Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934111 times)

pickled kitten · « **Reply #3400 on:** June 06, 2008, 02:30:19 PM »

Leaving on a jet plane in less than 24 hours.

Spending a week at the beach.

See you guys later!

dcrog · « **Reply #3401 on:** June 06, 2008, 02:36:11 PM »

Have a nice trip PK.

On a side note. It's amazing how much your avatar of Harrison Ford looks like Hugh Laurie. They could be brothers.

The_FOO · « **Reply #3402 on:** June 06, 2008, 02:40:46 PM »

Quote from: dcrog on June 06, 2008, 02:36:11 PM

Have a nice trip PK.

On a side note. It's amazing how much your avatar of Harrison Ford looks like Hugh Laurie. They could be brothers.

Ditto on the trip. Enjoy, and bring me back a horgon.

That's Harrison Ford?

pickled kitten · « **Reply #3403 on:** June 06, 2008, 03:47:55 PM »

Thanks guys! It's going to be so much fun hanging out with my friends for a week on the beach. We're going to Busch Gardens on Tuesday and since I've never been that should be an adventure too.

Yes it IS Harrison Ford. It's from Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Foo: If it doesn't fit in my luggage it's not coming back. Then again at some point I'm sure I'll be drunk enough to try

dcrog · « **Reply #3404 on:** June 06, 2008, 04:07:45 PM »

Quote from: The_FOO on June 06, 2008, 02:40:46 PM

That's Harrison Ford?

Yep. I didn't realize it until I re-watched the temple of doom a couple of weeks ago.

He could still pass for Laurie though, in that shot.

The_FOO · « **Reply #3405 on:** June 06, 2008, 06:47:41 PM »

Cool. I haven't seen ToD in years. (Despite owning the box set, I tend to skip that one.)

PK: Will I fit in your suitcase? I could use some time on the beach.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3406 on:** June 08, 2008, 06:13:30 PM »

cute, huh?

The_FOO · « **Reply #3407 on:** June 08, 2008, 08:51:46 PM »

Do I get one next week?

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3408 on:** June 08, 2008, 09:29:48 PM »

you can have the rest of miiiiiine if you want.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3409 on:** June 09, 2008, 09:50:44 AM »

i have zero cell phone service. several people i know with the same provider also have no service. i called, and apparently they're aware of it and "working on it," but i need to make a long distance call. now.

motherfuckers.

xolik · « **Reply #3410 on:** June 09, 2008, 03:54:51 PM »

Summer session starts for me tonight. I'm sure having three hours of English right after I get off of work for four nights a week will be a real blast. I was looking over my transcript today to figure out just how many more classes I'll need before I get my useless A.S. and I'm not quite sure what's making me more depressed: That I've been going to a J.C. since 2003 or that I'll need another year and half to finish at the rate I'm going.

If only I had gone directly to college right out of high school, I wouldn't be in this mess. So there's a lesson for all you youngsters out there: Don't just 'take a year' off once you're out of high school. Trust me on this one.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3411 on:** June 09, 2008, 04:17:54 PM »

Quote from: xolik on June 09, 2008, 03:54:51 PM

Summer session starts for me tonight. I'm sure having three hours of English right after I get off of work for four nights a week will be a real blast. I was looking over my transcript today to figure out just how many more classes I'll need before I get my useless A.S. and I'm not quite sure what's making me more depressed: That I've been going to a J.C. since 2003 or that I'll need another year and half to finish at the rate I'm going. If only I had gone directly to college right out of high school, I wouldn't be in this mess. So there's a lesson for all you youngsters out there: Don't just 'take a year' off once you're out of high school. Trust me on this one.

heh. i, too, just took a year off.. eight years before i actually went back to school.

12AX7 · « **Reply #3412 on:** June 09, 2008, 04:27:07 PM »

I graduated high school in '87; and Im still taking my year off.

What?

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3413 on:** June 09, 2008, 04:46:49 PM »

i finished the first grade in 1987.

dcrog · « **Reply #3414 on:** June 09, 2008, 07:27:01 PM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on June 09, 2008, 04:27:07 PM

I graduated high school in ~~'87~~ 73; and Im still taking my year off.

What?

Fixed that to fit me.

The_FOO · « **Reply #3415 on:** June 09, 2008, 08:27:47 PM »

I never graduated High School. Or University either for that matter.

xolik · « **Reply #3416 on:** June 10, 2008, 12:53:25 AM »

So today I found out if you miss a semester, when you come back and your graduation requirements change, you have to go by the new plan and not the plan you've been working on for the past three years.

/wrist

BizB · « **Reply #3417 on:** June 10, 2008, 07:47:02 AM »

Ouch! That sucks.

I graduated from high school in 1984. I got my Associates degree in 1997 and my BS in 2001. Once I got started, I did it in four and 1/2 years. It was the getting started that took a long time.

TheJudge · « **Reply #3418 on:** June 10, 2008, 08:34:24 AM »

Quote from: xolik on June 06, 2008, 01:10:55 PM

So today I decide to check what my grade was for that class and it's telling me I got an "A" which I totally don't understand. I hear stories about how the public education system is really really bad, and I think I'm proof.

This is actually quite common. It doesn't look good for a prof to have an F for class average. So what they do when this happens is they bump up everyone's grades while keeping relativity. So the one's who had B's get A's, the C's get B's, etc. Sometimes, the grades or so low they actually need to bump you 2 grades.

it is a compeltly unfair system because those who had A's prior to the adjustment still get A's at the end of the day, and their grade ends up being equal to others who were in fact outperformed. To make matters worse, I don't think the F's get bumped to D's, because that would mean no one fails, and that's also not good. Universities require people to fail so that they can make more money off students. It's just a fact. I suspect that prof are selective about who gets bumped up form F's and who doesn't. It's completely crooked.

Some profs deliberatly grade everyone low just to be pricks and stress out students all year round, when they know thta they will in fact readjust all the grades at the end anyway. You know it's deliberate because it happens every single semester for every class they teach. The best thing you can do in my opinion is aim for C's. At the end, you'll either get a C or a B, and aiming for C's means you have time to actually enjoy the student life and do a little partying (those will be the best years of your life, trust me. Don't waste them in a library). In the long run, wheter you had D's or B's, it won't matter once you hit the market place.

sociald1077 · « **Reply #3419 on:** June 10, 2008, 02:08:59 PM »

In honor of the Smurfs live action movie, I will be replace my normal, "Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker and Tits" and other horrible curses, with the classic, "smurf."

Now get ouf my way you smurfing smurf-hole!!

TheJudge · « **Reply #3420 on:** June 10, 2008, 02:26:27 PM »

*smurfs sociald1077*

xolik · « **Reply #3421 on:** June 10, 2008, 02:46:55 PM »

I used to have just about every Smurf available back when I was a little kid. Wish I had kept them all.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3422 on:** June 10, 2008, 02:58:42 PM »

That's pretty smurfed up, Xol. There were like 3-smurfing-hundred of those little mothersmurfers.

dcrog · « **Reply #3423 on:** June 10, 2008, 04:13:25 PM »

*Trying not to imagine Xolly's little bed covered in smurfs.

The_FOO · « **Reply #3424 on:** June 10, 2008, 04:18:41 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on June 10, 2008, 02:58:42 PM

That's pretty smurfed up, Xol. There were like 3-smurfing-hundred of those little mothersmurfers.

If I recall correctly, there were only 100, and then 101 after Gargamel created Smurfette.

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