Late night at SRK, version 0, champion edition!

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5801

100 bucks says he passed and that he’s worried for nothing. :tup: :rofl: can you give us a link to this blog you’re talking about? I didn’t even know about it. come to think of it, maybe I should start one. Right now I’ve got the time so it could be a good thing.

@Catchafire next time, use zerglings. I 100% guarantee that he won’t expect THAT back in the stone age. :tup:

-Starhammer-

5802

Here’s the blog, Star. [link] Bunch of ramblings and cheap (mostly fighting game or cartoon related) laughs anyway.

And nah, I was legitimately worried. A lot less now that I’ve talked to my old folks on the phone, but still. The uni system here is wacky. Apparently my parents’ friends are higherups in this campus (and my parents they are alumni of this joint as well) so chances are they’ll help me.

5803

I swear… I hate everyone, everyone, EVERYONE at work. **EVERYONE. ** I’ve had to work with one or two assholes at my job, but goddamn… over here it’s the entire fucking building. Just the worst group of people I have ever met… and I’ve lived and met people in 4 different continents. Talk about a job with no redeeming value whatsoever.

5804

Three weeks until I’m married, and I find out today that I’m going IA to Djibouti Africa.

I am going in August for 6 months and I hear I’m going to be a mother fucking postal clerk.

Now, none of this would be that bad, if my fiance wasn’t a foreign national, because she needs me here for multiple reasons regarding her legal status and not to mention EVERYTHING else. There are tough times ahead for me… can some1 give me a “gl”?

5805

Maybe this will help?

N - Good luck yo.

5806

damn dude. Sorry to hear you’re having so many problems at work. fortunately, I’ve not been to that situation, but I still know what you’re talking about.

-Starhammer-

5807

What?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!!?!??!?! Africa?!?!?!?! damn. How the hell did THIS happen? can’t the fucking squadron cut you a damn break since you’re about to get married? and of all things, postal clerk? damn. well, I guess it could be worse. at least this time you’re not stuck on an aircraft carrier. still, that sucks that you’ll be stuck overseas for six months. man, here’s my GL for ya. I hope things will work out for ya.

-Starhammer-

5808

Thanks for saying that. It’s just really jarring when I left a shop where everybody was friendly with me (maybe a little too friendly… like a couple newlywed officers… how they acted around me made things a little uncomfortable at work… but that’s another story, bottom line is I was on good terms with mostly everybody, only exceptions being that cake incident and the LOR), and entered one where it’s a guessing game whether the guy/girl walking past me will answer my “good morning” greeting… I can deal with a few haters here and there, but when that kind of negativity surrounds you, it wears you out. I expected a more positive vibe from a tropical island.

5809

Hah, I’ve been reading my old posts in this thread… and I was bitching about UK the same way I’m bitching about Okinawa now.

Now that I left UK my thoughts are…

  • They may give you hell, but got damn… lots of gorgeous females out there… well maybe not a lot. Quality over quantity.
  • Clubs were shitty, but they had plenty elbow room. Fuck clubs anyway. I outgrew that bullshit.
  • My next door neighbor? A BAR. Are your neighbors that cool? I miss getting plastered every Friday without worrying about designated driver and all that.
  • If you’re American, you’ll rupture your liver before you ever outdrink a Brit. That includes the women.
  • Not really as dignified as I expected. The pop culture can be REALLY crude and tacky and in your face, worse than what I’m used to from the US. And the arts isn’t really as accessible as I thought it would be. I did live near Cambridge though, and they had play theaters and lectures. Other than that, it felt like the classy shit was out of reach unless you had money or status.
  • I don’t remember ever eating at any restaurant and liking what I ate.
  • There’s a difference between relics of the Old World and everything looking rotten and unmaintenanced. The part of UK I was in had plenty of the latter. What I saw outside of the Suffolk area seemed to be in better condition. Where I lived, all the buildings looked like a tiled shower with years of caked-on mildew. Bloody depressing. If anyone thought the movie Children of Men looked dreary and disgusting… where I lived barely looked any different, minus all the end of the world stuff.
  • I’ve never seen so much gotdamn roadkill in my life. Deers, dogs, pheasants, rabbits, crows-- they were all on the ground with their guts out. Yuck.
  • Japan really didn’t prepare me for living in a foreign country. I never felt so out-of touch with the goings-on in the US than I did in the UK. All the entertainment and fashion is homegrown, and whatever the rest of the world is into trickles in at its leisure. When I visited the US after living in the UK for a year and a half, I didn’t recognize anything on TV or what they were selling at the mall. In my first 4 years in Japan I never felt that disconnected.
  • I’d probably enjoy it more if it was easier and less expensive for me to get to London. A lot busier and a LOT of diversity. On a weekend in Piccadily Circus, you’ll feel like you walked past every walk of life on the planet. That’s hands down what I liked the most about England.
  • Now that I’ve come to terms with what the game is in UK… I could never live there. Not as long as the value of the GBP vs USD is 2:1. I never did so much window shopping in a mall in my life. Completely unaffordable. And fuck that crazy 17% tax you have to pay. That’s right seventeen percent. I couldn’t live there unless I was getting paid in tax-free Pounds… and that’s not gonna happen unless your name’s Bond.
  • No matter how bad it got, I’m really glad that I got to see the UK with my own eyes.

