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Thiel

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A U.K university is providing staff guidance on how to use pronouns at work — including "emojiself pronouns" and "xenic" pronouns.



According to a recent report from the U.K.'s Telegraph, staffers at the University of Bristol are encouraged to use preferred personal pronouns when interacting with students or fellow staff.



Some of the newly updated pronouns include "neopronouns," which are defined as "third-person pronouns that are not officially recognized in the language they are used in," such as "ze/zir/zirs" and more.



Other pronouns are referred to as "emojiself pronouns" in which users use icons to represent their gender in electronic communications and even sometimes during spoken conversations, and even "xenic" pronouns in which users can identify themselves as anything they want — including animals, and namely those who identify as "catgender."



Those individuals, according to the report, may use personal pronouns "nya/nyan," which is a Japanese word for "meow."

The faculty wants to make grads unemployable.

They lack both marketable and social skills that employers require.
gay, conservative and proud

cc

Quote from: Herman post_id=439572 time=1644964537 user_id=1689
Quote from: "iron horse jockey" post_id=439551 time=1644957295 user_id=2015
A U.K university is providing staff guidance on how to use pronouns at work — including "emojiself pronouns" and "xenic" pronouns.



According to a recent report from the U.K.'s Telegraph, staffers at the University of Bristol are encouraged to use preferred personal pronouns when interacting with students or fellow staff.



Some of the newly updated pronouns include "neopronouns," which are defined as "third-person pronouns that are not officially recognized in the language they are used in," such as "ze/zir/zirs" and more.



Other pronouns are referred to as "emojiself pronouns" in which users use icons to represent their gender in electronic communications and even sometimes during spoken conversations, and even "xenic" pronouns in which users can identify themselves as anything they want — including animals, and namely those who identify as "catgender."



Those individuals, according to the report, may use personal pronouns "nya/nyan," which is a Japanese word for "meow."

It wasn't this bad when I did my master's in contemporary dance.

That conjures up an overwhelming  multitude of exceedingly funny mind images



At the risk of getting too personal, and allowing your physical size  ... did you have to have your "slippers" custom made?
I really tried to warn y\'all in 49  .. G. Orwell

Anonymous

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Quote from: Herman post_id=439572 time=1644964537 user_id=1689
Quote from: "iron horse jockey" post_id=439551 time=1644957295 user_id=2015
A U.K university is providing staff guidance on how to use pronouns at work — including "emojiself pronouns" and "xenic" pronouns.



According to a recent report from the U.K.'s Telegraph, staffers at the University of Bristol are encouraged to use preferred personal pronouns when interacting with students or fellow staff.



Some of the newly updated pronouns include "neopronouns," which are defined as "third-person pronouns that are not officially recognized in the language they are used in," such as "ze/zir/zirs" and more.



Other pronouns are referred to as "emojiself pronouns" in which users use icons to represent their gender in electronic communications and even sometimes during spoken conversations, and even "xenic" pronouns in which users can identify themselves as anything they want — including animals, and namely those who identify as "catgender."



Those individuals, according to the report, may use personal pronouns "nya/nyan," which is a Japanese word for "meow."

It wasn't this bad when I did my master's in contemporary dance.

That conjures up an overwhelming  multitude of exceedingly funny mind images



At the risk of getting too personal, and allowing your physical size  ... did you have to have your "slippers" custom made?

I gotta admit, it was hard finding size thirteen ballet slippers. But, it was all worth it. It really helped my career on the rigs.

Bricktop

How about a pic of you in your tou-tou???

Anonymous

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How about a pic of you in your tou-tou???

I should have an old one. I wore one over my fire retardent coveralls on the rigs.

Anonymous

Quote from: Herman post_id=439624 time=1644983976 user_id=1689
Quote from: cc post_id=439620 time=1644981299 user_id=88
Quote from: Herman post_id=439572 time=1644964537 user_id=1689
Quote from: "iron horse jockey" post_id=439551 time=1644957295 user_id=2015
A U.K university is providing staff guidance on how to use pronouns at work — including "emojiself pronouns" and "xenic" pronouns.



According to a recent report from the U.K.'s Telegraph, staffers at the University of Bristol are encouraged to use preferred personal pronouns when interacting with students or fellow staff.



Some of the newly updated pronouns include "neopronouns," which are defined as "third-person pronouns that are not officially recognized in the language they are used in," such as "ze/zir/zirs" and more.



