• @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      21 year ago

      They said “no Google and no Wikipedia,” not “Google and Wikipedia were not as widespread as they are today”

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            61 year ago

            The subject became “stupid shit teachers say that is not applicable in the real world” and in that context the subject never changed. They were probably told “you won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time” as well as “don’t using the internet(google and Wikipedia) as sources” which was very common to be told around the time when they would have been in school. I’m not attacking you I just think you misunderstood as everyone is possible of doing.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              21 year ago

              Perhaps you should entertain the idea that you misunderstood. I suppose it’s also possible that OC is just not very good at expressing themselves.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                31 year ago

                Maybe they aren’t good at expressing themselves but it makes sense with my point of view where as taking your viewpoint it’s just nonsense. Maybe they had a point of view where it makes sense. Where they are coming from it makes the comment make sense where if we follow yours we just think everyone else is an idiot with no room for fault of your own. That’s fine if you are always right but you are not, as with everyone.

                  • VaultBoyNewVegas
                    link
                    fedilink
                    21 year ago

                    Aww snookums, I was only providing an anecdote to the comment I replied too, no need to get bent out of shape over it. And fyi teachers were still telling us that we wouldn’t always have calculators when I was 16 doing my GCSEs and learning algebra and compound interest for an exam where we had two papers with calculators used and one where we weren’t allowed calculators.