I got this posted in one of my seldom commented threads. The name has been redacted to protect the identity of the author. I have one other, but this one is better written.
I wish there was a way to just email you ---
Since there isn't, i'll do it this way.
I'd like to ask you a favor. I know I have no right to ask you for a favor, but I'm going to anyway, and I know either way, you'll give it fair consideration and I can live with your choice whatever that is.
I hate butting into battles that aren't my own.
I always feel really incomfortable when people are going head to head with each other, and it starts to get really ugly.
I understand your point of view. I do.
I understand it about the cover post and comments.
I understand it about her personality and posts in general.
I've actually fought with myself and have had to hold back NOT to call her elitist, pompous, narcissistic blah blah....and especially when she complains about her students being stupid....i think that's the worst of it all and i would not want my college profs writing that about me, that's for sure....
i've actually felt attacked on more than one occasion as I've responded sincerely to some of her posts.
But-
(i know you aren't gonna buy the buts gumpy, but i'm still going to but you-)
This is how i feel....sometimes, the way you prove you are better than someone, is to ignore what they say.
I've come to believe that this person must be very very unhappy in her life gumpy....and isn't that punishment enough without having to stoop to her level and fling insults?
Enough, no? enough has been said. Sometimes you just have to say what you think and let it go....otherwise it looks like you're enjoying the kill too much....and that would make you cruel and unkind. i know you are neither....
Don't become like the thing you abhor, ok?
You'll not get ed to agree with you. He defends her like a brother.
Sometimes people defend those they care about ---right, wrong, or indifferent.
Love is blind, you know.
So, a stranger asks you to be the bigger man here.....
Let it go.
Have compassion for her even though she doesn't appear to offer the same to anyone else. It makes you better. In the eyes of others gumpy, it makes you bigger.
I'm sorry for butting in. I rarely do that.
I'd appreciate you deleting this when you've read it.
GumpyJumptooth posted on Jan 02, 2007
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GumpyJumptooth said on Jan 02, 2007....
And now, the glory and the majesty of teaching, and of rhetoric. From one of the world's leading self-proclaimed experts.
And I am to the point if I read one more stinking bad paper, I am going to walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs.
Perhaps if your students are unable to write, you should take it up with their teacher? Their teacher must really be bad at teaching for you to have so many bad papers to grade. If only the teacher were a world-class self-proclaimed expert in rhetoric?
As with the first-year Composition course, I find myself shaking my head upon reading some of the sentences my students come up with and leave in their documents. I wonder to myself, "Do you realize what that really sounds like?"
So, I thought I would share with you, some gems that came from my Organizational and Professional writing class, that brought me up short:
* While I do not plan on commanding as much respect as some of the other managers storewide, I would like to be treated as if my job has more importance and significance than the position I previously held.
* I will try to apply fair scheduling practices to all of the employees working underneath me.
* This can be a winning situation for all parties involved, as I plan to be a rather lax manager and plan to make my employee interaction my top priority.
* I would like to improve your department so it runs more efficiently. (From the objective on a student resume.)
* To persuade to change a little bits that could be changed and to let the people involved in the situation know our opinions. (Written in response to the question "What is the overall purpose of your document?" on a documentation plan for a major project.)
As with the previous list of Gems, I shall periodically add to this list in the original post. Do check back .
Again, you'd have to check with their teacher, wouldn't you? It's lucky for the students, though, that the time which could have been spent better instructing them has been spent, instead, culling their papers for funny things to entertain people on SoulCast with!
Hopefully, one of the students will wander in, read what they have written, and realize how much you value them and their work. Also hopefully, it will not cause them to reflect on how much they are paying per credit hour for you to fail to instruct them in writing a bit better.
I note none of them chose to use "big hairy gorilla balls" in their writing.
I've spent the entire semester going over the concept of a thesis with my students. It's something that we start going over the first day of the first semester of freshmen Composition every semester. Yet here it is exam week, and I am grading final papers only to find that after 15 weeks, some of my students have no idea what an thesis is. How do I know this, you might ask. Because I get beauties like this:
Alcoholism is a major problem that affects not only alcohol abusers but also their family and friends too.
/sighs
OK, wait a second. This is kinda like being told Superman is dead. You mean after a SEMESTER of quality education from the world's leading self-proclaimed expert in rhetoric, these kinds can't write like Shakespeare? Well, that's only natural. You can't teach EVERYONE.
One can easily see that you would never hold your student's work up to ridicule or blame them for your inability to teach. Since the students aren't being paid to be there. Nor proclaiming themselves experts in studentry.
That teacher in Stand And Deliver? Jaime Escalante? I guess he was just lucky. I mean, he wasn't a self-proclaimed expert in ANYTHING! I suppose he was just a good teacher who held himself personally responsible for the education of his students.
