Long Signatures...
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poertner_1274
Posts: 3,874 +3
WHY CAN'T I YELL AT YOU???????????
I only have 1 pic and 1 line in my sig.......Even though my pic is quite large, but I like it.
Ok I'm done yelling at you now. You may go back to doing what you were doing.
I only have 1 pic and 1 line in my sig.......Even though my pic is quite large, but I like it.
Ok I'm done yelling at you now. You may go back to doing what you were doing.
Phantasm66
Posts: 4,909 +8
I hope you are kidding on.
My post are, I hope, on the whole good answers to people's questions, interesting posts of view, and interesting quotations from things I have read.
Whilst I will admit to the odd, very sporadic mess around, i.e. the 3000 posts event, I'd like to think that most of what I say here is worthwhile.
I certainly put plenty of effort into it.
Like when I wrote a 2000 odd word essay on how to install Linux - was that spam????
Have youwritten anything like that??
If anything, I have the highest post count here because I spend more of my time every day here than perhaps most others do, perhaps with the exception of Arris.
If I just posted rubbish spams here all the time, do you have I would be a supermoderator???
Anyone disagree???
But perhaps you are kidding....
Phantasm66
Posts: 4,909 +8
I am glad you think so.
I spend a lot of time here every day.
And its not like I get paid for ths or something.
I do it because I enjoy it and because I like helping people.
I spend a lot of time here every day.
And its not like I get paid for ths or something.
I do it because I enjoy it and because I like helping people.
poertner_1274
Posts: 3,874 +3
LOL, I will stop posting when I hit 1, guess I'm not that disciplined.
poertner_1274
Posts: 3,874 +3
Yeah, because I am busy doing school work, something you have no idea about yet............You will learn...........SCHOOL IS NO FUN.
Phantasm66
Posts: 4,909 +8
And here is me going back to do another degree part time in the evenings....
Learning is great! You just have to find the right thing to study, that's all.
Still, I am a little older than you and have done all that having fun stuff..... Drink, women, late nights, other things... Nice whilst it latest but I am starting to think I can't hack it any more.... I must be getting old.
In a sense, university years are a little wasted on you if you left just after school. You should have like 4 years or something after high school to just basically be a drunk and go to parties all of the time and stuff and get it out of your system.
Then, probably mid-20's or so, then do the degree.
I am not trying to be patronising, so I am sorry if my post comes off that way. I am being serious. A nice 4 years after high school partying your socks off and then a degree would be a better idea. Not that I come to do another degree a few years later, my ONLY goal is learning and getting the qualification and I am not interested at all in the social aspects....
SNGX1275
Posts: 10,615 +467
Phant - I'll agree with your reasoning behind that. But I think Poertner_1274 and I come from a not so common school.
Our school is in a city of 16,000 people, our school is probably around 5,000 students (correct me if I'm wrong poert). The next largest cities are Springfield, St. Louis, and Jefferson City, all over an hour and a half drive away generally. This school is right around 70% male, and out of the 30% of females that go here I'd estimate that 50% of them are overweight. Now that leaves about 15% of the school that is female that is not overweight, putting them in what most average 18-24 year old guys would consider a "date-able" group. Now this causes, with so many guys and so little girls, guys to become less selective on who they'd date. Girls that wouldnt' get attention at a 50/50 school now are even hard to talk to because anytime you are in a social environment with them there are 4+ guys talking to them (if you were following my math and think 4+ is wrong - more of the guys here go to social events than girls).
Now all thats left to do here is a fraternity party or a random keg party at a private residence. Fraternity partys here aren't that great because campus hates Greeks here - we have so many rules and regulations its retarted. Examples: To be able to drink you have to carry in your own alcohol, and wear a wristband, if you don't have a wristband you can't drink (not strictly enforced at our house), you can't get a wristband if you aren't 21.
If you are not Greek (in a fraternity or serority with a greek ID) or not on the guestlist you aren't comming in.
You must be on the guest list 24 hours prior to a party.
This means that if you get a phone call from 5 of your hot high school friends and they say they are comming through tonight - no matter what you do they are goign to be turned down if they try to get in (remember this school only has 30% girls anyway).
Now there are many more rules which are probably good for keeping us out of trouble, but they destroy the fun of a party.
Now - I've been here 4 years and so has Poertner_1274 so we really aren't looking for people to say "man that sucks", cause we already know and that doesn't do anything to make this place better. Now some of you might be thinking "why'd you go to a school that sucks that bad?". Well the answer is that this school has the central midwest's best undergrad engineering degrees out of public universities, and the reason I'm still here, our geology/geophysics undergrad program is amoung the best in the nation regardless of public or private (was ranked 2nd just a year or 2 ago).
