Things that are pissing you off. - Page 2855

I am copyediting a bunch of papers right now. Sometime during the course of their educations, philosophers all seem to pick up the habit of inserting the hedge "sort of" into their prose. In almost every case, it is completely unnecessary. It is also ugly. If I had a nickel for every "sort of" I have crossed out during the process of copyediting, I could buy a pair of Panta trousers.

My impression of you doesn't include you punching things.

I do get angry from time to time, but probably 99% of those times, I am angry at myself. When that happens, I punch things. As I mentioned, though, I really should stop doing that.

Sliced my finger with a chef's knife earlier. Very shallow cut but it bled like hell for a few minutes.

And I bought a Medoc yesterday at my favorite wine store. Got home, tried to open...cork is rotted through. Brought it back and exchanged for another bottle. Guess what? Same fucking thing. Really irritated.

Well here is the nub of your problem. It is well known that possession of a rubber duck is the key to anger management.

That would sort of piss me off also.

Jiminy Crickets, I am making a lot of posts in this thread today. Here's another one: I am still copyediting and I just spent an hour of my valuable time finding the correct source for a quotation. The author of the paper gave the wrong source. He wasn't even close to the right source. There are so many things I could have done in that hour that would have been better uses of my time.

how many times can one punch a bathtub in a day?

i know some people here that would pay that if it smelled like bacon. did it smell like bacon?

please to post reply of cashier when this happens.

GREAT NEWS !

good luck with that.

yes. not to mention what he could do to others.

+1

you really should. its a bad habit. im glad i stopped.

Ever tried Turnitin? If students can't get their citations up to snuff using it then something is wrong, then you can spend more time on the content of their papers rather than checking for things like plagiarism and correct citations.

What I'm doing now is copyediting papers that will appear in an academic journal. For student papers, I don't worry all that much about the accuracy of their citations, but for a journal article, it's essential that everything be right. I never cease to be amazed at how bad a job people do with citations. Very often the quote is wrong. And in this case, the quote is right, but the author cites it to the wrong book.

I hate when authors get their citations wrong. It's bad enough when I'm just reading the paper and want to know the reference, even worse if I'm reviewing. "See procedure in XYZ work, " which goes to something totally unrelated. Fuck you man, I wanted to know how that worked.

I did not punch my bathtub this time, mainly because I am in my office, where there is no bathtub to punch. I did throw some things, though. I don't know why, but I am in an unusually pissy mood today.

Pretty clear that the department is going to have to spring to get you a better office with a bathroom in it...

I had a problem before with an eBay seller who took a month to send some medical reference/atlas books. I received the books a month late but at least I got them. I was lazy and just got around to opening the box and one books from the set is missing