Today, I failed an oral speech because "I didn't look up once." The problem was, every time I looked up, my teacher looked down. Every time I looked down, she looked up. FML
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On 10/26/2009 at 2:46pm - misc - by oralMistake - United States (Maryland)
That sucks, FYL. You should talk to your teacher about this.
#1 - On 10/26/2009 at 5:47pm by Metallica95
this fucking deuche is fucking dumb. i cant believe youre in school and actually wrote "oral speech". Fuck Your Dumb fyd!
#73 - On 11/02/2009 at 4:57am by porty99
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ickies im so glad i never had sex. im putting myself on a pedestal.. unless any of ou boys r interested in a little game ;)
#8 - On 10/26/2009 at 6:06pm by moon_mistress
don't worry #8, some ugly fuck will be desperate and drunk enough to toss in in there for a few minutes before he passes out.
#77 - On 03/03/2010 at 7:29am by phatdaddy
hahah ur nickname made me burst out laughing... if you think about it not about this situation...
#3 - On 10/26/2009 at 5:51pm by emgirlie5732
TOXI: Who doesnt look up at least once during oral?
Plus if the teacher was looking down when he/she was looking up, why couldnt the teacher see him/her?
#7 - On 10/26/2009 at 6:05pm by donkey_hang_down
Aw. It's so important.. to look up..
...things in the dictionary! Check you work! To prepare for the oral presentation o/c.
I can't look up if I'm in 69, otherwise I just see balls and feet.
#18 - On 10/26/2009 at 6:43pm by Intoxicunt
and BUTT!! Oh what was I saying? I am sure you look down though right?
#22 - On 10/26/2009 at 6:46pm by donkey_hang_down
I don't look anywhere when in 69. There's nothing to see. Just focus on the task at hand. Or watch the movement.
#26 - On 10/26/2009 at 7:01pm by Intoxicunt
Oh well, 69 is diff. But then there's always the lovely thighs and eventual reverse cowgirl payoff :]
(gosh fellas.. i guess i feel like pissing off some prudes. lols)
Oh but the reverse cowgirl turns into doggy style so quickly. *Sigh*
#34 - On 10/26/2009 at 7:46pm by Intoxicunt
Not if you throw in a lot of "Yee-haws" during your ride, and if he tries to get up and make it doggy-style, yell, "Bad dog, no biscuit! Down, boy!" and kick him with your spurs.
Toxi, you should get your way. Insist on it!
Ehhh, no! I'd rather him take charge. But let's not go into all that.
#53 - On 10/27/2009 at 12:42am by Intoxicunt
I agree. In speeches it is really common that someone tapes it. Unless the speech was in a classroom and it was a project.
#24 - On 10/26/2009 at 6:58pm by fawfulster
And here I thought student + teacher + oral ALWAYS ended up in a perfect grade.
EDIT: Wow by the time I posted the joke had already been done... multiple times...
If you talk to much when you are doing it, you can fail.
Also, if your dirty talk includes, "It smells down here," "Do you have any infections?" or "This does not taste like any tuna I ever had," you can also fail.
Ugh. I can relate. My speech teacher gave me two 40s on a project because I didn't "work as hard as everybody else". Apparantly using an 11x14" posterboard is too small and it wasn't fair for everyone else who used fucking tri-folds...
i know teachers grading speeches look up most of the time and only look down to glance at/write notes. you should be maintaining eye contact with the audience for pretty much the entire time anyway. YDI for not knowing how to give a presentation.
The reason he pointed this out is because there isn't, to my knowledge, a type of speech that ISN'T oral. Putting that word in only provokes dirty jokes. It was an unnecessary addition to the FML. Jeez.
#35 - On 10/26/2009 at 7:50pm by Intoxicunt
Of course, there's the other end of the spectrum where you're just staring at each other the whole time. Which is creepy, but at least it gives them the impression that you're listening!
#21 - On 10/26/2009 at 6:46pm by Turnip_Girl
Well, to be fair, you should be looking up the whole time, referring minimally to your notes when you get stuck, or to remind yourself of a hard-to-remember fact. Otherwise it looks like you're just reading stuff off a notecard. Which you probably were.
You shouldn't just look up, you should make EYE CONTACT. Since you didn't look up at the right time, then you failed at making eye contact. You should be looking up way more often then you are looking down.
In my class, I was taught to have my speech memorized and not look down at my index cards for HALF the time that you apparently did. How about memorizing your speech to get a good grade? You totally deserve failing.
