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[Andy]

THIS HAS LASTED FAR TOO LONG AND IT IS GETTING MY GOAT

[Maynard,]

I was not oversimplifying your political views. I was oversimplifying your reasons for arguing.

EDIT: While I disagree with you politically, I generally try not to be dismissive of political ideas. I'd like to think my political views would work if implemented, but a lot of ideas that work in theory don't work in practice.

[webber Cooledge]

james loves hitler

[Captain Hot Stuff]

I got 11.5 out of 20 for a creative writing assignment. I have no problem with constructive criticism, but it really shits me when my teacher focuses entirely on things like cliches, hackneyed phrases, and constant urging for our writing (word choice etc, not story/plot) to be "fresh and original." Just because a word is original doesn't neccesarily mean it's good and just because something is cliche doesn't neccesarily mean it's bad. He's too obsessed with the aesthetics of writing; he doesn't teach us anything about how to make a good plot. It's a style over substance approach and I hate it.

Example: there are two ways for a gun to fall to the ground. It either "skitters", or it "clatters." If that's cliche, it's because that's the best way to describe it. God forbid I should use those words instead of coming up with some awkward metaphor.

In conclusion, I'm gonna go eat a big bucket of ice cream to make myself feel better.

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

Pretty retarded.

Since he's such an ignorant douche I guess all that could be done is to cater to this strange literary view, and say when a gun falls it makes a "tickadinkling" sound.

[Dollo]

Perhaps it could fall to the floor with a "chime". Does that even make sense? No. No it doesn't.

[Terry Cheesecake]

The gun fell to the floor like a dropped weapon.

[Captain Hot Stuff]

I dunno. I mean I guess the entire point of these classes is for them to rip your writing apart and help you improve. But I've been writing a lot of fiction on the Internet and I've grown used to having people kiss my ass.

[James]

guns go "blonk" when they hit

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

"Squishi"

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

I dunno. I mean I guess the entire point of these classes is for them to rip your writing apart

Yeah, although this is your grade we are talking about. It would be a non issue if he had you come in after class and was like "Eh, you shouldn't have done this it is bad!!" but the grading was done in a more objective, less lame as hell way. But it's a bigger deal since if this continues you will get a bad grade in a class where you deserve better.

[Captain Hot Stuff]

Do I deserve better, though?

http://grubstreethack.wordpress.com/200 ... nt-postin/

Reassure me, dear friends. Reassure me.

edit: It's just occurred to me that since this assignment was a collection of scenes, rather than an actual story, my complaint that he focused excessively on aesthetics rather than plot may be specious.

Still, I intend to continue sulking.

[Hanstock]

People who only use the front edge of their chairs and/or scoot their chairs way the fuck away from the surface area of the table-desk of where they are sitting. Especially in cramped quarters. Hoooooooooooooooly fuck I will kill a motherfucker.

[Duzzy Funlop]

it's pretty annoying when the person who owned your history textbook before you decided to stop highlighting after the first chapter.

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

I'm pulling a Harry Potter in my Poetry class. I have a used poetry anthology book where someone took notes on what we discuss next to every poem we go over and the teacher never changed how he did things apparently, so I'm the one raising my hand and saying, "This poem is a metaphysical sonnet" or whatever the fuck and looking like a genius.

[Captain Hot Stuff]

Didn't the book eventually teach some kind of moral that you should do your own work?