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In terms of life, education and sexytimes?
Alt Q: what warning sign would be attached to you when drunk?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:36, 182 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Better physical and mental health, and maybe with the latter better relationships.
Alt Q: May attempt to kiss you; punch you; may cry, vomit or any combination of things mentioned previously.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:38, Reply)
Could be worse, I've only got 1 A Level, haha.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:56, Reply)
But then I remind myself that this is ridiculous and simply me getting ideas above my station.
Alt Q: "Warning: Liable to find a comfortable seat and fall asleep."
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:39, Reply)
I'd have a first class degree, be more attractive and more energetic.But part of being a procrastinator is you don't really care about that, and to be honest though I'd love better grades, I'm pretty happy being me
Alt Q: danger, may turn pugnacious and/or fall asleep.
Or just 'danger'
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:39, Reply)
However I learnt a lot in the 9 years of work I did after school. And made a little money.
Alt Q: Caution may start singing Queen songs very loudly or Reef's Place Your Hands in a much louder voice.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:42, Reply)
Alt a: I don't just "idiot" could work.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:42, Reply)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:49, Reply)
I might have had other ideas of what I'd like to do though I suppose.
Warning: Liable to talk enthusiastically and at length on subjects not of general interest to anyone willing to listen.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:45, Reply)
so I'm going to carry on being a civil engineer until it occurs to me.
well, actually what I'd really like is to not have to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for the next 40-50 years.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:05, Reply)
He'll be past it soon anyway and then I will have missed the boat.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:13, Reply)
I don't mean that in the way every loser down the pub or betting office says "I have an idea for this thinggy that'll make millions; it'll be like having the copywrite of a bottle cap... you know some guy owns billions 'cus he invented the little tags that go on top of hangers with the size written on them? My idea is even better than that, every person on the planet will use it. I swear, I'm going to be so rich one day"..... way.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:45, Reply)
Alt Q: Liable to abruptly engage auto-pilot and fuck off out of the pub without saying a word to anyone.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:48, Reply)
All of a sudden I would want to go to bed and leave everyone without a word.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:50, Reply)
My friend does that shit, one time she left with my jacket, had my keys in it, had to call my parents house at 3am to let me in. *rages*
Ignoring that, do your friends not worry about you? I worry sick when someone just fucking disappears.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:05, Reply)
with £30 worth of beer tokens on the last night and didnt appear until the bars were shut - the cunt
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:06, Reply)
Then I would get the half hour of whinging because I was leaving early. People knew I could look after myself.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:12, Reply)
I disappeared once to use the loo, saw my bed and thought ooh that looks comfortable, lay down and had a little nap. Went back two hours later
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:12, Reply)
I have fallen asleep on someone elses toilet before, rendering the entire bathroom out of bounds for the rest of the party. I didn't make many friends that night, I wonder why?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:35, Reply)
Recently I would have sorted out the jobs in my house that need doing. Procrastination has never really affected my life and sexytimes. Self-esteem is more of a problem in that area.
Sign would be - Do not take home.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:49, Reply)
I'm healthy, fit and have all my own teeth.
I can't have everything.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:57, Reply)
"Warning: Will likely text you until you turn off your phone in annoyance, makes statements in numerical order [i.e. for one thing, and secondly, etc], will try to put her tongue in your mouth and will make lude suggestions."
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:49, Reply)
for life. Education, dunno. Not really bothered about any grades I've earned as they will do. Sexy times, probably more!
Alt Q: WILL TALK LOUD WHEN DRUNK!
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:51, Reply)
But I just fell out with academia at about age 14, it just bored me. Year 9, was top of the year for most stuff, year 10, barely above average.
I'd also like to be earning more than I do now, with a degree, I'd be on at least £5,000 p.a. more. I'd also have shifted the weight I gained when I left McDonalds, it's been 3 1/2 years so far!
