Most Ignant thing you've heard in class/anywhere

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by GoodTimes

The professor was explaining the content of semen and that it has a lot of sodium. And (I say) the stupidest girl in the world raises her hand and asks, "is that why it tastes so salty?" A hush fell over the lecture hall until somebody yelled out "HA!!!!" then the whole room including the professor couldn't stop laughing.

LOL. I'm embarassed for her.

Originally Posted by christiangirl

I think this happens in every Bio class. It happened when I was in high school.

We never discussed semen and sodium in biology class or sex education (looking back, we didn't discuss much of anything in sex ed in the early 90s).

[G-Kue 1911]

We never discussed semen and sodium in biology class or sex education (looking back, we didn't discuss much of anything in sex ed in the early 90s).[/QUOTE]

Yeah...we didn't either...the last and only sex ed class we had was in the 7th grade by my football coach.

My Kids and I often travel Alone without my husband, which often prompt many to ask if they are mine because they look like him. my husband is white and i am black. well on our particular trip to california due to me being activated while i was in the military i was taking my kids to visit their grandparents and we were meeting him there. well while we boarded the plane this one white lady became purely fascinated by my two year old son who at the time had extremely curly light brown/blond curls. And while he was playing gleefully while waiting for the plane the lady decided to walk over to me and ask questions
the first question was "where did you adopt your children?" the questions startled me for a second before i told her that my kids where not adopted but naturally born by me
second question was " but you're so black how is that possible?
my answer to her was " every now and again the massa sneaks to the slave quarters"
of which left her with her jaw hanging wide open. the only thing thatr sucked even more from the questions was the fact that we were in the same row on the flight. i kept shaking my head wanting to laugh at her after she was trying so hard not to stare at both of my kids

[christiangirl]

Lol, our sex ed was taught by a nun in the Religion class. We didn't learn much except the basics--where babies came from and that some teens choose to please themselves as they start to explore their bodies (but we better not do that).

[GoodTimes]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Lol, our sex ed was taught by a nun in the Religion class. We didn't learn much except the basics--where babies came from and that some teens choose to please themselves as they start to explore their bodies (but we better not do that).

Yeah i basically got the same info in public school. We had a young nervous PE coach teaching out health class and he basically had the same message as the coach from Mean Girls. "Don't have sex, you will get chlamydia ...and you will die."

but I took that class with the stupid girl last semester in college. lol

[christiangirl]

I just read on Facebook that a guy was in class and noticed a girl's tattoo said "God made me a real nigga."

[pshsx1]

So.. someone I know has been on an ignorance high lately.

Yesterday: '..there are a lot of immigrants who work there too.. people from Mexico, uh.. Eastern Europe.. from like Laos and Cambodia and Vietnam... Hispanics..'

Today: 'Close the door. Don't close the door, leave it open. You know, close it so it closes but is still open so we can just push it.'

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by pshsx1

So.. someone I know has been on an ignorance high lately.

Yesterday: '..there are a lot of immigrants who work there too.. people from Mexico, uh.. Eastern Europe.. from like Laos and Cambodia and Vietnam... Hispanics..'

What I find to be REALLY ignorant is that when the issue of illegal immigration is discussed, the focus is the US-Mexico border. Illegal immigrants, like legal immigrants, come from all over the world. Any plan to address illegal immigration must take into account the different countries and reasons for the activity that is illegal by our standards or it will fail miserably.

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

What I find to be REALLY ignorant is that when the issue of illegal immigration is discussed, the focus is the US-Mexico border. Illegal immigrants, like legal immigrants, come from all over the world. Any plan to address illegal immigration must take into account the different countries and reasons for the activity that is illegal by our standards or it will fail miserably.

Agreed!!!

[sigmadiva]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

What I find to be REALLY ignorant is that when the issue of illegal immigration is discussed, the focus is the US-Mexico border. Illegal immigrants, like legal immigrants, come from all over the world. Any plan to address illegal immigration must take into account the different countries and reasons for the activity that is illegal by our standards or it will fail miserably.

I know I'm a few days late on this....

One reason that the focus is on the US-Mexico border is because of the physical nature of the border in Texas. There are parts of the Rio Grande River that is ankle deep so people can easily cross it.

I think the issue of immigration comes down to taxation. If there was a way to tax illegal immigrants then the immigration issue would not be a problem.

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

I know I'm a few days late on this....

One reason that the focus is on the US-Mexico border is because of the physical nature of the border in Texas. There are parts of the Rio Grande River that is ankle deep so people can easily cross it.

I think the issue of immigration comes down to taxation. If there was a way to tax illegal immigrants then the immigration issue would not be a problem.

To cross the US-Canadian border is even easier.....And we have TWO borders with Canada (think Alaska)!

[I.A.S.K.]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

To cross the US-Canadian border is even easier.....And we have TWO borders with Canada (think Alaska)!

Though we do have multiple borders with Canada they are not hot beds for illegal immigration. A report by PEW Hispanic Center (2005) Claimed 57% of illegals were from Mexico, and 24% from other Latin American countries. While 6% were from Europe, 9% from Asia, and 4% from other places.

Statistically, it seems that if we successfully dealt with the border with Mexico we could eliminate or decrease about 81% of illegal immigration. Thus, the most effective way to curtail illegal immigration would be to deal with the Mexico border. There are not that many people illegally immigrating to America via Canada. I'd bet that at least half of the 19% of illegals who are not identified as Hispanic/Latino immigrated to the US directly (via a visa) and have stayed in America and thus become illegal immigrants.

While I do understand your point that Mexico is not the only place from which people come illegally, the US-Mexico border is a much larger concern than any other border. It would be hugely ineffective to focus our efforts on any other area of concern. Since at best we could only decrease about 20% of illegal immigration. Of course this is based on the assumption that people immigrating from Mexico and other Latin American countries (the PEW report claims that non-Mexican Latinos immigrate mostly from Central America) use the US-Mexico border.

Some people are being moronic and fixating on the US-Mexico border to avoid coming up with real solutions for the immigration issue, but on the whole I do not find it ignorant to focus on the US-Mexico border because it is the major point of contention and concern when it comes to illegal immigration.

[nikki1920]

Please tell me you are joking.

[GoodTimes]

i keep seeing people with tattoos that say stupid stuff like "Est. 1989"
"Made in *insert city*" or "Ratchet til i die" it's getting ridiculous

[IlovemyAKA]

Originally Posted by GoodTimes

"Ratchet til i die"

Seriously?! lmbo! What does that even mean?