So to wrap things up. School would be great if you went to a school where there are things to do for fun within a 30 minute drive (bigger cities and larger schools tend to have places that are fun, at least more fun that a small town like Rolla has). School would be more fun if there were more than 15% of the students that were date-able. School would be more fun if campus officials would let us have a little more freedom. School would be more fun if we didn't have to take 1-3 more semisters more of classes to get the same degree as some of the other well known engineering schools: Purdue, MIT. I'll post the hour requirements if I find them in a bit, storming right now outside and I fear we are about to lose our power.
If you don't want to take my word for it maybe you'll take lewis black's word for it. (a dude on comedy central's Daily Show). Here is the mp3
Our school is in a city of 16,000 people, our school is probably around 5,000 students (correct me if I'm wrong poert). The next largest cities are Springfield, St. Louis, and Jefferson City, all over an hour and a half drive away generally. This school is right around 70% male, and out of the 30% of females that go here I'd estimate that 50% of them are overweight. Now that leaves about 15% of the school that is female that is not overweight, putting them in what most average 18-24 year old guys would consider a "date-able" group. Now this causes, with so many guys and so little girls, guys to become less selective on who they'd date. Girls that wouldnt' get attention at a 50/50 school now are even hard to talk to because anytime you are in a social environment with them there are 4+ guys talking to them (if you were following my math and think 4+ is wrong - more of the guys here go to social events than girls).
Now all thats left to do here is a fraternity party or a random keg party at a private residence. Fraternity partys here aren't that great because campus hates Greeks here - we have so many rules and regulations its retarted. Examples: To be able to drink you have to carry in your own alcohol, and wear a wristband, if you don't have a wristband you can't drink (not strictly enforced at our house
), you can't get a wristband if you aren't 21. If you are not Greek (in a fraternity or serority with a greek ID) or not on the guestlist you aren't comming in.
You must be on the guest list 24 hours prior to a party.
This means that if you get a phone call from 5 of your hot high school friends and they say they are comming through tonight - no matter what you do they are goign to be turned down if they try to get in (remember this school only has 30% girls anyway).
Now there are many more rules which are probably good for keeping us out of trouble, but they destroy the fun of a party.
Now - I've been here 4 years and so has Poertner_1274 so we really aren't looking for people to say "man that sucks", cause we already know and that doesn't do anything to make this place better. Now some of you might be thinking "why'd you go to a school that sucks that bad?". Well the answer is that this school has the central midwest's best undergrad engineering degrees out of public universities, and the reason I'm still here, our geology/geophysics undergrad program is amoung the best in the nation regardless of public or private (was ranked 2nd just a year or 2 ago).
So to wrap things up. School would be great if you went to a school where there are things to do for fun within a 30 minute drive (bigger cities and larger schools tend to have places that are fun, at least more fun that a small town like Rolla has). School would be more fun if there were more than 15% of the students that were date-able. School would be more fun if campus officials would let us have a little more freedom. School would be more fun if we didn't have to take 1-3 more semisters more of classes to get the same degree as some of the other well known engineering schools: Purdue, MIT. I'll post the hour requirements if I find them in a bit, storming right now outside and I fear we are about to lose our power.
If you don't want to take my word for it maybe you'll take lewis black's word for it. (a dude on comedy central's Daily Show). Here is the mp3
ok peepz, I agreed that my signature was one of the longest of this forum. I apologise.
When i first see this thread, foul language infested my head and I can't bring myself to edit my signature or apologise.
Now that I've calm down, I've edited my signature and sincerely apologise to those who're affected by my long signature back then.
Have a nice day!
When i first see this thread, foul language infested my head and I can't bring myself to edit my signature or apologise.
Now that I've calm down, I've edited my signature and sincerely apologise to those who're affected by my long signature back then.
Have a nice day!
Mictlantecuhtli
Posts: 4,049 +13
BUMP
You said it yourself
You said it yourself
Phantasm66
Posts: 4,909 +8
Oh man you are so full of @~$* !!!
And you walked right into that one.
Remember that anything you say here can always be dragged back up even years later and used against you.
MrGaribaldi
Posts: 2,488 +1
Originally posted by Vehementi
It's only four regular lines
And it's 15 in 640*480...
Bah, I'm not going back to that resolution again!
I can't understand how people can see anything in that resolution....
poertner_1274
Posts: 3,874 +3
I also have a 21" monitor, with 1600x1200 res, and it is very bothersome. How long do you plan on having it on there? Just so people read it and understand, or forever?
Just getts annoying every once in a while when you read a thread and have to scroll past your sig.
Just getts annoying every once in a while when you read a thread and have to scroll past your sig.
