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No, no, no! It's

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Anita has already proven than irregardless of the results, she will not admit defeat; even in the face of everyone disagreeing with her. This whole thing is useless. Anita is not a willing participant.

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M.

Now why would you go and incorrectly replace a proper word with that nonsense, while ignoring the perfectly good typographical error immediately to its left? [/pedant]
 
Jeff Corey:
I was waiting for that. I received an F last year because I had a professor who was really mean to some of the students. We were hit with papers and yelled at and insulted every day of class, he said he hated us and didn't want to see us in his classroom anymore and that we should withdraw. None of the students earned this behavior, he was just an unfriendly personality. It was making me depressed having to be in an environment like that, so I had to stop attending his class in order to not let it affect my mood and my other grades.
I see. It reminds of this chick I knew who said she could identify chemicals just by looking at them. She offered to prove it, but when the testing got tough, she said it made her sick, and she had to quit.

As you all know I'm a very sweet and friendly personality...
Sometimes. Other times the opposite.

So, the school gave me an F.
No. You earned an F.

An F that is not based on my study skills, so it really says nothing about me all it says is that my school isn't perfect.
It says that you are a quitter. It says you're weak.

I am using a grade replacement policy
Turning a miss into a hit?

So the F doesn't count and technically I'm still a 4.0.
Technically, you are not.

Those of you who don't believe my study record are asked to send me $ 5 (transcript fee) and for postage and will be sent an official transcript in the mail. I don't mind proving it. Not that it matters. I just don't like being called a liar when I'm telling the truth, and here is one of the things that can be proven with documentation.
I still have not received the survey notes you agreed to send. Put the transcript in the same bundle. My business address and fax number are on my website, and the link is in my signature.

*I feel like this discussion is inappropriate. Do keep in mind that my university is not affiliated with my paranormal investigation and that I do not represent my university here.
Then don't discuss it. However, it's certainly on topic.
Me: Do what you say you're gonna do.
You: I am very busy with school. I have a 4.0, ya know.
Me: I managed to meet my obligations while working full time and attending school.
You: But did you keep an 4.0 like me, you know, Miss 4.0?
Others: Gee, where's that 4.0, Anita? We can't find any evidence of it.
You: I quit, but it wasn't my fault. They were mean!:boxedin: I don't wanna talk about it. Weave me awone.
 
Fact was that she earned an F and did not have a 4.0 average while she was telling us she did. She lied.
Fool me once, my fault.
 
Ashles,

This quote from That '70s Show reminded me of this whole health questionnaire thing.

KELSO
I've got it. I got the quote. "What a long strange trip it's been... in Forman's basement!"

DONNA
Yeah, we have made a lot of memories in that basement.

HYDE
To bad we can't remember any of them.

ERIC
Allright, guys, I think it's ready. I'm off to pop!

HE GETS UP AND RUNS OFF

JACKIE
Wait a minute. I hate that quote. My name isn't anywhere in that quote.

KELSO
Okay fine, you know, I'll just make my quote. "What a long strange trip it's been... with Jackie Burkhart?"

JACKIE
Yeah, okay, but without the "long strange trip" part.

KELSO
Allright, so I'll just write...

JACKIE
"I love Jackie Burkhart."

KELSO
Okay.
 
Okay, okay, when I read the "Anita explains how getting an F is still having a 4.0" post, I got as far the Mean Professor, and I literally went and got some chips to eat while reading. As in, :popcorn1

I thus nearly choked when I got to Ashles's brilliant observation, "She is as self-centered as a gyroscope." Pure poetry, that. Can you nominate two sentences out of a large post for Pith??
Shout out also to whomever suggested she was a ball of paper for cats to bat around, occasionally amusing but not otherwise worthy of attention. Great imagery, folks!

Special to Anita: Let's pretend you are going to see a doctor. You ask him how good he is at this surgical procedure, and he says, "I've had perfect results, never a problem." You then discover that, actually, one time the patient died. Do you agree that he can't honestly claim "perfect results"? Would you feel he was misleading you?

That's what you have done by saying you have a 4.0 when in fact you had a 4.0, but now your GPA has been dragged down by an "F". It's simply not truthful to say you have gotten straight A's. You haven't.

