once upon a time, in 12th grade english class, we were reading macbeth (didn’t like it, 4/10) our teacher was uh, a weird guy. he had a habit of going off on tangents about random shit, making really dubious arguments, and being extremely credulous, taking dumb shit seriously
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so naturally i thought, can i make an argument so bad that even he will notice? how much bullshit can i argue and get away with? one day, we were discussing (IIRC) macbeth’s monologue after he killed some people, and the symbolic importance of the bloody knives he used to do so
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so i decided to make the case that macbeth is the knife. i cannot remember the details of this argument, but i do know that it was complete bullshit, with a thin veneer of reasoning to make it sound sensible if you were high or something
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and he just accepts it. doesn’t argue or object or anything. and then later he asks me to stay after class. and i figure he’s gonna ask me to quit bullshitting in private but no! he says ‘i really love what you’re bringing to class keep it up’
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so i make an excuse to leave so i can get out of there, because i am struggling to keep from laughing my ass off it was fucking absurd i deliberately made the most shifty bullshit argument i could and he LOVED IT
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to my great regret, i didn’t push it further, because i was afraid i would actually go too far which is a shame because if i had challenged myself it would have made that class far less boring
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anyhow that’s the story of one of the greatest moments of my life
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oh god he’s on twitter the only tweets he’s made are replies to donald trump
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