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Old 23rd February 2008, 22:58     #2001
Reformed_Quint
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lightspeed
How so? That seems a little glib.
the grads at our office can quote off numbers and how things are supposed to be done.

Send them into the field where they have to deal with subcontractors, plans that are wrong, accidents, weather, soil conditions, all their knowledge doesn't count for shit, they can't apply their pretty equations.

Theory doesn't teach you how to be flexible, doesn't give you the confidence.
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Old 23rd February 2008, 23:02     #2002
Lightspeed
 
Yeah, that's true.
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Old 24th February 2008, 07:51     #2003
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Quote:
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How so? That seems a little glib.
give an exmaple where its not true if you don't agree

bah edit: didn't see the next page!
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Old 24th February 2008, 08:26     #2004
leadinjector
 
unfortunately theres still plenty of parents out there with no fucking clue
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Old 24th February 2008, 10:36     #2005
Lightspeed
 
Totally. Being a parent doesn't automatically mean that you're instantly wise in the ways of parenting. Even after your kids are raised. Many people completely fuck it up.

And just because you haven't had kids, it doesn't mean you can't learn and teach good parenting skills.

If a parent quips back to genuinely good advice with "Do you have kids?", my initial thought would be the parent is acting irrationally ( as parents are prone ), however I think more likely it's the person offering advice failed to acknowledge the difficulties of raising children or otherwise neglected the parents feelings.
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Old 24th February 2008, 12:35     #2006
ZengE
 
It's not just 'good' parenting ...

In much the same way as reading the rode code doesn't give you the ability to drive, being able to spew forth something you've read in a book about how children supposedly behave and for what reason doesn't make you any better equipped to actually get them to do or act in a certain way.

I'm not saying people with lots of knowledge aren't capable, just that most parents, who are going through the practical experience, don't appreciate those who they know have no real-world practical experience standing by and telling them where they're going wrong and what they should be doing instead.

Lightspeed hit the nail on the head, when you're up to your arse in alligators, it's sometimes hard to remember you're task was only to drain the swamp. Sometimes the 'helpful' advice does nothing more than add frustration to an already tense situation, especially with a lot of first time parents. I appreciate others offering me their wisdom and sage advice, but I personally think I'd like to work it through myself.

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Old 24th February 2008, 12:46     #2007
chiquelet
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but I personally think I'd like to work it through myself.
You mean if Super Nanny came knocking at your door you'd turn her away?! I bow at the altar of Jo Frost, that woman has a way of training parents AND kids.
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Old 24th February 2008, 12:58     #2008
chiquelet
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Inconsiderate cunts who park on the footpath, and I mean directly over the footpath (not just on the grass verge next to the footpath). I'm wondering if I should ring whoever it is you ring in these situations and get their ass towed? It just happens somebody who's at my neighbour though....Do they tow in these situations or issue a ticket?
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Old 24th February 2008, 13:07     #2009
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Do they tow in these situations or issue a ticket?
Ticket, IIRC.
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Old 24th February 2008, 13:12     #2010
crocos
 
What grinds my gears? Washing. In this day and age with all the technology we've got, why can't the damn clothing wash itself? GRRR!!!

(Going away for 2 weeks then coming back with 2 weeks worth of laundry... <shudder>. The facilities provided were crude at best)
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Old 24th February 2008, 13:15     #2011
Lightspeed
 
Self-washing clothes would be weird, but some magic clothes washing bag ( similar size, shape to a suit bag ) would be the bee's knees.
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Old 24th February 2008, 13:18     #2012
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What grinds my gears? Washing. In this day and age with all the technology we've got, why can't the damn clothing wash itself? GRRR!!!

(Going away for 2 weeks then coming back with 2 weeks worth of laundry... <shudder>. The facilities provided were crude at best)
WHAT A WORLD! i tell ya.
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Old 24th February 2008, 15:53     #2013
CCS
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Inconsiderate cunts who park on the footpath, and I mean directly over the footpath (not just on the grass verge next to the footpath). I'm wondering if I should ring whoever it is you ring in these situations and get their ass towed? It just happens somebody who's at my neighbour though....Do they tow in these situations or issue a ticket?
Call the council. I think you can get people towed... (don't recall) but at the very least I'm sure they'll get a fine.
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Old 24th February 2008, 16:21     #2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crocos
What grinds my gears? Washing. In this day and age with all the technology we've got, why can't the damn clothing wash itself? GRRR!!!