Normally, your grades would not be germane to this thread, but it is a perfect example of exactly the thinking error you are making with your, "I'm 100% accurate" statements. You can't just count the ones where you feel you had a good shot; you can't decide to not include the one failure, because it was somehow not 'fair' that you couldn't perform. You could say, "I've only had one class that I didn't get an A in," and that would still demonstrate a remarkable scholastic achievement; it would also be truthful. You could say, "My perceptions have been correct the vast majority of the time," and that would be truthful even with the misses on Wayne.

But you don't say that; instead, you insist, ever more shrilly, that you have never, ever been wrong. You repeat and repeat the assertion that this is so, even though by this time no one believes you. By doing so, you have shattered your credibility. Since we have no other party to confirm your claimed successes in other cases, we are forced to conclude that we can't rely on them as being anything other than selective memory on your part. Or perhaps, correct memory altered intentfully to deceive. Either way, there's no support for your supposed ability; and now, specific evidence of false witness by you as well.

Your credibility is zip-point-dung. Either you're a liar, or you're really good at lying to yourself. Either way, you have destroyed any chance to be taken seriously, not just in this thread but--due to the Eternal Life of Internet Stuff -- in the future.

What is a future employer going to make of someone who lies about what classes they passed? "Oh, that client was a big meanie, so I just avoided the stress of doing his project." It's the same logic, but it won't fly. No reasonable employer would risk it.

Best of luck, VfF; you're going to need it. Miss Kitt
 
Technically, you are not.

In fairness, technically, she is. She's on the Chancellor's List for her grades from the 2008 fall semester, which translates to maintaining straight A's during the months she has been posting. Which, technically, is what she claimed: "I have a 4.0."

However, not so technically, her "I have a 4.0" also inferred that she has maintained that average for the last three years, which is, as usual, disingenuously manipulative. She didn't have 4.0 for the 2008 spring(?) semester, so her overall average is lower than a 4.0. I don't buy her story about the 'mean' Professor-it's typical Anita speak for shifting the blame onto everyone but herself. You threw up your hands and quit the class, Anita, instead of taking steps to help correct the Professor's alleged mistreatment of his students. By quitting, you earned the F. Stop blaming other people because you elected to quit instead of handling the situation like an adult.

As well, your story is fishy. I went to a state university, as you do, and as many others here did. There is simply no way that a professor would mistreat his students as you describe, and at least some of those students wouldn't behave like the adults they are meant to be and alert the administration. They wouldn't all quit the class, nor would they sit there and take it.

(I will concede, though, that her academic record is still impressive, and it reflects some hard work and dedication on her part. I'm willing to acknowledge that she's done well in college and has the right be proud of that.)

Anita, I have to agree with Miss Kitt-your selective memory and blame shifting, whether it be over grades or "perceptions" or what have you - has contributed greatly to destroying your credibility. It doesn't bode well for your future. While you are arrogantly observing life from your lofty perch of being far superior to everyone else on Earth, you might want to think about that.

tsig said:
She must have got an A from him to keep her 4.0

No, that was in the 2008 spring(?) semester. She didn't receive a 4.0 cumulative GPA for that term because she quit the class, and got an F.
 
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In fairness, technically, she is. She's on the Chancellor's List for her grades from the 2008 fall semester, which translates to maintaining straight A's during the months she has been posting. Which, technically, is what she claimed: "I have a 4.0."


No, that was in the 2008 spring(?) semester. She didn't receive a 4.0 cumulative GPA for that term because she quit the class, and got an F.

I have a feeling I'm discovering a whole new world of pedantry here, but this isn't quite correct according to my reading of the lists. I can't find Anita on either the Fall or Spring 2008 Chancellor's Lists. She was on it in both Fall and Spring 2007, but never since. So she did not have a 4.0 average at the time she was posting.

ETA: and she still doesn't, as she's admitted.
 
I have a feeling I'm discovering a whole new world of pedantry here, but this isn't quite correct according to my reading of the lists. I can't find Anita on either the Fall or Spring 2008 Chancellor's Lists. She was on it in both Fall and Spring 2007, but never since. So she did not have a 4.0 average at the time she was posting.

