Una Storia Italiana
Yeah, the rallies are good as is the ride too them, so to answer the question 'riding and water sking' and as I dont ride in winter or ski for that matter then its a long cold streach of the yearOriginally Posted by scumdog
So my next rally will be the Magpie Madness (Winchester) in November will you be likely to be there??
And as for your last sentence......... we know that, just dont expect the flack to stophimmm is that bacon I smell
cheers DD
(Definately Dodgy)
http://geoffjames.blogspot.com
You're not doing an Arts degree, are you? Maybe that's why your parents aren't funding you, hehe.Oops, i lied about saying i never get stressed. That stresses/pisses me off so badly. Apparantly my parents earn enough to pay for all my course and my living costs etc, i feel a tui ad therethey don't give me any money. Yeah maybe they pay for me to come home in the holidays sometimes and don't charge me bored etc when I am home, but that is irreveland imho. The law says that as soon as i am 18 (i think) my parents aren't legally obliged to support me, but this just contradicts that.
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Only joking - my daughter has a BA in Psych and frequently reminds me that I said no child of mine would ever do a BA!
Geoff
Deus ex ukulele
How To Handle Stress
*Jam tiny marshmallows up your nose and try to sneeze them out.
*Use your Mastercard to pay your Visa bill.
*Pop some popcorn without putting the lid on.
*When someone says “Have a nice day!” tell them you have other plans.
*Find out what a frog in a blender really looks like.
*Make a list of the things you have already done.
*Dance naked in front of your pets.
*Thumb through National Geographic and draw underwear on all the natives.
*Go shopping for clothes. Buy everything. Sweat in them. Return them the next day.
*Drive to work in reverse.
*Read the dictionary backwards and look for subliminal messages.
*Start a nasty rumour and see if you recognise it when it gets back to you.
*Bill your doctor for the time you spent in his waiting room.
*Get a box of condoms. Wait in line at the checkout counter and ask the cashier where the fitting rooms are.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Deus ex ukulele
High stress days
Some useful expressions for those high stress days:
1. Well, aren’t we just a ray of fucking sunshine?
2. Not the brightest crayon in the box now, are we?
3. Do I look like a fucking people person?
4. This isn’t an office. It’s Hell with fluorescent lighting.
5. I pretend to work. They pretend to pay me.
6. You! Off my planet!
7. Practice random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control.
8. I like cats too. Let’s exchange recipes.
9. Did the aliens forget to remove your anal probe?
10. And your cry-baby whiny-arsed opinion would be...
11. How many times do I have to flush before you go away?
12. Aw, did I step on your poor little bitty ego?
13. How do I set a laser printer to stun?
14. I’m not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.
15. When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.
16. Earth is full. Go home.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
In the riders seat
I once took transferred to a different job within the company and took a $5200 pay cut per year to reduce my stress level as it was affecting my health and the way I dealt with other people and as far as I was concerned it was well worth it.
Since then I have been working my way back up the company ladder and it's getting to the point where I have come to believe the company car and nice salary just aren't worth it if you no longer enjoy what you are doing.
My current stress management system involves reading,computer games, but mostly racing bikes and trail riding whenever I have the oppurtunity.
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
now where's some dirt!
Don't think you could have offended me more. Wouldn't be having exams if I was doing one of those papers. Seems the only job you get with a degree like that is to teach what you learns, just goes round in circles, lol.
Science actually, majoring in physics, then going on to do electrical engineering.
The best way that I have heard for paying back the student loan is that the PAYE tax you pay when you get out of uni gets deducted off your loan. So then you are kind of paying it back, the money still goes to the government.
I have no problems having to pay around $4000 in tuition fees per year, its the $150 that I have to borrow each week that annoys me. I think it is like $7000 a year or so, and that doesn't mean I get to live in luxury. Just gets me by including bike expenses etc, but it isn't a bad life.
I'd rather be thinking
You can't be serious. Running is the best part. After 5 minutes, you start to feel good. When the endorphins kick in, you're on top of the world. After 30 minutes you're on a high that keeps you going for the rest of the evening.
Whereas pumping iron is just torture. But worth it.
Age is too high a price to pay for maturity
I'd rather be thinking
ROFL.
(But a bit sad, too, when you realize that behind the sophisticated, cynical humour lurks a desperate unhappiness with the world as it is ...)
Age is too high a price to pay for maturity
Highway Biker
Not stressful here at the moment - but that all depends on the stage of the current project. I get to ride to and from work and that is a great stress reliever for me. Used to drive - now that really taught me about stress!
Seated in heavenly places
I do actually have a few secret weapons that help me with my stress levels Marmoot!
Forum whore
Well my job wasnt stessful until I invested in the company ...now ! Had a day yesterday the guys all described as a PMS day...oops. Then theres the days I walk in and apologise to my staff before the day starts.
