What's bugging you? (2008)

[fondybrewfan]

The Friday before a long weekend takes forever

[jason21nl]

I bowled my first 9 strikes once, I throw a pretty big hook, and the next ball was straight as an arrow. Give me bases loaded, 2 outs with the game on the line before trying to bowl out a big game.

[jjgott]

Girl Talk was supposed to perform here at GW for our Fall Fest. GW didn't like that Girl Talk liked having people on the stage with him and terminated the contract. So now it's a week before Fall Fest and we have no performance.

[lcbj68c]

I hate the fact that I cannot finish a game while bowling. I had a 296 tonight due to nerves. What a wimp...

I've choked both times. 298 then 299. The first time, I yanked it pretty bad and got an 8 count. The next time, I threw my normal shot pretty good and got unlucky with the 6 pin ringing right around the 10. The house let me keep the pin, pretty cool.

[Nader Raider Tim]

What do you do when your teacher is borderline incompetent? I have a class Contemporary American Society, it's basically a Sociology class and the teacher is at best marginally competent. The class started off on a horrible not when during the normal go around the class introductions a kid said he just moved here from Vietnam. Then she proceeds to go around the room and ask every non white skinned student how long they have lived in the US and how long they have been speaking english. All of them have lived their entire lives in the US. I was shocked at her actions.

 

Then more recently we were going through and classifying what a Liberal is and what a Conservative was. So people start naming off the standard things. Liberal is pro-choice, anti-death penalty etc. She then bust out with the comment, "I just don't understand how you can be for the murdering of babies, and against the murdering of viscous child murderers." I gave her a break and figured that she just slipped up and interjected her personal opinion, so all I did was say that is a complex issue and it isn't as cut and dried as that. She then 5 minutes later said the same thing and I went off on her. I won't get into what I said to keep things appropriate for this board.

 

It isn't just these two things the class is just horrible. It is her making some stupid comment, me telling her why she is wrong. Her saying she doesn't have an argument to prove me wrong, but I just am. The best is she has started asking the class who they think is right me or her, and generally I get 75% of the students to side with me. It's disgusting that I am paying for this "education".

 

On a related tangent in general i am disgusted with the educational standards at Fox Valley Technical College. The expected level of knowledge is on par with a normal 10th Grade education. Such the waste of money.

[lcbj68c]

I agree. This teacher sounds horrible. Do yourself and her a favor and don't banter with her and likely problem solved. It doesn't sound like a debate class, so let her lecture as she pleases, get your "A" and move on.

[davego]

Good advice. Get your A and advance.

[wallus]

I am frustrated with how they put all of the non English speaking students in my class.

[bullox]

Dominate /= dominant. Let's get the correct usage in check people.

[Glennron]

It's really annoying when the CBS/FOX games aren't the Packers or any teams that I have fantasy players on. I don't care if Favre's on the Jets now, these games aren't that exciting to me.

[1992casey]

Team apparel at the Hales Corners K-Mart was 20% off yesterday... excluding the Dallas Cowboys.

[hawing]

We got home after the laughably bad Brewer game today to find a kid up the block having a screaming tantrum...outdoors, for the whole neighborhood to hear.

(I don't think she was reacting to the Brewers, either.)

[1992casey]

During tonight's Bears-Colts game, Andrea Kremer said "primer" with a long i (as in an initial coat of paint) rather than with a short i (as in a description of basic principles).

[MJLiverock]

I was bored and had some time to kill and made the mistake of reading the Brewrs message board on ESPN. My head now hurts from reading some of the incoherent ramblings on there. One guy advocates playing Gwynn over Cameron from here out because he is such a better player, advocates batting Kendall third, Mike Lamb 4th, and Prince 7th.

[jason21nl]

2nd week in a row that softball has been called off due to rain. Man it sucks so bad.

[Patrick425]

Tom Pipines - Fox 6 News.

 

It's bad enough that the Brewers have to get swept vs. Philly, but then I have to listen to this guy refer to the 2007 NL MVP as Jimmy "Collins". C'mon! Your job is a Sports caster. How hard is it to learn some main names from all the Major sports? Does he know anything other than what is fed to him on the teleprompter? I still remember when this guy was on ESPN in the early 80's.

[1992casey]

Saturday evening, the sports anchor on channel 4 said, "expecially."

[TheCrew07]

casey you're a real grammar nazi, you must dislike most of my posts intensely.

[hawing]

I notice stuff like that all the time (my mother has always said I should have been a copy editor) but don't usually comment on it, unless the usage miscue changes the intended meaning of a post or other statement. I'd like to think that none of us come across as "grammar nazis."

 

In my mind, someone whose career is communicating, like a sports anchor, should be extra careful to get things right - whether it's "expecially", "Jimmy Collins" instead of Rollins, or "Jeff Hardy" instead of J.J. Hardy. (The latter I heard from a since-departed sports anchor in Madison, on two separate occasions.)

[Beerambassador]

The inability of people on the internet to spell "definitely." There is no "a" in it.

[PeaveyFury]

The stock market. Ugh.

[TheCrew07]

Hawing my post was mocking my tendancy to think faster than I type and skip words, leave incomplete thoughts, and so on. I was cracking more on myself, but I can see where you thought I was taking a shot at Casey, that was not my intent.

[trwi7]

Tom Pipines - Fox 6 News.

 

It's bad enough that the Brewers have to get swept vs. Philly, but then I have to listen to this guy refer to the 2007 NL MVP as Jimmy "Collins". C'mon! Your job is a Sports caster. How hard is it to learn some main names from all the Major sports? Does he know anything other than what is fed to him on the teleprompter? I still remember when this guy was on ESPN in the early 80's.

Haha, I heard that too. He also said something else really stupid, I don't remember what it was. Maybe it was during Packers Blitz.

[pitchleague]

The stock market. Ugh.

no kidding. I am very worried about my retirement portfolio right now--and it's really only in it's infancy right now.

[fondybrewfan]

The stock market. Ugh.

no kidding. I am very worried about my retirement portfolio right now--and it's really only in it's infancy right now.

I wouldn't worry about it. My 401K is still young and atleast now I am buying into these mutual funds at a pretty low price, no where to go but up right?. I was freaking out for a while but this is only a short term issue and probably won't effect my retirement in 30 years. If I was 55 and this was happening I would absolutely be freaking out. I mean you could have lost 20%+ of you retirement savings in the span of 8 months. I think my porfolio is down something like 17% which is actually beating the market as weird as it sounds.