In my history class, my teacher decided not to give me a history question for extra credit he asked “ what is the airspeed velocity of a swallow” I of course, replied with African or European. As he was grading the teats, I heard say, under his breath, goddamnit.
I was in highschool math class and we where doing math problems on the board, Teacher asked the class "14x5-3x7/2", and I went and answered as such, "According to my calculations it is 59.5" of course the whole class had burst out laughing, and the teacher just stood there for a moment and then went "alright he wants to be funny today" honestly, not my brightest moment, but i had made the day a bit better for everyone else so I count it as a half win
I have bachelor's in Biology. When I was in college one of the test questions was to draw the carbon cycle. My mind went blank on that question so I drew a stick figure riding a bicycle made of carbon chains.
Not really funny so much as point out that a question itself was technically wrong. One pet peave since 4th grade was the false statement that GW was our first president. He was the first president under the Constitution, the US had several prior. I personally like to start the count with President John Hancock who was President at the time the US was officially born with the Declaration of Independence in 1776. You could go back a bit father with President of the colonies but the US did not exsit yet as a nation. Also prior to GW terms and powers were not the same and GW was commander in chief of the army but not president durring any of the preconstitution days of the US. When you list GW as first it must include the three words under the Constitution or it is a false statement, even as a question.
A teacher friend of mine used to bring tests to the bar and we'd answer them...and she'd change the questions as needed because WE ARE ALL CHILDREN! Honestly, the best way to make 'clear' tests is to give them to drunk adults.
Once took a history test that asked what was a strategy the Soviets used to win WW2. I somehow blanked and forgot the term scorched earth so instead I wrote “we have more men than you have bullets”. Teacher gave me half credit for that
You would be dead but not yet boiled just a little over a degree to go, that is at standard earth atmosphere. If at high altitude you might be right as you can cold boil water with a vacuum and you might have to adjust for salt content that raises boiling temp. I would have to see some charts and more detail if the corpse would boil.
@TheLibermania 0 beats per minute is absolutely right. The human body can't really support itself over 40°C let alone nearly 100°C. For reference heat stroke is an issue at about 40°C
I took a music theory class in high school and one our assignments involved us picking a song that held meaning to us (that was the gist as I remember). The song I picked was AC/DC's I Got Big Balls. The song was a dig at the music studios' heavy censorship policies at the time, but it was written in a way that could be interpreted as crass as well as literally. Everyone laughed and the teacher couldn't turn off the cassette player fast enough, but they never let me finish the assignment. I picked the song to demonstrate how what you mean isn't necessarily going to be what they hear, and that to really appreciate the song you had to consider every perspective.
1:35 - if you're going through a crowded festival you have to push people out of the way so you have to say "excuse me" a lot to the point where you don't necessarily pronounce it well or people don't hear you well if it's loud.
3:55 There was a teacher at my school who got promoted to principal. The job so clearly stressed him out and he was not the right fit for the role. He lasted two years before he took a demotion back to teacher. When I saw him at the start of that next year, he looked so happy and was so cheerful, it was like I was talking to a totally different person. It was as if the weight of the world had been lifted off his shoulders. He even had his one stud earring back in that he had to take out as principal.
at 11:13, you missed that the test wrote 98.7 degrees Celsius, which is nearly 210 degrees Fahrenheit, so yeah, most things would have a 0 BPM heart rate at that temperature
11:41 I can say for myself, that it was always easier to calculate some things in my head, but the test expected me to write out a specific formula. So that could be a way that you accidentally write down a wrong formula. I also just used to calculate things my way instead of the "official" way. My math teacher seemed okay with it.
I remember when my 12th grade English teacher gave us an assignment to write our own Declaration of Independence (we were doing American Literature), which was basically just an assignment to confess your unpopular opinion, and I wrote an essay about why I think Woodrow Wilson is the worst president. I wish I could find it so bad.
@@Benjifan2000 I like how you just assume dawg. The Confederate flag does not mean hate to me so you can stop assuming that. I would actually probably agree with you on most reasons why Woodrow Wilson is a piece of shit that's why I put a laughing face😂 although I don't necessarily dislike him for his racial views I don't agree with him on that. Homeboy I'm just a proud Southern Rebel. If I was racist I'd actually have a flag as my profile picture that has the 3 KS but I don't I got Jewish ancestry so I technically can't be that. But why don't you like Woodrow Wilson I would love to hear why.
I think, as a left handed person, we are better at using our right hand than right handed people are at using their left because we live in a right handed world. Essentially, we are forced to watch right handed people do things and use right handed tools. We build dexterity in our right hand while still being dominate with our left.
Do you shift gears with your right hand like right handed people do? Only in America because we do it better than in the UK. ... What? Might help explain using both hands.
I agree on why they are better. I said the same thing to my husband. My mom was left handed and she did everything right handed except eat and write. Including starting and IV (she was a nurse) because everyone she learned from was right handed so thats just the way she learned. The Car thing is just a one off instance of US vs UK. Most everything is the UK is still right hand dominant
@@occheermommytrue!! Left-handed but as a surgeon I use my right hand to even hold siccors!! When I play football, basketball I use my right hand and leg!! I only write and eat with my left.
Pro tip for when you don't know the answer on a test, but you really did study: On the test apologize for not knowing the answer, but tell the teacher information you DO know that the they didn't ask for. In my experience the teacher will usually give you partial if not full credit.
