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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2014 14:57:21 GMT
!? I don't get what you're saying barbedsparky. I don't own any animals (unless you count the monkeys that claim to be my kids). That video is a comment on VT's narcoleptic sleeping habits. Sorry was just having a rant about the the lack of ability of some animal owners in that vid. I don't get it =X i didn't see any mistreatment or lack of ability of animals there. Can't train the dog to not have narcolepsy. |
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Post by barbedsparky on Apr 18, 2014 0:44:59 GMT
Whoops, my bad. Just watched it again. I must have accidentally clicked on one of the vids after that one had finished and though it was a continuance. Apologies for the confusion.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 21:11:28 GMT
MY LOCAL GAMES WORKSHOP JUST CLOSED DOWN!!
The only gaming store/club within like a billion miles of me. Arg. Not a huge deal since I'm anti social and mostly buy secondhand so I didn't go there much, but still sucks.
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Post by blackrainbow on Apr 23, 2014 6:12:53 GMT
Never had allergies before, moved to the NW and have had them horribly for almost 6 months.
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Post by robomummy on Apr 23, 2014 22:50:08 GMT
GG: posted a long rant about how terrible of a person my roommate is. Had to delete it because I felt terrible for saying those things about him after I wrote it. He is the one person who has ever worn my nerves thin but these are things I should never say to his face.
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Post by WestRider on Apr 23, 2014 23:39:05 GMT
GG: My knee went out on me during my walk. Haven't had that happen for a while. And of course, it was on one of the days when I set out feeling good enough that I didn't bring my cane. blackrainbow: NW of what? I know here in the NW continental US, my allergies have been killing me the last couple of months. First the alder, and now the big leaf maple and scotch broom  |
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Post by robomummy on Apr 24, 2014 22:57:44 GMT
(Warning: Rant ahead)
My school requires I take a career class in order to do an internship for credit. So apparently I need to pay to take a class so I can pay to work for free. This class is the most pointless class ever created and all it is is a 10 hour lecture (5 2 hour classes) about the services that the school's career center offers. They give terrible advice for getting jobs and have no idea what they are doing.
They constantly quote facts at us about what employers are looking for but god forbid they give sources for this information (when I asked where they got their information they looked at me as though I was insane). I have been employed for longer than most of these people who work at the career department and have more work experience than several of the instructors combined. We are required to create an account for a professional social media site that we need to pay for and that every employer that I have talked to hates.
Furthermore they constantly request that we let them review our resumes. I am looking to get a job with the police when I graduate (and already have a possible job lined up)and several police chiefs have told me my resume is very impressive but when I take it to the career department they tell me it needs to be redone.
There is no way out of taking this class, I even talked to the instructor about these arguments and how I have no wish for them to be involved in my job search. Somehow she doesn't seem to understand when someone doesn't need or want their help.
anyway that's my rant, needed to get that frustration out somehow.
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Post by PumpkinHead on Apr 25, 2014 17:18:24 GMT
I feel your pain robomummy. As a recruiter for my company at the local colleges I dread seeing the same style resume from 30 students. With 30 of the same resumes (font, layout, typeset, etc) sitting on my desk after I get done talking with students all day it is hard to remember each person individually. If you make your resume "pop" or stand out just a little bit it is easier to remember the person you talked to in the sea of students.
GG: Top of turn 5 I had my opponent down to 5 men and 1 tank. He has to kill my warlord (flyrant) and roll snake eyes to keep his troops from running off of the objective to tie the game. Bottom of 5... he rolls snake eyes to hold the objective, snap fires and grounds my flyrant, shoots the flyrant with his tank, and I fail my save. It was just one of those moments when your jaw drops and there are no words.
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Post by blackrainbow on Apr 30, 2014 6:50:05 GMT
WestRider, yeah, NW OR. Horrible place, lovely to look at, but with these allergies... just horrible.
