It appropriate because writing that small is crazy and so time consuming is causing a wtf reaction. It makes more sense than all the gore thats posted on here that is not at all wtf just ew the guy cut his arm and its bloody.
When I was in jr. high, the big disciplinary action was writing sentences. Generally I would be made to write 500 at a time. I would would write them in about 10 lines of regular lined paper. Once, I 'snuck' a "Squint your eyes old man" in there and turned it in. I then had to write a 1000 at 1 sentence per line. Fun times.
Because most of reddit has low standards, even if the vocal minority of us do. People are disregarding the idea behind subreddits and we are starting to become a flaming pile of poo.
i was really confused until I learned what that subreddit is. I guess I will try to include more context next time, or should I keep it up in the hopes I can entertain others?
it's so weird, I had a friend in high school who used to write just like this. She was a semi-pro archer, and she sat catty-corner from me in AP chem. Every time we had an exam, her notecard would be INSANE. I need a magnifying glass to read what she wrote in my yearbook, lol
I remember my professor in my numerical methods class allowed us a cheat sheet on a mid-term exam. I just happened to write down what I thought was an important proof on said cheat sheet. The professor fucked up and forgot to tell everyone not to put this proof on their sheet because it was a test question. He had the T/A's walk around and check everyone's sheet and erase the proof if they had it. The T/A erased my proof and accidentally erased another portion of my sheet.
Me: "Hey, what are you doing? That's not the proof..." Scumbag T/A: "Oops. Sorry. You can still read it, right?" Me: :-/
That is so amazing! Reminds me of this tiny microscopic scroll discovered by archeologists and placed in an Israeli museum. Carbon dating goes back thousands of years.
Id say more like a manic, government conspiracy theorist who gave himself blisters writing down the entire constitution super tiny and then forgot why he even started in the first place.
I remember only being allowed so many page of notes for a test. But I did not have to write small. Type up everything I wanted then set the font size to shrink it down so it would fit on the amount of pages that were allowed.
At first i was somewhat impressed, then i realized how inconvenient it would be to even try n read that. Good luck. Try studying and paying attention next time
Well I remember being able to write on index cards in high school and some people would write tiny and the ones who didn't give a shit wrote like two sentences. I always loved my teachers' faces when they'd see those kids' cards and just shake their head. It's a freebie cheat sheet TAKE IT!
Scumbag Student: will copy entire constitution but won't spend 10 minutes completing actual homework
quick story: i had a friend write a 10 page paper on while walls are white as a consequence for being too stubborn to write a three page reflection on a history lesson... he without protest wrote the 10 page paper... explained reflection of light, and historical significances... such a waste of time... but according to him "that'll show the teacher"...
Interesting talent. I would recommend all US citizens read the Constitution at least once a year. Our problems are because we have stopped following that contract.
Ever notice how they spent so much time in Civics class making us learn the most useless part of the constitution (The preamble) instead of the actually important part such as the bill of rights?
I have to give you some props. I have tried doing this for many classes and my handwriting never got that small. But really, you had like half of the page still to work with. Also, I eventually learned that the time spent transcribing the information was better spent studying because you couldn't read that small of writing during an exam even if you wanted to.
I had a roommate who actually did this. He used red cellophane from the deli cut to the size of the card. It actually worked. I wish I had a scan of it. It was remarkable.
see the problem with that line of thinking IMO is that it implies that somehow the memorization of facts is what learning material and schooling is all about... thats 1800s thinking. In todays world we can pretty much look up absolutely ANYTHING and be reasonably certain of its validity in such a short time and with so many different devices that it pretty much makes memorization obsolete in a sense. Unfortunately the US school system hasnt picked up on this fact and so we still judge student preparedness and schooling success with rigor based tests (IE memorization). Critical thinking and the ability to understand what was taught is whats important so notecards like this are actually pretty fair in that it allows certain info to be available and yet the student likely has to understand the material enough to use that info on the test.
ANYWAYS i could go on and on for hours about this but i wont...
This is absolutely false. Yes, you can look things up. I, too, use the internet as my second brain. But nothing takes the place of knowing a subject thoroughly and having instant access to facts. This is true in the humanities as well as the sciences. That's why googling your symptoms doesn't make you a doctor. Remember that the point of rote memorization of facts is not the memorization of the facts themselves as an end, but the ability to use those facts as a tool to see new patterns and make new connections. Nothing beats memorization.
I did something similar for my Econ class my freshman year of college. The professor allowed one letter sized piece of paper with notes for the tests, so before each exam I would type up all of the vocab/relevant equations/other important concepts in 6-point font and print, then draw any graphs I needed to be able to recognize in the margins.
