Dumb things that annoy you

[Ramisha]

So, now that I'm going to college, I'm retaking maths, even though I hate it. (I got grade D, and that was the best I was hoping for)
The course I'm on is called "Functional Maths"; maths I will need to know for the future; no algebra or anything like that.
...so why was it I had to LEARN AND FAIL ALL THAT POINTLESS ALGEBRA CRUD IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!

I have a feeling we're learning too much useless things, why can't we learn the essentials and then focus on what we are going to need for our choice of profession!? Honestly I don't think knowing how many mounted soldiers some king had, all the places australopithecs have been found or what an idiophone is is going to improve my life.

[Nuserame]

There is no such thing as useless knowledge.

- Algebra, geometry, etc. teach you abstract thinking which is something that can most certainly come of use.

- History and social studies help you understand people around you, as well as what happens in the world as a whole.

- Chemistry and physics help you understand why stuff does what it does and some means of predicting what it will do.

- Learning is something you need to practice, your brain will not develop if you don't exercise it in variety of tasks.

- By a low estimate, 99% of you will at some point be doing something completely different then you think you will be doing now.

- General knowledge completes a well rounded individual. It just wont do for an adult in the information age to not know why rain falls or be unable to point out India on a map.

[Ramisha]

But this what we are being taught is no longer general knowledge - it's something scientists of those fields need to know. And it's useless if we forget it by the next year, anyway... the problem is grades are more important than knowing something.

[Nuserame]

As someone who has been to university, I can safely say scientist stuff is on whole different scale of difficult than high-school material. High-school is just the kiddie pool version of different fields to prepare and acquaint you for a variety of more specialized studies.

Of course it wont all work perfectly. Some schools do teach utterly useless rubbish (creationism? oh cmon!) while failing to pass on say, basic maths which is used in about every technical field, from accounting to carpentry. Grades do not perfectly reflect how well you spend your time in school, they are there because we don't have a better quantifiable (=can turn it into numbers) measure for it. Its ultimately your own responsibility to come out of school with a good shot at the rest of life, which is a crappy thing to heap on young people but well its all we got.

[Ramisha]

I know it's not a lot, and my mum says it's common knowledge, but I don't think knowing all the Roman emperors, when they ruled, and what is significant about their reign is common knowledge.

Oh well...too bad they have to teach so many things to kids who don't understand them and/or will forget most of them...
Edit: I thought about it, and although it is really hard to learn all that information, it would be nice if that really was considered common knowledge. I'm gonna try contribute to that and go study.

[Chishio Kunrin]

I know it's not a lot, and my mum says it's common knowledge, but I don't think knowing all the Roman emperors, when they ruled, and what is significant about their reign is common knowledge.

Okay, that... Yeah, I don't understand that.

I understand learning things like... basically the timeline of history throughout the world, the names of big players who influenced history, why certain things in history happened and how they were resolved, etc.

It's good to have an understanding of how the world came to be the way it is, and it's definitely good to know and understand the mistakes, failures, and successes of the past. For those of us in the US, it's especially good to learn and understand why the founding fathers wrote down a lot of the rights that are given to us by the Constitution, so that we know our rights, know how important they are, and don't someday in the future think they're useless.

Knowing all the Roman emperors and when they ruled is kind of a weird thing to teach.
But learning basically about early civilizations, what happened to Julius Caesar, stuff like that is normal.

[Little Star]

When people think it's funny/ a joke to make fun of bronies.

Everywhere I always see hate and rudeness to bronies and it really hurts..

[Randam Saiko]

When people think it's funny/ a joke to make fun of bronies.

Everywhere I always see hate and rudeness to bronies and it really hurts..

I do agree that making fun of any group you're not in, in general is just plain rude and disrespectful. But hey, you can't idiots from being one step closer to misfortune right?
Whenever I hear something directed towards me from some stranger, I always think, "I care about your prejudicial opinion why?" Yes, there are times where a I feel like some bodily harm would definitely be pleasurable, but just remember that idiots are idiots.   

[dr.induction]

having a guilty conscious for anything and everything.

[GoldenTerrabyte]

When people think it's funny/ a joke to make fun of bronies.

Everywhere I always see hate and rudeness to bronies and it really hurts..

