Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194866 times)

Lottel · « **Reply #1280 on:** June 29, 2010, 01:11:37 PM »

A teacher friend of mine was apparently inspired to be a teacher to be like Ralph Hinkley from The Greatest American Hero.
He looks like him, acts like him, and got his job as a English teacher and why he helps as a special ed teacher.

It would also explain why he would show up in a The Greatest American Hero t-shirt occasionally. I suppose it sounds obvious when you spell it all out.

Fredward · « **Reply #1281 on:** June 30, 2010, 12:50:25 PM »

that my school's campus was used in the filming of Battlefield Earth

Mongrel · « **Reply #1282 on:** June 30, 2010, 01:29:48 PM »

That's okay. Half my Alma Mater's campus buildings were designed in the 70's by a former designer of prisons, specifically to crush people's will's (with cheery things like industrial concrete construction inside and out and six-foot ceilings) and to make the buildings difficult to hold in case of student uprisings.

This is not in fact actually "Man this campus sucks" dumb-student hyperbole.

Büge · « **Reply #1283 on:** June 30, 2010, 02:32:05 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on June 30, 2010, 01:29:48 PM

That's okay. Half my Alma Mater's campus buildings were designed in the 70's by a former designer of prisons, specifically to crush people's will's (with cheery things like industrial concrete construction inside and out and six-foot ceilings) and to make the buildings difficult to hold in case of student uprisings.

This is not in fact actually "Man this campus sucks" dumb-student hyperbole.

Huh. The Mackenzie-Chown Complex of my university was designed with similar concerns. The hallways go in a zig-zag pattern and I'm pretty sure there used to be convex mirrors in the corners too, just to add to the Panopticon effect.

And yeah, they used to be dull greys and browns with lots of exposed ductwork.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1284 on:** June 30, 2010, 04:53:42 PM »

HAHA! Our south residence had the zig-zag labyrinth hallways with convex mirrors too!

Büge · « **Reply #1285 on:** June 30, 2010, 08:04:01 PM »

I learned that the guy who moved in here last month paid $25 less than my roommate and I did.

Brentai · « **Reply #1286 on:** June 30, 2010, 08:27:44 PM »

Yeah, er, that's how economics work. Sorry man.

Thad · « **Reply #1287 on:** June 30, 2010, 09:43:22 PM »

Quote from: Fredward on June 30, 2010, 12:50:25 PM

that my school's campus was used in the filming of Battlefield Earth

My dad's high school was used in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

...which of course does not earn a facepalm.

Lottel · « **Reply #1288 on:** July 01, 2010, 12:28:23 AM »

Excellent :airguitar:

Büge · « **Reply #1289 on:** July 01, 2010, 04:50:05 AM »

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1290 on:** July 01, 2010, 07:54:35 PM »

I just realized I have abandonment issues!

Detonator · « **Reply #1291 on:** July 01, 2010, 08:52:34 PM »

don't you mean

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TA · « **Reply #1292 on:** July 02, 2010, 11:08:57 AM »

That Gallagher is a racist homophobic psychopath.

Büge · « **Reply #1293 on:** July 02, 2010, 11:50:56 AM »

I learned that

(a) Gallagher is still alive, and
(b) Some people still think Gallagher is funny.

Ziiro · « **Reply #1294 on:** July 02, 2010, 03:22:04 PM »

Quote from: TA on July 02, 2010, 11:08:57 AM

That Gallagher is a racist homophobic psychopath.

I wish I had a better response, but that was the face I made when reading that article.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1295 on:** July 04, 2010, 08:23:55 AM »

Quote from: Büge on July 02, 2010, 11:50:56 AM

(a) Gallagher is still alive, and

Yeah, that.

Büge · « **Reply #1296 on:** July 05, 2010, 10:42:31 AM »

Steve Ditko inked some of Eric Stanton's fetish comics.

Also? Eric Stanton actually had an Aunt May.^nsfw

Brentai · « **Reply #1297 on:** July 05, 2010, 11:40:41 AM »

Quote

"It's got the curds that blow up, just like on the news!"

Wow, uh.

I think that's the first time it's really hit me just how much this country deserves to be hated.

Fredward · « **Reply #1298 on:** July 05, 2010, 12:25:23 PM »

"curds that blow up" make me think: separatist poutine

Lottel · « **Reply #1299 on:** July 05, 2010, 03:53:15 PM »

I learned that I enjoy a vast selection of Ska music.

And even remotely musing on the fact gets you mocked heavily.

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