I am a drop out who did so at 15 years of age, a less-than-motivated person, a fast-food worker, an irresponsible person who made a lot of bad and lazy choices. I have no high-school diploma, no credits.
I want to change my life dramatically.
The course of action I want to take is "Ged GED, join Army". Others have advised against this, some are for it, but insofar it's all I can really think of doing. I'm willing to give up my life for 3~4 years so I can reap the benefits later, but that wouldn't leave me much afterwards career-wise. I'd just be a grunt and that doesn't open up any jobs really.
Perhaps it's pride, or stubbornness, but getting my HS diploma seems like such a far-off goal, my age...I don't want to go back to 8th grade or just start fresh at 9th at nearly 19. I should be thinking about college at this age, but I fucked that up. Which is why I want to get my GED.
I want to go to vocational school and learn a trade. I can't afford this.
I don't know what to do, I've been fucking off for four years and now that's it's catching up with me I feel it full force. It's overwhelming, I think about it and just want to say fuck it like I used to as a kid, but that's what got me into this mess in the first place. I'm going nowhere and have the time to change, I just need a course of action, a plan.
Can anyone suggest or help out, please?
First, get your GED. You might have to study a bit, but it's really nothing hard.
Then I suggest you take out loans for some low level school to get your associates degree. From there, you can go anywhere.
Whatever you do, just don't join the army. The army is a trap for people who feel hopeless just like you.
How is it a trap? It seems like it could be something to motivate a person. I'm in the same shoes as the OP. I see service as something that would force me to be with people, bring me different places around the world. Sounds like I'd gain so much life experience. So please tell me what is wrong with a hopeless person enlisting? This seems like an option for me and I'd like to hear all sides before making such a big decision.
You're better off than me, OP.
I'm 18 years old, haven't really been in school since the 5th grade and I've never had a job.
Although hopefully when the summer is over I'll get accepted into this one high school and I could end up turning my life around.
So, I left high school when I was 15. I spent the next 7 years isolated from all friends, didn't leave my house. I'm 22 now, and my level of social growth is stunted at a 15 year old level. What can I do? I can't speak to people..
The best medicine for this sort of thing is to force yourself. Get a job where you have to interact with people. I don't mean a grocery clerk were its just "Hi, that will be 10 dollars, have a nice day" crap. A job where you rely on coworkers. There are other ways, but this is easy, and you can get paid in the meantime, so even if you have a shitty day its not a total loss. Alternatively, you could try for trade school or adult education and get a GED. Nice benefit there is that if you have a rough time of it, you might have some kind of advisor/counselor you can talk to.
In the meantime, work on your self-esteem. Start exercising and improve your diet, and get a hobby, even if its a nerdy one.
Really... inaction is the only way you can fail here. I know this first-hand.
There are a lot of people out there who suck, and there will be lots of people out there who think you suck. The only way to find out if you can make friends is to sample the pool, so to speak.
That'd be what I do, anyway. Admittedly, my own social life is terribly modest, I pretty much only interact with coworkers... I've been invited to things like golf outings, but I really don't play golf and the like. My friends are all pretty much gone now, so I spend a lot of nights playing video games. In short, I feel you.
I am currently in a uni course that requires a lot of communication skills, and working with people. Public speaking gives me the shits. I don't think there's an easy fix for this type of thing, but what I did was get a job in retail as a sales cashier. It doesn't require too much talk, but it does make you meet lots of different people face to face. I have definitely noticed the difference in the 6 months I've been working. Meeting people doesn't fluster me as much, and I don't have to read from a script when I talk on the phone anymore.
I only just read >>2's post, and realised I posted something totally contradictory.
Personally I think the cashier job helped me out alot at the beginning, but now that I've picked up the skills I needed, it's getting a bit limiting. Hence I am looking for more people-work now. But I reckon if you threw me down in the deep end of having actual coworkers at the beginning, I would have sunk, and kept to myself.
>>4 your testimony is very interesting. And your idea of working as a cashier to get used to people is very good.
Everything I know about social interaction I read in books. I am anxious and awkward, but somehow I can fake being a confident person in conversation.
I can relate to OP, so what could I do if even being a cashier is overwhelming?
>>7
Being a cashier would be overwhelming for me, too.
I was thinking I could get a job at a grocery store, maybe just organizing shelves and that sort of thing. People might walk by and ask questions every once in a while.
