The Bitching Thread

[Animeniax]

It's almost 11 PM and it's still 100 F outside.

Is it humid too? Houston weather sux.

[Dark Dragon]

Houston is always humid.

[Animeniax]

Nah, not always. As much as we bitch about the weather, it's not enough to make us move to a nicer area.

[enkoujin]

Tutoring my friend Calculus 1 for free, I realized I never want to be a tutor or even a professor anymore.

My friend

• Is doing this transfer course from a community college so it's much, much easier than the university one
• Got a huge extension to do this course (meant to be done in four months, but he paid the school to get an extension of an extra four months)
• Has been doing nothing for the last three months after the winter semester ended (just weekend part-time work)
• Doesn't come prepared with proper supplies (shitty pencil, no eraser, little paper)
• Refuses to buy the aforementioned supplies even though he has a job
• Doesn't read or preview material before coming for help
• Doesn't have basic arithmetic and algebra intuition (bringing shit to the other side)
• Pretty much counted on me to "check" his assignment (i.e., doing the entire thing for him)
• Depended on me to teach him this course in a single month (on his last month)
• Had three full months to finish an assignment, but left it until the last 2 days to do it
• Begged me to help him just now that he has yet to learn two huge concepts to finish an assignment due in three days
• Claims he has depression, which is why he's doing so poorly in calculus, but fucking nothing is actually bothering him (good relationship with family, friends, etc.)
• Doesn't quit his job when I tell him that passing this one essential course is more important than having beer money
• Forgets concepts I teach him 15 minutes ago
• Has tried every of our other friends for help, but I'm his last resort because the points above probably pissed everyone off too

Never had my blood boiling so hard with a friend before. Seriously, how do people like this even get into university? How do people not understand basic high school math? Math and basic calculus is all about following instructions. How do people fuck this shit up?

EDIT: I mean, if you at least come prepared with supplies, some idea of what you're about to learn, and don't have me on-call to tutor you ("I'll text you when I want to learn"), I wouldn't be too mad. I kind of want to see him fail this course (given all the resources he has exhausted) just to see how much of a fucking idiot he is, but... fuck.

[Buffalobiian]

Haha, I'm kinda guilty of the whole procrastinating bit, but I suppose I feel better that I don't ask people to fill in my gaps for me (I'll just die quietly by myself to get everything in order before the due date).

Don't write off tutoring/professoring just yet. You're doing it for free right now for a friend who doesn't even really want to do this course. Those who pay tuition would be the ones who actually want to get something out of it, so you'll get less of the shitty attitude. Those with rich parents might be paying tuition too, but if they don't want to do much, you won't have to either (and be reimbursed for your time in the same manner).

As a professor, those who haggle you should be the ones with with an interest in the field. The uninterested ones just shoot off after lectures for beer and cram textbooks/notes before exams.

And now if I hadn't started a video game yesterday, you would have just guilt-tripped me into doing pre-reading for tomorrow.

[enkoujin]

It's that if I ever became a professor, I fear I'll get students like these every year - the ones who are forced to take my courses and are just looking to scrape by, but have put in near-zero effort the entire semester.

I don't mind procrastination that much, but at least come prepared with supplies for a friend who is doing something for you for free. I probably wouldn't be complaining at all if I was getting paid.

[Death BOO Z]

you can try the same route that parents use to make sure their kids bring their supplies to school. make sure he gets brand notebooks and pens, so he'll want to show them off. tell him to import some super fan-service pages that have tentacle porn if you flip them fast enough.

[Sapphire]

So tell him your grievances and tell him what to do to succeed. Most likely you're going to have to spell everything out (ALL your requirements, having read material before hand, being prepared with questions/stationary etc.) and make a hardcore study plan schedule.

If he's depressed, he might just fail until he sticks to the schedule without exceptions. Nothing personal, that's just how depression+failing school works.

If he still doesn't do anything after all that, just bounce. You're not getting paid so you're not obligated to endure anything past being as clear as possible.

EDIT: Just saw your edit. lol, Don't even bother tutoring for free if you secretly resent him to the point of wanting to see him fail... It's just going to give you more reasons to be pissed.

But as a side note, helping someone when they're down is something that that person would never forget. Lord knows that I (and many others) wouldn't have succeeded at NYU if there weren't people to help me when I was being retarded or just plain needed help.

[Animeniax]

College just isn't for everyone, especially in your late teens early twenties. If he can't concentrate or commit to learning, he's probably got his mind on other things that he needs to resolve before he can pursue a degree. Tell him to quit wasting his time and yours and go do something else.

I'm with you though, I've always thought it would be cool to be a professor at university level. All those young hot impressionable babes in class, looking to you for guidance and to teach them how to be women. Plus I'd spend all class just talking about random shit that somehow applied to the lesson at hand. But really I haven't found many college professors who enjoy what they do, probably because students are vacuous idjits who think more about sex, drinking, and spring break than the subject matters of the classes they are in.

