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Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:19:02 2011 No.1496997 [Reply] [Original]

Book rages you remember you had/have in highschool?

>>Reading Catcher in The Rye (english class at the time, mandatory)
>>Guido bitch "LOLWHO NAMES THUR KID CATCHER WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR"
>>Class is silent including teacher
>> Me: "..His name is Holden, and the front cover has the author"
>>*pause*
>>"LOLYOUWOULDKNOWBOOKNERDLOL"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:20:02 2011 No.1497000 hahahahaha, you nerd

Arc Thu Jan 27 01:23:02 2011 No.1497009

Teacher: "Please read the next paragraph aloud."

Student: "The...........................................................................................
...................................................................................................h
istory..............................................................................................
....................................................................................................
.......................................of...........................................................
....................................................................................................
......................................................................Am............................
..................American............................America is..................................................................................................
..............................................one...................................................
...............................................................................of...................
..................................................................................."

MEANWHILE: I am beating my head against the desk. To DISTRACT MYSELF FROM THE PAIN.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:26:02 2011 No.1497023 >>1497000 I lol'd Nice trips

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:28:02 2011 No.1497030 >>1497009 Same. Every kid who read "or" replaced it with "if- i mean or" HOW DO YOU MISREAD OR?? >>1497000 ohyou.jpg

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 01:31:02 2011 No.1497035

sophomore year the edgy nihilist kid in class tried to tell everyone that Daisy (great Gatsby) was really a mastermind and that we were misinterpreting her character

but he was an ugly faggot anyway so I didn't get as much angry as i was sad that i had to sit through such a thing

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:33:02 2011 No.1497041 >>1497009 Oh god, yeah, listening to idiots read out loud was the worst part of English classes by far. Second worst part was the teacher asking them to summarize what they'd just read. "Uh...uh... somebody's shooting arrows at Hamlet?"

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:40:02 2011 No.1497054

Not exactly a BOOK rage, but in my 12th grade English class I asked the teacher if I could write up a vocab test. She agreed.

Now, I know it's not English, but I included it anyway: So many times did I hear, "COOP DEH EH TAT?" So many times did I facepalm.

Everybody failed the test, including the teacher.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:40:02 2011 No.1497055 Man by the time I was in high school we never had to read at loud + everyone was at least literate thank god for private school

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 01:42:02 2011 No.1497059
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>>1497041
>>1497030
>>1497009
well you have all seemed to don pretension pretty early this thread

i thought this was about douchey pseudo intellectuals

but if lit has nothing better to do than make fun of a bunch of kids

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:43:10 2011 No.1497062 >>1497059 nigger, you posted in this thread, smh

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 01:44:02 2011 No.1497063 File: 12 KB, 190x266, Dan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1497062 that post was very different from the others

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:46:02 2011 No.1497067 >>1497059 It's pretentious to expect high school students to know how to read their mother tongue?

>>	Courage Wolf !penisASZp2 Thu Jan 27 01:46:02 2011 No.1497068 >11th grade english >"Were going to be starting a new book..." >Wangster Kid groans "I HATE READING WHY CANT WE JUST DO WHAT WE WANT!" >He does this every time we start a new text >EVERY TIME >FOR THE WHOLE YEAR

>>	Arc Thu Jan 27 01:46:02 2011 No.1497070 File: 23 KB, 300x246, pout.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1497059 > making fun of illiteracy > actually not funny at all Alack, mein sense of shame . . . Damn you Fab. NOW I'M GOING TO BED BECAUSE YOU MADE ME FEEL BAD.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:47:02 2011 No.1497073 >>1497059 Stupidity at that level is eternal. Now they are stupid adults

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 01:50:02 2011 No.1497085 File: 8 KB, 245x205, baby.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1497067 of course not it's is slightly pretentious to gossip about it on the internet >>1497068 this type of behavior is just unbecoming >>1497070 don't feel bad

LadyLux Thu Jan 27 01:51:02 2011 No.1497086

Not really bookrage. More classroomrage.

> Wide reading assignment
> Teacher goes around the class asking for the book/our impressions
> I use the word "bland"
> Girl next to me stares, so I elaborate, "..plain".
> "Why couldn't you have just said plain LOLYOULIKETOUSEBIGWORDS"

I don't even remember what I was talking about.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:51:02 2011 No.1497088

>reading The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy at work
>customer comes in and sees it
>he says it's a great book; I agree
>right before he leaves he says Hardy was a great American author

I didn't rage from this, but it left me sorely confused. I find it hard to believe someone could read The Woodlanders and think it was written by an American author.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:51:02 2011 No.1497089 File: 106 KB, 890x680, DERPDERPDERPDERP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I feel you bro

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:54:02 2011 No.1497093 >>1497089 look at this dude, can't laugh at a joke lighten up, bud I know that I laughed at some truly stupid shit in eighth grade science class. snickers will never be so funny again.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:54:02 2011 No.1497095 File: 107 KB, 890x680, DERPDERPDERPDEsRP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1497089 That was me you nerd

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 01:54:02 2011 No.1497096 >>1497089 oh i get it.... lit is lashing out at those who hurt them during high school i guess i was angry at the pretentious fucks i had to deal with

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:55:02 2011 No.1497097
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>current english 102 teacher talks about vegan shoe company
>says she's curious about the difference between vegan shoes and vegetarian shoes.

not a bookrage either, but still pisses me off thinking about it. i could understand if she was like 80 years old but she's in her 20s

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:55:02 2011 No.1497099 >>1497089 Jesus H. Christ, that's the best comic I've ever seen. Also >10th grade >reading Gravity's Rainbow >some fuck comes up to me >HEY DIS FAG READS ABOUT RAINBOWS Now I remember why I hate people.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 01:57:02 2011 No.1497106 File: 98 KB, 757x1056, 1294609413272.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1497099 this thread is picking up i think you guys where the nihilists

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 01:58:02 2011 No.1497107 >>1497106 Nope. I wouldn't call myself popular, but I had friends. And I don't 'hate' people, I guess I'm just antisocial.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:01:02 2011 No.1497110 Tards are funny/thread

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:02:02 2011 No.1497112 >>1497107 well nihilists don't generally hate people... that is besides the point i suppose this entire thread just kind of sickens me i think it is because i am tired, i get slightly sentimental when tired

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:02:02 2011 No.1497113 >>1497096 Stop abusing the word pretentious, it never did anything to you!

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:03:02 2011 No.1497118 >>1497113 i said pretentious twice and pretension once, one of those three instances being a repetition was this supposed to be funny?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:05:02 2011 No.1497121 File: 5 KB, 225x225, images..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1497112 Toilet's that way bro, thx for coming!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:05:02 2011 No.1497124 >>1497099 jesus christ just be thankful he didnt actually read the text. i can't imagine what would've happened to you if the whole school thought you carried around scat erotica

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:09:02 2011 No.1497135 >>1497124 Hadn't thought of it that way...I'm gonna take a walk...

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:09:02 2011 No.1497136 >>1497121 that's not necessary, thank you I can't sleep. for i am guilty, and in the morning i will have to face this guilt i want to have some fun before atoning

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:11:02 2011 No.1497141 >>1497136 >>fun >>stay in thread you hate Run to the Elysian fields of /lit/, abandon all ye who post here

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:13:02 2011 No.1497148 >>1497141 its about 2am where i'm at there's a stag thread, a romance thread, and probably a few fantasy threads active right now i'm active in almost all of them

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:16:02 2011 No.1497155

>>1497035
I wouldn't say mastermind, but Fitzgerald certainly leaves the reader with hints that she's a lot more intelligent than she lets on, and uses the ruse of being an air-head and a flake to remain happy in a world plagued by sadness.

If you sincerely thought she was just a squishy-faced retard you should probably reread the novel.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:20:02 2011 No.1497159 >>1497155 squishy faced retard? the entire novel is built upon her indecisive demeanor mastermind is so frighteningly wrong

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:22:02 2011 No.1497163 >>1497159 the argument is largely based around "i hope she's a beautiful fool" or whatever, you can take that quote and use it to view daisy as much more cynical, intelligent, and simply reacting to the world around her

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:24:02 2011 No.1497168

>>1497009
This right fuckin' here. I actually called a guy out on it once.

>"How do people in the 12th grade read like they just learned how to last week, Mr. Anon?"
>Reader: "Fuck you, bro!"
>Mr. Anon: "That's enough, Anons."
>"You're just mad because no one can pass you a note in class."
>Class laughter.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:24:02 2011 No.1497169

>>1497118
If you call someone pretentious, it suggests that there is a pretense involved.

What is the pretense here? Who is pretending to be smarter/better/whatever than they actually are?

