Southern Brain Spiders

broadstreets:

dukewolber:

damianmcgintleman:

why the fuck do people always remind you that taco bell isn’t real mexican food like do you not think that i know that like do you think i go to taco bell because i think the 16 year old white guy behind the window just made me authentic mexican cuisine two minutes before i pulled to the second window no do you know why i go to taco bell it’s because it’s 1:30am and my life is terrible so i order a coke and five dorito loco tacos and shove them down my face in the parking lot

Should be commissioned as an ad for Taco Bell

My students’ end-of-semester assignment was to write an argumentative research essay on anything they felt strongly about. One girl wrote hers on why Taco Bell isn’t real Mexican food. I have no idea why she thought that needed to be explained to anyone.

(via perks-of-being-chinese)

alyptic:

the whole “deez nuts” things is the dumbest thing i have heard of in a long time.

For a solid month, I had a standing rule in my class that anyone who said “deeze nuts” or any variant thereof would get detention.

I was really, really sick of my students interrupting class with it.

malformalady:

It was once a shrine to man’s best friend. But now, few would recognize this moss-covered, bedraggled, crumbling woodland as a pet cemetery. The abandoned graveyard in New Orleans, Louisiana, was all but destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Now, after stumbling across it by chance, photo-journalist Seph Lawless has captured the site in all it’s eerie splendor. The cemetery is more than 100 years old, with headstones dedicated to animals from as far away as Italy.

Photo credit:

Seph Lawless

Does that gravestone say “Satan”?

(via abandonedography)

shiftingpath:

noibatitty:

amandakaitlanbentley:

IM SORRY WHAT

WHAT THE FUCK

“Were you also mad about the slaughter of children in the Hunger Games?” Yes. And, more importantly, the characters of the Hunger Games were also mad about it, which is the real difference here. When bad things happen, there is always a character in Hunger Games to point at it and think, “that’s a bad thing”.

I’m mad about that apostrophe.

(via stuckinamini-van)

ruinedchildhood:

 pussy game unstoppable

RON Stoppable, I think you’ll find.

(Source: ruinedchildhood, via bellalatethannever)

I wrote “2010” earlier this week. I have no explanation for that.

(Source: zerrie, via perks-of-being-chinese)

s-assypants:

fiedbach:

snowyanna:

215-to-fit:

rustboro-city:

svviggle:

kastortheunlockable:

stunningpicture:

My 7 year old son was shot down by his 1st grade teacher

The american public education system in a nutshell tho

My third grade teacher actually had a conversation with my mom that I was reading to well and told her to stop having me read at home

My first grade teacher said that it was problematic that I was reading ahead of the rest of the kids in my grade and asked my parents to stop letting me read Harry Potter.

My fourth grade teacher thought it was wrong for my dad to be teaching me complex math because it fascinated me.

My elementary school music teacher hated the way my piano teacher taught me, and how I was more advanced than many of her students, and so told me, in front of my peers and my mother, that I was not good enough to participate in the state solo festival. She would not give me the form. We had to procure it from the district instead. She also hated how I excelled at reading and playing music for the recorder, and so she refused to give me my “belts” (colored beads to signify our level) and humiliated me in front of the class repeatedly.

My eighth grade algebra teacher used to fail me on take home tests because I didn’t solve problems exactly the way she showed us in class; I used methods that we had learned for other types of problems that also applied to these. She took points off my tests because I didn’t bring a calculator even though I got 100% without it, because I was able to do it by hand. I had to call my father, who is an engineer, down to the school to shout her down and give me back my A in the class.

My 10th grade Spanish teacher yelled at me in front of the class numerous times because she didn’t like the way I took notes; she thought that since I didn’t write every word off the slide, I wasn’t getting it all down. I had to explain to her that people who have taken advanced courses, like AP or IB classes, know that in a fast-paced learning environment you need to take quick shorthand notes that contain the necessary information rather than wasting time writing every word. She almost gave me detention.

My 11th grade English teacher gave me a poor mark on my first short essay because she believed that I was looking up unnecessarily complex words in a thesaurus to try and get better marks. The phrases in question: “laced with expletives” and “bombarded”. She wouldn’t hear any defense from me.

My 11th grade history teacher failed me on an essay about the 1950s because I misread the prompt. Except the prompt wasn’t words; it was a political cartoon. One of the figures was clearly president Eisenhower, but the other I couldn’t place. My teacher would not tell us who it was. I labelled him as the governor of Little Rock Arkansas during the integration period, and wrote an essay about that subject. My teacher said that no, it was Joseph McCarthy, and that there was a small picture of the man in our textbook and therefore I should have recognized him instantly. Half the class, apparently, did not.

