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Urgh! Fuck!: A thread for untamed hate and anger [PICS]

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12:07 / 16.11.05

are the builders there yet?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:44 / 16.11.05

Yes!
Well, even better, they've finished, and fucked off again!
And I've just set up my new PC!
But that means I'm not angry enough for this thread anymore, I'm afraid.

I think I'm coming down with the flu, if that helps...

12:47 / 16.11.05

Are you angry about it?

10:53 / 17.11.05

I checked my big orchid this morning to see whether all the flowers had finally faded, it being winter and all that. They have, but perhaps this is because the plant is covered in bloody ahpids. APHIDS! in NOVEMBER! AAARGH

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:16 / 17.11.05

Stoats - we are new PC brothers. Mine is on order. What did you go for?

11:44 / 17.11.05

I checked my big orchid this morning to see whether all the flowers had finally faded, it being winter and all that. They have, but perhaps this is because the plant is covered in bloody ahpids. APHIDS! in NOVEMBER! AAARGH

I feel your pain, KKC. Have you tried spraying it with a weak solution of washing up detergent? Or tempting a ladybird out of hibernation?

12:04 / 17.11.05

I'll be doing the washing-up liquid thing this evening, I think. Fortunately, since the flowers are gone and the stems seem to have died also, I can probably get rid of most of the buglets by putting them in the bin, but I'd like to clean the leaves as well... but still, ARGH.

Is yours OK? Mine is/was similar to yours, I think, only russety in colour.

I had the aphid problem with the basil I tried to grow, but that was in June...

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:21 / 17.11.05

Argghh. Fucking semi-illness that won't leave.

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:17 / 17.11.05

With you there, GGM. I took this morning off sick with a peaking of the exhaustion-related sub-flu I've had for the last fortnight or so, but once the pain receded decided that if I was going to sit around feeling wretched, I may as well do it in work. I'm already regretting that resolution.

pointless & uncalled for

14:04 / 17.11.05

About a year ago my brother-in-law was told that he would be fired for gross misconduct if he stepped foot in the office for three weeks as he wouldn't take the time off to get properly better.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

14:12 / 17.11.05

My cunt of a boss doesn't beleive in being sick apparantley. I wish i'd realised i didn't have the fucking flu last week & that I was just being lazy, skiving off work for 1 frickin' day.
Where is he today I wonder, surely he can't be ill at home? I only licked his teaspoon everytime I made us both a cuppa.

Fuck you boss man with a giant fucking barge pole.

P. Horus Rhacoid

01:50 / 18.11.05

Just found out that the Weirdos are scheduled to play a show in London with the Damned next saturday. This made me INCREDIBLY HAPPY until I checked the Damned's website, and discovered that the Weirdos had to pull out of the tour.

Probably the only opportunity I'll have in my life to see a band I love. Fuck. I might go anyway to see the Damned, but still.

02:50 / 18.11.05

I only licked his teaspoon everytime I made us both a cuppa.

The Teaboy's Revenge. Clas-sick.

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

11:08 / 18.11.05

VARGH! Running around in cold all night in T-shirt for entirely understandable reasons means two days shaking , sweating, falling over and hallucinating. And not in a good way. And this means I know nothing of Medieval Estate Satire things for my tutorial thing argh argh

14:03 / 18.11.05

ARRGGGGGGHHHH just had to do a training session for 20 people, heart in my mouth panic the whole fucking time, I HATE giving speaches in front of people I'd rather be stabbed.

...and I have to do it again on the 30th of Nov, ARGGGGGGHHHHHHH. Fuck in a word, take this job and shove it.

lord nuneaton savage

14:23 / 18.11.05

Try imagining your audience naked. Works for me every time, although I realize this might put people off coming to see my band.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

14:48 / 18.11.05

First ever conference paper rejected on same day that I find out my ex-supervisor has been bitching about me behind my back. Not doing much for any sense of self-worth about by work/life/the rest of it. GRRRRR!!!

15:04 / 18.11.05

I have to leave for work in half an hour to start a ten hour shift. Which is followed tomorrow by another ten hour shift. After both shifts, I get to come home and work on THREE papers due on the SAME fucking DAY. Is that fair, I ask? Is that legal? Can I not sue my profs for cruel and unusual punishment? I'm paying them to be there to teach me, not assign papers and hide in their offices working on their research that the Uni barely profits from.

And, on a related note, why the fuck are profs so fucking arrogant? I went to see my prof about this author I got into and I wanted to know if I could do a compare and contrast with the novel we're studying (apparently, this prof was more than happy to have students come up with their own ideas for papers) and he flips through the book that he's never heard of, and then he says, "Yes, this looks like the kind of novel for people that simply enjoy the plot" - and that's a verbatim quote. What the fuck?

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:08 / 18.11.05

Maybe he'd already read it. What was it, and what were you comparing and contrasting it with?

(On the dictatorial natures of professors - I fear the problem here is that you are not employing the professors. You are paying a faculty that employs the professors, and the faculty believes that part of what you are being paid for is a structured process of learning - it's more like going into rehab and interacting with staff than going into work and interacting with employees).

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:28 / 18.11.05

No, but seriously though, being asked to write three essays sounds like an abuse of your human rights. Is there no way you can escape from this institution into which you've been involuntarily enrolled?

