*makes a small mistake*
brain: the world is ending
me: no it’s not? i made just one simple mistake it’s actually really not that big of a deal?
brain: it’s Doomsday™
(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
Heartbreaking Simpsons Moments 1/∞: Bart Gets an FI never understood why it’s an F if he gets more than half out of 100? Unless it’s more than 100. If you get more than half the answers right how is it an F?
You must not be from America. Here, grading is fucked up.
Average American Grading Scale:
A+- 97-100
A - 94-96
A- - 90-93
B- 80-89
C- 70-79
D- 60-69
F- 59 and underAnd in some places in America it goes by a 7 point scale, so it’d be
A - 100-93
B - 92-85
C - 84-78
D - 77-70
F - 69 and belowNow you understand why American kid’s feel like there’s no point to school. If you have a 100 question text, and get 79 of them correct, that’s a C. That mean’s your Average Intelligence on this particular subject. And it get’s even worse when you have only like… a 10 question quiz. If you get two wrong? that’s a B. 80 fucking %. Now tell me again why American school’s are easier?
No wait but whats the grading system in other countries?
UK Grading Scale
100-70: A
69-60: B
59-50: C
49-40: D
Below 40: F
next time you try to tell americans that we’re stupid
i’m gonna remind you
that our “average” is your “A”
#is that true?
Yep I was shocked when I heard this in a different post but a Google search pulls up a ton of sites backing this up.
Shit son I woulda passed College Algebra with an A in the UK. And I spent the end of the semester in perpetual fear that I would fail and have to retake the class.And basically as an American you’re expected to get 80 or higher. Technically 70s are considered ‘average’ but there is such a level of pressure to get a B or higher, that Cs have become equal to Ds. Basically anything under 60 you might as well gotten a 0, and anything between 60-80 is considered practically failing. So basically schools have to be designed to make sure majority of students are getting 80s or higher on specific topics, which means you’re spending all your time going over a few choice facts a billion times and there is very little room to teach anything else. Which explains why American schools are of such low quality. The insane demand on the students ends up wrecking their education. Not only do you not have time to teach them anything, but they end up hating learning. Even outside of school your life is dedicated to memorizing these few dumb facts because your homework ends up taking hours of your time. A teacher from one subject says they expect you to spend 2 hours every night on their homework. And if you’re studying 5 subjects and they all demand that 2 hours? Good fucking luck, because if you don’t have straight all 80s or higher you’re not getting into a good college and college degrees have somehow become the minimum requirement for getting jobs.
I spent most of my junior year of high school in a state of constant panic that I was going to get a C in Honors Physics much less fail the class. If I got a C on my report card, I was grounded until the next one. I lost count of the times I’d wake up at five in the morning to take the early bus to go in for zero hour before school actually started for the day
File this under the exact reason so many Americans detest going to school.
Also if you get a C or a D in a college course, most colleges don’t give you the credit of taking that class, so you have to retake it.
(Source: jonbutter)
people who slip into proper grammar when they’re upset are terrifying
If they are calm, collected, not swearing and looking you right in the eye you better pray they are merciful even if you’re atheist because otherwise they will not spare you the dignity.
(via clockwork-mockingbird)
the thing that really worked about harry, hermione, and ron was that they were all the uncomfortable third friend
bless j. k. rowling
(via yea-lets-do-this-shit)
Since I know there’s probably a fair amount of you out there who haven’t seen the first three Mad Max movies, I’m here to tell you a li’l secret about them:
All the people complaining about how Max “isn’t the main character” in Fury Road are big ol’ Fake Fanboys cause Max’s primary character trait in literally every movie is “I hate this, why is it happening, please leave me alone to brood in the desert in peace”.
He’s much more the central focus of the plot in the first movie but in Road Warrior and Thunder Dome he basically just gets kidnapped or beat up by wankers in weird bondage outfits and spends the rest of the movie trying to leave as soon as possible while other people are like “please solve our absurd post-apocalyptic problems”. There is not one single point where Max actively seeks out being a hero until it is forced upon him. He ACTIVELY TELLS PEOPLE WHO ASK HIM FOR HELP to take a hike.
Mad Max himself would like nothing better than to never, ever, ever be the main character.
He would also like for people to stop stealing his fucking car.
(via desertqueenfuriosa)
congratulations to Minerva McGonagall on her pending retirement today, who is going to look down at her list of first years and see “James Sirius Potter” and just call it a fucking day
(via clockwork-mockingbird)
girl code
Truth.
This. I hold grudges against people who did stuff to my friends or family forever, it doesn’t matter if that friend forgives the person, I will dislike and distrust them forever.
THIS.
Guilty as charged.
(via yea-lets-do-this-shit)
The one thing you never say to a 911 police dispatcher….
“You just sit behind a desk with a headset, how stressful can your job really be?”
How stressed would you be if this was your daily shift?
A child calls 911. “My mommy and daddy are melting. They won’t wake up.” [Child’s parents have been murdered and are covered in their own blood, child is 4 and doesn’t know their location.]
A man, middle-aged: He tells you that he has a gun and he’s going to shoot himself. You hear his wife in the background and his kids are crying. You hear his wife ask “What are you doing!? NO!” and the sound of a gunshot. You hear the gunshot again. The kids have stopped crying. The man is heard, and hangs up. [Family murder and suicide.]
A woman in hysterics: Her vehicle became stranded on the road. A man offered to help her, and instead abducted one of her small children. The woman won’t calm down to give you pertinent information and becomes suicidal.
A man calls, young adult: You can hear scuffling and nothing else at first, and then the sounds of pain. The caller manages to tell you he’s been shot. You hear someone else in the room, and you stay on the phone while trying to get information from the caller and listen to his death rattles as he dies on the line. [Caller was shot by an intruder.]
A woman calls, elderly: There is an intruder on her property. She sounds calm, a little confused as to why he’s there. She doesn’t seem to know where she is. Suddenly she is heard screaming bloody murder, over and over, as he kills her on the line. Link to Call: (Very graphic, you hear her die.)
And then the plethora of calls like assaults, DUI, medical (where yes, sometimes they die as you walk them through what to do until EMS gets there. It’s very easy to feel responsible for things you have no control of) angry complaints about burger king making their burger wrong, suicides…the list goes on and on. And these can sometimes be daily occurrences depending on where you work.
Dispatchers are also prone to PTSD due to exposure to listening to people dying from violence, health problems, accidents, auto accidents, and other things the 911 dispatcher must respond to on a sometimes daily basis.
And, most importantly, dispatchers carry on their shoulders their officer’s safety. Knowing where they are, where they are going, if there is danger where they’re going, getting them the help they need immediately, and sometimes even listening to an officer be killed over the radio.
It is a harsh job and not meant for everyone, and nobody should ever say you are just “Sitting behind a desk with a headset on.”
These people should be lauded as heroes. If rather be a cop than a 911 dispatcher. Hearing this happen in real time and being powerless to stop it. That would break me in a second. Just thinking of that makes me want to cry.
(via lupinatic)
so today i found out that i’m allowed to carry a knife with me to school as long as it’s smaller than 3 ½ inches but i still can’t show my shoulders and if thats not a perfect description of american schooling idk what is
COVER YOUR SHOULDERS WITH KNIVES
Shoulder blades.
(Source: georgeweasly, via clockwork-mockingbird)