In astronomy in college, the joke was that observatories were on mountains to be closer to the stars. We all made sure that was always part one of our answers.
In college I had a professor write "see me after class" on one of my papers. I sat there the entire rest of the class freaking out. At the end of the class I go up to the front and he says my paper was great and asks if he could have my paper and use it as an example for future classes. Talk about a 180!
Lefty here, I am definitely way more ambidextrous than my right handed peers. I even do different tasks and activities right handed, which I've noticed is quite common between left handed people.
Do you shift gears with your right hand like right handed people do? Only in America because we do it better than in the UK. ... What? Might help explain using both hands. I wonder about the UK?
@@oldmanghost219 Do you need medical assistance? It seems that you have just suffered stroke. If not, I may have to ask you to rephrase your question in a more coherent way
Same, I have time blindness and dyscalculia, so it's actually easier for me to use the geometry of the analog clock to estimate time rather than having to do the math on a digital clock.
my approach when brain had gone was to ask for another piece of paper to scare the rest into thinking they'd written way less, creating panic. If you're going to do badly bring the whole bell curve down a peg 😉
The real question isnt "are you kids being taught to read analog clocks?" But rather "how often are you faced with a problem that ONLY HAS AN ANALOG CLOCK?" Its kind of like "you wont have a calculator on you at all times".
13:30 That actually makes a lot of sense. Y'all lefties have to do a lot with your right hand, as so many things cater to us righties. As such, y'all are forced to use your right hand a fair bit. Meanwhile, us righties don't have to use our left hand for anything, because of the aforementioned reason. As such, we don't build as much dexterity with our left hand as y'all do with your right.
I remember when I was in 1st grade, we were all doing some sort of exam. We were told to write our names where it says name. So, my teacher wrote her name on the test as an example, I was so dead confused, so I copied her name on the exam, after the exams were turned in and we got our exams back. I checked my exam, and my teacher's name that I wrote in pencil has been crossed out with a pen, and it has my name written in pen.
When I was in First Grade, we were supposed to take this cut out paper skeleton, pose it doing something, and then write a sentence saying what the skeleton was doing. I lost one of the arms because I was very disorganized. So I posed the skeleton and wrote “My skeleton lost his arm.” My teacher was not happy for my irresponsibility, but the principal said it was technically correct and showed creative thinking in lieu of my mistake. Gave my principal (and my mom) a ton of respect that day.
When I was in school, they taught analog with clocks but from what I've read, schools are phasing out analog clocks and not teaching analog reading along with cursive. It's tough when everything is digital and current generations of teachers weren't taught analog or cursive. As for answering on tests or homework, left them blank as I did not have a great study habits
That teacher comment about solving a problem with the wrong formula hits close to home for me (though I'm sure I used the right formula)... Anyway, In 11th grade math (trig), I, an average to below average math student, was taking a test and there was a problem that I solved with really no trouble. A day later, I got my test back with a B- or C+ grade (don't remember) but on that one problem, the teacher wrote "GOOD!!! +10" and then, after everyone got their tests back, he explained that there was one problem that was way too difficult to solve and that only one student managed to work it out so he cut that problem from the grading but gave that one student extra credit! To this day (3 decades later) I still remember my mental state when I was working it and that, somehow, it all made sense as though some latent Einsteinian brain cells got energized in that moment.. but I still screwed up "easier" problems! Go figure!
1:35 I think the "me walking thru the crowd at a festival" was supposed to be not being heard so it doesnt sound like "Excuse Me" (think of a music festival maybe? idk never been to one) (edit) 11:50 In math there is normally multiple ways to get an answer like an example i saw was 16-9 as (4-3)(4+3) being the same thing, some ways are easier than others but it can depend on a person and their way of thinking that is what my highschool trig/pre calc teacher taught me (he was teaching a college class to us where we had more than one way to solve things to figure out what was best for us on the final test)
My friend could only read military time. A while ago i thought of a good way to explain how to read a normal clock. Its simple but it made him understand so it could help someone else. And that is to count from twelve to whatever the time is. So i asked him what 17 is, and so you just count from 12pm to 17pm which makes the time 5pm.
The kid that wrote tell her she’s pretty even if she looks like a dump truck is a goddamn legend! He found the secret of marriage waaay before most men lmfao 😂😂
That "in a word describe school" is the most accurate answer ever. School was undoubtedly the worst period of my entire life and I would've been so much better off if I'd never gone. I love test answers like this because the test doesn't deserve respect. At least some kids try and find a way to have fun.
I once had an AP English test on a book; one of the questions was, "What are two different settings?" This kid next to me writes, "Inside, Outside." When we got our test papers back, our teacher wrote a smiley face with the word "Cute!"
