Student Brings Typewriter to Lecture, Has to Leave
It's okay, my typewriter doesn't have a mute button either.
Back in my day, we just took a pen and notepad to class for taking down notes or doodling. These days, it's about notebooks (and that'd be of the laptop variety). Nearly everyone can type faster than they can write by hand, so naturally using a computer is a better class-aid.
But what happens if you don't have access to a laptop for a day, but still prefer the old QWERTY experience? You bring a typewriter, of course.
That's exactly what some young student did, much to the amusement of his peers. We can't exactly make out what the professor giving the lecture says to the student, but we're fairly certain that he asks him to "mute" the sound of his typewriter (mistaking it for a noisy laptop). Ding!
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EPIC WIN!!!
Pff, the schools these days ... surfing for porn while the teacher is in front of you babbling for 1 hour, priceless. At least the boredom problem is solved ...
Awesome
Haha, awesome prank.
I smell yet another lawsuit on this one... "You discriminated against my client because of his inability to pay for a laptop computer..." Not that I agree with the suit, but it's interesting that the school would allow or at least look the other way for all the laptops. (Not all typewriters are as loud as this one.)
The Teacher is a Moron..........
OMG! Now that is hilarious.
Years ago, Typewriters were used in certain classrooms. Admittedly they aren't too quiet, but they aren't loud enough to warrant being asked to leave.
Although in a lecture hall, depending on where in the audience the student was sitting, it could amplify the sound of the typewriter.
Teachers who are old enough to remember having typewrites in the schools instead of computers would probably laugh about this one and call the professor a rediculous old fart.
idotic
let's try again "IDIOTIC"
typewriters are loud he could just get a 199$ netbook... or a voice recorder.
But it's a crash proof word processor
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Really though he wasn't even typing that fast so it may have just been better for him to write it down by hand.
lol a kid in my class did this last year... the teacher almost peed himself in excitement though.
This was at Georgia Tech...
If they could only ask the remarkable amount of people who're unable to either disable windows sounds or find the "mute" button on their notebooks to leave as well.
I didn't realize that disrupting a class is cool and awesome. I thought this was juvenile and unimaginative.
Good ol' American education at it's best.
I didn't realize that disrupting a class is cool and awesome. I thought this was juvenile and unimaginative.
Yes, those 46 seconds in which the loudest noise ever produced interrupted that classroom really through everyone off guard. More likely, it kept more people awake during the lecture.
I didn't realize that disrupting a class is cool and awesome. I thought this was juvenile and unimaginative.
You've got to be kidding me. Students ARE allowed to have a little fun you know.
But it's a crash proof word processor .Really though he wasn't even typing that fast so it may have just been better for him to write it down by hand.
That's what I was thinking. A pen and paper would be faster than a laptop for him anyway.
They're probably offended he didnt bring a macbook pro. Most kids these days dont know shit about computers and it shows.
If they could only ask the remarkable amount of people who're unable to either disable windows sounds or find the "mute" button on their notebooks to leave as well.
This was my thought exactly. Or how about the guy who's surfing the net instead of paying attention, and gets a rather annoying pop-up ad with music on it. Next thing you know, his speakers are blaring some obnoxious thing. That's more annoying than a typewriter.
Click, click, click, ping!
vs
Windows Wave (start-up), or the infamous Windows "DUH!" sound (error messages).
haha thats hilarious
just thought i'd point out that the original video is actually here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4nwe7cW_og
man gets booted from a lan party after showing up with a pc containing a floppy drive
They're probably offended he didnt bring a macbook pro. Most kids these days dont know shit about computers and it shows.
Most people don't know shit about computers, and I would know as I sell them!
This had to have been a prank. The kid showed up after the lecture already started and darted out once he was found out. Here's a longer version from another student: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs5 [...] re=related
what a nerd, lol.
Look at him, huntin' and peckin'
Poor slob can't even type!
At least he wasn't trying to replace his mobile phone...
"I'm just gonna sent a quick message... DIT DIT DIT DIIIT DIT DIIIT DIT".
By the way, I'm a student at Georgia Tech and I can tell you without a doubt that that happened in a lecture hall in the Howey building just from watching the video.
OMG that was freaking hilarious!!!!!!