Saying "hahaha, this person couldn't read in high school" is mean-spirited, sure, but it's not pretentious unless the person saying it can't read either.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:24:02 2011 No.1497170
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>high school AP Lit class
>reading some poem (Don't remember which one)
>poem mentions water, flowing white gowns
>teacher asks what the poet is talking about
>girl no one liked (and who really wasn't cut out for an AP Lit class) says the poem is "obviously an allusion to laundry"
>our faces when

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:25:02 2011 No.1497172 >>1497170 that's fucking awesome seriously, i want to talk about literature with that girl

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:26:02 2011 No.1497175

>>1497163
yes i immediately thought of her saying that when presented with the possibility

this puts daisy nowhere near "mastermind"

hell, I'll even admit she manipulated Gatsby and Tom to a degree, but she was largely oblivious to her own doings

She just wanted what she wanted and cared not how it came to her, this ended up causing quite the conflict when she knew not even that

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:27:02 2011 No.1497179

>>1497159
It's not based around an indecisive demeanor.
Her character is meant to show the effects of greed. She picks money over love and because of this lives a pampered, but unhappy life with a husband who takes her for granted.
I could easily see you calling her reckless or careless, but I think this relates back to her being unhappy. What's she got to lose?
I certainly do not see an indecisive nature about her.

(And I said that I wouldn't give her mastermind, but that she was certainly deserves more credit than you're giving her.)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:28:02 2011 No.1497183 >>1497175 I don't really agree entirely with the argument, but I do think she's something more than the completely empty airhead that people often portray her as.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:29:02 2011 No.1497184 >>1497169 that made so little sense i would take these dolts over you boorish commoners

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:29:02 2011 No.1497185 >>1497170 She has more to offer most writers in that observation that anyone else in your class. Also, >girl no one liked (and who really wasn't cut out for an AP Lit class) Snobbish assholes detected.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:29:02 2011 No.1497187 >>1497170 whoa she's a genius. not even trollin'. she'll go far with those unique close reading analysis skills. seriously.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:32:02 2011 No.1497196 >>1497183 Never did i portray her as an airhead, but do not deny that she was oblivious to mostly everything, with good reason >>1497179 did you read the novel? Gatsby had money as well, my friend the novel is about classicism

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:32:02 2011 No.1497197

I can't think of a single moment in time, but my biggest pet peeve in my IB Lit classes was when we'd have one or two people who would pick what they thought was the author's intention, and shoot down everyone else, no matter how many examples they had to back up their thoughts.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:34:02 2011 No.1497202 >>1497196 Do you mean classism or classicism? I'd be really interested if you meant the latter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:34:02 2011 No.1497203 >>1497196 >>1497196 Did you read the novel? When she rejected Gatsby, he wasn't rich. She stuck with Tom throughout the novel because he was safe. Family money trumps illegal activities, broski.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:36:02 2011 No.1497208 William Shatner was a kind of pseudo-intellectual, whenever he writes a book I have to buy it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:37:02 2011 No.1497211 >>1497203 To clarify I mean when she originally met him, years before the novel took place. Oh and this >>1497202

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:38:02 2011 No.1497213 >>1497202 class-ism I'm tired and sorry >>1497203 >when she rejected Gatsby he wasn't rich should we even be speaking on a novel you obviously haven't read?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:38:02 2011 No.1497215 'Catcher' would actually be a pretty decent 'Sarah-Palin's-children' kinda name

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:39:02 2011 No.1497216 Not a rage story, just a general high school one >Bet $5 with a classmate that I can work communism into any essay >Catcher in the Rye >Get A+ for my "interesting and fresh interpretation", and win $5 >fuckyeah.jpg

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:39:02 2011 No.1497217 >>1497213 Daisy and Gatsby met for the first time in Louisville where he was stationed at Camp Taylor as a young officer before being shipped overseas during World War I. HE WAS NOT RICH. Now who didn't read the fucking novel?

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:40:02 2011 No.1497218

>>1497213
>should we even be speaking on a novel you obviously haven't read?

wait, seriously? that... doesn't seem like a crazy thing to say. daisy rejects him in louisville and it seems to be because he's not wealthy enough. do you have an alternate explanation?

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:40:02 2011 No.1497219

>>1497203
>>1497211
Classicism was an obvious typo, even if you had meant to type out "before the events of the novel" or something similar it would not have made a lick of sense, yet i will forgive you for the sake of the argument

i don't know where that leaves us now you'll need to elucidate the matter with a repost

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:42:02 2011 No.1497220

Do you think that if you keep saying that I didn't read the novel that your point is going to get any more true?
Daisy met Gatsby when he was a poor soldier about to be shipped overseas.
Daisy leaves Gatsby.
Daisy marries Tom.
Gatsby over the course of time, gains wealth and mansions and friends.
He tries to win Daisy back.
She picks security over illegal activities, and fleeting income.

>Please stop being thick.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:42:02 2011 No.1497221 >>1497217 >>1497218 my mistake i thought you meant at the posterior of the novel, when she ultimately chooses Tom no need for caps lock compatriot

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:46:02 2011 No.1497225

>>1497220
see
>>1497221
SO

where this leaves us;

you are arguing that Daisy chooses Tom out of pure greed , rejecting Gatsby

this is simply put, wrong

the novel concludes with Daisy and Tom leaving the Eggs and a dead gatsby

both Tom and Gatsby were rich at the time, Daisy could have either

Gatsby
1 Love
2 Money

Tom
1 Money
2 A name

she chose Tom, and Buchanan

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:49:02 2011 No.1497232 >I'm reading a book. >What are you reading? >It's really good. Shows them book >OHLOL I DON'T READ! >storyofmylife.jpeg EVERY FUCKING TIME

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:50:02 2011 No.1497233

>>1497225

Okay.
First, if you want another (not greed related) reason that she didn't leave Tom...
she claims Catholicism, and divorce is against her religion.

But, as I've said multiple times.
Tom is family money.
Gatsby's wealth is less secured, and acquired illegally, therefore not as good.
Family money always trumps illegal, fleeting money.
Family money is pretty much guaranteed forever.
Tom is safe.
Tom will always be safe.
She knows what to expect from him.

Gatsby is not.
Gatsby did illegal things, dealt with dangerous people, and most likely, if he had lived, would've gone broke with the lifting of Prohibition (though I doubt she really thought of that).

Therefore, Daisy takes security over love.
Another form of greed.
Not taking chances because she wants to continue to live her pampered lifestyle filled with parties and rich friends who secretly hate her.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:53:02 2011 No.1497236 >>1497232 I've worked nights at a hotel. Four different hotels in those four years. I always have a book at the front desk with me. I haven't had someone comment on what I'm reading or ask me about it in two years. Not even the people I work with.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 02:54:02 2011 No.1497237

>What are you up to?
>Reading
>Boooooooring!
>Mfw

Funny how those type of people claim to dislike reading, but spend a majority of their time on facebook reading about everyone's life. As well as texting all fuckin' day and gossiping. I hate this world.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 02:57:02 2011 No.1497240

>>1497233
Well it seems we have reached a point where both of our opinions are only that, because ultimately i can't truly tell whether or not it was greed or classism which motivated her without the novel, even then maybe not still

if Fitzgerald is really as petty and misogynistic as i hear, you're probably right

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 03:08:02 2011 No.1497250

>>1497240
Honestly, I can't take your argument seriously, seeing as your main point throughout the thread was that I hadn't read the book when I did everything short of cite the book.

I mean, I give you that I haven't read it in close to 5 years, since I was in high school when I was forced to read and analyse this novel, but my memory is pretty good.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 03:10:02 2011 No.1497253 >>1497250 I only said that once, then because you I misinterpreted your post and you seemed to truly know next to nothing about the work, please drop it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 03:17:02 2011 No.1497269 File: 5 KB, 170x236, 1291446238107.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >grade 11 geography >girl receives quiz >I got 7 out of 10 >what percent is that >where's my calculator

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 03:26:02 2011 No.1497292 >>1497155 Well then I guess I have to do that. Felt a bit like The City/The Hills 1920 edition.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 03:43:02 2011 No.1497333 >girl no one liked (and who really wasn't cut out for an AP Lit class) >implying that most AP students aren't uncultured try-hards that can't understand a basic expression from a medium that isn't a calculus equation.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 03:55:02 2011 No.1497361

>"Eww, why are you reading?"
>"Hahahahhahaha! He actually reads!"
You'd expect the spouters of that insipid bullshit to be absolute fucktards, but they actually blazed through lit class with Looking for Alibrandi.

Also, the general shit you get for reading Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 03:56:02 2011 No.1497363 >>1497361 >Looking for Alibrandi is a novel written for ages between 12 and above ohhhhhhhh australia

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 03:58:02 2011 No.1497369

"Bacteria are single celled orgasms"
OH MY FUCKING JESUS GOD I ACCIDENTALLY SAID ORGASM YOU GUYS! THE WORD RIGHT HERE IS 'ORGANISM' BUT I TOTALLY JUST SAID ORGASM! OH MY JESUS BUTT ASS GOD FUCKING CHRIST I SAID ORGASM!
>Big Bang Theory levels of laughter coming from the rest of the class
>Myself and about three other students glance at the teacher who sighs, says something about the future and doesn't even bother to hide pouring more whiskey into his coffee.

