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textbooks that try too hard
    #14317301 - 04/19/11 01:02 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

You ever have a textbook for a really boring subject that just tries waaay too hardto appeal to our current generation/college kids? Seriously, this stuff bugs me. They try and pull you in by giving examples about things like video games etc. That they think you care about, but it ends up just coming off as immature and almost blatantly condescending.

like this today...reading a chapter in my business law book and these are two of the case examples they chose. Just who do they think I am? Haha.



that one's a dispensary, talking about how the government has the authority to seize medical marijuana based on the interstate commerce clause.

:facepalm:


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: JT] * 2
    #14317327 - 04/19/11 01:06 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Write to the publisher. Tell them you prefer bland books that don't relate to the real world at all. lol


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: Sydoku]
    #14317358 - 04/19/11 01:12 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Yeah I see your point. It just feels like they're pulling on strings sometimes. And the ones that do this are most often the horrendously expensive books where you have to buy the latest edition, just so that the examples are current and trendy...


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: Sydoku]
    #14317367 - 04/19/11 01:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Sydoku said:
Write to the publisher. Tell them you prefer bland books that don't relate to the real world at all. lol





yes write a strongly worded letter


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: Salomon]
    #14317429 - 04/19/11 01:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

DEAR SIRS I AM MOST CONCERNED ABOUT THE NATURE OF YOUR TEXTBOOK. DO YOU TRULY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO ASSUME THAT I AM SOME COMMON POT SMOKING VIDEO GAME ENTHUSIAST?

Like that?

Oh and the next case example was about public nudity and strip club laws. That's porn videogames and pot in one chapter. Try and tell me that's a coincidence.


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: JT]
    #14317603 - 04/19/11 01:58 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

thats coincidence:tongue2:


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: JT]
    #14317620 - 04/19/11 02:01 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

:lol: @ this thread

I see what you mean but to be honest I'm really happy when I see a THC reference in my biochemistry textbook :stoned:


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: mellowparty]
    #14317982 - 04/19/11 03:03 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I actually find that somewhat amusing that they put those kind of case studies in there. I'm just stuck reading weird shit like this:


How the hell do you measure how much a humming bird pisses/shits per day?


That one kinda speaks for itself. Yes, that actually was one of the test questions.


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: Gumby]
    #14318017 - 04/19/11 03:09 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I hate how they HAVE to include an ethnic name. Usually in GCSE maths exams. Such as, 'Abdullah has a bag of marbles...' or 'if Rasheed split his pizza with 5 friends...' Just annoying. I remember being in secondary and we would ask the teacher what these things were just to piss them off - 'Miss, what does Usman mean?' Shit like that. But yeah, stupid textbooks are stupid.


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: Salomon]
    #14318030 - 04/19/11 03:11 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

Salomon said:
Quote:

Sydoku said:
Write to the publisher. Tell them you prefer bland books that don't relate to the real world at all. lol





yes write a strongly worded letter




but make sure you write it in a way that appeals to them


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: Gumby]
    #14318048 - 04/19/11 03:16 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)


lines 2-3 2nd para

so there i was one day just thinking about bat dicks


science u so lulzy


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Re: textbooks that try too hard [Re: Gumby]
    #14318327 - 04/19/11 04:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Yeah I guess I should count my blessings I don't have to learn about bat balls and hummingbird piss :rofl:

And mongo, I know just what you mean. The tests are standardized for a specific culture anyways, kinda funny that they have to go to such lengths. Better safe than sorry though I guess. People sue for stupid reasons.


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