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Post by The Doctor on Nov 20, 2007 14:31:06 GMT
There is a special place in Hell reserved for people who will not SHUT THE **** UP IN THE LIBRARY! Especially academic libraries. Especially academic libraries which have clearly marked 'quiet' areas and 'discussion' areas. If you want to have a loud discussion and lark about with your mates, DO IT IN THE ******* DISCUSSION AREA YOU INCONSIDERATE BASTARDS!
EVERY DAY!
EVERY ******** DAY!
HOW THE **** DO YOU EXPECT ANYONE TO GET ANY ******* WORK DONE!
ARSEHOLES!
WANKERS!
I AM GETTING MY PITCHFORK AND I AM GOING TO JAB IT RIGHT UP YOUR ******* ARSES! **** OFF!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 20, 2007 14:37:10 GMT
I AM GOING OUT OF FUCKING MIND WITH THE AMOUNT OF NOISE IN HERE! PERHAPS I SHOULD GO AND TRY AND GET MY WORK DONE IN THE FUCKING STREET! IT WOULD BE EASIER! SHITEFACES! ARSEFANNIES!
FUCKING STUDENTS!
FUCK! I'M A STUDENT TOO!
BUT I SHOW SOME FUCKING CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS!
I AM GOING TO GO ALL FUCKING FALLING DOWN IN A FUCKING MINUTE!
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Post by Gav on Nov 20, 2007 14:47:38 GMT
Ralph, please stop shouting.
Some of us are trying to learn.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 20, 2007 14:48:53 GMT
Don't make me bring Dooby Duck back!
-Ralph
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Post by KoshNaranek on Nov 20, 2007 16:27:46 GMT
Poor Ralph, having to put up with those mooks.
- Tony
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Post by rurudyne on Nov 20, 2007 18:20:40 GMT
Maybe something more subtle?
Like taping a remote controlled fart-noise maker to the underside of the table they always gather at?
On a day where they've been serving currys in the dining room?
If they aren't there to learn then maybe they can be embarrassed out.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 20, 2007 19:48:52 GMT
I gave up and went home. Will try again tomorrow evening.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 20, 2007 20:58:16 GMT
It seems things have changed a bit since I was at University. Back when I was an undergraduate (this was in the days before the word "Broadband" was known, and when Web Browser meant a slightly glitchy install of the beta of Mosaic) the library was a place that most folk avoided like the plague for the first two years of their university lives.If they did enter it the spent as little time there as possible - grabbing a book and hightailing it down to the pub where they could feel virtuous because they had been to the library.
You didn't get knots of folk hanging around nattering and socialising. A sad change for the worse I would say.
Karl
(Of course, I still spent a lot of time ensconsed at a desk down in the Basement, where Special Collections was kept (ancient manuscripts, microscope slides of Deep One epidermis etc) - bigger desks down there. More room to read and work.)
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 21, 2007 7:42:42 GMT
Sorry if it's a stupid question, Ralph, but have you tried expressing your concerns to a senior librarian?
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 21, 2007 23:15:48 GMT
I thought about it, but when I observed library staff walking right behind some of the folk causing the most noise and did sod all about it, I gave up. I now use a diffeent library, which has some access to toilet problems. Uni facilities are shockingly poor.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 22, 2007 12:35:04 GMT
I now use a diffeent library, which has some access to toilet problems. -Ralph So by using this library you can gain access to toilet problems? Hmmm, I'd stick with the noise myself! Andy |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2007 20:21:08 GMT
PEOPLE WHO TALK IN LIBRARIES SHOULD BE KILLED! FFS!
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Nov 27, 2007 22:20:09 GMT
THEY DON'T RULE!!! Dude. Have you told any of the library staff? Perhaps I should work there as a doorman  |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 18, 2007 20:08:20 GMT
I purchased some Cinnamon & Raisin bagels from Sainsburys. I just went to butter one for supper, but it has very little in the way of cinnamon or raisins! ARRRRRRRRRGH!
DAMN YOU, SAINSBURY'S! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
-Ralph
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Post by gloriana on Dec 19, 2007 19:28:08 GMT
Ralph, have some camomile tea. It'll help. It'll help me at any rate.
Rowan
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 19, 2007 19:35:38 GMT
It's ok. I have some Marks and Sparks diet cola to hand.
-Ralph
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Post by gloriana on Dec 19, 2007 19:36:46 GMT
That's caffeinated. You need something to CALM YOU DOWN.
Mind you, I'm one for talking. I teach on a diet of Lemon Lucozade and coffee.
Rowan
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 19, 2007 19:38:37 GMT
I'm only having a pint!
-Ralph
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Post by gloriana on Dec 19, 2007 19:39:59 GMT
A pint?  ?? That explains everything.... Rowan |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 19, 2007 19:48:22 GMT
A pint of diet coke? Bleh - now Cherry Coke would have been a better idea!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 19, 2007 19:53:54 GMT
I always have my cherry coke full fat - the diet version is awful.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 28, 2008 19:40:47 GMT
All the people talking in this library are going to die.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 28, 2008 20:01:40 GMT
I am reminded of an Arthur C Clarke story that is collected in "Tales from the White Hart" where a bloke built a machine that generated soundwaves far enough out of phase with every ambient sound that it cancelled them out completely. Resulting in a zone of utter and total silence - no matter how much noise folk tried to generate. It's one of the few daft inventions in those stories that I really wish we had in real life sometimes.
Either that, or a machine for displacing folk in the immediate vicinity a quarter of a mile away at the flick of a switch.
Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 28, 2008 21:02:13 GMT
Either that, or kung-fuin' the blighters.
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Post by legios on Jan 28, 2008 21:07:48 GMT
Hardly worth breaking out the 'fu. At least, not the good fu. They are only mooks after all, they'll go down like nine-pins. You want to save the good 'fu moves for when you really need them - when the main lieutenant shows up is usually a good time to pull out the decent moves....
Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 28, 2008 21:30:15 GMT
You are, as always, quite correct, sir, and logical with it.
Be good sport mind.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 28, 2008 21:57:17 GMT
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 29, 2008 13:30:26 GMT
To all you bastards in the library, may I direct you to the large widescreen TV display. You can't miss it. It's huge and the first thing you see when you walk in. In large letters it says 'QUIET AREA - INDIVIDUAL STUDY ONLY'. Is that difficult to comprehend? Is further clarification required? Can you read? Do you have a brain? Or you, in fact, a mongoose?
I have a fist right here to smack you wankers in the face should you fail to desist from your delusions that, perhaps, you are having a convivial chinwag in the local free public house or somesuch. The lack of bar area may be a clue that you are in fact in a 'place of learning' where minds concentrate furiously on the possibility of passing mind-numbing assignments. I know, I know. It's a crazy idea, but so was New Coke and look what happened there.
I am now going to try to write an essay on the personality theory underlying the person-centred approach to counselling. This alone is likely to drive me over the edge. Push me further and I will open up a metaphorical black hole beneath your person. I may even steal your chocolate bars and eat them in front of your astonished eyes. Also, there is nothing in these books that says it is wrong for me to inflict grevious bodily harm upon you.
That is all.
*reaches for club*
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 29, 2008 18:18:03 GMT
Or you, in fact, a mongoose? Mongooses kick ass. Martin |
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Post by grahamthomson on Jan 30, 2008 8:22:42 GMT
Did you steal their chocolate bars and eat them with contempt?
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