Gripe thread

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:40 pm

dont remember andy hoffman having redhair>?

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:16 pm

I'm going to give up my day job soon. I would rather be broke and doing what I want than comfy and bored to tears.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:26 pm

retzie - just remember babe, 'work to live not live to work' - hugs.

alex - do it man. the untrodden path is worth it on the whole. you has the drive to make it real!

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:01 pm

nic wrote:dont remember andy hoffman having redhair>?

lol my brother does

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:20 pm

gutted for him, lol.

speaking of redheads, i reall like the new dr who girl.
(the episode was rather shit though)

?
a very very very rare attractive redhead

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:24 pm

I thought she was great too.

Post by **fooishbar** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:40 pm

she looks like she's about 12

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:46 pm

better than late 20's imo
lol

opps nearly forgot abouyt this redhead
zomg

Lily Cole NSFW

http://www.fatbackmedia.com/nsfw/2008/0 ... -the-head/

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:25 am

nic wrote:better than late 20's imo
lol

opps nearly forgot abouyt this redhead
zomg

Lily Cole NSFW

http://www.fatbackmedia.com/nsfw/2008/0 ... -the-head/

Hmmmm.

Not my cup o tea, however....

Honey to the Bee's.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:26 am

this shows definite gingness

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:32 am

my mate Amadu went out with Billie Piper for about 4 years.

They bought a house together and everything. She's also a massive pot head.

Anyway she started rehearsing for a play and ran off with a co-star in it without even telling my mate she was leaving him.

What a cold hearted bitch.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:35 am

youthful_implants wrote:my mate Amadu went out with Billie Piper for about 4 years.

They bought a house together and everything. She's also a massive pot head.

Anyway she started rehearsing for a play and ran off with a co-star in it without even telling my mate she was leaving him.

What a cold hearted bitch.

SHE SMOKES POT?

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:40 am

nic wrote:

?
a very very very rare attractive redhead

in a very, very, very rare short police lady clothes. I has never seen a real police lady in such a short skeert. Only the naughty and ditry pretend policewomens.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:42 am

Feigan wrote:
youthful_implants wrote:my mate Amadu went out with Billie Piper for about 4 years.

They bought a house together and everything. She's also a massive pot head.

Anyway she started rehearsing for a play and ran off with a co-star in it without even telling my mate she was leaving him.

What a cold hearted bitch.
SHE SMOKES POT?

lol yeah.

she was famous in the UK at age 15 with this song "Because we want to"

Have you heard it before? Its a bit of classic.

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:46 am

Yah....

I was a bit of a Billie Piper fan way back in the day.

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:02 am

I like her prostitute show

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:02 am

Agree - I have the Box set.

Goodness

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:28 am

To all the choose lifers:

The problem is, my job is pretty much me getting paid to do what I want to do. If you want an analogy, it's like YI going pro (good luck, btw). Except, what do you do when fulfilling your creative/professional/academic dreams will fuck you over in other, more mundane aspects of your life? If you got to follow your dreams and be a pro producer/artist/lion tamer, but discovered it was at the cost of a functional social life, which would you choose? I have always rationalised this with it 'being temporary', but the worry is: will I become a person I despise before the light at the end of the tunnel arrives?

The job is still what it was meant to be and what I want to be doing, but I can't help but feel there should be a point at which you draw a line because it is demolishing you too much as an actual person.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:43 am

you are very young retz... live a little, then get serious imo

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:54 am

asl retzie?
pics?
i deleted my facebook so i cant see yours anymore

dunno its tough when you are so specialised, you win the mega niche job game tbh.
\pity the australian academic system is so shit in asutralia compared to the US funding wise. Are there not job openings at universities closer to normal places like newyawk, SF or MANCHESTER? probably massively competitive? if i were you i would smoke a blunt and gurgle some box wine for short term lols.

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:08 pm

^ 47/m/willing to travel

Dan, I ain't that young! The problem with taking a break is that in mathematics, once you leave, you basically can't come back. If I think I will ever want to be in this line of work, I've gotta stick this out now. No chance in flying fuck land that anyone would hire me if I'd been out of research for anything more than a year (even then, in this job market, I doubt even a year is viable.)

nic, last year, I pretty much applied for any remotely plausible job anywhere in the world and will do so again this year. The market is fuck-off over-saturated and aneurism-inducingly random. Not a lot more I can do. On the plus side, mebbe the random will end up in my favour one day

Aaaaanyway, thanks for the kind words kids

. Something will happen...

