• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    “Medieval armies didn’t use crossbows when attacking castles.”

    My hand immediately shot up. “What are you talking about? Of course they did.”

    My elderly history teacher replied “no, they didn’t.”

    Me “Why do you think that?”

    Her “because crossbows fire in a straight line so they would just shoot over the castle.”

    I looked at my classmates, hoping they would see how insane this is. They were looking at me like I grew a second head.

    Me “that’s not true. At all.”

    Her, getting slightly annoyed, “how do you know?”

    Me “well for one, I’ve fired a crossbow, I know how they work. For two, they had GRAVITY BACK THEN, the bolt comes back down!”

    Her, and some of the class “ooooh!”

    Her “well anyway…” And continues the lesson.

    This was a college class.

  • the dopamine fiend@lemmy.world
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    Pores in latex condoms bigger than the AIDS virus.

    Fuck a science class, that motherfucker shouldn’t have been allowed near the school.

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      Pores in latex lamb skin condoms bigger than the AIDS virus.

      That’s probably what they were going for, but you’d think a teacher in that position would check their data if challenged.

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    You should be enjoying the school years cause they’ll be the best of your life. Said by someone who very obviously peaked in high school.

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    I had a teacher confidently tell the class that Mt. Everest didn’t border China (well Tibet really, but that’s a battle for another day). I will say she was able to concede she was mistaken. I had another teacher hit on me when I was in high school while I was alone with her in the copy room. I had always heard some salacious rumors about her, but I always assumed they were just idle gossip until that day. That was a different kind of wrong. And no, I didn’t take her up on the advance.

    I’m assuming English isn’t your first language, so just as an FYI, wrongest isn’t a word. “Most false” is probably the best fit in this instance. Just one of those weird quirks of this bastard language.

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      You’re right, it’s my second language. My first/native language actually doesn’t have official spelling rules, so yeah, it’s a handful.

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        Hey, OP, they’re wrong. Not the wrongest they could have been, but it is indeed a word. A quick check with any online dictionary will confirm that.

        It might be considered poor style to use it in educated language, where “most wrong”, “most incorrect” or “most false” might be better choices, which is probably the context they were thinking of, but it’s definitely a word and people do use it.