The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

What cutting your head off, you bougie ****?

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Recently switched to Colt 45 High Gravity since it's .4% more alcohol and a dollar less a six pack. Tastes like the color grey marinated in urine though.

Yes, I remember drinking that stuff: tastes like the can it comes in.

Most decent beers in England and Mexico are around 4%, which I consider a comfortable strength to enjoy, but measure how how drunk you're getting.
In England they sell Carlsburg Special Brew which used to take people by surprise as it was 9% proof. In fact, I think the government forced the brewery to reduce the alcohol content, as too many people were thinking,"Well it's just beer, how strong can it be?"

[The Batlord]

**** England.

[SGR]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

What cutting your head off, you bougie ****?

I could make peace with that, as long as you'd give me a whopper with a large fry as my last meal.

[The Batlord]

Might as well wash it down with Colt 45 in a paper cup, you dirty bitch.

[adidasss]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Yes, I remember drinking that stuff: tastes like the can it comes in.

Most decent beers in England and Mexico are around 4%, which I consider a comfortable strength to enjoy, but measure how how drunk you're getting.
In England they sell Carlsburg Special Brew which used to take people by surprise as it was 9% proof. In fact, I think the government forced the brewery to reduce the alcohol content, as too many people were thinking,"Well it's just beer, how strong can it be?"

No kidding. I'm also buying the Carlsberg Special Brew in Malaysia, it used to be 8.8 now it's down to 6.5%. I thought it was just because it's a Muslim country and they're doing their best to prohibit alcohol in general.

In Italy I used to drink the Moretti Double Malt at 7%, Duvel is at 8.5% and is great, most trappist beers are at 7-8, anything more than 9% starts tasting like medicinal alcohol.

[OccultHawk]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...rnd/index.html

Wisconsin teachers put on administrative leave after asking students how they would 'punish' slaves

Yadayada

But check this out:

The school district said it will have its social studies curriculum review committee examine the department's teaching practices "with the lens of racial trauma and curriculum violence," it said.

WTF does that mean?

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...rnd/index.html

Wisconsin teachers put on administrative leave after asking students how they would 'punish' slaves

Yadayada

But check this out:



WTF does that mean?

it's probably gross manager language for 'checking if the teaching practices at the school reinforce racial traumas and normalise violence by keeping it ingrained in the curriculum' or something.
yikes to those teachers though, wtf

[OccultHawk]

You know at all levels of education and even polls and questionnaires there’s a problem with pigeonholing responses. The slave scenario aside, no matter what the hypothetical, the question should be more open ended to encourage critical thinking. A much better question would be “How would you react?” then “How would you react if not following Hammurabi’s Code was punishable with YOU being flogged?” “...killed” “...family killed” or “the slave explains he was stolen from his family and he asks for your help to escape but that could mean punishment and death to you and your family...What would you like to believe you would have done? Do you believe that’s what you would have really done?

I taught American slavery and some of the black kids felt like my heavy emphasis on the violence made their ancestors come off as weak which would invite the questions what is weakness and who’s really being weak. I spent a long time on Nat Turner and successful slave rebellions in Haiti. And made every effort not to soften any violence and death. I explained how rape and torture were used as psychological weapons. How the skin was ripped off their backs when they were whipped. How some slave owners allowed for funerals while others would have the slaves work around a family member’s corpse rather than slow down production for a single day.

History is mostly one horrific event after the other. Never received a complaint on content. I don’t know what “curriculum violence” is supposed to mean. History is violent af. Don’t blame the messenger. But don’t be a moronic teacher that assumes the administering of punishment was the only possibility instead of recognizing the reality that the truth and morality is open ended and (yes) nuanced. The Nat Turner story and the reality vs the myth lends itself to many critical thinking questions. Plus, I love the story. Believe me my students heard the name Nat Turner a hundred times for every time they heard the name Abraham Lincoln. I had some incredible stuff on Harriet Tubman, as well. And scathing hateful lectures on Andrew Jackson. I roasted that piece of **** non-stop lol. I ridiculed the text and “Jacksonian Democracy”.

I didn’t give a **** what they told me to teach. I was an anti-America machine!

[Psy-Fi]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

WTF does that mean?

Sounds like typical lingo out of the lexicon of the loony left.