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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Most of the time this resulted in one of two further questions "is that PE" or "is that to be a physician".  Y'needer define yer momentum lads. Define yer momentum and you can position yezelfs anywhere. Get y'knees up. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Amazed anyone thinks it's an insult - though I am almost 40 years older than their survey. e: 1997 - The Sun breaks for Tonty Blair, The Graun promotes a new wizard author, The Sport publishes a bunch of gross poo poo about Myra Hindley Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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fuctifino posted:Maybe only using endangered red squirrels for the wallets? That picture has extreme "my friends are just out of frame, laughing too" energy
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well one place I worked in my 20s, the General Manger used to introduce me to GMs from other divisions and 'important' customers as "Our Boffin". The problem with words like “boffin” is that they create a distinction between “normal” people and scientists, and add weight to the idea that being a scientist is something special and unattainable for most people. Science, and physics in particular, has an access problem, with vast swathes of society hugely under represented. Words like “boffin” perpetuate the idea that it is only the preserve of white men, and that is not a good thing.
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Scientastic posted:Science, and physics in particular, has an access problem, with vast swathes of society hugely under represented. Words like “boffin” perpetuate the idea that it is only the preserve of white men, and that is not a good thing. Absolutely, but lol at writing a nice letter to the Sun asking them not to write boffin.
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Scientastic posted:The problem with words like “boffin” is that they create a distinction between “normal” people and scientists, and add weight to the idea that being a scientist is something special and unattainable for most people. It’s a stupid word, too. One level up from “egghead” but similar vibes for me. Makes my skin crawl. Or did, when I was a scientist.
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Keith Arsewank has decided to strike back against his detractors https://twitter.com/swank4america/status/1641239263785422848?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well one place I worked in my 20s, the General Manger used to introduce me to GMs from other divisions and 'important' customers as "Our Boffin". Pictured: JA at work   Except probably less 5 o'clock shadow
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domhal posted:Absolutely, but lol at writing a nice letter to the Sun asking them not to write boffin. Sounds like the sort of thing a boffin would do.
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I haven't heard/read the word "boffin" for ages and it gave me legit flashbacks to being bullied as a kid gently caress the word "boffin"
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Man, Rachel Reeves on the Today programme this morning as useless as ever. She refused to commit to increasing capital gains tax, despite Labour using it as an attack line against Sunak when he published his tax returns. I don't really understand why capital gains is treated as this sacred cow which can never be touched. Surely increasing it by only a few points would rake in huge amounts of money, and have very little detrimental affect on the average voter? I mean I know the answer is obvious, but there's far less stigma around tampering with corporation tax, for example.
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Scientastic posted:The problem with words like “boffin” is that they create a distinction between “normal” people and scientists, and add weight to the idea that being a scientist is something special and unattainable for most people.
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Baffin boffins baffle Baffin boffins Baffin boffins baffle.
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"Boffin" is just a way of talking down to their readers, who they assume can't comprehend anything more technical than 'brainiac did a science thing'.
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The British press writes in a manner of a Dickensian paedophile and will not be moved from it.
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Labour will keep things as poo poo as they are for working people, worse for others. https://twitter.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1641326733222633472
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Guavanaut posted:I can remember 'bof' being a similar insult in the early 90s, but not boffin, probably too many syllables for anyone engaging in casual Daily Sport style anti-intellectualism against children back then. Sure was fun being a "gifted and talented" kid whose surname rhymed with bof.
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Scientastic posted:The problem with words like “boffin” is that they create a distinction between “normal” people and scientists, and add weight to the idea that being a scientist is something special and unattainable for most people. Being a scientist is already unattainable for anyone reading the Sun or the Daily Star
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sebzilla posted:Sure was fun being a "gifted and talented" kid whose surname rhymed with bof.
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domhal posted:Baffin boffins baffle Baffin boffins Baffin boffins baffle. gently caress you if this is syntactically correct
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Guavanaut posted:Labour will keep things as poo poo as they are for working people, worse for others. Coming out with this now will just screw over Labour councils won't it? If they increase council tax it opens them to criticism that "Labout said they wouldnt increase council tax" . If they don't increase council tax then that means a big cut in funding in real terms.
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Failed Imagineer posted:gently caress you if this is syntactically correct I ran it past my linguistics boffin and can confirm, sadly, that it is correct.
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ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:Coming out with this now will just screw over Labour councils won't it? If they increase council tax it opens them to criticism that "Labout said they wouldnt increase council tax" . If they don't increase council tax then that means a big cut in funding in real terms.
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Glad to see that the boffins have finally solved the problem of trees.
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They just need to crispr them to make cocaine now.
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keep punching joe posted:Glad to see that the boffins have finally solved the problem of trees. They could at least make them look a bit more like trees.
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Guavanaut posted:I think after what the NEC did to those 19 Leicester councillors that's probably what they want. Fuckbarrel anyone promising anything good and replace them with party loyalists. I think I read one of those Leicester councillors has joined the tories now.
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wrong thread woops e: have a cat 
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fuctifino posted:I read that as pulling us out of the ECHR so that they can be as cruel as they can without restrictions He's a nepo baby too. https://twitter.com/chaoswithkeith/status/1641067517174005761 I'm sure he won't be wanting to neuter the HFEA and make it easier for IVF clinics to rip off desperate people at all.
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Just got fibre internet installed  96Mbps soo loving happy atm.  I had been on 2.6Mbps for months until now.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think I read one of those Leicester councillors has joined the tories now. I think at this point I'd rather even the tory ones win their seats back than the city be ruled by diktat from Holborn and St Pancras Jaeluni Asjil posted:They could at least make them look a bit more like trees. Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah I often feel that way about Radiohead
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Just Another Lurker posted:Just got fibre internet installed Glad you can enjoy pornhub in 4k now.
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keep punching joe posted:Glad to see that the boffins have finally solved the problem of trees. Jaeluni Asjil posted:They could at least make them look a bit more like trees. Seems it's not brand new https://euronews.com/2021/12/07/this-liquid-tree-in-belgrade-is-fighting-back-against-air-pollution It's apparently designed for places too dense for trees, and also for heavily polluted areas, because while car exhaust can poison trees, algae is comparatively resistant.
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sebzilla posted:Sure was fun being a "gifted and talented" kid whose surname rhymed with bof. Ulrike?
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Police forces genuinely think tweeting this poo poo makes them look like the good guys lol https://twitter.com/gmpcitycentre/status/1640711812042850306?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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