>>	LadyLux Thu Jan 27 03:59:02 2011 No.1497370 Finding supplementary texts for an essay on More's Utopia: > Girl: I'm using a quote from Camus in my intro. > Me: You read Camus? > Girl: No. I don't know who he is, but the quote sounds pretty awesome.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 04:06:02 2011 No.1497378

>>1497363
I know. My English teacher fucking hates it. It, along with some Tim Winton [an author who writes book-length essays about boredom] are often required reading in Australian schools.
The state says we have to study Australian literature, something that I feel is abso-fucking-lutely retarded seeing as they all contain the same two themes between them [Australia itself physically, and the 'Australian spirit] and there are far more interesting books out there, and they are all easier to write essays and whatnot on, which is just easier for everyone.

Challenge:
Name one Australian musician, poet, author, actor, anything, that is based in Australia, lives here for more than three months and didn't flee the place after getting enough money to relocate elsewhere.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 04:08:02 2011 No.1497381 >>1497370 I love me some camus and some more. that is all

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 04:09:02 2011 No.1497383 File: 44 KB, 349x475, sound-of-music-DVDcover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1497378

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 04:22:02 2011 No.1497401
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>Teacher ask the class to read out loud
>Come across the word "finale"
>Everybody pronounced it "final"
>I was fucking shocked no one realized that it was wrong.
>I raised my hand and told the teacher
>Teacher said "Watchu talking bout anon? Its correct in my book"
>Other classmates said "Gee you're such a nerd"

>mffw they'll gonna get ridicule on the outside world one day.Or not, fuck it.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 04:22:02 2011 No.1497402

I had a similar problem, English has always been my strong point so it was embarrassing for the teacher to always pick me for the answers (I used to enjoy it sometimes, though)

however....
>age 17
>linguistics class
>'today we're going to go over all the types of verbs, nouns and adjectives'
>kid: there's types?
>kid 2: a noun is a doing word, right?

I used to always say the answers but then my voice began breaking but never completed it until I was 17 (started when I was 15) so I sounded like some old vinyl record. I never liked speaking again and the teacher had no one to rely on for answers

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 04:37:02 2011 No.1497422 >>1497378 frenzal rhomb

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 04:41:02 2011 No.1497425

my teacher was a bro and would intentionally call on the dumbshits when we read in-class. a handful of the students held back their laughter for common courtesy i guess, but looking back, probably should've just ridiculed them there, for their sake.

another rage-inducer is half the class getting "there" and "their" mixed up when written. jesus christ it hurts knowing these people made it out of elementary school.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 04:54:02 2011 No.1497429

>be German
>learned English through books, internet and video games
>best in my class, have wider vocabulary than my teacher, everyone asks me for help when they have a problem
>get straight A's in every exam
>get a B- at the end of the year for not raising my hand during class

lolschoolsystem

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 06:10:02 2011 No.1497449

I remember taking a Comp I class my freshman year of college. It was a very small college, and the class was coupled with what was supposed to be a overview of grammar, simply as a reminder of the rules. The grammar portion overtook the class because everyone in it, excepting myself, had no notion of proper English grammar. By the end of the semester, the teacher was so frustrated, he said he washed his hands of the whole class except for me. I was pretty much allowed to sit in the back and sleep, since he had nothing new to teach me. I was his favorite student. I won't put that to my credit. My grammar teachers throughout junior high and high school were top notch.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 06:34:02 2011 No.1497458

>>1497402

I know a girl that does English Lit at a decent University.

A year before in English Lit class she didn't know what a verb was.

When I made fun of her she was all like
> "I was never taught extremely basic grammar"

I don't even think this was true. I remember being taught this shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 06:40:02 2011 No.1497464 >>1497458 And? I know I was moving around a great deal during my young years from 1st to 5th grade. Then by 6th I started smoking pot which led to me not remembering much till I was 17.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 06:42:02 2011 No.1497467 >>1497429 Fucking this. The European school system is a disgrace.

>>	LadyLux Thu Jan 27 07:22:02 2011 No.1497490 >>1497467 You want disgraceful, take a look at Australia. And we're about to dumb down the curriculum. Got to love the sunburnt country.. On As You Like It: "They belong in the forest coz they're hobos lololololol"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 07:29:02 2011 No.1497495 >>1497467 Britfag here, I wouldn't know since I went to A Private School lololololololololololol

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 08:14:02 2011 No.1497513
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>secondary school advanced higher English class
>I exceed everybody in creative writing, critical analysis and poetry in the class
>i'm not outwardly arrogant about it, but my swolen ego throbs when hearing classmate's poetry aloud
>girl in class reading aloud
>something like '...and the sun was audience to their theater of evil deeds'
>i crack
>'WAIT wait a minute! how is the sun like an audience? an audience is an unseen presence, hidden in darkness by the glare of the spotlight, the sun is the spotlight surely Ashleigh...'
>...
>'go and stand outside the classroom Anon'

mfw

I thought I was defending the the glory of verse.

>>	The Central Arizona Project !!FkBt3mB1wrP Thu Jan 27 08:17:02 2011 No.1497514 >>1497513 maybe the sun as it's own entity is the only spectator

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 08:32:02 2011 No.1497518 >>1497513 >>1497513 >someone is using words slightly illogically in poetry >poetry >ohmigosh.jpg

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 08:34:02 2011 No.1497519 >>1497513 Clearing a reference to all-seeing Helios. You just jelly the other kids are already using classical allusion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 08:44:02 2011 No.1497521 >>1497369 This is the goddamn funniest thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 08:47:02 2011 No.1497524 >I thought I was defending the the glory of verse. everyone thought you were a cock back then. we still do.

>>	Adolf_Hipster Of Neo Germany Thu Jan 27 08:58:02 2011 No.1497529 -Teachers picking the slow readers -Students getting "Their" and "There" mixed up along with "Your" and "You're", etc. -gangsta wannabes in lectures -

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 08:58:02 2011 No.1497530 >>1497054 This. French vocab in 12th grade English. About half of the words on our tests were Latin or French phrases. O, the mispronunciation! >horse dovers

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 09:19:02 2011 No.1497544 >>1497519 >>1497513 Yeah, I have to say this is a pretty obvious allusion, anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 09:22:02 2011 No.1497547 >>1497429 >>1497467 Smart enough to do everything but the stuff required for a good grade. It's a common complaint.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 09:35:02 2011 No.1497556 I suppose it's inevitable with any high school, but I always cringed when I heard kids hating on Hamlet. >"Shakespeare doesn't give any answers to these questions; if he was a good author, he'd have made things more black and white."

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 09:43:02 2011 No.1497561 >>1496997 of topic but shit I fucking love that game

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 12:02:02 2011 No.1497727

Our AP English teacher asked if we read our assignment everyday, went on the honor system. One of the wrestlers would never read, listen to a few comments, then offer a completely off the wall interpretation based on what other people said to fake like he did actually read. It would be completely ludicrous bs that would never fool anyone who read the book, much less the teacher, who was in other respects a hardass and was widely feared. I told him repeatedly to just stop, you're embarassing yourself, but he was so cocky he thought he was fooling everyone D:

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 12:36:02 2011 No.1497768 >>1497464 You are so edgy and non-conformist! If you don't know what a verb is when you are 18 you should be fucking shot. No excuses.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 12:45:02 2011 No.1497776 >>1497768 I know too many people who still call it do-word.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 12:49:02 2011 No.1497782 So we'd been reading Othello in 11th grade Honors English. Keepin in mind the full title is Othello: The Moore of Venice. Dumb Girl: Wait, is Othello an African? Than what is he doing in England?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 12:53:02 2011 No.1497788 >>1497727 >dumb wrestler who doesn't read and can't fool anyone >AP English Just admit you're in remedial English, bro.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:07:02 2011 No.1497797 >>1497776 Well, I call them action words, but do-word does have nice ring to it. I might start using it. Thanks!

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:09:02 2011 No.1497801

Well, I was in Highschool at the time?

>on break at work
>no where to go but sit in the back room
>other employees constantly coming in and out to get shoes/check their cellphones
>see me reading
>OH LOL WHY YOU DOIN THAT ON YOUR BREAK ANON?
>Because I like to read and there's nothing else to do?
>LOL YOU SO CRAZY

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:10:02 2011 No.1497802 ITT: people who take life and themselves seriously vs. people who don't care, never will, and would rather chuckle themselves to the grave. smh

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:11:02 2011 No.1497807 >kid pronounces a word incorrectly >notice it >try to suppress the urge to correct them

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:13:02 2011 No.1497808

>>1497458
I tutor Grade 9's and I constantly have to reteach them things like the difference between noun/verb/adjective or their/there/they're.

