TheFlyingGerbil Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 Apparently it isn't a spoof. I can't quite believe it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 That's how I'm going to read everything in my head that Dean posts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 I still don't think TFG is aware of what I'd posted above his post Anyway my mum was showing this to my and my gran yesterday so it's obviously doing the rounds. They're reckon it's more a bad irish accent than anything. Oh we went through that name profile thing, pretty much anyone my gran named is in a big red yorkshire located splotch. Amazing how little families spread around even with the advent of the train and automobile. edit: Remembered why I came in here. Anyway picked up some American foods at a shop while with my mum and we noted that apart from them all having stickers on the back replacing the nutritional info (though I couldn't successfully peel any off to tell the difference), we found it funny that the "Twizzlers" (which are bland as hell btw) had "low in fat" proudly displayed on the front. They're 78% sugar. All the cereal has the "great source of vitamins" stickered over too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 Of course I noticed, how dare you! I just thought it should posted twice within three posts of each other... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 Fat and sugar aren't the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 I didn't explain myself overly well: it's more the absurdity that something as obviously sugar laden as sweets would declare themselves as a "low fat snack". It's technically true, same as a stick of lard being sugar-free. You wouldn't really advertise that. Normally it's the other snacking options like nut bars or carrot sticks that go with the "low in fat" claims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Mine (Garratty) is... weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 So how frequent is "STEM" in like regular human conversation, cos it seems to be semi-common. I only have ever encountered it in recent years through consuming US media. Like over here I'd think if someone mentioned "stem" in conversation then you'd be like "as in a plant stem?". I don't think they're even joined much over here. Might have changed in recent years but when I was at school maths, science n english were the tentpole trifecta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 I only ever encounter STEM in the news, not general conversation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 maths, science and English are still the foundation subjects for teaching pupils but stem subjects are the important ones for industry, innovation, economic growth etc. and I only hear it in the news too, mostly about getting women into what are traditionally seen as male professions and the general lack of people going into the fields, both to teach them and fill skilled jobs. The issue being people are trending toward the soft subjects. It's definitely the correct/normal term for it in the uk but you'd have to be talking about this particular issue to bring the term up , else you'd just talk about the specific field. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 I hear it a lot, but given my employment history it's not surprising. Also hear it referred to as STEAM (the A is "arts"). I was at a seminar a while ago and my manager was incandescent with rage that the speaker kept talking about Steam and not Origin until I pointed out that they were talking about S.T.E.A.M and not Steam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics? Isn't that otherwise known as "the totality of all subjects"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Except the Humanities, which would make it SHTEAM. Languages too, and I'm not sure if English comes under Arts or Humanities it's an extremely broad subject (heck, was split in two for the GCSEs). Also PE I guess, which more comes under "acceptable childhood torture" than any other bracket. Also being STEAM is kinda weird cos I've always seen STEM in a "totally separate from the Arts, which are beneath us" kind of way. The "hard" subjects opposed to the "soft" subjects. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 From an industry perspective, art is pretty important. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 I don't know about over there, but often over here arts and humanities are lumped together into "Arts & Humanities" and treated as one thing. The two main kinds of undergraduate degrees are Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science, which is emblematic of what is generally perceived the primary academic divide. STEM is used almost synonymously with the "science" side of that divide, so throwing in Arts would basically make it encompass everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 In this case I think "Art" is more narrowly defined as "Art and Design" rather than "The Arts and Humanities". http://stemtosteam.org/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 The Universities up here tend to lump Languages in there, too. Eg Arts, Humanities and Languages. Maybe not, though, based on what TN says Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 Yeah, languages would be within "Arts & Humanities", it just doesn't get its name on the marquee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 So this is a weird one cos it's a Craig Ferguson clip and he's Scottish. But yeah, he called a "harmonica" a "mouth organ". I used to have a nice harmonica when I was younger and you're at that stage you want to learn an instrument and I'm that awkward kid that didn't want to learn recorder like everyone else. I dropped it down the side of my dads reclining chair. So we opened up the chair into the reclining position to get to it and...don't stick your fingers inside reclining chairs kids cos they're made of softer things than metal. Also I've maybe asked before but: How'd you guys type out £ symbol. Is it on your keyboard at all. What about €, is that there too? Shift + 3 = £ Shift + 4 = $ Shift + Alt + 4 = € Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 £ and € aren't on the keyboard at all. I either find someone else who just typed it to copy it from (such as these I copied from your post), or I google "pound symbol" or "euro symbol" to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 There are macros, too, but fuck if I know them. At an old job and in school, I had an EU (German) keyboard I'd plug into my computer if I was writing German or dealing with euros a lot because I didn't want to fuck around learning complex macros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 Alt+156 = £ Alt+157 = ¥ Alt+0128 = € Damn Euro screwing with everything. Now for some fun ones... Alt+0176 OR Alt+248 = ° Alt+241 = ± Alt+242 = ≥ Alt+243 = ≤ Alt+247 = ≈ I'm not sure why there are duplicates... There are Alt Codes for the Greek alphabet too. Note I never bothered to learn these since I do what Ethan do. Good old copy and paste. I'm not sure why... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 You guys know of the character map right? (and yeah, I used to have to know the Euro alt code back in early secondary school(and a few others), but Euro became more of a thing so it got added as a default key) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 I do know about the character map, but Google is faster. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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