Call me Lenny/Leni to Ask [email protected]English • 3 months agoWhat's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?message-square210fedilinkarrow-up1118
arrow-up1118message-squareWhat's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?Call me Lenny/Leni to Ask [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square210fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink38•3 months ago“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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•3 months ago“I think you’ll find that crossbows are a hitscan weapon 😏”
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠linkfedilink3•3 months agoLmao I guess nobody uses guns to take a fortress either.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•3 months agoDid she think the arrow would just… fly in space for all eternity and never come down or something?
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LeniOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoThey at least sound chiller than the people in the other examples.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoI’m reading this and think, “Oh man… I wish I had shot a cross bow in 4th grade.” This was a college class. Ugh. Wait! Do 4th graders go to college… No. No they don’t.
“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.
“I think you’ll find that crossbows are a hitscan weapon 😏”
Lmao I guess nobody uses guns to take a fortress either.
Did she think the arrow would just… fly in space for all eternity and never come down or something?
Yes, apparently.
They at least sound chiller than the people in the other examples.
I think it was the senility and the tenure
I’m reading this and think, “Oh man… I wish I had shot a cross bow in 4th grade.”
Ugh. Wait! Do 4th graders go to college… No. No they don’t.