It'd be rough at first, but, the payoff is worth it I think
OP here. For those asking about jobs..I myself hold a part time job. 4 days a week tops. I work in a hospital in the shipping/receiving department, taking care of materials and such. When I looked for a job I tried getting something that I knew wouldn't require much social interaction.
I don't really interact with people much at work now, but when I do I find it helps. I've started to study peoples emotions, personalities and personal traits, to get an understanding on how to become more "normal". I just lack any way to "test" what I've learned out, as I have no friends and basically spend every minute alone.
>>8
Yeah, I think that'll be the way to go.
>>9
Perhaps conventions, clubs, that sort of thing?
I'm assuming you're a hardcore anime/gamer..
Or you could take up a tafe/vocational or language course. Like any sort of short course that would interest you, and perhaps you might meet like minded people (or at least have something to talk about).
Does anonymous feel this is wrong? (or illegal)
Everything in moderation is ok. just long as your not doing that IRL!
Fap to whatever you want as long as you don't bring your fantasies into reality.
People who say that fapping to lolicon hentai is wrong are morons and hypocrites.
im not into cp but i can say this im proud of fapping to loli. I no this is not wrong. i'm not a child molester but i do take good pride in young anime girls. It makes me feel young ,alive like im in control and i can experience a true form of love.
The concept of some people dismissing hentai as loving something inanimate and then dismiss lolikon, which is practically hentai, as something wrong and socially not acceptable is what ticks me off in the long run.
And as many other people in this thread said, lolikon causes no harm to anybody and therefore I don't see why it should be illegal.
I personally prefer hentai over porn as well, not sure how others feel about that subject, however, so irl I'm definitely not a pedo.
This is my opinion:
Well, I'm a young man, and I'm not interested at all in Lolicon, futanari or non straight shota. I'm not attracted to women with penises nor children.
But I love straight shota more than any other hentai genre, because I'm not masturbating to the children that appear in them (or, the depicted children) but about the older women they have sex with and these situations, in class with a female teacher specially. I mean this genre excites me so bad because I would have liked to have sex with some teachers I've had and some others I would have had and it seems much more exciting when YOU are the illegal one (I mean, when I am the minor and my teacher is the adult).
> People who say that fapping to lolicon hentai is wrong are morons and hypocrites.
Yeah, you just know they're jerking it off to little girls themselves, like, five minutes later. Jackass.
rape some neighbors child or sumthin... the real meaning behind the word lollipop, loli pop her cherry
but really, steal her panties and fap with it. its the closest you'll ever get
I personally am fine with shot futa and lolikon, and am proud to call myself a lolikon. It is fine as long as you don't cross the line between fantasy and reality. But then there are other people who look down on it and think it is horrible. And that is the reason that in America, profanity laws can over-right freedom of speech laws, making lolikon illegal if it depicts a person that appears under the age of 18 doing something 'obscene', which is complete BS.
A few days ago, I got home and I saw a unusual package for me. It was a book that I never ordered from some company that I have no clue about. I got suspicious, so I checked my account summary of my bank account. I saw that I got charged for it. I also saw another transaction that I have no clue about. It was from some place called msinutraceuticals. Never even heard of them until I saw the transaction.
I know I never gave out my CC number or anything to anybody. I'm not a idiot like that. I bet someone probably hacked some website and got my account number.
So I call my bank up and they tell me to contact the places. At first, I was kinda lazy, so I emailed both places. The book place was understanding and they refunded my money and told me to keep the book.
msinutraceuticals reponds was to give them my order number, item and last 4 digits of my CC. I never ordered from them, so i have no order number or item. I just emailed them the last 4 digits of my CC and told them I never ordered from them, so there is no order number.
Days later, never another email from msinutraceuticals. So I called them up, they only have a answering machine. Maybe they refunded it into my account, so I went to to check my bank account online and instead of refunding it, I saw that they charged me again for something else!
op here, that company called msinutraceuticals had the nerves charge me AGAIN for more this time. I called my bank to dispute it. Since the company won't respond to my emails and they only have a answering machine when you call them. This is total bullshit.
I check my mailbox today and I found a package from them. Never open the package, but I sure am gonna head to my local post office on monday to return this piece of shit. I am angry. Fucking bastards probably found my credit info somewhere. This company is a total fraud. Never ordered anything from them and they're just charging me for shit I never ordered.
