The WTF? Thread

[Patrick Thistle]

https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1644396185766043681?t=g4N6XmllIZ706Ym2QVSUMw&s=19

[Nocturnal Submission]

My son was idly wondering what some of his old schoolmates were up to these days - had a bit of a shock: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ges-castration

[Balderdasha]

My son was idly wondering what some of his old schoolmates were up to these days - had a bit of a shock: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ges-castration

That is wild. It's also a real life example of one of those philosophical questions of what's allowed if people consent. You can consent to have your kidney removed if it's being donated to someone. You can consent to have body parts pierced and tattooed. You can consent to BDSM. You can consent to having your genitals modified as part of gender reassignment surgery.

Is there specifically a law which specifies you can't consent to having your genitals removed just for fun? I mean, personally it's very hard to imagine why you'd want to, but in this case there don't appear to have been any unwilling participants.

[ursus arctos]

The vast majority of physicians would consider it a violation of professional ethics, but I am not aware of it being criminalised anywhere.

[Gangster Octopus]

There was that thing of those blokes who, in a consensual way and in private, did strange* things to each other's genitally, and were convicted for it.

*Strange to me, but what's it got to do with me?

[DCI Harry Batt]

Spanner. An absolute disgrace of a prosecution.

[ursus arctos]

Geez, I had no idea about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spanner

The Lords judgement is troubling, but the ECHR ruling really surprise me.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/rob_heighton/status/1644717767512186883?t=liiklUs1qvjkzG83m_oEIw&s=19

[Levin]

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1644464382968209408?t=AgM5ADs_OH3FZ43hEPt8bw&s=19

Also, from the article, "In NSW, there's no minimum working age but you have to be 11 before you can receive a tax file number."

[Sporting]

What are award wages?

[ursus arctos]

An Aussie word for sectoral pay regulations

The minimum wages and conditions an employee is entitled to are set out in awards (also known as modern awards). Awards don’t apply when an employer has an enterprise agreement or other registered agreement and the employee is covered by it.

Every award has information about who is covered by it. To work out which award applies, read:

• the coverage clause (usually clause 4)
• the job classifications (usually in the pay section or a schedule).

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

The latest news on the Dalai Lama belongs on here surely? FFS. That's the kind of thing you can get from unchallenged theocracy I suppose.

[caja-dglh]

My son was idly wondering what some of his old schoolmates were up to these days - had a bit of a shock: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ges-castration

Oh, one of the people I went to Grad School with (didn’t know him) just got indicted for murdering his wife. He shot her in the head and has since claimed it was because she was abusing their kids. Not sure I fancy his chances on that one.

[WOM]

The latest news on the Dalai Lama belongs on here surely? FFS. That's the kind of thing you can get from unchallenged theocracy I suppose.

No joke, as soon as this thread was kicked to the top I was like "Dalai Lama...Dalai Lama!"

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1645345768461545473?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

https://twitter.com/dalailama/status/1645312490597937152?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[Gangster Octopus]

Oh, one of the people I went to Grad School with

Grad School?

[Gangster Octopus]

Actually, I think that we've done this before.

[San Bernardhinault]

I think "grad school" is post-graduate study, rather than specific institutions that solely do post-graduate study. I could well be wrong. I find it confusing.

But not as confusing as the typologically almost identical "grade school" which I have to look up the meaning of every time it's mentioned.

[Satchmo Distel]

I recall Michael Palin strongly implying that a Tibetan monastery he visited was a nonce's paradise - but he left it at that, no further enquiries.

[ursus arctos]

I think "grad school" is post-graduate study, rather than specific institutions that solely do post-graduate study. I could well be wrong. I find it confusing.

But not as confusing as the typologically almost identical "grade school" which I have to look up the meaning of every time it's mentioned.

Unsurprisingly, you are wrong.

[Nefertiti2]

This may be too disturbing for some

https://twitter.com/CosmopolitanUK/status/1645413887100039169?s=20

[DCI Harry Batt]

Unsurprisingly, you are wrong.

So "grad school" refers to places that do only post-graduate study, and not to a post-grad course at a place that does pre-graduate study too? Or do such places not exist there anyway?

[ursus arctos]

Such places exist in the US, but are exceedingly rare.

The vast majority of post graduate education here is conducted through universities that also award undergraduate degrees.

Just as an example, both of my graduate degrees are from Columbia University, which also includes Columbia College, where Obama got his undergraduate degrees.

Tiresome academics will sometime insist that "professional schools" that award graduate degrees in architecture, business, law, medicine, etc are not "true" graduate schools, though that attitude is not as widespread as it was when I was an undergraduate.

[San Bernardhinault]

So what is "grad school" then? Is it the physical school, any physical institution that offers post-graduate study/degrees?

[ad hoc]

I am sure I went to grad school. The institution I attended only offered masters degrees. But I still don't know what the limits of the term grad school are