Dog Acts

[Liub]

Big or small.

When you get screwed over by someone.

For example:
Last semester, I was struggling to pass a unit for Uni. I went and talked to the Uni lecturer about what I can do to ensure that I get a good mark in the exam. He tells me to study hard and I asked for some sample exam questions. He emailed me 8 sample questions which covered 8 topics.
There are about 11 topics in the unit. So naturally I concentrated on the topics that were based on his sample questions. Come exam time, only 1 of the topics from his sample quesitons appeared in the exam. The rest of the exam was based on the other 3 topics. Was extremely lucky to pass the unit. I have a grudge on that lecturer ever since.

An everyday dog act: At a 2 lane traffic. Majority of people are going straight so the left lane gets queued up quickly. Theres only 1 car on the right lane with the indicators off. So I go into the right lane. Come the green light, yep you guessed it - the whanker proceeds to indicate and holds me up in the middle of the road.

 

[Power King]

^That lecturer is a ****ing dog and I would find it extremely hard not to bring it up with him.

 

[coke_zero]

i'd be pissed off if the first one happend to me so you have every right to be off your nut.

i was going out and someone wanted me to buy them something that was $100 and he would pay me tomorrow. i give him the thing and the next day he gives it back to me broken and doesnt even give me any money for wasting $100, not even a twenty.

 

[Tormented Tiger]

The uni lecturer gave some sound advice, "He tells me to study hard". Then you tried to take the easy option and think he was giving you the answers. What a dog he is. You passed the exam and by studying the eight that weren't on the exam you've more than likely walked away with more knowledge of the subject. What a dogs act !

 

[demonfan9]

I'm more outraged by the second act.

I hate w***ers who think they don't have to indicate. Maybe if it was switching lanes on a quiet road, you could accept that they don't indicate. But turning right at an intersection, which means you will hold up the traffic behind you, is a poor effort.

BTW, why are these things called "dog" acts? Aren't dogs supposed to be mans best friend, loyal and loving? I reckon we're insulting the canine breed.

 

[Fender]

Some dog once stole my esky.

 

[wce_all_da_way]

Went out a few months ago with about 3 other mates. One was the designated driver. He pulls out of the club (Amps/Caps for everyone in Perth) about 40 minutes after we got there, claiming he didn't want to be there tonight and all that shit. So never mind the fact we're enjoying ourselves, I can forgive him for that. It's when we're walking back to the car and we decided to take a piss in an alleyway. When I get out of the alley, I see him driving off without any of us. Left us all in the city at 1am on a Saturday night pissed.

I still haven't let up about it. He never apologised.

 

[mantis]

I'm more outraged by the second act.

I hate w***ers who think they don't have to indicate. Maybe if it was switching lanes on a quiet road, you could accept that they don't indicate. But turning right at an intersection, which means you will hold up the traffic behind you, is a poor effort.

BTW, why are these things called "dog" acts? Aren't dogs supposed to be mans best friend, loyal and loving? I reckon we're insulting the canine breed.

Yep the OP is. It's a human act.

Edited to add, that people who call humans who do despicable things animals, when it's human trait, animals wouldn't do what bad humans do.

 

[finbarr]

Yep the OP is. It's a human act.

Edited to add, that people who call humans who do despicable things animals, when it's human trait, animals wouldn't do what bad humans do.

Maybe a fox would....or a bat. I'd never trust a bat.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Went out a few months ago with about 3 other mates. One was the designated driver. He pulls out of the club (Amps/Caps for everyone in Perth) about 40 minutes after we got there, claiming he didn't want to be there tonight and all that shit. So never mind the fact we're enjoying ourselves, I can forgive him for that. It's when we're walking back to the car and we decided to take a piss in an alleyway. When I get out of the alley, I see him driving off without any of us. Left us all in the city at 1am on a Saturday night pissed.

I still haven't let up about it. He never apologised.

What, you expected him to let you drive his car while pissed?

 

[Power King]

BTW, why are these things called "dog" acts? Aren't dogs supposed to be mans best friend, loyal and loving? I reckon we're insulting the canine breed.

^Interesting point.

In aussie slang, its meaning is as it is in this thread.

In american hiphop slang, it means 'friend'... "where my dogs at?" lol

The uni lecturer gave some sound advice, "He tells me to study hard". Then you tried to take the easy option and think he was giving you the answers. What a dog he is. You passed the exam and by studying the eight that weren't on the exam you've more than likely walked away with more knowledge of the subject. What a dogs act !