Taking the bike out is the best relief of stress i can come up with. Cant kick the cat anymore or she wont come home...ohh and there is always a quick trip up to the Poor Knights for a scuba dive. If I am really cranky then a cray dive seems to do the trick - hunting and gathering. Nuffin like trying to tear them critters out from under rocks to come home to my pot.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
well i've just left a pretty stressful job. i didn't leave because of the stress though, even though my work permeated my personal life. there are not many people who get introduced by their occupation, how about the senior sergeant from tauranga who had his house mitre 10'd last week? i left the police as i couldn't see myself pushing paper there for another 25 years, so i went back to engineering, and are now up to armpits in 747's and 767's - what a blast! i am bikeless for another 14 days, so can't use that. i love to get out on my surf ski, or surf board if it's big enough, ride my bmx bike, walk my new puppy, spend time with my family - suddenly i seem to have heaps more time to do that, even though i'm commuting to auckland every day - i am learning to fly though, this has become my new baby. it's not cheap, but i have a goal at the end of it, to fly for a living (basic though it may be...). i looked at a student loan - $65000 over 2 years, or $85000 for a helicopter CPL over 14 months. just couldn't justify 1. the time and 2. the loan hanging over my head. i decided to pay up front for my flying, then if it doesn't work out i don't owe anybody anything (well except the missus an explanation why i blew $35k). it is amazing that the flying schools will charge $65k for a 2 year course that i can do privately for around $35k, in 6 months.
and JD is a great friend to have in moderation.
Der gummikuh man
Alternative views? give a universal student allowance that can be supplemented by part time work if necessary, without the allowance decreasing. The allowance doesnt necessarily have to be enough to live on, there may still be a place for the living costs allowance that is graded by parental income, even though I think that this is a ridiculous proposition. The true cost of a degree is reflected in what overseas students pay in fees (as near as I can tell. Maybe uni is making huge profits off them but I dunno). This means that education is still hugely subsidised. Now, I think my degree is cheap.
fftopic: -or should that be on topic? - Working all holidays and 16-24 hours a week in term time, I have managed to put enough aside to pay my fees (BSc) and save for an OE too. Now that is rather stressful, but I am surviving by having as many activities as I can packed into my day so I have set relaxation times, playing bridge, indoor soccer, squash, and fencing twice a week. Having all of these really helps release stress, especially indoor soccer and squash, as I am good enough to not frustrate myself when i play (unlike bridge and fencing).
The obsession with qualifications seems to be uniquely New Zealand, and we have the highest number of universities per capita in the developed world (or something like that). New Zealand universities are high throughput institutions. Bums on seats and such. When I was looking at doing an exchange in Norwich, I was impressed by the philosophy of the English system. Their huge first year Biology classes are about 150, whereas at Auckland Uni it is 800 (the size of the largest lecture room - and they run 2 streams too). Third year papers run to about 100 students in NZ, whereas they may be 7 or 8 in England. However, the set of papers taken in English Universities is very prescriptive, you dont get to choose the make-up of your degree. I dont agree with the philosophy that degrees are good so more are better, the whole of first year science was a review of seventh form, and I wrote one essay the entire time, that was in geography. Biological Science assessment, due to the huge numbers, was restricted to multichoice and short answers. I never lasted an entire exam until second year when some papers had essays. Twas ridiculously easy to get good marks in.
I think the University scheme should have sharper entrance criteria (similar to those for engineering school and med but not that high). At the moment you have to pass 3 out of 5 bursary subjects and complete the other two to get into a BA or BSc. People would benefit from the reduced obsession with degrees, as they would be less available, worth more but less necessary for many jobs.
I see many people doing commerce/engineering, not because they like it, but because they believe they will earn money doing it. Weird if you ask me. Why not do a far less expensive apprenticeship for a trade, and earn the same money? Strange focus we have on degrees, probably fed by the universities, and the government, doing things like granting AIT university status (now AUT), for no particular reason.
Queiro voya todo Europa con mi moto.... pero no tengo suficiente tiempo o dinero.....
Scooter boy
I work on a service desk. Nuff said. Week days are for work and gym, weekends are for clubs, pubs, drugs and parties.
50+ hour weeks, after hours on call roster, endless bitching, endless projects, endless paperwork, endless performance reviews. Come friday night hit it, wake up midday sunday and start again. Wee!
I'd rather be thinking
Good onya Marty for having a dream and putting it ahead of mere dollars and cents. I had my first flying lesson well over a quarter of a century ago but didn't get far because I foolishly listened to voices of so-called reason (other people's voices but also my own) with all sorts of rationalizations as to why I couldn't afford it. What I lost instead (time, experience, enjoyment, a possible career that I would have loved) is gone forever.
The $35k will never be "blown". It's not a financial investment, it's an investment in yourself, in who and what you are and want to be. Good luck!
Age is too high a price to pay for maturity
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