Posted by alexandra_k on May 10, 2015, at 19:38:26
In reply to Re: not doing so well, posted by alexandra_k on May 9, 2015, at 18:17:48
what we need is a monument.
my supervisor said something about how when he saw the pyramids he wept for the waste of human potential.
i thought he meant that he wept because they could have done such better things than building the pyramids...
but now i think he means that he wept because we couldn't organise our people to build the f*ck*ng pyramids if we contracted out to any other f*ck*ng country in the whole f*ck*ng world.
i watched this documentary the other night where people are complaining that the students are wrecking dunedin. things are progressively getting worse every year. street parties until 2 or 3am. people having to cancel work obligations because they are unable to sleep because of the students.
and you have the real student ghettos. thh drinking age at 18. students... 17 a lot of them. beer... cheaper than bottled water.
and the mayor won't impose a street liquor ban... he thinks it is the governments job to impose legislation...
he says the town depends on the students for their economy. but it is hard... because the students are all borrowing money from the government for their student fees. how do they get to party? guess they are forced to pass them all to take their money again next year... professors just want to get 'he's cool' on ratemyprofessor.com... we don't have competent staff to look after our own... but we're happily taking in as mnay international students who are prepared to pay for the cheapest education in the developed world...
and the government is too busy with the whole flag referendum thing.
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in law... i argued something about how we seemed to need a crisis to motivate the people towards some kind of significant change. so we stop rolling over and letting foreign investors and a few elite people in this country screw the rest of us over. i feel like... that sort of is what is happening. but who knows how many years it will take until enough momentum is reached for things to actually change.
and in the meantime...
i'm not doing so well. in the things that are supposed to be easy for everyone but are impossible for me... in that kind of a way... the 'easy pass' 'fun' paper screws everything up. of course it does.
the people who could help can't function in this country. so instead y'all got stuck with the people who are stupid and or evil enough to look you straight in the eyes and convince you 'we did everything for you that we could'.
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