OPEN BAR: it rubs the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again

[The Good Reverend Roger]

BRB, taking a moment to vilify Paes.

[Suu]

I am in the Freestate. Let hilarity ensue.

[Cain]

Well, I just spent my first month's pay on a bike.

Fucking hell.  I mean, OK, I expected bikes to be a little more expensive than a decade ago, when I was last in the market for one, but a 400% increase in price?  C'mon now.  And £60 for a hi-vis jacket?  Now you're just taking the piss.

On the plus side, I'm negotiating for a series of articles on Ukraine, which may dull the financial pain.  Somewhat.

[LMNO]

Bikes got a lot more expensive, yeah.  Especially if you want one with more than one gear on it.

[Cain]

One gear bikes are an abombination in the eyes of the LORD.

[Suu]

I'll be getting a new bike shortly. My guess is it's going to be a $200 Wal-Mart Huffy, because there is no way I can get a better brand.


Yes, even bikes at Wal-Mart are $200.

[Cain]

Mine was $670, and that was the cheap end of the range.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, my chem lab partner is a trainwreck. I've been suspecting since the beginning of the term, but I actually had only had three labs with her and they were all really simple. I did notice that the day she was out sick and I got to partner with vastly more competent people went much more smoothly, and that was by far the hardest lab we've done. But now, yeah, it's pretty much plain that she doesn't belong in the class. She doesn't seem to know how to use computers, and she can't follow simple written instructions. I can hold her hand through a lab when I already have a reasonable level of competence, but if it's something I need to focus on I'm just fucked. Like, I can't. I just can't. She doesn't know ALGEBRA. She doesn't understand what an inverse proportion is. She can't solve for P2 given the information that P1/V1=P2/V2. She interrupts me constantly with questions because she doesn't know what to do next or how to do anything.

SHE LITERALLY CANNOT FOLLOW WRITTEN STEP-BY-STEP DIRECTIONS. I HAVE TO TELL HER WHAT TO DO ONE STEP AT A TIME. SHE CANNOT READ A SYRINGE. This SHOULD have been one of the easiest labs to do but it was hellish and frustrating. She is very nice, but she should not be in this class at all. How the hell did she get into this class?

I think this is done intentionally, to some degree, to train college students as to what to expect in real life.  Kinda surprised they sprung it on you, though.  If I were the prof, I'd have assigned the twit to a bright 20 year old, just to temper the iron before he/she sets foot in a RL chemistry environment.

I think this was more or less randomly-occurring, by virtue of me having been in a different lab last term and coming into this one where almost everyone already had a lab partner from last term.

Oh, okay.

Because back in physics, I noticed that they always seemed to pair up a hard worker with a yutz.

I could see that being a thing, and my professor did say that she reserves the right to shuffle lab partners at her discretion. However, the initial pairing is up to us. It probably should have been a red flag that she was the only person in the class who didn't have a lab partner from last term.

It seriously wouldn't even be a problem at all, but when I don't really know what I'm doing either, it's too hard to manage her cluelessness in addition to my learning curve.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Agh, but of course probably the reason she keeps me partnered with her is because she knows I'll try.

I can't handle another lab like last night's, though. SHE COULDN'T READ A SYRINGE.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

SHE COULDN'T READ A SYRINGE.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Just ran into an old member of PD on Facebook (not gonna name names) who was complaining that he didn't like facebook because he doesn't see everything in his feed and it's hard to find old posts.  He suggested that someone build an alternate platform.

I reminded him that he had an alternate platform (here), and he left it for facebook.

He replied that he was too "grown up now" for PD now.



I'm 45 fucking years old, and if I ever "get too grown up" for PD, I expect Nigel, LMNO, and ECH to kick me to death for my own good.

[Salty]

Facebook is for babies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn6jKGVxTbk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[LMNO]

Just ran into an old member of PD on Facebook (not gonna name names) who was complaining that he didn't like facebook because he doesn't see everything in his feed and it's hard to find old posts.  He suggested that someone build an alternate platform.

I reminded him that he had an alternate platform (here), and he left it for facebook.

He replied that he was too "grown up now" for PD now.



I'm 45 fucking years old, and if I ever "get too grown up" for PD, I expect Nigel, LMNO, and ECH to kick me to death for my own good.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Just ran into an old member of PD on Facebook (not gonna name names) who was complaining that he didn't like facebook because he doesn't see everything in his feed and it's hard to find old posts.  He suggested that someone build an alternate platform.

I reminded him that he had an alternate platform (here), and he left it for facebook.

He replied that he was too "grown up now" for PD now.



I'm 45 fucking years old, and if I ever "get too grown up" for PD, I expect Nigel, LMNO, and ECH to kick me to death for my own good.

If Facebook is the next leap, maturity wise, I'm going to be telling fart jokes forever. Fuck that shit. Facebook was originally for college kids and pedos. Opening it up to the unwashed masses has not in any way raised the IQ of that place.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Just ran into an old member of PD on Facebook (not gonna name names) who was complaining that he didn't like facebook because he doesn't see everything in his feed and it's hard to find old posts.  He suggested that someone build an alternate platform.

I reminded him that he had an alternate platform (here), and he left it for facebook.

He replied that he was too "grown up now" for PD now.



I'm 45 fucking years old, and if I ever "get too grown up" for PD, I expect Nigel, LMNO, and ECH to kick me to death for my own good.

If Facebook is the next leap, maturity wise, I'm going to be telling fart jokes forever. Fuck that shit. Facebook was originally for college kids and pedos. Opening it up to the unwashed masses has not in any way raised the IQ of that place.

Yeah, well, a guy I used to like has become a twerp.  Seriously, who the fuck would say something like that, without (or worse, with) thinking about what he was saying about the person with whom he is speaking?

Fuck that guy.