Rather than bitching about their inability to soak up all his EXPERTise and genius?
Here's what happens when students have a teacher more concerned with THEIR STUDENTS' genius and expertise than THEIR OWN. Oh, and less concerned with bitching like a martyr about the fact that they have to grade papers. (What caliber of gun do they hold to your head when they force you to be a teacher again?)
To this end Escalante recruited fellow teacher Ben Jimenez and taught calculus to 5 students, 2 of whom passed the A.P. calculus test. The following year the class had increased in size to 9 students, 7 of whom passed the A.P. calculus test. By 1981 the class had increased to 15 students, 14 of whom passed.
In 1982 he came into the national spotlight when 18 of his students passed the Advanced Placement calculus exam. The Educational Testing Service found these scores to be suspect and asked 14 of those who passed to take the exam again. Twelve of the 14 agreed to retake the test and did well enough to have their scores reinstated.
In 1983 the number of students enrolling and passing the A.P. calculus test increased over 100 percent. That year 33 students took the exam and 30 passed. That year Escalante also started teaching calculus at East Los Angeles College.
By 1987 the program had escalated to the point where 73 students passed the A.P. calculus AB exam and another 12 students passed the BC version (accelerated) of the test. This was the peak for the calculus program.
Gosh, what the hell did HE know? He didn't even have the luxury of the internet so he could ridicule his students' math problems and bitch about his inability to teach them! You know, like the world's leading self-proclaimed experts on rhetoric?
If only...if only...well, if only those students had something to shoot for, you know? Some piece of brilliant writing which could inspire them to the HEIGHTS of RHETORIC that only their teacher had managed to attain...
Something like THIS perhaps?
You growl against my wetness and the vibrations of the growl send little ripples of pleasure through me.
The thought, "God…I am so close," reverberates through my head, and then the words burst out of me.
A muffled growl comes from between my legs as the thrusts of your tongue come more furiously and the stroke of your fingers plunging in and out of my ass increases in tempo.
And just as I am ready, your tongue slips out of me, and my clit is caught between your teeth. A tiny nip and then the lap of a tongue with just the right pressure as you work a third finger in my ass. Waves of pleasure crash over me as I begin to orgasm. Another tiny nip at my clit punctuates the crest of my orgasm.
I'm sure all the OTHER world-leading experts on rhetoric will be clamoring over this at a major conference or in some lofty publication we mortals don't know about. Soon. Very soon.
I'll be back with more Gems later. Do check in. -
mom said on Jan 04, 2007....
I must say that I am always amazed at your ability to make people dislike you, I still feel sorry for you, Jumbo -
GumpyJumptooth said on Jan 04, 2007....
Ah, the racist speaks.
It may interest you to know that I am extremely popular with the people you call "colored." Why would such a proponent of love and world peace like yourself use such a derogatory and out-of-vogue term?
And people call ME offensive.
Oh, and an ANONYMOUS blog site ain't a "community" or a popularity contest.
Check out just under your header bar. Does it say "Soulcast. A community of holier-than-thou writers of bad porn?" No. Does it say "Soulcast. Where friendship trumps reality?" Again, no.
It says, "Soulcast. Uncensored blogging." So, that's what you'll be getting.
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GumpyJumptooth said on Jan 04, 2007....
Thank you! Thank you ALL so much.
I've been reading some other blogs and the amount of laughter derived is truly mind-boggling.
PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS????? Yeah. A post on an open blog site is PRIVATE. Retarded.
Of course, I had deleted the original post, while telling SL I might use part of her post later. Then I deleted all evidence. If she didn't see it, that is unfortunate, but that's what happens when trying to communicate in this NON-PRIVATE forum.
And, of course, I'M not the one who REVEALED the person's identity. I'm the one that REMOVED it. See?
The person pointing fingers at others is the one with the laughable pompous view of himself in this little world--and is the one who revealed that person's identity.
I view the notion that SoulCast is a PRIVATE forum as that of an ignorant shitbrained moron.
But, I think the CIA will soon be sending covert messages posted openly on threads in SoulCast due to the fact that it's so fucking private.
As for rudeness, when someone proves themself to be totally nepotistic and wanting to castigate one party, and not the miserable cunt, they have proven themselves quite clearly to value a friendship with a failed teacher over the reality of the situation.
Funny how that ten times answered question: "What does 'that sucks!" bring to a conversation or how can it not be considered rude?" never ever got answered, isn't it?
And, when someone wants to show me that they want to be a miserable cunt, well then, all bets are off. If we want to play rudely and call it friendship with another person upon review? Fine and dandy.
Then we'll just be rude. While still extremely accurate.
And just another question, quickly asked here, but further explored in a later post:
Do ALL the fucking morons on SoulCast write really, really bad porn? Or just all the ones I've encountered so far?
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