7:06 🤣🤣🤣🤣This person got ripped OFF!! $32 for asparagus? Outrageous! 13:30 Ambidextrous here, and no; in my case, I have certain handedness with different things. I wield a sword right-handed, parry left handed, opposite with a bow and arrow (drawstring and arrow in left hand-bow in right hand), I can do calligraphy/inscribing with either hand but am far more adept left-handed. In the alchemy lab, I am switch-handed when it comes to various tasks, except for reading; that requires my right hand. Fun time with self? Oh, that's a two-handed thing. I play bass/stringed instruments right-handed. I'm switch-handed when it comes to applying makeup, but I'm pretty sure that's a thing everyone does, as that's just a *_muscle memory_* skill, but when I do other people's makeup, I use my right hand. 15:00 Reminds me, I used to have two pairs of boots that I loved. Both were stolen from me. 16:10 Yes, more, more, more. ♫With a Rebel Yell, more, more more!!!♫ 🤣🤣Couldn't resist, not sorry!! ... I never really did anything like this, it's funny to see though. I was homeschooled, and then went to a specialization academy that focuses on learning by doing rather than lectures and assignment ledgers. So, basically, I kinda missed out, but not too much, because some of that culture did seep in, just, not in the best way.
The poo pee fart kid is BOARD. That was my son. He took a test once and got half right but we knew he could do better. The teacher said he could retake it and he again got exactly half right. But it was the other half.
13:33 the reason left handed people are better with their right hand is because so many things are designed for right handed people. So you just end up using your right hand for hand specific stuff a fair amount.
One of my best funny answers I got from a student happened in an excersise where the students (third graders) read a page about tigers and then had to answer questions linked to the text. The question was: "Why can tigers be so difficult to spot in nature?" Student answer: Tigers don't live in Sweden. (I live and teach in Sweden)
5:50 A little background first I'm German. Religious education is mandatory in my country, and our grading system goes from 1 (best) to 6 (worst). There was this test in religion dealing with some obscure philosophical question, and I had no idea where to even start. So to not hand in an empty sheet, I wrote down a Shakespeare sonnet. Teacher gave me a "5" instead of a "6"... commenting that he couldn't tell if I might have said something relevant, because he didn't speak English.
It wasn’t “funny” exactly, but I frequently ignored “showing my work” in math classes. I could do fairly complex math problems in my head at a pretty young age and since a lot of tests were timed, I just saved time by not writing out everything. Some teachers didn’t care, some would ding me for it. My dad to one teacher after a bad test grade (I got 100% correct, but got a 50/100 or something), “It’s not my fault my son is smarter than you.” Felt like a sweet burn when I was 8 or 9.
Honestly, I've seen the "wrong formula, right answer" thing a lot. I've also been docked points on a test for using the correct formula but not in the specific form the teacher was expecting. A lot of formulas can be expressed in multiple ways, or have more complex forms depending on your starting assumptions. For example, "e=mc²" is famously used to show mass-energy equivalence, but that simplified formulation only works with massive objects at rest. If you use e = √(m²c⁴ + p²c²) and the teacher expects "e=mc²" because he or she just assumed it would be rest mass and didn't tell you in the test, you could get it marked wrong while getting the right answer.
In my opinion, if a teacher marks you incorrect for that, the teacher is being the worst kind of tyrannical pedant. The more complex formula is the correct formula.
@@KidarWolf technically could be true but the real answer is not enough information to conclude an answer.... This is because we were never told the tempo each orchestra was playing in which could be different depending on the conductor.
14:00 This is called Russell's Teapot. If I claim that there is a teapot orbiting Jupiter, how do you disprove me? If I claim that there is a McDonald's on Uranus, how do you disprove me?
15:23 fun fact: Nike freeruns are ironically and notoriously horrible for parkour and freerunning. I always feel bad when I have a new parkour student with Nikes not understanding why they can't wall run well
I had a professor who was talking philosophically about why a pair of characters in a passage we read were in Vietnam. I stole my response directly from an episode of M*A*S*H. “Maybe, but I wouldn’t underestimate their draft board.” The professor laughed and said he wouldn’t either.
I graduated high school 50 years ago and one of my favorite teachers was an almost ready to retire history/civics teacher. He insisted on pronouncing marijuana as "mary-jo-anna". Aside from this he was a fantastic teacher who made learning history relevant.
A classmate of mine (died of heart attack a few years ago in his 40's - RIP): Teacher: what happened in Austrian forests when they exterminated all the wolves? My classmate: Little Red Riding Hoods multiplied out of control.
5:48 - I took Chinese in college. When it came time for the final exam for third semester came and there were a lot of characters I didn't remember, I just wrote what I thought they looked like really small. Apparently it must have worked, because I passed.
Math geek here. Regarding using the wrong formula but somehow getting the right answer. Yes, it does happen, kind of. What this generally means is that there's more than one way to solve the problem - the teacher had a particular method in mind, but the student either knew a different technique from outside reading or derived one independently. Either way, the student has an aptitude for math, and the teacher doesn't. A really good math teacher would understand how the student did it, and would recognize the student as exceptional and probably ripe for an AP class.
13:19 I’m “right-handed” in that I can only write with my right hand (virtually impossible to read anything I write left-handed). But with most other things, I’m very ambidextrous. Although there are a few situations where I’m “left-handed”. For example, when sweeping with a broom I only ever do it left handed (left hand at the bottom, right hand at the top).
I got a couple of "see mes" in my time, and it always struck me as strange that I had to remind them why. Like, if I'd just ignored it, they probably wouldn't have remembered 🤷♂️
I took a modern western history course in college. There was an essay question as part of the mid-term. The question was "What caused world war II?" I wrote "World war I caused world war II." The professor gave me an F but I protested. During his office hours I went into all of the other things, but the question was poorly phrased. He admitted that and gave me an A after the conversation.
The one time I went to Rome, I brought heels. I very quickly realized that this was not going to work. I had to buy a pair of flat shoes for those cobblestone streets.