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Post by gman25639 on May 2, 2014 17:45:52 GMT
My god damn math class/teacher! I was studying for like 2 hours last night for a math test today, because I had been pretty lost overe the course of the unit and I was trying to ensure I had maximum comprehension of the subjects I needed to know for the test. I get to school, my class starts at 8:15 and I got into the classroom at 8:07, and she was going over some stuff with some of my classmates, but she was smack in the middle of an example and I wasn't sure where they had started. I ask if she can go over the problems I did out of my textbook when I was studying just to make sure I had everythin down for the test, and she just hands me her teacher copy with all the answers. I couldn't find the asnwers for most of the problems and I asked, and she's like "I can't sit and correct your work with you, the test is out." She had given the test to some of my classmates EARLY, before class had actually started, and now she was apparently too frickin' paranoid about kids overhearing what she would be telling me and somehow affecting how they did on the test, ( at this point it was 8:09 and class was supposed to start at 8:15), so I look through her book soome more, as I find out after she directed me to the proper page with the answers on it, and I got some problems wrong, I wasn't sure why and I needed her to go through them with me (this would have taken 5 minutes MAX) and she still wouydn't help me! At this point it was 8:20 and class had started. Eventually she tells me to put my stuff away and gives me the test. I was so angry with her at this poiunt because I no longer felt I was ready for the test as I was once again confused, (if she had just spent a few minutes of her time to help me before class instead of going and sitting at her desk we could have avoided this whole situation). She was clearly not fulfilling her job as a teacher, which is to ensure the students(s) fully understand the content they are expected to know, so I refused to take the test, I wrote out, clearly and concisely and as respectfully as possible, on the test, that I would take the test when she decided to do her job and help me fully understand what is expected of me, rather than just dodging around my questions. I bet I'll probably get called to the principal's office at some point to get chewed out because I am a threat to the staff's mentlity that they are superior to all us students, despite all the obvious flaws in the system that they refuse to address. If they do, I am not going to serve any detentions no matter what they say, I'm sick of all the (please do not swear) with this school.
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Post by yoritomo on May 3, 2014 10:03:11 GMT
Dude, you were wrong.
Are you really so arrogant that you think that when you enter the room the teacher's sole job is to help you and no one else? What about everybody else that was there early, don't you think they came in early for help as well? She gave you the teacher's edition, the freaking teacher's edition, what more could you want!
And before you say something like "I wanted her to go over the answers with me" I'm going to point out that if you don't know the material 5 minutes before a test then you aren't going to know it period. If you really needed her help so badly then why weren't you the first one at the door that morning? Never mind, I don't want to know because I bet it's just going to be another excuse.
Not taking a test because the teacher didn't drop everything she was doing to help you 5 minutes before class started, shear lunacy.
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Post by Inquisitor Stingray on May 4, 2014 20:11:03 GMT
Scatterbrained procrastination and intestines in pain makes it difficult for me to anything done, hobby, work or otherwise.
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Post by gman25639 on May 6, 2014 5:41:34 GMT
Dude, you were wrong. Are you really so arrogant that you think that when you enter the room the teacher's sole job is to help you and no one else? What about everybody else that was there early, don't you think they came in early for help as well? She gave you the teacher's edition, the freaking teacher's edition, what more could you want! And before you say something like "I wanted her to go over the answers with me" I'm going to point out that if you don't know the material 5 minutes before a test then you aren't going to know it period. If you really needed her help so badly then why weren't you the first one at the door that morning? Never mind, I don't want to know because I bet it's just going to be another excuse. Not taking a test because the teacher didn't drop everything she was doing to help you 5 minutes before class started, shear lunacy. Whoa there yori, perhaps I need to iterate a little more. I arrived around ten minutes before class actually started, I waited 2 minutes because she was answering a couple of other kids' last minute questions, and then when I asked her to answer mine she gave me her book. This seems like a good idea, but it only had the answers, not how to reach said answers, I wasn't sure what my error was so I asked if she could point it out, she refused as she was more concerned with passing out the test EARLY to other kids, they didn't need to get the test 5 minutes early, but I needed a question answered. And guess what? My sister went over those problems with me tonight (she's in pre-calc, I'm in algebra 2) and you know how long it took for her to answer my couple of questions? 5 minutes, this is my problem, the incompetence of tea hers and the public school system in America. Had my teacher not been so concerned with passing out the test before she was technically supposed to, she could have helped me, before class started, which she always says is available timeframe to ask questions. See my problem here? |
