RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

It took a while for me to explain what I was asking to my coteacher, but she's seconded the anything-sold-at-a-bakery-is-bread position. Except cookies. And vegetables of any variety are definitely not bread.

She was surprised when I said that if you asked an American "do you want some bread?" and then handed them a croissant that they would be a bit confused.

"Who wants to answer the question? Yes, boy? Oh, you don't know? Okay, girl?"

I've had coteachers who do this...

"Who wants to answer the question? Yes, boy? Oh, you don't know? Okay, girl?"

To be fair, I don't know any of my students' names.  I either call random numbers if I want participation or just don't call them anything.

Someone should tell that to one of my CoTs. Here's an exchange we had one morning:

CoT: Mr. Tim, have some bread.
M: *looks at it* Oh, I think that's cake.
CoT: In Korea we call this bread.
Me: It says "cake" right there on the package. In korean.
CoT: In Korea we call this bread.
Me: K.

You should just start generalsing everything at school.

"The vegetables and grains we had for lunch were amazing."

"Can you pass me some stationery?"

"Wow, beverages are refreshing!"

"Who wants to answer the question? Yes, boy? Oh, you don't know? Okay, girl?"

I low-key feel like my students and co-teachers might be relieved if I did that.

I started doing this at the start of this year. (Not as extreme as the examples given obviously.)

It makes every ones life easier. The kids don't care and the CTs don't want to be bothered.

I... I don't even want to complain about this because I love my school and I love my co-teacher, but dammit I need someone to validate my emotions.

I was just "asked" if I could teach two hours of english conversation classes for teachers every Friday afternoon. Two 50-minute periods, I get paid extra, yada yada yada.

I really don't mind. Really, I don't. The extra money will actually come in handy.

But I hate being "asked" to do something when everyone else already knows about it and has signed up for it. How could I say no even if I wanted to?

Also, that makes 8 classes in a row on Fridays.... RIP my vocal cords....

I'm really frustrated that all of the sudden none of the alphabet links in the bomb games are working. Every time I download one of the bomb games the alphabet letters don't link out. The letters JUST disappear. I suspect it's this new Korean version of powerpoint....UGH!

One hundred percent. I had a story with a choose your own adventure path in it and it was making no sense today.

Okay kids, how do you impress the princess? A) Play her some music B) Fight a monster C) Give her flowers

Music! Music!

Okay, here we go. Music it is!

So I click the PPT (Sorry, 한쇼) link for music and the next slide is a picture of a massive dragon on a castle, surrounded by fire. "You have encountered the dragon, do you run or do you fight?"

THE FACK?

I know that Gyeonggi-do has deleted Microsoft Office, but it's still installed on my computers with the functions for PPT limited to viewing only. Even the standalone MS PPT Viewer app isn't perfect sometimes, but if you can find the original "stripped down" version of the program, it's ace.

Haha I just started to imagine the mass confusion that must have been running through these kids faces as you clicked onto the next slide. Thank you for the laugh haha.

With that said thank you for the tip. I'll go ahead and try to find the bare bones version of office! :)

I have been on a low carb high protein diet and have been feeling great and doing well.... until today and everyone on here keeps talking about bread and cake and more bread and cakebread and breadcake and hot cake and now I am absolutely ravenous (but only for carbs) so now I will have to stop at Paris Baguette and buy ALL the bread. ALL. THE. BREAD.

I blame you all!!!

I have been on a low carb high protein diet and have been feeling great and doing well.... until today and everyone on here keeps talking about bread and cake and more bread and cakebread and breadcake and hot cake and now I am absolutely ravenous (but only for carbs) so now I will have to stop at Paris Baguette and buy ALL the bread. ALL. THE. BREAD.

I blame you all!!!

When you say you will be buying all the bread, what exactly do you mean by "bread"?

I have been on a low carb high protein diet and have been feeling great and doing well.... until today and everyone on here keeps talking about bread and cake and more bread and cakebread and breadcake and hot cake and now I am absolutely ravenous (but only for carbs) so now I will have to stop at Paris Baguette and buy ALL the bread. ALL. THE. BREAD.

I blame you all!!!

When you say you will be buying all the bread, what exactly do you mean by "bread"?

  I mean bread (real bread) (loaves of bread) and cake (which isn't bread) but they call it bread. 

  :cry:I don't know what anyone means by "bread" anymore.  I just don't know.

I have been on a low carb high protein diet and have been feeling great and doing well.... until today and everyone on here keeps talking about bread and cake and more bread and cakebread and breadcake and hot cake and now I am absolutely ravenous (but only for carbs) so now I will have to stop at Paris Baguette and buy ALL the bread. ALL. THE. BREAD.

I blame you all!!!

Buying all the bread at Paris Baguette?

That's my usual Sunday morning errand

When you say you will be buying all the bread, what exactly do you mean by "bread"?

I have been on a low carb high protein diet and have been feeling great and doing well.... until today and everyone on here keeps talking about bread and cake and more bread and cakebread and breadcake and hot cake and now I am absolutely ravenous (but only for carbs) so now I will have to stop at Paris Baguette and buy ALL the bread. ALL. THE. BREAD.

I blame you all!!!

Buying all the bread at Paris Baguette?

That's my usual Sunday morning errand

When you say you will be buying all the bread, what exactly do you mean by "bread"?

