VOAT Containment Megathread of Trash People for Trash People

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[clothedmacuser]

On a tangent, did any of you guys' teachers ever feel like they don't want to do shit that day and put on a random movie? That happened a lot in my school.

Not once. But then again I grew up in a country with an actual education system.

Sounds lame.  TV Hour was the best part of school.

[El Babua]

They played Dances With Wolves that one time in my American History class.

On a tangent, did any of you guys' teachers ever feel like they don't want to do shit that day and put on a random movie? That happened a lot in my school.

Yep, had my Spanish II teacher just decide to play a bunch of movies with Hispanic actors and settings for what seemed like the entire second semester. He was also a French teacher so he played Les Miserables and Count of Monte Cristo when he ran out of material for us.

[etiolate]

We learned way more about slavery than the holocaust in California. I would say that the Holocaust is very commercial, but so is Slavery in a way.

[agrajag]

On a tangent, did any of you guys' teachers ever feel like they don't want to do shit that day and put on a random movie? That happened a lot in my school.

Not once. But then again I grew up in a country with an actual education system.

oh, it's a US thing for sure

[nudemacusers]

On a tangent, did any of you guys' teachers ever feel like they don't want to do shit that day and put on a random movie? That happened a lot in my school.

Not once. But then again I grew up in a country with an actual education system.

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[Jenkem]

On a tangent, did any of you guys' teachers ever feel like they don't want to do shit that day and put on a random movie? That happened a lot in my school.

Not once. But then again I grew up in a country with an actual education system.

oh, it's a US thing for sure

modern political science classes should just be watching CNN or viewing PoliGAF

[Himu]

I think the Trail of Tears was limited to a single page in 8th grade history. Natives were marched from their land, in lines, to Oklahoma. A lot of them died. The end.

[etiolate]

The public education forms of history tend to be pretty milquetoast in America, but they completely lack the atrocities of other countries as well. This is how you get youth who go through a very shallow view of American History transitioning into college where teachers inundate them with the viles of American exceptionalism and they get all socialist/communist, not realizing or knowing the atrocities that happened in Russia, Cambodia or China.


which is why

and holocaust was on the curriculum in english lit classes

Literature ends up being a gonzo form of history for all those other atrocities in the world because the writers of the time record them, and if the students don't take a wide selection of literature or a longer selection of history they end up as naive as they began in a coin-flip sort of way.

[stufte]

I think the Trail of Tears was limited to a single page in 8th grade history. Natives were marched from their land, in lines, to Oklahoma. A lot of them died. The end.

I can't speak for every school district, but my girls had a whole 2 week lesson on the trail of tears, including an essay assignment on it.

[Himu]

I think the Trail of Tears was limited to a single page in 8th grade history. Natives were marched from their land, in lines, to Oklahoma. A lot of them died. The end.

I can't speak for every school district, but my girls had a whole 2 week lesson on the trail of tears, including an essay assignment on it.

Good for them.

[TVC15]

Would anyone post if I made a "What did you learn in elementary and high school history class thread" later?  I have a post in mind for later but don't have the time to write it by now. If I post it in this thread later, we'll probably be a half dozen topics away from history.

[clothedmacuser]

Cindi, are you really that surprised that the biggest atrocity of the 20th century is covered more than localized atrocities from 100 and 200+ years prior? I'm sure nowadays 9/11 is covered as much more more than Pearl Harbor.

Probably.  I graduated in 2001 so they didn't have United 93, World Trade Center, or even Zero Dark 30 but still we only watched Pearl Harbor and the teacher had to explain that their haircuts were unrealistic.   

[etiolate]

I actually learned the history of the birth of Islam and its beliefs in 7th grade. Even watched a film on it and had a cultural day. I always thought that was odd.

[Gibson]

Especially Cindi, your revelation upon listening to Prince after he died was pretty awesome.

Thanks. I'm still really mad about this. When Prince was alive the only songs you'd hear from him on the radio in my town was Little Red Corvette and Kiss. I'm talking about black radio stations. Then he dies. Last month they were playing a lot of my favorite Prince songs they never, ever played on the radio when he was alive. I'm kind of bitter about it.