How do kids get that far not knowing these things? I don't even remember when I was first taught these things but it should be fucking ingrained in their minds by the time they reach Highschool.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:16:02 2011 No.1497813 >>1497041 I'm sure they and their peers had a much more amusing and pleasurable time playing dodge ball with you.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:32:02 2011 No.1497834

Not really so much as a rage, as a lol.
>be in 9th grade
>friends with seniors
>discuss books and life
>"So Anon, care to recommend a book I should read for this assignment?"
>Take a peek at list
>Read 1/3 of it, heard of most of the stuff
>"Hold up, Brave New World is 12th grade AP?"
>"Yeah."
>"Damn shame they dont let me take lit."

Another time made me sad
>On bus
>With a bunch of friends
>Somehow start talking about books
>Kid goes"Yeah, when we got Animal Farm to read in 7th grade, I just totally skipped it"
>Everyone else agrees
>Someone else goes "I haven't read since 2nd grade. I just bomb tests"
>Everyone starts talking about how they dont read, like its some sort of penis size
>Another person goes "Yeah, we used to dick around so much in English class. We made Ms.-something- quit"
>I start shaking my head
>go back to reading Farenheit 451
>"How can you stand reading?"
>"Funny. Read this book and you'll understand."

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:33:02 2011 No.1497837 mods if you want to do anything to better this board then pls ban everyone who posted before me

>>	Implying Thu Jan 27 13:34:02 2011 No.1497839 >>1497834 >Read this book and you'll understand. nope.jpg

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:50:02 2011 No.1497882

>>1497834
Why does /lit/ think Fahrenheit 451 is a good book, the message (though hard to even understand) is good, but the book is a purely written piece of shit, it's like he was fucking stoned writing it. I've read the Martian chronicles so I know he was a shitty writer anyway.

Dintoo !WATuc5kHAs Thu Jan 27 13:51:02 2011 No.1497884

>just today
>reading Crime and Punishment
>someone comes up to me and asks me olol what u reading bro
>show them
>'lol who's dostochevsky (not native English, name is spelled differently)'
>'i dont really read that stuff im more into fantasy and sci fi'
>this happens three times
>THREE TIMES
>IN ONE DAY
I have no face

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:52:02 2011 No.1497888 >>1497378 Dorothy Porter - amazing lady, incredible poet, work made into film, international acclaim, lived here until she died.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 13:59:02 2011 No.1497905 > Fat annoying girl at work is talking about books or something >asks me what my favorite book is >at the time (3 years ago in high school) I say A Clockwork Orange > she says that book is insane and I must be a crazy person for liking that book

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 14:00:02 2011 No.1497910 >people taking 5 minutes to read a sentence of Shakespeare in class

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 14:02:02 2011 No.1497916

>>1497839
>>1497882
Now, before there are even more comments, I'll clarify it for you fellows. I didn't mean "go out and read Fahrenheit 451" I just meant "maybe you should try reading sometime" and I just so happened to have a book on me, so I used it as an example. Sorry for the confusion.

I liked the book, nonetheless. Certainly not the best thing I've read, but I dont hate it.

None !cla0aHFoM2 Thu Jan 27 14:07:02 2011 No.1497930

>16 year old reading goosebumps during honors english class
>does book report on said book
>several references to the insane clown posse and personal accounts of ghosts he swears live in his house
>A+

I felt a lot less embarrassed about reading Robert Jordan books after sharing a class with that gem of a human being.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 14:26:02 2011 No.1497989

>10th grade
>taking average English instead of honors because I just switched schools and was all i could get at the time
>class is full of ignorant minorities who dont give a fuck about reading and never do their assignments
>class extremely easy for me, fall in love with Vonnegut and Bradbury and develop my hunger to learn more
>Pass all assignments, get A in class but never stop fucking around and being a hyperactive dickhead because im so bored from the sleeping ease with which i pass
>end of year, request to take AP english next year so i can challenge myself and read real books
>take AP test during lunches
> English teacher wont recommend me for AP next year, says im too immature.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 14:34:02 2011 No.1498009
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>>1497989
>being a hyperactive dickhead because im so bored from the sleeping ease with which i pass
>says im too immature.

If you act immature, people will assume that you're immature.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 14:40:02 2011 No.1498021

>Reading Of Mice and Men in GCSE English
>Because of shitty school system we have mixed sets
>Full of chavs and pakis
>Class is discussing Crooks, the black stable guy.
>I say that he faced problems because of being black, and go on about the prejudices of the time
>Class calls me racist
>mfw I honestly did not say a single racist comment.
>mfw I get called racist for the rest of my school time
>mfw I have no face for this

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 14:54:02 2011 No.1498040 >>1498009 Isn't 10th grade like 13 or 14? I mean, isn't that the time to be a little immature?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 14:56:02 2011 No.1498042 >>1498040 I've always tried to act mature since a very early age; now I'm 20 and want to kill myself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 14:59:02 2011 No.1498049 >>1498021 >yfw you forgot discussion must yield to pc-based ignorance

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 15:01:02 2011 No.1498051 >>1498021 >Full of chavs and pakis >Not a racist /new/'s dead. This is not /new/.

>>	Adolf_Hipster Of Neo Germany Thu Jan 27 15:05:02 2011 No.1498056 English lit and language was THE WORST with all the chavs. Teacher constantly had to keep reminding them what verbs and adjectives were, etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 15:06:02 2011 No.1498058 >>1498021 >pakis >not racist huh?

>>	Tio Lan !VYDyKaEzIA Thu Jan 27 15:17:02 2011 No.1498068 >>1497099 >Reading Gravities Rainbow at the age of 16 Fucking pseudo-intellectual. You might as well just go around wearing a shirt that says "I read Finnegans Wake" if you're that much of a pretentious and attention seeking cunt.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 15:33:02 2011 No.1498102 >>1498068 u jellymad?

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 15:42:02 2011 No.1498120

>>1497429
>>1497467
Amerifag here; class participation motherfuckers, do you know it? No matter how well you do on the tests, if you don't participate in class then you're pretty much an unknown presence. It's like proving your capabilities every time, since the teacher will look at your name and go "who is this again?" if you haven't established a reputation for being the quiet kid. Whereas if you speak often, the teacher will recognize your name right off the bat.

>>1497808
No idea but it certainly goes as far as college, probably further. In an anthropology class of all places, the professor had us peer review each others' papers and for me it came down to that dilemma of being honest with corrections and looking like an asshole, or being nice and leaving the poor girl to her own devices. Even basic punctuation is a challenge sometimes, something that baffles the mind.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 15:50:02 2011 No.1498140 >>1497884 Three times in one day that someone told you that, instead of reading Dostoevsky, they stick to sci-fi and fantasy? At least they read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 15:55:02 2011 No.1498155 >>1497009 Basically this. It makes me sound kind of arrogant when I say it's a pet peeve, but seriously, I don't understand how high school kids can be such shitty readers. I just don't get it. Read faster

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 15:57:02 2011 No.1498165

Not exactly a book rage, but in senior year the whole high school was taking reading tests so the school could see where we were all at. It was very easy, but I guess I went to fast because one of the questions was "What's an antonym for this word", and I selected the synonym. It was a dumb mistake, everyone else in my class got perfect except me because I just read it wrong and I felt like a retard.

Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ Thu Jan 27 16:02:02 2011 No.1498189
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>waiting for seminar in hallway
>classmate turns up, clearly dishevelled
>he says he hasn't read today's book for discussion
>wants full attendance and participation marks nonetheless
>he's still drunk from last night
>end up sitting uncomfortably in seminar listening to him mouth off painfully obvious waffle

Man, just keep quiet if you didn't read it, the lecturer can tell, it's embarrassing, and you're not going to get marks for wasting everyone's time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:03:02 2011 No.1498194 >be a sophomore in high school >take world history >reading section about classical Greece >girl raises hand >so, centaurs and stuff were, like, real right? >my reaction folder has no face for what I felt that day

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 16:08:02 2011 No.1498212 >>1498194 i think she has a beautiful capacity for total ignorance you shouldn't have dismissed her so quickly

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:14:02 2011 No.1498232
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>senior year of high school
>reading hamlet in AP english class
>act II, scene II, what a piece of work is man speech
>i mention that Hamlet's references to The "majestical roof" is really about the Globe theater
>"Anon, why are you trying so hard to sound smart?"
>"Anon, you're really stretching it there."
>mfw when

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:17:02 2011 No.1498244 >>1498232 your name is anon?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:19:02 2011 No.1498250 >"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" was SOOOO much worse than "The Matrix"!

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 16:20:02 2011 No.1498253 >>1498244 to reserve his anonymity, he uses generic terms to describe himself

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:21:02 2011 No.1498254 >>1498244 My family name is Anonymous, my parents named me Anon as a cruel joke.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:23:02 2011 No.1498262 >>1498254 You poor thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:24:02 2011 No.1498267 >>1498244 Lurk more

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:24:02 2011 No.1498270 >>1498262 It's a hard life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:25:02 2011 No.1498274 File: 36 KB, 675x568, marge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1498244 welcome to 4chan

>>	Maria Bustillos Thu Jan 27 16:26:02 2011 No.1498277 I once read The Joy of Sex and was repulsed by the graphic content.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 16:27:02 2011 No.1498281 File: 64 KB, 193x335, homo_butterfly_1978.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1498267 >>1498274 >INURWEB CULTOOR

>>	GuyMontag !hKMFgyIvuk Thu Jan 27 16:34:02 2011 No.1498299 File: 18 KB, 600x422, Cool_Guy_small.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1497882 >He can't comprehend Fahrenheit 451

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:34:02 2011 No.1498300 >>1498281 What?