Other pronouns are referred to as "emojiself pronouns" in which users use icons to represent their gender in electronic communications and even sometimes during spoken conversations, and even "xenic" pronouns in which users can identify themselves as anything they want — including animals, and namely those who identify as "catgender."



Those individuals, according to the report, may use personal pronouns "nya/nyan," which is a Japanese word for "meow."

It wasn't this bad when I did my master's in contemporary dance.

That conjures up an overwhelming  multitude of exceedingly funny mind images



At the risk of getting too personal, and allowing your physical size  ... did you have to have your "slippers" custom made?

I gotta admit, it was hard finding size thirteen ballet slippers. But, it was all worth it. It really helped my career on the rigs.

It's a ntural progression.

 :laugh:

Anonymous

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Thiel

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Law students who don't respect Charter rights.
gay, conservative and proud

Anonymous

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Young people opposing free speech.....I can't believe it.

Anonymous

People to listen to this wanker.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1507832616006860802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1507832616006860802%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fpenn-state-professor-trump-peterson-shapiro">https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/15 ... on-shapiro">https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1507832616006860802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1507832616006860802%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fpenn-state-professor-trump-peterson-shapiro

Anonymous

Old Stronach is right, too many young people shun the trades for useless BA's.



Frank Stronach: Too many university grads, not enough tradespeople in Canada

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-too-many-university-grads-not-enough-tradespeople-in-canada?fbclid=IwAR2mSNo9M1O-Zh3g5OQiQ2WVVmh9LurJg4pkk3S1oaU34XKoe1GUNGXsO5c">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank- ... 1GUNGXsO5c">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-too-many-university-grads-not-enough-tradespeople-in-canada?fbclid=IwAR2mSNo9M1O-Zh3g5OQiQ2WVVmh9LurJg4pkk3S1oaU34XKoe1GUNGXsO5c



For the past several decades, we've been producing far too many social scientists and too few plumbers and electricians. A lot of teenagers nowadays can't even drive a nail into a two-by-four or change a flat tire on a car. The plain truth is, as a society we haven't done a very good job of preparing young Canadians for good-paying careers in the skilled trades.



Even though our economy is becoming increasingly digital, we will still need people to build machines and houses and cars. And a lot of those jobs will require people with skilled technical trades. But unless we start teaching those skilled trades to young Canadians at an early age, we won't have enough people here in this country to make and build things, and once we lose that know-how, our standard of living will drop significantly.



As a country, we need to urgently develop our skills base. If we no longer have the skilled workers and capability to manufacture products, then businesses will be forced to look elsewhere by relocating manufacturing or farming out skilled production to other countries in eastern Europe and Asia. Take my own trade of toolmaking as one example: many toolmakers are now quickly approaching retirement, and there aren't enough toolmakers coming up through the ranks to replace them. Years ago, when I first started out in business, most of the toolmakers I hired were European immigrants like myself, but that source of skilled trades has also dried up.



The great problem we face is that we have drifted away from a real economy, where we manufacture products, to a predominantly financial economy built on financial transactions and the transfer of financial assets. However, a strong and vibrant manufacturing sector — and the technology base it rests on — is vital to our economic health and our standard of living.



I believe we've already reached a tipping point and are entering a new era in which blue-collar workers — people who can build and fix things — will make more money than white-collar workers in paper-shuffling office jobs. That wage gap will only get larger in the years ahead due to the growing shortage of skilled tradespeople.

Anonymous

My husband is a master electrician..



Could we have afforded to pay for private school for two children and pay for our daughter's tuition at university if he studied history in university instead of aprrenticing as an electrician fresh out of high school.....maybe not.

Anonymous

Quote from: Herman post_id=445104 time=1648693830 user_id=1689
Old Stronach is right, too many young people shun the trades for useless BA's.



Frank Stronach: Too many university grads, not enough tradespeople in Canada

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-too-many-university-grads-not-enough-tradespeople-in-canada?fbclid=IwAR2mSNo9M1O-Zh3g5OQiQ2WVVmh9LurJg4pkk3S1oaU34XKoe1GUNGXsO5c">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank- ... 1GUNGXsO5c">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-too-many-university-grads-not-enough-tradespeople-in-canada?fbclid=IwAR2mSNo9M1O-Zh3g5OQiQ2WVVmh9LurJg4pkk3S1oaU34XKoe1GUNGXsO5c



For the past several decades, we've been producing far too many social scientists and too few plumbers and electricians. A lot of teenagers nowadays can't even drive a nail into a two-by-four or change a flat tire on a car. The plain truth is, as a society we haven't done a very good job of preparing young Canadians for good-paying careers in the skilled trades.