On a test in my highschool Aviation class(yeah growing up in the town next to the biggest air force base in the world has some perks) the question was, what is correct way to say "no" on the radio, and the options we no, negative, not affirmative, and negatory, and I had a real hard time choosing between negatory and not affirmative as my wrong choice.
It does seem to be that left-handed people are more competent when using their right hand. The popular hypothesis to explain this is that because most tools which are hand specific, are designed for right-hand use. This requires left-handed individuals to use their right hand far more than right-handed individuals use their left hand.
I’m from the 90s. I hated reading the clock. I gotta do all this counting when now I can look at my digital clock and wow, I know what time it is. Back then I’d just ask an adult what the time was.
3 things: I think I've said this before here maybe, but my US History teacher in high school used to give full credit for an answer that made him laugh out loud while reading it. He didn't give them out often, but usually like once or twice in a year of class someone would get that point. It was kind of a fun way to really reward creativity, even if the answer wasn't correct. I had a biology teacher who would give us quizzes of three short-essay questions each week. This was a mistake. I wasn't good at biology, but I was extremely good at writing and debating. If I didn't know the answer, I'd change it into something else (I recall one being about changing the structure of a honeycomb to something else, I didn't know what would happen, so I argued that, if you change its basic structure, is it still a honeycomb at all?). I wouldn't usually get full 10 points for it, but often like 8/10. I guess it showed that I was thinking at least. Being an elementary school principal would depend on the school. The school I worked at in college was an inner-city school and it was tough sometimes getting through to the kids. That principal loved those kids fiercely, but she did not take any shit from them either (which was true of most of the teachers as well). I was always in awe of her but didn't envy her job at all.
When I was In grade 10, an English teacher had a question on a test: Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? I found the question so stupid that I wrote a somewhat smartass answer: Bill Shakespeare. This humourless instructor gave me no mark for the answer. I asked her if she would have given me the mark if I had answered only Shakespeare. She admitted that she would have. Ya! That's right! I haven't forgotten, Mrs. Harris!!!
Test: "Describe School" Me: "Prison, with a modestly nicer dress code and a marginally lower risk of catching STD's" I hated public school, _with a passion._
0:36 as an autistic kid I culd have miss understud the question and whrite that answer in 100% seriusnes becaus I would have thougt it was the right answer. 💚💚
In the third grade I tried to bluff my answers on landforms. Instead of looking up the info in the textbook, for the definition of Swamp, I wrote "a cruddy lake".
Please continue this video. I wish i had you as a teacher sir. You and i would have gotten along verry well and i would have done well in your class because you make it interesting and you have a sense of humar. Thank you for doing videos in general.
My daughter in Queensland sent me a copy of one of my twin, 12-yr old grandsons' history tests. One question was, "Name the longest, continuous war which you have studied". Alex replied, "The war between the sexes". Obviously, he'd been paying attention to dinner-time table conversations!! 😅
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What's the funniest test answer you've ever given or seen someone else give?
In my history class, my teacher decided not to give me a history question for extra credit he asked “ what is the airspeed velocity of a swallow” I of course, replied with African or European. As he was grading the teats, I heard say, under his breath, goddamnit.
I was in highschool math class and we where doing math problems on the board, Teacher asked the class "14x5-3x7/2", and I went and answered as such, "According to my calculations it is 59.5" of course the whole class had burst out laughing, and the teacher just stood there for a moment and then went "alright he wants to be funny today"
honestly, not my brightest moment, but i had made the day a bit better for everyone else so I count it as a half win
@@mtraa9gaming450 how do you know so much about swallows?
I have bachelor's in Biology. When I was in college one of the test questions was to draw the carbon cycle. My mind went blank on that question so I drew a stick figure riding a bicycle made of carbon chains.
Not really funny so much as point out that a question itself was technically wrong. One pet peave since 4th grade was the false statement that GW was our first president. He was the first president under the Constitution, the US had several prior. I personally like to start the count with President John Hancock who was President at the time the US was officially born with the Declaration of Independence in 1776. You could go back a bit father with President of the colonies but the US did not exsit yet as a nation. Also prior to GW terms and powers were not the same and GW was commander in chief of the army but not president durring any of the preconstitution days of the US. When you list GW as first it must include the three words under the Constitution or it is a false statement, even as a question.
A teacher friend of mine used to bring tests to the bar and we'd answer them...and she'd change the questions as needed because WE ARE ALL CHILDREN! Honestly, the best way to make 'clear' tests is to give them to drunk adults.
If only my college professors had done that. I swear to fucking god they must have been drunk when they wrote the damn questions.
Writing simply “no” on the “provide an example of a risk” is a risk in itself, so it’s actually a really clever response.
yeah, it looks like they got the points for that one too, which, honestly, I'd have given them points too!
I prefer the version where someone wrote 'this'.
Once took a history test that asked what was a strategy the Soviets used to win WW2. I somehow blanked and forgot the term scorched earth so instead I wrote “we have more men than you have bullets”. Teacher gave me half credit for that
You have forgoten the baillonnettes.
You missed the "I am a Rebel" joke - the question asked for 3 words, and they rebelled by writing 4.
11:14 I am afraid that no, you can not be alive at 98.7 Celsius. You would be boiling, literally.