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 16:35:02 2011 No.1498305 >>1498300 the image has nothing to do with the content

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:40:02 2011 No.1498320

>Within class, Secondary level education.
>Attending an English Literature class, it was a "tacked-on" subject that we could attend for our own amusement, and the prospect of more qualifications, so few attended.
>Have to read generic over-rated novel X.
>Teacher asks for some broad analysis.
>Everyone praised the novel as being "masterpiece".

Additionally:

>Occasionally someone in the class would have to choose a fairly short novel for the class to read.
>I chose "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman.
>No-one understood it, my tutor said that it was "far to unrealistic".
>10/10, he was a master-ful troll.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 16:42:02 2011 No.1498325 >>1498320 >>No-one understood it, my tutor said that it was "far to unrealistic". 10/10, he was a master-ful troll.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 16:43:02 2011 No.1498328 >>1497882 the message was tainted with the sickness and the writing was... meh

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:48:02 2011 No.1498341

>6th grade
>Reading The Brothers Karamazov for the second time
>Teacher asks me to give her the book.
>Tell me to read Ulysses, that it's better.
>Tell her I've already read Ulysses twice, besides "Everything you need to know about life is in The Brothers Karamazov."
>She doesn't know where it's from

Damn teachers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 16:59:02 2011 No.1498393 File: 24 KB, 604x453, 1294347046437.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ITT: People who think they're better than everybody else because they've read a few books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:03:02 2011 No.1498401 >>1498341 >6th grade >~10 years old >The Brothers Karamazov Fucking pseudo-intellectual. I'll bet you were in the corner muttering in Russian while other kids were making fart jokes.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:04:02 2011 No.1498403 you seem to have completely skipped the first half of the thread atleast we are like minded

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:04:02 2011 No.1498404 >>1498393 A few would be a single number, and I've read well over hundred.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:06:02 2011 No.1498406 >>1498341 i feel you. >kindergarten >reading ramayana and composing my own anustup style verses (in sanskrit, lol) >teacher thinks i'm drawing with the rest of the troglodytes and compliments my sunshine rays

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:06:02 2011 No.1498407 >>1498401 Private School. The first time I read it was because of school. That time I was reading it was for fun.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:09:02 2011 No.1498416 >>1498404 and your favorite of those hundred or so? inb4 "I really can't decide, I've just read so many"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:11:02 2011 No.1498420 >>1498407 >Private School I've never understood that. Are you basically just better educated then public school students at the same grade? Or is the curriculum just faster?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:11:02 2011 No.1498422 >>1498416 Blood on the Forge.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:12:02 2011 No.1498426 >Reading Nietzsche. >Some kid tried to say he was nihilist. >I correct him, letting him know he's actually an existentialist, whilst LOLing hard. >forever alone

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:17:02 2011 No.1498437 >>1498422 are you black? >>1498426 i like to call him an existential nihilist

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:17:02 2011 No.1498439

>>1498420
Well, the one I attended was an "immersion" school (if your familiar with schooling systems). It was basically like a japanese take on schooling where you go to class for the day and then you'd have a "cram" like the japanese only for Americans.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:20:02 2011 No.1498446 >>1498437 No. I'm guessing you haven't read the book because being black is only a partial element in the book. That's why you should base your opinions upon an amazon or google search.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:21:02 2011 No.1498447 >>1498446 you're reading too far into my post, I was only asking a question

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:23:02 2011 No.1498457 >>1498447 Well, why would you ask that in the first place if you weren't basing it on the book I named.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:26:02 2011 No.1498463 >>1498457 I was basing it on the book you named, I've obviously never read it, it's not a very well known book is it? you seemed to think that me asking if you were black was meant to be some sort of derogatory

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:33:02 2011 No.1498472 >>1497788 I'm a chick, and we were in AP English. I was friends with his sister, which is why I talked to him. He was an okay kid, reasonably smart, but extremely lazy and also cocky.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:33:02 2011 No.1498474 >>1498406 Masterful, anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:34:02 2011 No.1498478 >>1498463 Anyone who reads Uncle Toms Cabin must be asked if their black by that statement. There is no correct reason someone would ask someone else their race based upon a book, which you agree you did just that.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:37:02 2011 No.1498485

>>1498478
If someone told me over the internet that their favorite book was Uncle Tom's Cabin i would ask them if they're black

just like if someone told me over the internet that their favorite pieve was The Awakening i would ask if they're a feminist

real black people don't really care

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:38:02 2011 No.1498486 >>1497085 You're fucking stupid. Typical trip shit.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:41:02 2011 No.1498493 >>1498486 and we are off again into the fray! another edgy "young-intellectual" to make eventual peace with

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:44:02 2011 No.1498495 >>1498485 You're either a troll or retarded. I'm going with the latter.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:45:02 2011 No.1498498

>>1498493

No. You just don't know what pretentious means. In fact, if anything you're acting quite pretentious right now, or at least needlessly haughty. You're on /lit/ which is already a terrible book forum to begin with, and you're insisting that mocking students for illiteracy is "pretentious".

You need to take your trip off and be less of a faggot.

>>	Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ Thu Jan 27 17:50:02 2011 No.1498505 File: 58 KB, 129x111, dancing frog.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >terrible book forum >books >literature >forum >image board

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:55:02 2011 No.1498514 >>1498493 What? Stop saying things. That made no sense. You're projecting.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:55:02 2011 No.1498515

>>1498498
Pretension is pretty natural

It's one of the seven deadly virtues

Yet you cannot deny that bitching about high school students on the internet would qualify as such

>>1498486
I feel sorry for some people like you

people that just, have nothing to say

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 17:58:02 2011 No.1498518 >>1498514 projecting? i certainly hope so Yet i think I was instead being quite heedless, i probably shouldn't have assumed you were defending the anons i was replying to and were truly just mad because of my identity please verify

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:59:02 2011 No.1498521

>>1498515

You quoted me twice dimwit. And you also replied earlier to my post I'm just sorry that I have nothing to say.

There's really just nothing to say to someone who dons irritating mannerisms and a trip code on an anonymous IMAGE BOARD (whatever d&e, same difference) to get people to notice them.

>Yet you cannot deny that bitching about high school students on the internet would qualify as such

Actually I can;

>making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction;

This is what pretentious means. You moron.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 17:59:02 2011 No.1498522

>>1498498
>>1498493

Bahahahaha.
Last night, someone already gave him the definition of pretentious and explained that that was EXACTLY what he was.
It's incredibly entertaining to come back the next day to find him fighting off the exact same complaints.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:00:02 2011 No.1498527
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>6th grade social science, studying Egypt
>Criticize teacher for putting bible verses on walls and having the audacity to talk about Egyptian gods like they don't exist
>Near-perfect with coursework
>Still get a C
mfw

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:01:02 2011 No.1498528 >>1498521 Bah, I deleted a bunch of stuff from that post and then didn't correct the grammar. Oh well you get the picture.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:01:02 2011 No.1498529 >>1497009 Oh shit, I HATE when people can't read. I was in AP English and still had to deal with motherfuckers like this when we were reading plays aloud.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:03:02 2011 No.1498535 >>1498426 Nietzsche was nihilist. Then he got better. But later he got syphilis...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:07:02 2011 No.1498541 >>1498529 For real dawg, I was in AP English and peeps was shittin in they desks and tossin it at each otha AP English dawg

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:08:02 2011 No.1498544 >write on high school paper >significantly better writer than staff and more understanding of journalism than editors >ever month have changes made to my pieces to make them grammatically incorrect >then kids point out "my" mistakes I have no face.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 18:10:02 2011 No.1498550

>>1498521
i can't beleive you actually feel righteous in saying these things

you don't think that making fun of children for their supposed inferior intellects us not an indirect form of
>>making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

but i suppose fucking basement dwellers need some way to feel at least mildly successful

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:14:02 2011 No.1498559

>>1498550

You don't know what righteous means either, i'm hardly moralizing.

>you don't think that making fun of children for their supposed inferior intellects us not an indirect form of
>>making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

Obviously it is not. Stating that someone on welfare is poor doesn't indirectly imply that I'm calling myself rich. That would not be pretentious either.

You are confusing the word pretentious with mean and the word righteous with right.

>Basement dweller like you

Oho another edgy trip fag to eventually make peace with. Into the fray!

xD

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:18:02 2011 No.1498570

>>1498529
Not being able to read out loud doesn't signify lack of intelligence.
I have read well over a thousand books (my current booklist for the next year or so has 150 books on it alone), and am incredibly intelligent, but when asked to read aloud I often get nervous and stumble over my words.
Making fun of someone because of things they can't help is really unkind.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:19:02 2011 No.1498574 >>1498570 >unkind I believe this is the word you're looking for Fabulous.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:22:02 2011 No.1498580

>>1498574
No, he wasn't looking for something simple like what I used.
He is too cool for that.
He has to use big words.
He's pretentious, remember?
He can't command respect if he didn't use big words.