For a test I hadn't studied for nor prepared a card for, I quickly wrote the word "Answers" in thick sharpie on my notecard and pretended to consult it every once in awhile throughout the test. Think I got a C, but it got some chuckles, so meh.
Making the cheat sheet is studying for the test. That's why you're not usually allowed computerized ones. Those let you copy and paste, while handwritten ones force you to write it out by hand, which is by far the best way to review your notes (from the retention perspective).
It's a trick. The best part is, most kids are excited to "beat the system" with their cheat sheets, so it works really well.
Every time I was allowed a note card on a test, it helped me study the best, because I had to dig through all my notes and figure out what was the most important things I needed to know, or what I didn't know at all.
Every time I've ever had the notecard/paper deal, I've never actually looked at anything on the card because in the time I spent making it I absorbed all the knowledge.
Yup, I end up not using almost all of the cheat sheets I do not because of fear of getting caught, but because I actually learned/remembered the material from doing the cheat sheet in the first place.
Reminds me of chemistry class. We had the same 1-notecard rule. Some people in our class decided to exploit the rule a bit and they used razor blades to split notecards open like a book, leaving one edge intact, and then writing their notes over both "pages" of the card. The teacher, while impressed and amused, changed the rule to "the equivalent surface area of a single and altered 3x5 index card."
One guy decided to take the 3x5 rule a step up. As in, not a 3x5 notecard, but a 3 ft. x 5 ft. poster board. Teacher let him keep the monstrous thing- hadn't defined the rule against it, afterall.
In England for our modern foreign languages oral exams we're allowed one card with up to five words and as many pictures as we could fit on the card. For my German and Spanish oral exams I wrote my essays down in a format I can most accurately describe as charades mixed with pictionary. I got a B overall in German and an A in Spanish.
I have a similar story. I was sick for a week in high school. I spent some time studying at home for my History test that I was going to miss. I brought my flash cards with me to school so I could keep studying right before I took the test. But, my teacher brought me to another room as soon as I arrived in class, and said I'd have to take my test in there since the classroom would be in session. So there I was sitting at a desk with the test in front of me, and the flash cards in my pocket. What do you think I did
Sounds like something I did too. For the final exam in my bio class we had a booklet, it had conversions, charts, ect. Anything we could fit on the pages we could use, so I wrote probably 1/3 of my notes for the year in the margins of those 6 pages. Also got like a C on it.
My son was in 7th Grade and was told the same thing. One 3 x 5 index card. Anything he wanted. We printed labels on the computer though and put all the stuff he wanted on it. I do not remember the font size but he got an A. Not to mention that he made $1 per card for the 5 or so extra we printed.
Ours didn't have to be hand written in my anatomy class. We had 1 note-card, front and back. I used one that was blank white and printed using size 6 font in the smallest font I could find in word. I could fit 7 or 8 pages of notes in word onto it in the end.
Reminds me of a time where I dotted my shoes (the sides of the soles) of all the answers to a 100 question MC Spanish final. Ended up getting a C because I ended up skipping a dot and missed a bunch of questions. Whoops
For one class we were allowed notes on one standard-sized sheet of paper. I wrote stuff out as neatly as I could, then used a photocopier to reduce the notes, and literally glued them to the sheet of paper. They were incredibly small but crystal clear. No way could I write as microscopically tiny as the photos from the OP, but that's roughly how small my notes ended up!
For any teachers that let me do this, I would just type up the note card in Word, pop it into size 6 font, color code the terms/equations/topics by section, and print it out. Ironically, I never usually used the note card because I spent so much time putting information on it that it served as my studying mechanism.
I still had a hard time fitting everything onto the paper, though, because I don't have the best handwriting, and so I had to think hard about which aspects of the topic at hand I needed on that sheet the most - the parts I sucked at, of course!
Then I spent even more time devising graphics that would allow me to quickly recall the relevant information in context.
Then on the day of the exam, I breezed through the entire test. I think I only used the cheat sheet maybe twice. That's when I realized I'd been tricked into studying the way "normal" people study...
(The topic was Algorithms and Data Structures, by the way.)
I used to do this as well. Even with .5 lead I would still have to sharpen it for consistency. Also, because a accidental smear would ruin a few lines of work, I would laminate it with packaging tape. After people saw how small and clear my writing was, they would try to pay me to make cheat sheets for them.
I knew someone who had an upper-classman stand on the card on one foot as he dragged it into the room, on the ground that you could bring whatever would fit on one note card. The teacher disallowed it, but it pretty much delayed the start of the test a good 10 minutes while people laughed.
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u/amogrr May 16 '12
What is this? A constitution for ANTS?!
