Random Rants XLIX - IT CHAFES MY ARSE!!!

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Extremely long day ahead for me and I have this sinking feeling that the people we've assigned to work on stuff for the satellite project haven't actually done any work.
:sad: Sometimes, it sucks being right.

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Had an extremely tough go of my homework yesterday. I was supposed to work on it with 2 guys, we'll call them Bob and John. Now Bob had already finished his homework, but John and I were stuck on one problem so he offered to show us where we had gone wrong. We planned to meet up at 9:00am but Bob forgot his work and told us he'd go home, grab a bite to eat and meet us after that as he had to come back on campus anyways.

So John and I go to work. 3 hours pass and we're stuck on the same problem. We know there has to be something trivial holding us up but we can't find it. So we go looking for Bob and sure enough, he's sitting elsewhere on campus working on other homework. He didn't have the decency to just drop by and hand us his homework so we could look it over like he said he would. We weren't asking for any more of his time than the 45 seconds it would take him to drop off his work.

So we run into him and he give us his homework and we look it over and sure enough, a single missed variable had held us up for 3 hours. Then I compare my other answers to Bob's and I notice a slight error in his calculation. The homework said Do A and he Did B. No big deal, I go over to him and show him the error. Nothing major, no big deal, stuff happens like this all the time.

He acts completely incredulous and denies the problem. Now I'm not angry at this point, because it hadn't sunk in yet what a douche he had been by leaving us hanging for 3 hours. So I'm not angry or emotional, I'm just calmly showing him this trivial error. He then goes, "Well I didn't do that" with attitude dialed up to 11.

He takes any error he makes that is presented to him personal and denies it's even an error. Like a five ear old denying they had been in the cookie jar, he claims to have not made the mistake. It's staring him in his <disparaging language redacted> and he's denying it even exists. With extreme attitude toward me. I just walked away, it was either that or <violent threats redacted>.

Then later he comes over and asks me to walk him through the mistake again and I do and he's coming up with every reason to show it really wasn't his fault, it was the professors fault obviously. :rolleyes: Whatever dude, don't care. Then he asks me if I spotted anything else and I told him I had found another mistake in his work and proceed to show it to him. While this mistake was a bit more complicated than the previous one, it was still relatively straightforward to prove he was in error.

Only he immediately starts arguing with me before I can finish explaining the mistake. I just walked away from him at that point, I'm not going to beat through his ego to help him correct his homework, he can take the goddamn point hit on it.

This is the same asshat that argues over everything in the sat team project and I have him in all of my classes and will have him in all of my classes for the next two years. Where's the suicide smiley?
 
I'm pretty sure it's because 18-21 year old boys with exceptionally poor effective grasps on consequences of actions tend to mix the two, which masks much of the flavor of alcohol if you to it correctly. Then it's easy to pound large quantities of said beverage very quickly, which isn't super wise with either drink. As they both kick on at the same time the fact that somebody that's getting blindingly drunk is likely to pass out is counterbalanced by the stimulation, so they think they can drink more, and do. It's really nothing special. It's basically the same exact thing as drinking Irish coffee, but more popular with the demographic that's likely to die of binge drinking so it makes for flashy tragic stories which are the stories that tend to garner knee-jerk legislation.

Really, even the cheapest pure vodka tastes better than any energy drink-alcohol mixture, so I guess is more to just binge drink quicker, although I don't really see the point of binge drinking if you're not having fun doing so.
 
Straight alcohol is usually not an ideal party/bar mixture for the 18-25 party scene. It's too strong, and the volume of the liquid doesn't slow you down. There's a reason beer pong is usually played with beer. Even 20 year old men are smart enough to figure that one out pretty quickly after beer pong is over 10 minutes in and no 20 year old ladies are particularly impressed. Or if they are they've probably entered a mental state that would make one of the goals of the 18-25 party scene a felony.
 
Where's the suicide smiley?

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Why do you insult God? It's not His fault.
 
My sister just ran out of gas in a brand new car on the interstate in a driving rainstorm. Who does she call? :p
 
The AA?

(Alternative answer: Ghostbusters!)
 
*GBtheme song* Ball-busters!
 
Walking by a store window after my lunch break and I saw...

...ponies.

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God kind of is a bastard though, like when you really think about the Incarnation and stuff. Does that count? I feel like it counts.

A bastard is someone without recognized parents. Usually of the male variety.

I think God qualifies on this count alone.
 
Catholics recognise Mary as the mother of God, you know.
 
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