[Funny] Funny Pictures! (Keep em clean, folks!)
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GasBandit
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Aren't most pencils these days made with graphite instead of lead?
Or were you just making a general statement?
North_Ranger
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Those must've been some awesome french fries.
GasBandit
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Wiki Dependency of the Day: Katie Notopoulos is using her Twitter account to catalog the complaints emanating from Millennials worried about how the Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012 is going to affect their school projects.
1.) For good or ill, Wikipedia has become the new Cliff Notes/Encyclopedia Britannica. We need to start teaching kids how to objectively read a Wiki article to determine it's veracity and how to find sources online to back up/disprove the wiki's claims. The internet is a fact of life and we simply aren't teaching kids how to use it right.
2.) I want to punch these kids in the face, because I had to actually go to a library, use the card catalog, find books that were relevant to my subject, read those books, then find other sources by combing through the microfiche and newspaper archive. I had to do this until about 1999. They will never know how hard it used to be to do a term paper and they will always take it for granted.
This must be how Dave feels all the time.
2.) I want to punch these kids in the face, because I had to actually go to a library, use the card catalog, find books that were relevant to my subject, read those books, then find other sources by combing through the microfiche and newspaper archive. I had to do this until about 1999. They will never know how hard it used to be to do a term paper and they will always take it for granted.
This must be how Dave feels all the time.
North_Ranger
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Oh c'mon, now... Give the young people of today at least some credit. I mean, I was a university student until two years ago, and we were pretty much told that Wikipedia is a decent place to start looking for information, but it should not be taken at face value or referenced. At least here in my neck of the woods being able to objectively read a website was pretty much hammered into our noggins during the first year of studies.
People aren't dumb. Lazy, yes. But they usually get called on their bullshit.
This message has been brought to you by North_Ranger who trawled through the Internet, half a dozen university and communal libraries and once three years' worth of Irish newspapers on microfilm during his university studies 2002-2010.
People aren't dumb. Lazy, yes. But they usually get called on their bullshit.
This message has been brought to you by North_Ranger who trawled through the Internet, half a dozen university and communal libraries and once three years' worth of Irish newspapers on microfilm during his university studies 2002-2010.
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makare
the government jokes just kind of tell themselves there..
Zappit
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I tell the kids the rubber duck story: one of my professors picked a random article on Wikipedia, the rubber duck article, and made himself its creator to test the speed of the wiki editors. He spent months as the creator on that site. Once I tell the kids that, they seem to understand that Wikipedia is full of such bullshit and look for other sources.
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makare
I did that in undergrad. Not very helpful with law papers but for other stuff it was.
GasBandit
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What a Genieus.
MONKEY'S PAW SCENARIO.
GasBandit
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Well, of course most of my wishes would be toward bringing about tragedy and ruin to the human race... it's hard to have a tragic way of granting a wish for tragedy. I mean, really, how can you corrupt "I wish for the extinction of the human race?" Make them evolve in one generation into a new species?
You will accept your new horn, and you will like it.
Technically genies don't come naturally "captured," so really he'd be dealing with a bunch of incredibly powerful trickster spirits who don't have to grant him a damn thing.
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SeraRelm
Technically it's a joke.
Technically Genies are mythological.
Technically Jasmine was hot.
Technically Genies are mythological.
Technically Jasmine was hot.
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