SPAM random annoying things

[Scouse]

Cos I want all the nice little cutie birds like robins

Robins aren't cute. They're angry screaming territorial little bastards.

There's one that inhabits a particular spot on my usual bike ride who spends most of his day screaming at people who come too near to his twig. Must be exhausting.

We've got a pair of wrens in our garden tho. They're ace. But annoyingly loud just before dawn

 

[Trem]

Robins aren't cute. They're angry screaming territorial little bastards.

There's one that inhabits a particular spot on my usual bike ride who spends most of his day screaming at people who come too near to his twig. Must be exhausting.

That's because he knows cyclists are cunts.





*runs*

 

[TdC]

just sucked some school cock apologizing for missing a deadline by one day (after being in bed for 5 days, of which two with a fever). the sooner I am rid of this shit the better

 

[caLLous]

So the other 3 days you were just lounging around in bed doing fuck all?

 

[TdC]

yes. that's called being asleep. Had my assessor on the phone today. He told me he expects at least 30 hours per week homework.

It's perfectly doable: 4.3 hours per day.
The final project is something in the order of 800 hours of work.
The school pretends you can work full time on it, which is fine, call it 22 weeks of work however workies gives me 8 hours per week, so to make the hours they want to see, the 30 hours of homework magically becomes 58 hours. Call it 60.
I work 36 hours a week (4*9), and commute an average of 2 hours per day (4*2), so I will be busy for 104 hours per week. Let's stick on an hour in the morning, an hour for lunch and an hour in the evenings for foods, showers, general chilling out, (7*3), so I've now burned 125 hours.
A week has 168 hours. Ergo I have (168-125)/7 hours of sleep, or about 6 hours.

Perfectly doable. People with kids have it worse than me

 

[Scouse]

Perfectly doable. People with kids have it worse than me

Show that maths to work m8.

 

[TdC]

I've been showing this to them for the past 4 years. At one point I stopped commuting because the time spent doing it was going over half my contract hours, and workies grilled me for "not being a team-player".

 

[Scouse]

I've been showing this to them for the past 4 years. At one point I stopped commuting because the time spent doing it was going over half my contract hours, and workies grilled me for "not being a team-player".

Can't go on like that tho m8.

Tell them you're going to work from home at least two days a week so you can study during your otherwise commuting time. You work in a technical function so there's surely no reason why you can't do that on a regular basis.

If your immediate line manager doesn't listen then you have to go over his head. But I'd request a meeting in a formal manner with him first. Then show him the maths again...

 

[TdC]

Oh, I've told the line manager, and the one before that. They're not insensitive, and things are much better than they were. I have a tonne of freedom to manage myself, which is a shitload more than most people in my position.

I'm just miffed at how "easy" other people dismiss the sacrifices one makes for things. In the maths above for example, I have to go to bed at midnight and instantly be asleep, get up at 6 and instantly be awake. I can never get ill, or go see a movie with mates, or have three beers too many and a lie in the next day. Sure, I'm having a bit of a winge atm, I mean it's only another half a year after all, but I really take offence when I get yelled at via email by my school for going one day over a deadline after being ill for a week :-/

 

[Scouse]

I really take offence when I get yelled at via email by my school for going one day over a deadline after being ill for a week :-/

I agree.

I'd find a nice way to present that maths and send it back to them, with the words "just sayin'" appended to the end. Maybe a graph.

But only one - point out that you didn't have the time to do more than one graph. And then inform them that if they don't disagree with your maths perhaps some "slack" is probably in order.

They'll ignore you. But you'll feel better for it

 

[georgie]

And then send them some glitter shit through the post.

That's a thing now, apparently.

 

[DaGaffer]

Oh, I've told the line manager, and the one before that. They're not insensitive, and things are much better than they were. I have a tonne of freedom to manage myself, which is a shitload more than most people in my position.

