How do you react if someone teach you stupid things?

[crashman]

If someone teach me stupid things etc wash plates or cutleries, i would get very annoying. If he tell me wrong way, i will explode. Anyone have same experience like me?

 

[Claverhouse]

I generally sulk.


Fortunately I have infinite patience and am always willing to put people right if they are mistaken in history or politics. They nearly always are.



Claverhouse

 

[Toad]

I act like an adult and pretend it's interesting.

 

[Trebuchet]

Duck out fast, possibly throwing another poor student to their mercy.

Back when I was a senior majoring in physics, a really annoying math prof started explaining spherical coordinates. We'd mastered that freshman year, and he was clearly going to go step-by-step. Nothing could stop him. (As far as I could tell, though, he had the facts right.)

So I claimed to have another appointment and abandoned one of my best friends, a fellow senior physics major, and let her listen to it. This was wrong of me, but somehow we are still friends 20 years later. Maybe that explains why she got a Ph.D. and I never went beyond a B.S.? It could be karma.

 

[RubberDucky451]

It depends on the teacher, and how they're teaching it to me.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Lol, Engrish.

*wonders just how relevant that is to the topic*

@-Crashman
No disrespect intended, learning other languages is very difficult, especially English.

 

[nickgray]

especially English.

Huh? It's not that difficult... especially when compared to, say, Chinese or Japanese.

 

[Cogwulf]

Learning languages academically is quite hard, but learning languages through having no other choice is much easier.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Huh? It's not that difficult... especially when compared to, say, Chinese or Japanese.

Unless of course your first language is Chinese or Japanese.

There's also the large amount of slang & tone based inflection to consider.
And pronunciation changes by region too, making it even more confusing.

Heck Engrish is no less a form of English than English-English, Australian-English, American-English, Irish-English, NZ-English (New Zealand), etc.

 

[crashman]

I know that communication is very crucial in human society but not the language (word) itself. The important of commucation is to get people to see the big clear picture. Its okay to be broken but as long as they can understand, make it simple and short and thats good enough. I got ADHD/ADD(now mild condition), i tend to ignore people speak long story & complicated because im forgetful or absent minded.

I find people with speechs with figurative are very interesting.

 

[EditorOne]

Despair: Shingling a roof in August in New Jersey, a roof that stretches its bare plywood existence into infinity, over the horizon, like the deck of an aircraft carrier. One shingle, four nails at a time. And it must be straight lines, it shows if you get crooked. Squared up, each set of nails covered by the next shingle, else it will leak. One teenager, 2400 square feet of roof, endless pounds of nails, one hammerl, the sun beating down and the greenhead flies rising up. Oh, and don't fall off, it's a two-story roof.

You mean that kind of stupid?

My solution was to calculate how long it should take and then try to beat that time by using every time-saving thing I could think of.

Ditto when we made picnic tables (all this was at a campground). Three of us made 21 picnic tables one morning. We'd have made more but we ran out of wood. Ditto campsite fireplaces, made a game to see how fast we could do it.

I'm not sure how you do endeavor to persevere when you are forced to listen to someone explain how to do a boring job or plow through routine scholastic makework, though. There have been moments when tedium made me want to vomit.

 

[Adymus]

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean they try to teach you their own method of doing something, and it is essentially no more effective or efficient then your own?

Yeah it's annoying... I usually just say "Uh huh" until they are done, then I continue doing it my way,

 

[JUN]

"Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena."
Translated:
"Everything is worth it when your soul isn't small."

 

[Andrew18651]

If someone teach me stupid things etc wash plates or cutleries, i would get very annoying. If he tell me wrong way, i will explode. Anyone have same experience like me?

Haha, you should see my akward and obnoxious rants in theology class. Yes, I also have the instinct to explode. I also have the tenfancy to correct them for their stupidness, but it's not practical to be that way. Oh well

 

[al.uminum]

Huh? It's not that difficult... especially when compared to, say, Chinese or Japanese.

I've never gone to the effort to learn Chinese, but I find Japanese to be much simpler than any of the Romanic or Germanic languages. The Japanese grammatical system is fairly consistent, while English, especially, has a million and one rules that you "just need to remember."

As for the topic at hand, I tend to multi-task while being taught something at too slow a pace. I'm willing to learn most anything once, though.

 

[tashi]

Patience is not something that I've mastered yet, and there are few things that irk me more than an irritating teacher(or adult figure of any kind that is irritating). As crashman puts it "i will explode". I've never really been a typical "troublemaker" but it's not an uncommon thing for me to argue with a teacher.......
Hehe, I definitly have a rebellious side, and it tends to express itself in unconventional ways. When I was in kindergarten I told one of my teachers to go to hell

 

[ohrtonz]

I suppose with strangers, co-workers, etc if they explain silly little things to me I already know, or maybe even things not everyone needs to know, but I do... I try to say in the nicest way "I know" without being arrogant or will just smile and be like "yeah yeah". Depending on the topic and situation, I sometimes feel it unnecessary to try and explain I found out how already.

On the other hand...

If my dad explains something I just sit there and suffer usually. Unless he specifically asks me first, but that poses a problem sometimes. For example, we were cleaning up after some yard work and I was going to wrap up the power cord. He asks me, "do you know how to wrap it up?". Only being a few, if only one way to wrap up a cord, I suspect he wants me to wrap this cord a certain way. So I give it to him and he does the generic arm and hand wrap around to make a good loop. I sit there and feel stupid and worthless. Especially if someone else, like a friend, were to be watching.

If my mom tries to tell me how to do something, I get real stubborn, try to shut her up from explaning so she can save her breath. But we may end up arguing that she hasn't gotten to say it yet and I should listen. While I say "just stop when I say stop and it will make the conversation shorter"

 

[Lobstrich]

If it's an idiot trying to teach me something I already know I tell him to shut the fuck up.
On the other hand if it's a person whom I respect, or an elder, maybe. They deserve my respect. I will listen for 8 hours straight to someone talking about christianity (even though I'm a strong atheist) Because I feel the person deserves my respect, he/she has lived for longer than me.

Again, if I think the person is an idiot I tell the person.