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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Shannonmcn posted:

I hate my phd so god loving much i don't even like thinking about it, ack

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boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine
My dad just texted me saying he's gonna buy another tablet.

He already owns like 5 tablets, why does he need so many goddamn tablets

teenytinymouse
Aug 3, 2005

I'm Shannon and I'm the biggest Idiot Ever!

Schmeichy posted:

But you actually have to put together an outfit for skirts. At least they're just as breezy, I guess. I'm terrible at styling myself.

I bought the same lovely viscose blouses in 2 slightly different styles and 5 colours, breezy, not expensive and neutral-ish enough to go with whatever skirts and jeans before I got fat decided I hated jeans. Gonna rotate them every loving day this summer if I can't get away with going naked under my labcoat so I don't die, which I probably won't

boom boom boom posted:

My dad just texted me saying he's gonna buy another tablet.

He already owns like 5 tablets, why does he need so many goddamn tablets
I talked my Dad down from a refurb iPad yesterday, he already has 2 tablets, 2 phones and another semi-tablet thing running Linux and he only uses them all to bet on and watch football matches (as well as the desktop and the TV)

dads are weird

teenytinymouse fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Apr 28, 2014

vaguely
Apr 29, 2013

hot_squirting_honey.gif

Shannonmcn posted:

I wish I could wear maxi skirts in my lab, I love them but I know they would definitely get caught in a mixer or something. I can get away with tights and bandage skirts though, or at least I think I can because no-one has shouted at me for them yet.
our lab safety is less about you not getting caught on stuff and more about what would happen if fire and/or acid caught on you, so a maxi skirt (if it's cotton) is fine

boom boom boom posted:

Why don't you guys have airconditioning?
our ventilation is out rather than in to get rid of fumes, and while we have giant windows they don't open at all
also nobody has air conditioning in the UK
summer might not get as hot as places in the US but it's harder to deal with because we don't have the proper equipment

stimulated emission posted:

our lab isnt even labcoats 24/7 (more like use them when you need them)
our is supposed to be labcoats 24/7 but in practice it's more if you're doing something really hazardous or if the safety officer is creepin

stimulated emission posted:

also the womens labcoat i have fits weird, its like they took a dudes labcoat and added titty room and changed nothing else
so i got power shoulders and a labcoat that fits weird over my hips
my 'small' labcoat has arms that are still 6 inches too long, and a hemline roughly halfway past my knees

Pick posted:

our lab is always loving freezing

do we all work in labs

all of us ???
yes

Schmeichy posted:

Are maxi dresses just not for hippy women? All the ones I've tried on make my midsection look huge because of the way the fabric drapes over my hips. Which is a shame, because they are sooo comfortable and I'll probably get some for summer anyway.
dunno about hippy women but I hate them because they work with my height and juicy rear end to make me look really dumpy
I'm not even that short, I'm 5'4"

I actually feel OK about my PhD right now but I am just on my first day back after holiday & lab shutdown, ask me again in a month and I'll probably be unable to type through my tears

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS
what if videogames were real

boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine

Putty posted:

what if videogames were real

I would have murdered literally tens of thousands of Chinese people

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
where the gently caress do you work you get holiday

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

Globo-Hitler III posted:




hey gently caress you all, i dont give a gently caress what any of you think, you are all basic bitches who don't know what the gently caress

gently caress you dumb cunts


duh duh duhm buh buh buh, and you dont even know, stupib bitches

hmm, i seem to have misbehaved last night

teenytinymouse
Aug 3, 2005

I'm Shannon and I'm the biggest Idiot Ever!

Pick posted:

where the gently caress do you work you get holiday

we get them, we're just expected to work through them. i was lucky enough that my supervisor's wife was in France and he had to full-time Dad it for a week so I got to only come in for like an hour or two most days last week

it wasn't relaxing, I just drank too much to take advantage of it

vaguely
Apr 29, 2013

hot_squirting_honey.gif

Pick posted:

where the gently caress do you work you get holiday
not in the US :britain:
and it was less a real holiday and more 'we can't use the lab anyway, there's a conference, and my sister is getting married so see you chumps in 2 weeks'

edit: honestly when I hear the horror stories other people have about their PhD groups I wonder what the gently caress I'm even whining about

Titty Warlord
Apr 28, 2013

Globo-Hitler III posted:

hmm, i seem to have misbehaved last night

I posted worse

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

vaguely posted:

not in the US :britain:
and it was less a real holiday and more 'we can't use the lab anyway, there's a conference, and my sister is getting married so see you chumps in 2 weeks'

edit: honestly when I hear the horror stories other people have about their PhD groups I wonder what the gently caress I'm even whining about

2 weeks is what actual employed people get in the US, per year

teenytinymouse
Aug 3, 2005

I'm Shannon and I'm the biggest Idiot Ever!

