I've already heard from him. "So why don't things weigh less as they're cooled?" "The attraction of mass to mass is not the whole definition of gravity." "It's impossible to cool something to absolute zero." I ask him. "Don't argue with me, I have honors classes, I know more than you could ever know." I call him out on his ad hominem faggotry. He gloats more about his honors classes and dismisses me as a lowly college prep peon. He says that if I challenge his theories (he actually said that fucking word) he'll report me for harassment because after all he's a higher entity than me and shouldn't have to deal with me. Classic game of chess with an entitled pigeon.

[QUOTE=Bobv2;19940955]"Don't argue with me, I have honors classes, I know more than you could ever know."[/QUOTE] [URL=http://img63.imageshack.us/i/ccmf.jpg/][IMG]http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/4020/ccmf.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I see no difference.

I don't have a single fucking clue why small kids have any kind of reason to say that today's kids bla bla bla. How the fuck do you people even know? Yeah, everyone was a fucking genius in the 70's, you just fucking missed out.

Thats what the kids are like where i live. To them Obama is a no good commie and the only real way to end a war is by nuking the complete shit out of our enemies.

[QUOTE=cosmeticplague;19936747]This is really true. Go into honors and the amount of idiots decreases drastically, but there are still a few who don't give a fuck about their grades.[/QUOTE] I would disagree. In fact it can get worse as you have people who are so sure about themselves and will say anything that pops into their head.

A girl in my year didn't know what the holocaust was, and when we asked her, "You know, like, Hitler and World War 2?" her eyes sparked up at the word Hitler and then she said he's some character off a comedy on the ABC.

Hey, kids don't need to know about history and mathematics. All they need to know is: [B]ZOMG LIL WAYNE AM BE IN JAIL LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL OH NOEZ!!!!11!1 [/B]or [B]OH DUD LISN TO DIS RAP DIS STUPH AM DA BOMB DUD SHIZZLE BEYOTCH NI**A FUCKYA!!![/B] but of course if I say that I don't like rap, then THIS happens: [B]HEY U DUN LIEK RAP DAT MEANZ UR RACIST YOU BITCHASSMUTHAFUCKANIGGAFUCKBOMBYEA![/B] But seriously, why in the holy name of fuck would I ever want to listen to some guy shouting out barely audible curse words which barely piece together a story about how shitty it is to be a multi-millionare with a Bugatti and a gold-crusted hummer and platinum teeth?

[QUOTE=Barrowsx;19947468]Hey, kids don't need to know about history and mathematics. All they need to know is: [B]ZOMG LIL WAYNE AM BE IN JAIL LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL OH NOEZ!!!!11!1 [/B]or [B]OH DUD LISN TO DIS RAP DIS STUPH AM DA BOMB DUD SHIZZLE BEYOTCH NI**A FUCKYA!!![/B] but of course if I say that I don't like rap, then THIS happens: [B]HEY U DUN LIEK RAP DAT MEANZ UR RACIST YOU BITCHASSMUTHAFUCKANIGGAFUCKBOMBYEA![/B] But seriously, why in the holy name of fuck would I ever want to listen to some guy shouting out barely audible curse words which barely piece together a story about how shitty it is to be a multi-millionare with a Bugatti and a gold-crusted hummer and platinum teeth?[/QUOTE] i was waiting for thinly veiled racism in this thread and i finally got it "why cant people realize that i am better than some dumb nigger?!?!?!?!!?!?!? i think im a genius so that makes me automatically better than him" - you

[QUOTE=Ziron;19947638]i was waiting for thinly veiled racism in this thread and i finally got it "why cant people realize that i am better than some dumb nigger?!?!?!?!!?!?!? i think im a genius so that makes me automatically better than him" - you[/QUOTE] It's not just blacks, all the races have joined in on the stupidity! It's an orgy of equality and racial acceptance!

[quote=thisispain;19941181]i don't have a single fucking clue why small kids have any kind of reason to say that today's kids bla bla bla. How the fuck do you people even know? Yeah, everyone was a fucking genius in the 70's, you just fucking missed out.[/quote] [B]This.[/B]

[QUOTE=Bobv2;19947739]It's not just blacks, all the races have joined in on the stupidity! It's an orgy of equality and racial acceptance![/QUOTE] it is a plot by the blacks to take away all the women that the socially awkward high school students should have because they think they're so smart (me included)

[QUOTE=Ziron;19947757]it is a plot by the blacks to take away all the women that the socially awkward high school studetns should have because they think they're so smart (me included)[/QUOTE] Speak for yourself, not every intelligent person is socially awkward.

There was a girl in my History class sophomore year who thought Hồ Chí Minh was the old guy with the long beard in all those old Kung Fu movies... My god I facepalmed...

I once called Elizabeth I a Bastard Queen and everyone stared at me.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;19926291]Now it seems logical that kids wouldn't know much about international affairs, that's understandable, since they're just kids and it wouldn't interest them. However, today I saw that to the extreme. In this history class, there was an ongoing "class debate" on which idea was better, set up by the teacher. And the task today was to write the "Hows, Whens, Wheres, and Whats" of the idea. I chose communism, and as I was writing, this kid comes up to me and tries to get some cheap answers out of me, despite the fact that he doesn't even know my name. And then he says quite possibly the stupidest thing ever, "It's like, in Russia, right?" I look over at him, I chuckle, and I say "No, it's really not." Follow this up with about 20 minutes of the teacher asking questions about 2 of the groups (Communist and Socialist), and people giving me funny looks as about only 2 other people answer these questions. So tell me, do the kids in your area appear this lazy and overall oblivious to ideologies and international affairs as mine do?[/QUOTE] Force it on them. Like a Benjamin-Franklin version of Larry The No-Trash Cougar.

[QUOTE=OvB;19927951]I've ran into so many people who think Iraq did 9/11.[/QUOTE] [I]Thiiisss[/I]. When I was out drinking the other night, the topic of the middle east and war somehow came up. I don't think a single person I hang out with knows that Afghanistan and Iraq are two completely different countries and two completely different wars.

Here are a few of my favorite gems from my "Natural Resource Conservation" class. 1. "Is Mt. Rushmore, like, Natural?" 2. "How do you spell 'Hide'?" 3. "Martin Luther King Jr. day? Jr. has one too?" 4. "I thought London was in France." 5. "What does commerce regulation mean?" (Keep in mind they're Juniors.) 6. (Not a quote, but two kids got wrapped up in a Pyramid Scheme, no lie.) 7. "What is the biggest mountain in New York state?" "Mt. Everest." 8. "Who is the Vice President?"