I'm just miffed at how "easy" other people dismiss the sacrifices one makes for things. In the maths above for example, I have to go to bed at midnight and instantly be asleep, get up at 6 and instantly be awake. I can never get ill, or go see a movie with mates, or have three beers too many and a lie in the next day. Sure, I'm having a bit of a winge atm, I mean it's only another half a year after all, but I really take offence when I get yelled at via email by my school for going one day over a deadline after being ill for a week :-/

I honestly don't envy you; if I'd have gone to Uni part-time I doubt I'd have been able to hack it. I hated day-release when I was doing my HNC, and that was a big reason why I quit work to go to Uni full time. Amazing thing is I know people in your situation doing part time study with families. I've got nothing but admiration for people who do part time study, but fuck that. If I ever go back to do a PhD its because I've won the Euromillions* and I can do it full time (*which isn't going to happen because I'm not allowed to do the Euromillions).

 

[old.Tohtori]

He told me he expects at least 30 hours per week homework.

Said it before, i'll say it again; if those hours are not "working from home", homework is bullsh*t.

 

[Moriath]

I honestly don't envy you; if I'd have gone to Uni part-time I doubt I'd have been able to hack it. I hated day-release when I was doing my HNC, and that was a big reason why I quit work to go to Uni full time. Amazing thing is I know people in your situation doing part time study with families. I've got nothing but admiration for people who do part time study, but fuck that. If I ever go back to do a PhD its because I've won the Euromillions* and I can do it full time (*which isn't going to happen because I'm not allowed to do the Euromillions).

I did onc for two years as part of an apprenticeship. And hnc for one year before I took redundancy and took the money to do full time degree. Hated having to work and then do course work in the evenings. Especially as one year it was an afternoon and evening course. So work normal morning and off to college in the afternoon till 9 at night.

I did an open university module a few years ago. Wasn't too hard but just didn't want to give up my free time after I had been at work all day.

 

[Hawkwind]

I actually quite enjoyed my HNC (Micro electronics) and HND (Software) day release study. Long days though, from 9am until 8:30pm. Then did a masters at Portsmouth via block release system. Company I worked for during that period (Smiths Aerospace) were excellent.

Hated the OU course I did a few years back. Was an utter pain in the arse trying to get an exam date when I had to move countries half way through the year. They talked flexibility but when it came down to it they were totally inflexible! I eventually gave up told them they were shit and lied about being flexible. The company actually managed to then negotiate some of the course fees back as they did not hold up to their advertised easy methods for learning.

 

[Syri]

Kwik-Fit. My exhaust went while I was driving down to London on sunday, got the car to the nearest kwik-fit, which was Newport Pagnell. They don't keep anything in apart from tyres, and no suppliers are open on sundays, which makes me wonder why they bother opening at all, but thanks to a mess-up with my breakdown cover, I had to leave it with them and get a train home, so they could get the exhaust in the next day. Got a phone call monday lunchtime, the exhaust won't be in until wednesday... apparently the bloke who I spoke to on sunday was wrong to say it would definitely 100% be in on monday... So today, I get another call. The delivery van has broken down... so it's going to be tomorrow. Nothing quick about kwik-fit it seems...

 

[mooSe_]

maybe that's why they spell it 'kwik'. It probably means painfully slow in Swahili.

 

[TdC]

Said it before, i'll say it again; if those hours are not "working from home", homework is bullsh*t.

how I yearn for your sweet Finnish forests and coffee drinking habits

 

[Moriath]

Kwik-Fit. My exhaust went while I was driving down to London on sunday, got the car to the nearest kwik-fit, which was Newport Pagnell. They don't keep anything in apart from tyres, and no suppliers are open on sundays, which makes me wonder why they bother opening at all, but thanks to a mess-up with my breakdown cover, I had to leave it with them and get a train home, so they could get the exhaust in the next day. Got a phone call monday lunchtime, the exhaust won't be in until wednesday... apparently the bloke who I spoke to on sunday was wrong to say it would definitely 100% be in on monday... So today, I get another call. The delivery van has broken down... so it's going to be tomorrow. Nothing quick about kwik-fit it seems...

You could drive it home with a broken exhaust? Just be noisey. ? We drove to Wales and back with a hole in the exhaust box Didn't do the car any harm

 

[old.Tohtori]

Come on, Syri has an image to uphold.