Technically not 'boiling', it's about 99C for blood...but close enough...and most CERTAINLY dead for a while!🥵🥵😵
You would be dead but not yet boiled just a little over a degree to go, that is at standard earth atmosphere. If at high altitude you might be right as you can cold boil water with a vacuum and you might have to adjust for salt content that raises boiling temp. I would have to see some charts and more detail if the corpse would boil.
Can someone explain the question to me? What was the correct answer?
@TheLibermania 0 beats per minute is absolutely right. The human body can't really support itself over 40°C let alone nearly 100°C. For reference heat stroke is an issue at about 40°C
@@CodyKillebrew Thank you. Still not seeing the need for the question in the test in the first place.
But thank you nonetheless.
I took a music theory class in high school and one our assignments involved us picking a song that held meaning to us (that was the gist as I remember). The song I picked was AC/DC's I Got Big Balls. The song was a dig at the music studios' heavy censorship policies at the time, but it was written in a way that could be interpreted as crass as well as literally. Everyone laughed and the teacher couldn't turn off the cassette player fast enough, but they never let me finish the assignment. I picked the song to demonstrate how what you mean isn't necessarily going to be what they hear, and that to really appreciate the song you had to consider every perspective.
How does this not have more likes!?
Oh wait, never mind, I know the reason. Well, you got mine, anyway. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
1:35 - if you're going through a crowded festival you have to push people out of the way so you have to say "excuse me" a lot to the point where you don't necessarily pronounce it well or people don't hear you well if it's loud.
3:55 There was a teacher at my school who got promoted to principal. The job so clearly stressed him out and he was not the right fit for the role. He lasted two years before he took a demotion back to teacher. When I saw him at the start of that next year, he looked so happy and was so cheerful, it was like I was talking to a totally different person. It was as if the weight of the world had been lifted off his shoulders. He even had his one stud earring back in that he had to take out as principal.
at 11:13, you missed that the test wrote 98.7 degrees Celsius, which is nearly 210 degrees Fahrenheit, so yeah, most things would have a 0 BPM heart rate at that temperature
Depends what is 98,7 degrees the body itself yeah probably dead, if the room temp is 98,7c then that's just normal Sauna temperature here in Finland
11:41
I can say for myself, that it was always easier to calculate some things in my head, but the test expected me to write out a specific formula.
So that could be a way that you accidentally write down a wrong formula.
I also just used to calculate things my way instead of the "official" way. My math teacher seemed okay with it.
I remember when my 12th grade English teacher gave us an assignment to write our own Declaration of Independence (we were doing American Literature), which was basically just an assignment to confess your unpopular opinion, and I wrote an essay about why I think Woodrow Wilson is the worst president. I wish I could find it so bad.
What were the reasons why you said he was a bad president? 😂😂😂
@@scottbivins4758 There are too many for me to list right now.
@@scottbivins4758 Too many to list right now.
@@scottbivins4758 Judging from your pfp, you would disagree with all of them.
@@Benjifan2000 I like how you just assume dawg. The Confederate flag does not mean hate to me so you can stop assuming that. I would actually probably agree with you on most reasons why Woodrow Wilson is a piece of shit that's why I put a laughing face😂 although I don't necessarily dislike him for his racial views I don't agree with him on that. Homeboy I'm just a proud Southern Rebel. If I was racist I'd actually have a flag as my profile picture that has the 3 KS but I don't I got Jewish ancestry so I technically can't be that. But why don't you like Woodrow Wilson I would love to hear why.
I think, as a left handed person, we are better at using our right hand than right handed people are at using their left because we live in a right handed world. Essentially, we are forced to watch right handed people do things and use right handed tools. We build dexterity in our right hand while still being dominate with our left.
Do you shift gears with your right hand like right handed people do? Only in America because we do it better than in the UK. ... What? Might help explain using both hands.
I agree on why they are better. I said the same thing to my husband. My mom was left handed and she did everything right handed except eat and write. Including starting and IV (she was a nurse) because everyone she learned from was right handed so thats just the way she learned.
The Car thing is just a one off instance of US vs UK. Most everything is the UK is still right hand dominant
@@occheermommytrue!!
Left-handed but as a surgeon I use my right hand to even hold siccors!!
When I play football, basketball I use my right hand and leg!!
I only write and eat with my left.
Pro tip for when you don't know the answer on a test, but you really did study: On the test apologize for not knowing the answer, but tell the teacher information you DO know that the they didn't ask for. In my experience the teacher will usually give you partial if not full credit.
So if u call someone a "dumptruck," that is not very flattering. However, if you say someone HAS a "dumptruck," that is a complement
In astronomy in college, the joke was that observatories were on mountains to be closer to the stars. We all made sure that was always part one of our answers.
He's already seen these many of these answers before in previous videos. But its great to see him react and laugh again
In college I had a professor write "see me after class" on one of my papers. I sat there the entire rest of the class freaking out. At the end of the class I go up to the front and he says my paper was great and asks if he could have my paper and use it as an example for future classes. Talk about a 180!
the one about excuse me is that during a festival you get drunker and drunker and that changes the way you say excuse me :P
Lefty here, I am definitely way more ambidextrous than my right handed peers. I even do different tasks and activities right handed, which I've noticed is quite common between left handed people.
Do you shift gears with your right hand like right handed people do? Only in America because we do it better than in the UK. ... What? Might help explain using both hands. I wonder about the UK?
