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Not many people would rate “giving a presentation” as their favorite thing to do. But whether you love it or hate it, there’s a good chance you’ve had to give at least one during your school career. Presentations can help build communication skills, confidence, public speaking abilities, self-esteem, and other useful traits. But no matter how prepared you are, things can still go awry. When they do, it’s always good to remember that everything in life is a learning experience.
Someone once asked, “What was the ‘please stop’ school presentation that you witnessed?”—and the internet went wild. The post clocked 11,000 comments as people shared the most cringeworthy and embarrassing moments they'd seen in class, from a Computer Security student openly admitting to illegally hacking a website, to another who fully plagiarized an essay—even a voice actor who took things to the next level by awkwardly running around the stage pretending to be all the (bear) characters in a children's book.
Bored Panda has picked the best of the absolute worst presentation moments for your scrolling pleasure. Let us know your favorites by upvoting them, and feel free to share your own experiences of epic presenting fails.
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#1
The antivaxxer chick that did a presentation on why vaccines cause autism... followed up by someone elses presentation on how vaccines do not cause autism. It was a weird day.
that one guy 1 year ago (edited)
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quietgirlo-o 1 year ago
THEY DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM IT IS SOMETHING YOU ARE BORN WITH I SHOULD KNOW I'M AUTISTIC
CK 1 year ago
On the other hand, you can't be autistic if you're dead from a preventable illness...
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BlitheSpirit 1 year ago
I would have eye rolled myself out of existence… people seriously believe this? Still? 🙄
Abraxas59 1 year ago
Seems the antivaxers do ! I’m 60 n when I had ll the jabs as a kid it was live vaccines single ones all of them dm her killed me litterally good job my gen I grew up with was a matron of a hospital but I was so ill with them so when it came to my kids now 23-20 I was understandably worried about them with the mmr I still got them tho I was just hyper vigilant! Antivaxers kill end off and they so do not cause autism or all the other bs them lunatics spout !
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I'm all for balanced viewpoints. Let someone do a presentation on why the sun rises in the east, and then have someone present the "alternative fact" of the sun rising in the west. The class can then decide to compromise and agree that the sun rises in the north
Chris the Bobcat 1 year ago
I was diagnosed with autism later in life. It's not a fvcking death sentence, just that I see and interact with the world differently. I would much rather have a nice long disease-free life with autism than die of typhus or live my life crippled by polio. Every time I see some antivvaxxer's toddler throwing a temper tantrum, I wonder if they're having a mid-life crisis.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Yeah, I'll never understand parents basically saying "I prefer my kid déad from a preventable infection than alive and neuro spicy" -not to mention that vaccines causing autism has been debunked anyway.
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Vinnie 1 year ago
Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy. Nobody said they had to be credible. ;)
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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Stop getting mecical advice from former Playboy bunnies. Looking at you (nat a doctor) Jenny McCarthy.
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#2
Psychology class. Our final was to research and to a presentation on a mental illness. One group chose necrophilia. Started with the first slide saying 'lets crack open a cold one'
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
I should - no, should not - add a comment. Oh dear.
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I would have laughed my backside off! Anyway, it IS a recognised mental illness.
Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
This reminds me of a presentation I once had to do on a politician who offed himself via... well, let's call it "forgetting to open his parachute". I started the presentation with "My presentation is about [politician] *dramatic pause* or what's left of him" to the shock/groans of my classmates. Let's just say my humour was, and still is, darker than average...
Viking74 1 year ago
Have a listen to Freaker's Ball written by Shel Silverstein and performed by Dr. Hook. One of the lines goes: "white ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones... necrophiliacs lookin' for dead ones!" It's a classic!
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
He was a genius. Most people know him for his kid-friendly stuff, but he produced some excellent material for adults. Almost necrophilia-adjacent is his short ditty about a young lady name Polly.
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Chris the Bobcat 1 year ago
"He will stay till you come." - Hamlet (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4 Scene 3)
veryvenasaur 1 year ago
obsession or love of dead things/people I think. Have a lovely day.
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Someone in my class did a book report on the dictionary. The teacher was pissed, all of us students thought it was hilarious. Never heard the end of the presentation.
Dr Jimmy 03 1 year ago
I teach my students that the Dictionary and Thesaurus are powerful tools in the hands of writers.
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
A, B, and C were pretty exciting, D kind of dragged, and frankly I think the author really phoned it in on E.
Glix Drap 1 year ago
Malicious compliance. Technically it's a report on a book. The teacher should have been more specific.
nuberiffic 1 year ago
They probably were. I doubt the assignment was just: "do a book report"
Load More Replies... Phil Green 1 year ago
"It's an amazing book! It has all the swear words and everything!" (They'd probably ban it in parts of the US!)
Rich Black 1 year ago
Teacher: you get an F for using the cliffs notes version, instead of reading the original
#4
Us.
We were to make a film retelling the story of Hamlet. It was supposed to be five minutes. Being the creative nutcases we were, we made a 22 minute film complete with a commercial break which made fun of prior books we had to read. Ophelia was a Jersey Shore whore who refused to take her Prozac, Polonious was a perverted Greek philosopher, and Hamlet was a depressed emo. Sword fights were video game based, with Mortal Kombat themes. We presented it to the class and were cut off after five minutes.
We received an A-.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Fun fact: Besides being a war criminal and all-around despicable person, Henry Kissinger's 400+ page senior thesis (probably 80 to 100 thousand words) is the reason Harvard now has a limit of 35,000 words.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago (edited)
I had to do a similar project in high school on Greek mythology--specifically the story of Persephone and Hades. I was only supposed to be the writer/director but one of the actors got detention so I had to play his part. And this was in the mid 80's with an early, suitcase sized camcorder whose only editing capability was to rewind the tape and record over it, so there were a lot of random jump-cuts in the finished product. I think we got a good grade but I've never dared to become famous for fear that that cassette might resurface someday.
#5
In college during Abnormal Psychology, a student did an entire presentation on Obama's bipolar disorder she kept citing an article from The Onion.
glowworm2 1 year ago (edited)
I love when people mistake The Onion as a legitimate news source.
Talis 1 year ago
I love when people mistake Fox News as a legitimate news source. 😉
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ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
That the New Yorker had to add “ Satire from…” to “…the Borowitz Report” speaks volumes on people’s inability to critically think on the most base level.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
When I first came upon The Onion, I thought it was hysterical and immediately bought a big compilation book. Funniest thing on my bookshelf.
Science Nerd 1 year ago (edited)
Yes, some of the AI engines did train from the Onion. Asking the right questions has confirmed this.
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This one happened a few months ago only actually :
We were in law and entrepreneurship class and we had to make a presentation about a made up company we would invent and the two class "clowns" made their presentation about a drink and their slogan was "If she's drunk she can't say no" and neither of them wanted to read it.
They just wanted to skip over it, but the teacher made them read it and asked them to go back to their places, i had never seen someone so calm and angry at the same time. When the class started hesitatingly clapping, the prof said "Stop, this isn't worth clapping for"
The next week, the two of them went around all the classes during the morning reading time to present a video about consent
Edit : Sorry for my english, i meant teacher, not professor, we're still in high school.
David Morgan 1 year ago
Bravo that teacher. They understood that it's a million times better to change a bad worldview early, before it starts to become bad behaviours. It's hard to change long-term habits and thoughts, ESPECIALLY if they have never been challenged before. The students might have been humiliated but EVERYONE now knows what the acceptable worldview/behaviour is.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
"i meant teacher, not professor," No apology needed, English speakers should be the ones apologizing for not knowing French.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago (edited)
Oh my goodness, might this be in Poland? I distinctly remember a „funny“ Polish saying … „drink drink so you‘ll be easy“
#7
In college, someone was doing a presentation on Nelson Mandela and kept referring to Africans as “African Americans”.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
When I was living in the US, I had a white American tell me off for using the word "Black" because they're called "African Americans", to which I replied "Not in Canada!"
