• Guy Convinces Teenaged Girls To Sign Petition To Eliminate Women's Right To Vote
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[QUOTE=Pandamox;24167165]I'm pretty sure everyone learns about women's suffrage in history class in high school. There's no excuse to not know what it means except just being stupid[/QUOTE] nobody ever told me what it was, ever.
[QUOTE=bravehat;24169803]There is a massive uproar in america over evolution being taught, and around half the country is determined to not teach human evlution at least, and at most avoid evolution. [img]http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/v6i8g11.jpg[/img] [url]http://bigthink.com/ideas/21147[/url] Yeah your teaching is world class :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] If you don't know what evolution is by the time you're 13 something's wrong, school or not.
[QUOTE=bravehat;24169427]Dihydrogen = H2 Monoxide = O Dihydrogen Monoxide = H2O Stop the mother fucking presses water is poisonous :monocle: That is basic science, I got taught that in my first year at high school man, and there is no excuse to not know the very basics of chemistry, physics and biology.[/QUOTE] dihydrogen monoxide does not sound like water to me. i'm not stupid; you're stupid for assuming that it's my duty as a person to know basic chemistry (I don't give two shits what dihydrogren monoxide is).
[QUOTE=bravehat;24169803][img_thumb]http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/v6i8g11.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] I think this is inaccurate. I received a pretty good education in evolution in rural Illinois. I doubt Illinois is that bad.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;24165973]Reminds me of [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw[/media][/QUOTE] [url]http://www.dhmo.org/[/url] Dangerous Stuff
All Girl Catholic School for you Anyway, here in America it's pretty fucked up. Everyone that runs anything has their own biased opinion on whatever it is they're running or how they're running it, and that's how it's going to be. It's especially apparent in schools up to Highschool and even some college. If the School Board of Education in one county of a state is a bunch of flakey women who's idea of fun is Church going every Wednesday and Sunday, then you better believe that they're going to choose Textbooks that if not fitting with their beliefs, don't circumvent them (IE. If they don't teach what they want, they'll make sure they also don't teach what they don't want)
[QUOTE=Robbobin;24170089]nobody ever told me what it was, ever.[/QUOTE] Because American schooling is horrible and the history classes tend to go over the same things multiple times in multiple grades, usually things like the civil rights movement instead of important wars, developments in industry, or the oppression of other groups. If you asked an average 15 year old, he probably wouldn't know something as world-changing as the Russian Civil War ever even happened.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;24170210]Because American schooling is horrible and the history classes tend to go over the same things multiple times in multiple grades, usually things like the civil rights movement instead of important wars, developments in industry, or the oppression of other groups. If you asked an average 15 year old, he probably wouldn't know something as world-changing as the Russian Civil War ever even happened.[/QUOTE] He lives in the UK. But you could have worked it out, man. Just break it down into bits, like bravehat said. It's fairly simple to know what di and mono mean, and then the only stretch is hydrogen and oxide.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;24170210]Because American schooling is horrible and the history classes tend to go over the same things multiple times in multiple grades, usually things like the civil rights movement instead of important wars, developments in industry, or the oppression of other groups.[/QUOTE] It's pretty easy to cover voting rights without ever using the word "suffrage"
[QUOTE=Mexican;24170280]It's pretty easy to cover voting rights without ever using the word "suffrage"[/QUOTE] Didn't you guys ever learn about the suffragettes? God damn, that shit was nailed into me in my RE classes.
The geek girl actually looked better than most of the others.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;24170210]Because American schooling is horrible and the history classes tend to go over the same things multiple times in multiple grades, usually things like the civil rights movement instead of important wars, developments in industry, or the oppression of other groups. If you asked an average 15 year old, he probably wouldn't know something as world-changing as the Russian Civil War ever even happened.[/QUOTE] UK. I don't know anything about the russian civil war. kill me.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;24170359]UK. I don't know anything about the russian civil war. kill me.[/QUOTE] You know it happened though, right?
