The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

He should probably keep an eye around town just in case it appears locked elsewhere (i.e. it might get flogged on to someone else). Still sucks though. It's the type of thing which stops me wanting to get a new bike and to keep the crap one I have, since no-one in their right mind would rob it!

Boston

Stargal wrote: »

I'd like to say I blame society for the gradual marginalisation of those living at its fringes but...

Do you normally come out with that type of thing?

Agent Smith

I found out this evening a friend of mine died this morning

Stargal

Myth wrote: »

He should probably keep an eye around town just in case it appears locked elsewhere (i.e. it might get flogged on to someone else). Still sucks though. It's the type of thing which stops me wanting to get a new bike and to keep the crap one I have, since no-one in their right mind would rob it!

Yeah he was the same - he'd been using a dodgy second-hand one for about a year cos his last two bikes were stolen, but he'd decided it would be ok to risk buying a new one. He's reporting it now but guess it is worth keeping an eye out around town too.

Boston wrote: »

Do you normally come out with that type of thing?

I did four years of sociology and social policy. That's the equivalent of like, Java or something for you computer nerds. I think.

Stargal

agent smith wrote: »

I found out this evening a friend of mine died this morning

Sorry Joe, that's awful. Hope you're ok.

Boston

I'll put it another way, do you normally believe that liberal pinko communist bull****? If so, then don't be a hypocrite about it. Scum is scum and they don't suddenly become so when they affect you.

Tricity Bendix

agent smith wrote: »

I found out this evening a friend of mine died this morning

Thats terrible. I'll say a prayer for you and your friend.

Awayindahils

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

This is what I would shout from the top floor of the library if I had enough voice. As I don't it's here. Probably a good thing that it's hear rather than bouncing about in the library.

And Joe I'm sorry to hear about your friend.

europerson

agent smith wrote: »

I found out this evening a friend of mine died this morning

Sorry to hear that: my thoughts are with you.

Meanwhile, my life goes from bad to worse. When is something good going to happen?

shay_562

Pet, that sucks - really hope you get better quickly. I know a few people who have had it and it's a bitch of a disease.

Joe, that's awful, I'm really sorry.

europerson

europerson wrote: »

Meanwhile, my life goes from bad to worse. When is something good going to happen?

I bought some Christmas Candles for the flat... not sure if thats a positive or negative.

But I also bought some toilet cleaner which is definitely a positive!

paperclip

Agent- Yourself and your friend are in my prayers.
Pet- lots of chicken soup and good books are in order. Things have been going so badly for you lately, you deserve time off from everything. Chill out and look after yourself. Hope you're at home with your mom bringing you tea at frequent intervals....

Pet

Thanks for the well-wishes, paperclip and everyone else.

Things may be looking up, a little, though. I hope.

Boston

So you where faking to get sympathy?

Pet

Naturally.

I actually drank litres of boiling water to get my body temperature up to 39 degrees Celsius, and create inflammation in my pharynx. Then I ate a cupful of salt to dehydrate myself again. Then, I filled a syringe with someone else's blood and injected my cervical lymph nodes [water would simply leak back out into my lymphatic system] to create the swelling. This also had the effect of sending my white blood cell count skywards, so that when I got a blood test, the doctors would automatically realise I was seriously ill.

I then quickly rushed to the doctor, and got a medical certificate, so I had solid proof of my fake sickness, and faxed it into college, so that I wouldn't get into trouble for being absent during this casual endeavour.


All so I could exact some sympathy from the boards.ie regulars.

*slow clap*

There are no flies on you, big boy.

Boston

That sounds like AIDs to me... that or you're on the blob.

John

Pet wrote: »

Naturally.

I actually drank litres of boiling water to get my body temperature up to 39 degrees Celsius, and create inflammation in my pharynx. Then I ate a cupful of salt to dehydrate myself again. Then, I filled a syringe with someone else's blood and injected my cervical lymph nodes [water would simply leak back out into my lymphatic system] to create the swelling. This also had the effect of sending my white blood cell count skywards, so that when I got a blood test, the doctors would automatically realise I was seriously ill.

I then quickly rushed to the doctor, and got a medical certificate, so I had solid proof of my fake sickness, and faxed it into college, so that I wouldn't get into trouble for being absent during this casual endeavour.


All so I could exact some sympathy from the boards.ie regulars.

*slow clap*

There are no flies on you, big boy.

