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Post by Rutabaga » 7 years ago

Referencing is at the heart of academic text. I used to have to cross check hundreds of listings. Just don't make assertions without giving some sort of reference, and don't think you can get away with listing sources you haven't cited - they do check!
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Rutabaga wrote:
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Referencing is at the heart of academic text. I used to have to cross check hundreds of listings. Just don't make assertions without giving some sort of reference, and don't think you can get away with listing sources you haven't cited - they do check!
Indeed, when you submit an essay you get an automatic plagiarism report. There is also a automatic system to help with referencing so at least there is plenty is assistance.

In the first year they are lenient which will be helpful methinks.
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Post by Rutabaga » 7 years ago

I did something earlier today that I haven't really done for some years now: I washed a whole sink-full of dishes.

My dishwasher has died, but hopefully only temporarily. :(
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Just eaten a Rustlers burger for the 1st time.

Big mistake. :sick:
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Greg wrote:
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Just eaten a Rustlers burger for the 1st time.

Big mistake. :sick:
It's the idea that at some point you must have thought it was a good idea that bothers me.
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Dunckel wrote:
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It's the idea that at some point you must have thought it was a good idea that bothers me.
It was a pound.
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Greg wrote:
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It was a pound.
Well, that makes it all OK then.
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I worked - coincidentally, they didn't know each other - with two Catalonians. They'd come to London They ate things like Rustlers. I did my mother-y act of suggesting they eat better, but they regard all the food in London as so inferior, that they didn't see any difference between Rustlers and any other food at the Tesco Express, and it was cheap.
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I must admit to the occasional hankering for a ribsteak, as it takes me back to my student days when a couple between two slices of white bread would be tea before a night out at the students union.
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Dunckel wrote:
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I must admit to the occasional hankering for a ribsteak, as it takes me back to my student days when a couple between two slices of white bread would be tea before a night out at the students union.

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Yummm chicken lengths....



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Post by Dunckel » 7 years ago

On a different subject I have just returned from M&S where I have exchanged my various left over dollars. At the bureau desk was Sheila who was with her daughter whilst the daughter bought euros.

Sheila it turns out is 84, she has dementia, the kind that makes her very happy, chatty, and down right filthy. She decided I would do well as her toyboy and was interested in the muscularity of my buttocks but demanded that I was still capable of performing with a high degree of 'stiffness', because she has needs.

Sheila had me and the two women serving at the counter in hysterics, all of us had tears rolling. Long may she continue to get such pleasure out of being alive.
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Post by Joan » 7 years ago

I found the shards of my first website (C 1996)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010418205 ... index.html

Inline skating and C++. You couldn't be more 90s, assuming you, like me, don't do plaid or ecstacy. Rollerblading and Object Oriented Design were the 90s if you were outside grunge and techno.
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Joan wrote:
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I found the shards of my first website (C 1996)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010418205 ... index.html

Inline skating and C++. You couldn't be more 90s; I don't do plaid or ecstacy. Rollerblading and Object Oriented Design were the 90s if you were outside grunge and techno.
Inline skating......my friend Gaby from Zurich was world champion in 2000 and 2003. She's fearless on them......getting up to speeds of 50mph downhill. She can also skate backwards down a flight of steps.
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Rocky wrote:
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Inline skating......my friend Gaby from Zurich was world champion in 2000 and 2003. She's fearless on them......getting up to speeds of 50mph downhill. She can also skate backwards down a flight of steps.
I've gone down a flight of steps backwards on a skateboard, well, when I say "on" a skateboard, I was on it at the top but we parted company soon after.
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Post by Dunckel » 7 years ago

We were really Up the Junction this evening.
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