I had a physics teacher who was mostly very mild-mannered,
patient, calm and fair. Really good teacher. One lesson we drifted on to this topic and one bright spark piped up decrying the whole thing. Quietly, the teacher asked him to explain why he thought this. A chill descended over the class as everyone (bar genius-boy) picked up on the icy tone of the question. So he plowed in to all this balls.

Once he'd finished spouting, the teacher methodically ripped his arguments to shreds. Just.... demolished them, mercilessly. She then turned away from the stunned pupil to tell us how it displeases her to hear this nonsense as it is disrespectful to all of the brave and clever people involved, particulary as the points raised are so incredibly flimsy.

We left that class with new respect (and a teensy bit of fear) for that teacher. Numbnuts stopped asking quite so many stupid questions.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 18:39, Reply)