@@oldmanghost219 Do you need medical assistance? It seems that you have just suffered stroke. If not, I may have to ask you to rephrase your question in a more coherent way
2:59 I was always good at reading clocks, and I actually prefer an analog clock over a digital one.
Same, I have time blindness and dyscalculia, so it's actually easier for me to use the geometry of the analog clock to estimate time rather than having to do the math on a digital clock.
my approach when brain had gone was to ask for another piece of paper to scare the rest into thinking they'd written way less, creating panic. If you're going to do badly bring the whole bell curve down a peg 😉
The real question isnt "are you kids being taught to read analog clocks?" But rather "how often are you faced with a problem that ONLY HAS AN ANALOG CLOCK?"
Its kind of like "you wont have a calculator on you at all times".
13:30 That actually makes a lot of sense. Y'all lefties have to do a lot with your right hand, as so many things cater to us righties. As such, y'all are forced to use your right hand a fair bit. Meanwhile, us righties don't have to use our left hand for anything, because of the aforementioned reason. As such, we don't build as much dexterity with our left hand as y'all do with your right.
I remember when I was in 1st grade, we were all doing some sort of exam. We were told to write our names where it says name. So, my teacher wrote her name on the test as an example, I was so dead confused, so I copied her name on the exam, after the exams were turned in and we got our exams back. I checked my exam, and my teacher's name that I wrote in pencil has been crossed out with a pen, and it has my name written in pen.
When I was in First Grade, we were supposed to take this cut out paper skeleton, pose it doing something, and then write a sentence saying what the skeleton was doing.
I lost one of the arms because I was very disorganized. So I posed the skeleton and wrote “My skeleton lost his arm.” My teacher was not happy for my irresponsibility, but the principal said it was technically correct and showed creative thinking in lieu of my mistake. Gave my principal (and my mom) a ton of respect that day.
When I was in high school I took geometry and when it said find the x I would circle the x
When I was in school, they taught analog with clocks but from what I've read, schools are phasing out analog clocks and not teaching analog reading along with cursive.
It's tough when everything is digital and current generations of teachers weren't taught analog or cursive.
As for answering on tests or homework, left them blank as I did not have a great study habits
Bonus Question: How do flies taste?
Scientific Answer: with their little feet.
Other Answer: I'm not sure as I don't eat flies.
2:50 I was taught how to read a clock in school. I will be 26 in May
I am also left-handed. Go Team!
I can’t read a clock (I’m a late Gen Zer). Not because I can’t read it, but because I’m nearsighted and need to update my prescription
That teacher comment about solving a problem with the wrong formula hits close to home for me (though I'm sure I used the right formula)...
Anyway, In 11th grade math (trig), I, an average to below average math student, was taking a test and there was a problem that I solved with really no trouble. A day later, I got my test back with a B- or C+ grade (don't remember) but on that one problem, the teacher wrote "GOOD!!! +10" and then, after everyone got their tests back, he explained that there was one problem that was way too difficult to solve and that only one student managed to work it out so he cut that problem from the grading but gave that one student extra credit! To this day (3 decades later) I still remember my mental state when I was working it and that, somehow, it all made sense as though some latent Einsteinian brain cells got energized in that moment.. but I still screwed up "easier" problems! Go figure!
1:35 I think the "me walking thru the crowd at a festival" was supposed to be not being heard so it doesnt sound like "Excuse Me" (think of a music festival maybe? idk never been to one)
(edit) 11:50 In math there is normally multiple ways to get an answer like an example i saw was 16-9 as (4-3)(4+3) being the same thing, some ways are easier than others but it can depend on a person and their way of thinking that is what my highschool trig/pre calc teacher taught me (he was teaching a college class to us where we had more than one way to solve things to figure out what was best for us on the final test)
My friend could only read military time. A while ago i thought of a good way to explain how to read a normal clock. Its simple but it made him understand so it could help someone else. And that is to count from twelve to whatever the time is. So i asked him what 17 is, and so you just count from 12pm to 17pm which makes the time 5pm.
The kid that wrote tell her she’s pretty even if she looks like a dump truck is a goddamn legend! He found the secret of marriage waaay before most men lmfao 😂😂
Old trucks are beautifull. Not the modern (1980 and after...) trucks
That "in a word describe school" is the most accurate answer ever. School was undoubtedly the worst period of my entire life and I would've been so much better off if I'd never gone. I love test answers like this because the test doesn't deserve respect. At least some kids try and find a way to have fun.
As a fellow lefty I can’t write with my right hand at all.
I once had an AP English test on a book; one of the questions was, "What are two different settings?" This kid next to me writes, "Inside, Outside." When we got our test papers back, our teacher wrote a smiley face with the word "Cute!"
7:06 🤣🤣🤣🤣This person got ripped OFF!! $32 for asparagus? Outrageous!
13:30 Ambidextrous here, and no; in my case, I have certain handedness with different things. I wield a sword right-handed, parry left handed, opposite with a bow and arrow (drawstring and arrow in left hand-bow in right hand), I can do calligraphy/inscribing with either hand but am far more adept left-handed. In the alchemy lab, I am switch-handed when it comes to various tasks, except for reading; that requires my right hand. Fun time with self? Oh, that's a two-handed thing. I play bass/stringed instruments right-handed. I'm switch-handed when it comes to applying makeup, but I'm pretty sure that's a thing everyone does, as that's just a *_muscle memory_* skill, but when I do other people's makeup, I use my right hand.
