So classes have started back up around the country and already I’m forced to share the campus with disruptive assholes. Fuck class clowns, and fuck the spew of internet apologia about how they must be tragic figures that deal with a lot at home. A lot of kids who make it a point to play the main character and fuck around in class (college btw, full grown adults) are just desperate for attention or just like to “troll”
I had one guy who was just loudly replying to everything the teacher had to say during syllabus review, even when he had nothing to add and it was painful. I can’t tell if he thought he was being funny or if he just wanted to be rude for no reason, but no one was laughing. Teacher talks about his past, the guy makes it a point to interrogate him about why he dropped out of school or what he did at his other jobs. Teacher brings up a quote and asks who made it, the guy makes a Captain Obvious “joke” about how he’s a guy named xyz. Eventually the professor just stopped acknowledging him. This was the first day, and this dude woke up and chose to be a pain. Who does that?
There’s nothing scarier to me than a grown man who acts like a 6 year old.
I swear this has only gotten worse since everyone’s so on edge about…everything that they would much rather just act like nothing is wrong so the person doesn’t fucking snap and try to hurt someone.
fuck the spew of internet apologia about how they must be tragic figures that deal with a lot at home
^ this
He wasn’t a class clown per se, but in an anthro class in college I had a guy who was a “devil’s advocate” and it was annoying as shit. Any time the prof made a slightly non-conventional (in Western schools) point from what he considered the POV of who an ethnography was about, “devil’s advocate” man would counter with a POV from the whites studying them or the people pretty obviously in the wrong in any given situation.
We had a couple of days where a foreign exchange student from Vietnam and a foreign exchange student from China were discussing facets of their culture. The Vietnamese girl was describing differences between Amerikan and Vietnamese parental relations, bedtime stories, sleeping rituals etc. and guy just had to know what she and her people thought about the Vietnamese war, if they hated Amerika, how free their speech was, if they were really a communist country. These are maybe fine questions in a vacuum, but she was obviously uncomfortable and wanted to discuss cultural differences. The Chinese guy wanted to discuss the differences between Amerikan and Chinese university culture and what things were expected of you, how breaks worked, the ages of people attending etc. So obviously it became a debate about Chinese vs Amerikan home ownership, work prospects, and the economy. It was annoying as hell and obviously took a lot of steam out of these two students’ passion for the project.
I feel kind of awkward about how I approached it now but the Vietnamese girl said she loved the communist party in her country and that they have made Vietnam a place worth living. I felt like she could sense some hostility at that statement so I approached her after and told her that she was not “alone ideologically” or some other strangely worded attempted-comfort. The prof cut me off pretty fast lol. I hope she’s doing alright.
I’m in my senior year of highschool and their is this one kid in my government class (dual enrollment so it’s basically a college class). I swear he always has to interrupt with the most stupid comments. Luckily he isn’t a complete ass to the teacher and the teacher doesn’t seem to mind too much. I find it incredibly annoying though, mostly because what he does say doesn’t have any thought whatsoever behind it. Usually “dark humor” stuff that middle schoolers are into.
Haha lmao joke about dad not coming home with the milk… repeated twice a day for three years 😭
That was way too common in the first 2 years of college for me, and it didn’t know an age limit neither. At least there were no clowns in my major courses.
I also must say some people are very awkward and have 0 filter for whatever reasons, it could be that as well rather than deliberate trolling. Generally you get a sense of which is what though.
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Thanks for this. I’m going to have to read it now.
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Clear summary, thanks.
Just to clarify, I wasn’t being sarcastic that you’d only posted a link; I found a copy of the book to read.
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