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:17 pm

Yo Retzie,

I feel ya pain. I had the good fortune to land a dream job as a sound engineer.
The problem with being paid to do what yuou love is that you start to resent it.
Music is now a hobby again and I'm enjoying it so much more.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:41 pm

Someone was stabbed to death outside Clayton train station this morning at around 8.30am. I would have been there if we hadn't decided to drive this morning. Bit scary!

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/commu ... -spze.html

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:41 pm

retzie wrote:^ 47/m/willing to travel

Dan, I ain't that young! The problem with taking a break is that in mathematics, once you leave, you basically can't come back. If I think I will ever want to be in this line of work, I've gotta stick this out now. No chance in flying fuck land that anyone would hire me if I'd been out of research for anything more than a year (even then, in this job market, I doubt even a year is viable.)

nic, last year, I pretty much applied for any remotely plausible job anywhere in the world and will do so again this year. The market is fuck-off over-saturated and aneurism-inducingly random. Not a lot more I can do. On the plus side, mebbe the random will end up in my favour one day

Aaaaanyway, thanks for the kind words kids . Something will happen...

what do you want to do?

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:47 pm

teh shardz

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:48 pm

retzie wrote:To all the choose lifers:

The problem is, my job is pretty much me getting paid to do what I want to do. If you want an analogy, it's like YI going pro (good luck, btw). Except, what do you do when fulfilling your creative/professional/academic dreams will fuck you over in other, more mundane aspects of your life? If you got to follow your dreams and be a pro producer/artist/lion tamer, but discovered it was at the cost of a functional social life, which would you choose? I have always rationalised this with it 'being temporary', but the worry is: will I become a person I despise before the light at the end of the tunnel arrives?

The job is still what it was meant to be and what I want to be doing, but I can't help but feel there should be a point at which you draw a line because it is demolishing you too much as an actual person.

Agree babe. Honestly, I have had to compromise lots of my life to follow the dream etc, but each day things happen that remind me that its all worth it....my social life is mostly dictated by work now, but on the other end if things, while some of you guys cant go out due to work stuff, I HAVE to go out when I really dont want to sometimes.

If you love math but not what your doing, I think its about trying to find an application for your love that inspires you rather than destroys you....

it must be tricky, I have no idea what it would be like to be a mathematician.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:32 pm

retzie wrote:^ 47/m/willing to travel

Dan, I ain't that young! The problem with taking a break is that in mathematics, once you leave, you basically can't come back. If I think I will ever want to be in this line of work, I've gotta stick this out now. No chance in flying fuck land that anyone would hire me if I'd been out of research for anything more than a year (even then, in this job market, I doubt even a year is viable.)

nic, last year, I pretty much applied for any remotely plausible job anywhere in the world and will do so again this year. The market is fuck-off over-saturated and aneurism-inducingly random. Not a lot more I can do. On the plus side, mebbe the random will end up in my favour one day

Aaaaanyway, thanks for the kind words kids . Something will happen...

Assume the identity of that Russian guy who solved the poincare conjecture, take the prize money and spend the rest of your life in solitude working on obscure mathematical problems!

There, problem solved. (See what I did there?)

You might need a disguise.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 3:57 pm

this year has been one massive financial set-back after another.....

fucking over it... what next I wonder?

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 4:12 pm

apophenian wrote:You might need a disguise.

I dunno, you haven't seen me recently - I reckon my beard is almost up to it

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:35 pm

FUCK THIS NO INTERNET BULLSHIT

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:45 pm

retzie wrote:^ 47/m/willing to travel

Dan, I ain't that young! The problem with taking a break is that in mathematics, once you leave, you basically can't come back. If I think I will ever want to be in this line of work, I've gotta stick this out now. No chance in flying fuck land that anyone would hire me if I'd been out of research for anything more than a year (even then, in this job market, I doubt even a year is viable.)

nic, last year, I pretty much applied for any remotely plausible job anywhere in the world and will do so again this year. The market is fuck-off over-saturated and aneurism-inducingly random. Not a lot more I can do. On the plus side, mebbe the random will end up in my favour one day

Aaaaanyway, thanks for the kind words kids . Something will happen...

Tough one! Seems that you are being ground down by the location more than anything else... is this the case?? Yeah, social life and contact with people who keep you sane are both something you will need in the long-term.

Decreased funding for tertiary education and a sh1thouse emphasis on industry-based learnings rather than research and subjects that lead to true innovation have both fuqed over what was once a noble profession. I'm not saying that post-doc/researcher/lecturer isn't noble now... it's just that the hallowed halls of campus are filled with people who are stabbing each other in the back for tenure.

