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[RobClock]

british people measure sugar for tea in "sugars"
what does that mean?

"how many sugars do you take"

idk man I do about a teaspoon and a half for the big ass 32 floz cup I drink out of because I'm a monster
so I guess that's... 32/8=4, so that's 4 times the size of a normal teacup, 3/2 spoons ÷ 4 = 3/2*1/4= 3/8 of a teaspoon... but the teaspoon I use is an actual like silverware teaspoon that you would use, in america, which is actually about 3 of the measurement teaspoons, so 9/8 tsp... and according to google 1 tsp is about 4.18 grams of granulated sugar, so 4.18*1.125= 4.7025, so about 4.7 grams

???


does that help

is it a sugar cube? it's probably a sugar cube, I don't know why I went through all this. so one I guess, one is my answer

no we don't use sugar cubes that's fucking nuts, if i go to a house and its all fuckin sugar cubes i'm gonna be like 'um hello? do i look like a horse? do i look like i want to be taken for a ride?'

its a scoop using a teaspoon, but we all live in constant fear that the person scooping for us either underscoops or overscoops the sugar. 'keep calm and carry on' is specifically about the fear that someone is miscalculating the appropriate teaspoon scoopage.

It's an anachronism from wartime rationing

[RobClock]

I know this because I, a 30 year old Canadian, lived through the blitz



Fact checked by His Majesty's Loyal Archive

[PhantomCatClock]

i just had the fucking weirdest thing. you know when a video driver / game is a little wrong for the monitor, and sometimes there's the one horizontal line where like.. the top half is a frame ahead and the bottom half is a frame below? I was having that, but a zigzag instead of a line, in real life



anyway now my head hurts so i'm going to bed good night

[PhantomCatClock]

oh but the visual thing stopped so i'm either not a robot or my kernel upgrade fixed it, whichever it was

[RobClock]

Im in school now. It's a massive headache. We're at the new campus which has not been finished, to the point where two entire buildings are not accessible. One of those buildings contains all of the trade shops, which means it is likely to be another month before I do any amount of woodworking in this carpentry course. Math study has reminded me why Long Division almost held me back every year of school after grade 8, and this time around I don't have the cute blonde to sit next to who will guide me through it.

Also, I woke up this morning to a notification email saying my EI report for the last two weeks was rejected. So I guess I'm calling Service Canada for my lunch hour and praying to god I dont sit on hold for the entire thing.

One week in and I'm already regretting leaving my shitty job for this.

[PannacottaClock]

woo hoo be sure to order your student overalls and rememeber that you can always retake a test but you cannot retake a great party 

[VCRClock]

Im in school now. It's a massive headache. We're at the new campus which has not been finished, to the point where two entire buildings are not accessible. One of those buildings contains all of the trade shops, which means

Math study has reminded me why Long Division almost held me back every year of school after grade 8

the shitty thing about conventional school is that it's like treadmill format and the treadmill keeps going at the same speed for everyone even if you're not keeping up, and since high school I've thought of that as not conducive to actual education. that's how you run a school though

now where I'd go wrong here would be, the class would stress me out, so the work would stress me out, so I'd avoid doing the bare minimum until the last minute, then either fail to do it, or do a bad job and learn nothing because I didn't give myself enough time

whereas in reality it might be better if i fuckin, made the thing that i'm bad at 1st priority because i don't know how long it's gonna take me to get it. then spend two hours rereading one paragraph that's supposed to explain how it works, until i do get it. then half-ass the stuff i'm actually competent at because i can make it up later

armchair coaching as i have been removed from the college experience for some time and i'd probably still fuck it up if i were back in it. no teacher or prof i ever had ever got me to figure out how to work on my own shortcomings. i'm still in my dumb online course, and in fact at a painful challenging point that's probably a bad place to stop, but i'm taking a break from it for a few weeks because i've gotta work on this other time sensitive thing that i'll be sad if i don't do

One week in and I'm already regretting leaving my shitty job for this.

at least you're doing the smart thing and training for something people pay money for that you don't mind doing, instead of... whatever i went to school for

[RobClock]

I have to get through one test that involves long form multiplication and division at which point the use of calculators is permitted. I understand the formulas, I simply cannot keep numbers straight in my head. I leave math class with a splitting headache every time.

If I hadn't been so 'fuck the system' in my teen years and overcame my fear of incurring debt I likely could have leapfrogged off my excellent English and History grades into some sort of academic career in literature- but I hate school, and I hate being around people, so the concept of teaching has never remotely appealed to me.

But whatever. The world needs ditch diggers, too.

[RobClock]

Oh and I found out what happened to my pogey. The people funding my school incorrectly listed my start date as the week of the 1st, and I reported truthfully having started school on the 9th. That contradiction lead to my report being rejected. Two hours on the phone and the issue seems resolved but it'll probably be next week before I get any money.

[Slurpee]

I understand the formulas, I simply cannot keep numbers straight in my head.

oh
dude, you might have that uh
bad with numbers disease

haha sorry
it's like dyslexia but for numbers?
I don't think it's dyscalculia, there's another one. it's a brain thing where, it's not that you don't understand numbers, but your brain just fucking puts them in the wrong order and shit

like do you also mix up phone numbers and shit like that?

just a thought
it's one of those things that often goes undetected because from the outside it just looks like "bad at math" but when you know what the problem is there's stuff you can do to mitigate it
also if your school has a student disability resource center they can make the teachers cut you a break
(although, if you're anything like me, no matter how many times somebody recommends you go to the student disability resource center, you're just not going to do it for some reason lol)

[RobClock]

I will not get a tutor I will dogheadedly struggle my way through this course and then go back to my regular life where I am not expected to do long division

[PhantomCatClock]

long division is macros in real life. you don't need it but when it's in your toolbelt you can suddenly see places where it'll save a few minutes when ordering parts or planning a renovation




but he didn't say get a tutor he said see the witch doctor

[PhantomCatClock]

i wish more medicine was potions



pills are better for logistics AND accuracy of dosage, but give me a water soluble pill with food dye in it, dammit

[Slurpee]

thinking about how doom was made by john romero and john carmack and apple was made by steve jobs and steve wozniak and wondering if I should have found another jeff

[RobClock]

Im pretty sure there were a bunch of other clock jeffs. we had like a whole day in the flash flood set aside for it.


The world was your lobster and you tossed it aside

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

never met another trevor in real life but the clock crew is lousy with them.

[PhantomCatClock]

is that why they named him trevor

[Slurpee]

Im pretty sure there were a bunch of other clock jeffs. we had like a whole day in the flash flood set aside for it.


The world was your lobster and you tossed it aside

🎵 I used to float

[Slurpee]

[Slurpee]

on a train you can ride coach, and also a coach is someone who trains you

I spent like 20 minutes trying to come up with a joke for these facts and it's just not happening