Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoWhat's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?message-squaremessage-square231fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down14
arrow-up1117arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square231fedilink
minus-squareagent_nycto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up45arrow-down1·15 hours ago“Medieval armies didn’t use crossbows when attacking castles.” My hand immediately shot up. “What are you talking about? Of course they did.” My elderly history teacher replied “no, they didn’t.” Me “Why do you think that?” Her “because crossbows fire in a straight line so they would just shoot over the castle.” I looked at my classmates, hoping they would see how insane this is. They were looking at me like I grew a second head. Me “that’s not true. At all.” Her, getting slightly annoyed, “how do you know?” Me “well for one, I’ve fired a crossbow, I know how they work. For two, they had GRAVITY BACK THEN, the bolt comes back down!” Her, and some of the class “ooooh!” … Her “well anyway…” And continues the lesson. This was a college class.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoLOL, show her 300. “We will fight in the shade!”
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoI’m reading this and think, “Oh man… I wish I had shot a cross bow in 4th grade.” This was a college class. Ugh. Wait! Do 4th graders go to college… No. No they don’t.
minus-squareagent_nycto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 hours agoWell, I grew up doing medieval reenactment so my crossbow experience was from about the 4th grade, so there’s that.
minus-squarehungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 hours agoDid she think the arrow would just… fly in space for all eternity and never come down or something?
minus-squarelastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·15 hours ago“I think you’ll find that crossbows are a hitscan weapon 😏”
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoThey at least sound chiller than the people in the other examples.
minus-squareagent_nycto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 hours agoI think it was the senility and the tenure
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 hours agoLmao I guess nobody uses guns to take a fortress either.
“Medieval armies didn’t use crossbows when attacking castles.”
My hand immediately shot up. “What are you talking about? Of course they did.”
My elderly history teacher replied “no, they didn’t.”
Me “Why do you think that?”
Her “because crossbows fire in a straight line so they would just shoot over the castle.”
I looked at my classmates, hoping they would see how insane this is. They were looking at me like I grew a second head.
Me “that’s not true. At all.”
Her, getting slightly annoyed, “how do you know?”
Me “well for one, I’ve fired a crossbow, I know how they work. For two, they had GRAVITY BACK THEN, the bolt comes back down!”
Her, and some of the class “ooooh!”
…
Her “well anyway…” And continues the lesson.
This was a college class.
LOL, show her 300.
“We will fight in the shade!”
I’m reading this and think, “Oh man… I wish I had shot a cross bow in 4th grade.”
Ugh. Wait! Do 4th graders go to college… No. No they don’t.
Well, I grew up doing medieval reenactment so my crossbow experience was from about the 4th grade, so there’s that.
Did she think the arrow would just… fly in space for all eternity and never come down or something?
Yes, apparently.
“I think you’ll find that crossbows are a hitscan weapon 😏”
They at least sound chiller than the people in the other examples.
I think it was the senility and the tenure
Lmao I guess nobody uses guns to take a fortress either.