XenoMurph 1 year ago
yes some friends from the US were visiting the UK. One of them kept referring to one of my black friends as African American. "Nah, bruv, I is from Brixton innit!" It was the strangest thing to refer to an English guy as two wrong things.
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Nadine Lynch 1 year ago (edited)
A few years ago I actually had an argument with a student who kept on calling Mandela "African American." She was one of my better students, but could not get it through her head that he was from South Africa, and it was appropriate to refer to him as "Black." ARRGH! ("Xhosa" totally was beyond her).
blackrose00786 1 year ago
I'm south African lol and he was definitely not African American!
Load More Replies... Chich 1 year ago
Just saw a George Carlin bit. If a racist white South African moves to the US, is he an African American?
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Coincidentally, my 10yo is doing a report on Stephen Biko & I was helping him right before reading this post. The report is about a world leader who has affected (good or bad) human rights. Mandela, Malcolm X, Lincoln and even Hitler were obvious choices. We had watched Cry Freedom before a trip to South Africa, so Biko stuck with him. There are so many ways obvious ways to describe these two men, but African American is not one of them. I’m afraid with the nationalist, insular rhetoric & politics of America & how that has spilled over into public education (which will only get worse in the next 4 years) children are going to be taught in ways that prevent them from comprehending any notion of cultural diversity or cultural relativism.
Diolla 1 year ago
Even worse, this rhetoric has spilled over to Europe, we now have issues in this field we did not have before social media.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Remember when yanks got pi$$y because a UK actress played Harriet Tubman in a movie, but not a single yank got upset about two yanks playing South Africans (Danny Glover as Mandela, Denzel Washington as Steve Biko)? Funny how selective yanks can be.
blackrose00786 1 year ago
Where's all my fellow South Africans! Lol come to the front of the class for 10 marks
#8
An Anti-Bullying campaign
They spent most of the presentation explaining different types and ways to bully/harass people
Bullying increased in school and everything got 10 times worse now that the students were more “educated” on the subject.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
We were taught to say "stop it, I don't like it" if someone was picking on us. We all laughed ourselves stupid because even at nine years old we all knew how goddamn stupid that was. In fact only one kid was dumb enough to try it, and guess what. He got the snot bullied out of him for it.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
I don’t think he should get called dumb for just doing what he was told or the cruelty of others.
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Nathan Shipman 1 year ago
Anti bullying campaigns should be about how lives are changed for the worst because of it, why people bully (even though it's wrong) and then start brainstorming bigger ideas of punishment because of it. It should NOT present ideas on HOW to bully or harass another student.
TheGirlWhoWoreGlasses 1 year ago
The problem with anti-bullying programs is most of them do exactly this.
never-wake-up (fae/faer) 1 year ago
This hapened to me actually, i was severely bullied by a teacher’s kid in middle school. The morning during the presentation, they used the example of a student whose pencilcase was ruined. Mine disappeared that afternoon.
Robin Roper 1 year ago
This is one of the argument against "sex education;" if you teach about it then teens will want to experiment with it. As if "sex education" were teaching positions.
LittleLemon2319 1 year ago
At my work there is annual required "anti bullying and harassment" training that basically teaches you how to bully people if you look at it the wrong way. Thankfully I work in a very healthy environment and it's not an issue
ElvenFairy 1 year ago
My son was bullied so much that he started to fight back. This led to other kids hearing about how "hard" he was so others kept starting fights with him to 'dethrone' him as the hardest kid in school. Eventually it stopped but that is often the way in secondary schools in the UK.
#9
It was my sophomore year English class, this kid who was reading his essay in front of the class and started to stumble over some of the words. The teacher recognized the words and found the essay the kid plagiarized and started HELPING HIM READ IT the kid didn’t understand what was happening and just thanked the teacher and kept reading.
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I don’t have time to reply to everyone but here’s a few more details for clarity. This was in like 2004, the teacher found the essay on the internet. He gave the kid a day to try again. The kid was stumbling over the words because they were big ones he’d evidently never seen before. Everything else is fuzzy since it was over 15 years ago. Cheers! Thanks for the upvotes!
Cat Palmer 1 year ago
Reminds me of when I worked for a university and a student was caught for plagiarising an essay because what he had copied was something published by his (female) lecturer. His defence: "I didn't know you were a doctor so I didn't recognise your name." 🤦♂️
Dee Rutherford 1 year ago
This happens to my daughter (teacher) with great regularity.
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Livingwithcfs 1 year ago
Marking student exams, two of them were exactly the same word for word. Staff room cracked up. Worst student fail ever
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
This has happened to me with my English learners. They have to do a speech and either just download it from the Net or their parents write it. But they never practice so they stumble over words. Then they act confused when they get a bad mark!
Irishwoman abroad 1 year ago
I once had a student in the language academy where I worked decades ago hand in a piece of homework that was totally copied from a textbook I used for extra material! She denied it,even when I showed her the page and said it must have been a coincidence, lol. It made no sense as it was only homework, no grades were given, just constructive criticism, so the only one losing out was her. The other students were torn between laughter and cringing.
Featherytoad 1 year ago
I had to write a term paper my Senior year, and I copied my best friend's, sister's term paper. She had gotten an A, and I got a B-.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
I wrote a paper, not identical to mine, for a friend. She got an A and I got a B.😂
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I studied went to school for Computer Security. In an introduction to computer security course, we had to do a project on Social Engineering. A student decided that for his project he was going to find a way to gain access to a chosen website.
* He found a small local business website.
* Identified that the domain was registered to an email address from a local ISP
* Called the ISP to reset the password, they asked him for his last 4 of his SSN, so he hung up.
* He found the phone number of the business, so called them and pretended to be from the ISP offering 3 months free if the person did a 5 question survey. They accepted, and answered some BS questions, then he asked for the last 4 of the guy's SSN, which they gave no problem
* He then called the ISP with the last 4, got them to reset the password of the email account
* He then logged into the email, and used it to get the domain registrar to send a password reset to the email, which he used to reset the password of the domain account (and deleted the email).
* He recorded all phone calls and screenshotted the whole process
As he presented all these we kept expecting him to say "but that would be illegal, so I didn't do X", but he went all the way.
The professor finally stopped him after he said he logged into the domain registrar and told him to destroy everything and never speak of it again.
I think the professor was a bit nicer than he could have been... potentially to the point of accomplice (telling him to destroy evidence).
similarly 1 year ago
Many, many years ago, I worked in a company in which the main bosses all worked in an area that was blocked by a door with a keypad. A guy at the company wanted to get transferred to "security", so he watched people going in and out, watched for the passcode, went into the bosses office and tried to tell them why they should hire him to do security. Instead, security showed him out of the building.
David Morgan 1 year ago
They may have taken his comments as I threat rather than advice on a security vulnerability, but either way if they didn't change the code IMMEDIATELY then they deserve any negative outcomes from outsiders knowing it.
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FlamingoPanda 1 year ago
If anyone is thinking of doing this at home rather go watch John Hammond ethically hack things: https://www.youtube.com/@_JohnHammond
#11
When I was in high school, a girl from an absurdly wealthy family gave a presentation on why the rich are just as oppressed as anyone. This was in a normal public school in Kentucky where about 90% of the students were middle class at best. You could feel the eyes rolling in that room.
Joshua David 1 year ago
I find that on a lot of social entities a high percentage of people blast others' wealth as being "out of touch" and braggy. They also find offense to the wealth and then try and make the person feel bad about it while trying to convey a message as to why they feel oppressed and expect everyone else to understand them and thier plights. Why i wonder? Rich kids cant help thier wealth as much as a poor kid can help thiers.
David Morgan 1 year ago
I don't know about the other part, but I agree with your last sentence. It's how you deal with the circumstances that makes the difference. Not that I'm religious, but the quote is 'the LOVE OF money is the root of evil', not that money itself is evil - boasting about anything is an irritating habit.
Load More Replies... st4x2gt974 1 year ago
I call BS. If they’re that wealthy and pretentious, they can afford private and would 100% not be in the public education system. Most likely they were slightly above middle class, but stretched their income to the max bc they wanted to appear wealthy.
