The Letting Off Steam Thread

[Nick]

I hate college, I hate reports and I hate cases where I have to figure out if a guy is allowed to put anti ram poles in front of his shop without the proper permits and what he should've done to obtain those permits and which section of the law it falls under and which judge is supposed to give the ruling and how much he should be fined if he was wrong...arrrrgh.

You studying law are you? If yes, then me too.

And if no, then you aren't either?

[shadowgrin]

Nick, you may not be a grammar-nazi but you certainly are a grammar-jerk.

[Ty-Land]

I hate college, I hate reports and I hate cases where I have to figure out if a guy is allowed to put anti ram poles in front of his shop without the proper permits and what he should've done to obtain those permits and which section of the law it falls under and which judge is supposed to give the ruling and how much he should be fined if he was wrong...arrrrgh.

You studying law are you? If yes, then me too.

And if no, then you aren't either?

Yeah I know. I felt foolish writing that.

I'm doing my second year right now, contracts and agreements made under the work place usually fall under either "Bedrijfsadministratie" or "Bestuurskunde". Atleast those are the Dutch terms (classes) in which we've dealt with those two issues. Right now I've got "Handelsrecht" which is basically business law, copyrights, trademarks on products/symbols etc.

The report for today was for Staatsrecht, that's basically about the government, what their capabilities are, who checks who, to what extent, what mediums are they allowed to use to penalize someone if they did wrong, where exactly under which law is that written etc etc etc. Fucking boring man. Especially since it's in old school Dutch. Mad

Sounds like a whole lot of fun. Seems a bit drier than what I'm doing at the moment. I don't mind Civil/Torts, but I can't get into contract. So much detail just to determine whether a contract actually exists or not, is it really that hard to break down what is really common sense? My motivation to keep pushing through is: it's better than working a shit, dead end job and this might actually take me somewhere. Works sometimes

[Mark.]

I cant remember having a rant in here, but I think ive got good reason to now. After two years of knee injuries and rehab im finally at least 90% fit and able to play basketball at Uni, I get into a pretty sweet team, didnt make the A's for my club but the B's is still a decnet grade and the guys in my team seem cool and by the sounds of it like to get on the piss. We have a had a few pre season warm up games and ive been playing pretty good. We were even gonna be representing our Uni at the National Uni games which would have been great fun and an awesome piss trip.

Anyway it all went bad last thursday when we were getting boozed at our flat. My mate always does this stupid trick that always results in him hitting you in the chest, he knows I hate it. So anyway he did it to me so I tackled him and we started having a play fight, then I went to punch him in the ass cheek cos he had gone into the fetal position and my thumb hit his hip bone as I didnt have a properly closed fist.

It felt like my thumb had popped out and gone back in and was feeling fucking weird. After icing it I decided to keep drinking. I noticed the next day that I couldnt move it properly and realised that the knuckled closest to the wrist of the thumb the CMCJ joint i think its called wasnt in properly. So I went to the phyiso the other day and he had to refer me to a specialist because he thinks that the ligament is completely or close to completely torn. According to my flatties who are studying Med and Physio this type of injury usually takes approx 3-6 months to heal and if its completely torn it will require surgery

Im keeping optimistic and hopeing that it will be closer to 3 months or less, but it still means my basketball season is put on hold....

Thankfully its my left hand as well.

[[Q]]

FUCK!!! I just got a speeding ticket. It's also the first time I've ever been pulled over by the cops in 5 years of driving. this fucking sucks man. I got done with finals and I was heading back to my hometown which is like an hour drive. They said they got me going over 100 MPH and in hindsight I really don't know why I was going that fast I guess I really wanted to get home... it was so stupid. i think I have to show up to court, which sucks because it's really far away.

jackal, come get me out of this ticket lol
i honestly don't know if it's possible to beat a ticket when you're going 100 when the speed limit's 65. ok well I'll be okay if they allow me to pay the fine and do the traffic school so it stays off your record. there is a chance that the judge won't let me do traffic school, so it'll go on my record and my car insurance price goes through the roof.

[The X]

gutted to hear that Mark....you are a walking accident....yeah, I hate when mates use to do shit like that, there was always risk of injury, but never to them it seemed....keep your head up, hopefully it's not as bad as it seems

[Jackal]

jackal, come get me out of this ticket lol
i honestly don't know if it's possible to beat a ticket when you're going 100 when the speed limit's 65. ok well I'll be okay if they allow me to pay the fine and do the traffic school so it stays off your record. there is a chance that the judge won't let me do traffic school, so it'll go on my record and my car insurance price goes through the roof.