I'm not sure if you're purposely trying to misquote me for humor or if you don't know how to quote properly, but either way, it's not entirely wrong. I actually do go to PB quite often, but I'm Korean-American, so it's not like I would be perpetuating any western stereotypes (visually, anyway).

I have been on a low carb high protein diet and have been feeling great and doing well.... until today and everyone on here keeps talking about bread and cake and more bread and cakebread and breadcake and hot cake and now I am absolutely ravenous (but only for carbs) so now I will have to stop at Paris Baguette and buy ALL the bread. ALL. THE. BREAD.

I blame you all!!!

When you say you will be buying all the bread, what exactly do you mean by "bread"?

  I mean bread (real bread) (loaves of bread) and cake (which isn't bread) but they call it bread. 

  :cry:I don't know what anyone means by "bread" anymore.  I just don't know.

  When I refer to them in English I usually say "bread and pastries" but if I am speaking in Korean I just use the blanket term.

I... I don't even want to complain about this because I love my school and I love my co-teacher, but dammit I need someone to validate my emotions.

I was just "asked" if I could teach two hours of english conversation classes for teachers every Friday afternoon. Two 50-minute periods, I get paid extra, yada yada yada.

I really don't mind. Really, I don't. The extra money will actually come in handy.

But I hate being "asked" to do something when everyone else already knows about it and has signed up for it. How could I say no even if I wanted to?

Also, that makes 8 classes in a row on Fridays.... RIP my vocal cords....

 

8 classes on Friday? Damn, I don't think I've ever done 8 classes in one day in all my years in Korea. But I have done 7 classes/day before. My policy is...if they jam me with that many classes, I'm going to find ways to slack as much as possible to save my vocal cords. So I ended up doing tons of projects, word searches, games,etc. to help relieve the high number of classes. It works.

I do 8 classes three times a week. FML!

Americans think the economy is in far worse shape than it is.

The U.S. unemployment rate is only 4.9%, but 57% of Americans believe it's a lot higher than that, according to a new survey by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

The general public has "extremely little factual knowledge" about the job market and labor force, Rutgers found.

It's another example of how experts on Wall Street and in Washington see the economy differently than the regular Joe. Many of the nation's top economic experts say that America is "near full employment." The unemployment rate has actually been at or below 5% for almost a year -- millions of people have found jobs in what is the best period of hiring since the late 1990s.

But regular people appear to have their doubts about how healthy America's employment picture is. Nearly a third of those survey by Rutgers believe unemployment is actually at 9%, or higher.

Republican candidate Donald Trump has tapped into this confusion. He has repeatedly called the official unemployment rate a "joke" and a even "hoax."

It's not just the unemployment rate that people get wrong. Americans also greatly overestimate the number of workers who are represented by unions and how many workers are foreign born.

Americans think the economy is in far worse shape than it is.

The U.S. unemployment rate is only 4.9%, but 57% of Americans believe it's a lot higher than that, according to a new survey by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

The general public has "extremely little factual knowledge" about the job market and labor force, Rutgers found.

It's another example of how experts on Wall Street and in Washington see the economy differently than the regular Joe. Many of the nation's top economic experts say that America is "near full employment." The unemployment rate has actually been at or below 5% for almost a year -- millions of people have found jobs in what is the best period of hiring since the late 1990s.

But regular people appear to have their doubts about how healthy America's employment picture is. Nearly a third of those survey by Rutgers believe unemployment is actually at 9%, or higher.

Republican candidate Donald Trump has tapped into this confusion. He has repeatedly called the official unemployment rate a "joke" and a even "hoax."

It's not just the unemployment rate that people get wrong. Americans also greatly overestimate the number of workers who are represented by unions and how many workers are foreign born.

I fail to see the rant.  I'm guessing you meant to go into how can so many people be so ignorant?

Americans think the economy is in far worse shape than it is.

The U.S. unemployment rate is only 4.9%, but 57% of Americans believe it's a lot higher than that, according to a new survey by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

The general public has "extremely little factual knowledge" about the job market and labor force, Rutgers found.

It's another example of how experts on Wall Street and in Washington see the economy differently than the regular Joe. Many of the nation's top economic experts say that America is "near full employment." The unemployment rate has actually been at or below 5% for almost a year -- millions of people have found jobs in what is the best period of hiring since the late 1990s.

But regular people appear to have their doubts about how healthy America's employment picture is. Nearly a third of those survey by Rutgers believe unemployment is actually at 9%, or higher.

Republican candidate Donald Trump has tapped into this confusion. He has repeatedly called the official unemployment rate a "joke" and a even "hoax."

It's not just the unemployment rate that people get wrong. Americans also greatly overestimate the number of workers who are represented by unions and how many workers are foreign born.

First, Steelrails and now, ladies and gentlemen, we have World Traveler. I understand. I mean since eslcafe banned conversation, there has to be somewhere to go, right?

Haha, nice try. The rant is: many, many people in the world are overly confident and think they know everything, when in fact they are woefully ignorant. That extends to waygook.org as well. Tons of vapid fools (Obama haters, etc.) who don't know what they're talking about...but think they do.

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -Bertrand Russell

And I suppose you're going to educate us all because you're so full of wisdom and worldly knowledge?

My rant: I killed my iPod nano. It was not a peaceful death. ;c

Firstly, Zola is a godamn man. She? Come on.

Apologies! Genders are so complicated.
Is it okay if I just refer to you as 'bread'?

I'm okay with you refering to me as 'bread'. :)