Random Thoughts....

My brain hurts!
 
lol have fun at uni then guys if you're not liking your end of year 12 exams.
 
ADSL2 is awesome. :mrgreen:
 
Since when, in a biology 002 class (where 0 indicates the difficulty level - 0 = "passing introduction", 1 = "freshman" 2 = "sophomore" 3="junior" 4="senior 5+="grad student"), is it IN ANY WAY FAIR OR SANE to ask for lab-procedure grade instructions on splicing bacterial genes to produce an arbitrary protein, and then purifying that protein for medical use?
 
Clockwerk said:
I've been watching the show "FlashForward" and among the main characters on that show are an Agent and Doctor Benford. Whenever I hear their names mentioned, which is often, I can't get the show "Home Improvement" out of my head....
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Good old agent Stoneface. :| That's what I'm calling him from now on, because he has exactly one expression. :| Caps taken from the most recent episode :|

https://pic.armedcats.net/r/ra/ramseus/2009/10/19/stoneface01.jpg trying super hard to emote, eyebrows lifted slightly

https://pic.armedcats.net/r/ra/ramseus/2009/10/19/stoneface02.jpg :|

https://pic.armedcats.net/r/ra/ramseus/2009/10/19/stoneface03.jpg :|

https://pic.armedcats.net/r/ra/ramseus/2009/10/19/stoneface04.jpg :|

https://pic.armedcats.net/r/ra/ramseus/2009/10/19/stoneface05.jpg :|

https://pic.armedcats.net/r/ra/ramseus/2009/10/19/stoneface06.jpg slightly different, mouth open because he's running :|

https://pic.armedcats.net/r/ra/ramseus/2009/10/19/stoneface07.jpg omg leaning forwards! still the same face though

https://pic.armedcats.net/r/ra/ramseus/2009/10/19/stoneface08.jpg :|

Worst actor ever. :|
 
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No matter what, every aptitude test in the world boils down to two things.

1. Maths
2. Whatever the prevalent language of communication is. Nowadays, English.

And no matter what task you work on, it pretty much boils down to those two things as well.

(ie. on some level, logic and communicating)
 
Cold Fussion said:
Nothing is as bad as the worthless subject called english.
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I wouldn't call it useless. But then I am an ass and judge people by their grammar. :p
 
argatoga said:
I wouldn't call it useless. But then I am an ass and judge people by their grammar. :p
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It's not being just an ass, it's being a pompous ass :p

Proud to be one, proper grammar and spelling for the mother-fucking win.
 
Reckoning said:
Sorry, thought she did.

I'll just go delete my post then.
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she works for cento in the call centre or something so she doesn't set the policies etc

Cold Fussion said:
Nothing is as bad as the worthless subject called english.
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When you get out into industry you'll learn that the main thing people on top are good at is communicating, they're not nescerilly the smartest but good at communicating their ideas
 
Reckoning said:
Sorry, thought she did.

I'll just go delete my post then.
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Just because someone works there doesn't make them a representative. I understand your frustration, but your issue is with Centrelink's policies, not the person on the other end of the phone or other side of the counter.
 
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Hidden_Hunter said:
she works for cento in the call centre or something so she doesn't set the policies etc



When you get out into industry you'll learn that the main thing people on top are good at is communicating, they're not nescerilly the smartest but good at communicating their ideas
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Tell me how studying the concept of belonging in poetry will help me communicate with other human beings.

argatoga said:
I wouldn't call it useless. But then I am an ass and judge people by their grammar. :p
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Except we aren't taught how to read and write, we a taught to spew out bullshit about belonging and other meaningless dribble.
 
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I consider myself a bit of a grammar snob, but I loathe most poetry. The few poems I can ever get into are either funny, dirty, or things that mess with the English language in fun ways (e.e. cummings, for example).

Too much of the rest just sounds like pompous BS.

I have a bunch of friends who like to do poetry at open mic nights and such, and 99.99999999% of it is just unbearable. Poetry slam is kinda neat, but the "oh how dark is my soul" emokid nonsense is for the birds.
 
<3 V8's on highway patrol

also my capachino machine drew off its 3500 cup... and it still looks new. <3 jura
 
Cold Fussion said:
Tell me how studying the concept of belonging in poetry will help me communicate with other human beings.

Except we aren't taught how to read and write, we a taught to spew out bullshit about belonging and other meaningless dribble.
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I agree 100%. Basically, all the units in English this year have taught me is:

- Belonging- anything can be BS-ed into being a "found text" (I'm doing Juno ffs!)

- Frankenstein/Blade Runner- I hate Frankenstein and I love Blade Runner. And Mary Shelly and her family really needed to work on their fidelity skills

- Hamlet- If you are pretending to go mad, watch how close you go to really going mad. And just kill the damn guy and get it over and done with, who gives a damn if he may be praying????

- Birthday Letters- Ted Hughes was a chauvanist and Sylvia Plath was slightly kooky. And I am apparently a feminist.

No grammar skills whatsoever. Actually, the last time I learnt relevant grammar skills were in year 6. After that, you are basically expected to know all the skills you need or to learn them in your own time- high school teachers don't have to teach you that sort of thing. They just cross out any grammatical/spelling errors you make with a thick red pen and write "WRONG!" next to it. Don't bother explaining what was "WRONG!" about it either.

Honestly, the only thing I will get out of english this year and take with me for the rest of my life is the awesome mix CD that my teahcer made us. At least I had a good teacher and wasn't bored brainless, she was really good at making it interesting. But it isn't relevant.

(Same with maths, but I daresay that is just for me- a lot of the stuff is only really relevant for engineers/scientists and that, yet you have to do it to get a good ATAR. They need to split the maths types up a bit better- I doubt I will need to know about the discriminant and max/min problems in accounting)
 
Cold Fussion said:
Nothing is as bad as the worthless subject called english.
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It was the easiest subject in VCE. Seriously.

I did absolutely no work for it, and got 40+ raw score. (Got fucken scaled down :mad: )
 
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