Saturday, October 15, 2016

"Dr. Gibson - No more using that big stick :) It needs batteries." Annie finds comedy gold in the Reddit hinterlands.

So since the start of my CS class, my teacher had always complained about not having a laser pointer. Instead, she had to use a heavy-ish meter stick, because the board was about 8 ft off the ground. So I thought, hey, wouldn't it be nice of me to buy her a laser pointer. Boy was I wrong.

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  1. Is it wrong that I read the italicized passage then the title, and the first thing I thought of as a misinterpretation of "big stick, needs batteries" is "cattle prod"?

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    1. I'm not sure. I have to admit that I'm not really up to date with stick-shaped battery-operated technology/ies in general (though I did guess the joke before clicking through).

      One of my classrooms had a wireless mouse that I think could also change ppt slides for a while, but (a) it had a charging cradle and was usually dead because nobody remembered to put it back and (b) I don't use powerpoint (and trying to click between screens in an LMS, library databases, etc., while viewing a screen from the side and holding a mouse in the middle of the air doesn't really work). So somebody installed a wired mouse, and I'm back to using that, and perfectly happy to be so.

      A cattle prod does sound like it might come in handy as a dual-purpose classroom object (point or keep order as necessary), but with the overuse of "order-keeping" instruments, including tasers, on K-12 campuses, and the school to prison pipeline, and the general fetishization of "compliance" in/by so many U.S. institutions, suggesting that, even in jest, just doesn't feel right these days. It really kills the joke when people actually do stuff (or a very close equivalent thereto) that we would suggest only as hyperbole.

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    2. Yeah, you're right. It really kills the joke.

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    3. And it also occurs to me that at some point in my life, some kinds of "locker room talk" were rendered off-limits, among other reasons, by the knowledge that people had actually done that stuff.

      I think Frod's stapler remains safe to joke about, at least for a while.

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