 

[Syri]

You could drive it home with a broken exhaust? Just be noisey. ? We drove to Wales and back with a hole in the exhaust box Didn't do the car any harm

It was causing some rather bad vibrations, and was very VERY loud... I'm talking the kind of loud that makes the typical Subaru seem quiet in comparison. The whole mid-pipe broke through around a bracket and the pipe dropped, so nothing was going to the back box. I was also advised by my dad, who used to work as a mechanic, that attempting a long drive may cause problems because of pressure etc, so knowing very little about cars myself, I decided not to take a chance on a 60 mile trip home, and went for the 5 mile trip to the garage instead.

 

[Moriath]

It was causing some rather bad vibrations, and was very VERY loud... I'm talking the kind of loud that makes the typical Subaru seem quiet in comparison. The whole mid-pipe broke through around a bracket and the pipe dropped, so nothing was going to the back box. I was also advised by my dad, who used to work as a mechanic, that attempting a long drive may cause problems because of pressure etc, so knowing very little about cars myself, I decided not to take a chance on a 60 mile trip home, and went for the 5 mile trip to the garage instead.

Yeah can make it sound like an f1 car used to. Remember driving home like that at two in the morning. Waking the neighbours up hehe

 

[Shagrat]

Steam!

Seriously is there anything on there that's not Early Access anymore? I want to buy finished games to play, not some buggy half finished piece of vaporware.

 

[Gwadien]

Steam!

Seriously is there anything on there that's not Early Access anymore? I want to buy finished games to play, not some buggy half finished piece of vaporware.

It does kinda warn you what is early access.

I think the early access stuff is good. It allows indie developers to use it so they don't spend loads on testers and give you a heavily discounted game.

The big boys ruin all the fun though

 

[old.Tohtori]

I think the early access stuff is good. It allows indie developers to use it so they don't spend loads on testers and give you a heavily discounted game.

As someone who does professional QA now and then, i don't like the trend to be honest. Nor do i like peoples saintification of indies

It's a great way for a good indie dev to get money they otherwise wouldn't, then perhaps let it affect the final price, but there's 0 quarantee people even get a finished game and even then it's been QA'd by players who only want changes to benefit them, not by people who look at the big picture.

 

[Gwadien]

As someone who does professional QA now and then, i don't like the trend to be honest. Nor do i like peoples saintification of indies

It's a great way for a good indie dev to get money they otherwise wouldn't, then perhaps let it affect the final price, but there's 0 quarantee people even get a finished game and even then it's been QA'd by players who only want changes to benefit them, not by people who look at the big picture.

Meh, I'm pretty sure indie developers still use some QAs, not just a fleet like the likes of EA do.

You're a bit bias though mate, naturally, because OMGERD DEY R TERKING ER JERBS.

As for the 'Players who only want changes to benefit them'

Usually, I'd argue a reason why a developer is 'indie' is because they have an idea that they want control over from conception to birth, not to have big companies jumping at them saying BUT BUT IF YOU DO THIS THIS CHART SAYS THAT YOU GET 6% MONIES!

 

[old.Tohtori]

Indie companies use as much consumer data as the next guy

And yeah it does affect mehr jerrb!, usually in smaller dev houses there's 1 maybe 2 QA guys deicated to the project, but these days people just go early access etc to avoid that cost altogether. It's not necessarily dong gamers any favours.

 

[Raven]

Steam!

Seriously is there anything on there that's not Early Access anymore? I want to buy finished games to play, not some buggy half finished piece of vaporware.

Yeah it seems to be going down the toilet a little bit lately.

 

[Bigmac]

They should make an option to hide all early access games until they are complete.

 

[Billargh]

Parking tickets.

Or rather, incorrectly distributed parking tickets.

Got a letter yesterday from 'Parking Eye' claiming that I'd been parked in my local hospital for 3 hours. In reality I was there twice, once at 23:30 to drop my sister off who was in labour. Then again at 02:20 after she'd been discharged, came home and almost had the kid popping out in the car. But this piece of shit automated parking ticket distributing bag of arse seems to think I've been parked in the drop off bay all this time.

Obviously there's no way to speak to someone to appeal, it has to be done in writing. Good news though, the girlfriends mam works for the NHS so has a number to call them directly, huzzah! Looking forward to that tonight.