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:30 / 18.11.05

Be fair, Petey - they pay for their tuition over there, and if this is going to get in the way unnecessarily of a successful course completion (concrete) or a better learnng experience (abstract), it's worth getting cross about. How long have you been given to get them done, Matt? We had a couple of essays a week, but three in a week seems egregious.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

15:53 / 18.11.05

I used to have a teacher who asked the students to look at him as a resource, as someone being paid by us, the students.

Not sure what became of him, now that I think of it.

P. Horus Rhacoid

16:48 / 18.11.05

Matt- have you asked any of them for an extension? I've found that most professors are pretty accomodating if you just explain the situation to them...

17:02 / 18.11.05

Not sure what became of him, now that I think of it.

Eaten by anthropology post-grads two weeks before Christmas holidays.

17:06 / 18.11.05

KKC: I had the aphid problem with the basil I tried to grow, but that was in June...

I've aphids on everything I can imagine... except my orchids. My milkweeds turn yellow with their little bloated bodies. Are you *sure* the little beasts are aphids? At any rate, the detergent thing works -- but if you're feeling particularly malevolent, make a tea out of cigarettes (or just a few butts) and squirt some of that on them. And laugh melodramatically while you do it.

02:08 / 19.11.05

Ants in my house. Get out of my house fuckers! Scram!

03:21 / 19.11.05

Wow. I didn't think I'd get sympathy. Thanks, everybody. About the papers: each of them is only about 1500-2000 words. Here are the topics from three different courses:
1) Compare ee cummings' use of political rhetoric to another poet in the anthology
2) Select two opposing articles about James Joyce's "A Mother", summarize, and then adjudicate
3) Analyze the concept of freedom used by 17th century American writers. (I'm doing mine on Anne Foster)

It's not that hard. It's just that it all ends up at the end of term. I can manage. But thanks everybody for support.

Haus - the novel I was showing him was The Recognitions by William Gaddis and I wanted to compare and (mostly) contrast with Joyce's Ulysses. He hadn't heard of it. I preambled my query with this: "He is completely forgotten by academia, but it finding a new audience thanks to Jonathan Franzen" - this prof hadn't heard of Franzen either. It wasn't the fact that he hadn't heard of this novel; it was the way he dismissed it so casually.
(The Recognitions is about art and humanity's response to art, one of the major themes of Ulysses. Also, and this is somewhat lowbrow, the back of the paperback features a blurb comparing it to Ulysses, hence my desire to compare and contrast. I'm not saying one is better than the other)

Also, I have a spider infestation in my house because I have a beetle infestation. Fuck. So I feel for you and your ants.

03:36 / 19.11.05

Try imagining your audience naked. Works for me every time, although I realize this might put people off coming to see my band.

We should organise a gig where everyone is naked.

Bands, audience... well, probably not the sound guy.

It's exactly the kind of thing that we need a Weapons Forum to talk about in more depth.

P. Horus Rhacoid

11:55 / 19.11.05

My house has an ant infestation as well. The really tiny red ones. I think they've been biting me in my sleep, the dirty fuckers. Either that, or I was bitten on the neck last night by the world's smallest and most ineffectual vampire.

12:42 / 19.11.05

Poor you. That's horrible.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:42 / 19.11.05

Probably bedbugs- I heard a thing about them on the radio the other day- it sounded like what you just described, and apparently they're very common. (It was a strange documentary- Alexei Sayle was narrating it in character as a bug).

Mister Six, whom all the girls

15:09 / 19.11.05

Eeek, yep... those are Bed Bugs.

A co-worker cried to me about having an infestation. She lost a lot of belongings over it. They hide EVERYWHERE, so she said.

P. Horus Rhacoid

16:02 / 19.11.05

Thanks for the sympathy. I seriously, seriously hope they aren't bedbugs- one of my friends had to move at the beginning of this semester because of them. I'm holding out hope that they aren't- the little red fuckers we've been seeing around look more like ants, though I admit I haven't looked at them very closely... I'll have to do that next time I catch one. I also haven't seen any streaks of bug-shit on my bed, so hopefully these are just over-aggressive ants; the bites are isolated instances too (I've only noticed half a dozen in the past week, though there could be more I haven't noticed- the reason the most recent one caught my attention is that it's on the front of my neck), and not in the linear bedbug bite pattern I've read about, though that in itself doesn't mean anything. We've been finding them in food and stuff (they somehow got into a sealed box of crackers, for instance) which suggests ants too. Unless we have two infestations going at once. Okay, now I'm scaring myself even more.

Thank god I'm only here for another month. Wait, a month's a long time. Shit!

03:07 / 20.11.05

Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

09:26 / 20.11.05

More intense irritation than anger. Wandered into Forbidden plant on the off-chance that they might have something interesting that's not on my mail order list elsewhere. Weave my way through the crowds to the sound of some bloody awful music (have I ever said how much I hate music in shops?) to be confronted with little handmade lables on every shelf which read: "NO READING".
Fuck off, you're a comic shop, or you were once. I can understand that some oiks stand and read whole comics at at time, but that's your look-out, not mine. If I want to flick through something before I try it, I will. Just never again in your shop. Ever. Last straw, FP.

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