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Post by yoritomo on May 6, 2014 11:06:38 GMT
I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was ten whole minutes. My entire perception of your plight has changed. Or not. You know, you re-explained you problem because you think I don't understand, but in reality it is quite the opposite. I understand your problem more than you do. The difference is that I can see what's really going on. Let me highlight some things here. Whoa there yori, perhaps I need to iterate a little more. I arrived around ten minutes before class actually started, I waited 2 minutes because she was answering a couple of other kids' last minute questions, and then when I asked her to answer mine she gave me her book. This seems like a good idea, but it only had the answers, not how to reach said answers, I wasn't sure what my error was so I asked if she could point it out, she refused as she was more concerned with passing out the test EARLY to other kids, they didn't need to get the test 5 minutes early, but I needed a question answered. And guess what? My sister went over those problems with me tonight (she's in pre-calc, I'm in algebra 2) and you know how long it took for her to answer my couple of questions? 5 minutes, this is my problem, the incompetence of tea hers and the public school system in America. Had my teacher not been so concerned with passing out the test before she was technically supposed to, she could have helped me, before class started, which she always says is available timeframe to ask questions. See my problem here? You keep claiming that she is incompetent because she wasn't helping you, but in your own explanation I see that she was helping other kids the entire time you arrived early. She even went so far as to give you her book. That is the most important thing she could have given you. There are two kinds of people in this world, the kind who get things done and the kind that make excuses. The reason this grinds my gears is because it is the latter. Even worse is that you're trying to paint someone who is doing her best as the bad guy here. By your own admission it would take her 5 minutes to explain the problem. That's half the time you're there. How many people were in the room when you got there? I'm guessing at least five. What makes you so important that she has to spend most of her pre-class time with you? And when she started passing out tests how many people were there? I'm betting most of your class. Why should she help only you instead of helping out the entire class (you included) by passing out the test early? She's clearly trying to help out as many people as she can in the limited time she has. Maybe if you took a step back from that universe you call yourself you'd see that instead of blaming your problems on her. Now, if you were a doer then you would have been the first one in that class so you could ask your question and ensured you got an answer. Or you could have asked your sister the night prior. Or used the teacher's edition to figure it out. Or called a friend in he class to see if they could help. Or talked to the teacher about coming in at lunch or after school for help. Or got a tutor. Or went on the internet. There's a hundred ways you could have got help, but instead you choose to blame the teacher who tried to help everyone who wasn't going to finish the test in time. And by the way, trying to cram something in 5 minute before the test is usually the worst way to learn something. I would have rather had the 5 minute head start on the test. That would have given me more time to rack up partial credit on the questions I didn't understand. One more thing, every math book you'll use in collage has the answers to the odd numbered problems in the back. Heck, your sister's pre-calc book may even have answers in the back. They do this because knowing the answer is the most important part of learning how to work your way through the problem. All you had to do when the teacher gave you the teacher's edition was to take a problem you worked and look at the answer you got verses the answer in the book. If they don't match then you go back through your work and see if there was anything you missed or could have done differently that would give you the correct answer. That is the proper way to use the teacher's edition to learn. |
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Post by mantisstalker on May 6, 2014 12:26:23 GMT
So my parents found out about my boyfriend, and thus the fact I do not like people of the opposite sex. It gave me a speech about how this kind of thing is ok, which was kinda ruined how my dad proceeded to ban homosexuality from being committed in his house before leaving. Mum asked me some rather personal questions such as "Have you had sex yet?" which I feel wouldn't have been mentioned if I were in a straight relationship.
But you know, the embarrassment of such a subject being put aside, and not mentioning the fact it was pushed at so hard, I think the worst part is how disappointed they seem. My dads also become really passive aggressive. Its strange though, since I've never really put much into family.
Oh well, most important thing is I still get to see my boyfriend and the fact I still get to live somewhere is nice. I just always thought it would go differently I guess.
Sorry for interrupting whatever was going on.
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