I really hope my bank gets my money back. I am so pissed and angry right now.
hei op.. go to the police and write an application..
they will investigate the case and u'll get your money back!
I myself have not been through card fraud (and I hope it stays that way), but I do have a friend who went through a similar situation. Account info somehow stolen, unauthorized charges, etc.
The bank he goes to practically worked with him every step of the way. Hell, he even got a call from some detective! Got all of the money back.
So yeah, talk to your bank to get this through.
First thing you should do is freeze your account for the time being, so no transactions will happen while you're dealing with your situation.
Also, get a new card. The info's already been exposed, and who knows where it went. Sticking with your current one after this just puts you more at risk.
>>4
Thx for the info. I did most of what you said, I already have a new card coming with a different number. The bank said they will investigate it. Now I'm just waiting for word back from them about my money.
I'm also waiting for tmr for the post office to open so I can send back this unopened package of shitty pills that I never ordered. It was in my mailbox yesterday night. Funny thing is they send this package first class usps a few days AFTER I disputed the charges with my bank.
I actually googled the company earlier and saw a bunch of links to BBB. I guess I'm not the only person with problems from this fraud company.
OP here, it's been like 2 weeks. Just wanna let u guys know that HSBC got my money back! Still, I wonder what really happened and who got my card info. I guess that's something I will never know.
concratulations in winning in this case, op :)
Well done OP!!!
How do I damage my eyes enough that I need to wear glasses but not so much that I go blind?
you can wear non corrective glasses. Problem solved.
yeah.. just frames and "computor protection" glass..
Why do you want glasses?
Anyway, you could just go to the local opticians and explain to them that you want glasses, but don't actually need them. I'm sure they'd be happy to sell you some frames, since that's their business. Glasses frames can be expensive, though.
It depends on the brand. Some frames can be very cheap.
Go back in time to your preteen years and read a lot.
Hi. This might seem like an unusual request. I am from India, and I am going to US for studies from this fall. I haven't met many Americans in person, so this is going to be my first exposure to the US. I am quite sure that the majority of posters in 4ch are americans, hence, I would like to ask you a question-
What do you think of Indians as people? What do you think of them when you speak to them? What kind of an impression does an average Indian's personality create on you?
Please be straightforward. Even if you insult me and Indians, I wouldn't really give a damn, as I don't know anything about you.
Other nationalities can also give their opinions. I am also interested to know what anyone thinks of us.
>>1
I'm not born or residing in America. I think nothing about Indians that I don't about any human. Complete elimination of the racism problem by realizing the unimportance of external characteristic details, for their occurance tells nothing about ones character.
Alot of my local American friends have trouble understanding non local accents (sometimes even for Americans from other parts of the country) especially when people talk quickly. There aren't any trilled 'R's in American english, so being careful of those might help a little. I heard from some students at the university that watching American television shows and copying the pronounciation can help. (Especially The West Wing, apparently. I don't have a TV anymore so I can't really recommend anything myself.)
My best school friend was from New Delhi and I couldn't really understand anything he said for a couple years after we started competing in class. But we became friends after six years or so and are still friends since. We had a lot of good times being involved in Student Activities (clubs and student organizations) together and doing volunteer tutoring (we were both good math students) at our university.
Two of my roommates are Indian. Although their intelligence makes me burn with jealousy, they're pretty cool folks.
In general Indians are Cricket Crazy, lol
poondae!
koudee!
since nobody mentioned this, i feel like i should say... it's never good to lump people together due to race/ nationality/ etc, because people are individuals so you can't really judge like that...
BUT
i live in a university town with a large international population, and encounter people from all walks of life... and a common complaint about indian men is... armpit odour :(.
there is nothing sadder than having some sexy indian med students or some such sit next to you in the theatre, and you are intially thinking how cute one of them is, then you are overcome by unpleasant body odour :(
so my only advice is- take on the hygeine habits of the locals and please use anti-prespirant and shower daily?
My best friend is Indian. :3
I find everyone to be different, so I can't say the whole entire country of India has everyone the exact same as the other.
