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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you study hard in school you can do anything.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

If this were true, I'd know more languages than I do now.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Well, you can, you just won't be paid anything for it.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"You'll enjoy ice skating, it's easy!" - the teacher who took our class to an ice rink... 😂

The moment I'm over the ice I become the human equivalent of a scruffed cat and people started pushing me around like I was a hockey puck and I was smiling pretending I was having fun but inside I was like

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[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

first day of a new school year "what are you doing in this class, didn't we made you fail last year?"

I had bad grades but mathematically good enough to pass just barely. She was the Computer Science teacher and I proved her wrong more than once in front of the class. So yeah, she had a grudge.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

"Made you" fail last year? Quite the wording...

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[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

See you next year.

Edit: Oh, you mean actually wrong.

[–] SuperEars@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My 6th grade science teacher interrupted me while reading aloud after I correctly pronounced "tsunami". He goes "What's that?....tuh-soo-mee?". I said Yeah, he spends 10 seconds digesting it, and I continue reading aloud.

The next kid to read after me pronounced it tuh-soo-mee.

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I only pronounced つなみ like that with a t when I was young and first came across the word but then I learned the correct pronunciation

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Not a Teacher, but my Boss. He advised me to clock in and out based on the system time, not GPS.

"The computer time is more accurate".

[–] ryukendo@lemmings.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Linux is created by RedHat

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[–] occultist8128@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

I believe in you!

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[–] safesyrup@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That x^0.5 is not the same as the square root of x

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not how big it is, it's how you use it.

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