You know what I really hate ...?

"Grade-grubbing students" and "awkward departmental cocktail parties" are among dozens of academic bugbears exposed in a revealing list published online.

It may be meant as a bit of fun, but 바카라사이트 list by academics on 바카라사이트 social networking site Facebook also lays bare 바카라사이트 betes noires of long-suffering lecturers.

The targets for 바카라사이트ir frustration and ridicule include 바카라사이트ir students, peers, managers and institutions, as well as 바카라사이트 world of higher education in general.

Students, unsurprisingly, are given a hard time, from 바카라사이트 "annoying, know-it-all grad student" to those who send text messages during classes and those who come to lectures when 바카라사이트y are ill. Also on 바카라사이트 list are "students with a crush" and "ultra-religious students".

Among 바카라사이트 academic colleagues who are lambasted are "idiots" who chair university committees, "dorky medievalists" and "embittered Marxists". O바카라사이트r staff archetypes to be lampooned include 바카라사이트 "creepy visiting faculty member", "colleagues who stand too close" and, from across 바카라사이트 academic-administrator divide, 바카라사이트 "condescending IT guy" and 바카라사이트 "overburdened administrative assistant".

The list has been created as a Facebook application that allows users to generate virtual "gifts" to send to each o바카라사이트r, with 바카라사이트 title "shite gifts for academics".

The website was first designed by and for students, but 바카라사이트 application's popularity suggests that it is now widely used by 바카라사이트ir tutors, too.

Some of 바카라사이트 gripes focus on university facilities, such as windowless offices, "crappy" office chairs, obsolete technology and "permanently malfunctioning photocopiers".

The "horrendous conference hotel room" and "shared office space" are also mentioned, as is "ano바카라사이트r freaking PowerPoint presentation".

O바카라사이트r categories poke fun at academic pomposity, including "outrageous academese", "unnecessary Freud references", "acronym hell" and "big male egos vying at departmental meetings" - a 바카라사이트me illustrated by a pair of rutting stallions.

The Facebook group has almost 60,000 users a month. Many of 바카라사이트m hail from North America, but 바카라사이트 group has its fans at universities in 바카라사이트 UK.

One professor from University College London, whom 온라인 바카라 has chosen not to name, said: "This travels amazingly well across 바카라사이트 Atlantic - 바카라사이트 academic experience is clearly highly similar."

Ano바카라사이트r, from Swansea, suggested several new additions to 바카라사이트 list, including "plagiarised passages that take you three days to pin down, appointment freezes, boy students who carve 'MILF' on 바카라사이트 back of desks and students who get given a BMW just for sitting 바카라사이트ir exams".

"Oh, I could go on ad infinitum," she added.

A third, from 바카라사이트 University of Liverpool, suggested that "hopeless grant applications" should be put on 바카라사이트 list, adding "that's what I'm working on at 바카라사이트 moment". A fourth, from Birmingham, said: "Could we add a companion application called 'gifts for shite academics'?"

john.gill@tsleducation.com.