That sucks for you. Out here you can get out of a ticket though, we had that in class the other day. If you can postively prove that you were speeding for a "good" reason, then the chances that they revoke the ticket is pretty big. Like if you're rushing to the Hospital because someone's dying or something, that's a good reason. They'll give you a warning but they will revoke the ticket. I didn't know they did that, which I find quite nifty. According to the teacher it doesn't happen very often, but just the possibility that it happens is what kind of surprises me.

Sounds like a whole lot of fun. Seems a bit drier than what I'm doing at the moment. I don't mind Civil/Torts, but I can't get into contract. So much detail just to determine whether a contract actually exists or not, is it really that hard to break down what is really common sense? My motivation to keep pushing through is: it's better than working a shit, dead end job and this might actually take me somewhere. Works sometimes

It's fun, don't get me wrong, I love doing what I do. Just sometimes you have to weave your way around such an intricate web of complex dutch words it just ends up hurting your brain. Some of the words they use are words we don't even use in our day to day language anymore and that just gets frustrating. But at the end of the day, I couldn't be more proud of what I'm doing...just knowing I'll be paid some big bucks in the near future keeps me going aswell. You pretty much think like me.

[shadowgrin]

just knowing I'll be paid some big bucks in the near future keeps me going aswell

Money-grubbing bastards. *steam out*

[Nick]

I don't think i've ever let off steam in this thread. Now is time

A $120 car job turned into a three of four hundred dollar job! WTF. Now i might have to cancel going camping with my girlfriend over easter. I CANNOT miss that.

[[Q]]

you guys suck at posting. can't you even stay on topic??

this is how it's done:

[Drex]

Haha, that really cracked me up

[Rock_Dude98]

dam outdated video card!!!!!

[Oznogrd]

OK let me preface this story by saying i live in an apartment that is PRIME location on my campus, i'm within a block of most of the bars, a 2-3 blocks of most classes, and 5-6 from anything else substantial that i'd consider close enough to walk to. So i check it out, love the location the price, its accessible enough....Then i move in. The elevator has worked a grand total of 1/4 of the time i've lived here. But since i'm truly not as crippled as i seem. i just go up the stairs usually (hopping out and pulling my chair up the stairs unless i happen to run into someone). Now usually not a problem...but tonight there was a broken beer bottle at the stair well door...i roll over it, praying, hoping...then cursing because a piece of glass fucking slashed one of my tires....so now my day tomorrow is going to spent running around town getting fucking tired put on my chair rather than anything good.....FUCKERS

[shadowgrin]

there was a broken beer bottle at the stair well door...i roll over it, praying, hoping...then cursing because a piece of glass fucking slashed one of my tires

First time I read about tires being blown in stairs.

I thought wheelchair tires are "solid" or not prone to blowouts?

[Oznogrd]

you can buy solid ones but it makes pushing a complete pain in the ass

[Dramacydal]

Goddamn, I got the worst fucking backache of my life. I can barely move or stand, it hurts all the time, I feel like a fucking crippled grampa. It hurts most when I'm sitting on a chair so the timing couldn't be worse as I got my final exam in biology tomorrow which means sitting bent over a desk for 5 hours straight. I just hope it gets better over night cause otherwise I can't concentrate at all because of the fucking pain.

[Drex]

I feel so shitty right now. I can't even concentrate on a fucking test because I'm so sick I was more worried about annoying my classmates than getting the right answer. Can somebody shot me, please? I have another test on Thursday, hopefully I'll be fine.

[JaoSming]

somebody shot me,

Did that hurt?

[Drex]

Not really.

[shadowgrin]

I'm so sick I was more worried about annoying my classmates than getting the right answer

You're worried about pleasing people? Let them be and concentrate on your exam.

[Jackal]

What a depressing day.

Shaq gets kicked out, LA's down 3-1. Wow.

[K0beStar]

Fucking bullshit ass lame Lakers. Kobe owns. Odom is ok. Kwame. Kwame who? Maurice who? Smush who? Please Lakers personell get KG.

[Drex]

Fuck you bitch, how do you know it's my kid? Huh? You probably slept with everybody before me...








Just kidding, hopefully nobody felt offended. I'm not too sure how I did in my first Calculus test, so I'm letting off steam because I feel like I could've studied a lot more.

[Dean]

I was like 'what the..?' haha.. I thought the first part was you having a go at someone's previous post, but i get it now.

[Jugs]

oh god you're such a try hard and you act like you've been around this place for ever.

just die.

thats why i hate this forum.

(not directed at above poster)