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Boring Rugby boring Union boring, gets most coverage, but everytime the All Whites (not much imagination when naming teams in NZ) play their matches are usually on TV. In truth there is a bit of a 'band wagon' mentality here. If the team are looking like qualifying for the World CUp, all of the arm chair experts suddenly appear, and try to convince the rest of us of their dedication and knowledge of all things football.
Would you watch F1 live if races started at midnight and finished at 1:30 - 2am on a Monday morning?
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Probably, but no guarantee. You must be very committed to do that.
Time for bed here. Whats on for the rest of your day?
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Yes. :p
Am I a fool for trying to answer the Q above but falling asleep with the tablet on my chest and waking up at 2 am?
Edit :eek: I answered at #3749. Meanwhile there were 3 other posts.
Sorry....
Ignore my Q.
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Work until 4:30. Home, cook tea, watch replay of England v Norway at 5pm, get bored with watching England v Norway at 5:15, then who the hell knows until bed time :)
In this digital world we live in, do you consider your on-line forum friends as real friends?
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A few months ago I would have said no. Now it's completely different. I get to talk to you more often than to my friends in real life and due to this thread you know me as well as they do. So yes, for me some of the forumers are real friends.
Am I really such a sad fart?
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Certainly not. Your answer was exactly what many of us would put, to be honest I (and probably many others here) tend to open up more in a forum like this than we do to many of our flesh and blood friends...
and how can a fart that is the corner stone of British humour ever be considered as sad? :) (that isn't my question, it was rhetorical)
Do you find the differences in different countries sense of humour confusing. i.e. why for example do many of our American friends find the British sense of humour difficult to understand etc?
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Not confusing but just the like the language or cultural differences ,funny in their own right...The brash/outlandish American humour vs the dry, self deprecating British wit...both can be/are funny in different situations.
What phrase/word (that gets used a lot by people/media) irritates the hell out of you? (Unless you are the saintly type who is above such trivial matters :) )
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From sports figures - "We're going to give it 110%.". Just stupid on the face of it.
What's the real world value of an advanced education where you are?
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Not much. The only thing an advanced education does is open doors of bigger companies especially in the high-tech industry...doesn't really help you do your job as such.
(Those sports phrases and most of them from America (and a fair few from UK, especially football related) are what harass me too)
Are you satisfied with the education you received? In terms of quality? Do you plan to study any further?
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Storm you were faster in answering a Q that touched my sensible chord and whose answer is the key to my unhappiness. But your Q is also good.
My education isn't great. On that time we studied all to know all but in reality we didn't study anything thoroughly.. However it was difficult to access a university and then to pass the exams so I had to study hard( not to mention that I'm not an intelligent person, just average ). I hadn't problems where I worked and was joking that I needn't my studies to do it. When I started to work in my current job I faced a new problem, I had to study tons of legislation. I did it and even tried to study legislation that didn't apply to my department. I wasn' probably the best employee but I was very serious about my work and followed courses to improve my knowledge. In time I realised I'm a fool, in our society the ones who make it are those with dubious studies ( there are tens of private universities where you almost can buy a diploma of graduation ) who are hired through relationships and gets key positions without any experience. Hence the flourishing economy of the country......Those who are serious and dedicated to work are considered fools and also are used to work while the army of the so called 'wise guys" take the benefits. On these circumstances I'm not interested anymore to study more than I need for my current job. It's their world in which I can't fit in and I dislike it. All the values in which I was raised are obsolete now ( and now I'm not speaking only about work ) and it's a crazy world with new rules that are strange to my nature. I do my best to adapt myself to these rules but it's really hard and I'm more and more unhappy. At the same time I've noticed I changed a lot and I really dislike this person..
Good God... I was determined to sleep a lot this morning and again I was taken by the wave....
Are you happy with your job?
