<p>Okay, this is only funny for people who have thoroughly read the Scarlet Letter. When asked why Hester carries her baby, Pearl on the platform, instead of having her head in the scaffold, my classmate asked why they didn’t make a special scaffold for the baby. XD</p>
<p>I’m a college kid in High School Life. Don’t ask why.</p>
<p>I’m in calc 2, learning about the Ratio and Radical tests to help test for convergence. While doing the radical test in lecture, after a few examples, My stupid mouth spouts out:
“If this is called the Radical Test, why is it that I have yet to see a single square root?”, not yet realizing that a radical can be expressed as x^1/n. Class burst out laughing. </p>
<p>I’m a math major. I asked the dumbest question in the history of mathematics. I don’t think I’ll ever live it down. Probably a fun story to tell my future students and children, though.</p>
<p>Kid 1: What’s a histogram?</p>
<p>Kid 2: It’s an app where you post pictures.</p>
<p>(Not stupid, but funny)</p>
<p>History teacher: You know, they still have segregated proms down South…but here we’re forced to have a whites-only prom since we don’t have any black kids.</p>
<p>Petrawinklevoss, I am reading the Scarlet Letter for AP Lang, and I am gonna ask my teacher that xD</p>
<p>According to my AP HUG teacher, 70% of his freshmen geography students thought Africa was the poorest country.</p>
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<p>awwwwwwwww D:</p>
<p>This overarching theme in this forum of the idea of Africa being a country seems to be the result of egocentric Western culture, the type which compelled a bunch of rich white men to go on a mad dash for Africa, carving it up for keeps, and then complain that post-colonial Africa is in disarray. </p>
<p>Also has to do with the fact that American students are terrible at geography - I remember seeing this man-on-the-street type video where random people were shown a map, and Canada was labeled “Iraq” and most people, when asked to identify Iraq on a map, pointed to Canada.</p>
<p>Edit: Egocentric isn’t necessarily the right word - I can’t think of it right now, but its basically the concept that you regard all foreign cultures and customs as alien and wrong because they deviate from that of your own. Basically the basis of world history. Feels me.</p>
<p>“Who’s Ghandi?”</p>
<p>“Is there a such thing as a sharktopus?”</p>
<p>“Is it possible to grow golf balls in the ground?”</p>
<p>All the same girl.</p>
<p>^ Have you heard of the “Where’s Damascus” game? A bunch of people in Congress were asked to identify where Damascus was on a map, and only around 20 or 30 percent of them got it within a 500 mile radius or something like that…kind of ironic that they were the ones making decisions about U.S. involvement in Syria when they didn’t even know where the country was themselves.</p>
<p>Politics is a beautiful thing, isn’t it, catchinginfinity? LOL. </p>
<p>Here’s a fun thought.</p>
<p>It takes roughly 52 nuclear weapons to destroy the Earth and kill every single human being on it. The United States has over 7000 nuclear weapons/warheads. George W. Bush was in charge of said weapons for 8 years but could not properly pronounce the word “nuclear” in interviews or speeches.</p>
<p>Warms your heart, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>“If evolution is real and humans are descendants of monkeys how come a human doesn’t walk out of a forest every once in a while?”</p>
<p>" If evolushun were true, why don’t cats have dogs?!"- wasn’t quoted from something said in class… :P</p>
<p>@preamble1776 I think the word that you’re looking for is ethnocentric.</p>
<p>@my88keys - THANK YOU! LOL, that was going to bother me so much if I didn’t figure it out.</p>
<p>“So how did the stars get there? Did somebody just throw some lights up in the sky?” My astronomy teacher didn’t even know how to answer her.</p>
<p>Why do bruises turn black? Shouldn’t they be red, because my blood is red?</p>
<p>Today we were talking about the whole thing in Washington yesterday with the lady in the car, and someone said, “Why did they kill her? They should’ve just shot her in the foot.”</p>
<p>This was right after someone specifically said “car chase.”</p>
<p>In APUSH our teacher asked “Why did the settlers come to the Chesapeake Bay?”
One girl immediately answered “…to find wives?”</p>
<p>Our teacher got really red.</p>
<p>I kid you not, this happened like two days ago.
Kid 1:“What’s Shakespeare’s last name?”
Everyone: LOLOLOLOLOLOL BRB DYING
Kid 2: “Wait… what’s his first name?”</p>