Elemental's Excitingly Excellent Random Banter: No.CLXXVII (177)

[Dallas-Dakota]

There's evidence that teaching in Oxford dates back to around 1096. It's a slightly contentious issue, that is better explained here, but the oldest colleges of the university date to around the 1250s.
Either way, yeah. Pretty old.
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Pshaw, I went to a highschool around 757 years old. Good enough for me.

[Elemental]

Pshaw, I went to a highschool around 757 years old. Good enough for me.

Okay. Now you've piqued my curiosity. I wasn't aware that secondary schools existed back then.
Unless of course, it's merely referred to as a high school nowadays to distinguish it from primary schools...

Anyway... Back to the question.
Which school did you attend which happens to be older than every country in North and South America and every country in Africa with the exception of Ethiopia and the extremely possible exception of Morocco?

[CurlyKitGirl]

I found a new game to play while reviewing Doctor Who. But it's too easy, so I'll stop now.

[Teddy]

But Uppsala's in . . . Sweden? Finland? Pretty damn sure it's Sweden.

As Elemental said, it's Sweden. It happens to be my hometown, and my university, so I should know.

I found a new game to play while reviewing Doctor Who. But it's too easy, so I'll stop now.

Easy games tend to be rather boring wastings of time in hindsight, so that's probably a good idea.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Okay. Now you've piqued my curiosity. I wasn't aware that secondary schools existed back then.
Unless of course, it's merely referred to as a high school nowadays to distinguish it from primary schools...

Anyway... Back to the question.
Which school did you attend which happens to be older than every country in North and South America and every country in Africa with the exception of Ethiopia and the extremely possible exception of Morocco?

Johan de Witt gymnasium, started out as a side school in a shack next to the big church in 1253.(Yes, the church's name is The big church.) and now has around 700 students.

Only know that it changed names once, around the 17th century...

It helps that I live in the oldest city of my country, it got it's city rights in 1220.
(I know that won't compete with cities from England or other such countries, but you do have to imagine that half of what is currently the netherlands was either sea or swamp back then, or Frisian...or some other Germanic nation....)

[HalfTangible]

One of my coworkers saw the peeling skin on my head (Edit: from a sunburn she already knew about, btw)and her first reaction was "oh my god that's cancer!!"

I shouldnt laugh.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Why wasn't I listening to the Dead Kennedy's before now. Why.

[Teddy]

Johan de Witt gymnasium, started out as a side school in a shack next to the big church in 1253.(Yes, the church's name is The big church.) and now has around 700 students.

Only know that it changed names once, around the 17th century...

It helps that I live in the oldest city of my country, it got it's city rights in 1220.
(I know that won't compete with cities from England or other such countries, but you do have to imagine that half of what is currently the netherlands was either sea or swamp back then, or Frisian...or some other Germanic nation....)

When was it that Spain suddenly gained control over it all?

[Elemental]

When was it that Spain suddenly gained control over it all?

Sometime in the 1500s wasn't it?
All I remember is something about an inheritance and the King of Spain marrying Queen Mary I of England and never meeting her because he was busy fighting against the Dutch.

But, my memory is very vague on this matter.

[Teddy]

Sometime in the 1500s wasn't it?
All I remember is something about an inheritance and the King of Spain marrying Queen Mary I of England and never meeting her because he was busy fighting against the Dutch.

But, my memory is very vague on this matter.

They already had it 1492, but that's pretty much as far back as my knowledge goes.

[Moonshadow]

I'm starting to think this teaching training is bringing out my inner grammar nazi.

I can't help it. Incorrect spelling and grammar just tends to irritate me if it's done repeatedly.

[Mutant Sheep]

I'm starting to think this teaching training is bringing out my inner grammar nazi.

I can't help it. Incorrect spelling and grammar just tends to irritate me if it's done repeatedly.

Oh no, you're becoming a sane adult. Disliking grammarz tht makens no sense is a thing to be proud of.

[Elemental]

I'm starting to think this teaching training is bringing out my inner grammar nazi.

I can't help it. Incorrect spelling and grammar just tends to irritate me if it's done repeatedly.

Apologies. My written sentence structure is terrible.
Fits with the fact that I speak rapidly as I have always found ending a sentence end slow me down too much.

[Moonshadow]

No, generally people on these forums are fine or the errors they do happen to make are small and generally ignorable. I'm talking about other forums I frequent like some sort of Ghost of Christmas Spelling.

I'm talking more when people Type Like This Because This Gets Rather Old or when they use text speak constantly because I find it hard to read and process.

I will admit that people who mix up their, there and they're as well as your and you're do bug me quite a bit though because it's English at such a basic level that you should know by now.

I mean, I'll cut a little bit of slack for non-native English speakers... usually. Sometimes there just isn't a reasonable excuse.

[Form]

I will admit that people who mix up their, there and they're as well as your and you're do bug me quite a bit though because it's English at such a basic level that you should know by now.

I often cringe a little bit when I see people mixing those up. It's the same with your and you're and then and than.

[Rawhide]

Their really is no reason to worry about it, there going to make the mistake over they're anyway.

[Form]

Their really is no reason to worry about it, there going to make the mistake over they're anyway.

...

You did that on purpose. -.- /captain Obvious

[Heliomance]

Their really is no reason to worry about it, there going to make the mistake over they're anyway.

*twitch*
*twitch*

[Feytalist]

This has been a ridiculously long day.

Thank Freya it's Friday.

[Rawhide]

...

You did that on purpose. -.- /captain Obvious

I'm just keeping in practice. I wouldn't want to loose my edge and start being lose with the English language.

[Mutant Sheep]

I'm just keeping in practice. I wouldn't want to loose my edge and start being lose with the English language.

*sheds many tears*
This gazebo is a god.

[Rawhide]

*sheds many tears*
This gazebo is a god.

Gazebo? What gazebo?

[wadledo]

Gazebo? What gazebo?

I shoot an arrow at it.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Why wasn't I listening to the Dead Kennedy's before now. Why.

They're an acquired taste.


Want to have jealouses? I get to see Bad Religion AND Ceremony (and also a whole pile of bands that I'm tangentially interested in but will see anyways), FOR FREE.

And a bunch of bands I've never really listened to, like Oberhofer, Of Montreal, the Flaming Lips, and Good Riddance. But hey, it's free, so why not?

[DraPrime]

Gazebo? What gazebo?

What sorcery is this!?

[Rawhide]

What sorcery is this!?

Hello possums!

[DraPrime]

Hello possums!

Well now I'm just confused.

[Rawhide]

Well now I'm just confused.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmTHPfvr1ow

[HalfTangible]

Hello possums!

... Hell has opossums? =O

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

... Hell has opossums? =O

The creepy little muppets aren't getting into Heaven, I can tell you that much. I still have traumatic nightmares from them.