At the end of the day only you can make a decision... and while it may seem insurmountable now, you will make the right choice. Keep exploring, keep thinking, listen to your heart, and trust it. You will know what to do

Hatsudai · Post by **Hatsudai** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:37 am

retzie wrote:
apophenian wrote:You might need a disguise.
I dunno, you haven't seen me recently - I reckon my beard is almost up to it

smartest man in the world FTW!

nic · Post by **nic** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:17 pm

gotd
switching computers and hardrives and etc.
duplicates of everything death trap dont delete the originals arrghh

anyone want to buy a 2yr old....
'grate for serato / ableton'
$500?

vaio laptop (PCG - 6SHP)
13"
100gb HD
Intel Core2Duo T7100 (1.8ghz)
2gb ram
XP
Nvidia gpu

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:44 pm

FFS

Project Management bullshit training I'm doing.

Some is totally relevant... How To Not Lose Money, advanced client brown-nosing, legal whatevs, but that is about 20% of the training.

80% is managerial HR acronym FA1L-speak brainwashing.

Also, FFS x 1000... who gives a shit about Carl Williams. Goldman Sachs = criminals who have raped the global economy, not just a few ugly slappers. If the government wastes my taxpayer dollars investigating his death (In the Prison, with the Lead Pipe) I'm going to be

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:03 pm

People in the office that use the most stupid work methods and think that everyone else should do what they do....

Sorry mate, but just cause YOU like to do things the long and stupid way doesn't mean i am going to! So STOP telling me how to do things... When you are not much chop yourself!

Stuck in your ways much!

nic · Post by **nic** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:00 pm

naughty subordinates

Sociopathic · Post by **Sociopathic** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:04 pm

Didn't brumby say he wouldn't allow it cause it's a waste of money on that fat fuck?

my grip I'M GOING TO FUCKING WELL CRY I SEWARE!!!!!

It's over and done with now, electricity and gas and phone and internets all sorted for new house...
Seriously feel like crying though, gas and elec so confusing, phne easy done, telstra budget line 21 per month SIMPLE that was the only good phone call of the day.
internode was just down right rude to me on the phone so i told him to forget it i dont care.
iinet almost on par with internode with FRIENDLY FUCKING STAFF!!!

TPG was very patient and udnerstood i was frustrated and the reason he couldn't here me every couple of min was cause i was walking through the house with music fucking cranked.

Utilities companies can kiss my overly fat arse (theres another unrealated gripe i've put on freaking weight!!!) ended up going with tru because they understood the "get straight to the point just facts straight facts very quick facts"

to top it off, i'm starting to freak out over moving a 3 foot fish tank with my babies in it. have barely started packing and already 11boxes done just on discs cd's dvd's wii games and play station games. I should be doing something other than drinking beer and being angry....

So help me if someone suggests packing up my stereo system before saturday 8pm I'm gonna kill em.

nic · Post by **nic** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:09 pm

dont worry im going grey, seems to be instant. too many vegetables IMHO

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:43 pm

I was going grey bit the hairy dresser choperz them all out.

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:52 pm

nic wrote:dont worry im going grey, seems to be instant. too many vegetables IMHO

found out i need ANOTHER fucking root canal today. drill straight through a crown which i just paid off too! fuckers.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:05 pm

I hate dentists, drilling & grey hair.

Is there any way that we can make grey hair extinct?

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:09 pm

I am SLEEEEPPPPPYYY.

working with headphones on = nodding off today.

so bad I bought a redbull and punched myself in the face.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:10 pm

WACK!

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:11 pm

fooishbar wrote:she looks like she's about 12

agree! But then the new Dr looks about the same age so....

nic · Post by **nic** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:13 pm

this is an ad for a room, instead of photos they have this 'music video' shot in the house:
seems legit

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

aroes · Post by **aroes** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:36 pm

Fents wrote:
found out i need ANOTHER fucking root canal today. drill straight through a crown which i just paid off too! fuckers.

Fark Fents you've had a horrendous run of it with your teeth

Out of interest, have you been going back to the same dentist every time? Think I mentioned it on here once before but my longtime family dentist was adamant that my wisdoms COULD NOT be taken out under local, and that I'd need to pay big bucks for hospital bed/anaesthetist/procedure etc etc.......Went to another bloke and he pulled them out in the chair for a fraction of the price

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:41 pm

i need to go to the dentist before i go.
i know i'll have to get fillings and i cannae afford it.
that and i don't know where to go.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:41 pm

youthful_implants wrote:I am SLEEEEPPPPPYYY.

working with headphones on = nodding off today.

so bad I bought a redbull and punched myself in the face.

That's terrible, I can't believe you would stoop to that sort of self abuse and harm.

I mean, do you have any idea what is actually in Red Bull?

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:46 pm

just tore my fav cardi

FAIL