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I'm bored of work and ready to go on furlough again I want taxpayer handouts and a 50" plasma TV while I lay around in a tracksuit and fornicate until I have dozens of kids I can't afford. I'm the prime minister lol communism bitch fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Sep 1, 2020 |
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So I applied to do an MA at Leicester in June, heard nothing, finally managed to find somebody there who can answer a phone and they're like "oh we made a note to give you an offer but we forgot". And I still don't definitely know if I have a place and I'm due to start on Oct. 1st and I'm capping my jorts about it.
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Sep 2, 2020 15:49
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Jose posted:6 days after submitting my MSC application I got an unconditional offer and applied for a loan and 6 days after that I got approved for a student loan lol Yeah well I've got a Duke paying for mine and I won't have anything to pay back so shove that up your arse lol
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Sep 2, 2020 15:52
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Jose posted:Congrats on sucking up to the aristocracy *sucking off
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Sep 2, 2020 16:11
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Z the IVth posted:Karen them with the name of your patron until they fold and give you the place. He very kindly wrote me a reference. That and the cheque are the only way I'm getting admitted to any university, and I am totally not above taking advantage of nepotism and bribery. My principles basically don't survive any contact with any conflict of interests lol.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:13
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thespaceinvader posted:There's a term for it I can't remember, but this is a well known thing throughout history. Everyone thinks the past was better than the present. We're not immune to it - and heck from a purely personal perspective, my life is probably better than almost anyone's in history, up to and including nobility from any decade earlier than like... 1900. Just because the world is on fire doesn't mean I can't play D&D with people I've never met via the internet. Socrates posted:The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:43
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Jakabite posted:Anyone else used to think the stuff in a Mars bar was called mars? It was only about a year ago I was told this wasn’t the case and it was actually nougat. ?????????????
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Sep 5, 2020 08:24
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My local council has put up signs everywhere showing two swans next to each other, and reminding people to stay that distance apart with no further definition or clarification. So presumably two swans will soon be added to the SI system as an international unit of measurement.
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Sep 10, 2020 11:36
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I've spent the entire summer chasing Leicester Uni for an MA place which they finally confirmed at midday today, demanding £10,500 by tomorrow so I can go through registration and then saying it'll take them 3 weeks to raise the invoice, which is after the start date of my loving course. I'm spending the afternoon meditating the death of university administrators.
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Sep 10, 2020 15:17
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Mega Comrade posted:What you studying? Museum Studies, which I hear Leics are excellent for. But lately all I hear is that the department collapsed over the summer and was folded into another. Certainly my own experience so far is of a total lack of organisation.
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Sep 10, 2020 15:34
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I'm about to spunk £400 up the wall on a sofa I'll never sit on and I loving hate it. This "being a normal, functional adult and having furniture so your guests don't think you live like a smack addict in an opium den" stuff is a load of poo poo.
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Sep 10, 2020 19:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Why are you being compelled to buy it, is someone else involved in the decision? Personally I'm perfectly happy with it, as it's less aggro whenever I move house. But nice girls apparently expect not to be forced to sit on an office chair or the floor lol. As for the cost, I''m going for some L-shaped Ikea thing because I can get it delivered and I know it won't be hosed up out the box. And I also want something that I can pass out on every now and then. But the rest of the time I know I'll be at my desk or whatever.
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Sep 10, 2020 19:52
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I live in a very bourgeois home counties village. We don't have charity shops, we have boutiques. The difference being its the same stuff you'd get in a charity shop but more expensive than if you bought it new. And I don't drive so basically I need to get summat delivered. IKEA seems like an easy choice. Also buying new means I don't have to wonder if it the last owner died on it.
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Sep 10, 2020 22:06
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Here's something I love about being a manager. There are two girls working in my office. They loving gossip non stop and do no work when I'm out of the office. Usually I go out for an hour at 12,30 or 1ish for lunch and I know they just do gently caress all while I'm gone even though they take their lunches at 12. Today I'm hanging around in the office and skipping my lunch. They keep casually mentioning the time in conversation as if to remind me it's time for me to leave so they can skive off for an hour. I'm skipping lunch just to gently caress them off lol
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Sep 11, 2020 12:49
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Don't become managers folks. I've walked too far down a dark path and there's no going back for me.
