Crash on Waterloo Quadrant/Princes St (12 March)

[Phurrball]

I was merely talking to andrew about private healthcare. Private health care is veeery expensive, I didnt insult andrew or type any swear words.

I dont actually troll much. Nah cant afford formal cutlery on a student budget.

I really think you should save for your admittance as a lawyer, you have passed the bar. It saddens me to see such an educated person with opportunity on the plate to no proceed in a direction where he can help himself and others.

Yeah, alright: Maybe you're trolling, but I'll bite anyway -

Save your tears for your own lack of insight.

Comment when you are fully aware of the admission process, the legal job market and my personal circumstances.

You are not so STFU.

FYI I'm being admitted at the next available ceremony, and admission makes no difference to one's job prospects (as long as it's 'pending').

Unfortunately it's a very, very shit time in the economic cycle to finish a qualification.

I'm not starving or homeless even if I'm significantly underemployed - it's either do what I'm doing (support myself) or go on the benefit until the first 'real' job comes along - I know what I and society prefer. I wish there were an intermediate, but there isn't. None of this is helped by the fact my hours have been cut.

It's most likely I'll find a job by networking (the Auckland Alumni Network is exellent for this) and informational interviewing rather than advertised jobs or cold calling. I have a strategy and I have no fear that I will find an excellent job befitting my qualifications. Do a search for graduate/junior solicitors' jobs - you'd be lucky to find more than 2 - 5 advertised at any one time. There are approx 1000 law grads every year. No prizes for guessing that most jobs are not advertised. Not quite on a plate.

Oh, and -

STOP FUCKING MANGLING METAPHORS

[ital916]

Yeah, alright: Maybe you're trolling, but I'll bite anyway -

Save your tears for your own lack of insight.

Comment when you are fully aware of the admission process, the legal job market and my personal circumstances.

You are not so STFU.

FYI I'm being admitted at the next available ceremony, and admission makes no difference to one's job prospects (as long as it's 'pending').

Unfortunately it's a very, very shit time in the economic cycle to finish a qualification.

I'm not starving or homeless even if I'm significantly underemployed - it's either do what I'm doing (support myself) or go on the benefit until the first 'real' job comes along - I know what I and society prefer. I wish there were an intermediate, but there isn't. None of this is helped by the fact my hours have been cut.

It's most likely I'll find a job by networking (the Auckland Alumni Network is exellent for this) and informational interviewing rather than advertised jobs or cold calling. I have a strategy and I have no fear that I will find an excellent job befitting my qualifications. Do a search for graduate/junior solicitors' jobs - you'd be lucky to find more than 2 - 5 advertised at any one time. There are approx 1000 law grads every year. No prizes for guessing that most jobs are not advertised. Not quite on a plate.

Oh, and -

STOP FUCKING MANGLING METAPHORS

I wasnt being nasty, I was just saying I was saying I hope you become a lawyer soon, it is pretty cool to be one. Be cool.

But your being nasty back arent you ross, tut tut. Ill bite my tongue and try and think before posting.

Congrats, I hope the ceremony goes well, I feel ya..everyones hours are being cut, as a student who works I know exactly what it feels like to have hours cut.

I didnt even use any metaphors......well not on purpose.

See I am improving, I could have been right nasty back but I havent, woohoo fucking gold star for me. Oh and I wasnt trolling. I have annoyed you in the past, I guess this time you've gotten a little more wound up than usual, I apolgize for whatever the fuck I did to get you so wriled up. *apart from my comment to jith which I wont apologize for, he seems to have accepted it and I did say that I wasnt being a cunt to him....high five jith*.

[Phurrball]

I wasn't being nasty, I was just saying I was saying I hope you become a lawyer soon, it is pretty cool to be one. Be cool.

But your being nasty back aren't you Ross, tut tut. I'll bite my tongue and try and think before posting.

Congrats, I hope the ceremony goes well, I feel ya..everyone's hours are being cut, as a student who works I know exactly what it feels like to have hours cut.

I didn't even use any metaphors......well not on purpose.

See I am improving, I could have been right nasty back but I haven't, woohoo fucking gold star for me. Oh and I wasn't trolling. I have annoyed you in the past, I guess this time you've gotten a little more wound up than usual, I apolgise for whatever the fuck I did to get you so riled up. *apart from my comment to jith which I wont apologise for, he seems to have accepted it and I did say that I wasn't being a cunt to him....high five jith*.

Point to where I'm allegedly being nasty. Please humour me. I believe my response is quite measured, and besides "you don't have to be nice to everyone in the world to get points across" Don't hold back on my account. I'm more than capable of taking care of myself.

I'm particularly wound up - not even riled (with an 'R') you just need to learn not to comment unless you know what you're talking about - like commenting on a person's opportunities and progress when you are manifestly ignorant of the full picture.

You probably should be aplogising to jith, as you made a lot of statements without the full picture - but that's a matter for you and your own personal integrity.

