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Ever been misplaced on the social scale?
So i ask of you all have you ever been misplaced or misunderstood in the social scale?
Let me elaborate I being a geek and that of a higher mind of my fellow classmates was recently told that i come across as Posh for those of you who don't know posh being just little rich kids that talk funny and well kiss on two cheeks when meeting a person for the first time etc very well boring and not who i am!
but regardless this was the first impression that i have apparently given to my classmates in college because i talk perhaps differently (smart) and so i decided to pose this question has anyone ever placed or made assumptions of you that are clearly wrong! i mean they thought i went to a private school for god sake never even been to such a place i did laugh but you know what it did make me think about it alot do geeks often get this presupposition?
Let me elaborate I being a geek and that of a higher mind of my fellow classmates was recently told that i come across as Posh for those of you who don't know posh being just little rich kids that talk funny and well kiss on two cheeks when meeting a person for the first time etc very well boring and not who i am!
but regardless this was the first impression that i have apparently given to my classmates in college because i talk perhaps differently (smart) and so i decided to pose this question has anyone ever placed or made assumptions of you that are clearly wrong! i mean they thought i went to a private school for god sake never even been to such a place i did laugh but you know what it did make me think about it alot do geeks often get this presupposition?
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Permalink Reply by SuperWhy on -
Before I got my tongue cut in half at work five years ago, everyone thought I was gay because of the way I spoke... My grammar and pronunciation were 'perfect', and I spoke without a detectable 'Georgia' Southern accent. Absolutely unheard of here, since the mean education level is like 6th grade. Know what you're talkin boot :>
--Wynon
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Permalink Reply by Anubis on -
Think it is MUCH lower than that...
This year in my US Geog & HIst class some one though the American CIVIL War was between the US & Germany!!!!WTF!
How the hell did they make it to 11th grade?
-Anubis
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Permalink Reply by Anubis on
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Nope, I live in Cadillac MI, there are some smart people here, the education system is good, for those who pay attention and arn't stoned 1st hour.
I have more depressing stories.
But maybe I will save those for later.
-Anubis
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Permalink Reply by gypkap on -
I grew up in Indianapolis in the 60s, and still have family there, though I live in the Southwest now. The city had and has educated people on the north side and far south side (where I lived). In the rest of the city there were and are a lot of rednecks and other ignorant types in between that just don't care about school. The Indy rednecks still don't like educated people.
That educational stratification happens in a lot of other Midwestern cities as well, so I'm told.
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Permalink Reply by beavis5551 on -
Like, W T F?
Germany was involved in enough trouble...
...we don't need to be blamed for the Civil War, thats for sure!
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Permalink Reply by Anubis on
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I am German my self so tell me about it. butwith create history facts do not matter.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Degray - SnakeByte on -
LOL Didn't know Germany was part of the States!
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Permalink Reply by Sol McNally Aka : Dmitri Girl on -
Oh the judgements that I have been given are great. Needless to say I now laugh at them. Most people thought I was the druggie kind in high school. As a freshmen I was friends with the "Drama Geeks" and wore a cheerleader like uniform. I was on the dance team. On Fridays it was about school spirit and during the week my wardrobe label was never the same.
I realized that a lot of people thought I was a lesbian when I moved to California and had a rainbow patch over the jansport patch. My backpack was olive green. At one point a male friend of mine told me you know the whole school thinks your a lesbian? I died of laughter. And thought all because I have a rainbow on my backpack. So I started wearing my rainbow belt and shirts and jewelry. I had fun with people's judgements.
Middle school I was actually less popular then elementary.
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Permalink Reply by Cymon on -
I tend to come off as more knowledgeable about stuff I than I am. But that's my own fault. It's the way I talk. Why? I don't know. Sometimes I wish I'd knock it off. I mean when I don't know something I try to acknowledge that, but somehow there are still folks who think "Ask Joe" before they look it up.
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Permalink Reply by beavis5551 on
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I dont think thats a bad thing...
...I kind of have the same "problem" that all my folks ask me about everything, seek advice for their problem or whatnot.
But I get used to it.
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