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2014-10-22, 02:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-22, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-22, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Way ahead of you. It was the result of my last blood test that made the physician pull the brakes. But yes, that's pretty much always good advice.
Makes me wonder if there's Anti-Social Work. :)
Good luck. It's always good to have "I am competent to do this" written down somewhere.Avatar by CoffeeIncluded
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2014-10-22, 03:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
Heh. This reminds me of when I was in England, and we were doing a little "sharing exercise." The question was what is your favorite snack, and I said goldfish. The other Americans understood right away, but evidently they don't have the crackers in the UK and my English friends were momentarily horrified.
I must say that's a pretty good reason.
Good luck, Finn! Is there some sort of Finnish qualification process for entrance exams/not a generalized test?
Might be the margarita, but I only had it a couple of times and now it is gone forever. Alas. Otherwise I stick to some variety of BBQ, 'cause I'm simple like that.
Also, I see what you did there.
What exactly does one do with a Master's in Social Work? Assuming it's board friendly to say.
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2014-10-22, 03:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
When Gods Go To War comes out March 8th
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2014-10-22, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
Computer science?
Heheheh
*nod* BBQ is good. Honestly, I'm not very picky as far as wing sauces go. I tend to pick the hotter ones, though. At some point I may do the blazing wings challenge.
>implying I did anything whatsoever
It's all automated, man.
I may have to sig this.Avatar by FinnLassie
A few odds and ends.
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2014-10-22, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
I wouldn't. I had some friends who did it a while back. They, unlike me, genuinely enjoy the hotter range of sauces. When they did it, all they said was that it was too hot for flavor and just ... nasty, I guess.
>implying I did anything whatsoever
It's all automated, man.
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2014-10-22, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Good. I always wince a little when people tell me "I took myself off X drug." Just not a good idea to do unless you're working with whoever prescribed it...
Thanks! It's been many years in coming and it will be very good to be done. Of course...I still need to do my independent study project. In my copious free time.
Yeah, it's more or less board friendly. The nice thing about it is I can do pretty much anything within the field that I want. Clinical work is where I'd like to go with it, providing individual or group therapy. My background is in medical social work, so I will probably stay more or less in that area, but really...social work itself is a huge area of expertise.
School social work
Community social work
Mental health
Medical
Hospice
Child/adult protection (this is the one most people think of when they hear "social worker" but trust me, we don't all take kids away)
Adoption social work
Chemical dependency treatment
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Are you calling me an unprofessional criminal?
Or maths expert.
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2014-10-22, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
So, regarding that equation from earlier: What if you replaced the terrestrial days with an equal number of martian ones?
EDIT: And perhaps convert to base-seventeen instead of dozenal...Last edited by enderlord99; 2014-10-22 at 03:37 PM.
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2014-10-22, 05:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
No, but given:
1) Everyone has broken some law at some point by accident or otherwise due to the fact that many laws are simply unknown by the general public (and are also pretty minor minutia)
2) Most crime does not provide regular monetary compensation
3) Those that do are generally committed by career criminals who are not going to tell a bunch of people online that fact
You probably areLast edited by HalfTangible; 2014-10-22 at 05:33 PM.
Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
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When Gods Go To War comes out March 8th
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2014-10-22, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-22, 10:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Back from work. Nobodies dead or sick, but the back of my right hand's pointer and middle finger are burning and I don't know why.
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2014-10-23, 12:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
I have found a RL gaming group but I'm willing to meet other GitP people nearby.
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2014-10-23, 03:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Great, now I have to find a tinfoil facemask.
I just realised I have (1) a bachelor's this weekend; (2) a Halloween party next weekend; (3) a beerfest the weekend after that; and (4) a birthday party the weekend after that. With the possibility of another beerfest after that.
My social calender is exhausting.Awesome fremetar by wxdruid.
From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable, and I will not take refuge. I demand to *know*.
So I guess I have an internets? | And a trophy. | And a music cookie (whatever that is).
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2014-10-23, 04:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-23, 05:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2014-10-23, 08:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-23, 09:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
All I know about CPS I learned from the Sims. It all starts when you kiss someone you're married to in a special way. That makes a baby fall from the sky. If you leave the kid for more than 30 minutes, CPS turns out and confiscate the kid. But you're just as happy.
(I may misremember details, but the main story should be correct).
