The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

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paperclip wrote:

It'd be fun if we all described ourselves so we can spend the next month trying to figure out who the other people are as we're walking around the college. As detailed as possible descriptions, please. That means no fair saying you have medium length brown hair and blue eyes and are about 5'5'' if you're a girl.... we want to see your quirky bits!

Not THOSE quirky bits. Get your mind out of the gutter.

I was thinking that today

Or just had pictures
I don't have any good ones though

Nietzschean

Try a tcd boards beers...(when we ever manage to have them)... its far more effective...

(we accidentially had a mini one the other day, myself/crash/ed/apex/blankcanvas)

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Nietzschean wrote:

Try a tcd boards beers...(when we ever manage to have them)... its far more effective...

(we accidentially had a mini one the other day, myself/crash/ed/apex/blankcanvas)

I duno, im not around that much

*rummages for picture*
speaking of which, I'm totally stalking you now
I've decided.

which will fit in totally with my not being around much

*stalks everyone while she's at it*

ApeXaviour

Nietzschean wrote:

(we accidentially had a mini one the other day, myself/crash/ed/apex/blankcanvas)

What? Why wasn't I informed of my presence there?

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ApeXaviour wrote:

What? Why wasn't I informed of my presence there?

lol...

Agent Smith

speaking of boards beers,

is awayindahils still owned by indy?

paperclip

Which one of these bespectacled people is your fine self?

xebec

Awayindahils in the middle, Myth on the right

paperclip

Myth looks exactly how I thought he would.

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

What? Why wasn't I informed of my presence there?

you were just out of bed, but thats hardly an excuse? we were all present on monday.......drinking, ye know in that pav place?

Stargal

europerson wrote:

I was thinking along those lines too. Perhaps, for Hilary's benefit, you could introduce a tactile test, a more hands-on sort of squeezing thing...?

Ok. You each have to wear a pair of those blue swimming trunks that Daniel Craig wears in Casino Royale, and emerge from a large body of water - let's say the beach at Killiney - looking wet, sullen and rideable. The tactile part of the test will then commence. Unfortunately I'm having trouble deciding exactly what this should entail. Any/all suggestions will be considered.

I say that we do this the old fashioned way:

Ibid, myself and QBar on a Friday - the person with the most STD's by the end of the night wins!

Agent Smith

stargal wrote:

Ok. You each have to wear a pair of those blue swimming trunks that Daniel Craig wears in Casino Royale, and emerge from a large body of water - let's say the beach at Killiney - looking wet, sullen and rideable. The tactile part of the test will then commence. Unfortunately I'm having trouble deciding exactly what this should entail. Any/all suggestions will be considered.

tbh killiney doesnt have a beach, justa huge amout of stones...

Stargal

original_psycho wrote:

Ibid, myself and QBar on a Friday - the person with the most STD's by the end of the night wins!

Classy

Rant/bitch/moan: Tickets for that gig that I so badly wanted to go to sold out in about 4 seconds this morning and I didn't get one. Damn Ticketmaster allowing for unlimited numbers of tickets to be bought by anyone.

/kicks stuff

original_psycho

original_psycho wrote:

I say that we do this the old fashioned way:

Ibid, myself and QBar on a Friday - the person with the most STD's by the end of the night wins!

That's hardly fair since Ibid has a substantial head start.

paperclip wrote:

Myth looks exactly how I thought he would.

Bah. Worst thing is that I actually look nerdy. I prefer this picture

l

Edwardius

stargal wrote:

Daniel Craig

Oversized elf that spent too much time in the Gym/waxing parlour whose time would be better served living in a tree at the bottom of yer garden, scaring any kids that happen to be in the area!

Time Magazine

Dead Ed wrote:

Oversized elf that spent too much time in the Gym/waxing parlour whose time would be better served living in a tree at the bottom of yer garden, scaring any kids that happen to be in the area!

Oh Lonfordian Physicist! Max Planck wanted to be an economist but he found it too difficult. (Last Paragraph). And probably Ireland's greatest economist came from Longford.

