Things that keep getting your f*cking goat

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My English teacher lied to me.

How?

Said my essay on Nineteen Eighty-Four was a Higher pass, easily.

I re-wrote the exact same essay under exam conditions, word for word in places, and added more to it.
It failed.
Twice.

I pulled her up about it, thought it was my fault the first time, like.

She said she never said that and I was never going to pass with an essay like that. Said I misinterpreted what she said. Don't see how I misinterpreted "you're going to pass with this" but whatever.
So I'm a bit p*ssed off.

waking up at 1030pm with a hangover

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I know, why is it so hard to find a nice room in a house that's not a rip off in the area I want where the people in it aren't pathologically odd though?!

and this is coming from me who gets along with most people!

also, why why why do they put double beds in rooms when there's not even adequate space for a single?!

on the times i've met you, you've seemed likeable and agreeable, so it's hard to imagine you instantly being a source of hate

and the bed thing does my head in. if you shoehorn a double bed into a single space, what the hell else can you fit in?? my room in this house is tiny, so i've made do with a single bed so i can have most of my things there (there's a double in the quite large spare room)

Why have VRers not started a business together yet?
If anyone can help me design my idea of The Mood Bra, we'll take the world by storm.

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Yeah so...being as I got fired today...anyone want to employ me?

I hate the way they went about it it was so f*cking sh*t. Yesterday at 5.20 (finishing time is 5.30) they called me in for a meeting and gave me this letter requesting me to attend a "Performance Review" at 9am this morning to "discuss their concerns" and how I should be aware "a possible outcome of this meeting may be the termination of your employment"

And the letter also said right this is what REALLY p*ssed me off, that I could take a work colleague or trade union official to this meeting. IF I let them know of the attendee in ADVANCE. 5.20.. i got the letter...how was i meant to sort someone to go with in that time for a 9am meeting the next f*cking day? And they know full well I would never get my mate who got me the job to go with cos that would be compromising her status. And this is really really sh*t cos now she has all of my work aswell as all of her work cos they ain't got anyone else to do it.

I feel really bad cos now they're gonna hate my friend for this and they were all "you're such a nice person Amy, and your heart is in the right place and we know you care about the work and try your best but it just isn't working out"

So I sent my "Bye" e-mail (though not to the people who fired me) and that was that. I feel so awful though that my mate is now lumbered with loads of work

Though the last guy this happened to they just told him at 5pm on Friday not to bother coming back the next week, so on the plus side at least I didn't have to work all day today.

That's utterly sh*t. Surely they're supposed to give warnings before that? Hope you find a job somewhere that's not so heartless/tw*ttish soon

Liquid crystal, or something else with thermochromic properties; esters of cholestorol and various acids, apparently. It's the same stuff that's in Liquid Crystal Displays.

I doubt it'd be very supportive, though.

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Try soup?

Or porridge if you want a breakfasty thing? Or really milky/mashed up weetabix?

secondly- this little exchange to my seminar group about feedback on our coursework (I got a First by the way )

Tutor: Okay, you are university students now, and a lot of you dropped marks because you didn't proof read your essays. I mean, really. You should have no excuse for doing that, I know 11 year olds who can read their work before they hand it in- it's not exactly hard (etc.)

me: Don't you think thats pretty rich considering the problem question YOU set us had a huge glaring error right in the middle of it? (the 'record' that this guy was supposed to be selling somehow turned into a book by the end of the question)

Tutor: That doesn't matter, we already have the qualifications. You don't.

Newly elected Rector Charlie Kennedy and his coterie of rich Tory w*nkers from the GUU handing out leaflets just because they don't want the SCARY SCOTS NATIONALIST or the SCARY GREEN POOF or the SCARY MUSLIM to win.

One of them handed me a leaflet, i noticed it said "INDEPENDENT" in big letters on it. The following conversation ensued.

"Sorry pal, the former leader of the Liberal Democrat Party is an independent candidate, is he?"
"Oh well, he's the only one not being supported by a political group."
"Oh aye, those political groups are Scaaaaaary and teeeerrrrifying, aren't they?"
"No, what I mean is that he's endorsed by the two unions, and he doesn't have a political agenda."
"So the unions have no agenda, do they? They're completely value-neutral organisations?"
"Look, he's independant from the political parties and that."
"Aye, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a political agenda, it just means he's not been endorsed by a political group on campus. He's runnin' for an elected position, I'd be surprised if he was just sittin' there wi' his d*ck out and not actually telling people what he'd plan to do in the office."
"Look, whatever, he doesn't have an agenda."
At which the guy begins to walk away, so I reply "Aye, of course. I have a principle. You have an interest. They have an agenda. Get tae f*ck."

A bit unreasonable of me, obviously, but I hate this f*cking misuse of language like "Independent" or "bipartisan" when it obviously means something like "We don't like what you like, so there, we are obviously better and above the fray of you partisan fools." F*ck that sh*t.

oh for...

F*CK YOU other people who think of things before I do.

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