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canefan

Off topic and I’ve probably mentioned it numerous times but I always found it odd that Commando never got a sequel.

Is there any other big budget 80s action flicks you can say that about ?

Aliens, Robocop, Terminator, The Thing, Rambo, Rocky, Lethal Weapon, Blade, Top Gun ( albeit years later )…..the list goes on

Well everyone was dead when he finished.

https://i.imgur.com/x4eGvwu.mp4

Even Sully

MN5

@canefan said in Happiness Scale:

@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:

Off topic and I’ve probably mentioned it numerous times but I always found it odd that Commando never got a sequel.

Is there any other big budget 80s action flicks you can say that about ?

Aliens, Robocop, Terminator, The Thing, Rambo, Rocky, Lethal Weapon, Blade, Top Gun ( albeit years later )…..the list goes on

Well everyone was dead when he finished.

https://i.imgur.com/x4eGvwu.mp4

Even Sully

Sully might have survived that fall…..

….and all the other scumbags woulda had friends and relatives eager to avenge them

MajorRage

@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:

Off topic and I’ve probably mentioned it numerous times but I always found it odd that Commando never got a sequel.

Is there any other big budget 80s action flicks you can say that about ?

Aliens, Robocop, Terminator, The Thing, Rambo, Rocky, Lethal Weapon, Blade, Top Gun ( albeit years later )…..the list goes on

The Matrix.

(Wrong thread, I know)

Bones

@canefan said in Happiness Scale:

He did thoroughly enjoy Commando though

Are...are we still talking movies?

Also...@ACT-Crusader you god bothered you, you're not supposed to be such a hippy.

Bones

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NTA

I saw another one which more relates to teens:

Parenting is seeing the 6 yoghurts you bought disappear in a day, then buying 12 more and seeing them sit there for two weeks because "nobody eats yoghurt".

Tim

For the last few weeks I've had to work until 3am to make lectures, apply for grants etc. A lot of it because someone high up cancelled and I had to fill in.

Have been absolutely exhausted, have come to some good conclusions, but really don't want to continue working like this. The problem is that to succeed as an academic you have to do this for years. I could take a risk, leave for a company on six months funding, then might be locked out of academia for ever.

Have a big deadline coming up, but need to go home for a rest. I've barely been insufferable even when we've won.

Most weekends now I am completely empty and can't socialise, so just stay home.

Tim

Also, as some of you may be aware, I was drinking very heavily, and have chopped it back to one or two days per week of drinking anything.

Tim

The basic operating principle in serious academia is that you are a failure because you haven't published in journal x or gotten grant y this year. So it is a huge amount of work to make a standard to not fail, rather than be rewarded regularly.

I did some work for a hedge fund a few years ago, and I was treated with respect and rewarded monetarily for finishing projects.

Academia can be a really negative environment.

Tim

Last year I was so paranoid that every time I had to give a presentation, or someone wanted me to go to a meeting, I assumed that it would be an intervention.

nzzp

Hang in there fella. Sounds like you need a holiday/break to get perspective.

I'm on the fringe of academia professionally. It is a tough gig, and honestly can't see a step change in improvement in the future. I think it'd have to be a passion to do it.

Good luck, and good work sharing

Tim

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canefan

@Tim said in Happiness Scale:

The basic operating principle in serious academia is that you are a failure because you haven't published in journal x or gotten grant y this year. So it is a huge amount of work to make a standard to not fail, rather than be rewarded regularly.

I did some work for a hedge fund a few years ago, and I was treated with respect and rewarded monetarily for finishing projects.

Academia can be a really negative environment.

My wife is in academia. The constant cycling of applying for grants from a relatively small pool of money, submitting papers, it can be a grind. Hang in there mate

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NTA

This is why I think UBI is so important - yes in everyone's job there are stressors and loads you can't control, but when you're talking about being locked out of your preferred career and risking your livelihood as a result, that just isn't right.

Academia is a hard slog, and you're a better Polish Chick than me for the grind you're going through @Tim

Victor Meldrew

I'm working with a woman in our village on a fundraising project and she sent me this WhatsApp Thursday:

I am so sorry but I am going to have to postpone our meeting tomorrow until Friday if that is possible. It’s just that we have to sign our wills tomorrow as George has heart surgery on Friday, so we need to cover our bases
Hope this is ok
Dawn

Found it profoundly affecting, but her cheerful, "worrying won't make anything better" attitude when we met Friday (she insisted) was awe-inspiring. Surgery went well, BTW. The human spirit, eh?

Privilege to know her.

The Silver Fern

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