octoprof
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« on: October 24, 2010, 07:35:23 AM » |
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I wish there were a whining thread, since this isn't really a vent per se. Your wish is my command, ptarmigan! Post your whining here but not your venting. Just your whining. Here's mine: Is it November yet? Please? October just sucks in every way. Let's move on to November, shall we? Creativity in whining, or even whinging, is encouraged. Venting, however, belongs on The Venting Thread. |
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things... Mark Twain
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Professor Dumbledore
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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2010, 07:53:54 AM » |
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I've had enough of these darn committees. I have to travel a far distance to get to campus every time a meeting is held. That kills off a big portion of a research day every time it happens. Most of the time very little gets accomplished because people just talk and talk. I could probably get the work done myself in the time the committee meets, but then I would be recognized as a productive service member and be reward with .... more committees.
Can't they just find some people who don't do anything to serve on these committees?
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You are among the Pure and Truthful, however small their Number.
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prof_smartypants
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Kiss the baby!
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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2010, 07:57:59 AM » |
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I don't wanna work out! It's chilly out there and it's cozy in here. Why can't I just get magically thin?
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Welcome to college, motherf*cker.
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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2010, 07:58:27 AM » |
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I'm not as tall, thin, rich or immortal as I planned to be, dagnabbit!
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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2010, 09:09:55 AM » |
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I miss having a housecleaner.
I wish I didn't have to spend so much of my weekends grading mediocre-to-lousy papers.
Also, what Mended_Drum said.
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I am an insanely elegant, super classy poor white, for the record.
I love everyone here!
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anakin
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« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2010, 10:14:31 AM » |
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The sweet dog next door is whining. He sounds like he has a limb caught in a bear trap, which is both maddening and endearing, which is, I suppose, the point of whining.
My whine is, I have no wine. I was going to make osso bucco today. I went all the way to the meat lab at Tundra City last week for the fresh veal shanks, and I got an onion and carrots at the local farmer's market, and I grew my rosemary and thyme, but I forgot the wine and I live in a state with a booze blue law, so no osso bucco today.
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Dr. Anakin sits high and mightily in her office while she condemns students to lives of misery and drudgery, washing out their husbands' underwear in filthy water. In addition, she is a horrible teacher. She welcomes you to Introduction to Biology!
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2010, 10:29:49 AM » |
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Oooh...I'm good at this.
<stomping foot and pouting>
I don't WANNA have to explain why this paper is a C and not an A. I'm tired of saying the same things over and over again! Make them stoooooooop.
<slamming door in a huff>
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« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2010, 10:34:56 AM » |
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My shelves refuse to groan under the weight of all the major awards I should have rightfully won by now.
They refuse to groan just to make me feel better.
Ungrateful little things.
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"I tried to walk into a Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around" - Mitch Hedberg
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
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« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2010, 11:22:10 AM » |
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I object to doing things which serve no purpose other than to waste my time.
Also, I don't want to go to Event AGM. I may die of boredom.
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2010, 11:26:53 AM » |
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I have so many papers to grade and I don't feel like doing it. I just want to go lie down. I didn't get enough sleep last night because I was up late watching reruns of Sex and the City. My parents brought me up to believe that I'm special, and I shouldn't have to grade papers if I don't feel like it.
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ptarmigan
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« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2010, 01:22:37 PM » |
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Thanks, Octoprof! You're the best.
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llanfair
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« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2010, 01:27:27 PM » |
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Great thread! I can't believe we didn't think of this years ago. My whine: I don't wanna rake the leaves. As soon as I rake the leaves, the trees upwind will mess up my nice clean grass. <pouting> |
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This place stinks like a pair of armoured trousers after the Hundred Years' War.
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« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2010, 01:36:24 PM » |
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I don't want to go to the shop. It's cold and raining. It's just two minutes down the road, but it feels sooooo far! And the rain will mess up my hair. And did I mention it's cold? Whine whine whine...
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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octoprof
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« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2010, 02:30:52 PM » |
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Why do the A-10s have to start their touch and goes while I'm on the top floor of my house recording lectures for an online course? Yes, the landing strip lines up with my house. Pfft. So, a little sound effect in the lecture video is no biggie, right?
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things... Mark Twain
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Professor Dumbledore
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llanfair
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Whither Canada?
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« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2010, 03:42:19 PM » |
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Why do the A-10s have to start their touch and goes while I'm on the top floor of my house recording lectures for an online course? Yes, the landing strip lines up with my house. Pfft. So, a little sound effect in the lecture video is no biggie, right?
Wow - those look noisy, all right. Course, you could have these doing circuits and bumps right overhead, as happens here sometimes. |
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