Warning: Likely to offend. Do not point this out until sober, as he'll just laugh.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:51, Reply)
I would be ruler of all the universes if I had not procrastinated so much. I now feel really bad, thank you very much.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:54, Reply)
and not have to wear a suit until 2am.
education - i am pretty happy with, provided i pass my masters.
sexytimes - hopefully you only regret what you DON'T do. (i try to stick to this because otherwise i might kill myself.) which means only bradley cooper and the hot guy from insolvency - the one who borrows my car - at this particular moment in time.
warning sign - "caution. will forcefeed you vodka shots. doubles."
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:58, Reply)
remind me to stay clear of you at any bashes we may be attending in the future. Vodka makes me vomit.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:07, Reply)
it's a skirt suit today. with stockings with seams down the back that made one of the partners tut at me in the lift. meh!
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:20, Reply)
The men used to go crazy for it. Go figure!
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:22, Reply)
Oh man, I fucking love it when a lady shows me her hand bag, and I ask her what the space is like inside it, she shows me and there is something green in there. Any sort of green will do, but I like olive green the best. It drives me crazy, it could be anything, from a packet of softmints to a voucher at M&S. Christ, I once saw this girl, who showed me her hand bag, and it had some wriggly's extra, I went fucking crazy, instant stiffy, I wanted to take her there and then.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:35, Reply)
in mine RIGHT NOW*
*may contain lies, how rank would green leopard print look?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:36, Reply)
Probably time to pick up a fresh leopard next time you're going past the cornershop.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:38, Reply)
I saw a lass wearing a green leopard print dress as I was walking through new street station today. It might have looked okay on someone half her size, but as it was it just looked like she'd escaped from a menagerie.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:45, Reply)
THIS WAS NOT ME. i do not actually own anything green and leopardy.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:47, Reply)
made my boss tut for very different reasons.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:23, Reply)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:01, Reply)
But likely doing what I am now.
Warning: will get bored and try to find new people or have an adventure. Will buy everyone shots with no warning.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:22, Reply)
AltQ: "Sorry if I stand on you, or if you think I'm glaring, my eyes are rebelling"
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:22, Reply)
you can rub the other one over your body whilst weeping softly*
*may or may not be from personal experience.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:44, Reply)
have gotten a 2:1 and be halfway through my PhD now. It irks me that I was a ludicrous 1% off the grade boundary. But c'est la vie. Plus, if I'd gone straight in to another 3 or 4 years of study my head might have exploded.
I have decided forthwith that I shall seize the fucking day. Especially when it comes to potential sexytimes. I'm sick of being shy.
Alt Q - is likely to fall asleep and/or take clothes off. If nudity is imminent, for Gods sake put me somewhere where you can't see me.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:32, Reply)
the irish guy who is suing queens because he got a 2:2?
there has got to be a floodgates argument there, every student in the country who doesn't get a first could sue!
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:35, Reply)
"I deserve compensation because I was too bone idle to work for a 2.1 or first"?
Is there the foggiest chance of that standing up in court?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:37, Reply)
Win case, receive compensation for inadequate tuition: ~15,000:1
Lose case, be legally recognised as a bone idle whinger: ~3:1
Lose case, and on the grounds that several other people managed to get 2.1s or firsts on the same course, be legally recognised as a bit of a thicky: Dead cert.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:45, Reply)
We're looking at putting in place "learning agreements" which state the student and lecturer's respective responsibilities. Fucked-up times.
But, yeah, he's doing more harm to his future employment by doing this then his 2:2 has done. Who the fuck would employ that much of a cunt?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:48, Reply)
and I got a job doing exactly what I wanted to do within 8 weeks of graduation. I did apply all over the country though, and I had a lot more on my CV than most of my peers.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:50, Reply)
but in Berk's case, the issue is you can't get funding for a science or engineering PhD unless you get a 2:1.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:52, Reply)
and even they can be a bugger to get if you only have a 2:2
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)
but, yeah, usually I'd look for something else in the CV to convince me they won't balls it up.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:17, Reply)
I appreciate that the lecturers have a responsibility to teach an adequate course and set a fair exam thereupon. I can, however, also see why you need to make the complementary responsibilities clear to the students, as there are some who will just piss three years' education up the wall if you don't keep them in line.
