Funny Pictures Thread

[mqtirishfan]

Originally Posted by bearsfan_51

Fair enough, but this is just a microcosm of what I'm talking about.

It's also, to be clear, not a reflection of the level of intelligence of all society. I firmly believe that, collectively, humans today are far better educated and intelligent than they have ever been. The issue is that damn near everyone goes to college now (because it's necessary) and that dilutes the meaning of "college-educated". Most of my students, thirty years ago, would be working in factories straight out of high school (and probably with much better career prospects).

As a college student, I'd have to agree with this. There are people I'm going to graduate with that have no business being in school. For now it is getting out of graduate school that is a real accomplishment. I don't think I could have failed to graduate from college if I actively tried to.

[Bert Macklin]

Originally Posted by TitleTown088

Fix'd er,

[jrdrylie]

I too worry about the decreasing value of a college degree. At my college, business majors had to take a class called Calculus for Business (basically Calculus I without the use of SIN, COS, and TAN). Two students and I (out of about 20 students) averaged about 95% on the tests. The class average hovered around 50. How bad did those other students have to do to pull down the class average so far.

I think a lot of it has to do with how easy it is to get student loans. People with no business being in college end up getting loans and decide to enroll. They do just enough to graduate but are no better prepared for the workforce than the average high school graduate. The labor force is now flooded with college graduates, many of whom are idiots.

[TitleTown088]

Originally Posted by jrdrylie

I too worry about the decreasing value of a college degree. At my college, business majors had to take a class called Calculus for Business (basically Calculus I without the use of SIN, COS, and TAN). Two students and I (out of about 20 students) averaged about 95% on the tests. The class average hovered around 50. How bad did those other students have to do to pull down the class average so far.

I think a lot of it has to do with how easy it is to get student loans. People with no business being in college end up getting loans and decide to enroll. They do just enough to graduate but are no better prepared for the workforce than the average high school graduate. The labor force is now flooded with college graduates, many of whom are idiots.

Idiots, lazy idiots, or just lazy?

You're telling me out of 20 students who were accepted into a college only 2 had the ability to get good grades? I'd say its more like only 2 of them tried hard enough. Most people possess the intelligence to do well at school, less possess the work ethnic.

[Brothgar]

Originally Posted by TitleTown088

Idiots, lazy idiots, or just lazy?

You're telling me out of 20 students who were accepted into a college only 2 had the ability to get good grades? I'd say its more like only 2 of them tried hard enough. Most people possess the intelligence to do well at school, less possess the work ethnic.

I will offer a third option. Many times students concentrate on their core classes 50x more than electives although this isn't really the case with business calc considering I doubt more than one of those students took it as an elective.

[Bengals78]

Originally Posted by broth223

I will offer a third option. Many times students concentrate on their core classes 50x more than electives although this isn't really the case with business calc considering I doubt more than one of those students took it as an elective.

This sums up how I approach it.
I get what essentially amounts to straight A's in core classes.

[Raiderz4Life]

Originally Posted by broth223

I will offer a third option. Many times students concentrate on their core classes 50x more than electives although this isn't really the case with business calc considering I doubt more than one of those students took it as an elective.

Yea I do this...a bit. I kinda half-ass my music class and w.e. dumb class I have to take and focus more on the important ones.

[jrdrylie]

Originally Posted by TitleTown088

Idiots, lazy idiots, or just lazy?

You're telling me out of 20 students who were accepted into a college only 2 had the ability to get good grades? I'd say its more like only 2 of them tried hard enough. Most people possess the intelligence to do well at school, less possess the work ethnic.

I agree many are just lazy, but I majored in Economics and Political Science. It was unbelievable how terrible many of my fellow students in these two majors were at math. Many could not even do basic algebra that I could do in 6th grade. For example, we would have problems like this:

Y = 30 T + (50(1-T)) + 100 T
Solve for Y when T = 0.3, 0.2, & 0.15

The majority of my economics class looked at this like it was writing in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. This isn't laziness. This is complete inability to do basic math.

[Raiderz4Life]

I'm not going to lie. I became an English major cuz....i'm...not very good at math haha I can get it done it just takes me a while to learn things.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by TitleTown088

Idiots, lazy idiots, or just lazy?

You're telling me out of 20 students who were accepted into a college only 2 had the ability to get good grades? I'd say its more like only 2 of them tried hard enough. Most people possess the intelligence to do well at school, less possess the work ethnic.

This made my laugh more than it should. Also: STOP TALKING! MORE FUNNY PICS!

[CJSchneider]

Originally Posted by Brent

I am suddenly reminded of a scene from the movie Roxanne with Steve Martin.

[jojo]

Originally Posted by killxswitch

It is not a very collegiate sentence.

When I was in college in the English dept. in the 70s, if you made a grammatical or punctuation error in a ppr. you got an F.

Taught you to never make the same mistake twice.

Better for What Grinds Your Gears thread: Like saying "a myriad of..." when myriad is an adjective, not a noun. Sports announcers make this mistake all the time.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by jojo

Better for What Grinds Your Gears thread: Like saying "a myriad of..." when myriad is an adjective, not a noun. Sports announcers make this mistake all the time.

Yes, but one could argue that you are viewing language from a prescriptive rather than descriptive linguistics, which is silly because language is constantly evolving.

[jrdrylie]

From dictionary.com

noun

1. a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.

2. ten thousand.

It can be used as both a noun or adjective

[SuperPacker]

[Bert Macklin]

Great ad

[nepg]

Originally Posted by Bert Macklin

Great ad

I love **** like this and probably won't stop laughing at it...ever.

Reminds me of:

[BeerBaron]

[Bert Macklin]

[Hurricanes25]

Originally Posted by Bert Macklin

Haha that's ******* great.

[bearsfan_51]

Looks photoshoped.

[Bert Macklin]

Originally Posted by bearsfan_51

Looks photoshoped.

Who ******* cares? Just enjoy the funny damnit.

[Nalej]

Originally Posted by Bert Macklin

Who ******* cares? Just enjoy the funny damnit.

haha word... did anyone actually think it was real?

[Bulldogs]

[Brothgar]

Originally Posted by Bulldogs

Fix'd yall