Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us Saturday? You could feel indispensable.

'Dirty Girls'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Apr 18, 2005 1:31:38 pm PDT #6677 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Born and raised in The Congo

I am all about the formerly French cultures. Sign him up!


Aims - Apr 18, 2005 1:33:30 pm PDT #6678 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I'll get to work on it.


DawnK - Apr 18, 2005 2:10:30 pm PDT #6679 of 10001
giraffe mode

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Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 2:16:01 pm PDT #6680 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

but when a history textbook gets a historical fact wrong, I (as a hypothetical student) would think, "well, why should I even do the assigned reading from this book if I can't count on it?"

That's your job as a teacher -- to teach kids that every book is going to have wrong/biased/missing stuff, and that's why they need to read more than one book.


§ ita § - Apr 18, 2005 2:27:57 pm PDT #6681 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How else are they going to learn the moon landing was faked?


Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 2:30:14 pm PDT #6682 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This is what I'm saying.


Emily - Apr 18, 2005 2:31:59 pm PDT #6683 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

That's your job as a teacher -- to teach kids that every book is going to have wrong/biased/missing stuff, and that's why they need to read more than one book.

Is that really going to work, though? I mean, in college, or even if it's something they're doing a report on, sure, but every week for homework in their social studies class?

Eh, it's not like they meant to get it wrong, and I assume they probably corrected it in later editions. It's particularly bothersome because it not just gets it wrong, it makes a point with it. Anyway, I suppose such a teacher would be familiar enough with the material to know when there's a problem with the text.

Fortunately, I'm not gonna teach history. Thank God.


Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 2:33:59 pm PDT #6684 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is that really going to work, though? I mean, in college, or even if it's something they're doing a report on, sure, but every week for homework in their social studies class?

I just meant in principle, not that they should fact-check every line of every textbook. It would be more like a head's up.


lori - Apr 18, 2005 2:35:14 pm PDT #6685 of 10001

How else are they going to learn the moon landing was faked?

ixnay on the akefay....


Allyson - Apr 18, 2005 2:37:53 pm PDT #6686 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

They're on to us.