Aside from which, if a lecturer's really that inadequate, surely the students will complain? I was quite reassured to see my own undergraduate department took such complaints quite seriously if enough noise was made at the time.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:53, Reply)
If we were shit we'd be out on our ear. But, that doesn't apply to all unis (Oxbridge/Russell group are traditionally the worst as they regard teaching as an irritating distraction a lot of the time)
then again, we just came first in the NSS survey this year in my teaching subject so I would say that ;)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:55, Reply)
that's what accreditation is about. Decent courses are accredited by the respective professional institutes, and they check teaching, exams, course content, delivery etc. So that covers the lecturer's responsibility mostly.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:58, Reply)
Apparently it broke records...
(Though to be fair, in the end he did respond to certain requests from the department and actually set a very reasonable exam at the end of the year)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:58, Reply)
though in fairness bar one person I have had exceptional teaching and committment from my tutors, including one who if you were at all into Classics/Ancient History you'd know the name of, so technically she should be the worst
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:03, Reply)
Although I'm mostly employed to do research, that's the exception rather than the norm here, so I still had to do the equivalent of a PGCE for lecturers part-time over 2 years, and there are movements to make that a requirement, same as schoolteachers. But, again, Russell group are blocking it.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)
Whilst it does give me a wonderful veneer of smug to be able to tell people I'm based at a Russell Group uni (another croissant, please, dear boy), the people who run them frequently come across a bunch of phenomenally arrogant cunts.
On that note, is it Queen's Belfast this cunt's suing? I notice they're also Russell Group...
"CUNTS VS CUNT: Whoever wins...they're still a cunt."
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:08, Reply)
..whoever wins, everyone loses ....
*passes croissant*
I'm not against Russell Group - hell, UCL made my research career - but they currently seem to think they can control a lot of things by going "ah, but we're good, so what we says goes"
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:12, Reply)
it surprised me just how massively cliquey and pompous academics are.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:13, Reply)
unless he can prove that he worked his arse off for 3 years but was taught the wrong stuff i should have thought that he would have difficulty succeeding!
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:46, Reply)
in spite of the lack of "proper supervision"?
This guy has clearly not thought it through and is just trying it on. I've had students whinge about their marks before, but usually they draw the line at just whinging to you rather than taking it to court for all the country to laugh at them.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:49, Reply)
surely he received the same tuition as everyone else on his course, so unless they all failed too, he hasn't got a leg to stand on.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:49, Reply)
as presumably others on the course achieved better results making the teaching argument flawed. But poor personal supervision could only be used as an argument if he could prove his tutor had ignored a personal issue such as health or welfare, which affected his performance.
If he could have proved that, he would have succeeded in internal appeal at the Uni. Assuming he has appealed internally, of course, because if not, that means he doesn't actually want a higher grade but just wants money, which would make him even more of an utter cunt.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:52, Reply)
is that, whichever way you spin it, however hard you try to argue it from his perspective, the guy comes across as an utter cunt.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:56, Reply)
or are you just straight up propositioning Montague?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:20, Reply)
if he wants to take it as a proposition, i am open to offers.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:25, Reply)
I seriously doubt I'll even get a 2:1
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:37, Reply)
I have just thrown a grand away.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:42, Reply)
you don't even get a 2:1
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:00, Reply)
How much or what do you want to wager?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:02, Reply)
Or, at least, unless his Uni are idiots. We have way too much protection in place to ensure that our marking is backed up.
If his case is that he was not taught well enough then he's not got a legal leg to stand on.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:42, Reply)
and he should have pulled his fucking finger out. If he'd put as much effort in to doing that as he currently is doing in to whining about it, he'd have got a 2:1 with ease. I sincerely hope he doesn't win.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:43, Reply)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:35, Reply)
i'll do it tomorrow...
