Random Rants : Pissed tae th' gills

[Terxpahseyton]

I really feel damn tired, don't want to go to work, and considered taking a half day off for sleeping, but then I calculated the work time left, and it turned out that I'll not get all my crap sorted out for this week if I do that.
I hate it .

So the stories one hears about the staff at universities...
They are all true?

 

[The_J]

...er...what do you normally hear ?

 

[choxorn]

What I should be doing: working on my thesis.

What I'm not doing: working on my thesis.

I'm pretty sure that means you're doing Grad School right.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

...er...what do you normally hear ?

That you are all wage slaves

 

[bhsup]

Your child may be an honor roll student at Butler Elementary School(*), but that doesn't change the fact that you're a crappy driver. Seriously. Crappy enough for me to photo you and rant about you on a gaming forum that I know you'll unfortunately read. That's how crappy you are.

That's what the bumper sticker reads in the lower left of the rear window that you cannot read in the picture. And WTH is that? Since when is honor roll a thing in elementary school? Feeling the need to stroke so kiddie egos, I take it? Sad...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That's what the bumper sticker reads in the lower left of the rear window that you cannot read in the picture. And WTH is that? Since when is honor roll a thing in elementary school? Feeling the need to stroke so kiddie egos, I take it? Sad...

Interestingly enough, some schools somewhere (I can't remember if it's in the U.S. or Canada) actually abolished the honor roll. Of course they're getting screamed at for encouraging mediocrity. Can't win either way.

 

[choxorn]

Your child may be an honor roll student at Butler Elementary School(*), but that doesn't change the fact that you're a crappy driver. Seriously. Crappy enough for me to photo you and rant about you on a gaming forum that I know you'll unfortunately read. That's how crappy you are.

That's what the bumper sticker reads in the lower left of the rear window that you cannot read in the picture. And WTH is that? Since when is honor roll a thing in elementary school? Feeling the need to stroke so kiddie egos, I take it? Sad...

And I'm sure you didn't take that picture from your cellphone while driving yourself, right? That would make you kind of a hypocrite for complaining about someone else's bad driving.

 

[Farm Boy]

VR has minions.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

VR has minions.

I'd vote for VR for King!

 

[azzaman333]

I didn't say whom you were going to shoot.

Ask Cami to kill you on NSP and then ban you so you can get back to work.

No point, if I can't procrastinating here ill just end up procrastinating elsewhere.

I'm pretty sure that means you're doing Grad School right.

I have no idea what Im technically doing. I just know I graduated my BSc Statistics degree last year and Im doing my honours year this year (well, for another 2 days).

 

[The_J]

That you are all wage slaves

Probably not that bad.
Although I don't know. In industry I might earn twice or thrice the amount...if I got a job.
So maybe.

At the moment this applies a bit:

(also applies under other conditions, but at the moment I care ^^)

And I'm sure you didn't take that picture from your cellphone while driving yourself, right? That would make you kind of a hypocrite for complaining about someone else's bad driving.

 

[Borachio]

As I understood it, it was the notice in the car window that was complaining about other people's driving.

 

[Phrossack]

Terrific. I have a 10 or 12-page short story due tomorrow or so, and I haven't started due to crippling writer's block. First person would better show the protagonist's character, but would make it clear that he wouldn't die during the story. Third person would be more open and suspenseful in that regard, but wouldn't show as much of his character. Mixing first-person journal entries with third-person segments could do both at the risk of jarring transitions and an inability to develop other characters.

 

[Kennigit]

I don't particularly see why first person couldn't have the protagonist get killed.

 

[Antilogic]

Good friend of mine was given this (paraphrased) response...AFTER WAITING FOR A RESPONSE FOR FOUR DAYS:
"Well, I'm waiting for a specific person to ask me to the dance, but if he doesn't, you're my backup plan."



First of all, how are you so sure that this mystery person will ask you? Not to mention that you noted that he's a senior, so what's the likelihood of him even noticing you?!

Second of all, you flat out told a really nice guy that he is your "backup plan?!" How would you feel if a guy told you that you were his backup plan if he didn't ask someone else?

Worst part is, this girl is my friend, but she's one of those people that it's difficult to talk to and convince of things.

And she should no longer be his first choice. Ever. Getting into relationships with people like those will only lead to pain.

 

[Phrossack]

I don't particularly see why first person couldn't have the protagonist get killed.

The first-person narrator can't exactly still be telling the story if they already died.

For example, it makes no sense if they said "I tried to dodge the train, but it hit me and I died."

 

[The_J]

Come back as ghost/zombie/sort of spirit?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

It can also be understood as a mere literary device which does not actually assume any afterlife. Sort of like there usually also is no narrator following me anywhere I go and who knows anything and is narrating my life. (if there were though, I already had gotten rid of him)

 

[JohannaK]

I can think of a book where the narrator is a dead protagonist and a film in which the occasional narrator is the also the protagonist, who dies at the end.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Yeah, hence "sort of"