They ain't the only targets! Now let me tell you about the Terraria fandom(a.k.a. Terrarians)

Generally they're well receieved. But the Minecraft Fandom for SOME reason relentlessly hates Terraria and all it's fans. I hate that. BOTH games are freakin' awesome, why is there such a huge war between them? Because like I said the Minecrfters seem to hate the Terrarians, the Terrarians have no problem with Minecrafters but they frequently hate on Minecraft itself. I hate fandom wars.

[Peace Keeper]

When people think it's funny/ a joke to make fun of bronies.

Everywhere I always see hate and rudeness to bronies and it really hurts..

They ain't the only targets! Now let me tell you about the Terraria fandom(a.k.a. Terrarians)

Generally they're well receieved. But the Minecraft Fandom for SOME reason relentlessly hates Terraria and all it's fans. I hate that. BOTH games are freakin' awesome, why is there such a huge war between them? Because like I said the Minecrfters seem to hate the Terrarians, the Terrarians have no problem with Minecrafters but they frequently hate on Minecraft itself. I hate fandom wars.

There's a flame war between Minecraft and Terraria? And to think in the title of Minecraft, the caption reads "Also try Terraria!". I know some hate to see that.


What really drives me so nuts as to really tell every user to shut up, is the PS4/Xbox One fanboys and trolls. Hands down THE absolute worst flame war in my existence, probably worst than the racial superiority flame war in my brother's school years.

[GoldenTerrabyte]

Spoiler: Quote trees are a dumb thing that annoys me • show

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When people think it's funny/ a joke to make fun of bronies.

Everywhere I always see hate and rudeness to bronies and it really hurts..

They ain't the only targets! Now let me tell you about the Terraria fandom(a.k.a. Terrarians)

Generally they're well receieved. But the Minecraft Fandom for SOME reason relentlessly hates Terraria and all it's fans. I hate that. BOTH games are freakin' awesome, why is there such a huge war between them? Because like I said the Minecrfters seem to hate the Terrarians, the Terrarians have no problem with Minecrafters but they frequently hate on Minecraft itself. I hate fandom wars.
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There's a flame war between Minecraft and Terraria? And to think in the title of Minecraft, the caption reads "Also try Terraria!". I know some hate to see that.
[/quote]And Terraria says "Also try Minecraft!" in the top of the window sometimes if it's the computer version.

[Chromastone64]

When you go shopping, and you just happen to get THAT trolley.
You know which one I mean: the one with the ONE ODD WHEEL THAT KEEPS JAMMING THE WHOLE TROLLY EVERY FIVE SECONDS!!!

[Midnight Breeze]

People think I'm weird because I never use drive thrus. Any time I get fast food I park and go inside to order. I don't know, I'm just more comfortable doing that. It makes it easier to make sure you go the right order, or cancel an order if it turns out to cost too much. Plus, well, I just don't like sitting in my car. I use it as little as I can. Heck, I wouldn't even own a car if I lived in a place where public transit was an option. My town has a population of nearly 20,000 but NO public transpiration at all. Owning a car is a bar-none requirement.

If I could sell my car I'd get about 12k and save 900 bucks a year in insurance...

[MarshyMellow]

 Does anyone have that dumb moment when you play a video game, and then you get frustrated because you kept losing? That is a moment I can agree with. 

[MrEmu]

Forgetting you don't have a feather falling IV enchantment...
*splat!*

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I'd love to go on a vacation or something...
It's so stressful here and there's never a brake...I just want to relax but I never can...
I hate life sometimes...and by sometimes I mean all the time.

[LostSanity]

I'm done. I've had it.

The jerks on the other MLP:FiM forum that can't stop bashing my opinion have crossed the line for the FINAL time as far as I'm concerned.

I quit that place for good.



So I joined the everypony.com forums instead.

[Midnight Breeze]

[Elphyda]

Single core processor on my computer... and it's acting like it's running Windows 3.1 and trying to run World of Warcraft on the highest settings.

The entire computer - Desktop background and the taskbar included - completely froze for the twenty-third time today.  Yes, I counted.

...I need to build a new computer.  I'm so tired of this one.

[Randam Saiko]

At Work: Thinking about going home and sleeping.

Sleeping: Dreaming that you're working.