Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

Could just sack the whole book idea .... and make something up, then cite it in the Appendix. Nobody ever reads/checks.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Could just sack the whole book idea .... and make something up, then cite it in the Appendix. Nobody ever reads/checks.

They do!
At least it would be pretty much guaranteed to pass a plagiarism check though

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Could just sack the whole book idea .... and make something up, then cite it in the Appendix. Nobody ever reads/checks.

I did a modular Masters degree, meaning that I didn't get to meet the same people all the time. During the course of it, I met a guy who reckoned he was getting through the course by just reading the chapter titles, headings and chapter precis. Whether this is possible I have no idea - I still had to sit 13 exams. Though I don't recall seeing him at the graduation ceremony.

lostinrates

One of my in laws wrote their thesis giving no references at all, arrogantly stating that there was no relevant references or reading to the topic before this thesis. Still got the PhD. Cannot get a job. There is, btw, loads of potential references, covering areas of academia beyond the ken of the author.

It's practise behaviour like that that makes me know we need more hardworking and thought ful if reluctant Nikksters and less of that prattish behaviour in the world.

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

I did a modular Masters degree, meaning that I didn't get to meet the same people all the time. During the course of it, I met a guy who reckoned he was getting through the course by just reading the chapter titles, headings and chapter precis. Whether this is possible I have no idea - I still had to sit 13 exams. Though I don't recall seeing him at the graduation ceremony.

When I was in accountancy college there was a guy who would sit there reading the paper and eating an extensive picnic all day long, paying no attention whatsoever to what was going on most of the time. Oddly, he used to sit right at the front of the class, which is a strange place for a slacker to sit. He would behave like that all the way through until revision week when he would suddenly start wasting hours of teaching time trying to get the tutor to teach the whole syllabus again. Anyway, ACA results are all published in the paper so the first thing we used to do when getting hold of a copy was look to see whether he had passed - he failed every exam he took, he became a cult hero.

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

Curiously enough, no, it is not less grief. She's at uni in Kent, but she's with us in London at the moment. Amazon will deliver in a day for nothing (we have Amazon Prime), and they will pay for return postage too.

That has nothing to do with the moral side of things, but from a purely practical point of view it really is very straightforward to order it and then return it.

I thought with amazon prime you could borrow kindle books for nowt, or have I just made that up. Prob not available as ebook anyway.

fc123

silvercar wrote: »

I wonder if support was better. Maybe knowing that not all infants survived lead to a sense that there was always a risk. Certainly you would be one of many to experience a loss rather than a rarity.

Nowadays the expectancy () that each offspring will be perfect makes it harder to accept that it may not. I always find it a little creepy when you see people buying baby clothes and decorating nurseries in blue/ pink before the birth. Only 20 years ago it was viewed as unlucky to bring the pram or cot home from shop before the birth. Now you see the fulll nursery pictured before the embryo is even viable.

I refused to get anything at all for both prior to birth which upset MIL as DS was her 1st grandchild and she went spend crazy. She was only allowed to deliver all the stuff when I came out if hospital.
DD arrived 7 years later and was unexpected as I had most of my tubes and bits out after a ruptured ectopic when DS was 4 and was told I couldn't have more.

The only child thing never really bothered me as just the 1 was enough work at that time . We had given all his baby stuff away by then.

I do recall the midwife being quite aghast at the fact we had absolutely nothing including nappies when DD was born. I had her at home in the night and made a makeshift nappy out of a flannel, put her in one of sons age 7 Y shirts and she slept with me until OH went shopping the next day.

Some of that insecurity came from a couple of friends who's baby died in hospital and they had to come home and deal with fully equipped nursery.

Spirit wrote: »

years ago the parents of DD's schoolfriend invited us to lunch.."bring the dog" they said. Fen, a youthfull flattie bounded in to their sitting room and pee'd up their sofa. It got worse.

He was digging in their garden, she was a landscape gardener and restorer of historic gardens so it was very nice garden. They said it was OK, their late dog had dug too but sadly had been knocked down and died. He was buried in the garden. At least he was partially buried ...as Fen appeared with a pelvis and fur in his mouth:eek:

I have to write it...o m g :rotfl::rotfl:

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

One of my in laws wrote their thesis giving no references at all, arrogantly stating that there was no relevant references or reading to the topic before this thesis. Still got the PhD. Cannot get a job. There is, btw, loads of potential references, covering areas of academia beyond the ken of the author.

It's practise behaviour like that that makes me know we need more hardworking and thought ful if reluctant Nikksters and fewer of that prattish behaviour in the world.

Thanks Think you may have got me confused with someone else though!

I read that and though it was a fantastic idea - can't be quizzed about some other minute detail of the reference which I wouldn't stand a chance of recalling (I have a great memory for some things - generally not relating to work, but same as I can't remember the details of a book after I've read it, I struggle with scientific literature too. Think it comes from school where I never learnt to revise, I got by just understanding and working stuff out).

lostinrates

While chucking the dogs out in to the garden just now I realised as there will be no horse grazing in the garden the dogs will probably sleep through tonight without waking me up....hurrah!

Nikkster

fc123 wrote: »

I refused to get anything at all for both prior to birth
Some of that insecurity came from a couple of friends who's baby died in hospital and they had to come home and deal with fully equipped nursery.

That must have been so awful to go through. Even without experiences like that, I think I would take the don't tempt fate thing to extreme.... judging with how I was in the time post-job offer but pre-job :eek: As you will probably all recall, I was very insecure about it all. I wouldn't even let my mum tell her colleagues that I had a job. And I had mentally prepared myself for paying rent for a couple of months with no job before going back to parents' house. They sent me some products a couple of months before I started (I had three months to, ahem, try and write after getting the job offer) and I wouldn't start any of them until I moved in case they had sent them by mistake.
Yes, I am pretty certain that should I ever (hopefully) be expecting, all painting and purchasing will be done post-birth.