Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel, now that it's over, can you go to the prof and sincerely ask, "what the hell was that?"

because it would seem to me that this test had something to do that was more than what you knew about the subject.

I could. But I have a weird feeling about it, and that feeling is that this guy is more erratic than I want to confront. There have been some strange interactions with other classmates. Someone mentioned that he acts like he's on painkillers and is sometimes in pain, which makes sense. There are cans of worms with people that I don't want to crack into. I could be TOTALLY wrong, but I don't want to go there, at all.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So far I have had very positive interactions with almost all of my instructors, to the degree that I get greeted and sometimes hugged in the halls by passing professors. I think I can afford to not have personal exposition experiences with one or two.

[Payne]

Driving test in less than an hour.

Even though I should be out of the age range of "Boy Racer" stereotypes, I have gone full on shirt and tie and shiny shoes with the added benefit of if I pass and they want me to take one of these cheesy pictures I've got my companies name sewn on the shirt so I'll look boss as fuck and my actual boss may reward me (unlikely, but worth a shot).

Here's to not killing anyone even slightly in the next couple hours!

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Driving test in less than an hour.

Even though I should be out of the age range of "Boy Racer" stereotypes, I have gone full on shirt and tie and shiny shoes with the added benefit of if I pass and they want me to take one of these cheesy pictures I've got my companies name sewn on the shirt so I'll look boss as fuck and my actual boss may reward me (unlikely, but worth a shot).

Here's to not killing anyone even slightly in the next couple hours!

Good luck!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You can do it!

[Cain]

What's the subject matter? I'm guessing "Is terrorism a problem?" or something similar.

I feel you there.

Well, the thing is, this is merely the essay plan for the next assignment, whose question is "discuss state terrorism over the past 50 years, is it different to non-state terrorism?"

All I need is the abstract, the bibliography and the structure/outline.  In other words, something I would do as preparation for an essay anyway.  And that's 10% of the module grade, in the bag.

I understand why they're doing this.  We have a lot of "track 3" applicants - people who didn't get onto the course from an academic background, but from a work related one.  So military intelligence types, journalists, UN workers, paramedics and similar.  Because of that, while they may indeed know the stuff pretty well, they don't necessarily have the academic background to do an essay in the required fashion or to the proper level.  So this is a hand-holding exercise to make sure no-one fails right out on the first assignment, which is otherwise very possible (40% of the module, with a 65% score rate to qualify as not failing).

But it is kinda unnecessary in my case.

[rong]

the other day I was watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and Picard said to Wharf, "Sweep the Area"
I so badly wished that Wharf would've given Picard a you're-such-a-fucking-idiot-i-can't-believe-you-just-said-that-jesus-i-need-a-new-job kind of look and then shrugged his shoulders, sighed and proceeded to pick up a broom and start sweeping the bridge.

[Cain]

Driving test in less than an hour.

Even though I should be out of the age range of "Boy Racer" stereotypes, I have gone full on shirt and tie and shiny shoes with the added benefit of if I pass and they want me to take one of these cheesy pictures I've got my companies name sewn on the shirt so I'll look boss as fuck and my actual boss may reward me (unlikely, but worth a shot).

Here's to not killing anyone even slightly in the next couple hours!

Have fun.  Remember, a granny with a stroller is worth at least 50 points.

[Payne]

Driving test in less than an hour.

Even though I should be out of the age range of "Boy Racer" stereotypes, I have gone full on shirt and tie and shiny shoes with the added benefit of if I pass and they want me to take one of these cheesy pictures I've got my companies name sewn on the shirt so I'll look boss as fuck and my actual boss may reward me (unlikely, but worth a shot).

Here's to not killing anyone even slightly in the next couple hours!

Have fun.  Remember, a granny with a stroller is worth at least 50 points.

Passed.

That's better than 52% of other people who have taken their first practical test.

I didn't even take out one of the kids going to school, let alone a stroller gran.

[Cain]

Well that's just disappointing. 

In other news, I'm retarded.  I've had an iPod for 4 months now, and only just figured out today how to make my own playlists.  Herp derp.

[Junkenstein]

Driving test in less than an hour.

Even though I should be out of the age range of "Boy Racer" stereotypes, I have gone full on shirt and tie and shiny shoes with the added benefit of if I pass and they want me to take one of these cheesy pictures I've got my companies name sewn on the shirt so I'll look boss as fuck and my actual boss may reward me (unlikely, but worth a shot).

Here's to not killing anyone even slightly in the next couple hours!

Have fun.  Remember, a granny with a stroller is worth at least 50 points.

Passed.

That's better than 52% of other people who have taken their first practical test.

I didn't even take out one of the kids going to school, let alone a stroller gran.

Congratulations!

You too are now free to be baffled by the extraordinary costs of Insurance! And fuel! And repairs! And Road Tax! You are also free to have unreasonable requests directed towards you because of this skill. Remember to fill any vehicle with a bunch of crap all over the seats to mitigate this.

Oh, you'll be told that Insurance will be cheaper when you are X years old or have Y no claims. This is a lie. Get used to the shafting.

[Payne]

Driving test in less than an hour.

Even though I should be out of the age range of "Boy Racer" stereotypes, I have gone full on shirt and tie and shiny shoes with the added benefit of if I pass and they want me to take one of these cheesy pictures I've got my companies name sewn on the shirt so I'll look boss as fuck and my actual boss may reward me (unlikely, but worth a shot).

Here's to not killing anyone even slightly in the next couple hours!

Have fun.  Remember, a granny with a stroller is worth at least 50 points.

Passed.

That's better than 52% of other people who have taken their first practical test.

I didn't even take out one of the kids going to school, let alone a stroller gran.

Congratulations!

You too are now free to be baffled by the extraordinary costs of Insurance! And fuel! And repairs! And Road Tax! You are also free to have unreasonable requests directed towards you because of this skill. Remember to fill any vehicle with a bunch of crap all over the seats to mitigate this.

Oh, you'll be told that Insurance will be cheaper when you are X years old or have Y no claims. This is a lie. Get used to the shafting.

Issued with a work van, on insurance, tax, MOT, servicing and everything else covered by them.

I'm not allowed to use it for anything but work purposes either, so no one can ask me to do driving stuff for them!

[Sita]

Driving test in less than an hour.

Even though I should be out of the age range of "Boy Racer" stereotypes, I have gone full on shirt and tie and shiny shoes with the added benefit of if I pass and they want me to take one of these cheesy pictures I've got my companies name sewn on the shirt so I'll look boss as fuck and my actual boss may reward me (unlikely, but worth a shot).

Here's to not killing anyone even slightly in the next couple hours!

That was an informative link. And that guy got more of a driving test than I did. All my driving test consisted of was driving around the (small) parking lot and showing that I could park properly. The person grading me never saw me dealing with other cars or people (the parking lot was relatively empty as well).

Reading that I'm fairly sure that I will never drive if I ever got to the UK.

Also congrats on passing

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Feeling particularly Holy™ today.

This morning's installment will be up just after the staff meeting.

[LMNO]

Awesome.  I could use some more Holy™ in my life right now.