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On the (not) bright side, unfortunately the grasping captalists known as insurance companies have had it rigged for quite a while now that even they agree an accident is 100% no-fault, your insurance premium will still be more at next renewal than it would otherwise have been. Just not as much more, as for the perpetrator. I believe the effect on premiums lasts for about 5 years.

Glad it wasn’t too bad - she should take it easy for a bit and be watchful as sometimes an injury is not obvious immediately, and time limits on whiplash claims got shorter a while back.

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Everything written by men!

They were mere scribes!

And told to write what their Mothers told them

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Well, it doesn’t really take long to chuck them down the stair does it ? A lecturers marking joke told to me by the OH.

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@hairbear you think it’s a joke ?:wink:

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That looks like the next place we’ll visit. The photos have made it so!

The theory being that the longest, heaviest scripts travel the furthest.

One can also throw them up the stairs, having first marked the treads in 10% increments from the lowest stair upwards. But should a script land on the eleventh one, you’re throwing them too hard and your technique will need moderation.

There are other marking systems…

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We mark out of 20 and throw them up the stairs. Theoretically, of course :grin:

You’re trying too hard. It really should be easier than that.
It should also only be attempted after the third glass of wine.

Neither system works with Open University essays because there’s escalating penalties for exceeding the maximum word count.

I once had a very bright art history student (Russian resident in Switzerland) whose footnotes were of Tolstoyan length because she thought they wouldn’t contribute to her total word count.

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Many years ago we had a friend in London related to the greater Freud family (Sigmund, Clement etc). Her PhD was in medieval philosophy, and was instructed to reduce her thesis from 120,000 to 80,000 words.

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Many universities have upper and lower limits, after all several supervisors and external examiners have to read, understand and prepare themselves for the viva of a thesis in quite short a space of time. The usual UK Arts and Humanities is four chapters and c.80,000 words and I think that’s more than adequate for the purpose.

A deeper, longer post-doc work on the PhD subject, might take another decade or more, and is a very different beast

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Had some sad news. My ex-father-in-law passed away yesterday. He was elderly and had not been in good health, so it wasn’t unexpected.

Despite the issues I had with his daughter towards the end of our relationship, I always had a lot of time for him.

R.I.P.

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The Finnish (?) captions made more sense to me than he did…

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lol, unfortunately for some reason Watchtower seems to have done their best to remove this little speech from the internet, from all their official sources anyway, I can’t imagine why, so we have to thank the various people who knew it was going to be worth keeping and recorded it at the time, even if it was the Finnish version :sweat_smile::joy:

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Was back in the UK last week to go to the funeral of a good friend, John who died suddenly. I met him on my first day of University many years ago and we had kept in touch over the years. At the service and the wake I met several people who also know John and who I also had known quite well during that time but hadn’t seen for nearly 40 years. It was a bit of a shock, but also really good that we all instantly recognised each other and got to chatting naturally. We all said that it was a shame that it took Johns death to get us all together again. So, we’re planning a hike up Cader Idris in Eyri National Park (ex Snowdonia) some time next year in honour of John. We all went to Aberystwyth University which is quite close and some of us still live in that part of Wales as did John so it seemed the right place.

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Condolences Gareth :bouquet: I think it is hard when former in-laws die, it’s often an odd and ambiguous position one is in.

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