Fecking students

redddraggon

Why do they walk across the road without looking??

Why do they cycle @ 5mph on the flat? And feel the need to go through every red light?

Perhaps it's just a city thing but I still don't like it...

(PS I am also a student - but normally avoid these idiots)

singlespeedexplosif

why do they even exist?
why do 90% of them not wash their hair? do ANY of them know what a belt is?
and why do they only seem to move by Brownian Motion? Choose where you're going to (maybe that's the problem here?), and go there. Preferably in a relatively direct way.

more to the point, WHY am I working at a University?

CiB

Podestrians involved in one in ten accidents, claims survey which set out to prove its sponsors' own views, probably.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3156499/Podestrians-involved-in-one-in-10-road-accidents.html

Clever Pun

Paul Calf wrote:

There was a student, he was acting up, he got a slap. But I was under severe provocation. There I was, having a quiet pint, when a student walked past and nudged me, causing me to spill a bit. I did what any fine, upstanding citizen would do. I followed him to the toilet and kicked his head in. Perhaps I should have stopped kicking him when he was in the ambulance. But I did what I did because I want to live in a world where we can have a pint without fear of being nudged by a student. I that a crime? Is it a crime to want to live in a world of peace and harmony? Is it a crime to live in a world of love? Is it a crime to hit a student across the back of the head with a snooker ball in a sock?"

always_tyred

ChrisInBicester wrote:

Podestrians involved in one in ten accidents, claims survey which set out to prove its sponsors' own views, probably.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3156499/Podestrians-involved-in-one-in-10-road-accidents.html

I would not be surprised if this was the same proportion of people who wear headphones.

Wearing headphones may be compounded by use of a mobile phone, wearing a blindfold and spinning on the spot for a couple of minutes before attempting to cross the road. These people only have themselves to blame.

always_tyred

redddraggon wrote:

Why do they walk across the road without looking??

Why do they cycle @ 5mph on the flat? And feel the need to go through every red light?

Perhaps it's just a city thing but I still don't like it...

(PS I am also a student - but normally avoid these idiots)

If you get up before noon, you'll probably find that nothing has changed.

Don't worry - the weather will turn bad and attendance at lectures will fall exponentially as the term progresses. These two factors will return your commute to normal in fairly short order.

linsen

I thought the same about students only yesterday. They are in a complete dreamworld where no-one else exists and they are invincible. I just shout "EXCUSE ME" at the top of my voice. MAkes no difference but makes me feel better

always_tyred

linsen wrote:

I thought the same about students only yesterday. They are in a complete dreamworld where no-one else exists and they are invincible. I just shout "EXCUSE ME" at the top of my voice. MAkes no difference but makes me feel better

You must feel so hindered by the language you are able to use, as a teacher. :P

spen666

redddraggon wrote:

Why do they walk across the road without looking??

Why do they cycle @ 5mph on the flat? And feel the need to go through every red light?

Perhaps it's just a city thing but I still don't like it...

(PS I am also a student - but normally avoid these idiots)

Why? because students are superior to the rest of us. They have discovered life that no one else has before

spen666

Paul Calf wrote:

There was a student, he was acting up, he got a slap. But I was under severe provocation. There I was, having a quiet pint, when a student walked past and nudged me, causing me to spill a bit. I did what any fine, upstanding citizen would do. I followed him to the toilet and kicked his head in. Perhaps I should have stopped kicking him when he was in the ambulance. But I did what I did because I want to live in a world where we can have a pint without fear of being nudged by a student. I that a crime? Is it a crime to want to live in a world of peace and harmony? Is it a crime to live in a world of love? Is it a crime to hit a student across the back of the head with a snooker ball in a sock?"

Sounds reasonable to me :twisted:

always_tyred

spen666 wrote:

Paul Calf wrote:

There was a student, he was acting up, he got a slap. But I was under severe provocation. There I was, having a quiet pint, when a student walked past and nudged me, causing me to spill a bit. I did what any fine, upstanding citizen would do. I followed him to the toilet and kicked his head in. Perhaps I should have stopped kicking him when he was in the ambulance. But I did what I did because I want to live in a world where we can have a pint without fear of being nudged by a student. I that a crime? Is it a crime to want to live in a world of peace and harmony? Is it a crime to live in a world of love? Is it a crime to hit a student across the back of the head with a snooker ball in a sock?"