^Disagree.

The lecturer could've flat out told him to simply study all the material, but his actions (and the lecturer would've known this) would easily have been misconstrued by any student.

I don't necessarily think what he did was take the 'easy option'. If he was simply told by the lecturer to study it all, then that's what he'd have to do. If the student wanted some extra help, he has every right to ask for it. The lecturer shouldn't lead him on a path in the way that he did, which could so easily be misinterpreted.

Why give a prac exam that represents ****all of the real exam in which you know what material will be covered, when you could tell him to simply study everything, and in the end achieve the same result that you wrote about in your above post?

For what it's worth, I often get sick of uni students who don't put in the necessary effort to pass, and then whinge about failing. However, what the OP did was fair in my opinion.

 

[bringbackschwarter5]

Some dog once stole my esky.

Some dog's thought it would be funny to try and steal my crab pots

 

[Liub]

The uni lecturer gave some sound advice, "He tells me to study hard". Then you tried to take the easy option and think he was giving you the answers. What a dog he is. You passed the exam and by studying the eight that weren't on the exam you've more than likely walked away with more knowledge of the subject. What a dogs act !

I did not try to take the easy option. I studied really hard for that exam.

He gave me 8 questions on 8 topics. I studied the exact question answers as well as other stuff within the 8 topics. It's not like I just studied the sample questions hoping it was enough. I put more study emphasis on the 8 topics that he mentioned and less on the other 3.

Like powerking said, the better advice would be to tell me to study every topic. That way it wouldn't have misguided me.

 

[Zarrix]

Thats the way to go, Study every topic. Lecturers/Teachers cannot tell you exactly what is in any exam, the exam covers the whole unit, so you must study it as a whole even if some things will be omitted. In any case, he is a douche if he told you that those 8 topics would be in the exam 100%

 

[The Passenger]

An everyday dog act: At a 2 lane traffic. Majority of people are going straight so the left lane gets queued up quickly. Theres only 1 car on the right lane with the indicators off. So I go into the right lane. Come the green light, yep you guessed it - the whanker proceeds to indicate and holds me up in the middle of the road.

similar one is people who go to the front of a long queue in traffic.

i see it happen every day on my way home. there's two lanes of traffic, with the right lane branching out into two lanes to turn right. the left hand lane allows branches out into two lanes allowing people to go straight ahead.

the lanes go from two to four about 50m from the lights, but the traffic to turn right is usually over 150m long.

there is always a few dicks who believe their time is more important and go to the front of the queue.

there is hardly ever any traffic to go straight, which is the direction i need to go. it's even more frustrating for me when people who want to jump the queue decide to merge before the lanes go from two to four because now the people going straight (me!!) can't even go around them into the second left lane because it doesn't exist yet.... grrrrrrr.

 

[Invigoration]

What, you expected him to let you drive his car while pissed?

When did he say anything of the sort?
He said the mate, who was designated driver ditched the mates and left them in the city, instead of giving them a lift.

 

[vapid1]

Went out a few months ago with about 3 other mates. One was the designated driver. He pulls out of the club (Amps/Caps for everyone in Perth) about 40 minutes after we got there, claiming he didn't want to be there tonight and all that shit. So never mind the fact we're enjoying ourselves, I can forgive him for that. It's when we're walking back to the car and we decided to take a piss in an alleyway. When I get out of the alley, I see him driving off without any of us. Left us all in the city at 1am on a Saturday night pissed.

I still haven't let up about it. He never apologised.

you call him a mate? I would have disowned the guy.

 

[Power King]

When did he say anything of the sort?
He said the mate, who was designated driver ditched the mates and left them in the city, instead of giving them a lift.

^I think that's fair enough to do if he's having a shit time early on and really wants to go home. I don't think someone should have to put up for hours at a place where they really don't want to be, whilst your mates ignore you and get smashed. The fair thing to do in such a case would be to just let his mates know, a reasonable time in advance, that he intends on going home, so that they can keep spare money for a taxi by the end of the night. Perhaps owe them a favour next time since he was already designated driver, even apologise.

The bad part was actually not letting them know even at the end of the night where they clearly expected to be getting a lift, and just driving off. No early warning whatsoever.

Although there are always two sides to a story, perhaps the mate felt hard-done by, by something one (or more) of the drinking group had done earlier in the night (not that this necessarily justifies his action, but might explain his motive for doing it)? Only the poster might know this..