It's okay Fabulous. Sometimes I use a thesaurus to sound cooler, too. :3

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 18:26:02 2011 No.1498589

>>1498559
the end of the post actually made me laugh a bit, but it didn't salvage the massive pile of pigshit that was that post

let me explain something to you, in the literary world words can be used in more than one way

>righteous;morally justified; "righteous indignation"
in calling you righteous, i was poking fun at the fact that by human nature, you have felt correct in everything you have said so far

in all of these instances, your believed authority you justified through your personal convictions or "morals", just because something is not almost scripture like in nature does not mean it isn't based off some small personal moral law

>Stating that someone on welfare is poor doesn't indirectly imply that I'm calling myself rich
this was a disgusting and irrelevant analogy

Stating that someone on welfare is poor and then sneering and jeering with your buddies about it is what has been going on in this thread, you for no truly great reason feel that you are distinctly superior and of greater intelligence

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:27:02 2011 No.1498590

>>1498550
I'd say you'd be less hated if you were no longer a tripfag, and joined the sea of anonymity...
but I'm pretty sure these people could pick your rhetoric out of a line-up and would still call you a pretentious asshole.
It's incredibly entertaining.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:29:02 2011 No.1498595 >>1498589 Yes, sneering and jeering would be very unkind and unwarranted. IT WOULD STILL NOT BE PRETENTIOUS YOU TROLL FUCK. I'm done, anyone reading any of this can see how ridiculous you are.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 18:30:02 2011 No.1498598

>>1498590
It's funny that you all think i speak like this throughout my daily life

you do realize i am only here because i am incredibly bored? so why not pass the time by trying my hand at something i will probably never get the chance to try outside of this board?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:30:02 2011 No.1498599 >>1498589 Just go to sleep.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:31:02 2011 No.1498605 >>1498598 I said nothing about you speaking like this throughout your daily life. I was merely referring to your existence on this board.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 18:33:02 2011 No.1498613

>>1498595
>WORDS CAN BE USED IN ONLY ONE WAY: ONLY ONE! AND I CHOOSE! NOT YOU!
not once have i used pretentious incorrectly

you have made almost no arguments to support your side of the argum- oh wait, you don't have a side because this entire thread has been

>LOOK AT DUMASS HIE SHKOOLERS
>WAIT WAT? THEY KIDS? WOLL U DON NO WUT PRETENTIOUS MEANS!

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 18:35:02 2011 No.1498622 >>1498605 maybe not directly, but you have assumed that my sometimes pretentious demeanor is somehow integral to my overall career as a personality

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:37:02 2011 No.1498626

>>1498515
>>1497096
>>1497085
>>1497059

Those are all of the times you used pretentious in this thread.

And I, personally, do not grasp how making fun of kids in high school who cannot read well is pretentious, which would lead me to believe you misused the word.
They are not trying to make themselves look better, they are merely stating that they get pissy when other people aren't good orators.

Side note: 'Pretentious' or some form of it was used 26 times before this post.

Awesome.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:37:02 2011 No.1498629
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>GCSE English. (14-16 Year Olds for you Americans)
>Mixed Sets.
>8/20 of the Class are Black.
>Of those 7, 6 fit the stereotypes. (IE, they can't read)
>Assigned to read Othello and To Kill a Mockingbird.
>"Bookz is racist, youz whities are always tryin to keep us down."
>Have to be assigned new books due to complains from their illiterate parents.
>The new books also had to "Embrace black heritage, and be of the appropriate reading level". (Theirs, not mine or even the other illiterate cretins)
>Read shit about voodoo written for 5 year olds/black teenagers.

<mfw

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:38:02 2011 No.1498630 File: 24 KB, 251x229, 1291222588590.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1498613 >Making fun of illiterates = Pretentious I learned something new today.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:40:02 2011 No.1498635 >>1498626 In order for them to be annoyed about it, they must be unable to imagine themselves having the same problem. Otherwise they'd feel sympathy/empathy. Emotional intelligence ftw.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:44:02 2011 No.1498646

>>1498635

Most people are able to read around the age of 5, if I'm honest my memories do not go back that far. (At least not in a recallable form, I can remember birthdays but not everyday situations) Therefore not knowing how to read is not something I have ever experienced.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:44:02 2011 No.1498647
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>College Lit course
>studying poetry starting with Sapphos
> Professor reads aloud "He’s equal with the Gods, that man"
>http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Sappho.htm#_Toc76357049
>She asks the class to tell her what the poem was about
>First girl called on says it's about a girl dying
>Second girl elaborates that the "he" in the poem is a doctor watching over her as she's dying.
>The professor's faces and mine when this is happening.

This and people bitching over assigned books is why I hated community college.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 18:44:02 2011 No.1498650

>>1498630
>illiterates
THIS is the problem with this ENTIRE thread

they are not illiterates, they're children

>>1498626
thank you for at least asking me of my opinions (that is what these threads consist of)

it is pretentious in that those children are probably of average intelligence, that is to say, they are probably just as smart as all of you

the main difference between you and them is that you have taken up literature and perhaps a slightly reclusive lifestyle and they have obviously diverted their attention from these things

neither one of you are superior to the other

I don't care if he can't pronounce autumnal

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:47:02 2011 No.1498659 File: 23 KB, 400x306, forn933l.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fabulous, you make me giggle.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 18:48:02 2011 No.1498663

>>1498646
thank you for your generous contribution of a small rationalization

these things are quite rare nowadays
>>1498635
Yet this simply is not true

what is really occurring, is that you in all honesty feel largely threatened by the differences that exist in these other children

it is even evidenced by the posts in this thread

>>"LOLYOUWOULDKNOWBOOKNERDLOL"

it's a defense mechanism

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:49:02 2011 No.1498669
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>>1498650
Highschoolers do not qualify as children. Oh okay! You think these 'children' are not stupid? Fine then, let's see the first excerpt of this thread.
>Guido bitch "LOLWHO NAMES THUR KID CATCHER WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR"
There are no stupid question just stupid people. You heard about this. No?

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:50:02 2011 No.1498670
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>>1498650

I still don't see this as being pretentious.

>Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

It is unkind of them to find people, who are not good orators, annoying...
but it's still not pretentious.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 18:50:02 2011 No.1498674 even if I were to water down my contributed diction to a point where it would be almost completely ambiguous in the throng of different posts I would still make the most sense

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:52:02 2011 No.1498678 >>1498674 You know, I really don't think you're a douche until you post things like this. :/ Some of us are merely trying to impress upon you the importance of knowing a word's definition before using it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:55:02 2011 No.1498691 >>1498674 Oh, I get it. You are just trolling because you have nothing better to do. Tally ho.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:56:02 2011 No.1498693 >>1498629 >>1498629 They claimed that Othello and To Kill a Mockingbird were both racist books or just one of them?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 18:59:02 2011 No.1498701 File: 21 KB, 650x261, pretentious-people-in-england.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1498691 You just gave me an excuse to use this picture. :D

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:00:02 2011 No.1498704

>>1498669
human intelligence, contrary to anything "scientific" you may have believe to have heard, varies in amount very little from the average person to the average person

just because a girl is insecure and feigns unintelligence does not mean she truly is so ( i know that unintelligence is not technically a word by the way)
>>1498670
if you read many of the posts in this thread you will find that they are not simply annoyed

>listening to idiots read out loud was the worst part of English classes by far
>girl no one liked (and who really wasn't cut out for an AP Lit class)
among other things
>William Shatner was a kind of pseudo-intellectual

if i am allowed to make a small joke;

If this is not pretension then i am not pretentious

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:02:02 2011 No.1498711 >>1498626 >high school >not read well BLOWN AWAY

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:05:02 2011 No.1498718

>>1498678
that was pretentious, with good reason

in the proper context, that post was made in direct comparison to the other posts in this thread

in other words, i do beleive that i am making perfect sense here, even more so than the other posters, but that is only because they lack a lot of sense altogether

do you all really hate me for not hating adolescents?

no, it is worse than that, you hate me for not feeling superior to adolescents, which is quite adolescent-like in itself, needing to feel matured that is

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:07:02 2011 No.1498723 >>1498704 No. Stop talking. You are embarrassing yourself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:09:02 2011 No.1498729 >third grade >re-reading On the Road >teacher takes book away because it's "inappropriate" public school.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:09:02 2011 No.1498730

>>1498718

WE HATE YOU FOR BEING SUCH A FUCKING JACKASS AND NOT KNOWING WHAT THE WORD PRETENTIOUS MEANS.