I'm a second generation Indian born and raised in the US. The high school I went to was in an area with a lot of Asians, but I was the only Indian in my college. Either way, my nationality didn't really make much of a difference; it's very relaxed, especially on the east coast, when it comes to nationality. People occasionally ask if I can give them recipes for Indian food, though. Protip: Look them up online.
Also, work on that accent. It's fine if you have one, but it's hard to take an Indian accent seriously.
I live in an upper middle-class suburban area here in the U.S... SUV's, yuppie soccer moms, huge 2 1/2 story houses, lots of private schools, Starbucks, etc. Recently, a lot of Indian doctors, lawyers, business owners, and engineers have been coming into the area- in fact, my subdivision is essentially Little India with tons of wonderful Indian families coming in and really cleaning the place up (it's pretty awesome).
However, everyone around here fucking HATES all the Indians around here and see them as dirty, smelly, illegal immigrants who are lazy and stupid... even though the local high school's Valedictorian this year was a Punjabi kid, all of the Indians around here are resident aliens or naturalized citizens, all speak perfect English, many are converts to Christianity, and all take care of their lawns and bring a lot of good money into the area... It's absolutely ridiculous, because I'm in an area where it's not a bunch of redneck white trash Republicans and Jesus freaks, but rather cosmopolitan, well-off, professional people (and the Indians are just like that as well). It's pissing me the fuck off.
love all
Every wave of immigrants has people willing to work harder, learn more and expect less compensation for work and school than the people who were there before.
When all the Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Indians and Muslims are all rich they'll become lazy just like white people.
I have asked this question to some people lately and the answer I get from them is trash. It's interesting to hear their views but in the end they all seem to view it very differently. One person I asked this question and he said that he doesn't have an answer. I said bluntly to him: Is it because you have not experienced it yet? He replied, yes. He also said that he thinks love and lust are the same thing. I think he's wrong. I think that love and lust are not the same thing because love is what people hold true for to have someone to be with and lust is just something they want to go after for to feel good about themselves and perhaps make his or her partner feel good as well. In other words, having sex with each other. It was bothering me from what he had said to me and that he does not have an answer when he already has. I think even with a simple crush or whatever, you have experienced love but he seems to not understand fully about love. He goes to college for pete's sake.
Anywho, I ask a few girls the same question. One girl I knew from my school days is that she talks about love including god. The love of god. I thought to myself: Okay, so this is what you believe. My question is not about religion and doesn't mean I'm asking in religious way. So in my perspective, she was quite religious about it and all I read was god this and god that with word love included.
Another person I asked was another one who I also knew from my school days. He's married with a woman who has three kids from another man. What I believe in his situation that he isn't feeling content with his life to the one he's married with. Even though he loves her, he sounded kinda unsure of himself. He would talk about how he used to date with this one girl back in high school and a recent event where a co-worker of his is trying to come onto him. He's co-worker, she's a single mom with a single child I think. So he does not have true love and the test is still underway for him to prove whether or not he loves his wife truly.
>>44
I think you misunderstand me. Sure, I am being brutally honest with Ryuuchi, but I believe it is in his best interest to hear it plain, with no frills. If you read his thread "What should I do in my life?" and posts in other threads, you might understand why I am particularly frustrated with him. He always gets advice and encouragement handed to him on a silver platter, and yet he seems to dismiss it with a vague "that's interesting", or "I'm too hopeless for that". If he doesn't owe it to himself, he should at least consider the people who give him advice, and actually follow up on it.
>>45
Whilst I believe every word I said to you, I will apologise for being so harsh. It's just that I honestly don't think that anyone my age should be "tired". Perhaps that's why I feel particularly strongly about your resigned attitude. To see someone my age already giving up on life is sad. For one thing, there are a lot more people worse off than you. You are twenty. You are young. You're definitely not raising a family. Life has just started for you. I don't know how many times I will have to say it for you to realise that.
I think you should also realise that you do have a lot of help and people that care for you. More than you would think. You say that you're treated like a black sheep, but I think that's more of a mindset that you've adopted against your family. Your mum for instance, is worried about you enough to come back to see you. Your friend offered to take you out job hunting with him. If that's not caring, I don't know what is. You also said that "communication is the key" in another thread, to which I responded "you should practice what you preach". Talk to your mum more. You'll be surprised how much lighter the load will feel when you talk to someone like your mum about it. How do you expect her to help you when she doesn't know what's going on with you?