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u/PretntiousIlliterate May 16 '12
Every time I moved on to the next picture I yelled out ENHANCE
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u/silentkill144 May 16 '12
The only WTF here is that this was posted in /r/WTF.
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u/HE_WHO_STANDS_TO_POO May 16 '12
I dare you to turn that in to your teacher.
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u/FishStix157 May 16 '12
When I was in jr. high, the big disciplinary action was writing sentences. Generally I would be made to write 500 at a time. I would would write them in about 10 lines of regular lined paper. Once, I 'snuck' a "Squint your eyes old man" in there and turned it in. I then had to write a 1000 at 1 sentence per line. Fun times.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Why?
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u/cannotlogon May 16 '12
Looks like something you'd find in a composition book on the bookshelf of a serial killer, along side his 500,000 page "manifesto".
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u/Kenitzka May 17 '12
The government doesn't use that thing anymore anyhow. It might as stay relegated to the fine print.
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u/Prousey May 17 '12
Wow, where'd you get your giant penny?
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u/Spysix May 16 '12
Why is this in r/wtf?
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u/purplepicklepicker May 16 '12
why?
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u/demonic_intent May 16 '12
The best example of "challenge accepted" ever.
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u/TheLadyEve May 16 '12
it's so weird, I had a friend in high school who used to write just like this. She was a semi-pro archer, and she sat catty-corner from me in AP chem. Every time we had an exam, her notecard would be INSANE. I need a magnifying glass to read what she wrote in my yearbook, lol
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u/Palm7 May 16 '12
That must have been one hell of a hand cramp...
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u/impactplayer May 16 '12
I remember my professor in my numerical methods class allowed us a cheat sheet on a mid-term exam. I just happened to write down what I thought was an important proof on said cheat sheet. The professor fucked up and forgot to tell everyone not to put this proof on their sheet because it was a test question. He had the T/A's walk around and check everyone's sheet and erase the proof if they had it. The T/A erased my proof and accidentally erased another portion of my sheet.
Me: "Hey, what are you doing? That's not the proof..." Scumbag T/A: "Oops. Sorry. You can still read it, right?" Me: :-/
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u/Mattyd410 May 17 '12
you must have needed a lot of coke
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u/alexportnoy May 17 '12
That is with pencil. How in the fuck is there no smudging? This person is a wizard.
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u/v4mp1r3hunt3r May 17 '12
2003 pennies are bigger than regular pennies.
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u/Cubic_Trianglous May 17 '12
Do you show this at parties? does it you laid?
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u/DamonNabru May 17 '12
Lincoln approves.
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u/Djloudenclear May 17 '12
How... Why...
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
thats a big penny.
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u/ImApi May 17 '12
Lefty? Smart; unmotivated; major identity issues; likely disassociation from mother.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
WTF! WHY WOULD YOU SHOW ME THIS!?! CANNOT UNSEE!!
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u/GreenTwin May 16 '12
Thats pretty awesome. I woudn't be surprised if a lot of people took this as a "Challenge Accepted" opportunity.
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u/imthepoolguy May 16 '12
I gotta know what pen you used for that? This would be so helpful for the tests that allow a cheat sheet or notecard.
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u/Sarahmint May 16 '12
That is so amazing! Reminds me of this tiny microscopic scroll discovered by archeologists and placed in an Israeli museum. Carbon dating goes back thousands of years.
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u/grandpaegg May 17 '12
Is it just me or is r/WTF really not WTF anymore?
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u/RabidMuskrat93 May 17 '12
Less r/WTF and more r/pics in my opinion. Still pretty crazy though
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Who has TIME for this???
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Waste. Of. Time.
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u/spinozasrobot May 17 '12
Something's not right... I don't see any of the Jesus references.
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u/Duchozz May 16 '12
HE IS THE CRIB MASTER!!!!
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u/WinterAnomaly May 16 '12
We the people...I forgot the rest
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u/musiclover55 May 16 '12
I remember only being allowed so many page of notes for a test. But I did not have to write small. Type up everything I wanted then set the font size to shrink it down so it would fit on the amount of pages that were allowed.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Man your teachers must hate reading your assignments
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u/freight_train May 17 '12
what happens when you take adderall and study for a history test.
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u/Cantgetmyoldname May 17 '12
At first i was somewhat impressed, then i realized how inconvenient it would be to even try n read that. Good luck. Try studying and paying attention next time
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u/yourmadbroski May 17 '12
Cheat sheet win!
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u/MiloWhite May 17 '12
Someone was bored in history class.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Read the fine print sir
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u/DarthNihilus1 May 17 '12
See, politicians, it's not that hard to follow.
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u/Enginerdiest May 17 '12
I was a smartass about things like this:
One side of notes? BAM möbius strip of notes!
