Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 153rd Edition

last SG · 2012-05-21T16:23:33+00:00

BTW did anything happen on the East West Line this morning?

TIB1257C SG

Funny stuff that I retweeted: This elderly couple in Bedford bought an innocuous looking shrub at a car boot sale and tended to it carefully. It became the biggest cannabis plant the police there had seen.

TIB1257C SG

Genius. Totally genius.

SBS2601D SG

Just watched the second race of BTCC on replay.

Absolutely storming.

17th to P1 by the brand-new Ford Focus.

Of course that was overshadowed later by Plato's 20th to P1 Race 3.

Some pretty violent racing there, like how Matt Neal has no qualms pushing opponents out of the way, but I still like BTCC for its smatterting of variety of cars.

DTM is very fast, but a pretty homogenous grid.

SBS2601D SG

And Matt Neal's car caught fire and what happened next was absolutely farcical.

The marshall with the fire extinguisher was too afraid to climb down the pitwall to put the fire out and had to pass it to poor Neal with his fractured thumb to extinguish it by himself.

SBS2601D SG

Sweltering sweltering day.

Back to the safety of home to carry on my work.

Army 21 SG

Look properly at what he said and think again

I think you know what I mean.

me thinks he ate acid chiobu like in those hentai comics.

sbst275 SG

afternoon…

Kuali Baba SG

Good morning. I felt a bit better after 8 hours of sleep, but after a nap on the bus it was the same old feeling.

fudgester SG

Been trying to submit a paper I wrote to a research journal.

First time they rejected it, they gave me a list of formatting issues with my paper (different referencing system, etc). So fine, I corrected all the problems, and resubmitted.

They rejected the paper again, and gave me another new set of formatting issues. So I corrected the problems and resubmitted again.

They just got rejected it a third time. Now they claim there is yet another new set of formatting issues.

Freak lah.... why can't they just tell me all the problems all at once?

zulkifli mahmood SG

Good morning. I felt a bit better after 8 hours of sleep, but after a nap on the bus it was the same old feeling.

What sort of same old feeling??

zulkifli mahmood SG

Been trying to submit a paper I wrote to a research journal.

First time they rejected it, they gave me a list of formatting issues with my paper (different referencing system, etc). So fine, I corrected all the problems, and resubmitted.

They rejected the paper again, and gave me another new set of formatting issues. So I corrected the problems and resubmitted again.

They just got rejected it a third time. Now they claim there is yet another new set of formatting issues.

Freak lah.... why can't they just tell me all the problems all at once?

What research work you submitted? It could be the editor who is rejecting it.

the Bear SG

Been trying to submit a paper I wrote to a research journal.

First time they rejected it, they gave me a list of formatting issues with my paper (different referencing system, etc). So fine, I corrected all the problems, and resubmitted.

They rejected the paper again, and gave me another new set of formatting issues. So I corrected the problems and resubmitted again.

They just got rejected it a third time. Now they claim there is yet another new set of formatting issues.

Freak lah.... why can't they just tell me all the problems all at once?

i've encountered these types of people many times..

they give it the once-through and then send it back instead of looking at it properly, detailing stuff then giving it back to you...

and if you ask them for their specific requirements, they become very very very vague about them...

hell, one of them was my ex-boss.. and insanely, after the many "changes", it'll amazingly go back to what it was like during the first draft!

fudgester SG

i've encountered these types of people many times..

they give it the once-through and then send it back instead of looking at it properly, detailing stuff then giving it back to you...

and if you ask them for their specific requirements, they become very very very vague about them...

hell, one of them was my ex-boss.. and insanely, after the many "changes", it'll amazingly go back to what it was like during the first draft!

The general guidelines the journal gave were rather vague. Anyway they were very similar to another journal I had submitted to previously (with no problems). The only reason why I am not submitting to that latter journal is because this paper deals with a totally unrelated subject area.

If they want me to conform to their standards, then fine, I'll do it. I even taught myself the Vancouver standard of referencing even though I've been using APA for years.

All I ask is for them to clearly define the formatting guidelines, and to just do one full, thorough edit before returning it to me for changes.

If this submission gets rejected, I'll go postal. Seriously.

SBS2601D SG

Good morning.

Reposting this from my fb.

That's yesterday's ST.

The saga started when the youngest daughter of the writer buang the car and went to claim insurance.

Insurance was claimed and NTUC suddenly terminated the policy.

NTUC's side of story was that the person was driving at crazy speed and beat the red-light after it was on for 5 seconds (!!!) causing a huge accident (more than 2 vehicles involved). So NTUC terminated the insurance and steadfastly refused to insure the writer despite his shrill cries of discrimination and what-not because of dangerous driving.

I found this very interesting.

I have been at the receiving end of a$$-hole drivers and I support NTUC. After all, when we sign the paper, there had already been a clause stating that NTUC reserved the right to terminate the contract if that happened.

So that guy signed it without thinking carefully and now decided to kpkb after nearly killing people?

Worse. There are people who think like him!

"Accidents are inevitable"

sbst275 SG

Beating red light at high speed is a no no…

5 sec means a lot alrdy leh…

fudgester SG

Just got a terrible phone call.....

Not going into details, but suffice to say someone screwed up, and now I have to go into fire fighting mode....

Crap lah.... this is a total waste of my office hours!

I am sick and tired of having to clean up the mess of other people!

Kuali Baba SG

Beating red light at high speed is a no no…

5 sec means a lot alrdy leh…

That is worse than a rookie mistake, but I wonder who's lying about the "poor record".

sbst275 SG

which leads me to the pt I’ve always been telling the bus nutters…

They hate buses slowing down etc, want to chiong only… I said bef, wait till you reach the junction and the signal suddenly turns amber… can you brake safely in time…

Kuali Baba SG

which leads me to the pt I’ve always been telling the bus nutters…

They hate buses slowing down etc, want to chiong only… I said bef, wait till you reach the junction and the signal suddenly turns amber… can you brake safely in time…

But some drivers need to learn how to keep a steady foot on the throttle, instead of a constant cycle of accelerating and letting go which makes everyone car-sick.

sbst275 SG

But some drivers need to learn how to keep a steady foot on the throttle, instead of a constant cycle of accelerating and letting go which makes everyone car-sick.

Here it's pretty difficult to entire maintain a constant throttle... But yah, not to the pt, accerlerate a bit, let go for a while, accelerate again...

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