That's pretty universal to big artists, though. Go to any classic rock station and all the big bands only have 2-4 songs played. Even stations that do the hour of Zepplin usually do at least 2-3 of the same songs every night. Outside of specific shows dedicated to them, radio isn't and has never been about deep cuts.

It feels like other big artists had more variety. IDK.

Make a list of 20 big rock/pop stars and you'll find no more than 5 of their top songs (and that's if they were around for decades) in rotation.

Beatles: Come Together, Revolution, Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let It Be
Rolling Stones: Beast of Burden, Start Me Up, Angie, Satisfaction, Gimme Shelter
Led Zepplin: Stairway, Black Dog, Rock and Roll, Immigrant Song, Kashmir
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, Lithium, All Apologies
Aerosmith: Dream On, Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way, sometimes a 90s hit
Madonna: Like A Virgin is really the only one I ever hear on the radio

And so on and so forth. There is only so much time in a day, most people just want to hear snippets of the hits on their way to or from work/school.

I don't know where you guys live , and I haven't listened to a station that labels itself just "classic  rock" in a long time, but this hasn't been remotely close to being true in my experience in Chicago area. They would play dozens of songs from Beatles, Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. Nirvana only had a few albums so obviously there isn't going to be a huge playlist, but the radio stations I listened to definitely played more than just those songs listed

[etiolate]

Here the Stones songs are Beast of Burden, Start Me Up, Shelter, Satisfaction and Brown Sugar.

There's an alarming amount of Rod Stewart played on classic rock here. ALARMING.

[Nola]

Cindi, are you really that surprised that the biggest atrocity of the 20th century is covered more than localized atrocities from 100 and 200+ years prior? I'm sure nowadays 9/11 is covered as much or more than Pearl Harbor. By the time I graduated, Cold War stuff was covered for as long as WW2 after all that new info from Russia came out throughout the 90s.

American history in our education system seems to have this tendency to unconsciously shove the ugly and complex stuff off into the future. I say this as someone that moved around a lot growing up. Went to 4 different high schools(private and public) in 3 states. 3 different elementary schools in 2 states. You start to see a lot of patterns.

Elementary school isn't the place to learn the depths of ugly shit, leave it for High School. Then High School(especially in those glorious places creationists and hard right numbskulls control school boards like I graduated in) water down and leave the tough stuff for college. Then college comes around and a good portion of people that would benefit from learning that stuff are off at the mechanics shop listening to Rush Limbaugh all day. Half the college kids taking History 101 are hungover and most of what you are learning anyways is just a slightly more in depth set of stuff High School really should of covered.

And frankly we do an even poorer job of teaching civics and political history in this country. It was always interesting in one of my high schools to talk with the German foreign exchange students(or just hear them participate in class)because they just had a much more in depth and well rounded political education and historical knowledge base(often even about American history) even as Sophmore's in High School. It always made me wonder what the fuck America is doing?

[clothedmacuser]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=243197856&postcount=154

Oh yeah, there's no shortage of pedo defenders in Hollywood.

    And other places . . .

[Jenkem]

 

the lack of self reflection and introspection on GAF will always be hilarious

[Gibson]

Here the Stones songs are Beast of Burden, Start Me Up, Shelter, Satisfaction and Brown Sugar.

That sounds so weird. Gonna make a boring list here of some songs I would hear on the radio all the time:
Get Off My Cloud
As Tears Go By
Paint It Black
Under My Thumb
Ruby Tuesday
She's a Rainbow
Sympathy for the Devil
Street Fighting Man
Midnight Rambler
Let It Bleed
You Can't Always Get What You Want

That's just from a few albums that were made before the 70s

[Raist]

On a tangent, did any of you guys' teachers ever feel like they don't want to do shit that day and put on a random movie? That happened a lot in my school.

Not once. But then again I grew up in a country with an actual education system.

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Well, my country did help make yours free of the shakles of the britons. It's only fair you try to be accommodating for a bit.

