The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

charmer

Orlando Better Grass wrote: »

Not quite a rant/bitch/moan, but I didn't want to start another thread:

Does anyone know how the teaching weeks/actual weeks line up?
Like, I know this is week 8 of Hilary Term. We had 6 weeks of lectures, week 7 was reading week, so now first week back is week 8.

I have tutorials for teaching weeks 23,25,28,30,32. No idea how the weeks line up though!

http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/assets/pdf/academic-year-structure-2010-11.pdf

Calendar week column on the left handside

The Black Oil

Essay co-ordination is proving tricky, bah.

investment

Rockhead wrote: »

www.trinners4winners.com

Saw this on facebook the other day and well from what i hear it will actually be good when it gets going properly and seems like a good laugh but i dunno guess we're going to have to wait and see..
What does everyone else think?

D.R cowboy??

AndrewJD

Same person as http://trinners4winners.tumblr.com/ or... what?

languagenerd

Rockhead wrote: »

www.trinners4winners.com

Saw this on facebook the other day and well from what i hear it will actually be good when it gets going properly and seems like a good laugh but i dunno guess we're going to have to wait and see..
What does everyone else think?

A) Who the hell says "Trinners"?! That just makes me cringe.
That's not ranting, bitching OR moaning. So subtle... :rolleyes:

d93c2inhxfok4y

charmer wrote: »

http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/assets/pdf/academic-year-structure-2010-11.pdf

Calendar week column on the left handside

Awesome, thank you! So much for that week 28 tutorial anyway. Oh whale.

DancingQueen:)

I'm never volunteering to edit and be in charge of a group project ever again, it's not worth the hassle!

Larianne

(bringing it back to the first page of the forum)

Heat in the Hammo, Bloody hell.

NeuroCat

Heat in the Hammo, Bloody hell.

^+1
I'm convinced they think we sciencey types can't survive in cold temperatures.

I'm usually not bothered by other people's grammar/spelling, but why is it that 90% of people on boards can't spell "definitely"? I mean at first I thought people just made a lot of mistakes with it, but seriously, the amount of times I've seen it spelled defiantly. That's not a mistake, that's a whole other word!

I've no idea why it bothers me so much, but my god it fills me with anger and fury!

Brian

true-or-false wrote: »

I've no idea why it bothers me so much, but my god it fills me with anger and fury!

The Irish use of "I've" without complementary "got" has much the same effect on me.

Groinshot

NeuroCat wrote: »

^+1
I'm convinced they think we sciencey types can't survive in cold temperatures.

At least it means we can get a computer in there...

languagenerd

Baza210 wrote: »

The Irish use of "I've" without complementary "got" has much the same effect on me.

"I've" is "I have" abbreviated.

"I have no idea", you don't need "got" there.

starling.

Dear girls talking loudly and munching on crisps in the computer room,

SHUT THE F*CK UP.

Or at least whisper. Or stopping eating hunky dorys. Please.

Yours sincerely,

Me.

bythewoods

Not being able to find a good seat in the library sucks. A lot. Bleugh. And it's not even like I can swan in early in the day and get one, seeing as I still have lectures/ labs for another few weeks. And a very silly sleeping pattern.

Would ye all stop studying so aggressively?

Larianne

I probably said it last year but I'll say it again this year anyways:

ONE STUDY ROOM IN THE WHOLE OF THE HAMILTON!!?!??!?! ONE !! :mad:

PurpleFistMixer

Larianne wrote: »

I probably said it last year but I'll say it again this year anyways:

ONE STUDY ROOM IN THE WHOLE OF THE HAMILTON!!?!??!?! ONE !! :mad:

Is the library not a study room?

Larianne

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Is the library not a study room?

For group study? Well yeah you do get a few idiots thinking that the odd time.

Aoibheann

Just use an empty lecture theatre, that's what I did when I was giving grinds this week and it worked out just fine. Salmon/Synge both seemed to be free for quite a while.

PurpleFistMixer

Larianne wrote: »

For group study? Well yeah you do get a few idiots thinking that the odd time.

Ah, didn't know you meant group study. Definitely avoid the library in that case (god I hate those chatting bastards).

Maths/TPs etc. can use the maths department for group study which is nice, I dunno what anyone else is supposed to do. : p

Unregistered.

I like eggs.

theowen

Larianne wrote: »

I probably said it last year but I'll say it again this year anyways:

ONE STUDY ROOM IN THE WHOLE OF THE HAMILTON!!?!??!?! ONE !! :mad:

What's wrong with the ones in the Berkeley?

Worriedgirl

Seat filler guy, you know who you are. I may look puny, but hell hath no fury Next time you won't be so lucky.

languagenerd

Just looked at last year's exam papers for French Politics. Needless to say .... f********ck!

SimpleLogic

Examinations office email 29th March :

No changes may be made to any of these published timetables. The version of the timetables appearing on the College website is the definitive version.

Examinations office email today:

It has been necessary to amend the annual examination timetables in some respects.
Please check your timetable on the College website at the following web address as a matter of urgency.

Guessing this has something to do with the Queen :mad:
Exam moved to Saturday, when I had something planned. Nine exams in eleven days now too.....

Unregistered.

Burner- wrote: »

Examinations office email 29th March :


Examinations office email today:


Guessing this has something to do with the Queen :mad:
Exam moved to Saturday, when I had something planned. Nine exams in eleven days now too.....

****.

evercloserunion

Argh, forgot to bring a book back in time for counter reserve early closing. Even though I knew about it closing early. Anyone know where the best place to leave the book is? And what are counter reserve fines running at these days?

Brian

languagenerd wrote: »

"I've" is "I have" abbreviated.

"I have no idea", you don't need "got" there.

"€10 is all I've".

Does that seem right to you?

almostnever

If there's one exam I am going to fail, it will be contract law. Realllllllllly should have read the cases at the time.

Baza210

Baza210 wrote: »

"€10 is all I've".

Does that seem right to you?

It depends on the emphasis in the sentence. In the case of the above, I wouldn't say "€10 is all I've", I would say "€10 is all I have". Or more to the point I wouldn't phrase a sentence that way, I'd say "I only have €10".

When the emphasis of the sentence is on the possession of a physical thing, ie. the having itself, I would say "I've got a sofa" rather than "I've a sofa", whereas when the sofa is the emphasis, ie. the point is to define what it is that I have, I'd say "I've a sofa". While typing, I saw little importance in the phrase "I've no idea why", as it was part of a longer sentence, so I phrased it that way. If someone asks me "Do you have any idea why...?" I would say "Actually I've got no idea". It's all about emphasis, or where you grew up (apparently in England "got" is far more common).

In technical terms AFAIK, either is correct. I googled "use of got in english language" and picked the first link out of fairness. It claimed that either is correct, and the comments underneath showed a variety of opinions on either side.