The Thursday Thought

Over the past few weeks, my mind has been constantly swamped by this one thought, this one burning question, one which is so great that I'd thought I'd share it with you all...

What can possibly be better than watching a game of exciting test cricket on a long hot Summer's day, with great company, without a care in the world...and Pietersen's derrière in full sight?!!

Dear precious reader(s),
I am sorry to say that, as I am sure you have already noticed, the last Thursday thought was not written. This tragic incident is, I am truly sorry to admit, my fault. In an attempt to give my actions some sort of reason though do let me explain that I am not a full time member of the Thursday thought and was (...and am) currently on my vacation touring the world (check the tour dates to see if I'll be near you anytime soon at http://original10.blospot.com)
I don’t have anything up my sleeve for today however I do have a somewhat older text that I wrote. mind you I remember the contents of this particular piece of mine exactly and I must say that circumstances have drastically changed but I was in quite a mood when I wrote it so anyone who enjoys reading things that were written passionately I assure you this was.

"No, you're wrong"

I personally don’t like vulgar language and I know and can fully understand that others feel an even greater dislike for it than I but there's no other way to say it. I'm presently soooo goddamn pissed with my shitty, idiotic class (if I swear than I'm really going to go at it) that I can hardly see straight. What morons! All right till now it probably seams as though I might have gone a wee bit mad and am simply roaring at my poor class for no reason **sighs** maybe I don’t even have a reason but in life the one thing just plunks it self on top of the other till the whole leaning tower of pisa falls down and makes my face go red and my tongue spit at the next best person. hmmm I probably still haven't done a lot to change your opinion on my poor class though so I'll stop ranting and raging and will just go on with ranting ;p

here's the scene:
3 class, physics room, middle of the lesson, teacher just said something about volume and umm **thinks** pressure I believe
I raise hand to ask question related to subject. something along the line of "...but what about in a black hole?" A simple question. nothing odd and not totally stupid ...I think I mean do you know if and how much volume a black hole has and if it does than if there's pressure in it and and and? (Paul, you don’t count ;p)
my class however broke into hysteria and that along with my teacher (?!!!!!!!!) hello? have I missed something or is school not supposed to be a place to learn? the worst is, that he than said after many chuckles and a bit more prodding from my side that he didn't know what I was talking about! Fine, given physics is a large field but p-pppeleas!!! which of you hasn't heard of a black hole and didn't half way understand the question above? I didn't want a number just an idea of if the same rules that are here are also there. no genius question and sadly no million dollars to win. But ok. even teachers are people and people know nothing. so I'll leave him out of it.

This scene however is getting so common in my memory that it's starting to become scary.

3rd grade (after having learnt a bit about the planets in 2nd grad my curiosity was awoken and I started to look into a whole lot about the universe)
I correct the teacher in class and say that there are more than just 9 planets and that in fact not only a 10th but also even more had been found! (said with more enthusiasm than I can in anyway explain)
the result? laughter. howling laughter, a teacher shaking her head and saying "No, you're wrong."

5th grade geography
(class sitting in the geography room, we were supposed to say what one can produce out of coal)
-plastic
-heat (etc.)
me :"diamonds"
laughter.
the teacher in a manor as though she were talking to a little kid "no Adriana, diamonds are stones"
more laughter

there are many more incidences where I was told that I'm false, that I'm an idiot and even been called crazy for saying things ....only when I look it up I see that I'm right. The impact, the reaction of the others have on you though is really astonishing. For about an hour or though I must admit I really felt as though I was being silly and that there isn't such a thing as a black hole. and it took me about two weeks when I was younger to believe and understand again that it indeed is possible to make diamonds out of coal. I don’t what sympathy or what ever you'd probably come to me with but I want an explanation.
why do people laugh when they haven't an idea what another is talking about? and why are others (teachers for example) not open to something they've never heard of? The mass of people and simply just one whole group has soo much power it is truly astonishing. Everyone claims that they can stand up against it. but can anyone really? I hate to admit it but I just shrunk when they all laughed. It took about 2 seconds for them to make me believe that I was wrong. ...sure the idea that I was wrong didn't last long ...but still as I said I hate to admit it but I really did think I was wrong and was just being silly for about a whole hour!! AN HOUR!!