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What annoys you most?; Rant here if you need to!
Topic Started: Mar 3 2013, 08:45 AM (309,476 Views)
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Bad substitutes. Some examples:

1. Ones that get mad at 5th graders for laughing
2. Ones that want everybody's legs uncrossed with both feet flat on the floor while sitting in a chair
3. Ones that blame the rest of the class for somebody misbehaving
4. Ones that are cranky about everything
5. Ones that make no attempt whatsoever to pronounce people's names correctly.
Correct pronunciation: Efstratios, spelled Eustratios
How they pronounced it: Eustraisios
How the (insert choice swear here) do you pronounce a T as a S?

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Stephen
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Stuck on Earth

^Well that's actually pretty common in English :P
Actually.
Cautious.
Pretentious.
etc.
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They butchered other people's names too, and never bothered to see how it's actually pronounced. That sub also fell into categories 3 and 4
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Paleop
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Paleopterix

People automatically spell my name with a C, not a K
it kind of annoys me


but it makes sense, after all Caleb is more common than Kaleb. (also computer spelling checkers hate the way my name is spelled)

also I hate it when people assume paleontology and dinosaurs are for kids or childish :implode: :implode:
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Burns
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Slappio
Feb 12 2015, 07:11 PM
Bad substitutes. Some examples:

1. Ones that get mad at 5th graders for laughing
2. Ones that want everybody's legs uncrossed with both feet flat on the floor while sitting in a chair
3. Ones that blame the rest of the class for somebody misbehaving
4. Ones that are cranky about everything
5. Ones that make no attempt whatsoever to pronounce people's names correctly.
Correct pronunciation: Efstratios, spelled Eustratios
How they pronounced it: Eustraisios
How the (insert choice swear here) do you pronounce a T as a S?

That's not the worst one. On Monday and Tuesday we had a substitute who thought Greenland was a continent, North and South America are one continent (because their connected), that socialism and communism are the same thing, and agreed that all communist countries are bad.
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^This makes me wonder who hires substitute teachers in the United States.

We also have subs that talk about their life a lot. One sub spent half of English telling us how school is like soccer. This is probably because he's also a soccer coach.
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Jules
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Feb 12 2015, 08:28 PM
North and South America are one continent (because their connected)
We've always learned of them as both one continent and separated continents, kind of like Australia being part of Oceania but also being its own continent.
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Captain Phasma
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Can we all just agree that 90 out of 100 substitute teachers suck? Lol. I always hate them.
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Fireplume
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People annoy me. I should just find a nice cave or rock to sleep under.
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One substitute teacher decided to give us all a sex ed class once. Both really funny and awkward.
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Flower
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eternal finessé

What we were taught about continents were: there are 5 mega-continents - Eurasia, America, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica. There are 10 continents in them - Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australasia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Antarctica.

This is how we made a list -

Eurasia - Europe; Asia.
Africa - Africa
America - North America; South America
Oceania - Australasia; Polynesia; Melanesia; Micronesia.
Antarctica - Antarctica

;)

On topic: I am annoyed by everything in my life. It isn't going smoothly like the last few months.
Edited by Flower, Feb 13 2015, 07:04 AM.
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Rezcall
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That's life - it can get bumpy :S

Currently annoyed about batteries.
I just bought them - put them in my daughter mobile yesterday ... and *BAM* dead >:(

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Furka
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Fireplume
Feb 13 2015, 04:08 AM
People annoy me. I should just find a nice cave or rock to sleep under.
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

Furka, don't hide! You know you can just eat them.
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Admiral General Aladeen
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On the topic of substitutes:

Ones that don't know what the hell they're doing and then try and say that they do.
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