Weirdest discussion in a class room, you've had or heard

[JohnKleeb]

Ok, I aint shitting you, we were all pretty openly talking about booze today in chemistry, it was a first :D.
:beer:
Teacher was out of the room and yes I know I am going to hell :D but it was a nice topic.

[eyesroll]

1. We made rum from molasses in chem!

We weren't allowed to drink it (although I think everyone discreetly took a tiny taste).

[JohnKleeb]

4. hah

I hate chem because I am such an english-history nerd but it was a nice discussion, to :beer: beer the stuff that unites people :D. hah thats good about the molasses.

[mirandaod]

2. Moldy chestnuts.

Microbiology professor ranted for 50 minutes about some moldy chestnuts he had just bought, like it was then end of civilization as we knew it.

[JohnKleeb]

5. I would have fallen asleep

moldy chestnuts just soounds wrong :D.

[mirandaod]

7. It was boring enought to put me to sleep,

if not for the volume of his voice. He was insane. I heard this guy was eventually taken out of the classroom in a straitjacket.

[Parche]

3. DISCUSSION

I will drink to that!!!

[Nikia]

6. Women wearing white in feminine hygeine commercials

In my anthropology class in college. The more general topic that we were discussing was menstration taboos.

[mirandaod]

11. Now that's weird.

[St. Jarvitude]

8. Yeah, my chem teacher last year explained the chemistry of moonshine

Unfortunately, my AP Chem teacher this year isn't nearly as interesting (but is a good teacher anyway) as my Chem teacher last year. He can be pretty funny sometimes though.

So a neutron walks into a bar and orders a gin and tonic on the rocks. He asks the barkeep "How much?" and the barkeep answers "No charge."

The weirdest thing to ever happen to me in a classroom was in freshman year Intro to Lit. My teacher decided one day to pull down the projector screen and have the class help her shop for a Halloween costume. Needless to say, she was fired after that year (and she turned out to be a total freeper-nut... no surprise there).

[JohnKleeb]

9. I cant stand chem

what the hell is up with that teacher, having you help her shop for a halloween costume, thats messed up dude.

[St. Jarvitude]

22. Yeah, that was the one class freshman year where I didn't work

Even German - which is notorious around here for being a study hall with credit - had more work than freshman lit.

Funny, I really really enjoy chemistry and I hope to pursue a career in something chemically-related. There's just something inherently cool to me about finding out how basic, day-to-day occurances happen on the lowest levels.

I can see how it wouldn't float everyone's boat, though.

[JohnKleeb]

23. I am a history-english nerd so I dont do well in science and math

Genetis though is interesting.

[Philostopher]

10. Organizational psychology class ...

discussing various methods that could be used to survey employees about things, and psychological models and methods.

The text -- which was revised in 2003 -- had a sample picture from a projection-type exercise, where employees are asked to look at a picture and describe what they think is going on in it. This allows the tester to figure out some general things about attitudes, outlook, etc.

The picture was an old fifties sketch of a man with a Vitalis slick-back and skinny lapels, looking at a picture of his wife and children, next to an open window, with his elbow resting on a drafting easel.

We had a blast with that -- and keep in mind, this is an adult-ed class, with most of the people in the class ranging from 25-45.

"He looks sad. I think he's thinking it's a shame his wife left him for a guy with better fashion sense and is squeezing him dry in alimony and child support."

"I think he's asking himself if he should have the stroganoff for lunch or go to Subway."

"Maybe he's wondering if the kids are really his."

"I think he's wondering how to explain to them that his job has been sent to Bangalore and they'll have to go live in a cardboard box."

Around that point, the instructor wanted to move along. Can't imagine why.

[SarahB]

12. I had a hippy english teacher when I was a junior in high school.

He talked about weed a lot and showed us the movie version of 1984 unedited- boobies, weenies, and all.

[JohnKleeb]

13. booooooooobies

We got to see the Godfather uncensored in film last year, I was so happy for Woltz :D.

[Maddy McCall]

14. My students discussed the Darwin award on Thursday. :-)

[JohnKleeb]

15. hah

We did the booze discussing when the teacher was out of the room, but it was pretty open, "Oh Amheizer Busch makes the best products", "No, Heinken is where its at" "No youre both wrong, Guinness is the shit", I think you can guess who said the latter :D, mmmmmmmmm Guinness, I havent had it in a while though *pout*.

[Maddy McCall]

19. Actually, this semester, I think my students are more prudish than I am...

I always talk about drinking a few beers and they don't act too interested, in contrast to my other classes--evidently, I have a lot of Baptist Student Union students in my class. :-)

[JohnKleeb]

21. oh lord

Eh thats why I am a proud Catholic, we dont shun drinking.

[asthmaticeog]

16. Levitican punishments for sexual deviance.

In detail. Yikes.

[Ron Green]

17. Best ways to make surreptitious tattoo machines....

when I was teaching in a prison.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

18. You must go to a lame school

when I was teaching eighth grade (just last year) I overheard a somewhat whispered and very intense conversation about how people become bisexual. They were very serious, too, and one of the kids was openly gay. It was a fascinating conversation, so I didn't stop them for a while. Just pretended I wasn't listening.

[JohnKleeb]

20. no way

I remember things on the bounce, this was recent. Ahh being gay is a taboo around here, its funny though, our topic about beer did range from talking about gays, some of the guys saw the gay club's endorsement on the TV screen and acted like idiots, I was like you know guys, its not a big deal, I met my cousin and his partner a couple of summers ago and they were cool people and even were willing to let me get wasted. Trust me HHS isnt that tame at all, we were dissing the rich earlier that day, and theres been so many interesting topics in the past.

[No2W2004]

24. Once in drafting class

we designed a S&M dungeon complete with faux stone walls, lubricant dispensers and torture devices. The teacher was a bit of a nut...

[JohnKleeb]

25. now thats freaky

[No2W2004]

28. Not really,

it was done as a "joke" project and he was only interested in our drafting technique.....but he still got a kick out of it.

[baldguy]

26. Econ teacher using prostitution as an example of market forces at work.

[LynzM]

27. German class in college...

A discussion that devolved into a discussion of how Dorothy (from Oz) could wind up being the step-child of one of those monkeys, and mixed in with the line from Austin Powers about "you're not my real dad" somehow resulted in the phrase "flying, evil step-monkey", which of course then had to be translated into German. It's not really explicit or sexual, but you did ask for weird, and that certainly fits the bill :)