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bobs12 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 310 Location: Saint Petersburg

Perfectly, and I mean perfectly, describes my ex-colleague! (American)

Sorry America Wink

It's surprising just how effective satirical humour really is in arse-for-elbow institutions. The best political stairists don't tell jokes, they just state facts.

Xenophile · Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Moscow

great site-don't have time to read it all right now, but I particularly liked the one about "complaints from students".

bobs12 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 310 Location: Saint Petersburg

http://www.englishdroid.com/queries.html

steven_gerrard · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 155

Looks like a funny site if anyone could actually read the thing. Whoever is responsible for this (and what EFL teacher has that much time on theri hands? Must work for BKC.....) needs to up the font size. Most people I work with tried a couple of pages then gave up.

bobs12 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 310 Location: Saint Petersburg

I had no probs reading it- try the text size option in the view menu.

If that doesn't work-

Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility > check 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages'

Useful for anyone with difficulty viewing small fonts in general. Read it a bit and you'll find out who's 'behind it'. Do I detect a hint of bitterness? Wink

'Bally teachers have spare time - Victor, assign them to class 64b!'

steven_gerrard · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 155

If someone is going to all the trouble of writing and designing a website, they could at least make the font a readable size., I have never come accross another website ever where I have had to change the size of the font in order to read it.

From what I did read, it seems to be amusing at times but as a career teacher, I am bored of this kind of attitude towards teaching English. Yeah, for a lot of people who work in EFL this may well be the reality, but for some who don't work for these Mickey Mouse outfits any longer (coz we all have) it couldn't be further from the truth.

As for a hint of bitterness against BKC? Whatever for? Pity perhaps, but certainly not bitterness.....

Phillip Donnelly · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 43

I found out about this site from a teacher in Bangkok who has never worked in Moscow, or even visited it, so I don't think it's a BKC teacher, to be honest. There seem to be a lot of references to Thailand, so perhaps somebody here. A genius, whoever he/she is!

steven_gerrard · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 155

That was meant to be a joke about BKC teachers having too much time on their hands. I am sure they work hard. Or at least work long-hours.

And I think "Genius" is a bit of a strong word for this

Phillip Donnelly · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 43

Yeah, OK, 'genius', like the site itself, is going too far. But let's face it, there aren't a lot of laughs out there in the TEFL world. Any profession which rivals the military for pointless acronyms needs to be ridiculed a little. Who can name a famous standup TEFL comic? Does anyone know a funnier TEFL site? Please tell us about it.
Re the font size, I agree it could be larger, but far more annoying for me was the amount of time pages took to load, but enough nit-picking. I'm sure this guy, whoever and whereever he is, isn't making any money from this, and I'm sure putting it on his CV wouldn't get him/her a job anywhere, so I applaud him/her.
Why doesn't English have a nuetral word for him/her?
Stupid language!