[Sapphire]

Ani, how is it that you haven't gotten people to worship/obey you yet?!

[Ryllharu]

I'm with you though, I've always thought it would be cool to be a professor at university level. All those young hot impressionable babes in class, looking to you for guidance and to teach them how to be women. Plus I'd spend all class just talking about random shit that somehow applied to the lesson at hand. But really I haven't found many college professors who enjoy what they do, probably because students are vacuous idjits who think more about sex, drinking, and spring break than the subject matters of the classes they are in.

Wow, you could not be more of a douchebag if you tried. But I bet this post will be defended as "ironic sarcasm."

I mean, holy shit, this whole thing amounts to, "I would request that every girl I would actually consider marginally attractive who came for office hours to suck my unwashed penis for help," and "Nor would I actually be qualified to teach anything, thus requiring more students to come to me to seek 'extra credit' while pretending to be a 'cool' teacher right out of Saved by the Bell or a TGIF Sitcom."

And here I thought this was Gotwoot, not Penthouse Forums.

[Animeniax]

Wow, you could not be more of a douchebag if you tried. But I bet this post will be defended as "ironic sarcasm."

I could if my name was Ryllharu and I went around with a holier than thou complex and took shit on the internet way too seriously.

Ani, how is it that you haven't gotten people to worship/obey you yet?!

I don't really want to be worshipped or obeyed, just to give my 2 cents and for people to factor it in when considering their situation.

[Dark Dragon]

You guys should consider making a thread in the flame pit title "Shit Animeniax says" and just bitch about him there. This was amusing the first 50 times or so that it was done, but at this point this is leaking into every damn thread he post in.

Just consider it, since i know you guys love the attention and it's impossible for everyone who hate Animeniax to just put him on ignore. Then again, bitching about Animeniax is like half the activity on this forum, so that might just effectively kills this place.

[Ryllharu]

Animeniax effectively kills this place. You cannot make a post in a general thread without him shitposting his two cents, regardless of lack of qualifications, experience, or knowledge on any given topic.

[Buffalobiian]

Just play the ball, not the person. As for the above posts, let's just stop there. (Feel free to continue in the pit)

I spent at least 1hr trying on these two pants over and over again today at the shops. The "Straight Leg" wasn't as form-fitting as I'd like, while the "Skinny" was too shrink-wrap around the calves to look comfortable for semi-professional wear. There was another pair that was right in the middle (ie perfect fit), but didn't come in the colour I was after and also costed twice as much.

Oh, and all of the above were around an inch too long at the hem, and tailors cost shitloads in Australia. I might get a friend to teach me how to take them up so I can do them in the future myself. I was good at textiles in junior highschool, but I can't remember any of it. I made shorts, so the hem-sewing part must have been part of the course somewhere.

[shinta|hikari]

How much does it cost to have pants cut in Australia? Here it costs about .50 USD in the tailoring area within the department store itself.

[Buffalobiian]

I had a place in Hong Kong that would do it for free if I bought the pants from there. The cheapest I've found in Australia is around $15 per pair of pants. The usual mark from other places I've rang seemed to be between 18-21AUD.

[Animeniax]

Animeniax effectively kills this place. You cannot make a post in a general thread without him shitposting his two cents, regardless of lack of qualifications, experience, or knowledge on any given topic.

Yeah it has nothing to do with idiots like you and ds who just have to comment with their shitposts in reply to innocuous statements. The current topic of enkoujin's tutoring experience was going fine until you showed up. Your snarky ahole comments stifle discussion and discourage others from posting because it will end up with a post war. It doesn't discourage me though.

I had a place in Hong Kong that would do it for free if I bought the pants from there. The cheapest I've found in Australia is around $15 per pair of pants. The usual mark from other places I've rang seemed to be between 18-21AUD.

Surprising that tailoring is so expensive there considering the demographics. In the states there are Asian tailor/laundry shops on every corner next to the liquor store and convenience store.

[Buffalobiian]

Formal warning: stay on topic* and do not continue the exchange here. PM me if you don't know what this means.

(*Bitching about other people's posts doesn't count)


edit: report problematic posts.

[enkoujin]

There are plenty of resources available to help teach you how to hem with and without sewing (these are the most popular ones on Youtube):





eHow: http://www.ehow.com/how_10856_hem-pants.html

Honestly, I don't even know how the Australian economy stays functional with such a high minimum wage. Over here, it probably only costs $5-10 CAD to hem a pair of pants - at a regular store. If you pay someone to informally do it, it's more like $3 CAD/pants. Definitely something I'm going to look into.

EDIT: $1 CAD ~= $1 USD