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Culture wars

By FrustratedTutor - 21/08/2015 20:00 - United States - Andover

Today, the kid I was tutoring told me that, "Pirates were a myth. Like the Greeks and Romans." He's 16. FML

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By Anonymous - 05/03/2011 06:07 - Canada

Today, I was performing a show about pirates for a youth program. A child started crying because I wasn't a real pirate. A little girl took my defense, saying, "He's a real pirate, his teeth are all yellow!" FML

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By csc4lyfe09 - 03/03/2010 00:00 - United States

Today, while at my tutoring job, a middle school kid couldn't find a word in the online dictionary. I told him he could check a regular paperback dictionary. His response was, "That's what you did in your day. That's not what we do in our day." I'm only 19. FML

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By PrettySureItsReal - 09/04/2015 19:38 - United States - Saint Peters

Today, a parent of one of the students I teach called me to complain that I was teaching her child "lies" and "fairytales". I was teaching them about the Holocaust. FML

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You mean it isn't??

By Anonymous - 28/01/2024 22:00 - United States - Jacksonville

Today, I got roasted in class because I could've swore that the story of Robin Hood was in the Bible. I was so cocksure of myself, but I guess I shouldn't repeat stuff my dad told me for a laugh when I was about 9 years-old, now that I'm in college. FML

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By anon - 17/12/2015 18:45

Today, I had to explain to someone in my class who Gandhi really was and that he was not a fictional goblin. FML

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By nanall - 04/06/2012 07:19 - United States

Today, my 24-year-old brother tried to convince me that Hogwarts is real, because there is no way a person could have written that based on imagination. My parents agreed with him. FML

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By Derp-A-Herp - 27/05/2011 05:46 - United States

Today, my genius boyfriend was trying to remember a particular island in the Caribbean that was used by pirates in the past. I offered up Morocco. I heard him facepalm over the phone. FML

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Bully

By ninjawhat1337 - 25/05/2009 04:14 - United States

Today, I told my dad that I was going to sleep over my friend's house this weekend with a few other guys to play Dungeons and Dragons. He responded with, "Oh, back in my day, me and my pals used to pick on the kids who played Dungeons and Dragons." FML

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By eyepatch - 19/02/2017 10:00 - United States - Albany

Today, while I was giving a school presentation about life as an injured, deformed soldier, someone asked if the reason I wear an eyepatch is because I'm a pirate. I wouldn't have minded, had I not been presenting to high-school students. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/10/2014 19:29 - United Kingdom

Today, my 9-year-old daughter was acting out and wouldn't do her homework. I told her that if she didn't study, she wouldn't get her acceptance letter from Hogwarts. She looked into my eyes, straight through to my soul and said, "Hogwarts isn't real, retard." FML

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ricardof 19

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:02

maybe his education was also a myth

khorstmye 15

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:03

And that is why you are there to tutor him.

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kyuubi1 14

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:10

you didn't know that?? whats next? you're gonna say that the loch Ness is a myth?! Some people these days.

vreid 20

Wednesday 4 February 2015 14:57

Reading comprehension these days.

kyuubi1 14

Thursday 5 February 2015 0:57

apparently you dont know sarcasm when you see it.

Emint 16

Friday 6 February 2015 12:42

You suck at sarcasm.

acommonman 23

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:11

a real life chris griffin! perhaps you have a time machine to show him they existed, OP?

lilybadilly25 15

Wednesday 4 February 2015 16:20

Quick, everybody! To the DeLorean! Forget about the space-time continuum, let's go meet us some Greeks and Romans!

nider 19

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:11

What I want to know is: what have they been teaching him in school? Assuming he has actually been going to school…

DolphinLaser23 24

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:12

Sounds like you have your work cut out for you.

fsomelife 26

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:17

I'm guessing this is the same kid who wrote the panicked email about Stalin and the moon landing.

Warmonger_Smurf 29

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:20

Time to cut the losses with this one. Make him walk the plank.

vincifer 4

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:23

you need to look up the definition of myth....

Joestarry 8

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:25

He probably also thinks Al Queda did 9/11

Jenniesaurus 14

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:28

"Pirates are a myth? Brilliant! I can go ride my paddleboat around the Somalian coastline now!"

John_in_Oz 11

Wednesday 4 February 2015 13:29

I've found from tutoring that it never pays to conclude that someone's a dumbass. Ask more questions. What does he mean? Where did he get that idea? How would that work? Why would people make them up? Etc. Remember, that in fact there ARE many mythological pirates, from Captain Hook to the Dread Pirate Roberts. Did he misspeak? Was his reference to the Greeks and Romans simply a matter of them being the only people he's heard of that do have a mythology?

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