(Going away for 2 weeks then coming back with 2 weeks worth of laundry... <shudder>. The facilities provided were crude at best)
*boggles*
It practically does! Did you see TV show The 1900's House?
Here plug this into google (for the cache, the server is down);
http://www.somareview.com/cleanlinesscraziness.cfm

There's some associated religious 'stuff', but just skip the first four paragraphs or so.
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Old 24th February 2008, 18:31     #2015
Reformed_Quint
 
Missing your girlfriend when she goes overseas...

god dammit.
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Old 24th February 2008, 20:51     #2016
Simon K
 
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Call the council. I think you can get people towed... (don't recall) but at the very least I'm sure they'll get a fine.
Ticket for parking on footpath.

You can get people towed for parking across your driveway though. Some Twat did it a few years back with their SUV so I called a mate whose partner worked in a Tow yard for advice. Was told to call the parking enforcement in Wgtn(Parkwise) who then popped over, wrote out a ticket then called towie(in that order).
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Old 24th February 2008, 21:11     #2017
ilk
 
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Missing your girlfriend when she goes overseas...

god dammit.
Ditto - except I'm the one who went overseas.

Actually, this doesn't really grind my gears. Is there a "What makes you emo?" thread?
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Old 24th February 2008, 21:36     #2018
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Actually, this doesn't really grind my gears. Is there a "What makes you emo?" thread?
Getting emo about shit grinds my gears though.
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Old 24th February 2008, 21:56     #2019
Jonas Undrawing
 
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Inconsiderate cunts who park on the footpath, and I mean directly over the footpath (not just on the grass verge next to the footpath). I'm wondering if I should ring whoever it is you ring in these situations and get their ass towed? It just happens somebody who's at my neighbour though....Do they tow in these situations or issue a ticket?

x2. I have to ride down a gutter most days to get around cars. I know the cars dont belong to the people who live on the street, they most probably belong to people who park there, then cross the road and catch the train into the city.

I have the right mind to get their asses fined or towed..
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Old 25th February 2008, 01:03     #2020
Viddy
 
Very angry

Kids screaming because it's a fun thing to do. (not because of external factors like dogs, fire, or a drive-by)

I fucking hate screaming kids. Its like my brain has static through it. No other thoughts can exist in my head while said screaming is occurring.

My grandmother had a phrase that I'm never going to be able to use, but it worked beautifully when I've seen it in action: "If you don't stop screaming, I'm going to give you something to scream about."
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Old 25th February 2008, 05:46     #2021
ZengE
 
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My grandmother had a phrase that I'm never going to be able to get caught using, but it worked beautifully when I've seen it in action: "If you don't stop screaming, I'm going to give you something to scream about."
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Old 25th February 2008, 09:37     #2022
[Malks] Pixie
 
On Friday I searched around for someone in the organisation who could answer a question for a client. I was told, "so and so knows all about this" so I send them through a copy of the email asking if they would be able to respond or provide me with enough information that I could respond - thought it was all sorted (as I now understand they are the only people in the organisation with knowledge about this).

Come in this morning and find said person has sent it to someone else in OUR team asking, "can someone in your team answer this?". Worse than that, the person in our team (who is pretty much the "know it all" in the organisation) hasn't even looked at what the enquiry is or where it came from and has sent it back to me saying, "answer this".

Very tempted just to email the client back (cc'ing in both team members) saying that I would love to answer the query but there is no one willing to actually look at it here (of course I won't do that though).

Meh - getting to be so over this.

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Old 25th February 2008, 13:54     #2023
Asriel
 
Pixie: I'm sure it doesn't seem so to you, but thats kinda funny actually Having a question come back to you - didn't they read the quoted text? Idiots.

Going to a place called 'Soups and Salads' for a bowl of soup for my sick gf, and not being able to get any soup as they don't have any. wtf?

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Old 25th February 2008, 13:55     #2024
[Malks] Pixie
 
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Pixie: I'm sure it doesn't seem so to you, but thats kinda funny actually
Oh I very much see the funny side of it - but to able to express that I needed to "get my grump on" (as my fiance terms it) and get it out of my system.

This thread "grinds my gears" in a good way - much praise to this thread for allowing a safe release of steam!

