OT: 114th Obsequious Banter Thread: One fortnight and counting

[Magua]

My favorite Shakespeare play is Cats.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I mean I get it, but no one in 10th grade wants to read a Shakespare book, well maybe not everyone, but I'd say the number of those wanted to is a lot smaller than those not wanting to.

Yep. Almost assuredly true.

I'm not exactly happy looking back with what they taught us in high school, but honestly I wish they pushed us more outside of our comfort zones. It's the only way to find what you like.

 

[Embiid]

Supposedly investigation ruled not hate crime related...

 

[Cody Webster]

Yep. Almost assuredly true.

I'm not exactly happy looking back with what they taught us in high school, but honestly I wish they pushed us more outside of our comfort zones. It's the only way to find what you like.

That's one way to look at it that I didn't think about and it makes total sense.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

I liked two books that were mandatory reading for school. The Hobbit, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Other than that, meh. Hamlet was ok, but I would have preferred Othello.

 

[Danko]

Being the generous ruler that i am. I have decide to offer Executive Committee Range to the general public

 

[Embiid]

Hit job on cats!

Soft Tissue Infection of Immunocompetent Man with Cat-Derived <em>Globicatella</em> Species

Soft Tissue Infection of Immunocompetent Man with Cat-Derived <em>Globicatella</em> Species

wwwnc.cdc.gov

 

[Kermit the Prog]

Hit job on cats!

Soft Tissue Infection of Immunocompetent Man with Cat-Derived <em>Globicatella</em> Species

Soft Tissue Infection of Immunocompetent Man with Cat-Derived <em>Globicatella</em> Species

wwwnc.cdc.gov

No offense, but I lost interest about halfway through reading the article title.

 

[Embiid]

No offense, but I lost interest about halfway through reading the article title.

Thing is that it's an academic abstract not a sensationalized article....no offense taken. Bottom line was that the individual got a previously unknown cat bite infection that barely responded to antibiotics. Stuff like this is becoming more prevalent. Microrganisms are starting to outpace our antibiotics.

 

[Lord Defect]

Being the generous ruler that i am. I have decide to offer Executive Committee Range to the general public

Too many words, color coordinate the large swath I will take.
I’ll do it for you, the white portions.


In high school we read excerpts from a few different works.

 

[Appleyard]

I mean I get it, but no one in 10th grade wants to read a Shakespare book, well maybe not everyone, but I'd say the number of those wanted to is a lot smaller than those not wanting to.

In the UK (well, almost 20 years ago) our first introduction in school to Shakespeare (aside from little bits and pieces at maybe age ~7-8) was through drama lessons.

So doing excerpts from specific plays (Hamlet in our case) from the slightly more modernised play text and not the original itself. That was at age ~12-13 I would say.

Which is far more engaging and makes people appreciate the context more. Plus for 90% of kids f***ing around pretending to act/overacting is quite fun, especially with no audience apart from your peers.

Then at ~14-16 we had Romeo and Juliet as part of the curriculum in a more standard way. But after the dalliance in drama with Shakespeare I think more people appreciated it/could read it easily etc.

Tbh though I always think that for highschool kids? They just choose the wrong plays to introduce people to his work aha. Start with A Midsummer Night's Dream... it is basically perfect material for idiot teenagers who like f***ing around.

 

[Embiid]

We dabbled in Shakespeare in HS but took a Shakespeare class in College and while a ton of work...was one of my favorites. The instructor was excellent and we had fun play acting.

 

[BernieParent]

Thing is that it's an academic abstract not a sensationalized article....no offense taken. Bottom line was that the individual got a previously unknown cat bite infection that barely responded to antibiotics. Stuff like this is becoming more prevalent. Microrganisms are starting to outpace our antibiotics.

Cat bites have always been very dangerous and antibiotic-resistant. If a cat bite breaks your skin, you need treatment.

 

[Amorgus]

In the UK (well, almost 20 years ago) our first introduction in school to Shakespeare (aside from little bits and pieces at maybe age ~7-8) was through drama lessons.

So doing excerpts from specific plays (Hamlet in our case) from the slightly more modernised play text and not the original itself. That was at age ~12-13 I would say.

Which is far more engaging and makes people appreciate the context more. Plus for 90% of kids f***ing around pretending to act/overacting is quite fun, especially with no audience apart from your peers.

Then at ~14-16 we had Romeo and Juliet as part of the curriculum in a more standard way. But after the dalliance in drama with Shakespeare I think more people appreciated it/could read it easily etc.

Tbh though I always think that for highschool kids? They just choose the wrong plays to introduce people to his work aha. Start with A Midsummer Night's Dream... it is basically perfect material for idiot teenagers who like f***ing around.

We got Romeo and Juliet freshman year, then the next two I believe went Macbeth and Hamlet. Since I was in honors and the local theater group was performing As You Like It junior year we got that one added in. Just reading, not acting. Senior year (AP English) I don't think we did any Shakespeare, which really sucked because I hated and skipped reading most of the books we were assigned. I think our teacher had a sailor fetish because we got two books about them.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

I had a Shakespeare class in college, along with covering his work in other classes (English/Film major). The textbook was the Penguin edition, and the words on the page were dry. No context, no stage direction, no intonation - just words on a page. This was the 1980s, and VHS was still a relatively new medium, so when our library was upgraded to include a video media room and individual viewing carrels the previous semester, they also stocked up on PBS versions of Shakespeare adaptations (Taming of the Shrew with John Cleese as Petruchio!).

