# Put your freakin hand down **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 14, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757 "2003-06-14T05:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/1 "2003-06-14T05:02:50Z")
I’m taking a night biology class. Between the old woman on the front row, the married guy the flirts with the teach on the third row, and the migrant yankee on the back I’m about ready to drop. Student #1 doesn’t understand some of us have things to do after class. She she proceeds to tell us her life history (a long life it has been). Flirty thinks everything teach says is quite witty, and must elaborate on that fact. On and on and on he goes. Migrant yankee proceeds to ask obvious questions every few minutes, and manages to remind us how backwards our southern culture is about once every 15 minutes. “Why do you people talk so funny?”…hello…_your the one that is out of place_. Our 3 hour class continues to increase in time and I’ve about had it. I’m normally a very pleasent person, but I’ve got in late to many nights. Thanks for listening. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/2 "2003-06-14T05:11:42Z")
Well, the old lady and the the flirt can be excused in most circumstances, but that Damnyankee has gotta’ _die_! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Adman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@Adman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adman)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/3 "2003-06-14T05:21:28Z")
Dude, I’ve had so many classes with those old assholes who never shut up. It’s like going to class is the best part of their day. Fuck em’ though, get your credits and move on to the next class. One time I had this old fart in my political science class that turned on his TV during class to watch the president’s address. If it was me, I would’ve been kicked out but the old retard stayed and disturbed all of us. Just keep pluggin away, never, never quit. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/4 "2003-06-14T05:48:32Z")
So… Is this the thread in which I can bitch about the bozo in the back of Poli Sci who, after several weeks of studying the Cold War, actually asked “So who dropped the first nukular bomb”? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/5 "2003-06-14T05:51:29Z")
There will _always_ be dumb fuckers in class who will annoy the snot out of you and all other non-dumb fuckers. You’ll drop the class, only to end up in a class with 3 different shits. Just go to class high or something so that they don’t get on your nerves _too_ much. That or find a class filled with shits that doesn’t go on for 3 hours. ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/6 "2003-06-14T05:55:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\*So… > > Is this the thread in which I can bitch about the bozo in the back of Poli Sci who, after several weeks of studying the Cold War, actually asked “So who dropped the first nukular bomb”? \*\* Western Civ: So, your saying the black plaque killed a few people. WHy didn’t they just go to the doctor American History: How did they get the trains underground? I heard both of those, I promise ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/7 "2003-06-14T06:28:46Z")
**jesleigh** : In case you haven’t been over there, there’s a thread in MPSIMS about a possible BamaDope sometime in August. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/8 "2003-06-14T06:32:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jesleigh \* > \*\*“Why do you people talk so funny?” \*\* I had heard that it was the African influence, with black Americans being mostly southerners before the great migration. (I heard that from a history professor. He was black. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that was something he should probably keep under wraps.) Of course, it makes sense that the Yankee in your class is an idiot. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t have gone down south. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/9 "2003-06-14T07:37:05Z")
My favourite question from grade 12 bio, asked by one of “the guys in the back”, having been startled to conciousness in the middle of something on blood - “So, if you donate blood, you have to drink blood to get it back?”. I’ve gotta say though - **jesleigh** has some good ones. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/10 "2003-06-14T08:21:10Z")
Pssssssssst. I don’t know how to break it to you guys, but… It NEVER ends. The same idiots who insist upon making class drag ON and ON by asking obvious questions, or even worse, by asking questions which are really complicated arguments, all to make him/herself seem smart, are going to be the ones doing the SAME damn thing in company meetings, or company training etc. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/11 "2003-06-14T11:55:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by js\_africanus \* > Of course, it makes sense that the Yankee in your class is an idiot. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t have gone down south. 🙂 Son, you bettah watch that mouth afore it runs into sumthin. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/12 "2003-06-14T11:59:44Z")
