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People should be free to study what they want, and they usually don't get to. That's because school is about learning obedience to authority figures for your future supervisor. Not learning.

Don't blame teachers for this institutional failure.

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[–] red_rising 93 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Hate to spoil it for you but a lot of teachers do that kind of stuff on purpose. If it’s cringy and students hate it or it ends up being funny, that reaction itself will help kids remember it.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It’s also just fun to watch you guys get upset over bad jokes/memes.

[–] red_rising 19 points 7 months ago

Definitely entertaining as well!

[–] tjsauce 4 points 7 months ago

You either die based, or live long enough to see yourself become cringé

[–] Donkter 27 points 7 months ago

Teachers who do this to teenagers who think they have it all figured out live for this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do it in my slides at my workplace. I love hearing the groans when I make a bad joke. I'm not sure why.

[–] red_rising 12 points 7 months ago

I think it’s on par with Rick rolling someone. Plus, if they are groaning, they are paying attention…barely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I'm 15 years removed from school now but my god do I still remember the cringy song they used to teach us all of the wavelengths of radiation. All of us from that class do, it's crazy how good it actually works. And if i ever need to figure out which one is stronger I just sing the song and I get the order.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rage-bait has even infected classrooms? Fuck.

[–] red_rising 8 points 7 months ago

Nothing says rage bait like dad jokes and old memes……

[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago

It's definitely cringy, but I often admired the attempts when my uni lecturers tried.

Meme culture evolves rapidly, especially nowadays - and for a job that already has a fucked work-life balance, the fact that they're even trying to keep up is admirable.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] Crafter72 6 points 7 months ago
[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I'm an idiot. I googled it and found Southwest flights and got confused. Then I spent a few minutes thinking it was some web comic code like how we do xkcd numbers, and looked for web comics titles that match SW.

Then my smut brain kicked in and I remembered what the code was for.

[–] Alexstarfire 9 points 7 months ago
[–] naticus 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] feedum_sneedson 8 points 7 months ago

Evidently Japanese porn has codes, evidently the top panel is from Japanese porn, evidently that guy has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Japanese porn.

[–] cccrontab 2 points 7 months ago

Doing God's work over here!

[–] TheBat 1 points 7 months ago

Censored or uncensored?

[–] spookex 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

People should be free to study what they want, and they usually don't get to. That's because school is about learning obedience to authority figures for your future supervisor. Not learning.

It's not that deep bro

[–] Jackcooper 7 points 7 months ago

Sometimes the real cringe is in OPs comment

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

The only thing cringier is the body of text you posted with the image

[–] taiyang 7 points 7 months ago

I teach at uni and instead of memes, I just make really dark throwaway lines. "Y'all need to turn this in on time. I can't fail half the class... again". That's my least dark line this past week; I blame Craig Ferguson for me randomly adding "again" or "yet" to very dark or very flamboyant things.

Mind, I teach social psych, which covers stuff like aggression. Tagging on a "except that one time we don't talk about" in regards to murder is just, idk, fun.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 7 points 7 months ago

My 60yo boss hit us gen-x, millennials, and gen z employees with a 2010 meme.

It was so incredibly cringy. And it was that point where we all realized how we looked when we meme up our presentations.

[–] expatriado 7 points 7 months ago

sharing memes became popular on the Internet 15+ years ago, it is a multigenerational thing now

[–] Crafter72 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Funnily during my college, one of our lecturer is "cool" by adding some funny memes on certain hard part of lecture. Can say it helps for some people to remember as learning can be fun too and to keep everyone relaxed.

But yes if you're trying to meme so hard with 10 years old of meme, and then the audience does not understand them, it does feels awkward for some people, like who does rage comic panel in 2023?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

If done well, it doesn't have to be cringe.

[–] feedum_sneedson 1 points 7 months ago