Angela C 1 year ago
There may not have been any good private schools nearby
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Alien-Gal-19 1 year ago
That girl is probably the queen bee that expects everyone to worship the ground the walks on and crowd around her the second she walks in telling her how "Gorgeous" and "Amazing" she is. That girl should get a harsh reality check.
Robin Roper 1 year ago
Oppression is about power. What power did the presenter say was used against the wealthy?
#12
Ooooo do I have a good one! When I was in school we were asked to create a project that would help solve some issues in our environment. Anyway, this one guy who is probably one of the dumbest people I’ve ever met (and I don’t say that lightly) suggested the idea of flying cars, and his reasoning for why it would help the environment was because “then we wouldn’t use so much gas, just like airplanes!” And I just sat there like what does he think airplanes run on? F*cking pixie dust?
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago (edited)
You never had a pixie infestation. That dust gets everywhere.
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Ace 1 year ago
Oddly enough he wasn't altogether wrong. Figures in the US show that in fact passenger air transport is slightly more energy efficient than cars (and particularly 'personal trucks') https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport#US_Passenger_transport
Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago (edited)
Er, technically speaking, gas turbine aircraft engines run on kerosene, which is (approximately) a less volatile fraction of the distillation of oil compared to gasoline/petrol. I mean, it still results in problematic carbon dioxide emissions, but... 🤨
Melody 1 year ago
There are scientists working on a way to send electricity from nuclear power plants to airplanes so they’ll just be flying along while receiving power from the power plants they pass (with some sort of backup so they can land safely if that system fails, of course), but we’re not there yet, lol.
Bartlet for world domination 1 year ago
That is going to be one hеll of a magnetic field
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Freshman year college public speaking course. Had to give a persuasive speech on a “controversial” topic.
Being the deep thinker I was, wrote my speech arguing we shouldn’t have seat belt laws, it was a personal choice... blah blah blah. Almost finished my speech, cute blonde girl gets up and runs out of the room crying. Girl sitting next to her says that her friend had just died in a car accident from... not wearing a seat belt.
I freeze and look over at the prof. She says don’t worry about it, it happens. If I remember right I got an A or B. The girl ended up being a friend of some friends and I would see her around campus and at parties. Never worked up the nerve to talk to her or apologize.
Peter Griffin 1 year ago
I mean, if it’s supposed to be controversial, I’d say that was job well done
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
In debate club or mock trial, you are often called upon to argue a subject you don't personally agree with--that's part of the process of learning to craft a cogent, rational argument. Unfortunate that this girl was upset by your presentation, but you did nothing wrong.
David Morgan 1 year ago
She wasn't upset by the presentation, she was upset by the death of her friend and being reminded of it. I doubt she'd be in the right place emotionally to make a counter-argument, but another person could use her experience AS an argument - 'wear a seatbelt or your friends will be like her'.
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solace in rage 1 year ago
I had a similar thing happen when giving a presentation about D&D. One girl totally derailed the whole thing because she started crying and talking about how her friend had died playing Russian roulette. Teacher had to take her outside, looked back over his shoulder and said "You're doing fine," then started telling her "Just because your friend was an idiot..." and I didn't catch the rest as she was led away. Teacher had zero chill.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
I recon the professors an absolute idiot in this case. If you tell a whole class to present persuasive speeches on controversial topics your garenteed to offend at least 3/4 of them, and you’ll probably start a fistfight or two
Judes 1 year ago
A big part of college is learning how to make a reasoned argument. Don't like what someone says? Find your big words and explain why not. The students who would get into a physical fight should probably rethink their place in the class, because they're clearly not learning the lesson.
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Emie N. 1 year ago
Weird for op to mention hair color. What did physical appearance have to do with anything.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Typical. Nearly all DEVELOPING COUNTRIES have better seatbelt laws than yankland.
RagDollLali 1 year ago
There is only one place in the US where wearing a seatbelt is not legally required and that's New Hampshire (and that is only for people over the age of 18). Every other state has strict seat belt laws, even stricter for children regardless of where they are in the vehicle.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
@Abraxas59: I wonder if you could translate your comment into comprehensible language?
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RS 1 year ago
I mean, it's ok to apologize for making someone sad unintentionally. It's a nice thing to do, even if it's not 100% necessary.
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Sophomore year of high school we were tasked with a bringing in an object from home and giving a presentation on how/why the object explains you as a person. Kid brought in a knife, not a big one, but a knife nonetheless. He actually gave a decent presentation...but ended getting expelled because of it later that day.
similarly 1 year ago
I understand "zero tolerance" and all that, but expelled? Really? Seems a bit ... much.
Nads 1 year ago
Then zero tolerance is actually very stupid. Real life has shades of grey.
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Danni 1 year ago
What, he was a sharp kid.. and his presentation was on point!
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Glix Drap 1 year ago
Teacher should have set the scope properly - nothing illegal or banned by the school.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Yep. Ironically, that probably wouldn't need to be included in 'show and tell' instructions for younger kids, since they're less likely to be deliberately provocative and their parents should know what they're up to anyway, but if you're going to do show and tell for high schoolers, it would be wise to plan for that one kid who's going to bring something they know is inappropriate just to see what they can get away with.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 year ago
Let's see: a killling machine adapted for mass murder vs a completely unremarkable tool possibly close to the sort that schoolboys used to be *required* to carry? I wonder... Why do you think they are called *pen*knives? It's because you used to need a small, sharp knife to turn that feather quill into a functioning pen, that's why.
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Enviromental science. For our final project in the class we were allowed to talk about
Dude decides to do his project on global "cooling". Buddy was up there for 7 mins explaining to the class how the earth has been getting colder and colder, and how its eventually going to cause problems to other species.
Teacher was really passionate about this class and you could se her squirming in her seat the whole way through the presentation. Whole thing was a Big WTF.
His sources were online forums.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
I mean Europe will become cooler if the Atlantic gulf stream slows down
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
To be fair, during my childhood in the 70's, scientists were warning us about Global Cooling, before they warned us about Global Warming, before they warned us about Climate Change. I'm not a denier or a flat earther, but I also don't trust anyone who claims to have the Absolute Answer.
Judes 1 year ago
You need to distinguish between something that was said by a small number of scientists based on incomplete studies (this was global cooling), and something that is supported by the vast majority of scientists because of numerous large studies (this is climate change). Global cooling was never mainstream.
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Glenn Cuneo 1 year ago (edited)
Kids will often use screenshots of a google search... as a reference-- automatic F in high school.
#16
Some guy in my class, about 12-13years old, confused "heroic" and "erotic". The teacher asked if he really read an "erotic" book and he said yes, as the student watched in disbelief. Took the teacher 30 seconds to catch up the misundersting.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Come on, people. Just a bit more effort and Bobby can be negative 12.
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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
I had a parent teacher conference where the parent was using “erotic” in place of “erratic” to describe her son’s recent behavior. I kept it together until she was gone.
Aud (she/they) 1 year ago
Well done, you! I would have burst out laughing right there 😂
Load More Replies... David Morgan 1 year ago
Man, wouldn't society be different if we'd had twenty years of mega-budget supererotic movies, starting with 'Iron Hard Man' and eventually a connected erotic universe?
Foffy Skrimshaw 1 year ago
I was in a conversation with a guy quiet a bit older than me when I was 11. He was showing me the Internet back in the early 90s when it was mostly forums. I asked him if he had any provocative pictures, but what I meant was pornographic. He just laughed at me and said no.
Bookworm 1 year ago (edited)
Admittedly, I was not a lot older than that when I encountered my first erotic book, but that was an accident. Let's just say that if you write a YA series companion to your universe of erotic fantasy novels and put 'COMPANION TO X SERIES' right on the cover, without mentioning anywhere that X Series is definitely NOT for young teenagers, you deserve what you get.
Rahul Pawa 1 year ago
That's what I was wondering. I didn't think "heroic" is a section at the bookstore or library.