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Sep 11, 2020 12:58
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Dear UKMT, I regret to announce that the very first text on my Museum Studies MA reading list is basically Marx and Gramsci, filtered through Foucault. I've spent ten years trying to carefully compartmentalise my own personal beliefs and keep them separate from my professional life so I don't have a nervous breakdown from the internal contradiction, and 2 days into my MA my tutors are all "yes, but have you considered that museums are, and always have been, a tool of class oppression?" The Tories were right all along: the universities are full of commie activists who want to subvert you children.
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Oct 8, 2020 19:40
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the sex ghost posted:This wouldn't happen to be the Museum Studies MA at Liverpool Hope by any chance would it? Mrs Ghost is a recent graduate. She wouldn't do a lot of the theory reading when she did her BA in English (much to my annoyance since we did the same course and I was all about the theory) so it was quite funny to watch as she cracked and pinged off the walls and now can't go into a museum without kicking off about their acquisition techniques ThomasPaine posted:If you've spent most of your career working in a castle privately owned by the landed arisocracy that kind of sort of also functions begrudgingly as a museum/archive, as your posts suggest, I think you're going to find it pretty loving cool just how radical the discipline can be these days.
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Oct 8, 2020 21:01
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minema posted:I've accidentally done a small brexit coffee and cigarettes do that for me
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Oct 9, 2020 19:59
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What a precious toddler she was, having been born in 1979.
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Oct 11, 2020 13:39
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Nostalgic Cashew posted:I haven't been tracking Brexit super closely, but have done some reading of articles and the like- and track this thread, but it seems like there is a distinct lack of terror of punching out to WTO rules in 12 weeks. Am I missing something? yeah were all going to die so what
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Oct 11, 2020 20:31
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A mate of mine just travelled to Paris on the Eurostar on an expired passport. Waved right through at St Pancras and only realised when the French plod stopped him in Paris. So now he's in the bastille and they're dusting off the guillotine as we speak.
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Oct 13, 2020 15:12
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This is just me whining and not about anything that matters. So far my experience of doing an MA at Leicester has been not positive. Feels like I have to chase these fuckers at every turn. A week in and the only contact I've had from my personal tutor is a generic email he clearly sends to everybody with a suggestion for a zoom meeting that he didn't even turn up for lol. I'm not sure how twattish it would be of me to send him an indignant email at this point but after they hosed me around all summer, gave me my placement one day before the deadline with a demand for the full fee less than 24hrs later, delayed the start of the programme by a week, and still can't get their website working for us to submit work to, my patience is wearing really thin. And I can already imagine their mewing "due to covid" excuses. Didn't stop them from inhaling £10,000 though.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I've been a twat straight out of school pisscan drop out at uni, then later a mature student and yes they are poo poo and that's outside of Corona. Obviously as a young idiot I didn't know or care but once I went back the amount of hounding you have to do to get well respected heads of courses and whatever to do the bare minimum... It's ridiculous. Chasing people down corridors. They are loving useless in my experience. I haven't really got any helpful advice but you aren't wrong and they all need a loving kick up the arse. Ah it's all useful context. One of my mates says personal tutors are all treated like poo poo by the uni so I should give him the benefit of the doubt. Another told me, like you're suggesting, that they're useless twats and I should demandmy money's worth. Basically having been out if education for literally 20 years at this point I just want to chat to the guy to get some reassurance on a few points of standards and expectations, so it's not like I'm asking the world of him. So far all the fee has gotten me is a reading list I could have downloaded for free. Anyway I sent him the world's most passive aggressive email asking when it would suit his convenience to call me lol.
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JoylessJester posted:https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/06/26/heres-why-britain-is-struggling-to-form-a-fully-effective-carrier-strike-group/ I like that our multi-billion pound state of the art supercarriers are entirely dependent for their operational capability on "one support ship with limited capacity" that has already been in service for 26 years. And since the navy's surface capability is pathetically small already probably half the frigate and destroyed complement are going to be permanently tied up escorting whichever carrier is in the field at any give time. So speaking practically you could cripple the entire royal navy by sinking the one supply ship we have to keep the fleet fed and watered lol
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Oct 16, 2020 20:28
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:At the risk of being flamed to hell and back, the demonisation in this thread of people who lean right is scary How do you dehumanise something that isn't human to begin with
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Oct 18, 2020 10:01
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Hey I know all of you degenerates are hot on continental philosophy. Can anybody recommend any good texts examining heterotopias, beyond "Of Other Spaces"? Normally I wouldn't feel safe asking anybody such a ridiculous question, but I suspect at least half a dozen people in UKMT are fluent in post-structuralism.
