NEWS: Fuck Carpe Diem

CULTURE: Fuck Carpe Diem

A high school teacherl in England sent his class home to make them see how every moment is a precious gift. He also told them that “an asteroid was about to hit Earth and kill them all.”

I don’t think it would be an issue of not “seizing the day” but an issue of “crapping my pants.”

I wonder how many babies were made that day...

That teacher is pretty cool...

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Well, it is something to consider.

ugh. crappy double post


[Edited on Nov 19, 2004 11:52PM]

Ok, Ok... we get it. Cherish life EVERY DAMN SECOND.

Heh.

apocalypses are COOL.

and don't forget the other lesson about not beleiving everything you're told even if it seems to come from the highest authority..
now that's teaching!

We had a teacher in my nineth year who told anecdotes about his wonderful dog all year. He even had a picture of it on his desk next to the picture of his fiancee.

At the end of the year he told us that he didn't really have a dog, and that he just told his students that so they wouldn't harrass him.

From the moment I heard him say he didn't have a dog, I never trusted that man again.

Also, in my fourth year I watched a movie about how the sun was going to implode in "the not so distant" future, and I didn't sleep for two weeks.

Personally I think it was a cruel joke for this teacher to play, and I would have hoped he'd have better training.

hahahaha heheheehe. how very dead poets'....

"Dead Poets Society" is one of the most overrated movies of all time. It's ghastly.

dude, so ummm...oh wait i

I guess it worked. Now how many people do you think would have, as first impulse, created a thread to that effect on SG? Until next time...

What an asshole.

"Your Mom has inoperable cancer .... PSYCH!!!" HAHHAHAHAHAHAH

Some shit just ain't funny.

Oh come on you guys have to admit this is a little funny.

No, it's really not.

Ok, so even if your stupid ass believed this "collision course" story when it was announced, you only believed it for like 15 minutes. You leave school, go home, check the news.. oh, that's right, you're a moron.

I'm saddened that kids were stupid enough to think that we're not technologically advanced enough to know a bit ahead of time when a huge asteroid is coming to destroy the earth.

And then when you check the news, and realize it was a joke, you now have an entire day off from school to have a great day. I see no problem, except in people being this gullible.


This teacher is hilarious, and I truly wonder how many kids lived it up that day, like he wanted them to. I wish this happened to me when I was in high school. It would've been good times a plenty.

on the other hand there's four fingers and a thumb...

What is it with the obsession over asteroids hitting the Earth and killing everyone? Is it because of movies?

This reminds me of that "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast back in the little-green-men obsessed era (1938). Of course , back then, people listened to the radio as a legitimate news source.

It is pathetic that students are this gullible. I wonder if any of them spoke out during class and argued with the teacher. Didn't anyone ask for any details, like the source of the information, etc.?

This proves my point I've made off and on that school students don't seem to be taught how to critically think. They are taught to memorize what the teacher says and regurgitate it for standardized testing. Asking questions just confuses the teacher and takes up class time - at least that's the general attitude.

The only foreseeable destruction of the Earth is going to be caused by the lemming-like, unquestioning gullibility of the planet's inhabitants. And to think, this is what it's like in an industrialized nation!

If an asteroid was about to hit the Earth, death would be caused by those flipping through the channels trying to find proof.

Gullibility and trust of an authority figure are two completely different things. If you question every single detail in life- it proves you aren't learning.

seems to me that he HAS taught these kids to question what they're told.

when and where has it ever been any different? where did you come from?

But to do it by telling them that everyone on Earth is about to die?

That's a little beyond extreme.

What would be really hillarious would be Darth Vader saying "Luuuke, I am your father." Luke bawls like a sissy...then Vader says "Psych!"....

I need to lay off the crack.