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There were a couple of good pieces, such as American Pie, but modern indie tends to be better because most popular band know how to sing.
Dylan couldn't carry a tune in a bag on his best day, but I'd rather listen to him than the vast majority of the stuff made in the last decade.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
Lady Gaga is the exception...she's my guilty pleasure.
I'm 29...we didn't really have cell phones in high school. I really can't stand how much people are on their phones all the time. Always texting someone, doing something....heaven forbid they just talk to a human being in person.
And slightly related: The grammar of most high school students and young adults. Arg.
Ugh.
Although I got to see Radiohead and that'll probably hold me for another 10 years.
I don't see what's wrong with my grammar. In fact, I've gone off at several forum members for bad grammar.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
They make this failbarn new subway line where nobody wanted it (if you want to be a silly goose you could say it was to raise property values for certain people) then get all surprised when it doesn't pack people in. They're constantly raising the ticket prices without bettering service IN ANY WAY, and they run these submoronic ads that pimp their drivers as superheroes because one of them called the cops when he saw a lost child or some other nonsense.
The feds are the silliest gooses of all for not giving them decent financial support.
I hate college kids, and I'm in college. I'm so glad I went through my binge drinking phase during high school.
There actually a bonus level in the latest Left For Dead where you fight them.
I hate you
Current grump?
Every fucking stupid annoying pre-med in this graduate class. I cannot believe how annoying and bitchy they can be when they're in graduate school...
"Do we have to know every transcription factor that regulates development in B-Cell?"
Blank stare from professor
"Like, there's a lot"
Blank stare followed by "Yes."
But my favorite?
"Is there any way you can move the exam back a week? We have 3 (or 4) exams that week and it's just a lot"
- the same kids with aspirations of going into medical school which has block scheduling with 5 exams in one week -
I mean really
REALLY?!
I've lost my patience with them at this point....and want to throw a book at them.
Oh, I know, it's drives me crazy to no end people who try to postpone exams and term papers that they've known about since the beginning of the semester. Just do the work and get over it...
Why would you have to memorize that? That's what reference books and the google are for.
I doubt anybody told them about med school, and you can't say having that many tests at one time is even close to good planning, especially given how reliant many classes are on the latest materiel for tests.
And in regards to "good planning", it is. Trust me. People may not see it, but having exams structured around the same time for all students ends up helping everyone. If we're all taking 5 exams in 1 week, and the scoring is relative (read - curved), then it's not necessarily going to be to anyone's advantage/disadvantage. You're all on equal playing fields. Not to mention you don't have to worry about catching up with other classes. It's tiring, yes, but it puts everyone on an equal playing field.
I love me some Bob Dylan and a bunch of other stuff from back then too, but don't miss out on what's happening right now in your own generation by living in the past.
Sure, a lot of music today is awful, but that's mainly just the Top-40 format which has almost always been awful (though even there you'll find the odd diamond amongst the dreck). Check out an alternative/new music station on the radio or online.
I agree. After getting a Zune pass (and I'm not advertising), I've finally been able to find good bands from todays generation. It's difficult, but also greatly rewarding, because I'd otherwise tire of listening to the same bands over and over for the next 20 years.
How would those transcription factors by heart help a doctor? You know, what they're generally training to be.
I fail to see how that justifies scheduling every class on the same test schedule? I fail to see how having my orgo, orgo lab, cell bio, bio lab, and evolution test in one week (I actually had two consecutive test followed by another class, so that I couldn't even take the time accommodation I qualify for) is in any way conductive to acquiring the information presented in those classes.
On the topic of cell phones and public transportation. I commute by bus 30 min every day to work at around 7 am. Most people would take the chance to get 30 min more sleep. But there's always at least one fuc...err lady goose, on each bus that picks up their phone and calls someone who is probably also commuting, to chat for 30 min and kill time. There are 40 people on this bus but you think it's all right to keep them all awake with your weekend anecdotes and bitching about shoes?
Bonus points when they cannot hear over the engine and compensate by screaming themselves instead of just increasing the volume.
Now I am told that i need to wear pants that are similar to the pants which are now fashionable.
This is not how I want it to be.
In my experience college just forces you to learn these things by heart so that you remember them. You will forget the specifics of it but you'll remember that they exist for the rest of your life and know where to look them up.
I don't know how many dumbass chemical structures of amino acids, nucleotide derivatives and metabolic pathways I've memorized. It's just common knowledge in my line of work
I think scene kids started dressing like the stones.
seriously is it that hard to waterproof a damn cylinder
also my knee hurts
Everything that anyone under born after 1990 has said out loud makes me want to punch their mothers, right in the babymakers. Also the father's. Hell, Grandma too.
Also texting. There's a sign in the classrooms that says no texting or phonecalls in this building during class periods. I overheard a five minute call about texting. I didn't know which to laugh or cry about, the girls obliviousness or the absolute futility of the poor Xeroxed and shittily laminated piece of paper.
Grumpy old men make me a grumpy old man.
I have a prof who throws things at students that she catches texting.
If you really need to text or make a call, excuse yourself from the classroom.
Translink can also be a silly goose, but they're getting better. The recent Translink tax increase on parking is retarded, though.
If I missed the fecking call and try to call you back the least you could do is pick up the phone, you silly, silly goose, but no, you've just wasted both our time on a call that probably wasn't important in the first place. Bravo.
English girls. They are fucking mental, the lot of them. Have you seen them drink? Their rooms? The kitchen after they've cooked?
Every stereotype about university boys being smelly and messy and drunks is fucking bullshit, because the girls are just as bad and in some cases worse.
Also.
Something that annoys me: A design student is dyslexic. So they get £4,000 worth of Macs, digital recorders, keyboards, mouse, laptop lock, tutoring and extra lessons.
Except the student does no fucking work, and tells me "Finally, I can get into my DJ'ing again" right after having failed their first semester OF FUCKING GRAPHICS DESIGN.
£4,000 for dyslexia in a subject where they've had to write one 1,000 word essay in the last 5 months?
I don't know, it seems a bit excessive. And I know of 3 other examples.
I hate when people take advantage of the government like that.
I was mostly just getting into character.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
It's an advanced class teaching you cell development. I mean, I don't know how to explain it to you better. Not to mention how important it is IS to know this shit when you're a doctor (How the fuck do you think medications work?).
Also, deowolf, I am right there with you on pointing toy guns. I know grown adults who do that, and even when it's something trivial like a bubble-blower or a laser pen, they get offended when I disarm them and tell them never to point objects at a person's head or chest like that.
Wow, I can't stop thinking of examples of how horribly, horribly wrong you are.
And hey, it's a thread custom-made for me and my avatar!
And it was one of those phones you had to load with minutes from a card. I only got an actual plan about 6 months ago and feel like I'm being hugely ripped off (seriously, $30+ a month just to talk on a phone?).