School ProjectsMostlySunny wibbles, "When I was 11 I got an A for my study of shark nets - mostly because I handed it in cut out in the shape of a shark."
Do people do projects that don't involve google-cut-paste any more? What fine tat have you glued together for teacher?
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chthonic, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 13:36)
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First postFirst post, sorry for lack of funnies.
I was a good kid at school except for the the unfortunate fact that I never did homework. Not because I was a disruptive kid or anything, I was pretty bright, got my exams etc, but I was the laziest person ever. Not doing homework however well-behaved you are tends to get you noticed after a time, and after a couple of years I had more detentions than the truants who smoked weed in town and knifed each other. And of course the dreaded parents evenings rolled around.
A couple of weeks before parents evening I'd start making an effort, and one year became especially memorable. I had a DT project that I was supposed to have done over three months. I'd done some basic design work, and had planned to build a guillotine. The night before it was due in me and my father were cutting wood, and sheet metal, and produced a not bad little speciman. However next to the other projects I knew it would look pretty poor, so I nicked a barbie doll from my sister, and a couple of sachets of ketchup from the school canteen, carried it in to demonstrate. Everyone was watching very very intently, and I thought it might not be so bad.
Halfway through I realised this looked pyschotic. (I had stuck a printout of Robespierre's head onto a stick- geek, lazy and now pyschotic) but carried grimly on, with my ketchup smeared barbie and working guillotine. I stumbled through until the end, when I at last happened to look down at my shirt, soaked through by the morning rain, and of course a dark bra underneath.
At that point I definitely thought fuck it, I'll risk the parents evening. Never did another project.
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 20:36,
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if you read it all as like youre a guythen yeah, the dark bra bit is a little strange.
as a woman, it's only the Robespierre aspect that makes you seem nuts :)
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YeahFemale, and trust me when you are fourteen or so there is nothing you want less in a DT class. And yeah I did look nuts.
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 10:00,
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