Learn to frame comment as a question rather than an assertion. It helps people get the right end of the stick and stops you looking like a dick when you get it wrong - interesting that you built a qualifier into your last sentence...

[ital916]

Point to where I'm allegedly being nasty. Please humour me. I believe my response is quite measured, and besides "you don't have to be nice to everyone in the world to get points across" Don't hold back on my account. I'm more than capable of taking care of myself.

I'm particularly wound up - not even riled (with an 'R') you just need to learn not to comment unless you know what you're talking about - like commenting on a person's opportunities and progress when you are manifestly ignorant of the full picture.

You probably should be aplogising to jith, as you made a lot of statements without the full picture - but that's a matter for you and your own personal integrity.

Learn to frame comment as a question rather than an assertion. It helps people get the right end of the stick and stops you looking like a dick when you get it wrong - interesting that you built a qualifier into your last sentence...

Qualifier? You are going to have to fill me in to the finer points of the english language ross, its not my strength. Laymans terms please.

As for your situation...good luck to whatever you do. As for being nice or a dick, meh...I dont care if your nice or a dick *friendly dick not agro "ill cut you" dick*.

As for jith, the statements I made were about him riding without a helmet at kaiaua and the scenic drive incident. The scenic drive incident is recreated in full truth exactly the way it was told to me. The person that told it to me knows who you are.

With the kaiaua incident again was told in full truth. Other smc memebers were there who also stated it was stupid, dangerous and the wrong thing to do.

That leaves me with the thoughts on the crash i.e. maybe vision was blocked for the car driver etc and when I told jith to STFU.

My thoughts on the crash I will not apologise for, I would still love to get the drivers side of what happened.

As for telling jith to STFU, it wasnt a proper STFU more like a better just get on with healing up STFU, I should have really put some smileys or a "lol" in there but again I wont apologise. Kb should not be taken seriously.

My intergrity is fine and I know I have not spoken lies where people have said I have.

I have apologised to you for the lawyer thing even when I was just being nice. It was a compliment, obviously in future I wont make any towards you. In fact most of the time what you write doesnt interest me at all so I wont comment.

Anyhoo, I have 3 projects to do so less kb and more study me thinks.

Good night.

[PirateJafa]

That leaves me with the thoughts on the crash i.e. maybe vision was blocked for the car driver etc and when I told jith to STFU.

... I would still love to get the drivers side of what happened.

The car driver has been found liable by the police and they are considering pressing charges. Evidently they were not impressed by the "driver's side of what happened".

Normally I'd think that this would shut you up, however the way you've been putting your foot in your mouth for this entire thread leads me to think otherwise.

Can't be having with this newfangled "logic" stuff now can you Dushy?

[Phurrball]

Just a tip - when someone else tells you something they saw and you repeat it, that's hearsay and there's a reason it's generally not allowed in courts.

Stick to what YOU actually know PERSONALLY.

Otherwise, as jith alluded, it's Chinese whispers. ( me for the non PC term.)

Apologise for the half truths, misstatements and errors of judgment - no one is calling you a liar.

[Real_Wolf]

I've always wondered, is it called chinese whispers for some actually racist meaning, like saying that chinese can't whisper properly? Like if someone who was chinese was passing on a whispered message you couldn't understand it?

I always felt with that game that there was someone who was purposely stuffing it up, I don't trust most people.

Also, for the record, having talked to Phurrball about how you become an actual lawyer there, I gotta say: Becoming a lawyer is the most retarded process.



And a final note, Dushy, you do realise that anything you say can be taken in or out of context, and that no matter whether you mean offense or otherwise, its not what you say its how its recieved that matters.

If I was to go up to a cop and say "man your a retarded shit" because he parked slightly on the footpath, do you really think the fact that I meant it in a 'non offensive manner' and 'it wasnt a proper [offensive message] more like' [an expletive showing my opinion]

No, it will never matter what you mean, its how you say it. You think that if you go up to a girl and tell her that she looks uglier than you thought from over there, that she'll be happy about it? So what if you really meant that she looked really beautiful over there and looks completely different, she won't be happy.

All the above, no matter what you say, ARE analogous to what you have said in this thread. All that you've really managed to do is stick your foot in your mouth, and sound like an idiot. First you go against first hand evidence of what happened, then you go against what the cops were originally thinking, then you go against the actual person who was in the crash, then you continue to go against what the cops decided actually happened thanks to witness's and talking to the drive rof the car. All the way through, you were wrong. Not just slightly wrong, completely wrong. You were told many times you might as well stop as you were going down the wrong path, but you didn't.

Congratulations, you truly are the SMC troll, for no one else in the SMC, to my knowledge, is this hard headed and plainly foolish. You also made Ross there write a few essays on the subject though I think you failed to truly understand the message behind his posts

[Ragingrob]

G'day mate grab some 'roo off the barby and some fosters from the esky, some chips (not chups) and a potato cake from the local, chuck your thongs on, find a doona to take to kinder....... And...

Go ride your bikes!

...But.