Funny Conversation

Last night I had this conversation with an English guy over some forum. It turned out pretty funny.
For this blog, I'll call him Joe, and myself JAP.

JAP:
Don’t' worry Joe, I'm all for the queen. My students are going crazy, they're so confused. I'm teaching them the American Revolution now, and they can’t figure out whose side I'm on. The book is American, but I teach pro England. I have a feeling they're all going to fail their tests this week.

JOE:
JAP- that must be the most boring subject you could possibly teach. When I was in school as soon as the History teacher began talking about any period before the second world war - I fell asleep. What difference will it make to your students life what happened to the British armies at Saratoga in 1777 and Yorktown in 1781. And anyway the Brits always lose anyway. That’s happened forever and will keep happening - its not even history its current affairs too. Sorry

JAP I’m sure you make it sound really interesting though, my history teacher was the most boring person you could ever meet. In fact the only thing I remember from a whole year of lessons was once when a spider started crawling up his trousers at the beginning of the lesson. It was fascinating watching the spiders’ progress.

Sadly the spider got so bored it feel asleep too along with the rest of the class.

JAP:
JOE! U post something about English sports again, and I will delete this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My DH is starting to get into sports and I come here for a breather...not to hear about sports in ENGLAND!!! AAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

JOE:
There is nothing more exciting than English sports. A bunch of overpaid people doing what they’re best at - losing.

You’re right JAP, all sports thread should be deleted and I wont do that again. So sorry.

JAP, you can always counter attack by posting something thrilling like the exact wording of The Treaty of Paris

JAP:
Joe, don’t make me laugh. It hurts.

Do you mind if I cut and post this onto my school blog? I'm laughing away.

Actually, my students find my classes fascinating....we have no spiders, just mice. I love history and I never teach the boring parts. We watch movies about the wars and read great stories about the time. My tests are fun too.

....We did the battle of Yorktown today (creamed you guys LOL) and to make it interesting, I did the entire thing in my English accent. So history can be interesting....

How about the Declaration of Independence? ....that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable right that among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the eradication of sports....

JOE:
JAP I’m fast asleep...dreaming about my bald fat stupid history teacher

JAP:
History is not boring!!! its all about stupid people making the same mistakes over and over again and blood and guts 'n wars.

JOE:
JAP, We actually learned about the Battle of Yorktown when I was in Junior school. I don’t remember anything except that we lost and haven’t won a thing since. The only time the Brits have ever won a war was way back in the 1600s and the only reason why they won that was because they were fighting against themselves.

The truth is it really depends on the teacher. Its irrelevant what subject and what age - if the teacher is good the subject is good. We used to learn political studies in school ( how the government works etc) the teacher was excellent and even though it’s basically a boring subject I still remember the stuff we learnt. My kids too, some have excellent teachers and know their stuff perfectly, but my little girl has such a bad teacher at the moment and comes home everyday in such a bad mood. It’s the teacher that makes the difference not the subject.

JAP:
LOL I hated all my teachers and I'm out to prove that I can do a better job than any of them

This was the thread last night. I found it funny, thought you might too.