The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread VIII

[nonconformist]

I don't know any smokers who have problems with smell/taste. Even the 15-year/2-3packs a day veterans.
It is in no way a significant problem. The senses are prolly just slighlty dulled. It might be a bigger problem when you're 60 or smthing tho; but by the time you're 60 you wont need smell and taste anyway.

My mum lost most of her sense of smell because of smoking...she gave up and regained it after a couple of months. Then she started again and lost it.

 

[Cutlass]

Why during the 19th century there was very little inflation - but now in the 20th and 21st century it went mental and prices kept going up. Something to do with banks?

There was plenty of inflation. But there was also plenty of deflation. It averaged out.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/will-inflation-emerge-victorious-were-not

 

[Heretic_Cata]

My mum lost most of her sense of smell because of smoking...she gave up and regained it after a couple of months. Then she started again and lost it.

For how long did she smoke / how much per day ?

 

[nonconformist]

For how long did she smoke / how much per day ?

Since she was 18, and maybe a pack a day, sometimes more?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Must be our healthier communist ciggs then.

 

[nonconformist]

Only cos you can't afford to put tobacco in them

 

[Harvin87]

why Texas suck?

 

[Shekwan]

Has anybody heard of the "10% rule" when refering to University assignment word counts?

I hope my lecturer has, just sent a rather pleading email that he accept my 3,200 word essay for a 3,000 word assignment.

 

[Grey Fox]

I think it depends on the teacher.

 

[Azale]

why Texas suck?

All the German immigrants.

 

[Shekwan]

I think it depends on the teacher.

Yeah he's fairly laid back. I really don't want to have to rely on Plan B. Dirty protests are so unbecoming.

 

[Yared]

Yeah he's fairly laid back.

Hope he isn't the lazy type then.

 

[Shekwan]

Hope he isn't the lazy type then.

How would that effect it? Too lazy to read 200 extra words?

 

[Virote_Considon]

In my uni, they still accept them if they're too long or too short, but you get marked down.

 

[say1988]

I don't know any smokers who have problems with smell/taste. Even the 15-year/2-3packs a day veterans.
It is in no way a significant problem. The senses are prolly just slighlty dulled. It might be a bigger problem when you're 60 or smthing tho; but by the time you're 60 you wont need smell and taste anyway.

That is what every smoker I have known said, Until after they quit smoking and said how much better their senses were.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

That is what every smoker I have known said, Until after they quit smoking and said how much better their senses were.

So the key is to never quit. Got it.

 

[say1988]

I hope my lecturer has, just sent a rather pleading email that he accept my 3,200 word essay for a 3,000 word assignment.

There is no general rule from my experience, varying between assignments and profs. But in general being slightly over tends not to be a big deal, though being under is usually pretty bad.

For example, for many of my business classes the reports are severely docked for going over, because they heavily stress being concise as your boss will be too busy to read any more than necessary in the future.
Arts courses on the other hand, tend to be laid back if you throw an extra page on an assignment, so long as it is useful (if you just have a lot of excess BS you will get docked).

 

[Yared]

How would that effect it? Too lazy to read 200 extra words?

Because the lazy types tend not to wanna read more than they have to

 

[Mirc]

That is what every smoker I have known said, Until after they quit smoking and said how much better their senses were.

I have never once heard anything about loss of senses from smoking in my entire life. I swear, I haven't been living under a rock, but this is all news to me.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today on a sign I saw a backwards 3 with a vertical line through it. What is it?