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To be fair we didn't really care about you guys particularly. We just like messing with the brits whenever we can

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[etiolate]

Paint it Black does get play here and Under My thumb, but not the rest. Sympathy sometimes but not as much as I would be expecting.  Of course, this is all based on when I listen to classic rock radio, which is normally morning or late afternoon driving.

[Himu]

Cindi, are you really that surprised that the biggest atrocity of the 20th century is covered more than localized atrocities from 100 and 200+ years prior? I'm sure nowadays 9/11 is covered as much or more than Pearl Harbor. By the time I graduated, Cold War stuff was covered for as long as WW2 after all that new info from Russia came out throughout the 90s.

I'm not surprised by it but at the same time, I'm mad that I never learned about my ancestors in school.

[Jenkem]

Listening to corporate radio
 

I only listen to community supported radio where they have themed shows and don't just play the approved song list over and over
Though it gets irritating listening to the classical station and hearing Dvorak's New World Symphony (which is good, but overplayed) on a weekly basis
 

[etiolate]

thank you to our listener Jenkem

who supports locally supported community radio serving the greater community

we appreciate it

we really do

every dollar we get goes to giving you more whispered introductions

and NPR

[Jenkem]

thank you to our listener Jenkem

who supports locally supported community radio serving the greater community

we appreciate it

we really do

every dollar we get goes to giving you more whispered introductions

and NPR

nah I don't listen to NPR... I listen to the classical station, which is member supported but there aren't really many whispers,  and then independent stations that have shows, like on saturday afternoon it's reggae, saturday night is old novelty records this guy finds at flea markets, then it's a death metal show, etc. no whispering there.

[etiolate]

All the classical hosts use that extra gentle soft tone whisper around here. Like Iron & Wine presents DeBussy.

I would be so down with a novetly record show though.

[agrajag]

Bluetooth or auxiliary cord connect your phone to your car stereo and listen to anything you want
 

[Joe Molotov]

Here the Stones songs are Beast of Burden, Start Me Up, Shelter, Satisfaction and Brown Sugar.

That sounds so weird. Gonna make a boring list here of some songs I would hear on the radio all the time:
Get Off My Cloud
As Tears Go By
Paint It Black
Under My Thumb
Ruby Tuesday
She's a Rainbow
Sympathy for the Devil
Street Fighting Man
Midnight Rambler
Let It Bleed
You Can't Always Get What You Want

That's just from a few albums that were made before the 70s

Live in the South, and you'll get to hear Far Away Eyes occasionally.   

[agrajag]

I love how the Shia thread is full of dudes saying they wouldn't call some of the racist shit he said racist because it's the kind of shit they would say expecting to sound progressive 

I didn't watch the video, just read some of the quotes in the TMZ article, but wasn't Shia pretty much calling the black cop a coon and saying that George W. Bush Trump doesn't care about black people, which are GAF talking points?

[agrajag]

BTW, how come I still can't get into the Superdeep Borehole on my laptop? It still does that at&t redirect thing from a few weeks ago when the domain wasn't renewed. Works fine on my phone. Do I need to clear all my cache/cookies?

[Rufus]

BTW, how come I still can't get into the Superdeep Borehole on my laptop? It still does that at&t redirect thing from a few weeks ago when the domain wasn't renewed. Works fine on my phone. Do I need to clear all my cache/cookies?

Dunno, but that would be my first idea.

[etiolate]

clear dem cookies

[Raist]

I tap so many ads by mistake on mobile that I am pretty sure I am making Evilore rich :p

I think he's unto something

[zepblackstar]

I tap so many ads by mistake on mobile that I am pretty sure I am making Evilore rich :p

I think he's unto something

get opera or opera mini. no ads or popups

[agrajag]

The classic rock station that covers the Broward/Miami-Dade counties plays the following Stones Songs:

Beast of Burden
Sympathy for the Devil
Satisfaction
Paint it Black
You Can't Always Get What You Want

at least those are the ones I heard.