The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win.

“The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win." 

Fun story time. I loved to read. So much so, I was reading chapter books in kindergarden. I broke the record for reading points in elementary school. They actually had to start making up prizes for me. No one in the history of the school had ever read so many books in a year. Basically, my class liked me because I won those suckers pizza parties in my spare time.

In second grade, I had a teacher named Ms. Mobley who believed all children should be average. She flat out told my father that all children should make C’s, and should never strive for more than that.

Not only was she insane, she also would routinely spell things wrong for us to copy for our spelling tests. Later, when we spelled those words wrong on the test, she would mark us off. Yes, our own teacher was sabotaging us.

I should have been tested for gifted classes, but I was not. Why? Ms. Mobley didn’t believe in “gifted” children.

This teacher had tenure and could not be fired.

Never forget.

"The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win." 

George Orwell couldn’t invent this shit

it’s twisted stuff

this is important.

We have now developed superior education technology – omnipresent state tests will ensure a persistent state of hampered, impaired, and suppressed learning even if you manage to get a teacher who cares.

IS NOT THIS A GLORIOUS TIME TO BE AMERICAN?

(P.S. All of my teachers had high expectations and encouraged critical thinking. So, you know, it’s not all bad.)

(via stuckinamini-van)

whythatsbullshit:

siphersaysstuff:

favabean05:

truthandglory:

assbanditkirk:

whoa canada

someone needs to turn down that sass level

Two things to know about Canada!

1. We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot.
2. We are sorry if you don’t

A few things you need to know about this hot coffee case:

1. It wasn’t an issue of the coffee being because no fucking shit coffee is hot, but McDonald’s had over heated their water to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s 121C. Not just hot, but really FUCKING hot. Your fancy Starbucks lattes are brewed to 150 degrees.
2. The 79 year old woman had this cup of 250F (121C) coffee between her legs when it spilled so 250F (121C) coffee spilled on her genitals
3. She got third degree burns…on her genitals. THIRD DEGREE.
4. She had to have skin grafts to repair the damage
5. When she sued McDonald’s, it wasn’t for millions of dollars, it was for $20,000 to cover hospital costs and court fees. 20-fucking-thousand.
6. It was the courts that awarded her the amount of money she got. Again, she only wanted hospital bills and court costs
7. McDonald’s changed their heating policy, but not before making her sign a gag order keeping her from talking about this case
8. So she had to live on hearing little shits like you call her stupid and money-grubbing, and other horrendous stuff because she dared ask the company in the wrong to fix what they fucked up.

MORE FUN FACTS:

9. The woman who was burned was not driving the car, she was a passenger.

10. The car was not in motion when she was burned. The car was parked so she could add cream and sugar.

The coffee case is one of the biggest examples of a carefully-crafted smear campaign by a company that is in the wrong trying to hide that.

No bullshit here. Watch Hot Coffee for more info about what exactly went down. It’s pretty fucked up, and a great example of how common misconceptions spread.

[missing-the-point] Ahem. That should be “If this WERE another country”. [/missing-the-point]

(via ladyshinga)

Anonymous asked: Catholicism IS a white mans religion

poppypicklesticks:

egalitarianqueen:

xiamatsuri:

egalitarianqueen:

elayouaray:

roguesareth:

takashi0:

dxscostick-deactivated20170429:

You know where this giant ass statue is from?

In short shut your bitch ass up

The only thing better than Anti-theists and Wendy white guilts getting BTFO separately is both at once!

This is fuckin’ priceless!

Does anon KNOW what area of the world Catholicism/Christianity originated from? 

UM OKAY BUT THE ONLY REASON NON WHITES ARE A PART OF CATHOLOCISM IS BEACUSE ROMANS WERE LIKE “WORSHIP OUR GOD OR BE KILLED” CATHOLOCISM IS FROM ROME ROMANS ARE WHITE PLEASE STOP

ACTUALLY

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Christian_policies_in_the_Roman_Empire

Fun fact:  the Coptic and Ethiopian Churches are two of the oldest Christians churches in the world.  And someone please remind me what continent they started on again?  Oh, wait that’s right:

A-F-R-I-C-A

LOVE TO IGNORE THOSE AFRICANS RIGHT NOW GUYS HUH?

Ancient Rome was a paradise for christians now?

SJWs really have the loosest grip on history at best 

Though it should be noted that some of those high-Catholic-population areas ARE the result of forced conversion. The Philippines, for example.

childservices:

me: *eatin chips*
people next 2 me: *trying to get an education*

(Source: jumex, via rivernokk)