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[msmicrobe]

... you would rather help someone grade papers for a class outside of your field, if only because your lack of content knowledge makes it less painful. 

I think you're on to something here. We need a paper swap thread where we trade assignments to grade. If we each post our areas of content ignorance, we could get through the stacks very quickly.

[compdoc]

Simple words that you know how to spell (and have known how to spell since your elementary days) look wrong when they are correct. I actually had to go look up "white," I had seen it spelled wrong so often.

[rowan1]

when you want to throw things or worse, when your child (who usually doesn't have to listen to this) asks his daddy "why is Mommy getting mad?"

I think it is time to mop the kitchen.