Random Rants : Pissed tae th' gills
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I have a paper due in 4 hours and 19 minutes. I just started writing my outline.
I also have another (research) paper due at 11:59 pm tomorrow night. I haven't started any research yet.
brb locking myself in my room and not coming out, even for meals
I also have another (research) paper due at 11:59 pm tomorrow night. I haven't started any research yet.
brb locking myself in my room and not coming out, even for meals
Phrossack
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Are you me?
The other day I worked all day on a 4-page book review due the next day that I'd just started and I'd just finished the book. Then I slept three hours due to a sudden cold and sore throat (woke up at 6 or 7) and finished a 2-page report due at 9:30.Best get off CFC or you'll just check up on threads every few minutes and destroy your concentration, if you're anything like me. So begone! Shoo!
Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
CFC is fine to check.
For instance, I have an exam in 30 minutes, yet here I am.
ONE OF US
For instance, I have an exam in 30 minutes, yet here I am.
ONE OF US
If you'd locked yourself up tod raw comics I could understand it. But this, it is irresponsible and intolerable. Off to procrastination with you, young man!
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
YEAH! Look at me, instead of doing homework in advance, I'm here doing absolutely nothing!
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Sometimes, I procrastinate my procrastination.
Phrossack
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It's better than thoughts of ill-health and impending middle age.
Make it your goal in life to be an awesome old guy. Plan on a long white beard and plan in staying in shape your whole life. I for one look forward to being a cool old man and I plan on staying in good mental and physical shape. I hope that in terms of accomplishments I'll peak in my 60's. Plenty of academics, maybe even most, are still hard at work in their old age, as are many others. By your 60's and 70's you'll probably have acquired a solid grasp on whatever you specialize in and you can teach the youngsters plenty of tricks. Sir Christopher Lee released a few heavy metal albums in his late 80's. Enrico Dandolo led the Fourth Crusade into battle when he was blind in both eyes and over 90 years old (not that I think the Fourth Crusade was at all a positive event). There's a whole set of Olympics for people like this dude. Keep your mind sharp and your body healthy, and you can avoid the fate of so many others whose final decades are wasted.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I'd even dare say multiversally.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Precisely. Christopher Lee is the badassest creature of all possible universes. Thus, multiversally.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I adore Sir Christopher Lee. the true God of mankind.
Joan, I am standing in line at wal-mart as we speak and am browsing the forum via tapatalk. Someone happened to see your avatar, which seems to be prominently displayed in proportion to text as compared to desktop browsing. He was like, "oh you watch mlp?" In public, with people around. I was mortified! But I just smiled and said no.
The bigger rant is the elderly lady I let cut in front of me because she only has two items. Her hubby with the full cart just appeared.
Sent via BBerry 6 cuz android & iphone suck
EDIT: Bigger rant confirmed. They scammed me for a place in line! Geezers cost me probably 10 extra minutes.
The bigger rant is the elderly lady I let cut in front of me because she only has two items. Her hubby with the full cart just appeared.
Sent via BBerry 6 cuz android & iphone suck
EDIT: Bigger rant confirmed. They scammed me for a place in line! Geezers cost me probably 10 extra minutes.
JohannaK
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This just in: VRWC's patriotism has shifted to Equestria and he's replaced his fried foods with horse admiration and pegasus posters on his bedroom ceiling.
Gori the Grey
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One is driving on a two-lane road. A sign indicates that in one mile the right lane will be closed. Most drivers begin moving over into the left lane. But a number of drivers continue driving in the right lane because, as the left lane becomes more congested, traffic in it becomes slower; drivers in the right lane can continue moving quickly. Drivers in the right lane count on being allowed into the left lane once they reach the actual spot where the right lane is closed. They can, it turns out, fairly reliably depend on being allowed by some driver into the left lane, so they generally in fact make their own trip quicker than if they had moved into the left lane upon seeing the sign.
Drivers who stay in the right lane are effectively sending the message that they believe their time is more valuable than that of drivers in the left lane. If that were all that was involved, this situation would be like the other instances of rudeness with which one meets in a day. But there is more. This is a compound rudeness. Drivers in the right lane are simultaneously being discourteous in the aforementioned way to drivers in the left lane and implicitly communicating that they regard them as saps: behaving poorly while banking on the good behavior of the very people toward whom they are behaving poorly. Indeed, their actions are triply offensive, since the slow speed in the left lane is caused in no small measure by the left-lane drivers letting right-lane drivers in at the last possible point.
And one's fellow left-lane drivers are saps. One is perhaps more frustrated with them than one is angered by the right-lane drivers. All that would be necessary to thwart this churlish behavior is for each driver in the left lane to follow the car in front of him or her closely, so that right-lane drivers have no opportunity to enter the left lane and instead sit motionless at the point where their lane ends. But that would require a level of communal resolve that does not arise in such situations and that one has no hope of even attempting to secure from the cabin of one's own automobile. The only reasonable response to the incivility of right lane drivers is to create a disincentive to their behavior, and yet one watches helplessly as left-laner after left-laner exercises a misguided and self-demeaning politeness rather than reason.
Through all the period during which one is already suffering a delay, one is simultaneously being vexed by repeated instances of a maddening combination of discourteous and unthinkingly over-courteous behavior. One sees--and remember, has an enforced leisure to witness--maleficence rewarded; virtue punished; the clear dictates of reason unheeded and inert.
Drivers who stay in the right lane are effectively sending the message that they believe their time is more valuable than that of drivers in the left lane. If that were all that was involved, this situation would be like the other instances of rudeness with which one meets in a day. But there is more. This is a compound rudeness. Drivers in the right lane are simultaneously being discourteous in the aforementioned way to drivers in the left lane and implicitly communicating that they regard them as saps: behaving poorly while banking on the good behavior of the very people toward whom they are behaving poorly. Indeed, their actions are triply offensive, since the slow speed in the left lane is caused in no small measure by the left-lane drivers letting right-lane drivers in at the last possible point.
And one's fellow left-lane drivers are saps. One is perhaps more frustrated with them than one is angered by the right-lane drivers. All that would be necessary to thwart this churlish behavior is for each driver in the left lane to follow the car in front of him or her closely, so that right-lane drivers have no opportunity to enter the left lane and instead sit motionless at the point where their lane ends. But that would require a level of communal resolve that does not arise in such situations and that one has no hope of even attempting to secure from the cabin of one's own automobile. The only reasonable response to the incivility of right lane drivers is to create a disincentive to their behavior, and yet one watches helplessly as left-laner after left-laner exercises a misguided and self-demeaning politeness rather than reason.
Through all the period during which one is already suffering a delay, one is simultaneously being vexed by repeated instances of a maddening combination of discourteous and unthinkingly over-courteous behavior. One sees--and remember, has an enforced leisure to witness--maleficence rewarded; virtue punished; the clear dictates of reason unheeded and inert.
I friggin' hate that. I know it doesn't do much because most likely the twit behind me will let them in, but I never do. They should have gotten over with everyone else who plays by the rules. it's the one time I'll tailgate, just to ensure those jerks can't merge left.
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