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« Reply #345 on: November 21, 2008, 01:34:17 PM »
Ho ho ho!

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« Reply #346 on: November 21, 2008, 02:57:08 PM »
To top it off, 4 days ago he drilled an 8" X 4" hole to install a mail slot, but hasn't actually installed the mail slot.  So I have a gaping hole in my front door, no storm door, and it's freaking cold here. 

what?!  what happened to the season: people killing their dogs, landlords cutting holes in people's doors....

Apparently, tis the season to be incredible assholes.
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« Reply #347 on: November 22, 2008, 06:19:18 AM »
Hey kids!  When I said "there is no way to write this paper without going to the library and doing some research," I didn't mean, "just spend 15 minutes googling stuff."

You could do like law professors do, and just say a bunch of stuff that you assume is true, add in a footnote that says "cite," and then have your RA fill it in by running a bunch of Westlaw and Google Books keyword searches.

That's what my students need -- RAs.  Except the stuff some of them assume is true can be kind of insane to begin with (I should point out that the majority of them are perfectly intelligent, or at least passable -- just a few doozies).

Also, a question for the college students among the FOT -- do you all start papers with "in today's society..." or is that just Rutgers?

Down here, all papers generally reference NASCAR in the first sentence, and "NASCAR" will frequently be the only word with more than one syllable.

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« Reply #348 on: November 22, 2008, 06:46:56 AM »
Tenspeed, when I woke to the season's first storm and saw the snow that had drifted into my entryway from under the door, I thought of you.  I hope your idiotic landlord as rendered you weather worthy once again.

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« Reply #349 on: November 22, 2008, 11:55:33 AM »
Down here, all papers generally reference NASCAR in the first sentence, and "NASCAR" will frequently be the only word with more than one syllable.

Well, math is totally different.

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #350 on: November 22, 2008, 01:12:34 PM »
Tenspeed, when I woke to the season's first storm and saw the snow that had drifted into my entryway from under the door, I thought of you.  I hope your idiotic landlord as rendered you weather worthy once again.

I like that, "weather worthy once again," I think I'll use that on the next voicemail I leave him.

I finally broke down and called him last night.  He told me it's his wife that does the "cosmetic" improvements, and that he's just a "maintenance kind of guy".  He said he would get back to me with a "timetable" on when I can expect the storm-door to be up again.

I don't think he knows who he is dealing with!  I'm known throughout the tri-state area for my passive aggressiveness.  In fact, I'm on my way to Home Depot right now to buy a giant ugly tarp, I'm going to duct tape a nasty chunk of it over my front door.  He lives across the street.  I think he'll get the message. 



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« Reply #351 on: November 22, 2008, 08:00:49 PM »
I don't think he knows who he is dealing with!  I'm known throughout the tri-state area for my passive aggressiveness.  In fact, I'm on my way to Home Depot right now to buy a giant ugly tarp, I'm going to duct tape a nasty chunk of it over my front door.  He lives across the street.  I think he'll get the message.

If you really feel like going for the Passive Aggressive gold, paint a sign in big sloppy letters that says "Sorry 4 the Mess" and plant it in the ground next to your tarp. Your landlord is a jerk!

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« Reply #352 on: November 24, 2008, 05:38:30 PM »
or "Happy Thanksgiving"...giving the appearance of harmless holiday decorations might work even better on a passive scale. 

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« Reply #353 on: November 24, 2008, 10:59:59 PM »
Fuck you, apartment neighbors who carry on every other night like they're the goddamned studio audience from Married With Children. See what you did, making me turn up this Harvey Milk record really loud just so I wouldn't have to listen to your kookaburra call contest? Dickwranglers.
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« Reply #354 on: November 25, 2008, 12:21:34 AM »
any laptop with the ability to instantly select any link/button i leave the cursor on for more than 3 seconds.  thanks for ruining any blog/email/bulletin/facebook update i might be writing. 

now im in a sour mood.  i need a hero. 

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« Reply #355 on: November 25, 2008, 01:30:38 PM »
any laptop with the ability to instantly select any link/button i leave the cursor on for more than 3 seconds.  thanks for ruining any blog/email/bulletin/facebook update i might be writing. 

now im in a sour mood.  i need a hero. 

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« Reply #356 on: November 25, 2008, 06:37:31 PM »
Showing up at the big Film Quiz at the Stockholm Film Festival, five minutes before it starts, signing up our team just as the first questions are announced, scrambling to get to our seats, frantically catching up, MURDERING the other teams, outclassing everybody, placing #1 out of 40 teams entered - only to be disqualified due to a technicality.

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« Reply #357 on: November 25, 2008, 06:39:42 PM »
what! 

explain.

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« Reply #358 on: November 25, 2008, 06:46:52 PM »
We were three people in our team. We were only supposed to be two. When we entered and wrote down our names (all three), the people in charge said it was totally fine. But I guess not when you're WINNING.

Up for grabs were a bunch of DVDs, free passes for the next year's festival, etc etc. Pretty good stuff actually.

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« Reply #359 on: November 25, 2008, 06:54:41 PM »
weak.