That's all.

Nietzschean

bah just realised my holiday next week will be costing me an extra 250+ in lost earnings due to not being about and a new class i'm teaching starts that week so someone has to cover my first week not ideal....


BUT ANYWAY ITALYYYY!

Edwardius

Ibid wrote:

And probably Ireland's greatest economist came from Longford.

That's all.

Aye, think they named the town after him, or his family or something. Or maybe something completely different

Ibid wrote:

Max Planck wanted to be an economist but he found it too difficult. (Last Paragraph).

Yeah but he probably just wanted to talk himself out of retooling his brain and climbin' the ladder in another dicipline. Also, I'm not sure I trust that article seeing as it's written by one of your heathen cohorts, nor do I understand its relevance!

Nietzschean

bluewolf wrote:

speaking of which, I'm totally stalking you now
I've decided.

I always wondered what it was like to have a stalker...

Nietzschean

Dead Ed wrote:

Yeah but he probably just wanted to talk himself out of retooling his brain and climbin' the ladder in another dicipline. Also, I'm not sure I trust that article seeing as it's written by one of your heathen cohorts, nor do I understand its relevance!

The article, the one it cites, and from the looks of it the one the book cites too are all written by economists, about something which may have happened during a dinner conversation. if it did indeed occur Max Planck may have just being modest.Even still, using a dinner converstion as the basis for all that citation seems highly dubious imo, sounds like a lost of postureing to make yer field sound hard(i'm not saying its easy), ye don't see everyone else going around writing papers trying to tell the world what we do is hard...(or well if we do i haven't seen any)

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Nietzschean wrote:

The article, the one it cites, and from the looks of it the one the book cites too are all written by economists, about something which may have happened during a dinner conversation. if it did indeed occur Max Planck may have just being modest.Even still, using a dinner converstion as the basis for all that citation seems highly dubious imo, sounds like a lost of postureing to make yer field sound hard(i'm not saying its easy), ye don't see everyone else going around writing papers trying to tell the world what we do is hard...(or well if we do i haven't seen any)

Well it's almost certainly true, but that's aside the point. Would yeh ever relax? It's the same as saying "Haha, your team lost!" It's a little bit of fun, well-humoured rivalry. Economists don't pin their flag to physicists' admissions, we don't even pin in to any other field; we focus on the actual subject.

It's just fun to poke.

Nietzschean

i like to remain consistent enda.....and maybe a bit caffine wired......... though is it not poor form to quote a book which actually quotes something else for the info?(on an idle point)

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Nietzschean wrote:

I always wondered what it was like to have a stalker...

Well, now you know. Muahah.


I'm not very good at this.

Time Magazine

Nietzschean wrote:

i like to remain consistent enda.....and maybe a bit caffine wired......... though is it not poor form to quote a book which actually quotes something else for the info?(on an idle point)

Of course not. I read the quote in Microeconomic Theory by Layard and Walters. I googled for a reference, which was consistent with the Layard and Walters book.

If you read a newspaper article, say on immigration, that refers to an ESRI report on job displacement, is it poor form to point to said newspaper? Not tat tall.

Stargal

I think you both make valid arguments here, so to celebrate, here's a picture of Daniel Craig.

John

Physics is harder than economics but I'd like to see you all integrate biochemical, pysiological, anatomical and behavioural theories into a working model of memory.

Pet

Just when I was starting to get really into physiology, it starts to throw a load of acronyms and equations at me about heart volume and blood pressure gradients. Feh! I don't want equations! Go away!

ApeXaviour

John wrote:

Physics is harder than economics but I'd like to see you all integrate biochemical, pysiological, anatomical and behavioural theories into a working model of memory.

NEVARRR!

Stargal... wtf? I mean what's the point in him havin a great body and all when he has a face like a packet of crisps? Or have I severely mistaken fashion and tired/old/squinty is "in" these days?

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stargal wrote:

I think you both make valid arguments here, so to celebrate, here's a picture of Daniel Craig.

Ew.