15:00 Reminds me, I used to have two pairs of boots that I loved. Both were stolen from me.
16:10 Yes, more, more, more. ♫With a Rebel Yell, more, more more!!!♫ 🤣🤣Couldn't resist, not sorry!!
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I never really did anything like this, it's funny to see though. I was homeschooled, and then went to a specialization academy that focuses on learning by doing rather than lectures and assignment ledgers. So, basically, I kinda missed out, but not too much, because some of that culture did seep in, just, not in the best way.
The poo pee fart kid is BOARD. That was my son. He took a test once and got half right but we knew he could do better. The teacher said he could retake it and he again got exactly half right. But it was the other half.
13:33 the reason left handed people are better with their right hand is because so many things are designed for right handed people. So you just end up using your right hand for hand specific stuff a fair amount.
One of my best funny answers I got from a student happened in an excersise where the students (third graders) read a page about tigers and then had to answer questions linked to the text. The question was:
"Why can tigers be so difficult to spot in nature?"
Student answer: Tigers don't live in Sweden. (I live and teach in Sweden)
5:50 A little background first I'm German. Religious education is mandatory in my country, and our grading system goes from 1 (best) to 6 (worst).
There was this test in religion dealing with some obscure philosophical question, and I had no idea where to even start. So to not hand in an empty sheet, I wrote down a Shakespeare sonnet.
Teacher gave me a "5" instead of a "6"... commenting that he couldn't tell if I might have said something relevant, because he didn't speak English.
“Excuse me” at crowded festival: people are drunk / drugged, spelling is unintelligible just like festival goers speech
It wasn’t “funny” exactly, but I frequently ignored “showing my work” in math classes. I could do fairly complex math problems in my head at a pretty young age and since a lot of tests were timed, I just saved time by not writing out everything. Some teachers didn’t care, some would ding me for it.
My dad to one teacher after a bad test grade (I got 100% correct, but got a 50/100 or something), “It’s not my fault my son is smarter than you.”
Felt like a sweet burn when I was 8 or 9.
I remember being little 5-6 years old and my grandma telling me to throw some dirty on it when I fell off my bike and scratched my knees and legs
11:14 A little attention to detail there, that is actually 98.7 Celsius, which would be pretty much instant death because you would be almost boiling.
Years ago the question was. Is this a question? Child’s response “Is this an answer?”
Honestly, I've seen the "wrong formula, right answer" thing a lot. I've also been docked points on a test for using the correct formula but not in the specific form the teacher was expecting. A lot of formulas can be expressed in multiple ways, or have more complex forms depending on your starting assumptions. For example, "e=mc²" is famously used to show mass-energy equivalence, but that simplified formulation only works with massive objects at rest. If you use e = √(m²c⁴ + p²c²) and the teacher expects "e=mc²" because he or she just assumed it would be rest mass and didn't tell you in the test, you could get it marked wrong while getting the right answer.
In my opinion, if a teacher marks you incorrect for that, the teacher is being the worst kind of tyrannical pedant. The more complex formula is the correct formula.
An orchestra with 120 musicians plays Beethoven's 9th Symphony in 90 minutes.
How long would an orchestra with 60 musicians need?
90 minutes, of course!
@@KidarWolf technically could be true but the real answer is not enough information to conclude an answer.... This is because we were never told the tempo each orchestra was playing in which could be different depending on the conductor.
I’m actually ambidextrous, Mr. Terry.
14:00 This is called Russell's Teapot. If I claim that there is a teapot orbiting Jupiter, how do you disprove me? If I claim that there is a McDonald's on Uranus, how do you disprove me?
15:23 fun fact: Nike freeruns are ironically and notoriously horrible for parkour and freerunning. I always feel bad when I have a new parkour student with Nikes not understanding why they can't wall run well
11:10 umm, no you can't. That's really close to boiling point at sea level. Ah, a history teacher.
@9:10 well the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy does say about the size of space that it is really really big
I had a professor who was talking philosophically about why a pair of characters in a passage we read were in Vietnam. I stole my response directly from an episode of M*A*S*H. “Maybe, but I wouldn’t underestimate their draft board.” The professor laughed and said he wouldn’t either.
2:42 tbh that's not really fair because they didn't specify they wanted an analogue clock. the kid should've got a mark for that
I've got a pair of Merrell boots that I wore when I was doing security work. Solid and comfortable, not too mention water proof.
I graduated high school 50 years ago and one of my favorite teachers was an almost ready to retire history/civics teacher. He insisted on pronouncing marijuana as "mary-jo-anna". Aside from this he was a fantastic teacher who made learning history relevant.
A classmate of mine (died of heart attack a few years ago in his 40's - RIP):
Teacher: what happened in Austrian forests when they exterminated all the wolves?
My classmate: Little Red Riding Hoods multiplied out of control.
5:48 - I took Chinese in college. When it came time for the final exam for third semester came and there were a lot of characters I didn't remember, I just wrote what I thought they looked like really small. Apparently it must have worked, because I passed.
Math geek here. Regarding using the wrong formula but somehow getting the right answer.