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This was my presentation, and it was about the science behind how mountain dew can dissolve a mouse. This was in 4th grade. Needless to say I got some parent complaints.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Our second grade nun was trying to show us the negative effect sugary products like soft drinks had on our teeth. She had someone who had just lost a tooth bring it in, and she put it in a glass of Coca-cola over the weekend. On the following Monday, she took the tooth out and showed the class how bad and eaten away it looked. "Now, class", she asked, "What have we learned from this?" Someone put up his hand and said "If someone gives you a Coke, drink it down real fast so it can't hurt your teeth!" Sister was not amused.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
And if the first, wired or wireless? So many variables to keep track of...
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Bookworm 1 year ago
Right? You can get pre-frozen mice at the pet store, no animal cruelty required.
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Bill 1 year ago
I got a blue ribbon at the 7'th grade sceince fair for demonstrating how to manufacture anhydrous ammonia. Still have the picture with my ribbon and display. I had a chemistry set and that was one of the experiments in it. Came with all the equipment and chemicals. That would have been 1978 or 9
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Look up pictures of "mountain dew mouth" and that idiot Tamara Banks giving her baby mountain dew instead of baby formula. Every Day. https://people.com/mom-sentenced-death-4-year-old-daughter-who-was-fed-mountain-dew-in-bottle-teeth-had-rotted-out-8654046
Rich Black 1 year ago
. Make it an experiment. Which dissolves a mouse fater? Mountain Dew, Coca Cola, or Starbucks?
#18
It's me. I did this. I cringe about it to this day, nearly 20 years later.
I was 16 and in high school. My high school was going to do a spring talent show. I wanted to be in the talent show and show off my talents. The problem was, my actual talents are not ones that I could show off at a talent show. So I decided to try singing.
I have never sung in my life. I have never had voice lessons.
I was in my prime weeb stage and chose an anime song to sing. I didn't know any actual Japanese, I had just memorized the lyrics from hearing the song so many times.
Luckily I didn't make it past auditions, but several people saw an overweight girl in a Sailor Moon shirt try to sing 'Butterfly' despite having never done any singing or voice training ever in her life.
Nearly 20 years later, and remembering it keeps me awake at night.
similarly 1 year ago
I think this is awesome. A person tried something new, went out of their comfort zone ... I think this was brave and audacious!
Edward Loopyderm 1 year ago
I understand her perfectly. In school music class the teacher gave us an assignment to write a song and sing it in class. I got my father to help me. Day of class, no one else had done the assignment except me. So I, a fat shy kid, had to get up and sing the horrible song we wrote. Nearly 50 years later I still cringe.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
"Butterfly" like the Digimon Adventure opening song? I'd have fallen in love.
David Morgan 1 year ago
Well, full marks for bravery if not for planning. Kudos for sharing an uncomfortable memory - hopefully it didn't put you off singing for your own pleasure.
Simon Chen 1 year ago
Dont cringe, it takes a lot of balls or the girl equivalent of balls to do that, respect!
Chris the Bobcat 1 year ago
Don't feel too bad. Ronnie James Dio never had voice lessons either and he taught himself to sing wonderfully. That means you have the same beginnings as one of the greatest heavy metal singers that ever lived. You had the guts to try, and that's more than a lot would ever do.
#19
Someone gave a speech about durian in a class once. She brought a small frozen sample that thawed as the class went on. The professor let students step out the room. Coincidentally, one of the culinary classes reported a gas leak and pulled the fire alarm.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
How come no-one ever made a parody about a stinky 80s band named Durian Durian?
Juno S 1 year ago
Where the f**k were you with this brilliant idea in the 80s, son?? :'D
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Pferdchen 1 year ago
Ugh. Our (long gone) employee parking lot had one of these trees in, of all places, the downtown end of Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. There's nothing quite like a parking lot full of crushed Durian to invigorate you in the morning lol. Ditto for going back out on a hot, sunny day. Might as well have named my car the Vomit Comet.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Imagine the guy who found out the fruit tastes good. I'm assuming he ate it on a dare, and then he had to eat 20 pounds of it over the next month before anybody would believe him.
#20
In high school a student died in a car accident where she was driving. There was no record that stated she was distracted by her phone or anything, but the school decided to have an assembly shortly after talking about distracted driving and using her as an example. Telling the whole school she'd be alive if she was doing what she was supposed to.
Rick Seiden 1 year ago
In my high school one of the kid's dad tragically died in a car accident. There were empty beer bottles in the car because his father was taking them back to be returned. His father was stone cold sober and found not to be at fault. The SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving) group at our school put up pictures of his father's accident talking about how bad drunk driving is. (I remember he went crazy, running around the school ripping them down, and that the kids in SADD got in trouble, but not much more of the aftermath than that.)
Lee Banks 1 year ago
Did you create an account for this comment, or are you Phil Collins waiting for this moment all your life?
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 year ago
How about a presentation about why drivers ed classes aren't getting the job done?
Nathan Shipman 1 year ago
That's just wrong and hateful! Even if there was record to show that she was distracted while driving, there had to have been better ways to present that.
#21
I was in 4th grade and a girl in my class did an oral report on Martin Luther King and how he was a hero for freeing the slaves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
similarly 1 year ago
Well, in a manner of speaking ... he did free people who were enslaved by an entire society's dumbass laws.
Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
No. Just no. In 4th grade, that's not a metaphorical notion. She was just wrong.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
More precisely the 13th Amendment to the US constitution.
Load More Replies... Foffy Skrimshaw 1 year ago
When my grandmother was teaching me about the Lutheran church she was talking about Martin Luther. For at least a year I thought she was talking about Martin Luther King Jr.
Ann Kapoxeet 1 year ago
I can't tell you how many 5th graders actually think that's true. And that Harriet Tubman and MLK were friends. That's what happens when we act like Black history isn't part of American history.
#22
Presentation on WWII. Student had just discovered all the neat transitions you can use between slides and decided to use a different one each slide.
They used the flashing heart transition between a photo slide of a mass grave and a photo slide of [the German dictator].
Mihai Mara 1 year ago
I don't understand. What has Voldemort to do with WWII?
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Bartlet for world domination 1 year ago
The censorship is taking a wrong turn here... Hitler. Stalin. Mao. Pol Pot. Johnson. Kim Il-sung. Just checking.
Kitty 🥀 1 year ago
We’re censoring Hitler now???!!! How the fück are we supposed to learn about how despicably evil he was and how to prevent that sort of thing from ever happening again if we’re not even allowed to speak his name???!!! Come on Bored Panda, this is absolute fücking BULLSHÏT and you know it!!!
Cammy Mack 1 year ago
And who is this German dictator? The absurd censorship blinds history. Plus he was Austrian.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
But he was a German citizen and also the dictator of Germany
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ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
London, Ontario, Canada. But we ‘ve no idea if OP is a native English speaker. EDIT: OP posts a lot on r/NativeAmerican and speaks about indigenous people & segregation in London.
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#23
One year in a violent political upheaval class a kid gave a presentation and the whole time he said ***pheasant*** revolution instead of ***peasant*** revolution. I had to stifle a giggle for his entire 15 minute presentation.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I'd revolt too..all those guys dressed in field vests shooting at me.
#24
In Speech 101 in college we had to pick a children's book and voice act each character. That was it. That was the entire assignment.
Well... One student decided to take it to the next level. He chose a Berenstain Bear book and decided to not only do voice acting for every single one of the characters, but also act it out.
It was physically uncomfortable to watch this guy scramble around the room and pretend to be bears and other animals. It was not well done. It was awful.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I would have done exactly what he did. To prevent me would have required physical restraint. It's how I presented "story problems" and other things to the students in my math classes.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
For all "Modern Family" fans, this is reminiscent of Manny's one person play.
#25
For 8th grade talent show, 2 girls sang the "Mr. Bledel" song (Mr. Bledel was a good looking, recently college graduated teacher) that basically was about how cute they thought he was. Even then, it was incredibly uncomfortable and I remember looking at the teachers face and he didn't seem very amused.