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Old 25th February 2008, 15:45     #2025
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Going to a place called 'Soups and Salads' for a bowl of soup for my sick gf, and not being able to get any soup as they don't have any. wtf?
Oh I love this one. Over here in West Oz we have a chicken takeaway franchise called 'Chicken Treat'. I rocked up there one evening to a handwritten sign on the door, 'Sorry Out Of Chicken'... Um, so it's just Treat tonight then..
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Old 25th February 2008, 17:43     #2026
MadMax
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same as the time i pulled up to kfc and they had no chicken. it was after dark mind you

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W@$#*#$(# firefox has done another update, i'm guessing, as an old default button had appeared on the links bar and the theme has reset. That's all fine BUT THE STUPID ALT+S HAS DIED AGAIN. I WANT SUBMIT FORM NOT HIsTORY!

http://www.google.co.nz/search?sourc...=firefox+alt+s
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Old 25th February 2008, 18:46     #2027
chiquelet
Mrs Colin Farrell
 
YouTube pulling down a freaking hilarious Tina Fey clip from SNL this weekend. Fuck you NBC for getting your bloomers in a twist
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Old 25th February 2008, 19:07     #2028
MadMax
Stuff
 
http://video.google.com/videosearch?...en&sitesearch=

one of those?
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Old 25th February 2008, 20:42     #2029
chiquelet
Mrs Colin Farrell
 
No unfortunately, it was a political commentary about Hillary Clinton. She made a dig about how women these days are so liberated that they don't feel obligated to vote for a woman, but to vote for who Oprah tells them to vote for!

Obviously it was funnier when Tina said it....
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Old 25th February 2008, 21:14     #2030
madmaxii
 
No pictures in "Pic of the day" or "Hottest person........."

Please
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Old 25th February 2008, 21:39     #2031
chiquelet
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No pictures in "Pic of the day" or "Hottest person........."

Please
Fixed!
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Old 25th February 2008, 22:13     #2032
Rince
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^^^ hahahahah
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Old 25th February 2008, 22:14     #2033
ZengE
 
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Fixed!
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Old 25th February 2008, 22:20     #2034
smudge
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iTunes: what a cunt of a piece of software.
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Old 26th February 2008, 01:09     #2035
Torka
 
The way the medical profession has hijacked the word "depression", to the point where if you use it to describe your current mood, it's reasonably likely some jackass will jump down your throat and accuse you of misusing it or being a drama queen because you're not suffering from a crippling psychological disorder or a brain chemistry imbalance.

Fuck you! The word wasn't invented by doctors.
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Old 26th February 2008, 04:44     #2036
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iTunes: what a cunt of a piece of software.

What's worse is when someone installs it on your laptop without asking
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Old 26th February 2008, 08:24     #2037
[Malks] Pixie
 
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The way the medical profession has hijacked the word "depression", to the point where if you use it to describe your current mood, it's reasonably likely some jackass will jump down your throat and accuse you of misusing it or being a drama queen because you're not suffering from a crippling psychological disorder or a brain chemistry imbalance.
Can I follow that up with the food industries (and horticulture) hijacking the word "organic" - if I have one more idiot say, "oh but it's not hazardous, it's organic" I'm going to - welll probably not anything aside from sigh at their stupidity but I can but dream.

I believe I've ranted about this on here before - never hurts to revisit a gripe.

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Old 26th February 2008, 08:36     #2038
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organic meat

THE MIND BOGGLES!
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Old 26th February 2008, 08:47     #2039
BadNova
 
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same as the time i pulled up to kfc and they had no chicken. it was after dark mind you
that happened to me once too. They said they had no chicken and that all I could order was a twister. I was going to ask them what was in the twister if it isn't chicken but I figured eh screw it.
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Old 26th February 2008, 09:22     #2040
DMZ_Chainsaw
 
Taggers... grrrrr... Not that I want to stab them but there are times I wish I have a taser to teach those buggers.

Anyway sweet justice for DOC

Quote:
A German backpacker has been caught spraying graffiti on the rocks and ice face at Franz Josef Glacier.

Police said English tourists managed to photograph Jan Philip Scharbert on Thursday as he tagged rock walls leading up to the glacier terminal and even the glacier ice.

Guides removed the glacier tagging with their ice axes, and a description of the offender was given to Conservation Department staff, who reported to police early the next morning that he was waiting to get on a bus heading out of town.

Constable Paul Gurney said police apprehended Scharbert, 28, from Munich, as he was getting on the bus. He was arrested and ordered to clean up his graffiti, under DOC supervision.

Mr Gurney said it took Scharbert 1½ days to clean up his handiwork, during which he was severely dressed down by passing glacier guides and tourists.

Police said DOC was satisfied with his repair job, meaning he escaped a wilful damage charge and left Franz Josef "in one piece".
Photo at http://www.stuff.co.nz/4415314a10.html
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