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8/4/2006 7:25:55 PM EDT
LOL I was in a stupid-ass foreign language workshop today, and this woman was giving examples of vocab acquisition techniques.  She was giving definitions, and people were supposed to guess the word.  (This sample exercise was all being done in English, since teachers of several different languages were there.)

Anyway, her clue was "You put this on and people can't see you."  I immediately replied, "Camoflage!!!"  (Hmmm... the presenter was not amused.  Apparently the correct answer was "cloak of invisibilty."  Yeah, that's always one of the handiest expressions to know when you're learning a new language...)

This same woman also showed us several photographs of students to help us understand what "groups of 4" were...

*sigh*

In all fairness, there were quite a few good ideas presented.  I just wish they had been presented to us like professionals, rather than as if they were training a bunch of retards to take over classes.  I mean really, just how many examples of a Bingo card did she think we would need before we were able to grasp the concept?
8/4/2006 7:34:15 PM EDT
[#1]
"cloak of invisibilty"

wtf, where you taking a language course at a LOTRs convention?
8/4/2006 7:37:12 PM EDT
[#2]
Cloak of invisibility....does cheaper than dirt have them?  How bout Walmart?

Hope they are cheap and effective.

But, can coyotes still smell you?
8/4/2006 7:39:59 PM EDT
[#3]
Are we talking about real world or some sort of Harry Potter/LOTR world?





I hope many blessings go along with someone who has to face such so called training.
8/4/2006 7:44:00 PM EDT
[#4]
should have said:

I put on my cloak and wizards hat.....

of course there may be gender issue there, but maybe she was into it, you never know.
8/4/2006 7:45:06 PM EDT
[#5]
Huzzah!
8/4/2006 7:46:49 PM EDT
[#6]

Quoted:
should have said:

I put on my cloak and wizards hat.....

of course there may be gender issue there, but maybe she was into it, you never know.





someone needs to link that post, i can't find it.
8/4/2006 7:48:10 PM EDT
[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
should have said:

I put on my cloak and wizards hat.....

of course there may be gender issue there, but maybe she was into it, you never know.





someone needs to link that post, i can't find it.


this?

bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight?
BritneySpears14: Aight.
bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.
BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja.
bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up.
bloodninja: Me too baby.
BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest.
bloodninja: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
BritneySpears14: Hey...
bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite.
BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it.
bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty F*ck of the Beyondness.
BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous.
bloodninja: Don't f*ck with me bitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands.
bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl. 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl. 2 Druid.
BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece of shit.
bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now.
bloodninja: Baby?


Return of the King

BritneySpears14: Ok, are you ready?
eminemBNJA: Aight, yeah I'm ready.
BritneySpears14: I like your music Em... Tee hee.
eminemBNJA: huh huh, yeah, I make it for the ladies.
BritneySpears14: Mmm, we like it a lot. Let me show you.
BritneySpears14: I take off your pants, slowly, and massage your muscular physique.
eminemBNJA: Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: What the f*ck, I told you not to message me again.
eminemBNJA: Oh shit
BritneySpears14: I swear if you do it one more time I'm gonna report your ISP and say you were sending me kiddie porn you f*ck up.
eminemBNJA: Oh shit
eminemBNJA: damn I gotta write down your names or something

8/4/2006 7:53:58 PM EDT
[#8]

Quoted:

<snip>
BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece of shit.
bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
<snip>

OMFG - HFS! I've never seen that before!
8/6/2006 10:20:32 AM EDT
[#9]
I once successfully declined a departmental retreat, saying that on that day I planned instead to advance.
8/6/2006 10:23:36 AM EDT
[#10]
As a teacher I feel with you. Preplanning development days just suck.
8/6/2006 10:34:00 AM EDT
[#11]
Sounds like you teach in Dallas or McKinney......
8/6/2006 11:22:12 AM EDT
[#12]
We had two days of training on new computers..."Smart Boards" and a new program to track student progess.  Problem is I have allways been exceptional at getting any computer program to do what I want without any training...and I hate going step by step with 30 other people that have to think about what "double click" means.

Typically I'm surfing the net in the background, while other people are catching up.

But at the smart board training everything I would do could be seen as it is projected on the wall.  So I was just playing with the program while I waited... I had about 3-4 things done to other folks' 1.