#32 - On 10/26/2009 at 7:28pm by pastrychef
Actually it's better NOT to memorize your speech. It tends to end up just coming across as mechanical. What you should memorize are the main ideas that are in your speech and have notes to remind you of some smaller details and then it appears more that you are just talking about what you know and are better able to more relate it to your audience. And if you try memorizing a speech but are nervous or something, you could end up skipping important parts of it without realizing it and then you end up not making sense. So, no, memorizing to get a good grade is not a good idea.
Pff.. Pastrychef had a bad teacher.
What's worse for this person, it's kinda common sense that memorizing everything isn't the best way, just as msnelly pointed out.
#42 - On 10/26/2009 at 9:40pm by wingedspiritus
mcsnelly, your statement was simply stupid. A good orator is perfectly capable of making a memorized speech fun to hear and full of life, i.e. not mechanical.
Actually, Rhaegar, mcsnelly was completely right. In a setting where it's only necessary to get main points across, your speech should not be memorized. No matter how much "life" you put into it, it always will end up sounding scripted because, well, it is. Memorized speeches should only really be used in situations where the precise wording of the speech has to be perfect, ie, not in a classroom. Take a speech class and you might learn something.
I had a similar problem in my speech class. It's frustrating.
#37 - On 10/26/2009 at 7:58pm by TheTragicReturn
This could all have easily been avoided if one of you was upside-down
#38 - On 10/26/2009 at 8:05pm by resonant14
If you were taking a proper oral exam, the two of you would have been looking at each other: one looking down while the other was looking up.
#47 - On 10/26/2009 at 10:59pm by FerrariCake
You could have just not looked down at all. Who looks down during an oral presentation? You're mostly supposed to scan your audience OR if you are too nervous, then focus on a fixed point above (key word!) their heads.
#52 - On 10/26/2009 at 11:56pm by IllegalLight
If it was really EVERY time, then you should have started rapidly shaking your head up and down until your teacher gets dizzy from doing the same. Then tell her that you'll make it stop if she gives you a 100.
how do you even know if she looked up when you looked down?
#56 - On 10/27/2009 at 2:30am by phonetrubl
That sounds really fake.
It seems like too much of a coincidence to be real...
Anyway, if it did actually happen, I am very sorry about how unlucky you are.
FYL, I think you should talk to her about it (even though she probably won't believe you).
#57 - On 10/27/2009 at 2:38am by The_Sock_Queen
FYL. i say talk to the teacher about it, thats not a fair way to be marked. they teacher should have spent the majority of the oral watching you. good luck. and please people, enough with the sex talk
#58 - On 10/27/2009 at 2:44am by Shadow_vamp_503
This is some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Clearly fake.
#59 - On 10/27/2009 at 2:46am by waterynuggets
"Oral speech"? what other kinds of speech are there? You could have done it in sign language? Then you would have had problems if the teacher kept looking down.
But seriously, that sucks. I've had the same thing happen to me.
#61 - On 10/27/2009 at 4:05am by ozpunker
Well this is why i don't bring a lot of notes for a presentation and really how often do you need to look down, maybe you should just have improved a bit and then just keep staring at that teacher till eye contact was achieved.
She's probably hoping you'll make up the grade with another oral exam after class... :b
#63 - On 10/27/2009 at 9:48am by phatdaddy
Well, I call bullshit. As someone who has been in that very position, I can't imagine not making eye contact with the audience for at least 90% of the time. If you weren't, you were showing bad public speaking skills.
As well, wouldn't you at least make sure that your teacher\professor sees you, you know, glance at them during the duration of your speech?
Common knowledge, my friend.
#64 - On 10/27/2009 at 10:20am by XaosZaleski
Good. You should not ever have looked down, let alone enough to cause that confusion.
#65 - On 10/27/2009 at 12:27pm by ozymandias
If you looked up for an appropriate amount of time this would have never happened. You should never more than make a quick glance down for a second at a time while giving a speech.
Ahh. I hate it when that happens. Specially with my speech teacher. It's so annoying. But it's good when other students tell them that you did look up. So when she says I didn't I say "MM, I'ma let you finish, but lemme ask a quick one, (then i look at a random person and ask) did I look up?OR nOT?" && sometimes they'll screw me over, but others they'll be honest :)
dude i totally had it happen before there just dicks about it to
#70 - On 10/28/2009 at 3:08am by shamaling
yeahh i hate it when this happens!!! your teacher's an idiot. ive lost sooo many marks thanks to this
If it was presented in front of your class as well then you have a class full of witnesses. Talk to your teacher about it.