>>46 I'm sorry. I did misunderstand you. I just don't think it's fair to be so harsh on someone if you intend to give advice. But I do agree with what you are saying. It really is too soon to give up.
So, Mr. Ryuuchi, please liston to our (and your) advices, and try! I'm sure things will turn out for the best.
I believe in love, because love is working in my life for almost half of my existence. So for me it's like asking if I believe in gravity.
i wanna love someone so much it's almost really sad. i hear all these wonderful love stories in the mangas, but i never seem to find any for myself. i know i shouldn't mix real and fake, but it's kinda unfair, right? i wanna be happy too. i almost don't mind if the person i love doesn't love me back, as long as i get that heart-racing feeling.
>>49 well, I will happen to you, as long as you are willing to go out and meet people. Only people who shun social contact have reasons to be worried. But then, you can't expect a rich social interaction like love to happen when you do your best to avoid social contact, right?
>>I think I believe in love for other people, but I don't know about it for myself.
Signed.
I want to believe that love is possible, and I desperately wish I could experience it for myself. If it's even half as good as it's portrayed in ren-ai games/manga/anime, then I have no doubt that it would be the experience of a lifetime.
That said, I can never bring myself to leave to house or open up to people, no matter how hard I try. Every time I've ever tried to talk to a woman, a thousand voices open up in my head and start screaming at me: "you worthless piece of trash, what makes you so fucking arrogant that you think you could possibly make a woman happy? You're a failed piece of shit that has never accomplished anything of merit and never will. You're a fat, disfigured wretch. Shut your mouth and sit the fuck down. A piece of shit like you has no business even looking at women. It's sickening to think you even believe you could have a chance. Just how fucking deluded are you?"
>>wishing I could meet a girl like Ayu Tsukimiya.
Actually, I take that back. I'd settle for a relationship with pretty much any girl, at this point.
>>51 Dude, can you talk to your mom? Aunt? Cousin? Sister? Those are women. Unless you have a family totally deprived of women, that proves you can talk to them. Whenever you talk to any other woman, just try to imagine them as being a relative of yours. That does NOT mean you should have... "strange" feelings towards your female relatives, it's just for you to get used to talking to the other gender. And believe me, women don't think so badly of you as yourself. If you have nice things to say, that should be fine. I can't garantee it will be as easy to get into a romantic relationship but, for starters, it should be ok, right?
Hope you can overcome your shyness. Because all you said scrams "I'm shy" to me. And that is not a bad thing.
>>Dude, can you talk to your mom? Aunt? Cousin? Sister? Those are women.
Not nearly the same thing. They're family; they have to put up with me, like it or not. Women outside my family have a choice.
Besides, as you pointed out, I'm certainly not about to ask my family for dates (the very thought is sickening); ergo, whether or not I can talk to my family has no bearing on how difficult it is for me to talk to unrelated women.
And for the record, I suppose I should have written "Every time I've ever tried to talk to a woman whom I find to be attractive, a thousand voices...". If I have no vested emotional interest in the woman, I can talk to her. It's still awkward and extremely uncomfortable, but only slightly more so than if I were speaking with another man.
>>Hope you can overcome your shyness.
Then you're just going to give up, just like that? You say that you're past the age to change, so that's it? The end of your life is at 25 years old? You're young!! What are you talking about? You have a hole life to make up for the times you did nothing, and to try to become better!
I know the way I put it sounds like it's easy, and I know it isn't. But if you're unhappy, then what's the point in just living? If you want to be happy, then you should keep trying. It's bound to get better. If you say that the slave shouldn't question the master, then nothing is ever going to change! You should question, and do something! Keep trying!
Yep. I am the most racist mofo on my block.
I hate niggars. I don't consider all black people a niggar. You want to know what qualifies to be a niggar? Calling each other a niggar. Calling your friends a niggar.
There are niggars and then there are intelligent black people like Obama. What's the difference? One is smart and educated and will be offended if he was called a niggar. The other just smokes weed and is uneducated. My best friend is black. And he is definitely not a niggar.
You know what else I'm racist against? Stinky muslims. For fucks sakes, take a god dam shower. I don't mind muslims that don't small bad, but fuck, like 95% of all the ones I meet do not know what soap is. I hate being stuck in a classroom full of people who don't take showers. It just fucking stinks. I can't stand it. I end up leaving within 15 minutes of the class because I just can't stand the smell. Who the hell can concentrate in a room full of stinkbugs.
no, that word only comes from the dave chappelle show.
well i seem to agree but black people are not people
If you were a racist, you would hate every mudskin regardless of character. You're not a racist.