Even though our economy is becoming increasingly digital, we will still need people to build machines and houses and cars. And a lot of those jobs will require people with skilled technical trades. But unless we start teaching those skilled trades to young Canadians at an early age, we won't have enough people here in this country to make and build things, and once we lose that know-how, our standard of living will drop significantly.



As a country, we need to urgently develop our skills base. If we no longer have the skilled workers and capability to manufacture products, then businesses will be forced to look elsewhere by relocating manufacturing or farming out skilled production to other countries in eastern Europe and Asia. Take my own trade of toolmaking as one example: many toolmakers are now quickly approaching retirement, and there aren't enough toolmakers coming up through the ranks to replace them. Years ago, when I first started out in business, most of the toolmakers I hired were European immigrants like myself, but that source of skilled trades has also dried up.



The great problem we face is that we have drifted away from a real economy, where we manufacture products, to a predominantly financial economy built on financial transactions and the transfer of financial assets. However, a strong and vibrant manufacturing sector — and the technology base it rests on — is vital to our economic health and our standard of living.



I believe we've already reached a tipping point and are entering a new era in which blue-collar workers — people who can build and fix things — will make more money than white-collar workers in paper-shuffling office jobs. That wage gap will only get larger in the years ahead due to the growing shortage of skilled tradespeople.

Here in Southern Ontario, there has been a decades long shortage of machinists and tool and die makers.

Anonymous

Quote from: seoulbro post_id=445115 time=1648727522 user_id=114
Quote from: Herman post_id=445104 time=1648693830 user_id=1689
Old Stronach is right, too many young people shun the trades for useless BA's.



Frank Stronach: Too many university grads, not enough tradespeople in Canada

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-too-many-university-grads-not-enough-tradespeople-in-canada?fbclid=IwAR2mSNo9M1O-Zh3g5OQiQ2WVVmh9LurJg4pkk3S1oaU34XKoe1GUNGXsO5c">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank- ... 1GUNGXsO5c">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-too-many-university-grads-not-enough-tradespeople-in-canada?fbclid=IwAR2mSNo9M1O-Zh3g5OQiQ2WVVmh9LurJg4pkk3S1oaU34XKoe1GUNGXsO5c



For the past several decades, we've been producing far too many social scientists and too few plumbers and electricians. A lot of teenagers nowadays can't even drive a nail into a two-by-four or change a flat tire on a car. The plain truth is, as a society we haven't done a very good job of preparing young Canadians for good-paying careers in the skilled trades.



Even though our economy is becoming increasingly digital, we will still need people to build machines and houses and cars. And a lot of those jobs will require people with skilled technical trades. But unless we start teaching those skilled trades to young Canadians at an early age, we won't have enough people here in this country to make and build things, and once we lose that know-how, our standard of living will drop significantly.



As a country, we need to urgently develop our skills base. If we no longer have the skilled workers and capability to manufacture products, then businesses will be forced to look elsewhere by relocating manufacturing or farming out skilled production to other countries in eastern Europe and Asia. Take my own trade of toolmaking as one example: many toolmakers are now quickly approaching retirement, and there aren't enough toolmakers coming up through the ranks to replace them. Years ago, when I first started out in business, most of the toolmakers I hired were European immigrants like myself, but that source of skilled trades has also dried up.



The great problem we face is that we have drifted away from a real economy, where we manufacture products, to a predominantly financial economy built on financial transactions and the transfer of financial assets. However, a strong and vibrant manufacturing sector — and the technology base it rests on — is vital to our economic health and our standard of living.



I believe we've already reached a tipping point and are entering a new era in which blue-collar workers — people who can build and fix things — will make more money than white-collar workers in paper-shuffling office jobs. That wage gap will only get larger in the years ahead due to the growing shortage of skilled tradespeople.

Here in Southern Ontario, there has been a decades long shortage of machinists and tool and die makers.

In manufacturing, they are common trades.

Anonymous

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