Having the semester's syllabus on hand, I noticed every one of the plays had a corresponding VHS tape in the library, so instead of reading The Bard's work, I could simply watch it. Made ALL the difference in the world. I was acing the quizzes and exams left and right. I told some fellow students about it and we would gather in the media room to watch Henry V, The Tempest, A Midsummer's Night Dream, etc.

Eventually, some jealous knucklehead decided to rat on me to the professor while we were in class. I simply replied it helped with understanding material over 350 years old in the context in which it was intended/interpreted. Starting that week, the professor organized class viewings in the media room. I rocked an A for the course, and I don't think I would have done as well if I stuck to the textbook.

My final paper was titled, "The Propaganda of Comedy in Henry V," which received an A+ and high praise from the professor. The next semester, I had a course in Great English Writers II, where the professor was a thoroughly negative wonk. I submitted the exact same paper (we covered Henry V in that class, too) and received a B-.

 

[DancingPanther]

My 2 favorite books I read in HS were Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Has anyone read The Painted Veil? That book was so bad that it made me not read anything between October and May off senior year, when we read Frankenstein. Synopsis: British victorian doctor is married. Wife is cheating and doesn't care. Doctor goes to SE Asia to help with a cholera outbreak. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and the chick cares again. Feelsbadman. Travels to SE Asia to see husband. Finds out husband died from cholera. There was 250+ pages of this.

I read 12 and said naw.

 

[Embiid]

Did Lizzo binge eat the Made in America stage crew? Cancelled due to severe circumstances?

 

[Chinatown88]

I despise Jane Eyre. I never want to see anything about Jane Eyre again. Or Wuthering Heights. AWFUL PIECES OF LITERATURE.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

I despise Jane Eyre. I never want to see anything about Jane Eyre again. Or Wuthering Heights. AWFUL PIECES OF LITERATURE.

Bartleby the Scribner was my Jane Eyre. Stick to whales, Melville.

 

[Flybynite]

Yep. Almost assuredly true.

I'm not exactly happy looking back with what they taught us in high school, but honestly I wish they pushed us more outside of our comfort zones. It's the only way to find what you like.

I hate this whole 'just read excerpts' from books stuff. That's just stupid. You need to read the entire work to get the work. I got really pissed reading about a school district changing the reading of the book about Japanese internment (also other Asians) in WII in Farewell To Manzanar to instead just teaching a couple pages of 'excerpts' from the story.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I had a Shakespeare class in college, along with covering his work in other classes (English/Film major). The textbook was the Penguin edition, and the words on the page were dry. No context, no stage direction, no intonation - just words on a page. This was the 1980s, and VHS was still a relatively new medium, so when our library was upgraded to include a video media room and individual viewing carrels the previous semester, they also stocked up on PBS versions of Shakespeare adaptations (Taming of the Shrew with John Cleese as Petruchio!).

Having the semester's syllabus on hand, I noticed every one of the plays had a corresponding VHS tape in the library, so instead of reading The Bard's work, I could simply watch it. Made ALL the difference in the world. I was acing the quizzes and exams left and right. I told some fellow students about it and we would gather in the media room to watch Henry V, The Tempest, A Midsummer's Night Dream, etc.

Eventually, some jealous knucklehead decided to rat on me to the professor while we were in class. I simply replied it helped with understanding material over 350 years old in the context in which it was intended/interpreted. Starting that week, the professor organized class viewings in the media room. I rocked an A for the course, and I don't think I would have done as well if I stuck to the textbook.

My final paper was titled, "The Propaganda of Comedy in Henry V," which received an A+ and high praise from the professor. The next semester, I had a course in Great English Writers II, where the professor was a thoroughly negative wonk. I submitted the exact same paper (we covered Henry V in that class, too) and received a B-.

 

[Embiid]

Cat bites have always been very dangerous and antibiotic-resistant. If a cat bite breaks your skin, you need treatment.

Yes, but the difference is that it was a completely novel pathogen apparently if you want to be a nerd and read the abstract...

 

[swami24]

I mean I get it, but no one in 10th grade wants to read a Shakespare book, well maybe not everyone, but I'd say the number of those wanted to is a lot smaller than those not wanting to.

It was 9th 10th grade when I read several of his books. I think Othello was the only one that held my interest. But then again, here I am decades later, referencing one play and quoting another.

 

[Flybynite]

Two of the Hawaiian islands are experiencing severe wildfires on both Maui and the Big Island.

Apparently the hurricane that's like 500+ miles away has caused a pressure system to just unload massive winds and it just spread super fast. There are reports of like dozens of people actually jumping into the ocean as the fires moved into a coastal town and burned all the way to the ocean.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

It was 9th 10th grade when I read several of his books. I think Othello was the only one that held my interest. But then again, here I am decades later, referencing one play and quoting another.

Othello was one of the plays we studied. The video I watched had Anthony Hopkins as the Moor and Bob Hoskins as Iago. Both were incredible.