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;24170296]Didn't you guys ever learn about the suffragettes? God damn, that shit was nailed into me in my RE classes.[/QUOTE] Personally, yeah we did. I'm just saying it's possible that others didn't. [QUOTE=Robbobin;24170359]UK. I don't know anything about the russian civil war. kill me.[/QUOTE] It's when Russia went Soviet. You know about it, just not in depth.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;24170359]UK. I don't know anything about the russian civil war.[/QUOTE] To be honest, i've spent quite a bit of time studying the World Wars, so I don't know much of what happened in the RCW, but I know it happened and I know the consequences.
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;24170386]You know it happened though, right?[/QUOTE] I can't say I ever put much thought into it.
[QUOTE=Mexican;24170406]Personally, yeah we did. I'm just saying it's possible that others didn't. It's when Russia went Soviet. You know about it, just not in depth.[/QUOTE] It's true, actually. I'm not trying to blame other people, I'm blaming the education system.
[QUOTE=Mexican;24170406]It's when Russia went Soviet. You know about it, just not in depth.[/QUOTE] aahhhhh, I seeee. I guess I do know about it. But anything beyond that and a few very basic facts? nope.
[QUOTE=Mexican;24170280]It's pretty easy to cover voting rights without ever using the word "suffrage"[/QUOTE] Most of the shit we learned about the '20s in history class was the Women's Suffrage movement, using the word suffrage frequently.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;24170445]aahhhhh, I seeee. I guess I do know about it. But anything beyond that and a few very basic facts? nope.[/QUOTE] You don't really need to know anything other than that.
[QUOTE=Mexican;24165906]If you consider knowledge of an archaic word that is no longer used a "high standard"[/QUOTE] In my school we have to know it, for our English classes and our social studies course. And we're just a basic everyday secondary school.
Wow I'm American and I went to shitty public schools and I learned what suffrage meant in like 5th grade That's hilarious though
Does anyone remember that currently summer is going on, which means they even especially more-so don't care
so much fucking bloom argh
I can see why they are signing, when a lot of people hear suffrage, they probably equate it's prefix suff and assum it's the same as the "suff" in suffering. For all they know they're signing a petition to end female suffering. Just a case of either forgetting what a term means or just plain stupidity. And the Di hydrogen Monoxide one is also understandable, they do a good job of selling it. It's just the power of persuasion. They describe it as something bad, something found in harmful materials. The scientific name makes it sound bad. Everyone knows what H20 is, they just don't know how to say it in it's proper, scientific name. I just barely remembered the whole , mon, di, tri prefixes you apply to chemicals and how many atoms of them there are. Hell even here i'm probably wrong, chemistry wasn't my best subject. I think my final grade for it in highschool was an 88.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;24170143]dihydrogen monoxide does not sound like water to me. i'm not stupid; you're stupid for assuming that it's my duty as a person to know basic chemistry (I don't give two shits what dihydrogren monoxide is).[/QUOTE] For water there is no excuse, really. And am I the only person who just sponges shit? Important or not? And I'm not saying it's a duty, it's just fucking idiotic to not know the basics of water. Water man it's the life blood of every living thing, I suppose it sorta makes sense to know a little bit about it.
[QUOTE=bravehat;24170660]For water there is no excuse, really. And am I the only person who just sponges shit? Important or not? And I'm not saying it's a duty, it's just fucking idiotic to not know the basics of water. Water man it's the life blood of every living thing, I suppose it sorta makes sense to know a little bit about it.[/QUOTE] Read what i said above. Most people know what water is, H20. If you say it as "AYCH TOO OHH" people will go "Oh yeah, water!" But if you say it's scientific name in full, people will be, for the most part, puzzled.
My science teacher last year tried that shit and immediately me and four other people were like "hell no it's water"
This is why you question what the hell your signing or what their cause is before stupidly signing it anyways.
Now try the same thing on guys? Really, I want to see if dudes are smarter than girls.
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