One of my professors told us about a question he got in history of the middle ages: “Wait-this Martin Luther guy-how could he like, be alive back then in the 1400s, and then like, come back and free the black people?” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![lurker\_anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lurker\_anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurker_anonymous)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/13 "2003-06-14T18:08:59Z")
Since this thread is drifting this way here goes: In class, quite a while ago, talk turned to our great passion here; football. The term “pigskin” came up. One lady spoke up, and asked exactly this “pigskin” was made of. Really, she didn’t get it. Not even after explaining that it was the skin of a pig. Still cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/14 "2003-06-14T18:27:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Western Civ: So, your saying the black plaque killed a few people. WHy didn’t they just go to the doctor or to the dentist, for a good teeth cleaning! 😃 > [@](#): > > “Wait-this Martin Luther guy-how could he like, be alive back then in the 1400s, and then like, come back and free the black people?” Cryogenics, or course! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/15 "2003-06-14T19:06:05Z")
Eighth grade, sex ed. Whole semester of learning about reproduction, venereal disease, the mechanics of doin’ the nasty (and precisely one paragraph on homosexuality, natch). The very last day of class, before our final exams are handed out, the teacher is taking any last minute questions. One notoriously harebrained girl raises her hand and asks, “So, can boys get pregnant?” ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/16 "2003-06-14T20:44:03Z")
I haven’t been privy to that many _stupid_ questions per se, but was constantly subjected to the “never ending questioner”. There’s one in every class. Last semester, in my rhetorical theory and social process class, the teacher was lecturing about different social movements. The girl that was going for the “most annoying student of the year” award wouldn’t stop asking _why_. She was like a goddamn 5 year old. - Why didn’t they do that instead of that? Why weren’t there more of this racial group there? Why did the serve lemonaide at that protest? Why WHY WHY WHY WHY???\* Finally, another student told her to shut the hell up and that our teacher wasn’t _there_ for cryin’ out loud, and he didn’t know _WHY_!!! It was a thing of beauty. Then there was the older woman in my statistics class who had to launch into a 10 minute prelude before asking a question (and she asked about 20 questions per class) _Well, you see, I havne’t been in school for a long time and I’m a little rusty…_ This woldn’t be that bad if she hadn’t just given the same into _5 minutes before!_ The teacher finally told her that he didn’t need an explanation and to just ask the damn question. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/17 "2003-06-14T20:45:18Z")
I almost forgot, **Canvasshoes** is totally right. We’ve got a couple of “annoying students” on staff and we’re forced to listen to the same dumbass “students.” Different atmosphere, same dumbasses. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/18 "2003-06-14T20:46:50Z")
Wow, you can tell how heated I get about this issue by all my freakin’ typos. Sorry folks. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/19 "2003-06-14T23:13:07Z")
That’s when it’s time to find a friend in the back of the class that you two can discuss upcoming classwork and come up with your own crackball theories to answer the questions others have, or just to have crackball theories to toss at the teacher when you have the chance! [sub]I loved high school Biology for this. It was an accelerated class so what should have taken a year took half a year. We had a good half the class that loved to ask the same questions over and over in the space of minutes… on the lecture but already explained at least 3 times. A friend and I came up with some interesting theories during the reproduction unit on why women get morning sickness… Shared the idea with the teacher but he couldn’t shed any more light than what he already had. It was fun though. [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757/20 "2003-06-15T00:20:23Z")
On the subject of annoying Yankees: I was the only Yankee in all of my college classes. Most of the time, it didn’t matter, or even get mentioned unless they were talking about New York City and decided to ask me about it because the common assumption from those Not From Around Here is that all of New York State = NYC. But then there was my English class, where - BEFORE I HAD SAID A WORD BESIDES MY NAME AND MY HOMETOWN, which was how we were told by the professor to introduce ourselves - it was ASSUMED by the teacher and the students that I was an uppity Yankee bitch who thought she spoke English better than everybody else because she didn’t have a “hick accent.” I do not believe that I speak better English than others due to any accent. (I believe that I write better English than others, due simply to the attention I pay to it and the stylebooks I was given to read at the age of 10. This, however, did not factor into the discussion.) I was mocked and put down by THE PROFESSOR for the entire semester, because she assumed that I was one of the aforementioned uppity carpetbaggers who think their culture is better than the Southern one. I hate both the people in the South who buy into that stereotype and the people from the North who perpetuate it through their actions. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-your-freakin-hand-down/181757.md?page=2)