Hello OP, I feel much the same way. Only that I hate moslems because they stand against everything I like about the western society.
www.niggermania.com <- I had lots of fun reading this racist forum.
I guess I'm kind of a niggard, by the way.
I am not racist, I am culturalist. That means that I have disdain for cultures that have achieved or contributed nothing, but have pretensions of equality with others that have done far more. This dislike for inferior cultures extends to religion. If you are a devout Hindu, I will not go out of my way to criticize you, but I have no respect for your overwrought, excessively ancient Gordian knot of a religion. I feel that Hinduism, much like other faiths that were born in the near east and southern Asia in general, are suffocating, inhuman constructs that turn otherwise decent people into barbarians.
Similarly, I see Native Americans and their alleged 'cultures' and I find myself feeling a sort of remote contempt for them. They had nearly 10,000 years of continuous habitation of the American continent and they resolutely failed to produce coherent civilizations, no writing systems, no pottery, unsophisticated barter systems of commerce, and a congerie of mystical cultures that made it virtually possible to use the world around them as a tool. Few of them produced viable agriculture, and were always small scale, if anything.
Only the Olmec, Mayans, and Aztecs, and their cultural pupils, the mysterious Anasazi, managed to climb their way out of the pit of animal barbarism, but they were complete failures as well. Their inability to escape their cyclical, fatalistic religion meant that they could never develop a scientific concept of nature. Even their development as martial cultures was stunted by their asinine insistence on cutting out the hearts of potential slave laborers or even potential allies. Their most sophisticated weaponry consisted of wicker and leather armor, gaudy plumed head dresses, and obsidian swords, knives, and axes, scarcely more sophisticated than their half-animal cousins to the north.
so do u hate yourself for calling others "Niggers"
>16
OP here. I don't hate myself for calling some of them niggers.
I went to a highschool what was mostly black and I live in the projects. Everyday, I hear these blacks call each other niggers. Horrible neighborhood.
I say, any black that uses the word nigger daily and calls his brothers niggers, then they are qualified for me to call them nigger. If you consider yourself a nigger, then you are a nigger.
I can't call the smart ones niggers. People like my best friend, obama and ect. They aren't niggers.
It seems to me there is a long-running cliche in hollywood movies; it's the inspirational teacher or professor that motivates his student(s) to live up to their potential.
I feel this is trash, the majority of impressions left on me by educational facilitators I have encountered have been negative ones.
Do you agree? Please share your stories of bad experiences, or good ones if you have any.
For myself, there was the verbally abuses elementary school teacher, 'Mr Black'. Mr Black just loved yelling loudly at children, sometimes in front of the class. One day this was me, for something frivolous which I had not even done. It shook my confidence for years. This was probably the worst of many other experiences and I'm sure this is minor compared to some horror stories out there.
I'm a teacher, and some of my colleagues scare the shit out of me. They would pick a random kid, and tease him just for fun. It's a pity. I try as hard as i can to be a good teacher, and those bastards go and ruin the kid's life for a couple of laughs.
I hate teachers. They think they're so damn smart and just say things that make students believe what they say but you can't fool me. The thing they say are of their own opinions and/or what they believe. What they teach us is mostly done by the book. I would have been one of those people who would step up and debate but I was the quiet one who is just putting up with all the shit through elementary through high school days.
In 6th grade middle school, this math teacher kept yelling at me because I couldn't get this one math equation. So she kept yelling at me and everyone is all quiet. All of a sudden, this guy starts to help me out and the teacher still yells at me. Afterwards, she tells me that I have to come after school so that she can tutor me. I think she wants to tutor me so that she won't make a fool out of herself for yelling at me. Fuck everyone in that class and fuck that bitch teacher...
teachers are just normal people who deal with other people who are at a vulnerable stage of their life.
If they are good, they can have a profound and long lasting impact on their student's life. If they are bad, the consequences can be equally profound, with dramatic consequences. Often teachers do not have the education, responsibility and ethics to manage correctly their power.
