Min Bannister
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I resent that juxtaposition by the way DC. :shifty:Dominic Cummings is hiring scientists and “weirdos”.
I resent that juxtaposition by the way DC. :shifty:Dominic Cummings is hiring scientists and “weirdos”.
I resent that juxtaposition by the way DC. :shifty:
I remember Kate Winslett playing a scientist in some movie and she spent amounts of time in an interview saying how she had to frumpify herself for the role. Why? Aren’t scientists allowed to be hot?There should be more stories about Beautiful Scientists and their Mad Daughters.
I remember Kate Winslett playing a scientist in some movie and she spent amounts of time in an interview saying how she had to frumpify herself for the role. Why? Aren’t scientists allowed to be hot?
I remember Kate Winslett playing a scientist in some movie and she spent amounts of time in an interview saying how she had to frumpify herself for the role. Why? Aren’t scientists allowed to be hot?
I remember Kate Winslett playing a scientist in some movie and she spent amounts of time in an interview saying how she had to frumpify herself for the role. Why? Aren’t scientists allowed to be hot?
Why, female scientist, without your glasses... you're beautiful...They usually wear specs which they whip off at a crucial moment, also letting their hair down at the same time. Then the male hero suddenly fancies them.
Why, female scientist, without your glasses... you're beautiful...
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They usually wear specs which they whip off at a crucial moment, also letting their hair down at the same time. Then the male hero suddenly fancies them.
Dear me, Mr Holmes. Surely we are not expecting the absurd media to in any way reflect the likelihood - or otherwise - of scientists / engineers conforming to some absurd geek stereotype?
On the Cummings point. I was a Civil Servant. I left because of the utter contempt within said service for anyone who actually understood the job they were responsible for. They have this creed that anyone should be able to manage anything - this might have been reasonable in say 900AD - it is absurd now.
That has not been my experience of trade unions. Quite the reverse. I have found them humane and caring, and helping ordinary people avoid excessive exploitation and endangerment at the hands of dictatorial employers who were quite happy to let them die on the job. I regard trade unions as a net social good if they haven't been infiltrated by organized crime... but then how many businesses have been infiltrated by organized crime... and police forces... and governments... ? To describe trade unions as elitist is interesting, as it is not the usual characterisation of them. What happened?Morality is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. We can't go into the details here. no way of avoiding the politics. But let's just say I hate unions with a passion you can only dream of. They are the most elitist organisations you can think of.
To be fair, science doesn't generally attract immensely good looking men or women. Those types tend to skate on their looks for quite a while until age catches up with them.I remember Kate Winslett playing a scientist in some movie and she spent amounts of time in an interview saying how she had to frumpify herself for the role. Why? Aren’t scientists allowed to be hot?
To be fair, science doesn't generally attract immensely good looking men or women. Those types tend to skate on their looks for quite a while until age catches up with them.
That has not been my experience of trade unions. Quite the reverse. I have found them humane and caring, and helping ordinary people avoid excessive exploitation and endangerment at the hands of dictatorial employers who were quite happy to let them die on the job. I regard trade unions as a net social good if they haven't been infiltrated by organized crime... but then how many businesses have been infiltrated by organized crime... and police forces... and governments... ? To describe trade unions as elitist is interesting, as it is not the usual characterisation of them. What happened?
I may be an academic, but I'm a linguist more than an actual scientist. Consequently I am a complete goddamned Adonis:I'm going to speculate that you don't regard yourself as good looking.
And then there is this.......
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/16/mome...ce-police-facial-recognition-cameras-9571463/
We academic linguists definitely put the don in Adonis.I may be an academic, but I'm a linguist more than an actual scientist. Consequently I am a complete goddamned Adonis:
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Those types tend to skate on their looks for quite a while until age catches up with them.
That is rather a strange thing to say. Have you done a scientific study on this? I have known (and know) a lot of very good-looking scientists.To be fair, science doesn't generally attract immensely good looking men or women. Those types tend to skate on their looks for quite a while until age catches up with them.
Have you done a scientific study on this? I have known (and know) a lot of very good-looking scientists.