Sounds reasonable to me :twisted:

.. but whatever you do, don't post anything defamatory about any products on the website.

Al_38

This kind of amuses me... I'm a student too. But I really do understand why you get so annoyed, I suspect it is also the other road users who get seriously wound up http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XA_Crc67SAM (I always tried to avoid this area in the mornings...) My personal hate is people that don't bother looking both ways on one-way road that have a contra-flow bike lane - still I'm sure the ones who have been hit won't do it again.

Al

spen666

Always Tyred wrote:

spen666 wrote:

Paul Calf wrote:

There was a student, he was acting up, he got a slap. But I was under severe provocation. There I was, having a quiet pint, when a student walked past and nudged me, causing me to spill a bit. I did what any fine, upstanding citizen would do. I followed him to the toilet and kicked his head in. Perhaps I should have stopped kicking him when he was in the ambulance. But I did what I did because I want to live in a world where we can have a pint without fear of being nudged by a student. I that a crime? Is it a crime to want to live in a world of peace and harmony? Is it a crime to live in a world of love? Is it a crime to hit a student across the back of the head with a snooker ball in a sock?"

Sounds reasonable to me :twisted:

.. but whatever you do, don't post anything defamatory about any products on the website.

post such things if you like, but be prepared to take the consequences AND be prepared for the publishers also to take the consequences.

I have never said not to post defamatory comments- just be aware of the consequences. If you are prepared to face them, then publish & be damned

linsen

Always Tyred wrote:

linsen wrote:

I thought the same about students only yesterday. They are in a complete dreamworld where no-one else exists and they are invincible. I just shout "EXCUSE ME" at the top of my voice. MAkes no difference but makes me feel better

You must feel so hindered by the language you are able to use, as a teacher. :P

Only the other day when I was out on duty and another little runt swore at me, I entered a little fantsay world in which I said "why don't you f*** off you lttle sh**".

I still have a job, so I must have managed to contain myself. Again...

biondino

Al_38 wrote:

This kind of amuses me... I'm a student too. But I really do understand why you get so annoyed, I suspect it is also the other road users who get seriously wound up http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XA_Crc67SAM (I always tried to avoid this area in the mornings...)

Oh my god. Watching that almost gave me palpitations.

Anyway, ultimately we hate students because we envy everything about them. I know I do. Youth wasted on the young, anyone?

cakewalk

singlespeedexplosif wrote:

why do they even exist?
why do 90% of them not wash their hair? do ANY of them know what a belt is?
and why do they only seem to move by Brownian Motion? Choose where you're going to (maybe that's the problem here?), and go there. Preferably in a relatively direct way.

more to the point, WHY am I working at a University?

Because they can. I would if I could. We are we stressed out work puppies. They are not. Good luck to 'em I say.

redddraggon

biondino wrote:

Anyway, ultimately we hate students because we envy everything about them. I know I do. Youth wasted on the young, anyone?

Hmm, I'm a student, and still hate most of the twats.

NGale

I'm a part time student and I hate the little beggers sometimes. The worst ones are college students in the FE colleges who are still essentially kids. pains in the butt the lot of em.
Even when I was a full time college and university student I did at least look where I was going!

Oh and remind me never to cycle in Cambridge :shock:

always_tyred

spen666 wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

spen666 wrote:

Paul Calf wrote:

There was a student, he was acting up, he got a slap. But I was under severe provocation. There I was, having a quiet pint, when a student walked past and nudged me, causing me to spill a bit. I did what any fine, upstanding citizen would do. I followed him to the toilet and kicked his head in. Perhaps I should have stopped kicking him when he was in the ambulance. But I did what I did because I want to live in a world where we can have a pint without fear of being nudged by a student. I that a crime? Is it a crime to want to live in a world of peace and harmony? Is it a crime to live in a world of love? Is it a crime to hit a student across the back of the head with a snooker ball in a sock?"

