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Old 08-30-2013, 11:56 AM   #31
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I worked for many years in the UK's nuclear power industry, and we used to regularly get protesters outside our site. One particular protest group, who used to turn up on quite a regular basis, always amused me because they had a large sign that said on it "WIMMIN AGAINST NUKES" .
The use of the word "Wimmin" was a political and rhetorical move on the part of the protesters - to avoid having their gender defined in relation to men - as the word "women" does...it is argued. It certainly wasn't a typo.
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Old 08-31-2013, 02:32 AM   #32
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Old 09-04-2013, 03:55 PM   #33
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I can understand a minor typo or two in a decent sized document, but if you are sending a document to a potential client, that you hope to make a big chunk cash from for an extended contract... at least higher a burger-flipping English grad student to edit it. Sheesh!
I'll edit your posts for a reasonable fee.

"... at least higher a burger-flipping English grad student to edit it."

hire

Or were you being sarcastic?

Nevertheless, I LOL-ed, so some karma for you

Edit: Ho. Hmmmm... repeat this sentence 100 times:
"Refresh the page before posting a reply. You could be late."

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Edit2: It does make me remember one of my most epic typo's ever: forgetting a complete diagram the size of half an A4 in my thesis, and quite an important one at that. Like this:

"Blablabla, blabla, blaa.... please see the diagram below."

(Half a page of whitespace)

The document went through several people who checked it for various things, and STILL that rather epic omission was never caught. At my final grading, my assessor said:

"The second assessor has added only one remark with regard to your work."
"What diagram was supposed to be on page 18?"

Me, thinking: "Page 18? Architecture..."

"That's the part that talks about architecture of the application. There should be a diagram explaining the architecture there."

There wasn't

I had put a placeholder image file there (completely white), and never replaced it... and the mistake only got caught by the very, very last person to see that document, ever. Luckily my assessor was satisfied with me showing him the diagram on the laptop. I actually put it into the document and recreated the PDF from LaTeX on the spot, so I could give it to him for the school archive

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Old 09-04-2013, 04:56 PM   #34
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Edit: Ho. Hmmmm... repeat this sentence 100 times:
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The post you quoted was made on 07-09-2012, at 09:09 AM. Reading the 3 pages of existing replies would have been more effective then refreshing.
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Old 09-04-2013, 05:07 PM   #35
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The post you quoted was made on 07-09-2012, at 09:09 AM. Reading the 3 pages of existing replies would have been more effective then refreshing.


Didn't actually see that either.

That's what you get for opening 20 tabs, leaving them for a day, and then just start replying one by one. Oh dear.
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