The point of that rant is, when I first got to England I was like “everything sucks sucks sucks!” but at the end of the day it was pretty tolerable. Right now my complaints about Okinawa is it’s kinda boring and it’s full of ignorant fuckheads (and some of these fuckheads are threatening my career, so I actually can’t be too patient unfortunately). I’ll try my best to be patient and hope that things turn around instead of bitching all the time.

5810

Star, I didn’t make the cut with regards to the exam. :sad: I think it really sucks and is really unfair, as it was my last academic subject and yet no consideration was given. I honestly think the system here (in that regard) is bullshit.

I’ve talked to my parents about it already. They told me that, if complaining to the higherups doesn’t work, I should look into the possibility of cross-registering with a sister campus of this uni. At least that way I might be able to get away from shitty teachers during my last semester.

5811
  • Probation is officially up. I am now an employee and nothing has changed… :wonder:

FREE BOOZE FTW!

…that went well. :rofl:

  • You may think it sucks but we all know that this is how life is. See how well it[my sig] works with your bullshit?
5812

Bear,

I didn’t bother to reply to the Miss U thread because SK already commented on what you posted for that.

But apparently it was this. I thought someone was dissing your outro, but in actually it was something else (hence the reply there):

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=121330&page=31

I am sorry if I did not specify the thread or the fact that it was a few months old.

But I noticed there was a time that you were without this outro gimmick cheese, and it was fine:

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=127071

I do not like poster outro gimmicks in general. Not yours, not quiche’s, and not the “im outi” guy, whatever his name is.

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And for the record, no. I think with regards to this course and exam, a lot of bullshit provisos and questions were added. If you will, it’s “unfair-er” than the usual. My classmates feel the same way too, and they too, will have a word about this issue with the higherups.

I have the feeling there’s something legitimately wrong, that the standards set for passing the said course are set impossibly high. I have in fact studied long and hard, and yet somehow managed to incur “must pass or fail this exam” status.

I am sorry if that was too much of an LJ post, but I feel that my story here is that it’s not just a simple “wah wah I failed” story, although it is a little discouraging just the same.

5813

4neqs: That’s good to read.

Old habits die young. I had a bit of a reawakening so I brought it back. I actually like “…that went well”(I actually use this phrase alot. Wins. Beastings, whatever.) and it’s too bad that petty shit like this annoys you enough to attack me ON AN UNRELATED THREAD. Let’s matrix pause my writing here for just one moment for a deeper analysis, shall we?

Do you see this? READ THIS QUOTE ALOUD. Seriously. Read it.

This is why I would come back at you. Instead of PMing me about this, you decided to take me on while I was posting because you and those others find that outward embarrassment, through self expression of criticism, is so normal. You could have done this in the SRK Lounge or a Thinking Out Loud Thread, but no. Not you. You had to diss me there. Now, let’s get back to what I would like to call the solution.

There is a Parental Control Feature we all like to call the “ignore button”. If it’s such a problem to you, please ignore me.

…that went well.

5814

Ah. It was a on a whim since I saw two other people do it, but yes, after going over it again it was rather off-tangent. Sorry again.

Dropping this particular topic now, I hope there are no hard feelings.

5815

I have currently begun Finals week and on my first day that I have two tests, I am running on a 24 hour caffeine high. There is really no reason for this either, because I am fairly confident I will do alright. Oh wells, wish me luck.

5816
  • No…none.
  • grabs 4neqs voodoo doll from Nigga, his pet rabbit, and throws it into the roaring fireplace *

In this day and age, pussy peer pressure is so hard to follow.

  • Well, finally meeting my friend’s cousin at a picnic next Friday. Let the social ladder climbing commence.

…that went well.

5817

damn. that sucks man. I know you’ve been studying for a while here. what exact happened, as I’m getting the feeling that this isn’t just academics.

-Starhammer-

5818

The reply to that will mostly likely be grade-A blog material, I’ll just PM you about it eventually. At least, I’m doing fine, for now. :tup:

5819

cool. I’ll be waiting for it then. I hope things keep going up for ya.

-Starhammer-

5820

to any and all late nighters who aren’t already aware, I’m pretty much in the lounge as much as here now. I don’t quite check up on this part as much as I used to anymore, but I’m sure you’ve seen that already. just a head’s up.

-Starhammer-