*sarcasm meter goes off the scale, cracks and disintegrates*

Scumbags on the bus home fighting, the Gardaí called, bus stopped, scumbags escorted off bus, and have finally arrived home. Hrm. Perhaps this should be in the woohoo thread.

paperclip

Spent all afternoon compounding vaginal gels, came home tired and now my house is cold .

Time Magazine

paperclip wrote: »

pounding vaginal gel

Sorry. That's all I saw in that post.

ApeXaviour

Closing in on midnight (the 8th) here in the Berkeley lab, San Fran... Because of Jet Lag I was up at 06:30 (as in a.m.) this morning. It appears I'll be up until about 10am tomorrow morning too. For the aul body clock it's what, 7:45 in the morning? Another 10 hours or so seems unbelievably daunting, even half nodding off now and then. I wonder what the lethal dose of caffeine is... I'm sure I'm not incredibly far off.

Also... apparently there's a great view of San Fran from Berkeley lab, which is way up on a hill. I say apparently because there's been such a thick fog since I got here (and forecast for the next week) that you're lucky if you can make out which direction you're looking let alone any buildings.

God this has just started, I've two bloody weeks of this. Can't f***ing wait until it's over and I have those couple days to actually enjoy being here.

Another moan actually. My supervisor has an incredibly noticeable chest infection and seems to insist on not covering his mouth when coughing while he's talking to me. It's utterly revolting. So now I've got the beginnings of a cold which is sure to become much worse.

Edwardius

ApeXaviour wrote: »

My supervisor has an incredibly noticeable chest infection and seems to insist on not covering his mouth when coughing while he's talking to me. It's utterly revolting. So now I've got the beginnings of a cold which is sure to become much worse.

Wear a helmet.

ApeXaviour

Damnit damnit damnit and damnit again. I nodded off there sitting up, then my supervisor nudges me awake and says that actually we can go home once we finish setting this yoke up. So I jump up out of my chair and get to it. Of course in my semi-conscious state I wasn't paying attention, banged one piece of metal off another piece of metal it wasn't supposed to bang off. Caused everything to go out of alignment and now we have to stay hours and hours more to realign everything and set it up again. Ball-sucking gowl-monkeys! I want to sleeeeeep....

I just realised that I pressed no instead of yes last night...

****!

Stargal

Dec, stay awake! Try and name the entire Italia '90 squad in your head. Rank your top 10 favourite things about physics alphabetically. Name as many boardsies as you can. Think about how many illnesses your supervisor could possibly have...

Deleted User wrote: »

I just realised that I pressed no instead of yes last night...

****!

I'm intrigued.

europerson

Stargal wrote: »

I'm intrigued.

When exiting the program, zaraba was prompted to save his Excel spreadsheet, on which he had been working for some time, I think. He accidentally chose not to save.

xeduCat

Jesus saves.

Time Magazine

Stargal wrote: »

Try and name the entire Italia '90 squad in your head.

I was only three at the time so I'll do my best to go for USA '94. Honestly, without cheating, here's my go:

Goalkeepers
Packie Bonner
Alan Kelly

Defenders
Gary Kelly
Alan Kernaghan (footballing legend)
Denis Irwin
Paul McGrath
Chris Haughton
Steve Staunton

Midfielders
Roy Keane
Ray Houghton
John Sheridan (footballing legend)
Kevin Moran
Andy Townsend
Jason McAteer

Strikers
John Aldridge (yellow card while a sub and all)
Tony Cascarino
Niall Quinn

Remember those white jerseys? They were cool.

The actual squad

[1] BONNER Pat (GK)
[2] IRVIN Denis
[3] PHELAN Terry
[5] MC GRATH Paul
[6] KEANE Roy
[7] TOWNSEND Andy
[8] HOUGHTON Ray
[10] SHERIDAN John
[11] STAUNTON Stephen
[14] BABB Phil
[15] COYNE Tommy
[22] KELLY Alan (GK)
[4] MORAN Kevin
[9] ALDRIDGE John
[12] KELLY Gary
[13] KERNAGHAN Alan
[16] CASCARINO Tony
[17] MC GOLDRICK Eddie
[18] WHELAN Ronnie
[19] MC LOUGHLIN Alan
[20] KELLY David
[21] MC ATEER Jason

Didn't do too badly.

xeduCat

xeduCat wrote: »

Jesus saves.

He uses OpenOffice too.

Bartron Prime

Writing a report on third-level funding in Ireland for SU Council. It's making me so sad that I actually feel like crying....