ETA: and she still doesn't, as she's admitted.

I'm confused. Doesn't this list, updated January 27th, indicate that she received a 4.0 GPA for the Fall 2008 semester?
 
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I'm confused. Doesn't this list, updated January 27th, indicate that she received a 4.0 GPA for the Fall 2008 semester?

I *think* that may be a list from a previous semester (regardless of when it was last updated). If you go to this page:

http://www.registrar.uncc.edu/students/chanc_lists.htm

you get links to all the lists from 2006-08. This appears to show that she is only on the 2007 lists.

Also her own posts, notably where she says that her 4.0 is "coming back" seem to indicate that she isn't currently on any list, thus supporting my interpretation.
 
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'Gradually' we will reach 'proper test conditions' and 'eventually' we will find out about the 'survey'.
And shortly after the heat death of the universe we may 'gradually' approach the definitive and agreed design of a falsification scenario.
Which will then get rejected or ignored.

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It felt like that here, today. In our fair city of Melbourne, Australia, it reached 46.4C (115.5F) today. Now, at 0056 Sunday morning, it's a pleasant 21C (69.8F).


M.
 
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I *think* that may be a list from a previous semester (regardless of when it was last updated). If you go to this page:

http://www.registrar.uncc.edu/students/chanc_lists.htm

you get links to all the lists from 2006-08. This appears to show that she is only on the 2007 lists.

Also her own posts, notably where she says that her 4.0 is "coming back" seem to indicate that she isn't currently on any list, thus supporting my interpretation.

Oh, I see. I apologize, then. I thought the "last updated" date indicated that that list reflected GPA's for the semester immediately preceding the current one.

Sorry, UncaYimmy. You were right. Technically, she does not have a current 4.0., and she was lying when she said that she did during the last few months of posts.

As for:
VisionFromFeeling said:
*I feel like this discussion is inappropriate. Do keep in mind that my university is not affiliated with my paranormal investigation and that I do not represent my university here.

Give it a rest, Anita. You opened the door by mentioning your GPA. Your whole "It's only okay for discussion as long as it plays up what a remarkable, extraordinary, superior being I am" schtick is bogus and pathetic. If you don't want a topic discussed, don't introduce it.

And do stop saying that your university is not "involved". You handed three professors the burden of knowing about your irrational claims, so you have already involved them, whether they did anything about it or not. (Unless, of course, that tale was a lie, which wouldn't surprise any of us.) You are proposing to involve other students in your...ahem...study. If, by some bizarre chance, you do manage to pull off a...ahem....study, are you really so oblivious to think that word won't get around that selfsame university that you took a bunch of students into a park and pretended to peer into their bodies, while requesting them to share highly personal health information, and came up with zero results?

Oh, yeah. You're not delusional. Not at all. :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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I find it hard to believe that a professor could behave like that and not be reported?


It was probably Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor.

Or perhaps it was the professor's reaction to Anita's preposterous story. :)


M.
 
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Now why would you go and incorrectly replace a proper word with that nonsense, while ignoring the perfectly good typographical error immediately to its left? [/pedant]

Well spotted! In proofreading that's called "proximity blindness"* -- a proofreader will often miss an error that is very near to an error he/she has just found.

*(I coined the term when I found the condition true of myself and many proofreaders/editors I have worked with.)
 
Pedantry alert

Well spotted! In proofreading that's called "proximity blindness"* -- a proofreader will often miss an error that is very near to an error he/she has just found.

*(I coined the term when I found the condition true of myself and many proofreaders/editors I have worked with.)

Keeping up the pedantry theme, I'm not sure why you think you spotted an error - 'regardless' is the correct word in this instance.

Dictionary.com has this to say about the word 'irregardless':

"Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irregardless
 
Keeping up the pedantry theme, I'm not sure why you think you spotted an error - 'regardless' is the correct word in this instance.

Dictionary.com has this to say about the word 'irregardless':

"Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irregardless


I suppose that next you will tell me that "unmisinterpretation" isn't a word, thereby revealing your diseducation. :(


M.
 
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