Pet Hates!

[Guest]

also, dogs rolling in shit. why the fuck do they do that?!

Dogs roll in shit so that when they returned to their pack after a hunt, or just a wander, it would tell the rest of their pack that whatever animals shit it was is in the vacinity.

They roll in horse shit because when they were wild, returning from a wee scout around covered in shit would tell all the other dogs that horses are in the vacinity.

[framheim]

You haven't passed your test yet, you're not allowed these pet hates until then.

fuck off, new pet hate: being told that you can't have an opinion on something because you don't do it yourself.

I still have to get places and be a passenger in a car. I'm not able to drive so I don't, these fucks don't show the same consideration with their substandard driving practices. I've been a passenger in a car when people have been so frustrated by ridiculously slow drivers that they overtake in places which made me uncomfortable. so i think i'm entitled to have an opinion on it.

i have another pet hate as well, being grumpy. i've been in a foul mood this weekend and i'm fed up with it. bah.

[framheim]

Dogs roll in shit so that when they returned to their pack after a hunt, or just a wander, it would tell the rest of their pack that whatever animals shit it was is in the vacinity.

They roll in horse shit because when they were wild, returning from a wee scout around covered in shit would tell all the other dogs that horses are in the vacinity.

that makes sense, how do i make my dog realise i don't give a shit if there was a fox in the vicinity?

[Guest]

that makes sense, how do i make my dog realise i don't give a shit if there was a fox in the vicinity?

Unfortunately the only thing to do really is to pre-empt it. Call him to heel or chuck the lead on until you pass the problem. And maybe wear less aftershave or whatever, if you do. There's a theory that the dog is just trying to smell as pungent to you as you do to it by rolling around in shit.

[Christy]

Audi drivers. Again.

[delboy]

slow drivers are a real pet hate of mine especially fuckers who pull out in front of you then proceed to drive at 20 mph below the national speed limit. and yes these tossers do quite often drive Audi's!

[Skacel]

slow drivers are a real pet hate of mine especially fuckers who pull out in front of you then proceed to drive at 20 mph below the national speed limit. and yes these tossers do quite often drive Audi's!

That really fucks me off as well.

I don't mind Audi drivers though.

[Alan Cynic]

But it's officially a University now. You get degrees there. This has happened since the early 90s. It is now 2010.

It's the kind of degrees it gives out...stuff like tourism, event management and business studies. It'll be degrees in games-playing and happy-slapping soon. In my out-of-date way of thinking these are taking the piss. But now that nearly everybody leaves school in search of a degree I suppose it's inevitable.

[Paranoid Android]

I got a Business Studies degree from Robert Gordon

If I'd still been interested in that sort of thing by the time I finished uni I think it could have been a very useful degree.

Surely Business degrees are given by most unis not just new one RGU types though?

[delboy]

I got a business admin degree from RGU, been about as useful as a chocolate fireguard!

[Guest]

Was studying Business Management last year at HW, quit because the course is a heap of shite, amongst other things.

[TelecasterSam]

My wife is busy with a Business Management & HR degree course at RGU as we speak....

(It'll go really well with all the Nursing qualifications she has !!.... a step up to higher management and more salary !!!)

...... you go girl !

[Alan Cynic]

I'v e no problems with folk studying Business Management, Media Studies etc, but, being an oldie I don't see them as 'Degree Courses'. No offence to anyone who is slogging away at one just now. I still see RGU as RGIT,,,,seemed more honest to me, as it's very 'business/technology' orientated.

I think I'm some kind of blinkered elitist......but so be it.

Yes...it's been changed since the 90s....but that doesn't mean my opinion has to change....I think Union Square is shite, and I'm pretty confident I'll still think it's shite in 30 years time, if it hasn't been torn down.

[Paranoid Android]

Just out of interest, what kind of thing do you consider proper degree courses? More academic courses like History, English etc?

I wouldn't really say RGU is completely Business / Technology orientated as the schools for Art, Architecture and Nursing are quite a big part of it.

I don't really have any strong feelings for RGU, despite going there, but I've never really understood the attitudes of some people against it.

[Alan Cynic]

I would like Gray's and Scott Sutherland's to be out of RGU....and nursing too.

But I'm just not a fan of 'business'.....entrepreneurship is the preserve of dodgy types like ACSEF.

(yes, I am blinkered, and not prepared to justify myself, so all you young 'dragons'can get to fuck)

[Moose]

R.G.Who????

[Paranoid Android]

I hate it when an ATM tells me I can't take money out when I know there is definitely money in the account. Stupid fucking banks.

Also a man selling beer on the street stole money from me on Friday night. I hated that too. Arsehole.

[Guest]

I hate it when an ATM tells me I can't take money out when I know there is definitely money in the account. Stupid fucking banks.

Also a man selling beer on the street stole money from me on Friday night. I hated that too. Arsehole.

That's what happens when you buy your beer on the street...

[Paranoid Android]

It's actually quite normal in some parts of the city here.

There are a legion of men, who up until now I'd considered thoroughly honorable chaps, providing a great service (illegally) selling cans of beer around popular outdoor drinking spots.

This one went to ask one of his "colleagues" for change but then ran away.

His beer was a really shitty brand too!

My faith in the institution of street beer has been shattered forever.

[Localboylost]

Bad sportsmanship really grinds my gears and is top of my list that i can think of, second would be artists needing simon cowells permission to be in the charts. Third would be the book on Simon cowell i seen in asda the other day "Simon Cowell:The man who changed the world" Makes me upset more than angry.

[Monster Zero]

Third would be the book on Simon cowell i seen in asda the other day "Simon Cowell:The man who changed the world" Makes me upset more than angry.

That is quite an apt title. The change has not been for the better however...how many weeks does the Xcrement Factor last for? That's my current pet hate.

[Bigsby]

I'm with Alan on the RG "U" thing. Was most amusing in the early 90s not long after it had been converted from polytechnic status when Maggie Thatcher went there to give a talk, the main thrust of which turned out to be how disappointing it was that all the polytechnics were turning into "universities". (Alan in "agreeing with Thatcher" shocker?)

Mind you, none of this is any of my business, I went to the University of Life, although it was Life Polytechnic in those days.*

*Joke, MA (Hons) from Aberdeen actually.

[waltz]

It's the kind of degrees it gives out...stuff like tourism, event management and business studies.

So? Let people do them. They're no less of a degree, and snobbishness is hardly the most constructive attitude.

Nowadays, 'practical' degrees are probably more appropriate to job culture than a degree in, say, History of Art or Sociology. There's nothing wrong with either, of course.

Really pisses me off when people dismiss RGU just because it's new. It's a great place to study and it has massive potential.

EDIT: Oh, and I'm doing Journalism and not a Business degree, and there were plenty of people at RGU opposed to ACSEF and Trump so it's entirely incorrect to assume that everyone at the University is of a centre-right political mind.

[Bigsby]

Any chance RG "U" had of gaining my respect went out the window when they decided to give Trump an honourary degree. Yes I know it's just a PR exercise, but it's still a silly thing to do.

Someone very close to me used to work for RG "U" and told me that it was virtually impossible to get thrown out for failing as they don't want to lose your tuition fees for future years. Universities are businesses first and foremost these days, sadly. I should add the caveat that for all I know this happens at Aberdeen and other universities too.

[waltz]

Someone very close to me used to work for RG "U" and told me that it was virtually impossible to get thrown out for failing as they don't want to lose your tuition fees for future years.

Bullshit. Someone in my class was thrown out.

EDIT: And calling it RG "U" is just the most annoying thing. It's a University. That's indisputable.