Speaking of classic rock, I finally saw Metallica live last Friday. They were pretty damn good, although Kirk fudged up a bunch of his licks, but that is expected.

[Vertigo]

They played Dances With Wolves that one time in my American History class.

On a tangent, did any of you guys' teachers ever feel like they don't want to do shit that day and put on a random movie? That happened a lot in my school.

I went to school in London.

Our teachers used to sometimes let us bring in our own stuff to watch. Once our Spanish teacher let us watch Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend which my friend had brought in and was raving about. We watched 45mins of it and he didn't say a word. Our drama teacher us made us turn it off when it got to that scene with the female teacher and Akemi.

Our Spanish teacher for an end of year double Spanish class also let my class watch the entirety  of Fist of The North Star.

He actually got fired for talking about another teachers massive breasts to us. 

[etiolate]

The one thing I remember about movie days is a rainy day where recess was canceled, and they brought four classes in to watch Labyrinth. When Bowie showed up on screen with his package poking out of those loose pantaloons, there was an audible murmur from all the female teachers.

[benjipwns]

Some people seem ashamed to use their GAF handles here.

I think it is kind of lame tbh. Same with using the same GAF avatar.

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Except for benji of course 

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I use the same username basically everywhere, started before GAF like my Steam username is the same too, I used to do the avatars too. But at some point stopped doing that, my aardvark avatar before the Donald Duck one is still my avatar on Steam. Never changed him.

I'll claim I keep the avatars the same here and on GAF to prove that I'm not a Russian Gamergate troll but that I post the same shit both places, yet only one forum freaks the fuck out at someone being facetious and/or an extreme political outlier and has to come up with other explanations to comfort themselves about it.

[tiesto]

My school we spent a lot more time on the Holocaust than the African slave trade (I didn't even know of the term "middle passage" till an Immortal Technique song ). Of course, my school was probably 1/3 Jewish, and there were like 3 or 4 (out of 1800) black students.

[benjipwns]

They played Dances With Wolves that one time in my American History class.

On a tangent, did any of you guys' teachers ever feel like they don't want to do shit that day and put on a random movie? That happened a lot in my school.

Of course. Had a World Geography course where the teacher had us watch Arlington Road. This was pre 9/11 btw. I'm glad though because I like that movie and probably would have never seen it outside late night basic cable otherwise.

I think my senior year, I had an elective class that was supposed to be about basic life skills where the teacher was not the original teacher but had it dumped on him and the teacher who had previously taught it gave him nothing of her stuff, etc. and like almost everyone else in the class were seniors so it just because talk about shit and watch whatever movies he could find in the school library after two weeks since he had explained everything he could think of like getting bank accounts and reading apartment leases.

Off the top of my head, movies I remember we watched:
Stepmom (Susan Sarandon has cancer and Julia Roberts is stealing her man?)
Men of Honor (Cuba Gooding Jr. wants to be a BLACK deep sea diver)
Mr. Mom
Clean and Sober
Bye Bye Love
Multiplicity
Gung Ho
The Dream Team
What About Bob?
Groundhog Day
Analyze This
The Jackal

Which, when you think about it, some of those actually are topically relevant. Especially considering the drug use and home lives of some of the other students already.

I can't remember what movie it was now, but there was one he picked, out of the school library, that I'd seen before and was like "lol, we're gonna watch this, this week?" And he'd never seen it and apparently nobody else did, but like six people get brutally killed and then there's a sex scene in the first twenty minutes and he was like "well, oops, I...uh...free day"

And no, I don't know why the school seemed to have the entire 1980's works of Michael Keaton.

[agrajag]

We watched Lorenzo's Oil in Chemistry class and that one creepy scene haunts me to this day.

[benjipwns]

We almost never got past World War I, so we covered chattel slavery a hundred times as much as the Holocaust.

Of course, that's what you get when you generally offer only one set of history courses over multiple years and they always start the same place and work chronologically forward. I know two grades we barely even got past the Civil War War of Northern Aggression.

[Nola]

Fucking October Sky.

