Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoWhat's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?message-squaremessage-square192fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down12
arrow-up1111arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square192fedilink
minus-squareagent_nycto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·7 hours ago“Medieval armies didn’t use crossbows when attacking castles.” My hand immediately shot up. “What are you talking about? Of course they did.” My elderly history teacher replied “no, they didn’t.” Me “Why do you think that?” Her “because crossbows fire in a straight line so they would just shoot over the castle.” I looked at my classmates, hoping they would see how insane this is. They were looking at me like I grew a second head. Me “that’s not true. At all.” Her, getting slightly annoyed, “how do you know?” Me “well for one, I’ve fired a crossbow, I know how they work. For two, they had GRAVITY BACK THEN, the bolt comes back down!” Her, and some of the class “ooooh!” … Her “well anyway…” And continues the lesson. This was a college class.
minus-squarehungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 hour agoDid she think the arrow would just… fly in space for all eternity and never come down or something?
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠linkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoLmao I guess nobody uses guns to take a fortress either.
minus-squarelastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 hours ago“I think you’ll find that crossbows are a hitscan weapon 😏”
“Medieval armies didn’t use crossbows when attacking castles.”
My hand immediately shot up. “What are you talking about? Of course they did.”
My elderly history teacher replied “no, they didn’t.”
Me “Why do you think that?”
Her “because crossbows fire in a straight line so they would just shoot over the castle.”
I looked at my classmates, hoping they would see how insane this is. They were looking at me like I grew a second head.
Me “that’s not true. At all.”
Her, getting slightly annoyed, “how do you know?”
Me “well for one, I’ve fired a crossbow, I know how they work. For two, they had GRAVITY BACK THEN, the bolt comes back down!”
Her, and some of the class “ooooh!”
…
Her “well anyway…” And continues the lesson.
This was a college class.
Did she think the arrow would just… fly in space for all eternity and never come down or something?
Yes, apparently.
Lmao I guess nobody uses guns to take a fortress either.
“I think you’ll find that crossbows are a hitscan weapon 😏”