What's messing with your groove?

#10081 Cyphon

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 06:28 PM

I have my computer back, but I don't know how to do all my drivers and rubbish and I think my graphics card isn't working, bah!

This post has been edited by Someshta: 15 January 2012 - 06:29 PM

Para todos todo, para nosotros nada.

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#10082 tiam

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 03:41 AM

Got addicted to Sherlock on BBC and end up spending the last 4 and a half hours watching them. Enjoyable but its now quarter to 4 in the morning. Ugh

#10083 Illuyankas

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 04:49 AM

THIS BULLSHIT RIGHT HERE

Though this makes it a little better:

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Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.

#10084 JLV

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:00 AM

Pardon my ignorance, but does the Queen actually do much of anything?

#10085 Loki

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:25 AM

JLV, on 16 January 2012 - 05:00 AM, said:

Pardon my ignorance, but does the Queen actually do much of anything?

She's the Head of State, Head of Armed Forces (only the Queen can declare when Britain is at/goes to war), Head of the Church of England, Head of the Commonwealth of Nations and she deals with the red boxes and represents Britain. Other things too, but those are the main things.

This post has been edited by Loki: 16 January 2012 - 05:25 AM

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#10086 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:45 AM

So, not really, JLV.

Basically a ceremonial role like most Parliamentarian countries.

The Head of Armed Forces isn't equivalent to the President being Commander-in-Chief. More succinctly Head-of-Nodding-Alright-to-the-Prime Minister.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#10087 Ain't_It_Just_

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:52 AM

First round tertiary offers just game out.

Didn't get to the university I wanted. I am going to Deakin, which is in the middle of nowhere and no-one I know of is going there. And its Law course isn't exactly great, if rumours are to be believed.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Suck it Errant!

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of gum."

QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.

#10088 worry

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:53 AM

Just throw her to the crocodiles.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#10089 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:54 AM

Ain, on 16 January 2012 - 05:52 AM, said:

Be towards top of your class. Transfer to better school. A + B = C.

#10090 amphibian

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 06:42 AM

H.D., on 16 January 2012 - 05:54 AM, said:

Be towards top of your class. Transfer to better school. A + B = C.

Or find a more useful major.

Or learn how to weld and make 80k working like 7 months out of the year.

I survived the Permian and all I got was this t-shirt.

#10091 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 07:08 AM

amphibian, on 16 January 2012 - 06:42 AM, said:

H.D., on 16 January 2012 - 05:54 AM, said:

Be towards top of your class. Transfer to better school. A + B = C.

Or find a more useful major.

Or learn how to weld and make 80k working like 7 months out of the year.

How many welding jobs are out there? (real question)

If a lot, do this if you are so inclined. Disaster for me as I'd probably melt my arm off quickly.

#10092 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 07:18 AM

Oh dear god my Packers...They shit their pants at every opportunity tonight. Oh well, the glow from last year's Superbowl will last for several years.

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#10093 Ain't_It_Just_

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 07:21 AM

Well, I intend to transfer after a year, if it's still not what I want. But there are also second-round offers...I guess we'll see.

Suck it Errant!

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of gum."

QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.

#10094 Gothos

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 07:26 AM

The scale and difficulty of the task set before me this year is slowly creeping into my head. So that's one thing messing with my groove.

The second is, seriously, screw teh internets, chatting online with the gf isn't even like licking a lolly through the package - it's like watching a satellite photo. From 1km away. With no binoculars.
March, where art thou?

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

#10095 Morgoth

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 08:28 AM

Trondheim's ridiculous job market. Gah, I'm not regretting moving up here for Sarah's sake, but god I'm getting frustrated just twiddling my thumbs.

I've even reached the point where I'm sick of skyrim.

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#10096 Mezla PigDog

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 11:12 AM

Ain, on 16 January 2012 - 05:52 AM, said:

Bad luck but:
1. It is probably better if you don't know anyone at uni to help push you into making new friends. There is no better time or place than starting university to make friends and you'll be fine.
2. At undergraduate level, you make what you get offered work for you. Some employers are very elitist and I imagine law is quite an elitist subject but mostly it is about the postgraduate experiences now. Wherever you end up, work hard, make opportunities for yourself to look attractive to postgraduate admissions or postgraduate training and you'll be fine.

Morgoth, on 16 January 2012 - 08:28 AM, said:

Trondheim's ridiculous job market. Gah, I'm not regretting moving up here for Sarah's sake, but god I'm getting frustrated just twiddling my thumbs.

It is a rather sad fact that when you have lots of spare time on your hands at an age where you should really appreciate it, it is never as satisfying as you would hope!

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

#10097 tiam

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 12:16 PM

Morgoth, on 16 January 2012 - 08:28 AM, said:

Fixed

Day of math revision for me today. Skyrim, while and an addictive and cruel mistress, will have to wait for a while.

#10098 RodeoRanch

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 01:29 PM

It's -35 C with the wind chill right now. Going to be -40 C by tonight. Blurgh.

#10099 rhulad

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 04:07 PM

Just be glad that this is the first real cold snap that we have had this winter. And take comfort in the knowledge that I am sitting in my warm office while I type this.

#10100 Puck

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 04:39 PM

I'm on sick leave till the end of this week.. Meh.

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Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]