Yes, it does happen, kind of. What this generally means is that there's more than one way to solve the problem - the teacher had a particular method in mind, but the student either knew a different technique from outside reading or derived one independently. Either way, the student has an aptitude for math, and the teacher doesn't. A really good math teacher would understand how the student did it, and would recognize the student as exceptional and probably ripe for an AP class.
There's something wrong with how I a grown woman got so excited thinking oh there's a new test answer video LOL😂
In high school, we were asked what Mussolini's nickname was and I answered the Moose.
13:19 I’m “right-handed” in that I can only write with my right hand (virtually impossible to read anything I write left-handed). But with most other things, I’m very ambidextrous. Although there are a few situations where I’m “left-handed”. For example, when sweeping with a broom I only ever do it left handed (left hand at the bottom, right hand at the top).
I got a couple of "see mes" in my time, and it always struck me as strange that I had to remind them why. Like, if I'd just ignored it, they probably wouldn't have remembered 🤷♂️
Love the vids man!
I took a modern western history course in college. There was an essay question as part of the mid-term. The question was "What caused world war II?" I wrote "World war I caused world war II." The professor gave me an F but I protested. During his office hours I went into all of the other things, but the question was poorly phrased. He admitted that and gave me an A after the conversation.
The one time I went to Rome, I brought heels. I very quickly realized that this was not going to work. I had to buy a pair of flat shoes for those cobblestone streets.
On a test in my highschool Aviation class(yeah growing up in the town next to the biggest air force base in the world has some perks) the question was, what is correct way to say "no" on the radio, and the options we no, negative, not affirmative, and negatory, and I had a real hard time choosing between negatory and not affirmative as my wrong choice.
History teacher ... My favorite kind of teacher
It does seem to be that left-handed people are more competent when using their right hand. The popular hypothesis to explain this is that because most tools which are hand specific, are designed for right-hand use. This requires left-handed individuals to use their right hand far more than right-handed individuals use their left hand.
We need parts 2 & 3. The whole video is hilarious.
I’m from the 90s. I hated reading the clock. I gotta do all this counting when now I can look at my digital clock and wow, I know what time it is. Back then I’d just ask an adult what the time was.
I'm also lefthanded, I'm ok with my left except when I'm rushing. Can't work the right at all.
3 things: I think I've said this before here maybe, but my US History teacher in high school used to give full credit for an answer that made him laugh out loud while reading it. He didn't give them out often, but usually like once or twice in a year of class someone would get that point. It was kind of a fun way to really reward creativity, even if the answer wasn't correct.
I had a biology teacher who would give us quizzes of three short-essay questions each week. This was a mistake. I wasn't good at biology, but I was extremely good at writing and debating. If I didn't know the answer, I'd change it into something else (I recall one being about changing the structure of a honeycomb to something else, I didn't know what would happen, so I argued that, if you change its basic structure, is it still a honeycomb at all?). I wouldn't usually get full 10 points for it, but often like 8/10. I guess it showed that I was thinking at least.
Being an elementary school principal would depend on the school. The school I worked at in college was an inner-city school and it was tough sometimes getting through to the kids. That principal loved those kids fiercely, but she did not take any shit from them either (which was true of most of the teachers as well). I was always in awe of her but didn't envy her job at all.
When I was In grade 10, an English teacher had a question on a test: Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? I found the question so stupid that I wrote a somewhat smartass answer: Bill Shakespeare. This humourless instructor gave me no mark for the answer. I asked her if she would have given me the mark if I had answered only Shakespeare. She admitted that she would have. Ya! That's right! I haven't forgotten, Mrs. Harris!!!
Test: "Describe School"
Me: "Prison, with a modestly nicer dress code and a marginally lower risk of catching STD's"
I hated public school, _with a passion._
0:36 as an autistic kid I culd have miss understud the question and whrite that answer in 100% seriusnes becaus I would have thougt it was the right answer. 💚💚
You have to review “Dave Allen” Telling the time about teaching a kid to tell the time on watch / clock. Hilarious
The poor kid couldn`t draw the ship because it was a hardship.
In the third grade I tried to bluff my answers on landforms. Instead of looking up the info in the textbook, for the definition of Swamp, I wrote "a cruddy lake".
3:00 While I GET what they wanted, the way they asked for it that IS what they asked for! There's no way to argue otherwise!
You gotta get Merrill's & get some inserts for them. I did Walt Disney World in my Merrill's for 2 weeks & my feet felt great!
9:12 that shot at Neil DeGrasse Tyson...
believe or not more often than not i use the wrong formula and get the right answer lol
I'm exclusively using my right hand as i was born without a left hand
22 questions was me
Yes, please keep going it’s so funny 🤣
And please continue with the series, Mr. Terry.
Keep on this collection.
giraffes question was me
Please continue this video. I wish i had you as a teacher sir. You and i would have gotten along verry well and i would have done well in your class because you make it interesting and you have a sense of humar. Thank you for doing videos in general.
My daughter in Queensland sent me a copy of one of my twin, 12-yr old grandsons' history tests. One question was, "Name the longest, continuous war which you have studied". Alex replied, "The war between the sexes". Obviously, he'd been paying attention to dinner-time table conversations!! 😅
Thanks for the laughs. Continue on, please.
Yes. please watch the rest of the Video
14:00 - the burden of evidence lies on the person who wants to prove something does exist.
Please do more this was fun
I'm a righty that can write with my left hand. It's hard at first, but after several years of practice it's almost as good as my right hand.