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[Neutron4ever]

I went from a 90% avg last semester to a 75%...
I'm doing bad as well

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

I'm kind of sick of people complaining over decent results Oh Noes I haz 85%.

[{IRS}Athos]

See, when you're expected to get excellent grades rather than decent ones, then it is an "oh noes" matter.

[Vortigern]

Buck up, boys. I got 26% in my GCSE Physics exam and still passed (I had a decent coursework grade because my teacher essentially did it for me so I wouldn't fail), and only 14% in my Geology exam. Now that was a waste of time. Just to put these in context, I got 100% on one of my History A-level exams, 96% overall for my English GCSE and 83% for my Chemistry one. I just really couldn't have cared less about Physics or Geology.

Anyway, I hate to be the one to reveal this shocking truth to you kids, but unless you're already in 6th form (16-18 years old, I don't know what you call it around the rest of the world) nothing you do matters. If you plan to go on to university, not even 6th form matters, just as long as you do well enough to go to your choice of uni. I did, now I do remarkably little work yet will still have a perfectly usable degree at the end of it.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

Yeah In Australia a Senior Certificate and HFC (I think that's what it's called) is useless a year out of High School.
I did terribly in School but then I was rarely there and when I was,I was barely there.

But the beauty of it all is soon I'll have a diploma that will be better than the Senior Certificate I never got.

[Kwen]

But if you average together my grades for the year i'm still passing

[Nertea]

Stupid grad school and its forcing me to keep up decent uni grades... but even so none of my grades below third year are even looked at for that, so that's... 14 years of marks that are irrelevant in total?

On another topic: MADNESS.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

Madness the band?

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

Damn Americans,Can't you guys do anything right?
It's spelt Colour, the date goes Day/Month/Year and most of the world is using the Metric System your Doctors use it why can't the layman?.
Sorry I saw Kwen's update date thing and it set me off.

[Athena]

What I dislike most about that is, when someone wants you (who uses SI (International System of Units, ie metric etc) to do ALL the conversions. If 50-50, then ok, I can agree with that. But just that I have to put everything into US units and translate theirs, makes no sense to me. If you want an example, imagine you're talking about heights. They tell you their height in inches and feet (who uses two units for length..) but also ask you to calculate YOUR height in inches and feet. (exceptions are of course, if the other person would be incapable of doing a calculation)

I agree though, that it'd be easier if everyone used the SI, it would make things easier. I guess it's hard for most people though (but doctors and scientists etc seem fine), having grown up with a certain system.

I can live with the different spellings, I try to use British spelling myself and prefer that, but if they want to spell their words that way, ok. But the day-month-year thing is really confusing sometimes.

On a similar train of thought, sometimes I'm annoyed by the different standards of PAL and NTSC. There's DVDs I'd buy but they're only released in NTSC (in the US), and DVD players are region locked. The money argument aside, for the customers it'd be much more friendly if there was just one standard. This would also eliminate the fact that we have to wait an annoying few more months for a game to be released (compared to, for example, the US). And then when you get said game, that apparently took several months to give a different packaging, the spelling is US. That's allright with me by itself, but the long wait is unnecessary, especially if the game is region free (depends what system the game is for). We also generally end up paying more, as well.

I haven't read much of the 14 pages of this thread and I don't visit this place much anymore, but thought I'd post a reply.

[Lauri]

I prefer british spelling, and european measures...

Of course, I don't follow british down to the bottom

[Vortigern]

British spelling is the right spelling. Screw you, America. You call it English too, why can't you accept that England must logically be the home of the language and thus be correct? Until they start calling their language something else, I will be just as irritated by it as I am now. I am also not a fan of the region-locking on DVDs, but I tend to avoid that by downloading everything instead. It's just so much cheaper and faster.

I never use the metric system. I had never thought about it before, but I really don't. I am 6'3" tall, I weigh 10st4lbs (yeah, I'm kinda skinny) and I currently live about a hundred and fifty miles away from home. If anyone would listen, I would advocate returning the pound to the old system: farthings, ha'pennies, pennies, shillings, sovereigns and guineas. That would just make everything way cooler and give me an advantage over most of Britain because I can easily calculate all that stuff in my head, whereas the vast majority of the British public can't.

Wait, actually, I use the celsius system for temperature, but that's it. That's my only concession to the metric world. Incidentally, did you know that Napoleon tried to institute decimal time in France? He also attempted to create the musical decatave, like an octave but with ten instead of eight. Both inventions failed rather hilariously.

[Allathar]

I am 6'3" tall, I weigh 10st4lbs (yeah, I'm kinda skinny) and I currently live about a hundred and fifty miles away from home.

And, for those who haven't seen the light and still live in the metric darkness, how much meter, kilos, and kilometers is that?

And don't mess with Napoleon. The guy was a genius. He was responsible for huge changes in the western world, and almost ruled the world if it weren't for the damned Russians...

[Mathijs]

Off the top of my head, that would be 190cm and around 200 kilometers.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

If i'm right 6'3" is about 190-200cm tall and 10st 4lbs around 67kg I think.

[Allathar]

That's rather skinny indeed. I'm about 1,85 m and 70 kg, but I'm rather muscled, so juding with bmi I'm kinda skinny too I guess. Anyway, Vort, you should eat more or train some more muscles

[Vortigern]

Yeah, I keep telling myself that too, yet here I am, in front of my laptop with a cup of tea. I'll sort myself out sooner or later. Gain some weight, cut my hair and do some work. It'll be a completely new lifestyle for me.

On topic, however: I have a project write-up due in tomorrow afternoon and I'm rather struggling. Damnable project... It's statistics-based, anyway, it has nothing to do with an English Language degree. I should be studying the history and evolution of languages, not cataloguing years of pointless bollocks about whether people mentally sort sentences by verb or construction. It is the single most boring subject I have ever had the misfortune to study. Unfortunately it came as required for my course.

[Athena]

not cataloguing years of pointless bollocks about whether people mentally sort sentences by verb or construction. It is the single most boring subject I have ever had the misfortune to study.

That does sound a bit boring . Good luck with it!

[Devon]

British spelling is the right spelling. Screw you, America. You call it English too, why can't you accept that England must logically be the home of the language and thus be correct? Until they start calling their language something else, I will be just as irritated by it as I am now. I am also not a fan of the region-locking on DVDs, but I tend to avoid that by downloading everything instead. It's just so much cheaper and faster.

Damn right. Let's call it American from now on. Half the kids in my school do anyway, and not even on purpose

[Bart]

Also, litter bin is so much cooler than trash can

Anyway, I'm glad we use the metric system. It's far more logical. All weight units are a form of grams, all length units a multiplication of meter, etc.
It's also handy when doing scientific calculations. If you grow up with the metric system, you don't have to convert the ins and outs, they're already natural.

Also, who can tell me why the metric system is better for science (I know the answer. This is a quiz).