History class, English, Gym, Math class, substitute teacher day. It was the Swiss Army Knife for lazy teachers.

Saw it in every single High School I was in except the semester I got stuck at a weird Evangelical private school in Colorado, where Monday's and Wednesday's were taken up by mandatory Jesus rallies in the gym led by my Algebra teacher banging out the beats and leading in song.

[zepblackstar]

I get a perverse kick out of the shock whenever Asian classism pops up and they learn its not the result of evil white people

 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1404510

[agrajag]

I get a perverse kick out of the shock whenever Asian classism pops up and they learn its not the result of evil white people

 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1404510

But what does backslashbunny think about this?

[Joe Molotov]

Watching the 60's Romeo and Juliet with dat ass.

[benjipwns]

Civil Rights Movement

This, for whatever reason, we actually did more of in English classes than history. Maybe some kind of civics/social studies basic class was the only place it "fit" that it also got covered. That's where we watched Eyes on the Prize, etc. read all the standard tomes, etc.

PD might have had a similar experience because I want to say it was a statewide initiative to fit the Civil Rights Movement into more courses.

Also Flowers for Algeron/Charlie and The Crucible kept showing up in English classes especially the hilarious movie with Winona Ryder since we always always seemed to watch that. We watched that so often that by the time senior (?) English came around and we actually read from the play people were basically doing impressions from the movie subconsciously and it was hard to not crack up at Tituba's lines or any others that were massively overacted in the film.

For history in general I already did my own reading (still do) and knew the stuff before, and often read the textbook in class because class itself was so boring. I remember many of the A+++++ 4.1GPA tryhard students, except the one guy who was an actual friend, were upset because I always broke the curve on the tests for them in all those government/history/economics/etc. classes and then in everything else I didn't do shit like homework or whatever but those classes were always test based for whatever reason. The friend quickly learned to just get me in our group projects and I'd do it in like twenty minutes and it'd shit on everyone elses.

He was the only reason I knew that those other people hated me being in their social studies classes because they'd complain about it while I didn't even know there was a curve being used. And then one time the teacher bitched out his one class for complaining about the test on World War I because I did it in five minutes and got 110% because it was all multiple choice and the extra credit was filing in a map of the countries pre-war. So he was all "he did it in five minutes, you can do it in a fucking hour!!!!" And I heard back from a friend in that class about it.

One English class we read Shane but watched Tombstone, which I got no complaints about because I'm your huckleberry and those kids probably would have never watched it otherwise.

[clothedmacuser]

Watching the 60's Romeo and Juliet with dat ass.

The high school english teacher showed us that.  Apparently during 2cd and 3rd period she covered up that front meat with 3x5 index cards.  But my fourth period she said "fuck it, you guys are adults.  Gaze up on those sweet 16-year-old, milky, chest melons."  And it was good.

[Himu]

Watching the 60's Romeo and Juliet with dat ass.

Was the actress a teenager? Asking for authorities. We can't afford to have a pedo admin.

[Joe Molotov]

Watching the 60's Romeo and Juliet with dat ass.

Was the actress a teenager? Asking for authorities. We can't afford to have a pedo admin.

My lawyer has informed me that two members of a forum can't be charged with the same crime. 

[Mr Gilhaney]

She was 15 according to wikipedia.   

[Joe Molotov]

Welp, time to accidentally delete the forum.

[zepblackstar]

She was 15 according to wikipedia.   (Image removed from quote.)

no wa....

Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951)

 

[Himu]

[TVC15]

That was filmed in Italy, though. Those pervy Italians probably have an age of consent of like 8. I'm sure this is fine.

[I'm a Puppy!]

It's OK guys, canonically she's 13....wait...

[demi]

ISO: One thicc admin for me to admire. I have a spot open

[Atramental]

It's okay because I was 14 when I saw that film. Right? Right??? 

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Now that I remember it, the bed scene was censored by my english teacher with a large piece of cardboard. 

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[TVC15]

Also, in Salo, there's plenty of uh questionably aged nudity. Also Italian. Those people are animals.