I have seen many examples, good and bad. Gifted people turned away from their passions by stupid and petty teachers, and lost children rescued by talented teachers. My big worry is that insufficient education is given to teachers before and during their careers. Also, in many countries the teacher status is low in society, which is terrible for their performance. How can you inspire people if you are looked in contempt by society at large? (BTW, I'm not a teacher, but during school it was a past-time of mine to analyze teachers' performance).
In geometry, we had a teacher that really needed to keep his hands off of kids, no matter how innocent his actions may have been. He always rubbed our backs (When there was NOTHING wrong with us, so I know it wasn't for comfort.), and he tickled one girl when she didn't immediately shake his hand on the first day (And she was not happy about it.)
His teaching style was not my favorite either. Sometimes literally, the whole class would have no clue how to do a problem (Maybe we were just stupid, I don't know >_>) and he would assign people to solve the problem when they were the ones who specifically said "I have a question on this problem, can we do it in class?"
Alternately though, my band and physics/chemistry teachers were really really helpful and took a LOT of time out of their lives to help. My calculus teacher was awesome as well, but he had a monotone voice, so I ended up sleeping a lot in that class >_>;;
there are always wonderful teachers who spend a lot of their time into what they're doing to try and make the class seem more fun to their students - among them was my freshman-year english teacher, who inspired me to become an english teacher myself.
But yes, I've had my share of the crappy teachers who think they know everything and generally don't give a damn about their students. Those people are monsters. They ruin lives. They turn education from something that could be enjoyable into something torturous. I despise teachers like these and am livid when I come across people like them. Why do they even become a teacher, I wonder, if they don't enjoy teaching children what they love? I wish they'd just go become sanitation workers or CEOs, or any other job that doesn't destroy lives they way they do.
God I had a few teachers that made me ruined.
one in fifth grade hated all of us "slower" kids and got angry when I just tried to ask for a copy of homework I was absent during.
Also threw chalk at one girl. And made me a lot less confident in my work, as I hated to ask for help from then onward.
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I had a teacher like this, made us sit in the middle of the class away from the other kids. He had the girls desks all together and the boys the same way in little islands. Except us, we had to sit together.
I went to some horrible highschool and I had this horrible chemistry teacher. Firstly, his accent is hard to understand. Secondly, whenever we raised our hands and tell him we don't understand what he just explained, he would say "But I just explained it!". Then that was the end of the conversation.
He knows we aren't good at chemistry but he won't repeat himself twice because of his god dam laziness. Most of the kids in his class ended up failing the New York Chemistry Regents test.
/b/, I just came here today (I'm so glad for the staff of 420chan for making cool boards, for THEY SMOKE FAT BLUNTS.) because I have a serious problem and as desperate as it is to come to a chan, I have no one else to turn to, so the (lack of) advice is all I have.
Last night, me and three friends had some booze at my expense, at my house, with me providing the food and some entertainment. I had about eight shots but one of them had upwards of thirteen and was puking vehemiously. I helped him a bit and went to bed in a separate room. As you can guess, he claims to have found semen in his anus and is blaming it on me, after he thanked me and played Brawl with me in the morning with all his clothes on and no evidence or claim of me having done so at the time. He is threatening to go to the police and since he is underage b& and I'm not, I'm seriously considering becoming an hero or taking him with me. I understand those are drastic and whiny measures, but the situation he has put me in leaves little else. Now he is blackmailing me for $200 in the public center not to tell anyone. I have offered to do this but will resort to a final solution if given the choice, if nothing else for some lulz to hear in the news.
TL;DR Being screwed and blackmailed over something I probably didn't do, plz help.
I also posted it on another chan so this (as of yet) is not official copypasta.
Oh, I forgot to remove the board, don't worry it was 420's /b/.(Actually /law/, I just wrote it with that audience in mind.)
Even I have standards, however low.
>>1 call a lawyer. If you don't have money for a lawyer, contact some legal assistance service that can provide you pointers. Perhaps even a call number for sexual abuse can be helpful to you.
Otherwise just refuse to pay. If he really wanted to file a complaint, he would have done it, and anyway now he would have the material to build a viable case against you.
Make him go get a rape kit.
If he doesn't even do that, then pshaw.
make him proof its your semen..
make them analyze the dna's from the semen.. and the solution is there..
ur free to go, unless you are afraid u actually really did it..