I have a lecture for a whole hour and a half tomorrow

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:16, 6 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Sounds pretty tough
I need to deliver some DVDs to someone, and do a virus scan on a laptop.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:17, Reply)

It is my first lecture on Welsh so could be interesting.
I just picked up a set of premier olympic kit for £70. Needs some tlc but will be a good project.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:20, Reply)

Sweet
I have some old cymbals sitting about that I need to clean up at some point.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:21, Reply)

That's the problem, I now have three kits, and not enough cymbals to go around.
I think I may spend some tax money on a new set of meinls.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:22, Reply)

dim parcio!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:22, Reply)

1 hour of lecture :D
plus 7 hours of labs D:
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:17, Reply)

You are Mungo Jerry
AICMFP
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:17, Reply)

what is 'Mungo Jerry'?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:19, Reply)

There you go, with lyrics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnrCnP7rzY
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:21, Reply)

I have to lecture for 5 hours tomorrow

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:19, Reply)

Fuck off, try 4 hours 2-6pm of Latin and Ancient Greek literature

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:20, Reply)

That actually sounds ace.
I loved classics at school.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:23, Reply)

Yeah, but it's really, really, REALLY hard
And at the end of the day, so I'm just knackered by the 3rd straight hour of intense conversation.

Sample of what I have to do:
Mucius augur multa narrare de C. Laelio socero suo memoriter et iucunde solebat nec dubitare illum in omni sermone appellare sapientem. ego autem a patre ita eram deductus ad Scaevolam sumpta virili toga, ut, quoad possem et liceret, a senis latere numquam discederem. itaque multa ab eo prudenter disputata, multa etiam breviter et commode dicta memoriae mandabam, fierique studebam eius prudentia doctior. quo mortuo me ad pontificem Scaevolam contuli, quem unum nostrae civitatis et ingenio et iustitia praestantissimum audeo dicere. sed de hoc alias, nunc redeo ad augurem.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:26, Reply)

yeah luckily our texts had been translated for us.
Really cool skill to have though. How many people in your set?
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:28, Reply)

depends what lecture
Cicero, about 20. Aristophanes, about 15. The core lecture, about 30.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:30, Reply)

that's a lot of opinions.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:31, Reply)

It varies.
Classics and BMGS is quite a small department. There's about 90* a year, and the courses I'm taking (apart from core) are mixed year group.


*including the Ancient Historians and Classical Studies lot.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:35, Reply)

I've got one on Thursday
Over 100.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:36, Reply)

Our lectures are 150 people or so
Mind you, not much debate needed for physics.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:37, Reply)

I don't let anyone else talk

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:38, Reply)

I often ask really REALLY stupid questions
Or point out the obvious.

Bet you'd lvoe to have me in a lecture.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:39, Reply)

I have a student like that in one of my classes
lovely lad but Aspergers means that he doesn't really have any social boundaries - took him a couple of weeks to get used to me and now I can't shut him up. But...he's incredibly bright - the others in the group are having problems keeping up because he keeps on throwing really complex stuff in, I'm guessing he's half hoping to catch me out...which he probably will at some point!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:44, Reply)

I'm not quite that bad.
Though I have ended up asking questions, being told to research the answer and give a presentation to the class. I loved that lecturer.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:47, Reply)

The teachers would have hated you at my old school.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:56, Reply)

It's better than just NO ONE saying anything.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:59, Reply)

They seemed to like it that way.
If at any point you didn't understand something and asked why it was the way it was, you'd get told "it just is" and be expected to commit it to memory. Wonder if that's why the exam results were always such shite.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:02, Reply)

You could always try 'real life'
12 hour days and a commute?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:22, Reply)

Been there, done that, blimmed the t-shirt.
Office life sucks. Ties are the invention of a right tit and who made uncomfortable shiny gay shoes the norm? retarded if you ask me.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:26, Reply)

I did

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:28, Reply)

you sadistic cunt you

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:31, Reply)

I love wearing ties.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:40, Reply)

kipper ties?

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:43, Reply)

no.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:55, Reply)

urgh
that is like the buffalo or bison joke, once you've heard it, you can't not think of it
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:56, Reply)

what kipper tie joke?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:02, Reply)

Q. What do you call a tie made out of a kipper?
A. A kipper tie.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:03, Reply)

I like that a lot.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:06, Reply)

i can't be arsed to type it out
but it sounds like you are saying "cup of tea" with a brummie accent speech impediment
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:09, Reply)

I work in an office
I don't think I've worn a tie for 10 years or more. Yay for I.T.!
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:32, Reply)

I'll be honest I was being very general
your boys are doing alright aren't they.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:36, Reply)

2-2 at Old Trafford
not to be sneezed at. Before the match I posted on a Man U blog and ended up getting emailed all comments to the story as the match progressed which was enormously funny.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:45, Reply)

A while back I was reading Metro on the way into work, and there was a debate on the letters page about office juniors, as some lass on an internship had got the sack for not removing empty pizza boxes.
Someone had written in saying early on in their career they'd often been expected to extend their job past the description, and entertain clients, make tea, clean up the office... basically everything short of scrubbing out the bogs. For some reason, they were proud of being taken for a ride by their former employers and acting as a skivvy.
I've never worked in an office, and by the sound of it I'm not missing much.

This is nothing to do my face, voice, mannerisms etc. making me utterly unemployable in polite society.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:35, Reply)

There is one in every office
They either get killed off or stay in middle management wanking over 3 month reviews.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:41, Reply)

The whole culture just seems to be incomprehensible.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:44, Reply)

my mother was a teacher
she said the same thing about office jobs. i've never done anything else since i was about 14 and my dad made me work in his bank every bloody school holiday!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:48, Reply)

My mother is also a teacher.
Fresh from falling face-first down a mountain over the summer and going into the expected A-Level photoshoot looking like 3 rounds with Mike Tyson, she's slipped over and broken her wrist days before an OFSTED inspection. She's got a sense of timing alright.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:50, Reply)

omg
that is unlucky!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:52, Reply)

She's just covering.
The first rule of Teacher Fight Club is: you do not talk about Teacher Fight Club.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:56, Reply)

True, I was in London when both of these things went down
It was really upsetting with the face thing though.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:58, Reply)

my mother once tripped over her own jeans
and couldn't put her hands out as she was carrying everyone's dinner. she hit the road face first. then stood up with takeaway curry all over herself. she looked like she'd done ten rounds with frank bruno, it was a real shame.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:00, Reply)

i hope you made her cook a new meal

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:03, Reply)

not before i'd made her clean up the road
littering is a crime
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:07, Reply)