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  1. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    While all these power trip, revenge, standing up to authority in school stories are fun to hear, one must not lose sight as to just how difficult classroom teaching can be, especially in certain (usually urban) settings. (Though, seemingly everywhere anymore) My room mate when I first moved back...
  2. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

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  3. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    DMA in historical performance.
  4. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Hear hear. Try being the first to get a degree in a "new" program. My doctoral program had been in place for a decade and had enrolled dozens of students almost all of whom gave up after a few years, before I became the first to get the degree. I swore they were making it up as they went. It...
  5. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    While I do fold fitted sheets properly, I must admit that 9 times out of 10 the final product doesn't look very far removed from having been simply wadded up.
  7. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That ranks right up there with folding a fitted sheet.
  8. Hercule

    Things that make you smile

    I hate when that happens! I experienced something very similar way, way back in grad school.
  9. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That goes for the internet in general anymore it seems. There are a few blogs I'd like to read but they're rendered all but inaccessible by all the ads and popups. On various news feeds ads are always covering the content, and when you click on "stop seeing this ad" and indicate that it is...
  10. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My in laws live out in the Pennsylvania countryside on the remnants of what was the family's 120 acre veal farm: no neighbors and surrounded by hay fields. Anyway, they've always had cats - domesticated former barn cats with lots of attitude. I remember one cat they had gave everybody quite a...
  11. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'd be willing to bet they don't see it that way. Animals, dogs especially, are funny that way. They tend to love their humans but when they encroach on their routine the adjustment is hard.
  13. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Funny how that works. Since moving in to our new house in suburbia we have noticed 5 cats that regularly come through our property. We are evidently on their circuit. Each is well groomed, plump, and seemingly well fed so they must belong to somebody. We joke that they have a food bowl at each...
  14. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A GREAT annoyance this evening! - The cat, since she was deathly ill recently, has taken to sleeping in an upstairs linen closet. This afternoon we had to kick her out of it to shut the door so our Roomba could do the upstairs bedrooms, study, music room and lobby. After a while we paused...
  15. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Is the civil service test really that easy that those without even a modicum of intelligence, common sense, or moral compass are readily hired by the USPS?
  16. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I am at wits end as to what I can do to stop those blasted replacement mail carriers from walking through our flower beds. (Our usual carrier walks around.) I even put flower pots with sprouting daffodil bulbs in the middle of the path. Sure enough the mail person just stepped over them. I am...
  17. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Or worse, the men named Karen! I went to grade school with a guy who's name was Kiernan but always went by Karen.
  19. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes it would seem so. I can't tell you how many times I've been made fun of for being polite to someone. Almost always by the person to whom I was being polite.
  20. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In this day and age?!! Are you serious?!! Good one!
  21. Hercule

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Fascinating how language works that way sometimes.
  22. Hercule

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I think in American writings one would actually be more likely to encounter "...many fold..." though even that is a bit archaic.
  23. Hercule

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I can't say as though I've used the term in awhile, but how would it be most commonly used by a German? I dare say in common American parlance very few would use (or even know of) the term as a synonym for many or multiple. Most know it as part of a motor.

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