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:37, Reply)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:50, Reply)
she really had the hump. That's right, I have a chicken with mood swings.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:54, Reply)
I am going to end up with a pet chicken that doesn't lay eggs, which will make me just that little bit more mental in the eyes of my neighbours.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:03, Reply)
Having met chickenladies ladies and being surrounded by them where I was staying in Kos, I'm getting quite a soft spot for them.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)
(or such a pain) When my last one carks it I think i'll take a break from pets for another decade or so.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:09, Reply)
how anything with only 2 eyes and a beak, both of which are immobile, can look SO stroppy.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:58, Reply)
I had better not tell her that I have been invited skiing in February...
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)
Somerset
Accountant
Chicken
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:53, Reply)
-away from the ratrace
-can balance out my number dyslexia and fear of maths
-free omelettes for life
see!
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:56, Reply)
I guess it's going to have to be the little white chapel...VEGAS BABY! (Just Like Brittney Spears)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:01, Reply)
It's about Catholics and their noted ability to hide anywhere in your house. One could be watching you right NOW Monty
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:11, Reply)
well remembered, yes i am.
we could always just live in sin and have a massive party instead.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:04, Reply)
so I am confident you can relax. You are in no danger.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:17, Reply)
However I think drink is more to blame than procrastination...
The warning would be 'lousy'
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:43, Reply)
is so utterly depressing my mind won't actually let me consider it in any detail as I would probably top myself.
Alt: 'Beware: SEX MACHINE'
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:55, Reply)
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(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:01, Reply)
Feeling energised after your break?
Or merely 'a bit ill'?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)
Managed to hold the lurgy back at the weekend, and had a ruddy lovely time! Clendrix makes the best cheese scones and bread rolls.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:06, Reply)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:08, Reply)
www.belleepoqueparty.com/next-event.html
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:57, Reply)
and I am rather surprised to discover that you do.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:58, Reply)
for a mates birthday who wants to do something in london.
I'm surprised you don't want to go though, it's right up your "heavy drinking/looking like a ponce" street.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:59, Reply)
I can hardly imagine anything worse.
*and failing miserably, coming across instead like Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:01, Reply)
but there'll be 6 or so good friends there so they don't need to talk to randoms all night.
Plus bonus chicks in corsets.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:04, Reply)
I'll wear my most ludicrous 'steampunk' (belm) outfit. I guarantee not to embarrass you.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:07, Reply)
I think it's quite innavative and clever with some of the clothing and items being produced.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:12, Reply)
The whole thing smells suspiciously of 'LARPing' to me.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:13, Reply)
in the same way that vomiting red wine all over a white carpet 'brightens the place up'.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:19, Reply)
so your friend just asked you for your opinion on a venue but then didn't invite you to the party. what sort of a friend does that?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:02, Reply)
Moving and shit has taken his toll.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:03, Reply)
for asking.
(still laughing at monty's riposte though.)
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)
Presumably the teacher was trying to scare me. It didn't work. If I didn't procrastinate...I expect I would have achieved some other stuff, I don't fucking know. Probably have graduated on time, certainly.
Alt Q: "Friendly Warning! This man will almost certainly attach himself to somebody during the course of the night, and refuse to leave them alone. Reduce the chances of it happening to you: know your risks!
-Do not let him know you have cigarettes.
-Do not talk to him about philosophy or literature.
-Do not talk to him about sex.
-Do not talk to him about personal drama issues, especially ones involving philosophy, lit or sex.
-Do not talk to him about anything much at all.
-Do not *not* talk to him! He will take this is a sign you need to be 'brought out of your shell' and try to be your fucking social worker or some shit.
-DO NOT LET HIM KNOW YOU HAVE CIGARETTES. He would ignore a fresh 20deck in his pocket to cadge as many as humanly possible.
-Do not be soberer...erer...er than him. He has literally poured drinks over people's faces to get them drunk before now.
-Finally, do not encourage him to get off with other men for your sick female amusement. He won't do it and you can't prove he did because you forgot to take photos.
Other risks may include licking, dancing, moshing, shotting, coughing, fondling and punching"
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:37, Reply)
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