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Oct 22, 2020 17:44
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peanut- posted:Who will be backing this exciting new movement The Harrying of the North didn't go far enough imo
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Oct 23, 2020 17:58
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All my best roleplaying experiences were over IRC with dicebots (which is pretty antiquated itself these days). Getting around a physical tabletop is too much like hard work.
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Oct 23, 2020 20:07
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Great, time to start panic buying loving toilet paper and soup before everybody else does.
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Oct 31, 2020 13:54
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Sean Connery's dead btw
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Oct 31, 2020 13:56
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Gary Lineker seems quite comfortable with the BBC's new anti-bias restrictions: https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1322579721721417731
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Oct 31, 2020 18:19
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biglads posted:This has been Johnson's entire career. Sort yourself & your mates out, bullshit and bluster, oh poo poo, don't worry something else will crop up, it always does, fail upward.
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Nov 1, 2020 01:34
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Grey Hunter posted:Starmer, well, its a shame he's" spins wheel of hate "A Gay Romanian Muslim."
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Nov 2, 2020 18:44
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Trump losing and actually leaving will still be a bounty of lols because former Presidents are expected to be dignified elder statesmen who don't interfere in policy and generally just smile and wave in the election year but lol if anybody thinks Trump will ever shut his loving hole. And the press will lap it up with glee.
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Donald Trump is clearly and inarguably a racist, who panders to other racists and white supremacists. But I genuinely don't think the man himself is a "philosophical" or political white supremacist, if only because he doesn't care about anybody but himself. He probably couldn't articulate anything approaching a fascist theory of race, and is too stupid to be personally the architect of a racist ethnostate. But on some level he understands that the racists who support him want him to victimise people who aren't white, and so you get these half-baked (but nonetheless horrendous and dehumanising) policies like the Muslim travel ban and the border cages. Lots of people have said it before, but thank god Trump is actually an idiot. A competent fascist could have done far more damage to human rights in the last four years.
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Nov 12, 2020 09:42
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Is it normal to want to hang yourself two months into an MA and one week before handing in you first paper? gently caress me but I'm not sure I'm cut out for the stress.
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I left school at 15 with no qualifications and got accepted into an MA in my mid 30s. I understand the material, understand what I would like to write, and I'm just sitting here staring at an incoherent mess of text with one week till my deadline and feeling utterly hopeless. Doesn't help that I was sort of pressured into this by my employers, who are paying for it. I can't really blame them because I chose the course and said I wanted to o it, but for them my doing something was conditional on continued advancement. So it's a bit of a loving pickle.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Definitely get an extension, talk to your tutor, you need to figure out how to structure and write an essay. That can take time and practice. They might have something useful to help you. Like I should be able to do it, but I'm just tying myself up in knots, getting lost in the literature, and not being very productive. I think my lack of familiarity with general academic writing is a serious flaw on my part, but I'm familiar with professional writing from my work, and hadn't expected to feel so directionless and terrified. I'm probably crying about nothing, but it's veeerrry scary.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Start with an outline if you haven't already: This is essentially what I've done actually, so you've reassured me a little. I've split each section split into an introduction, exploration of the question through two criteria (level of public accessibility and the explicit or implicit educational purpose of the institution) and then summary leading into the next section. I think where I'm really getting tied up is in feeling like I need to reference every loving sentence and statement to some source in the literature, which makes it hard to get my own voice into it. Anyway, I'm determined not to ask for an extension before Friday, and I'm lucky enough to be able to gently caress off all my "work" this week and be able to take my papers into the office and just work on the paper. I'm just terrified of them coming back to me and telling me I'm a stupid twat and I'm going to fail. Ebola Dog posted:Absolutely, you can get to the end of a 4 year PhD and still feel like you don't actually know what you are doing or that you have somehow tricked your way into passing the viva. Even the best PhD students I have known end up feeling like this at some point. "I don't know what I am doing" you literally just passed a viva, you must know something! It's crap and I don't really have any good suggestions other that talk to people (so you can promptly ignore them because they are clearly wrong when they reassure you if I'm anything to go by) and know you aren't the only one who feels like this. Doesn't matter how big or small it is. Anyway thanks guys, you're all awfully kind and supportive, and it means a lot.
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