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2010/11/19 15:25:12
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
As some of you may know I have recently left the world of work to go back to college and become a scruffy student, learning to become a carpenter.
One of the important criteria I looked for was that I wanted to do an adult course, I'm 29 and I can't be bothered with working with a bunch of immature school leavers who are only in college because they didn't do uni/A levels and couldn't be arrsed to find a job. Sadly today (two weeks in to the course) I found out that age definately does not mean maturity.
There is a lad on our course who is a proper feth up, everything he does he gets it wrong because he doesn't listen to the lecturer or his fellow students. He has little or no respect for himself, others his environment or the equipment and material he is using. He was also very quick to tell everyone else that he has been labouring for a carpenter for ages and "knows the score"
Now most people have realised that he is a waste of space and avoid working with him, unfortunately there is another lad who is the youngest on the course and is stuck working with him. Today this idiot managed to half destroy a couple of hundred £'s worth of kitchen units by standing on them breaking through them because his weight was too much, ripped of a wall cabinet whilst trying to steady himself and then landed on and breaking a further base unit. Needless to say that the lecturer was furious as we are supposed to be re-using the units.
After giving both of them a bollocking which leaves the younger lad in tears the idiot then proceeds to go out to the timber/lumber yard and throw about all of the stacked wood whilst trying to find something to fix his mess. The lecturer cancelled our afternoon lecture and had all of us clearing up the mess before sending us home early. Not good when our course is only 22 weeks and three days a week.
Idiot boy not only has caused us to loose out on valuable time and got his work mate into the gak, but he made no attempt to appologise for either. Now in fairness the younger lad needs to grow a pair if he wants to last 5 minutes in the building trade but this other guy is a complete tool. For some reason this was the first time in a couple of years where I genuinely had to talk myself out of lumping this guy.
I feel so much better after getting that of my chest.
I too am a mature student, and not a day goes by in which I don't want to assault one of my fellow students. I don't remember being that much of a loud irritating tit when I was that age.
Cannulation training day (putting needles into veins). My girlfriend and I were paired together for the mornings session. We had a slight bust up, I was in the wrong but thought nothing of it. She, half and hour later, stabbed my hand with cannula, pushing needle straight through my hand.
Hurt like hell!
She was binned off the course, had to resit the first few weeks of training again. I realised some two seconds ater the incident that she was a psycho. So I binned her.
Result.
If I am not in my room, is it still my room?
2010/11/19 17:35:05
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
The feeling is so frequent for me that I've developed a bit of resistance to it.
When people act like condescending snobs, when people use strawman fallacies, when people ride up within an inch of the rear of my car on the highway, and so on.
I just want to tear their lungs out, shove one down their mouth and the other down the other end until they meet up in the middle.
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2010/11/19 20:16:05
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
As a mature student also in college, I feel that I should be entitled to carry a cattle-prod and to use it on the lumbering, mouth-breathing teenagers hanging out in the hallways like they're doing an extra year of high school.
2010/11/19 20:25:19
Subject: Re:Times when you just want to punch someone
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
2010/11/19 22:03:54
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
The only thing that has kept me from murdering someone is the fact that i'll be put in prison for it. If it were my decision, i'd already be a mass murderer; but no, i'm the guy who gets walked on because if he fights back, he gets the sole punishment.
Just like High School...
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2010/11/19 22:16:05
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
I on the other hand can scarcely go an hour without getting the urge to murder one of my fellow humans with an ax.
When your expectations of your fellow humans are as low as mine, its difficult to get too worked up when the do something Moronic.
The funny thing is,I don't have particularly high expectations when it comes to most people,quite the opposite,I usually expect to confronted with mind numbing idiocy from the moment I come into contact with another person...hence the urge to grab an ax and...decrease the surplus population.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
2010/11/19 22:19:36
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
Viktor von Domm wrote:fact is 2/3 of the world population is not needed.
Needed by whom exactly? I'm sure those 2/3 would probably disagree with you.
If you really boil down existence, it basically comes down to the need to procreate and further the species. In that sense, mankind is incredibly successful as a species so in that sense 2/3 of the world is needed.