AND THEN YOU GO AND SAY SHIT LIKE "I'M THE ONLY ONE MAKING SENSE" OR "YOU HAVE NOT MADE ANY ARGUMENTS" WHILE YOU UP AND IGNORE EVERY DEFINITION OF PRETENTIOUS THAT WE SENSELESS ANONS ARE TRYING TO SHOVE DOWN THAT RETARDED UNEDUCATED, IGNORANT DOWNS TUBE YOU CALL A MOUTH.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:09:02 2011 No.1498731

>>1498718
>no, it is worse than that, you hate me for not feeling superior to adolescents, which is quite adolescent-like in itself, needing to feel matured that is
No, we hate you because you are pretentious fuck who think it's 'pretentious' to make fun of unfortunate ones. Welcome to 4chan by the way where we make fun of everything we acquire.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:09:02 2011 No.1498734

I sympathize with anyone in high school who had the majority of the people unable to read very well. (And I'm not talking about a few mispronounced words)

Now I am finishing my last year of college and taking my first literary class as an elective. My teacher has us read things aloud and I still can't believe that majority can't read well. There's a kid with a speech impediment in my class...and he reads better than most the other people!

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:10:02 2011 No.1498736 >>1498723 excellent rebuttal it's lack of everything is a counter maneuver of the highest caliber

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:10:02 2011 No.1498738 >>1498718 This was my post on the subject of the thread itself. >>1498570 I agree that making fun of kids who can't read aloud is fucked. I just disagree with your use/overuse of pretentious.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:13:02 2011 No.1498744 >>1498570 Durr, then why did they sign up for AP courses?

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:15:02 2011 No.1498748

You guys haven't figured out that this Fabulous guy is a moron yet?

He said earlier in the thread that Daisy choosing money over Gatsby's lack of security was "frighteningly wrong."

wtf is so frightening about that? Name one thing that induces terror about that idea? He's obviously going out of his way to toss around phrasings and word choices that are larger than the points he's making. Or, in other words, he's being dramatic.

Words have specific meanings asshole. Use them properly.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:15:02 2011 No.1498749

>>1498736

I could pick apart all of your reasoning, prove you actual definitions for what the word pretentious means, and generally argue your shit into the ground. But you wouldn't listen. You would sit there, stating that you are correct, and that WORDS CAN BE USED TO MEAN ANYTHING I FEEL LIKE.

You would never learn, grow, or accept that you might be wrong. You are the definition of stupid, and frankly I have no time for you. That said I'll sit here in my bastion, secure in the knowledge that in this case I am irrevocably correct.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:16:02 2011 No.1498751 >>1498749 Provide you actual definitions* sorry

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:16:02 2011 No.1498752

>>1498730
>>1498731
oh god you all are so fucking dense

i have explained to you numerous times that because you have heard pretentious used one way, does not mean it cannot be used in another

in several posts have i dignified my usage of the term

but i'll regress, just for you assholes

the posters in this thread are openly criticizing and setting themselves superior to high school students who are in all honesty probably just as, if not slightly less intelligent

>making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

you all are largely indistinct when compared to these other students, the fact that you actually feel special and better than them is makes me weep

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:18:02 2011 No.1498761

I remember a few times in English class, the teacher was a bro(A bit of a ditz too though) and I'd talk to him about books. Nothing made me more displeased than when he said "Alright anon, get on reading [mandatory reading]" when I had spoken to him about the ending of the book and preferred to read my own book.

Also group work where everyone else was an idiot and I had to actually work. Man, I think none of the groups I were in in high school were well rounded with the members.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:19:02 2011 No.1498763
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>>1498752

Repeating the same incorrect argument over and over won't make you right. You misused a word and were called out on it. Why do you have to make this into a big shit storm?

You're either a troll or just a jackass. In this thread you have referred to people as pretentious, basement dwellers, idiots and you've even stated that you are the only one who makes sense.

I'm no advocate of majority rule, but in this case where literally 100% of posters agree that pretentious does not mean what you think it means do you think that you could possibly stop, think (I know it's hard) and just stop?

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:21:02 2011 No.1498767
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Two things I remember clearly.

>Starting to get into Lovecraft in Grade 10 (in Canada, Grade 10 is when High School starts, not Grade 9)
>Reading a bit of...I think it was either Rats in the Walls or The Horror At Red Hook before the teacher actually starts the class
>Close book, put it down
>Dumbass brown kid behind me
>HAHA LOOK AT THIS IDIOT READING ROMANCE BOOKS
>I have no clue what he's talking about at first
>Turn around
>"What?"
>"Lovecraft, what kind of gay shit is that"
>"Lovecraft's the name of the author you stupid shit"
>"What kind of faggot reads books written by guys named Lovecraft?"
>my face when
>my teacher's face when

A year later

>English class, Grade 11
>Teacher says
>So how many of you actually read real literature?
>Couple of people put up their hands
>one of them being some prep bitch who yells out in this squealy voice "TWILIGHT!"
>mine and my teacher's faces when

Captcha: welaillo education

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:21:02 2011 No.1498768 >>1498763 Princess Bride. <3

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:21:02 2011 No.1498769 >>1498763 Adding to this; You obviously believe that 'you' are superior and frankly you're the most pretentious poster I've ever seen on this board. - Signed a basement dwelling anon who makes no sense.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:21:02 2011 No.1498770

>>1498749
>>1498751
It's okay, i birth typos frequently

but to address your concerns:

I would like to think that i am a pretty relaxed person

if you show to me how wrong i am i will give to you my apologies

yet i have to be honest and admit that, once again, i feel that i am correct in my usage of the word

you all feel queerly distinct in comparison to the other students, that is, you feel so tremendously gifted in intelligence

don't tell me the posts made so far do not reek of this?

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:24:02 2011 No.1498775

>>1498770

They don't, you have created a situation where the statement is pretentious and you're defending that.

The actual post consisted of nothing but X person being annoyed by Y high school student being unable to read. It had nothing to do with feeling superior. I have a problem with men who physically abuse their spouses. I am a man who does not physically abuse my spouse. Does this make me pretentious, because I feel superior? Of course not.

Disdain =/= pretentious

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:25:02 2011 No.1498777 I don't understand why you guys don't just install the 4chan greasemonkey plugin and block the tripfriends?

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:26:02 2011 No.1498779
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>>1498767

Ooh! Here's another one, from Grade 10.

>Grade 10, English class, have to work with some people for this project
>We're pretty much done, so I take out my book to read
>It was either Roadside Picnic or The Andromeda Strain, can't remember
>One of the girls I had to work with is a Twilight reader, I'm still friends with her and all, but she's a bit of a ditz
>She looks over at what I'm reading as she takes out...I can't even remember which Twilight book it was, and I don't care to
>Why do you read those books? They're all boring and about real things and stuff.
>Me
>Because I like them? Why do you read Twilight?
>Her
>Because it's all about romance and vampires and it's all fantasy and stuff!
>I realize there's really no point to arguing with her, as I'll just come off as an idiot.
>Alright, cool, whatever.
>Go back to reading
>My face inside

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:27:02 2011 No.1498780

>>1498763
>>1498769
>>1498770
>Repeating the same incorrect argument over and over won't make you right
you are quite a hypocrite!

i have addressed your concerns that the term pretentious was used incorrectly

would you like me to summarize the thread?

>calls some posters pretentious
>accusations are made that pretentious is being used incorrectly
>directly confront this growing opposition in posts such as
>>1498752
>>1498704
>and
>>1498650
>no one addresses these comments, instead keep insisting i am not using the word correctly
even if i was wrong, you failed to accurately prove such a thing

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:29:02 2011 No.1498785

>>1498780

Because you won't accept the proof doesn't mean that it has not been provided. People make the same arguments about the theory of evolution and other similarly proven scientific ideas.

Again, it's not my problem if you can't accept that you might be wrong on an online image board. I'm just saying that you are incredibly petty, juvenile and probably stupid.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:29:02 2011 No.1498786 >>1498767 >>1498779 And I'm in Grade 12 right now, so I guess I'm still a stupid high schooler to most of you guys, but, eh, there are my stories. This year's been pretty good so far, nothing to complain about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:31:02 2011 No.1498790 FABULOUS LOOK CLOSELY NOW >>English class, Grade 11 >Teacher says >So how many of you actually read real literature? >Couple of people put up their hands THAT is pretentious.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:32:02 2011 No.1498793

>>1498775
once again, i was not saying that every anon posting in the thread was pretentious

a great deal of them were

see
>>1498704
where i quoted just a few glaringly pretentious posts

and i know that you will say at this point that they did not feel superior and that they did not feel any more intelligent, but you and I both know, that, in making those posts about stupid high schoolers, they did

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:33:02 2011 No.1498796 >>1498780 It's like dat anon is talking to a brick wall!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:34:02 2011 No.1498797 >>1498693 Both -.-

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:34:02 2011 No.1498798

>>1498793

Feeling more intelligent than someone is not what pretentious means though. I feel like I am more intelligent than mentally handicapped people for the most part. I'm not being pretentious.