 

[Underdog]

The bad part was actually not letting them know even at the end of the night where they clearly expected to be getting a lift, and just driving off. No early warning whatsoever.

Although there are always two sides to a story, perhaps the mate felt hard-done by, by something one (or more) of the drinking group had done earlier in the night (not that this necessarily justifies his action, but might explain his motive for doing it)? Only the poster might know this..

I'm betting when they went down the alleyway to pee he thought they buggered off.

 

[Dagless]

^I think that's fair enough to do if he's having a shit time early on and really wants to go home. I don't think someone should have to put up for hours at a place where they really don't want to be, whilst your mates ignore you and get smashed. The fair thing to do in such a case would be to just let his mates know, a reasonable time in advance, that he intends on going home, so that they can keep spare money for a taxi by the end of the night. Perhaps owe them a favour next time since he was already designated driver, even apologise.

The bad part was actually not letting them know even at the end of the night where they clearly expected to be getting a lift, and just driving off. No early warning whatsoever.

Although there are always two sides to a story, perhaps the mate felt hard-done by, by something one (or more) of the drinking group had done earlier in the night (not that this necessarily justifies his action, but might explain his motive for doing it)? Only the poster might know this..

I think the story is that Wally and his mates were actually on the way to the car to be driven home, not that the deso had to wait for them for another hour or so... They just decided to take a piss BEFORE they got in the car, and in that time he said 'stuff a few minutes' and left straight away... Pretty average form considering it would only take a min.

But maybe he didn't know that...

 

[Power King]

^Yeah that's what I meant by 'the bad part' in my second paragraph there.

 

[Dagless]

^Yeah that's what I meant by 'the bad part' in my second paragraph there.

Apologies, mis read the post

 

[wce_all_da_way]

I think the story is that Wally and his mates were actually on the way to the car to be driven home, not that the deso had to wait for them for another hour or so... They just decided to take a piss BEFORE they got in the car, and in that time he said 'stuff a few minutes' and left straight away... Pretty average form considering it would only take a min.

But maybe he didn't know that...

Nah he knew. It's pretty clear when a bloke runs off to a deserted alleyway saying he needed to piss that they're just going to take a piss.

He never really explained why he did it, nor did he apologise, which was the most annoying part about it.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

In the spirit of the OP.

Many years ago, studying a subject at uni (commercial law intro? can't remember), our lecturer was based in hobart, but we had a video link for the launceston campus. Was far less than ideal, but we coped.

We had an "exam preparation" seminar with him in person - for many of us only the second time we had seen him all year. We spent about 15 minutes on each of the 12 topics, what would be important, required or bonus information.

We did the exam.

1 student from Launceston passed. Out of 34. Nearly every single Hobart student passed.

We found out later that he had run a second exam preparation session in Hobart, and not only told them which 4 areas of the unit would be on the Exam, he even gave them "SPECIFICS OF THE QUESTIONS".

It wasn't picked up until the following year, when he tried to get the unit stopped in Launceston due to the woeful performance, a review was undertaken, and student testimony saw him not only lose the launceston job, but his own job in Hobart too.

Every launceston student was given a TP (40% pass mark) for the unit, however a few (myself and two honours students) were forced to re-do the unit, as we had allready re-enrolled in it.

 

[Liub]

In the spirit of the OP.

Many years ago, studying a subject at uni (commercial law intro? can't remember), our lecturer was based in hobart, but we had a video link for the launceston campus. Was far less than ideal, but we coped.

We had an "exam preparation" seminar with him in person - for many of us only the second time we had seen him all year. We spent about 15 minutes on each of the 12 topics, what would be important, required or bonus information.

We did the exam.

1 student from Launceston passed. Out of 34. Nearly every single Hobart student passed.

We found out later that he had run a second exam preparation session in Hobart, and not only told them which 4 areas of the unit would be on the Exam, he even gave them "SPECIFICS OF THE QUESTIONS".

It wasn't picked up until the following year, when he tried to get the unit stopped in Launceston due to the woeful performance, a review was undertaken, and student testimony saw him not only lose the launceston job, but his own job in Hobart too.

Every launceston student was given a TP (40% pass mark) for the unit, however a few (myself and two honours students) were forced to re-do the unit, as we had allready re-enrolled in it.

That sucks mate .

Nothing annoys me more than unorganised and bias lecturers. You shouldn't of had to do it again. The uni should of let you cancel the class but I guess redoing the unit would look better on paper than a 40% pass.

Did the uni give you a clean slate on the unit or was the fail unit recorded?