Ellinor 1 year ago
I think having a small harmless crush toward a teacher is quite common, but singing about it in public...
similarly 1 year ago
I don't think it's so bad as long as everybody understands that it's harmless, that it's a joke or mostly a joke.
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Chris the Bobcat 1 year ago
Young teacher, the subject, of schoolgirl fantasy... She wants him, so badly, knows what she wants to be... - The Police, Don't Stand So Close To Me, 1980.
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
We had a fresh college graduate as a teacher. He was cute, tall and really shy (his father accompained him to the interview). Not only students even the female teachers were smitten. I too had a major crush but when I realised the rich, beautiful seniors are also crushing over him, I just stopped myself.
David Martin 1 year ago
Reminded me of this comedian, who taught a writing class, and one student who about her https://youtu.be/EQdeHNWf-0I?si=OpFG-xLMlCVVvxj8
#26
My elementary/primary school was a religious school. So one day when we had an assembly by the religious members of our school, they were explaining the importance of praying and all the discipline issues. While one of the members were saying stuff about faith or whatnot one of the other members interrupted him and started to say to never lose focus while praying she then went on to say that even though there is a house fire to not stop praying, the most “yikes” thing was when she said that even if your parents are dying and asking for help to not stop your prayer. I was completely shocked by this and couldn’t believe what she said to the whole school of children ranging from (4th grade- 8th grade). I looked around to see the reaction of everyone but everyone seemed normal.
Coming out of the whole presentation. I told one of my friends how messed up that particular message was. Basically someone heard me saying that and like a little snitch went to tell that lady what I had said. I was called to meet her and she confronted me about saying bad stuff about her speech. I told her that yes, I did because one of things she said didn’t stick to me well and told her which one I disagreed on. She said well that’s how we are suppose to be when praying. I was lucky she didn’t take my words too seriously and let me off the hook.
I thought it might’ve been a slip of the tongue kind of thing she must’ve said in the presentation, But by the end of the confrontation I was proved otherwise.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
There are morons out there who would freeze to death while leaning against a stack of bibles and holding a pack of matches. She may be one of them.
Teagan Gatewood 1 year ago
Remember that when there is a house fire, it is better to run away and pray another day!
Melody 1 year ago
Inevitably, people will come here and talk about how awful religion is because of this. As someone who was raised a Christian (I’m no longer a Christian, but I still see Christianity as being a net good for the world), this is absolutely NOT normal. Do not judge all religious people based on this (and ESPECIALLY don’t judge people of other religions based on messed up things that some Christians have done).
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Sadly, it's usually non-Christians or former Christians like yourself who object to people like this. Her fellow religionists paradoxically are rarely moral enough to.
Load More Replies... Chris the Bobcat 1 year ago
If the place is even real, Heaven is going to be filled with crazy people. At least an eternity in Hell would be spent with interesting people, like Isaac Asimov, Stephen Hawking and Lemmy Kilmister.
MagicAxolotl (she/eve) 1 year ago
People like this drive me crazy...I'm a Christian myself, but I still hate it when people try to shove their religion down other peoples' throats, to an absurd extent.
#27
During our practice rounds for senior presentations, a girl got up with her PowerPoint that had paragraphs of text on each slide and then proceeded to read the paragraphs word for word from her notecards. The teacher stopped her and asked if this is how her whole presentation was and when she responded yes, the teacher stopped her and asked her to change her presentation. She wasn't understanding what was wrong, so we kindly gave her some feedback. She redid the presentation a few days later but the original was ROUGH.
leendadll 1 year ago
Every work presentation ever! Makes me insane - if all the content is in the slide deck, just email and let me read it at my convenience!!
Sheila Carty 1 year ago
EVERY presentation! What is the point of reading it word for word?
Load More Replies... Ace 1 year ago
I used to write, present and attend quite a lot of training/seminar presentations; one of my pet hates was a presenter who would simply read out what was on the slides. Which usually meant that they'd included far too much text on them and made far too many in the first place. No dude, if you're just going to write everything on the slides and read it all out then we wouldn't need a presenter.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
Let me guess: human services and/or government work.
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Knew way too many students that did this or said, "Umm..." every 5 seconds of their presentation, all the way into college 🤦♀️
#28
This was a Spanish class in college, and I think the assignment was something like "talk about your best friend" or some such, just kind of a softball assignment so you could practice using the vocabulary. And one classmate's friend was evidently a friend with benefits.
similarly 1 year ago
Oh, I remember many decades ago, being in a drama class one time where somehow we got on the topic of incest, and a girl in class started talking about how it was okay if it was your "special" uncle and you really loved each other etc, and the teacher very, very gently asked if she were talking about someone she knew, and she blushed bright red and wouldn't talk for the rest of the class. I really hope he reported it and that she got the help she needed.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Stupidly, as long as they are of age it is legal to marry your uncle where I live in Australia...
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#29
Compared to some other stories in here this is minor, but it was a group project for one of my literature classes. There were five people in this group. According to the rubric for this assignment, everyone was supposed to have equal speaking parts.
One of the members in this group would just *not stop talking.* Half of their presentation was just her talking (and she went on about each of her slides for like 5 minutes). The rest of her group members had like 1 or 2 slides each, and she had IIRC 5 or 6. She would also interject into the other group member's parts to add her opinions.
The look on my professors face screamed "Just shut up already!" everytime she talked.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
The professor should have stepped up and each time she started to speak for another person or interrupted, he should tell her this is not her time to speak. She already had her time.
Judes 1 year ago
If it's a group assignment, then it's the groups responsibility to have speaking times organised before they start. It's inapproriate for the professor to jump in and organise it for them.
Load More Replies... Sheila Carty 1 year ago
Ugh, I worked on a project like this. Girl read out the rest of our research and jumped in when someone else was asked a question. I got a terrible grade because I didn't answer questions and "it didn't seem like you knew the material". Never forgave that girl.
OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
Happened to me once, we were supposed to be pairs and give a presentation in 10min -timed. 20 slides, needless to say I ran my mouth for 10 minutes and my pair never got a chance to speak. In mu defence, it was a loot of material to cover. Next class, same MO, another pair and she used up the whole 10 min and I was left with no time. Karma eh?
#30
During nursing school a guy decided to use my little pony figures as props to a seminar room of about 100 people. He told the class that he would refer to himself as his pony name for the duration.. Don't remember what it was.
Also, not that this is relevant but he wore a black leather trench coat and it was pretty hot in the room yet he never took it off... cringe.
Edit: He wasn't a student he came in to do a talk about epilepsy and his experience with healthcare. We got to review them at the end and I gave him a good score because he actually had a lot of interesting things to say about his condition even if it was cringey.
The spooky explanation 1 year ago
Trenchcoats are suitable in some scenarios, but not in a roasting hot lecture
#31
In 1984, when I was in 6th grade, each class did a winter concert. The 8th grade football team sang "I'm dreaming of a black Christmas" in. blackface. Green Bay Wisconsin, Bay View Middle School
similarly 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, honestly, in 1984, it was still wrong. EDIT: I'm sorry. I somehow missed the "/s". My apologies.
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Perfumista Perfumista 1 year ago (edited)
Did the school actually let them get past the first line?
Nerd Groupie 1 year ago
In the 90s in early elementary school, two (white) boys came to our class Halloween party dressed as Kris Kross. Backwards clothes and blackface. No one seemed to have an issue with it. Blows my mind to this day.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
OMG. On Election night at Stanford in 1980 the neighboring dorm burned me in effigy (I was a very vocal Reagan supporter.)
David Martin 1 year ago
You're going on the record with "mad respect" for racism used for comedic effect in a school setting; Do I have that correct?
