I blame the Labour government.
Deus ex ukulele
I blame the Labour government.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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I blame Steve Jobs.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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I blame Mr Biff. Cos he's Welch, it's what they're for . Why mess with 800 years of tradition.
Originally Posted by skidmark
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It's been said before on here re: doing "stuff" - the best way to learn is by getting stuck in. Find or create a plan and as long as it's not too complicated to start with then you shouldn't have a problem. Thing is, being a clever student, as you are, your project is probably going to be a little more complicated than most people would attempt. If I don't know how to do something I ask, then have a go, then ask again, have another go then pay someone to fix my mistakes!
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
eschew obsification...
The problem is in society's values.
Society projects the belief that academics are somehow 'superior' to artisans and craftsmen ............ and regards with something approaching contempt those who earn a living by getting their hands dirty
Until our thinking changes and 'dirty' is no longer used as an insult the price of plumbers, carpenters, mechanics and bakers will continue to rise ..... and their scarcity increase.
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Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons....... - Honore de Balzac
e mare libertas
It's common knowledge in The Industry (tm) that chaps with NZCEs outrank chaps without, due to the much higher likelihood of their being able to do useful work.
Look, folks, in the end, it just comes down to individuals.
If you don't like the way things are going, learn what you need to know, do a bit of academic nancying around, and get a job lecturing at the university or polytechnic of your choice. Mold young minds in your image.
I torment myself regularly with the idea of doing just that, but I couldn't afford the pay cut. Vanilla lecturers without tenure are the bottom of the food chain.
But someone's gotta do it for love, and one day I will.
Stop bitching about the system, gentlemen, and start making a difference. Good teachers are like terrorists; they wage asymmetrically-effective warfare against shit that needs to go down.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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No, no, no! Society doesn't value academics at all! A modern University is almost utterly bereft of the spirit of collegiate exploration. It is totally about churning out graduate "knowledge workers". Not people that create knowledge, but people that manipulate the media in which knowledge resides. People that create knowledge have been kicked out of Universities because they refuse to to work on projects that will make money for the University's corporate benfactors.
Society wants their kids to be Doctors, and Lawyers, and "Businessmen".
Because they don't have to grovel in the shit, or get dirty, or maybe hurt themselves while they make someone else's life better. Instead they can farm money, using the platforms provided by the "knowledge workers".
In the meantime, the fundamentals of what makes a society work, like roads, energy networks, dry ,well ventilated housing, and food distribution networks decay to the point of failure.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Until our thinking changes.....and people stop thinking that tradesmen are out to rip them off,overcharge,charge for work never done,damage property to get the repair.Until our thinking changes....and people stop holding tradesmen responsable for problems not caused by them,but a fault already existing,blaming when there is no one to blame.Until our thinking changes.....and people stop thinking that $60 is overcharging,when the work they do themselves is charged out at an even higher rate......then you may get some poor suckers back into trades.I love my job - I hate what it's become.....
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You know, I reckon that's an urban myth.
I don't know anyone with a lack of respect for guys in those professions.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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Dead right Fish. It's FINDING a good one that's a pain in the arse. They're usually doing 90% of the work at 50% of the rates the blokes that never turn up.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
e mare libertas
I tried, and I tried, but I just can't parse that sentence.
Are you pissed?
Goddammit. *I* should be pissed. Where's my fucking Laphroaig?
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
Deus ex ukulele
Thus spoke Zarathustra. Hmmm. Laphroaig...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
e mare libertas
Bom, bom, bom... ba BUUUUUMMM!!!
Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum.
Bom, bom, bom... ba BAAAAAAAAAUUUM!!!
DA DA DUMMM, DAAAAAAA... DADA DAAAAA!
(Bom, bom, bom)
DADA DAAAAAA, DAAAAAAAA DA DA DAAAA!
(Dum dum dum!)
DA DA DAAA... DAAAA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
Deus ex ukulele
Careful, you'll get the drummers all excited...
But not a bad rendition of Richard Strauss' trinitarian chords.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
e mare libertas
Nah. That'd be the "Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum" part.
Anyway, everyone knows that 'drummers' can't stand playing percussion in classical compositions. Cultural overdose, innit. Now pass the doobie, and get the fuck away from me with those hair clippers.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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