Tough being a mature student
You are usually doing something you really want to do and come up against people who are there because, well, erm...
well just because it passes the time of day or insert other lame excuse of choice.
Not all youngsters of course will be like that, but enough to justify the expense of an AK-47.
2010/11/19 22:38:05
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
Congratulations, more people have made it onto my list (you know who you are). I'm going to run out of paper soon...
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2010/11/19 22:48:54
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
Ooh lordy the list could go on and on... start with the guy who shows up uninvited, drinks half my beer, then leaves to go out 'partying' with his college buddies as soon as they arrive to pick him up... follow up with the college freshmen kids who paid for their pizza delivery with a CHECK and left no tip on it shrugging and saying "sorry dude... I'm just a poor colege student" while I smell bong smoke coming out from under their dormitory door... follow up with my cokehead boss on that same job (who I actually did punch) who kept waiting until I was out on a delivery run so he could leave and not have to pay me my two weeks or three weeks overdue paycheck, and then told me I shouldn't be getting in his face about little gak... I think the older I get, the list just gets longer and longer until gradualy I become numb to people's assiness and just put up with the crap instead of making a scene. The list will only grow the more years you rack up.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
2010/11/19 22:58:19
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
Viktor von Domm wrote:fact is 2/3 of the world population is not needed.
Needed by whom exactly? I'm sure those 2/3 would probably disagree with you.
If you really boil down existence, it basically comes down to the need to procreate and further the species. In that sense, mankind is incredibly successful as a species so in that sense 2/3 of the world is needed.
i wanted to say that there are certainly enough people who would count me in on the list of not needed people. i was tring to be sarcastic...
Heck, I count myself as not needed, I just want to see how everyone else feels about it as I progress through life, single, probably greying and balding early.
Right now it isn't looking so good...
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2010/11/19 23:06:54
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
Viktor von Domm wrote:fact is 2/3 of the world population is not needed.
Needed by whom exactly? I'm sure those 2/3 would probably disagree with you.
If you really boil down existence, it basically comes down to the need to procreate and further the species. In that sense, mankind is incredibly successful as a species so in that sense 2/3 of the world is needed.
i wanted to say that there are certainly enough people who would count me in on the list of not needed people. i was tring to be sarcastic...
vik
Oh well in that context then yes. I could quite happily be the sole-surviving member of the human race. The Omega Man is my dream scenario (less the flesh chewing zombie bit).
personaly i would go to bits i i was the last remaining person on the planet. i lived from time to time without some contact for about two weeks. no telephone no visits. there wasnt a moment when i didn´t check the phone if it still worked. yoo only apreciate menkind when you don´t see it any minute.
as i´ve seen the movies of that style i tend to think that the chars in these didn´t like it as well...
I want to smack people who think they are smarter than a dumbass. Representin all the dumbasses! It's not our fault we're too dumb to know it and not sound smug smug or witty. Douglas Adams is first on the list... The number isn't 2/3s by the way, it's 110%. If that is confusing to you, ask a high school gym teacher/basketball coach.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
2010/11/20 00:00:45
Subject: Times when you just want to punch someone
i quite like douglas adam. also as he is dead it would get quite messy kicking his ass around. and well 110% that has to involve hitting someone repeatedly to get the numbers right^^
lol. best thing is in the last(?) book the apology of god on the far mountain...
"thanks for all the trouble you´ve undergone" or something like that...cant really remember now...
Old couple on remembrance Sunday. Must be early to late 60's, talking all the way through the 2 minutes silence. Talking about the most banal, gakatronic things while disrespecting the dead, and possibly their parents generation. Well done. They have the right to do it obviously, but that still doesn't want to stop me from caving their heads in with a brick!
Show me your rage, dakka!
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Viktor von Domm wrote:fact is 2/3 of the world population is not needed. the thing is i´m not sure as if i´m not part of the 2/3 of said part of humanity...
vik
It's always a little unsettling when a German says something like that....
as mentioned before i was making a sarcasmic point of view...and if i recall correctly the britsh weren´t so lazy in killing numbers of former free men...
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