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B-school ethics class - we had a group give a presentation on how society benefited from the tobacco industry. They were ripped to shreds by the professor and rest of the class.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
I remember back in the 1990s, one of the former Eastern bloc countries determined that tobacco could reduce long-term retirement benefits costs;
Robin Roper 1 year ago
Even though smoking or using tobacco will kill you, the society I grew up in did benefit from the tobacco industry. I grew up in eastern North Carolina, USA where "tobacco was king" and lots and lots of tobacco was grown. Tobacco money sent kids to college, built hospitals, churches, colleges and universities, including Duke University. The jobs in cigarette manufacturing provided decent pay for low educated workers and most owned small but safe homes. Hundred's of small towns all across eastern NC are now close to ghost towns with no downtowns filled with empty stores. On many subjects, there are multiple truths - using tobacco products is very unhealthy and the tobacco industry provided for lots of middle class livelihood in areas where tobacco was and still is grown.
David 1 year ago
well 10 billion a year in federal taxes that is earmarked for Medicaid comes from Tobacco, so......
Michael Largey 1 year ago
So .. the government is just collecting damages from the tobacco companies instead of the tobacco companies paying actual taxes.
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#33
When i was a ninth grade student, we had to present the poems we made in english class.
most people wrote about embracing their culture, loving their friends, etc.
and then there was that one kid who recited a “lifestyle poem” which compared fat people to beached whales and said that people who don’t work out will die before they’re 20.
similarly 1 year ago
Now I really want a whole poem centered around this!
Load More Replies... Peter Griffin 1 year ago (edited)
“Roses are black, violets are black; when I’m with you, I see black.” - ode to Hellen Keller
Michael Largey 1 year ago
If that was the way he talked to people, I doubt he made it to 20 either.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My friend wrote the best haiku ever for English class- Who cares 'bout poems, especially this poem, poems really suck (I love poetry but this is fantastic)
Janissary35680 1 year ago
"Five syllables here / Seven syllables there / Are you happy now?"
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#34
We had this senior talent show that a few male students could sign up for (No idea why it was only guys, or how the few people even got nominated for it) and they all had to do their own act. Some sang, some danced, some put on a funny skit (possibilities were endless)
Well, each year someone who never got told they weren't good at singing would end up on stage. One time this guy did the evolution of boy band songs and it was just below average singing for (no joke) 15 minutes straight.
Bonus skit that I'm glad didn't stop because it was hilarious, one guy did a wrestling skit with different movie characters and my friend was the announcer. When Indiana Jones got into the ring my friend announced "Its the BDSM bad boy himself" and somehow that slipped by all the school staff members and made it into the DVD's the school sold. Another friend of mine sang Disney princess songs while wearing a sonic hat and got second place and at least 3 girls gave him their number.
David Martin 1 year ago
Personally, I'm kind of glad nobody told these people "You're bad at singing" because if they want to try singing, telling them not to is what's know in the business as "a d*ck move"
David Morgan 1 year ago
No, letting them be embarrassed or waste other people's time is a 'd**k move'. We should be encouraging them to practice, get training and try different styles in a more private setting where they can be encouraged rather than possibly humiliated, potentially leading to them giving up singing entirely.
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#35
In history class, we all had to do a presentation about some sort of injustice in the world. One kid chose a prison camp for his topic.
All his powerpoint slides were photos of men being stripped, chained, whipped, sodomized. We were 13.
Edit: Yes, his project was about Abu Ghraib.
Glenn Cuneo 1 year ago
I worked at the Prison that replaced Abu Ghraib- which was just on the other side of the Baghdad Airport. We weren't allowed to go into the "Iterogation" building, ran by the spooks (I'm assuming CIA but they were civllians we wern't allowed to talk to in the chow hall).
#36
We were supposed to have Arnold Schwarzenegger come to our school sometime around 1999 or 2000, principal was hyping it up for weeks, then about 4 days before his arrival it was announced on Friday that he wasn't coming. Fast forward to Monday during morning announcements it's announced he's changed his mind and is coming to our school tomorrow as planned.
Come Tuesday morning everyone is excited, were all amped to meet The Terminator, a handful of parents even came with VHS copies of his movies, posters, ect.
Were all going to our gym/auditorium, taking our seats.
Principal takes the stage takes the moment to make some announcements, award honor roll, perfect attendance, ect. Finally she starts hyping up Around Schwarzenegger, everyone is excited and on edge, when she basically says "heres Arnie" and.
It's the vice principal in a leather jacket holding a shotgun (not a toy one either) and spends 30-40 minutes trying to hype us up for FCAT all the while doing the absolute worst impression of Arnold Schwarzeneg I've ever heard.
Once we realized Arnold wasn't there people start shouting, screaming at the principal's for lying to us, along with some of the parents who came to this.
I do hope someone has footage of this meltdown of a bunch of K-5 kids shouting and screaming at the principals because Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't come to our school. Because I clearly remember 2-3 people having camcorders.
Edit: Thanks for the gold, honestly thought this would get buried, and can anyone explain the office reference? I genuinely hate the show so I'm not sure why people kept bringing it up.
As for some of the questions, Arnold was scheduled but canceled last minute on not only my school but my cousins who he was supposed to go to on Wednesday. Instead he only went to one school in my city (which I don't remember which one atm, but I'll add it if I remember it)
Yes the principals apologized the next day, and the vice principal changed schools the following school year.
I have absolutely no idea why he thought bringing a shotgun was a good idea, but I think he was attempting to look the part, which considering his massive gut, really didn't help.
Hugo 2 months ago
Bringing a gun to school is normal in the USA, isn't it?
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Tango Wox 1 year ago
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. And yes I just had flashbacks to it.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
Mmm, Arnold should have fooled everybody and sent Danny DeVito in his place.
#37
I had my college freshman English students present 10 minutes on their favorite hobbies, with PowerPoints and handouts.
This one stoner kid decided to do his on Magic: The Gathering, which I was pretty excited about, since I'm an avid player.
He started his presentation by announcing to the class, in a booming voice, "I AM A PLANESWALKER!" The next 15 minutes (5 over the limit) he explained the lore and backstory. He never once said it was a game or fantasy series; he literally presented it as if it were fact. He sounded completely insane, describing how he loved raising the dead and waging war against Elves and Angels.
Awkward aside: he failed my class, and we later had to play in a major tournament. I beat him and knocked him out of the prize bracket. He was only in my area because his family had been evicted and he was living with a friend.
KT 1 year ago
I’m probably reading way into this, but coming from someone who has dealt with this exact issue (in the form of bipolar disorder) it may be something deeper in terms of mental health. When I was unmedicated, things like video games/books/movies did seem like real life, I knew in theory that they weren’t but that rational connection didn’t get through to my brain. If that’s the case I hope he’s doing better. Otherwise I hope he’s off the weed
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
Sounds like homelife was bad for this kid and he needed an escape into fantasy. Maybe the fictional world was much better for him than the real one. Not sure why the OP was so hell bent on knocking him down a peg, especially if they shared the same interest
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
Ngl if someone started their presentation with "I AM A PLANESWALKER" they'd get an immediate A
eric p 1 year ago
Real magic players stopped buying cards at least a decade before anyone thought of "planeswalkers"...
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Regina Phalange 1 year ago
Presentation on your favorite hobby in college? This has to be the U.S., that's what you otherwise do in elementary school.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
The average age, *worldwide* of MTG players is 35. Quit gate keeping hobbies based on some weird intellectual superiority. Gamers, video, tabletop, card, etc., are universal. Most statistics on them are universal, regardless of geography. All national demographics of gaming align with most nations. It’s arrogant to assume a college presentation can’t be done on an ageless hobbie in an intelligent, well-formed manner.
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A kid in my middle school class (late 80's) decided to run for class president...he was one of those kids who was squarely in the middle of the student hierarchy - people knew him, but knew he was a bit off.
His last name was O'Brien. Some people called him OB for short.
He gets up in front of the school to give his speech, and finished with his campaign slogan.
To quote, from a very famous US ad at the time "OB! It's the way you should be!"
Yes, his campaign slogan was the one for tampons. The round of ironic applause only fueled his fervor and he became more and more hyped up with the crowd, encouraging people to start chanting the slogan. Ugh.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
We had a student (I'll call her Edna here) who campaigned for class president with posters saying "Edna Likes To Be On Top!" They were quickly taken down by the principal - who was also her father.