Would Einstein be pretentious if he considered himself more intelligent than me? No that would simply be the truth. FFS you need to stop this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:34:02 2011 No.1498799 >>1498793 This feels like my argument with you about Gatsby all over again. :/

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:34:02 2011 No.1498800 >>1498785 >rinse and repeat Show me the proof you static douche magnet I have provided plenty of my own "proof"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:34:02 2011 No.1498802 >>1498796 It really is... :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:35:02 2011 No.1498804 >>1498800 Comb the thread. The definition has been provided and the reasons for why your usage is incorrect have been hammered into your thick skull. If you can't accept this then there's nothing more that I can do for you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:35:02 2011 No.1498805 >>1498793 Jesus H. Christ, I give up. You win Fabulous! You definitely showed your own definition of pretentiousness to these mindless sheeples. Aleck, no one's agreeing with you though.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:37:02 2011 No.1498808

>>1498799
no, that argument you were able to almost best me by reducing our opposing viewpoints to nothing but subjectivity

you also accidentally caused me to remember how Fitzgerald felt about women, which made me actually beleive you over I

i like you, you can argue with class

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:38:02 2011 No.1498811 >>1498808 Awww, thanks. :3 That made me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:39:02 2011 No.1498813 File: 7 KB, 251x249, 1296079891782s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1498808 >I like you, you can argue with class Pretentious

>>	Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ!!MIZaZ3gTWFo Thu Jan 27 19:39:02 2011 No.1498814 File: 519 KB, 200x150, notreadingshit.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fabulous is right

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:40:02 2011 No.1498816 >>1498814 Get the Hell out of here >:U

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:42:02 2011 No.1498819

Fabulous is incorrect because he seems to be under the impression that being unable to read correctly in High School is/should be the norm, if this was the case then of course it would be pretentious to elevate yourself above the masses.

However he is wrong, the norm at High School age is/should be that a person possesses adequate reading abilities, especially in an AP/Advanced Class. Therefore "Making fun" of those who are unable to read is not pretentious, but just mean spirited since you are mocking a minority rather than the mainstream.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:45:02 2011 No.1498822 >>1498819 If it's normal to be able to read, how come it's apparently so common to not be able to read? There's certainly a lot of stories.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:45:02 2011 No.1498823 >>1498808 Why can tripfaggots never admit when they're wrong? Oh right, that's all of 4chan. The best you can hope for is silence. Or D&E posting pictures of statues.

>>	Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ!!MIZaZ3gTWFo Thu Jan 27 19:47:02 2011 No.1498824 File: 9 KB, 316x281, brekerreaction.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1498823

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:48:02 2011 No.1498825

>>1498804
so then i suppose you mean
>making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
which has been posted about 4 times, a few of those were me

let me try to explain, once again, in which context i was able to determine that many posters were, in fact, pretentious

The posters in this thread have been much more than "annoyed" by the "illiterate" high schoolers they apparently respect (for if you didn't respect them, you would hold them inferior to you). The children have been called
>idiots
>dumbshits
>>1497513
laughed at his peers while they were reading their poetry

this isn't "annoyed" behavior, this is fucking pretentious

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:49:02 2011 No.1498832 >>1498825 >how do I satire? Fucking idiot.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:51:02 2011 No.1498836

>>1498819
I agree, but there's a huge difference between not being able to read, pretending to not be able to read for attention and genuinely not giving a shit

if you actually believe children today are somehow instantly incapable of reading you're a fucking "idiot" "dumbshit" and deserve to be called inferior on some image board for high school douchebags

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:51:02 2011 No.1498837 >>1498629 Your teacher should have made you guys read Invisible Man for a piece of literature that is actually black related. Everyone would've probably bitched though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:53:02 2011 No.1498840 File: 47 KB, 605x919, ha.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1498824

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:54:02 2011 No.1498842 Wasn't HG Wells a racist?

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:54:02 2011 No.1498844

>>1498832
holy shit now you're calling this thread "satire"

holy fucking shit i have to leave

i just have to leave

this is not a literary community

it's something worse, so worse, so worse

you know, i've tried to keep myself from saying this, but if you were a tripfag you would admit you're contrived at this point and apologize in order to save your name

not saying tripfagging isn't blatant attention fetching, just saying that anons feel no responsibility to clean up the dirty, disgusting messes they make

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:56:02 2011 No.1498846 >>1498844 >implying you wouldn't simply post faggy statues

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:56:02 2011 No.1498847 >>1498832 Wooaahhh, hold on. I can support making fun of the use of pretentious and Fabulous, buttttt.... please tell me where satire fits in.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 19:57:02 2011 No.1498849 >>1498790 THAT is what's posting in this thread right now those same kids are now 19, in a university, earning their English degrees and are approximately 10x pretentious as they were then

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 19:58:02 2011 No.1498850
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>>working as substitute teacher
>>9th grade history class
>>give kids worksheets, continue reading/writing/zoning out
>>girl pulls down map of europe
>>puts hands on hips
>>yells out "LOL WHERE'S AMERICA? ITZ NOT ON DA MAP"

i could've hit her.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:00:02 2011 No.1498856 >>1498822 Because people focus on the bad, at least cynical pessimists like /lit/, you don't remember the boring mediocre parts of HF, only the facepalm.jpg ones.

>>	Isley !!dict0CT8AQ4 Thu Jan 27 20:01:02 2011 No.1498857 How does one become so hated as a tripfag? I mean, it seems that some tripfags are merely accepted as a part of the board, and others are vilified and chased with pitchforks.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 20:01:02 2011 No.1498858
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>>1498846
Dedgy and I are not the same

i would post beloved sitcom characters, if anything

you have me in a lighter mood now that the tides of this thread are turning

see
>>1498847
he has now realized just exactly who's cause he has been championing

>mfw i can't trust /lit/s opinions after this thread

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 20:03:02 2011 No.1498864 you are either both or neither welcome to /lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:03:02 2011 No.1498865 >>1498858 >can't form a grammatical sentence Well, it seems I had you pegged correctly.

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 20:05:02 2011 No.1498870 >>1498856 this is very true, just remember those kids aren't actually illiterate >>1498864 directed at >>1498857

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 20:07:02 2011 No.1498875 >>1498865 and the cycle begins anew! tell me now of a single portion of that post which happened to be incoherent

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:08:02 2011 No.1498879 >>1498875 >who's cause Don't bother passing it off as a typo; I've seen you try to do that before. Do you know what blatant errors like that tell us? That you're stupid.

>>	Isley !!dict0CT8AQ4 Thu Jan 27 20:10:02 2011 No.1498883 File: 14 KB, 300x240, mud_wrestling.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1498879 Picture related.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:11:02 2011 No.1498891 I left my large mainstread highschool for a small alternative highschool filled with intellectuals. It was amazing with the sole exception of the massive amount of feminists who blamed men for everything.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:11:02 2011 No.1498892 this thread should die quietly

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 20:12:02 2011 No.1498896 >>1498879 >>1498879 my first typo this thread compared to the abundance of others shit out by you anons must i go back and find them? since a typo apparently invalidates all of one's views, i think this means I'm winning

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:14:02 2011 No.1498902

>>1498896

But that's not a typo. A typo is when, for example, you say "teh" instead of "the."

Your post illustrates the fact that you don't understand the difference between "whose" and "who's." You do this often. This means that you are probably dumb. And like most dumb people, you're in denial.

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 20:15:02 2011 No.1498906

>>1498896
error is the better word, it was no typo

yet i have been producing these oftentimes longs and glittering posts faster than you anons as a whole have been able to refute them

don't beleive that i didn't realize the mistake as soon as you showed it to me

>whose
before you accuse me of lying like the petty fool you are

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 20:18:02 2011 No.1498913 >>1498902 beat me to it oh well though you realize that you are actually revealing yourself as severely threatened and, territorial maybe? by dwelling on such paltry mistakes instead of debating like an adult

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:19:02 2011 No.1498917 >>1498902 >confusion between who's and whose makes you dumb Nonetheless, that tripfag is an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:21:02 2011 No.1498923 only 5 more posts

Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Thu Jan 27 20:25:02 2011 No.1498941

>>1498917
You're right

i am a fool for believing myself equal to others

I am a fool for genuinely loving language and literature, and all of the things these have brought to me

I am a fool for believing that this board, in all its stingy fits and fittles, genuinely cared as i do for these things

I am truly a fool

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:47:02 2011 No.1499004 >>1498941 Your epidermis is showing. Oh and I'm the anon who was arguing with you earlier, I haven't posted for a bit and it wasn't me calling the thread a satire. Don't assume you're always talking to the same person fatty.

Anonymous Thu Jan 27 20:49:02 2011 No.1499011
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>>1498906
>producing these oftentimes longs and glittering posts faster than you anons as a whole have been able to refute them

>don't beleive that i didn't realize the mistake as soon as you showed it to me

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 28 05:48:02 2011 No.1500312 File: 66 KB, 900x900, rock_rule2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >green text posts ITT >pic related >other posts >faggots arguing over stupid shit

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