Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Since the forum goes dead every evening...
I thought we could use a place to make small talk?
I thought we could use a place to make small talk?
The Thread for Night Owls, West Coasters, Early-Rising Europeans, etc.
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warren0728
Kick Henry Jackassowski
i'm still up over here on the east coast....almost midnight....kiddos are sleeping and i'm relaxing after a busy weekend....
Sad Navigator
Banned
Riddle me this -- why is revising a 20+ page paper 20x more odious than writing it in the first place? I feel like I'm merely doing the squirm to get a grade. Which shouldn't make me feel icky because I write dreck for idiots all day long, but for some reason I've decided to make avoiding this revision a matter of personal pride.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
I can relate. Or wish I could, rather.
Don't respect your prof?
Sad Navigator
Banned
It's not that, but it's that I sense he's being manipulative. This is the intro-to-grad-studenting-in-history bit. He's doing that thing where he's proving to you that you don't know anything and forcing your learning into a narrative arc where you're made to feel dumb and then led to embrace his teaching and come out the end of the course successful and part of the "community of letters."
Also, he's a liberal American Jew whose field of study is history of everyday life in Germany in the early-to-mid 20th Century. And he fancies himself an existentialist and theoretically rigorous historian. Which means he's got his own personal and political iron in the fire all the time. Also, he's one of those American liberals and Euro historians who pooh-poohs American stuff and American pop culture and whathaveyou. So, besides my interest in everyday life and material culture, he could really care less about my topic. My working class hero American jerkass spidey sense is tingling.
Plus he goes out of his way to be intimidating -- I picked up on it a bit, and I really don't get intimidated. And other people are pretty scared/threatened by him.
I think it's just a case of knowing exactly what is going on and just not wanting to make the effort to deal with it. Plus it's the end of semester AND my job has been a horror lately (for totally stupid reasons).
RevanRagnos85
Jedi Master
Night Owl checking in
Jake S.
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I'm just relaxing right now. Not looking forward to tommorow at all.
Oh and my step dad gave me the banhammer for a month on my phone, iPod and computer because I didn't "look for things to do" after he gave me a speech about it yesterday. He'll come around in a couple days and unban me.
Hasn't taken my iPod away yet...I've stored it safely away in my room.
Oh and my step dad gave me the banhammer for a month on my phone, iPod and computer because I didn't "look for things to do" after he gave me a speech about it yesterday. He'll come around in a couple days and unban me.
Hasn't taken my iPod away yet...I've stored it safely away in my room.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
I'm just relaxing right now. Not looking forward to tommorow at all.
Oh and my step dad gave me the banhammer for a month on my phone, iPod and computer because I didn't "look for things to do" after he gave me a speech about it yesterday. He'll come around in a couple days and unban me.
Hasn't taken my iPod away yet...I've stored it safely away in my room.
You could try convincing him that either positive or negative reinforcement would be more effective than punishment, in the long term. Especially when it comes to punishing a non-action. And especially when that punishment will not be enforced.
No wonder you don't like The Beatles.
My sympathies.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Yeah, it doesn't sound like you've got a lot to work with, there.
Sad Navigator
Banned
Yeah. I just have to do it. It's work. Eh.
Jake S.
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Thank you.
First three chapters of How To Win Friends and Influence People: Fundamental techniques in handling people...
1. "Don't criticize, or complain."
2. "Give honest and sincere appreciation."
3. "Arouse an eager want or desire in the other person."
He fails so epicly in all three of these categories.
And he says The Beatles are 'stupid' which I won't even say. messedup0
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
To be fair, How To Win Friends and Influence People probably ought not to be used as a guide to parenting.
Jake S.
Kick Henry Jackassowski
True, but I think it still can be used.
I don't think it's wrong that he grounds me or whatever, it's that he does it for the stupidist crap, and that he doesn't give a shit for any of the things I do nice. Frequently saying I "live for myself" and backhandingly calling me a dick today can be added to his resume.
Anyways, don't mean to bother everyone with my little 15 year old problems. Continue on.
Sad Navigator
Banned
I'm gonna wait a bit and then go there too.
Jake S.
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Jake S.
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Fixed.
Razors are afraid to get too close to the growth... they say all manners of strange and terrible beasts live just beyond the borderlands.