Random Rants : Pissed tae th' gills

[Phrossack]

Rant: Everything.

I'm crippled by incurable procrastination and laziness. I have a five-page science paper due Wednesday morning and I haven't started. My last essay got ripped apart for not using "primary" sources. I can barely identify such sources, I can barely find them, and on the off chance I do, I can't understand them, being just a simple-minded and useless history major trapped in a science course. I'm nearly out of time and I will fail.

More on my other rants later. I can't afford to waste more time. I'm sick of it all.

 

[Takhisis]

Ask for a short-term CFC ban, those seem to work.

 

[Phrossack]

Ask for a short-term CFC ban, those seem to work.

Won't work. That's just one problem among many I have, few if any of which have practical solutions. But back to work, for whatever good that'll do me.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Rant:

Had an insignificant talk with my gf today about our exes and various past sexual experiences. Without going into too many details here that's what happened in our chat. Including the revelation that she banged 3 dudes in the two days before we met...

That said we've been together for 3 months and she's probably the best and least crazy girl I've ever dated. I have no right to be upset about anything that predates us meeting and she has been nothing but amazing, but... There's just some mental pictures I don't want right, and I'm going crazy jealous for stupid reasons. And now I'm mad at myself for being stupid about things

These are conversations I have never had with my GFs. As you said, you have no right to be upset... These to me are private matters between consenting adults.

Don't be mad at yourself... and certainly don't be jealous. She is with you now, so enjoy it.

NB: I don't even talk to my friends about this. Male or female.

 

[Borachio]

Well, if you aren't going to play along with this one, then I'll have to use my fall back plan of impugning your ability to garden.

Nah.

I was born useless, and after seriously applying myself to the issue over a number of years, I can confidently tell you that I'm now worse than useless.

 

[sophie]

In a place where people drive on the wrong side of the road. Discuss.

Yes. The left side of the road is the wrong side. Correct

Rant: Everything.

I'm crippled by incurable procrastination and laziness. I have a five-page science paper due Wednesday morning and I haven't started. My last essay got ripped apart for not using "primary" sources. I can barely identify such sources, I can barely find them, and on the off chance I do, I can't understand them, being just a simple-minded and useless history major trapped in a science course. I'm nearly out of time and I will fail.

JSTOR is your friend.

Alternatively, go to the university library and see if they keep publications of Science or other similar scientific journals (they almost surely do). For the most part I find the scholarly articles (or at the very least the abstracts of the scholarly articles) to be fairly easy to comprehend, particularly when you know what you're looking for.

And as to the procrastination, there's really no easy way to beat it. You just gotta knuckle down and do the work. Or, in the immortal words of Toph:

Toph: No! That's the problem. You've got to stop thinking like an airbender. There's no different angle, no clever solution, trickety-trick that's going to move that rock. You've got to face it head on. And when I say head on, I mean like THIS!

 

[Farm Boy]

Nah.

I was born useless, and after seriously applying myself to the issue over a number of years, I can confidently tell you that I'm now worse than useless.

Very zen.

Spoiler :

Link to video.

Not sure about the useless bit though, your posts may actually be one of the most useful presences here that I am aware of. Truly, a amongst men.

 

[_random_]

Edit: Nm it's 2013 and I'm a stupid.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

<nvm>

 

[Phrossack]

JSTOR is your friend.

Alternatively, go to the university library and see if they keep publications of Science or other similar scientific journals (they almost surely do). For the most part I find the scholarly articles (or at the very least the abstracts of the scholarly articles) to be fairly easy to comprehend, particularly when you know what you're looking for.

And as to the procrastination, there's really no easy way to beat it. You just gotta knuckle down and do the work.

I've had pretty mixed results with JSTOR. I have enough sources, but they're probably secondary, so I'll just have to take the hit to my grade. My feeble mind shuts down when I see complex charts, graphs, tables, or scientific jargon, which are common in the primary sources I'm supposed to find. Oh well. So long as I pass this horrid class, I guess.

