Sounds like your lecturer had a severe sense of humour bypass.
Or could he have reached the end of his tether due to previous interjections?
P.S. Please do not take my suggestion as an insult! 🙂
That is the public image Galu, the sociology is rather less attractive.
It is not so nice in winter, howling gales, cold, and you know how derelict and bleak a beach looks in winter, this because we are all programmed with sunny beaches full of playing splashing children and sunbathers. Propaganda by capitalism selling ideals.
It is not so nice in winter, howling gales, cold, and you know how derelict and bleak a beach looks in winter, this because we are all programmed with sunny beaches full of playing splashing children and sunbathers. Propaganda by capitalism selling ideals.
I do live in the UK Pharos, and my insertion of the word 'sunny' was meant none other than in the alliterative sense. 🙂
Yes Galu, but your posted picture was so idealistically summery.
That is also lovely picture, and reminds me of a line in an Erasure song; "why is life so precious and so cruel."
That is also lovely picture, and reminds me of a line in an Erasure song; "why is life so precious and so cruel."
So, since my mom is 18yrs older than I, even at my current 68 my “younger” than her status remains in effect, and as my several years younger wife would be happy to attest, I most certainly fail to pass her stupidity threshold on an almost daily basis. Our mid 30’s progeny, OTOH, don’t. Mind you, I do take small comfort that I stumped my son on the word “progenitor” today, and will bask in the tepid glow of that little accomplishment for probably days - until my next stumble.
Getn' yo smug on fo sho.
Or something 🙂
Important to teach the young'uns their place every now&again.
I quite suddenly and seemingly without any warning find myself close to the age of 40!
What happened? But then again, I'm told 40 is the new 30? So maybe I should start planning for the event, got just enough time to brew lots of wine this year and let it mature until 2022.
You want to drive, not only Millennials but even some Boomers 😱 crazy?
Ask for "a gross" of anything 😎
Sometime, about '66 at college we were introduced to the SI unit scheme, we being told that the old Imperial one was on its way out. That hasn't happened and for 50 years+, and we have had to be conversant with both.
Years before, "Universal" threads were introduced to dispense with the numerousness of threads; Whitworth, BSF, BA, Metric etc.
What actually happened was that we just had another added thread standard.
Microphone stands still use Whitworth.
Years before, "Universal" threads were introduced to dispense with the numerousness of threads; Whitworth, BSF, BA, Metric etc.
What actually happened was that we just had another added thread standard.
Microphone stands still use Whitworth.
It has happened in those areas where the entire population is highly educated, a lot of calculating is necessary, and there are no conflicting business interests: scientists in the field of physics, for example, use SI units in every country on earth, as far as I know.
Another example is electronics engineers: everyone on this forum is familiar with the SI prefixes used to describe the values of current, voltage, resistance, capacitance, et cetera. The base units of current, voltage, resistance, even the magnetic induction inside a loudspeaker (amperes, volts, ohms, farads, tesla respectively) are all SI units.
Some other branches of engineering haven't been as successful, because their work is often tied to manufacturing, and countries with a huge installed base of machinery that manufactures products to Imperial dimensions have not been eager to foot the bill to change units. So mechanical engineers in the USA, last I heard, were still dealing with feet, pounds, slugs, and all those other illogical, cumbersome,inelegant units.
And when it comes to the world of crude commerce, where profit is everything, and mathematical elegance counts for nothing, yeah, there's not much hope for change. I doubt we will see the end of "board feet" or two-by-fours that are don't actually measure two-by-four any time soon. 🙂
-Gnobuddy