Sounds reasonable to me :twisted:

.. but whatever you do, don't post anything defamatory about any products on the website.

post such things if you like, but be prepared to take the consequences AND be prepared for the publishers also to take the consequences.

I have never said not to post defamatory comments- just be aware of the consequences. If you are prepared to face them, then publish & be damned

You do know beastiality is a criminal offence too, right?

always_tyred

Al_38 wrote:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XA_Crc67SAM

If they could mathematically model those patterns of motion, it would be possible to cure traffic congestion forever.

Biscuiteer

One thing I found other students were very skilled at when I was at uni was blindly wandering sideways as I overtook them, neatly catching my bar-end in one of their bag/rucksack straps :evil:

richk

redddraggon wrote:

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Hmm, I'm a student, and still hate most of the twats.

And when you're not a student you'll hate all of them :shock:

always_tyred

We should have a thread for "pointless degree courses".

Here's one for starters; "Chemistry with Art History"

Completely true. (She was a nice girl as well. Very flexible. )

spen666

Always Tyred wrote:

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You do know beastiality is a criminal offence too, right?

Only if you get caught

Wrath Rob

Always Tyred wrote:

spen666 wrote:

Paul Calf wrote:

There was a student, he was acting up, he got a slap. But I was under severe provocation. There I was, having a quiet pint, when a student walked past and nudged me, causing me to spill a bit. I did what any fine, upstanding citizen would do. I followed him to the toilet and kicked his head in. Perhaps I should have stopped kicking him when he was in the ambulance. But I did what I did because I want to live in a world where we can have a pint without fear of being nudged by a student. I that a crime? Is it a crime to want to live in a world of peace and harmony? Is it a crime to live in a world of love? Is it a crime to hit a student across the back of the head with a snooker ball in a sock?"

Sounds reasonable to me :twisted:

.. but whatever you do, don't post anything defamatory about any products on the website.

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahah!

CiB

Course one of the reasons that students can do this is because they're trained to be in the way from an early age. On the days when I accompany my youngest to school on my old sit-up & beg machine along the mixed cycle & footpaths from here to there, it's a constant battle to safely pass mothers who can successfully occupy the whole width of the path, armed with only a pushchair, a dog on a stick and a 6 year-old walking in a random pattern but always keeping roughly a 7 foot radius away from the parent. Or two of em walk alongside each other with their dogs & toddlers & push-chairs, idly chatting and taking up the whole width of the path right up to and including the grass verge with no gap for the Boy Junior to slip through clearing a path for me to follow before it closes like slam door. Bells aren't the answer - there's no recognition of external sounds until you get with 2 feet of em, when they smile nicely and aplogise so you can't even have a go at them for being in the way. And a lot of of them are my wife's pals anyway so a verbal lashing out isn't really an option.

It's ingrained from an early age, a skill handed down from the parents.

toshmund

Not to worry, they do finance their Uni' years a bit themselves. Whilst rebelling against the Accountant parents, doing some lame degree up until their mid 20's. Then possibly decide, they hate society and want to live in a double decker bus following The Levellers/be an organic Vegan farmer in N. Wales. Only thing that is worse, when they do a legitimate degree, and still become the organic farmer. Sorry, as a taxpayer - society paid for your education, so you could contribute something to it. Damned Beetroot is not enough :x

biondino

I dunno, most students I know turned into people like us. Even the rabid old tories must think back to the good old days, when you could get really satisfyingly apoplectic about the the filthy, drug-hazed hippies & communists before students became depoliticised.

ride_whenever

I'm a student, the bulk of us are complete muppets, and tbh the only ones who end up contributing to society are the ones who get post-graduate degrees. Or decent jobs that are productive, but they are few and far between.

Stufent life is good, and thats why we like it, and you guys hate it. Even thought we have no money we're still happy.

toshmund

Would be nice if some of them would get their Corgi registration. Tried getting a plumber recently!?!? Hopefully some of these redundancy package/training schemes from the Canary Wharf crowd. Brickie's and Plumbing, get Tristian to give the Polish a bit of a run for their money!

richk

spen666 wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

...
You do know beastiality is a criminal offence too, right?

Only if you get caught

Or post the pics on the interweb...