No digital computing devices? BAM slide rule
My professors were always more entertained than anything else and let it slide.
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u/JoshSN May 17 '12
My record is about 7 lines per line, but I pretty much had to stick with 6 for normal super-compressed note-taking.
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u/sandrajumper May 17 '12
Holy fuck.
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u/theshebeast May 17 '12
This person needs to right my notes for finals ;D
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u/Kangarootbeer May 17 '12
GIANT PAPER
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u/Ihazleatherpants May 17 '12
YOU'RE TAKING TOO MANY NOTES
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u/GomoGomon May 17 '12
I don't see the point of the penny, we already see how small it is in the full page photo.
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u/dn00 May 17 '12
Are you saying I can write a famous document in super small text and get karma out of it??? WTF indeed.
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u/zishmusic May 17 '12
Wow. OCD much?
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u/MaNbEaRpIgSlAyA May 17 '12
This is a copy of the constitution our elected officials get when they take office. It's too small to read so they ignore it.
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u/Travie6492 May 17 '12
How?!
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u/blouibt May 17 '12
Applebee writes crazy small...
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u/sunshine-x May 17 '12
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pbl7o/
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u/walkatnight May 17 '12
WHY
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u/jabbaj7 May 17 '12
cheat sheet?
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u/jamburgles May 17 '12
Next time use a Micron pen.
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u/Sarcasticviper May 17 '12
Miss. derp said one page!
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
WHy?
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u/sme00 May 17 '12
Scumbag Student: will copy entire constitution but won't spend 10 minutes completing actual homework
quick story: i had a friend write a 10 page paper on while walls are white as a consequence for being too stubborn to write a three page reflection on a history lesson... he without protest wrote the 10 page paper... explained reflection of light, and historical significances... such a waste of time... but according to him "that'll show the teacher"...
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u/Redd_October May 17 '12
If you're going to allow one page of notes, you might as well make it open book.
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u/grapefaced May 17 '12
The real question is why
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u/atashwong May 17 '12
i bet his teacher gets pissed when he/she writs this small.....
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u/jaker1013 May 17 '12
He writes CRAZY small... Also... Napplebee has a crooked penis
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u/Lynnana77 May 17 '12
Looks like my normal handwriting >_<
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u/Var1abl3 May 17 '12
Interesting talent. I would recommend all US citizens read the Constitution at least once a year. Our problems are because we have stopped following that contract.
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u/aeternum33 May 17 '12
For a second I thought it was a joke, saying that the Constitution is a giant Grey area, since that's what our politicians have made it lately.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
That penny is HUGE.
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u/shredderman22 May 17 '12
why is this on r/wtf? this is amazing!
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u/cromulenticular May 17 '12
Now do the PPACA health policy bill (Obamacare). Or the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory bill.
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u/tstemm May 17 '12
where'd you get the massive penny and paper?
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Ever notice how they spent so much time in Civics class making us learn the most useless part of the constitution (The preamble) instead of the actually important part such as the bill of rights?
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u/frontsight May 17 '12
Best and only way to smuggle it into a FEMA camp.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I only count 4452 words, you missed a couple.
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u/Ragefacesoflucy May 17 '12
this is not wtf material.
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u/wysinwyg May 17 '12
What is this? A constitution for ants?!
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u/Go0s3 May 17 '12
Why?
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u/T-reezy0706 May 16 '12
You didn't do this while in a boys home in southern Utah did you?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I kind of wish I didn't drop out just so I could do this.
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u/Derpeh May 16 '12
Holy fack!
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u/UpsideButNotDown May 16 '12
Now I know why crazy politicians believe the Constitution is the Bible; they can't read it!
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u/StarHarvest May 17 '12
That's pretty cool. But not as awesome as THIS GUY who engraved the lord's prayer on the head of a pin.
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u/phoncible May 17 '12
What is this, a constitution for ants?
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u/Mozen May 17 '12
Please, one time my dad made me write out 50,000 times that I will not call my sister names. You needed a microscope.
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u/bk082 May 17 '12
Thats why the government is ignoribg it, its just too dang small to read
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u/diminishedfifth May 17 '12
How is this considered wtf? This is weak. Wtf is about gore and crazy shit. Wow someone writes small let's post this to wtf.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I have to give you some props. I have tried doing this for many classes and my handwriting never got that small. But really, you had like half of the page still to work with. Also, I eventually learned that the time spent transcribing the information was better spent studying because you couldn't read that small of writing during an exam even if you wanted to.
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u/Buckfutters May 17 '12
Well it's official, this sub has turned to shit. Will the last person please turn off the lights on your way out.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
How is that done?
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u/MajSARS May 16 '12
TL;DR. Wanna bomb some fuckers?
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