shitmystudentswrite:

Feminism is an issue plaguing women everywhere across the world. Some people just speak on the issue; others act upon it. Some take it more serious than others; some just don’t care that much at all about the issue.

Urgh. Feminism is really such a simple concept, it’s mindboggling how few people seem to get it.

shitmystudentswrite:

Love is a powerful force that penetrates the deep sea of time. It allows the man to bond with the female corpse.

One of the weirder ones I’ve seen. So glad I haven’t come across anything this disturbing in my students’ work.

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [Wow, it’s a beautiful day outside] ” Bottom text: “ [Go to the library] ”]

Who does she think she is, Vivian Bearing?

How very Hotel New Hampshire.

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Nobi used to do that!!

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“Genital orphus.” You can’t make this shit up.

shitmystudentswrite:

Bestiality is something that when it involves men we see it as it is only because he is a horn ball and do not get shunned by his friends if they find out but when it is a woman they are considered dirty and usually leave town and start a new life because of the offense she has committed. Although…

dearcoketalk:

Dear Coquette,

After a year and a half, I finally realized why my roommate’s boyfriend bugs me: He’s boring. He’s a perfectly nice, perfectly attractive, perfectly successful functioning adult, but he has nothing terribly interesting to say, or at least not to me. Then, when my roommate is…

Why anyone spends a year and a half mulling over their roommate’s boyfriend’s personality is beyond me. Doesn’t she have better things to think about?

trextrying:

T-Rex Trying to Ride a Motorcycle…  a Bicycle…  the UNICYCLE!!!

#TRexTrying

It’s so nice that T-Rex found something he could do! Look at that sweet little smile.

dennisl09:

Now that the first Presidential test is in the books, the US media will relentlessly pound away at explaining it to us. Most of the media won’t be far behind Fox News. I think there’s several facts that we really need to remember:

1) In Iowa, fully 60% of the Republicans attending the caucuses are white Evangelical Christians. They are not just virulently opposed to womens reproductive rights and LGBT rights, most are opposed to public education because it teaches the Theory of Evolution rather than Creationism. And for many of them, these “social issues” are more important than war, the social safety net, the economy, education, etc.  And these are the people that should define the issues for the Presidential election?

2) How many people actually vote in the GOP Iowa caucus?  About 122,000. That’s One Hundred Twenty-Two Thousand voters. Slightly more people than attended the Rose Bowl yesterday. Less than the population of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. So this tiny spec of population is more influential in the choice of our next President than all the people in California, New York, Texas, etc. But don’t despair, the next big Presidential test is New Hampshire….

3) Many people think American Democracy comes down to how much you spend on TV advertising. It didn’t work out that way in Iowa. Rick Santorum, who finished in a virtual tie for first with Mitt Romney, spent $20.59 per vote in media advertising. Mitt Romney spent $155.43 per vote. Even the renegade Ron Paul spent $103.64 per vote. And Rick Perry? He spent a whopping $478.87 per vote. NOTE: These dollar totals ONLY include media advertising. They do NOT count all the other costs of a campaign like offices, staff, donuts, etc.

It’d be funny if it weren’t real.

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ Read biography on Edgar Allan Poe ” Bottom text: “ Never smile again. ”]

I read it for a report in my AP Lang class. Poe had the most depressing life. Nothing good happened to him. Ever.

I had a student in AP Lit turn her Poe presentation into a laff riot. It’s all a matter of perspective.

dearcoketalk:

Dear Coquette,

I’m a freshman junior college student in California’s floundering education system. I’ve done really well so far and I expect good grades after the first semester. My enrollment date is coming up and I found out that there are about 30 classes left, and most likely the worst….

Even when I was in college, this was the way things worked. As a freshman, your options were limited, and if you had your heart set on a class, you just had to crash and hope a space opened up. I got into every class I wanted doing exactly what she describes. Show up, and show the prof that you belong there.

shitmystudentswrite:

In “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” they don’t like pudding because they say it is “figgy,” which is what they said for the F word a long time ago.

Figgy=fucking? That’s a new one on me.

dearcoketalk:

I literally hate my body. I’m eighteen and I’ve been overweight (not seriously, but just slightly) since childhood. The last year or so I lost about twenty pounds but I just can never be happy with where I am. I am a totally average weight now and eat healthy, work out regularly, etc. but I just…

She’s right, but no one will realize it til it’s too late.

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shitmystudentswrite:

This is not the only time in history men were castrated.  In my music class I found out that eons of years ago male children were castrated so they could become soprano’s.  Soprano’s were highly thought of by society and since they were castrated as very small children, they were raised as soprano’s.  This group of men were called the pastrami’s.  Look it up, very interesting.

What the hell do they make pastrami from?

shitmystudentswrite:

Divorce rates are going to be lower if you are not getting married.

This is indubitably true.