Badenoch's (Lack Of) Vision Quest

[briantrumpet]

Wonder if this is why comparatively few state school kids get put forward. If anyone demonstrated a sense of humour in our school, we got detention.

It is one of the privileges of doing one-to-one lessons that I can explore/utilise humour in a way that is difficult in a classroom without everything going haywire.

 

[First Aspect]

It is one of the privileges of doing one-to-one lessons that I can explore/utilise humour in a way that is difficult in a classroom without everything going haywire.

I have no idea how anyone thinks doing something like trying to teach physics to teenagers is going to end well.

 

[Pblakeney]

I have no idea how anyone thinks doing something like trying to teach physics to teenagers is going to end well.

Slightly less risky than teaching chemistry. 😂 A diversion - Something popped up on FB last week that made me ponder. Anyone else remember 10 year olds being given chemistry sets as presents? Chemistry sets that involved dangerous combinations?

 

[C R]

I have no idea how anyone thinks doing something like trying to teach physics to teenagers is going to end well.

I was a teenager when I got interested in physics...

 

[First Aspect]

Slightly less risky than teaching chemistry. 😂 A diversion - Something popped up on FB last week that made me ponder. Anyone else remember 10 year olds being given chemistry sets as presents? Chemistry sets that involved dangerous combinations?

Worse still, indoor fireworks. Remember those?

 

[briantrumpet]

Slightly less risky than teaching chemistry. 😂 A diversion - Something popped up on FB last week that made me ponder. Anyone else remember 10 year olds being given chemistry sets as presents? Chemistry sets that involved dangerous combinations?

Most I got round to was trying to make soap. Is that dangerous?

 

[briantrumpet]

Worse still, indoor fireworks. Remember those?

I think they do in France.

 

[briantrumpet]

I have no idea how anyone thinks doing something like trying to teach physics to teenagers is going to end well.

One of my brightest pupils got inspired by a fantastic (Oxon PhD) pysics teacher at my school, went and read physics at Oxford himself, and loves it so much that he's now teaching it to teenagers. He once apologised for not having done much practice, and when I asked why, it was because he was playing the lead part in a Shakespeare play outside of school. As you do, when you're studying for A levels.

 

[Pblakeney]

Worse still, indoor fireworks. Remember those?

Can’t say that I do. OTOH, I do remember Guy Fawkes bonfires in the garden with the added combination of alcohol and fireworks. It went wrong on a frequent basis and to this day I’m surprised nobody was hospitalised. There were a few minor burns.

 

[Pblakeney]

Most I got round to was trying to make soap. Is that dangerous?

Soap? Where’s the fun in that?

 

[First Aspect]

Soap? Where’s the fun in that?

Won't someone think of the horses?

(Extension of an old joke about the French and horses, and where soap comes from. I realise you won't all get i to Oxford because of your tangential sense(s) of humour, so... )

 

[briantrumpet]

Won't someone think of the horses?

(Extension of an old joke about the French and horses, and where soap comes from. I realise you won't all get i to Oxford because of your tangential sense(s) of humour, so... )

But how can you have a sense of humour if you went to a state school and don't use emojis?

 

[First Aspect]

But how can you have a sense of humour if you went to a state school and don't use emojis?

Emojis were devised by Germans who need to explain the jokes they haven't made.

 

[briantrumpet]

Emojis were devised by Germans who need to explain the jokes they haven't made.

I think that the version of Mein Kampf with emojis is so much more communictive.

 

[briantrumpet]

I think that the version of Mein Kampf with emojis is so much more communictive.

I don't think Gemini has a sense of humour.