#39
Not a literal presentation really, but we had an assembly in high school where the students that helped plan homecoming would announce the nominations for homecoming court. It always had a cute little theme and like a short skit involved.
Well at one point the audio they were using as the cue for the skit failed. They just kind of paused for technical difficulties, but this one girl from the planning committee started singing a random Disney song a capella while improvising a dance to go along with it, I guess as a distraction from them trying to fix the audio?
She kept trying to get people to join in with her, but nobody did, and she eventually just kind of trailed off mid song and started pouting that nobody would sing with her. Then once they got the audio fixed for the skit she pouted and snapped the way through the rest of her lines, which made everything even more uncomfortable.
The other famous one was when a girl in our class running for student government referenced a hashtag that she was trying to make popular during her campaign speech to the whole school. The hashtag was something catchy about her having a big a*s. There was a genuine collective "yikes" from the crowd when she said it. I don't think she got elected.
#40
When I was in eighth grade, we were assigned to each make a 10-minute presentation about a controversial topic. One girl made her presentation about how she believes women shouldn’t be allowed to become President.
(Edit to clarify: to make matters worse, this was in 2014 or 2015, so it wasn’t that long ago).
Bec 1 year ago
Assuming this was the US, apparently about half the voting population believes this too.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Why are so many people meant to be doing presentations about something controversial? Is it supposed to be something they believe or just a way for them to look at the other side of something, like a debate rebuttal?
David Morgan 1 year ago
It's so you can practice the core techniques of debating. Your argument should be internally consistent, and supported by evidence. This is not always easy and arguing an unfamiliar side forces you to examine your premises. On the other hand, it's quite easy to argue for something you already believe in, and enthusiasm alone is persuasive - the argument might be nonsense but people can get swept along by sheer conviction.
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In 4th year university we had a year-long seminar course of 15ish students. Our big end of year project was to give a 3 hour lecture on one of the historical figures we’d studied.
One guy got up there and was so nervous he blasted through his content in less than an hour, without hardly taking a breath. Nobody could understand him, the prof didn’t step in to tell him to slow down, and he was sweating so profusely his shirt was soaked through.
I felt really bad for him, but oh god.
EDIT: the class was taken several years ago, and had more like 8 or 9 students. The presentations still took the majority of the semester. Brutal.
Bec 1 year ago
Guy in my highschool class refused to go in front of the class to give a book report in our Government class, the teacher even gave him a second chance after everyone else had gone, he told those of us sitting by him that he had read his book, but he wasn't going to give his report in front of the class (because he had a slight speech impediment).
Juno S 1 year ago
I totally get this kid and so glad teach gave him a chance in private. I was never given that chance :-)
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 1 year ago
When I was teaching this would happen to me at times. I'd get nervous and start talking faster than I should. For a 1hr lecture I'd typically prepare about 1.5 hrs worth of material, just in case.
Science Nerd 1 year ago
Not in school, but I worked with a very good scientist who wrote excellect presentations. Practice runs in front of the group went well but when presenting at the conference, she always went double-speed.
#42
I was doing work experience with a bunch of special needs kids at a school. We were watching a play that I don't remember the name of, which was about someone who was in a gang or something and got HIV.
Instead of having any action or dialogue, the story was told through characters standing out the front and telling the story to the audience. It was dull as hell. The special needs kids were getting so restless, and I couldn't blame them, because it was terrible.
#43
Junior year of high school, for our AP English class, our group made a 30 minute telenovela of the Scarlet Letter. The whole thing was in Spanish.
David Morgan 1 year ago
If they had ANY foresight (and a sense of humour) they would have had each actor deliver a really passionate, lengthy sentence in fluent Spanish, then have a monotone English 'subtitler' do a short summation. Like a really thundering denunciation, followed by 'I disagree'.
Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
Sounds funny, but if it's for an English class, doing it in Spanish would be a deal breaker.
Arenite 1 year ago
Not really. They did their project about a piece of English Literature.
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Theatre school, one guy did a 30 minute presentation on why UK Grime music is the future of theatre...expect it was just music videos and no context.
He failed. We all had headaches after.
#45
Once in the seventh grade I did a report on the African penguin but it had a nickname called the jacka*s penguin so I decided to call it that and I almost got suspended on the 5th day of school
Mother of Giants 1 year ago
It should be a crime to make a student do a presentation of any kind on day 5!
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
It should be a crime to suspend a student for saying the word jackass, especially if it’s a necessary part of thier presentation
Load More Replies... Science Nerd 1 year ago
Wonder what would have happened if the talk was on historical names for a donkey. Or perhaps on the species “African wild a**”.
Hugo 2 months ago (edited)
What happens when the ten commandments are read out in church in the USA? "Thou shalt not covet ... nor his ox nor his àss".
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
The principal had a reason to be so triggered by this. It turns out that "jackass penguin" is what his classmates called him in high school after they saw him in his prom tux.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I wonder if that happens if you do a report on 'Little' penguins these days and call them their original name 'Fairy' penguins. It is so ridiculous to me they changed the name because it could be offensive to gay people when the word has been used for mythical creatures far more commonly.
PFD 1 year ago
I don't think they did. It had and has different names in different places, and little penguin, fairy penguin and blue penguin are all in widespread use. I found reports claiming Sea World Australia changed the name to Little Penguin because "they didn't want to offend the gay community", but the Sea World website, YouTube channel etc. call them fairy penguins so either they changed it back or (more likely) it was some fake tabloid b******t in the first place.
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Grade 11 physics we were told to a presentation which would account for 30% of our grade. The curriculum was new and the cumulative project being worth 30% was mandated by the province. Also the teacher was new and didn't provide a lot of direction. This was fine for most of us.
But it wasn't fine for Chris. He spent 30 minutes describing the physics of a perpetual motion machine. It was not a debunking. Very awkward.
Ace 1 year ago
Probably not helped by the fact that nearly all the calculations we did for high school level physics were assuming perfect efficiency and a lack of any external factors.like air resistance and stuff. It was always made clear that they were not 'real world' figures, but obviously this guy didn't get it.
#47
One day a group of highschool girls wearing really...uh appealing clothes went to the stage at my school's talent show and started twerking thinking they were nailing it. Everyone cringed so much, and the people with the middle schoolers were super uncomfortable. When they finished the teacher presenting the show went to the microphone and said "Congratulations! You got the whole audience clapping!"
But no one was clapping.
StarCrossedFriday 1 year ago
Or they just didn’t want to make them feel bad?
Load More Replies... Bookworm 1 year ago
I have a distinct memory of attending my younger sister's talent show when she was in late elementary school. A pair of girls in her class came out and did a pretty standard dance routine - except that they were wearing what my sister later told us were 'dance tops' they had bought online. They were sports bras. The girls were like 10. The applause was very awkward.
#48
It was a presentation that my art teacher made for the rules of the classroom and it was full of minion memes.
David Morgan 1 year ago
For a seven year old, Minion memes on rules posters would be engaging. For teenagers, they would be patronising and irritating. OP doesn't clarify.
Load More Replies... Alien-Gal-19 1 year ago
*Facepalms* Jesus f*****g Christ... Might as well use SMG4 memes then! That'd do a better job than frinkin' MINON MEMES! Those things aren't even funny!
#49
In high school my best friend, who had learning disabilities, read a monologue that she’d written. It was half plagiarised Shakespeare and half nine year old style writing, everyone else laughed.
StPaul9 1 year ago
That's both mean at the laughter and the fact that she had the writing style of a nine year old tells me she didn't have supports to help her. American education. But the plagiarism is still no excuse.
#50
A teacher asked up to compare the cells in our body to anything we can think of. Obviously some students compared the parts of the human cell to schools, jails, libraries, normal things right? Well this one student that sits next to me had a different idea. These were group projects keep in mind. This girl managed to strong arm her group to compare the human cell to the infamous webcomic Homestuck. She did this successfully. Not only did I feel dirty but her group felt worse for having their names on it.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
I wiki'd it... I don;t get it... I thought it'd be about something disgusting or insanely inappropriate.