I really don't like the professor because she had us buy a bunch of expensive textbooks and gives us a lot of reading, then just posts everything we've just read on a PowerPoint, then reads the slides aloud word for word because we're apparently too dumb to read. And the whole while she laughs every other sentence regardless of the topic, even after talking about rising CO2 levels or the dangers of methane clathrates. I've taken to tallying her laughs every class, and her record is about 100 laughs in 75 minutes.

 

[JohannaK]

I need to stop reading Greek philosophy. While revising my answers to today's literature test, I suddenly felt like I was reading Plato or something.

 

[Takhisis]

Maybe you were. &#928;&#959;&#955;&#973; &#954;&#945;&#955;&#940;!

 

[JohannaK]

Therefore, I am Plato. Find me a time machine!

 

[Borachio]

Not sure about the useless bit though

Now. Listen. Abuse I can take. And I welcome it.
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Yes. The left side of the road is the wrong side. Correct

Driving on the right was introduced by Napoleon, of all people! And for no good reason at all. Just to show he could get people to drive on the right as he swept across Europe.

Also, Americans. Which needs no further comment, tbh.

Driving on the left was a hangover from jousting and such like. A right-handed man will carry the lance across the horses neck to aim at his opponent approaching from the left.

Therefore, to make for a peaceful kingdom, merry jousters on their way to jousts would be encouraged to keep to the left in order to discourage casual attempts to unseat riders coming in the opposite direction. Some people apparently had a lot of trouble resisting having fun.

This should clear this whole nonsense up, vis-a-vis driving on the left or right. So let's hear no more about it. Thank you.

 

[Phrossack]

And the Onion has perfectly summed up the argument style and beliefs of a particularly obnoxious breed of person.

 

[Borachio]

Who? Me?

&#8220;We&#8217;re just happy our little girl is alive,&#8221; said Jessica&#8217;s father, Michael Paulsen, as though the state of being alive were itself a sufficient cause for happiness and not a prison of its own, at least in a phenomenological sense. &#8220;There were some days when I honestly thought I would never see her again.&#8221;

&#8220;These last few weeks have been a living nightmare,&#8221; he added, failing to adequately wrestle with the themes of impermanence and meaninglessness that have troubled theologians and philosophers for millennia.

 

[Farm Boy]

Driving on the right was introduced by Napoleon, of all people! And for no good reason at all. Just to show he could get people to drive on the right as he swept across Europe.

Also, Americans. Which needs no further comment, tbh.

Driving on the left was a hangover from jousting and such like. A right-handed man will carry the lance across the horses neck to aim at his opponent approaching from the left.

Therefore, to make for a peaceful kingdom, merry jousters on their way to jousts would be encouraged to keep to the left in order to discourage casual attempts to unseat riders coming in the opposite direction. Some people apparently had a lot of trouble resisting having fun.

This should clear this whole nonsense up, vis-a-vis driving on the left or right. So let's hear no more about it. Thank you.

That's really smart and educated!

 

[Borachio]

Mock not!

(It's not nice.)

Spoiler :

I can see what you're doing now.

 

[Farm Boy]

Sorry sir. It's just awful nice of you to class the place up, ya'know.

 

[Phrossack]

Who? Me?

No, just certain, rather inhuman persons who don't actually believe in anything, instead stroking their beards, denying the existence of everything. Make any kind of statement, express any kind of opinion, and they'll question and criticize it into oblivion.

You think chocolate tastes good? Well, then you're clearly failing to realize that "chocolate" is an abstract societal verbal construction devoid of meaning vis-a-vis reality and that "taste" is an arbitrary concept imposed upon mankind by society which is prima facie non-existent. Furthermore, "good" is an abstract concept (i.e., idea) which differs from individual from individual (inasmuch as individuals can be said to "exist") and which can be applied to anything; ergo, it is an idea devoid of meaning, et cetera. The word "think" raises further problems, as the concept of "thought" is prima facie unproveable (i.e., not demonstrable) vis-a-vis the works of Nietzsche/Plato/Socrates/Camus/random Eastern mystic/Thoreau/Mencius/Descartes/Morgan Freeman/Sarte.