Pick posted:

2 weeks is what actual employed people get in the US, per year

I like not living in an employee-rights wasteland

soz Pick

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
it's worth it to line the pockets of the rich and fuel the military-industrial complex

Schmeichy
Apr 22, 2007

2spooky4u


Smellrose

Pick posted:

it's worth it to line the pockets of the rich and fuel the military-industrial complex

You saying something negative about our glorious job creators?

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Titty Warlord posted:

I posted worse

par for the course

Pick posted:

2 weeks is what actual employed people get in the US, per year

i got 3 :smug:

teenytinymouse
Aug 3, 2005

I'm Shannon and I'm the biggest Idiot Ever!

Do you still get like bank holidays and stuff?

Schmeichy
Apr 22, 2007

2spooky4u


Smellrose

Shannonmcn posted:

Do you still get like bank holidays and stuff?

If you work for the government.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Shannonmcn posted:

Do you still get like bank holidays and stuff?

Govt employees do

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Shannonmcn posted:

Do you still get like bank holidays and stuff?

if you work for a bank or the govt or some other employers. i get a couple of them.

for working stiffs you get the 4th of july, memorial day, labor day, thanksgiving, christmas, and new years. if you work retail you may get none of these, though normally they shift it to another day of the week, or pay you a lot extra to work those days.

various employers give you more, normally the day after thanksgiving, various days around christmas, first day of hunting season, etc.

Schmeichy
Apr 22, 2007

2spooky4u


Smellrose
First day of hunting season?

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

despite us being a lovely place for the avg worker you can also get unpaid days off pretty easily in most places, and even some lovely hourly jobs i have worked gave you a paid week off and sick days.

we are a hellhole compared to sane countries though

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Schmeichy posted:

First day of hunting season?

auto industry, nov 14 this year i believe

stimulated emission
Apr 25, 2011

D-D-D-D-D-D-DEEPER
what do you even hunt in detroit

stimulated emission
Apr 25, 2011

D-D-D-D-D-D-DEEPER
robocop season begins feb. 12th

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

stimulated emission posted:

what do you even hunt in detroit

the city is so abandoned in places local wildlife is returning and hitting deer in the city is now a problem lol

also we have lots and lots of forest in michigan so people go up north to hunt.

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

stimulated emission posted:

what do you even hunt in detroit

poor people

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*


they have guns here

stimulated emission
Apr 25, 2011

D-D-D-D-D-D-DEEPER

WoodrowSkillson posted:

they have guns here

the most dangerous game

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

WoodrowSkillson posted:

they have guns here

then it's a fair match

Titty Warlord
Apr 28, 2013
is it as bad as people say it is

Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW
sup detroit bro wanna watch escanaba in da moonlight and jo



Titty Warlord posted:

is it as bad as people say it is

certain downtown areas are about as dangerous as certain other downtown areas in other cities but besides that no, a lot of it looks pretty bad unless you're in one of the upper class boroughs like highland park, auburn hills, or royal oak or something. midtown is alright if you want to feel hip and or cool. if you draw a line west from detroit to the coast of lake michigan everything south of it is farmland and white trash except ann arbor and ypsilanti

Stoic Commie fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Apr 28, 2014

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

Titty Warlord posted:

is it as bad as people say it is

yes

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN
imagine eastern europe but set in america

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Titty Warlord posted:

is it as bad as people say it is

its pretty bad but its not and actual warzone, its just too big for how many people now live there and that causes lots of problems

its a lot like south side chicago

stimulated emission
Apr 25, 2011

D-D-D-D-D-D-DEEPER

Stoic Commie posted:

sup detroit bro wanna watch escanaba in da moonlight and jo

im not from detroit but i want in on this

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Stoic Commie posted:

sup detroit bro wanna watch escanaba in da moonlight and jo

sounds good lemme get my crystal

Crap
Nov 3, 2012

like being raped, meet the detroit police

stimulated emission
Apr 25, 2011

D-D-D-D-D-D-DEEPER

catdynamite posted:

like being raped, meet the detroit police

pro-tier lifehack

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Stoic Commie
Aug 29, 2005

by XyloJW
cool meet me in the chix on dix alley behind the dumpster

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