Melody 1 year ago
The problem was really the fandom, not the comic itself.
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What do you think ?
Rae Reyn 1 year ago
IT wasn't stopped, but we got in BIG trouble. In a communications class we had to make a commercial for a fake product. Our product was Mafia brand trench coats, which was done in a very Scarface-esque filme style. We presented our commercial on April 19, 1999. The next day was the Columbine High incident...
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Well how the hell were you supposed to have known that was going to happen? Was this a school for psychics?
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
With some travelers, it's an understandable confusion.
Load More Replies... LooseSeal's $10 Banana 1 year ago
In 6th grade guy performed a whole scene from an Austin Powers movie. All of the parts.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
In speech class in college we had to give a persuasive speech. One girl picked why female genital mutilation was wrong. It was very uncomfortable it wasn’t like anyone in the class ever thought it was good and there were pretty graphic descriptions.
Júlia Fortes 1 year ago
well, im on her side. There's still a lot of cultures that think this is acceptable and made their girls do it when they are pretty young. But still, nothing is being made to stop it, so the graphic descriptions are pretty useful. When my teacher told us about it for the first time, the description made me understand how bad it was
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Ellie Ahmed 1 year ago (edited)
Not me, but my brother's fiancé reckons she still lies awake sometimes thinking about the time in grade 8 when she was doing a presentation about eclipses and accidentally said looking at one could "burn a hole in your r e c t u m" instead of retina.
Lara Verne 1 year ago
In elementary school, our teacher sorted class into a few groups and each group had to make presentation about dysfunctional relationships, like unfaithful partners, overbearing in-laws, etc. We had to present it like play on stage. Some group turned it into telenovela, where one classmate pretended to give birth on stage, other turned it into historical drama, and group I was in come up with story, where unfaithful husband murdered his entire family and then commited suicide.... Our teacher was not amused.
Chris the Bobcat 1 year ago
A few years ago my daughter's English teacher gave an assignment to write a five page essay on a list of topics, writing as if they were a superhero (as if the student was Iron Man or Batman, etc.). My daughter wrote as Groot, inflections, punctuation and all. An entire essay of "I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot? I am Grooooot!, etc.) which she read in front of the class. Got an A and praise from the teacher for thinking outside the box.
Tango Wox 1 year ago
In English class in highschool groups were assigned a book to read and then present on, each member was given a task in the presentation. My group got Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (the teacher told me he had chosen that book for me) and I was given the task of a 5 min summary (teacher told me he knew that wasn't possible for our book so to do my best). We were told at the start the groups would all share a grade so, when I found out the rest of my group were the slackers/underachievers of the class I was worried but what could I do other than make sure I nailed my part. Of course, they never shared anything for me to help them with and the presentation was bad. I did my part well; one guys task was to talk on his favorite part of the book. I knew we had a problem as soon as he started. The bit he chose wasn't in the book, it was in the movie. When the class was allowed to ask questions, they wanted to know when in the plot. Yeah... He failed, I got an A.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I was in German class and got put with this guy who looked like a brick and was about half as intelligent. We were supposed to recite a conversation and of course the guy was worse than useless. At the end of the year the other kids awarded me a prize for Most Disastrous Presentation of the Year, saying "they started saying each other's lines and things went downhill from there!". In fact, what had actually happened was that the moron couldn't remember any of his lines so I just started saying them for him. He certainly didn't recite any of mine. Just stood there with a "duh?" look on his face. But the award was a huge Mars Bar so I didn't argue.
talliloo 1 year ago
took an american sign language class. the assignment for the final was basically pretty simple: take a poem or passage and sign it to the class. since this was a basic course the teacher said that she didn't expect perfection but did expect that most of us would be able understand. one person did the pledge of allegiance; another did the lord's prayer, etc. me? i decided to do redd foxx's poem 'the dogs once had a meeting'. it wasn't profane but it was a bit risque - well, at least it was when foxx was performing it in his stand-up. i figured i would know if they understood it because it's actually funny. the teacher was not amused. you can probably look it up on the 'net.
Rae Reyn 1 year ago
IT wasn't stopped, but we got in BIG trouble. In a communications class we had to make a commercial for a fake product. Our product was Mafia brand trench coats, which was done in a very Scarface-esque filme style. We presented our commercial on April 19, 1999. The next day was the Columbine High incident...
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Well how the hell were you supposed to have known that was going to happen? Was this a school for psychics?
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
With some travelers, it's an understandable confusion.
Load More Replies... LooseSeal's $10 Banana 1 year ago
In 6th grade guy performed a whole scene from an Austin Powers movie. All of the parts.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
In speech class in college we had to give a persuasive speech. One girl picked why female genital mutilation was wrong. It was very uncomfortable it wasn’t like anyone in the class ever thought it was good and there were pretty graphic descriptions.
Júlia Fortes 1 year ago
well, im on her side. There's still a lot of cultures that think this is acceptable and made their girls do it when they are pretty young. But still, nothing is being made to stop it, so the graphic descriptions are pretty useful. When my teacher told us about it for the first time, the description made me understand how bad it was
Load More Replies... Ellie Ahmed 1 year ago (edited)
Not me, but my brother's fiancé reckons she still lies awake sometimes thinking about the time in grade 8 when she was doing a presentation about eclipses and accidentally said looking at one could "burn a hole in your r e c t u m" instead of retina.
Lara Verne 1 year ago
In elementary school, our teacher sorted class into a few groups and each group had to make presentation about dysfunctional relationships, like unfaithful partners, overbearing in-laws, etc. We had to present it like play on stage. Some group turned it into telenovela, where one classmate pretended to give birth on stage, other turned it into historical drama, and group I was in come up with story, where unfaithful husband murdered his entire family and then commited suicide.... Our teacher was not amused.
Chris the Bobcat 1 year ago
A few years ago my daughter's English teacher gave an assignment to write a five page essay on a list of topics, writing as if they were a superhero (as if the student was Iron Man or Batman, etc.). My daughter wrote as Groot, inflections, punctuation and all. An entire essay of "I am Groot. I am Groot. I am Groot? I am Grooooot!, etc.) which she read in front of the class. Got an A and praise from the teacher for thinking outside the box.
Tango Wox 1 year ago
In English class in highschool groups were assigned a book to read and then present on, each member was given a task in the presentation. My group got Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (the teacher told me he had chosen that book for me) and I was given the task of a 5 min summary (teacher told me he knew that wasn't possible for our book so to do my best). We were told at the start the groups would all share a grade so, when I found out the rest of my group were the slackers/underachievers of the class I was worried but what could I do other than make sure I nailed my part. Of course, they never shared anything for me to help them with and the presentation was bad. I did my part well; one guys task was to talk on his favorite part of the book. I knew we had a problem as soon as he started. The bit he chose wasn't in the book, it was in the movie. When the class was allowed to ask questions, they wanted to know when in the plot. Yeah... He failed, I got an A.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I was in German class and got put with this guy who looked like a brick and was about half as intelligent. We were supposed to recite a conversation and of course the guy was worse than useless. At the end of the year the other kids awarded me a prize for Most Disastrous Presentation of the Year, saying "they started saying each other's lines and things went downhill from there!". In fact, what had actually happened was that the moron couldn't remember any of his lines so I just started saying them for him. He certainly didn't recite any of mine. Just stood there with a "duh?" look on his face. But the award was a huge Mars Bar so I didn't argue.
talliloo 1 year ago
took an american sign language class. the assignment for the final was basically pretty simple: take a poem or passage and sign it to the class. since this was a basic course the teacher said that she didn't expect perfection but did expect that most of us would be able understand. one person did the pledge of allegiance; another did the lord's prayer, etc. me? i decided to do redd foxx's poem 'the dogs once had a meeting'. it wasn't profane but it was a bit risque - well, at least it was when foxx was performing it in his stand-up. i figured i would know if they understood it because it's actually funny. the teacher was not amused. you can probably look it up on the 'net.
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