How is that a brag? What a dingleberry.

Yes, and I'm going to take a lot of abuse for this comment and possibly be kicked off BP, but right now being gay, trans, whatever is a lot more popular than not. As with other areas (mental health for example) those who try to fit in with the 'in group' are detrimental to those who really do belong.

The book is always better than the movie. The book is the entire story, as seen through the eyes of the author and interpreted by your brain. A movie is the writer’s and director’s reworking of the author’s story, to make it fit in a time slot and appeal to a range of audiences by cutting whole characters and storylines, framing for the modern perspective. and adding gratuitous nudity.

Then instead of Teachers they should be called Failers

Actually, having taught for a zillion years and been privy to a zillion work/faculty room conversations, you'll hardly ever here teachers talk like this. You WILL hear how great their classes are doing. This comes at a time when teachers are considered failures if every student isn't successful in your class. Nobody admits that some of their kids just aren't getting it. To do so would just feed the current assumption that any failure on the part of the student is just a failure of the teacher. The times they have changed!

As a teacher, I tried to be a magician, the unusual kind who showed the audience how the tricks worked. A teacher should demand the impossible of their students - and then show them how to achieve it.

If over a certain % of students fail, the teacher needs replacement

This is very common in Slovakia at university and it's insane. I experienced when they let failed someone from subject just because teacher wanted him to add few more details and she said she would give him A, but just no. And you can't win over teacher.

Sheldon Cooper

I’m a teacher. The only time I’ve heard of teachers bragging about how many fail their classes was once in college. The professor took great (misguided) pride in “weeding out” the freshman who shouldn’t be in college, according to her. I have, however, heard hundreds of students brag & laugh about how many middle or high school classes they’re failing. 🤦🏼‍♀️

This isnt stupid - in order to learn from one's mistakes, one needs to be told one is making a mistake. If no one fails, no one is learning anything. eg if "2+2is 5" is close enough to have a pass grade- all you have done is reinforce the mistake. Be auto suspicious of 100% pass rates - it usually means that the college thinks that their league position is more important than showing whether students actually learnt anything.

I swear, at least some teachers anyway, deliberately throw obstacles in the way of a student's learning of the material.

I had a professor who first day of class told us it was impossible to get an A in his class. I came the closest ever with a B+ and a recommendation to be an editor (was hired on that recommendation as he had never given one before and was the ultimate Grammar Nazi).

So glad I never met any teachers like that!

Having been a teacher for 18 years, I can honestly say that I have never met another teacher who was proud that students were always failing their classes. However I think there are many teachers who recognize that in most classes there are those who seem to be the "volunteers " for failure. They don't show up for class. They don't drop the course. They never send an email to explain the situation. They came 2-4 times during the semester, and that's enough to consider them legitimately enrolled. These are the blessed individuals who make it easier to pass virtually every other student that kept a chair warm on a daily basis.

Making a class hard so that students are always failing is just bad teaching/teacher.

Had an instructor at school. I switched classes over a problem with classmates. So I wasn’t there just in time. This group was used to pulling A’s. Their first test? The highest score was apparently a 34. And the head instructor “had a talk” and apparently this instructor treated them poorly but passed them. I onLy ended back with them for the final class. With a different instructor. But still.

Any teacher who is proud of failing their students should look at their teaching techniques. Perhaps it is thay who are failing to teach and not the student failing to learn.

Ugh, I hate seeing over-fed pets ☹️

Or not believing in science.

People who are proud of being "brutally honest" only care about the "brutal" not the "honest". Its perfectly possible to be honest without being a jerk.

Spreading viruses and making others ill. It is not good. It is pathetic.

I think for the African American community it is a little bit different. It is only recently that we have started outwardly taking pride in being black because for the longest time in society we were told we are not good enough, smart enough or capable enough just because of the color of our skin. When you get told that for 100's of years, most in the community start to internalize this. So we are basically trying to undo a lot of generational trauma by being loud and proud about being black and uplifting ourselves. We are not saying we are better than anyone per se, but we are trying to uplift ourselves because in the past no one else would. I hope that makes sense 😊

you have no defence if you are drunk driving. Grow up, you are pathetic.

*coughcoughTrumptardscough*

I sometimes make the vroom vroom sounds.... but entirely by accident. I get a bit scared when the car goes VRROOOOOOOMMMM! when all I expected was a mini-vroom.

Its OK to say it aloud

What a twatbasket your ex was.

Blind brand loyalty based on popularity is one thing.. Brand Loyalty based on a good product that delivers what it promises and more is not a bad thing.

Internet clout is like Monopoly money.

Yes. You're not hard working, you're just sad, and everyone's counting down the days till your mental breakdown.

This partially incorrect. Being religious is a bizarre thing to be proud of unless you are part of the right religion, like me, we are just trying to help all you heathens from burning in Hell for eternity.

We had a family friend who, at 15, decided she wanted to join a gang. After her 'initiation," she was so badly mangled that she had to have a closed casket funeral. Gangs are not cool or fun, kids.

Not so sure about this one. This flex could land you in a presidency.

I think we've all seen that FB post where OP says that they can never make their mom's recipes the way she does, and a commenter spends 3 paragraphs wingeing about how OP's post was hurtful and offensive because their (commenter's) mother was an alchoholic and a drug addict and blah blah blah...case in point.

I see a lot of stuff like this and I usually agree. Having grown up in the south and being surrounded by far-right beliefs as a liberal I know some very good people that are conservative. But I find it different with "MAGA" to support Trump you have to disconnect yourself from reality in some regard, be hateful, or just ignorant. Now I'm not saying that Biden is good or even most democrats. They still act with self interest, but as the alt-right seems to take over the typically conservative, it's no longer just a differing of opinion on what's best, it's actively working against LITERAL NAZIS running for office and seating in Congress.

It's amazing to me how many people wear their assholishness as a giant badge of honor.

Yeh, this is utter bull. Be interested in it but it's NOT your whole identity..

If you need to work these hours due to poverty and low earning jobs I feel for you. If it is you hustling and working non stop like the morons on the linkedin page earlier, you need to step back and take a look at your priorities.

This should have faded away by the time you turn 20 - if it was a thing at all. Anyone btagging about this later in life is just pathetic.

There are knobbers who think like this?

"Guess what, I had an IQ test today." "And?" "Thankfully it was negative."

What’s so wrong about being proud of your origins? I swear most of the posts here are just insecure people.