@AwkwardToo (AwkwardToo) posted a new topic, subject "Well 'DUH' !!!!". It read:

   This is one of those news reports that just make you want to go up to one of those old, creosote smelling, splintery, iron hard and ramrod straight wooden telephone poles on a dirt road and wang your head against it for an hour or so.  
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    New tests in Tennessee have determined that smaller classes in school are better for kids and increase their grade levels.
    
    Some of us have been screaming this astonishing fact to the board of education and the government ever since they decided to jam 30 kids into rooms designed for 20! In the late 1970s when they decided to slow down on building schools and figured they could pack more kids sardine can style into existing ones, we told them that **this is a real bad idea** , that **teachers and students alike would suffer** but, the _Great Gods of the Board of Education_ smiled paternally down upon us, patted us on our heads and told us to go play in the street with the traffic. They knew better.
    
    I guess not!!
    
    While we watched over crowded classes add to the ‘dumbing' of American children and the deteoriation of the respected position of Teachers of future generations, the Gods of the Board of Education assured us that all was Well and Good, even when they started having to duck a bullet or two.
    
    Now they are ‘discovering' that smaller classes ‘are' better, like this is a previously unknown revelation.
    
    I've found my ancient, sun baked, splintery, suitably creosote smelling pine telephone pole. There's another just down the road for you. Maybe after I pound my head for a while, I might actually understand bureaucracy a little bit.

To which @HeyHomie (HeyHomie) replied

    From a local news broadcast: “Springfield police found a man shot to death in his back yard early Saturday morning. Police are ruling the death suspicious.”
    
    From another local new broadcast: Setting- a NWS meteorologist is talking about flooding on the Mississippi river: “How much higher the river gets will depend on how much it rains.”

Then @Johnny_L.A (Johnny L.A.) said

    A couple of weeks ago, KNBC-4, L.A. did a report that people are being killed in car crashes even though they are wearing their seatbelts. Some people recline their seats when they drive (“looks cool”) and they “torpedo” under the lap belt in a crash.
    
    Well, duh! I figured that out decades ago, as a kid who didn't even drive!
    
    OT, “Duh!”: We all know that “Duh.” indicates a person whose mental gearbox needs a bit of lubricant. How many od us exaggerated it as children to ridicule someone: “DuuuuuhhOYEEEEEEEyoeeeyoeeee!”? Just something I hadn't thought of in a while.


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