ETA: And apparently, EmeraldRose prefers apples to watermelons.Last edited by Asta Kask; 2014-10-23 at 09:37 AM.
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2014-10-23, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-23, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Avatar by Venetian Mask. It's of an NPC from a campaign I may yet run (possibly in PbP) who became a favorite of mine while planning.
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2014-10-23, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
Uhm... Let's see how to explain this. I'm just gonna run through the whole application process to make some sense.
Well, there are two times in the year you apply through a national system for programmes starting either in August (everything available) or January (limited places and not every programme participates). The system basically asks you for personal information and if you have any disability that might inferere with the studies (for example crippling anxiety and depression, you'd then be required to get a doctor's certificate that you're in well enough condition to study. seems to only apply for stuff like social work and nursing). You then enter your previous qualifications, and depending on the university and programme they either ask you only for your matriculation exam results (they will get it from the database if you did your exams after 2006 I think, otherwise you have to type everything down) or both the exam results and your upper secondary school certificate.
When all this is finished, you choose six different degree programmes you wish to study. After submitting the waiting game begins. Basically, each study programme from every university has the exact same entrance exam apart from a couple of special cases, and you will take your entrance exam to the nearest place you have applied to and you have received an invitation for. As an example, I applied to two different programmes - social work and community pedagogy. Out of the six universities, two were for community pedagogy (in the same place, just different form of degree) and four were for social work. However, one of the universities I applied to is one of these special cases (I applied for 2 different locations), and it seems like I didn't get enough "starter" points for a nearer location, as my exam is near where my grandparents live instead of a short train ride away. Eh, such is life.
Basically: your upper secondary / vocational school diplomas and such will give you a certain amount of points that will be added to your entrance exam results. The higher your grade, the more points you receive, as simple as that. You might also get an extra point for a relevant field of study, and different degrees put more emphasis on different subjects (for example, engineering degrees usually give extra points if you have done maths, physics and chemistry in your matriculation exams). Five extra points are given to the applicant if the degree they have applied to has been their first choice.
After this you make a pact with Satan and sell your soul to the overlord's eternity.
THEY BECOME ULTIMATE MASTERS OF SOCIAL WORK. NOTHING CAN STOP THEM. HEIL SOCIAL WORKERS.
It will only cost me to travel to the city where the university is, so it's a rather... grim thing at the moment, as I have no student card to get any discounts with. Applying, taking exams or attending university costs absolutely nada.Originally Posted by LaZodiac
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2014-10-23, 01:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-23, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Apparently in Sims, you can determine the child's sex by eating certain things - apples for boys, watermelons for girls. Now watermelons for girls... I can understand*. Apples? Why no cucumbers? Or carrots? Or bananas?
*setting aside realities of physiology for a moment - few women actually have watermelonsLast edited by Asta Kask; 2014-10-23 at 01:53 PM.
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Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
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2014-10-23, 02:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ok gotcha. Of course, it isn't the female who has the "power" over chromosome types.
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Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
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2014-10-23, 02:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-23, 02:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
And here's why.
TL;DR - in evolutionary terms, it pays for a parent to invest the most resources in the less-numerous sex, and this drives the population to a state where the two sexes* are equally common. There's a famous counterexample to this - the eusocial insects, like ants and bees. They have an unusual chromosomal arrangement which makes the equilibrium state different.
*I'm limiting myself to vertebrates, although the reasoning only requires sexual procreationAvatar by CoffeeIncluded
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2014-10-23, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: jhunter_d's Gelatinous Jamborie of a Random Banter: #209
I'd imagine it's a reference to the Adam's Apple.
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2014-10-23, 04:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think every university around the globe shares the same pact making.
Well, personally I don't see the system complicated at all, I was raised with the knowledge of it - I myself found the UK system unnecessarily complicated. There are less chances for kids with poor grades to show they have the guts to go in for a degree. Sure, we have the starter points, but they won't make a crippling difference. Like, there's still a purely perfect chance someone who got Laudaturs in all of their exams still fails to get into the course, because they didn't get the minimum entrance exam score even if their overall would exceed the limit. I find the system fair. And no need to write a brown tongueing essay about why you're the best.
Nah, undergrad. Never finished one. It feels weird, because I have friends my age finishing up their bachelor's and some have already started their masters...Originally Posted by LaZodiac