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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 1, 2020 15:23:59 GMT
Watched Sideways again the other day. The guy whom the novel and film is based on is someone my brother knew at Uni who went out to LA with dreams to be a film director and ended up working in a wine shop. I found out that sales of Pinot Noir went up 16% after the film came out and Merlot dived. I'm sure Chardonnay sales went up after the movie too. The Santa Ynez Valley grows grapes for Pinot and Chardonnay, mostly. I cannot even swallow Chardonnay these days and for awhile it was friggin' everywhere. I'm not really a red wine drinker. When and if I buy wine, it's 99.9% of the time, Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc.
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Post by tory on Jun 1, 2020 15:38:51 GMT
I'm not as big on reds as I am on whites either.
I used to be the other way, but now I'm very much a Gruner Veltliner, Sancerre, Albarino, Reisling, Jura type of person. I like chilled Red wine - Pinot Noir in particular.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2020 20:26:26 GMT
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 1, 2020 21:43:21 GMT
I need to 'unpack' legitimation code theory by tomorrow
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 2, 2020 7:17:43 GMT
Not getting it.
'semantic gravity', yes. And it's kind of interesting.
I'll get back to you once I've UNPACKED this idea. I'm sure you're all DYING TO KNOW
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Post by rayge on Jun 2, 2020 12:09:40 GMT
I need to 'unpack' legitimation code theory by tomorrow If I were you, I would pack it up carefully and post it to Someone Who Cares, Jargon Villa, Jerk Circle, NOWHERESVILLE (daddio), TW2 3AT. Ontology eats itself and pukes up a mess like this.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 2, 2020 12:20:30 GMT
I know, I know.
It's just that LCT (you can make anything an abbreviation these days and people will sit up and take notice, don't you think? three letters, especially. We'll use a bit of ATR on the FRO, OK?) is becoming a big deal in HE now. So we're supposed to at least get the basic idea. Not that they've questioned us about it.
Online teaching, anyway. Or preparation for it. They ask us to turn off our mics AND our cameras, so we don't even need to be there. Waste of time.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 2, 2020 15:12:32 GMT
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 4, 2020 11:45:09 GMT
Surprisingly Heriot-Watt have had more Chinese students than expected sign up for the summer ELT programme, so they asked me to start a month early. I said yes. So it all kicks off next Monday. It's going to be nice to work from home and not have to walk an hour to class every morning, spend £5 every day on coffee, and have to blah with dull British Council types after work...but 11 weeks looking at Chinese students' faces online and waiting for them to say something - I know it's going to be fucking torture. In fact I think torture will look like a walk in the park once I've done this for a few days. So we're nearly done with a week of online training - actual teaching starts next week. What's great is that we're told to turn off our microphones and webcams because they take up too much bandwidth and slow everything down. So they can neither see nor hear me and they've absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I've been watching TV, making tea, looking out the window, drawing... Now and again I hear someone say 'so put a smiley face if you're happy with everything so far' and I jump back to the PC and add my little emoticon - then back to whatever I was doing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 13:25:47 GMT
Surprisingly Heriot-Watt have had more Chinese students than expected sign up for the summer ELT programme, so they asked me to start a month early. I said yes. So it all kicks off next Monday. It's going to be nice to work from home and not have to walk an hour to class every morning, spend £5 every day on coffee, and have to blah with dull British Council types after work...but 11 weeks looking at Chinese students' faces online and waiting for them to say something - I know it's going to be fucking torture. In fact I think torture will look like a walk in the park once I've done this for a few days. So we're nearly done with a week of online training - actual teaching starts next week. What's great is that we're told to turn off our microphones and webcams because they take up too much bandwidth and slow everything down. So they can neither see nor hear me and they've absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I've been watching TV, making tea, looking out the window, drawing... Are you sure you haven't been appointed to work on the new government tracing app?
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jun 4, 2020 13:42:57 GMT
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 4, 2020 15:45:15 GMT
So we're nearly done with a week of online training - actual teaching starts next week. What's great is that we're told to turn off our microphones and webcams because they take up too much bandwidth and slow everything down. So they can neither see nor hear me and they've absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I've been watching TV, making tea, looking out the window, drawing... Are you sure you haven't been appointed to work on the new government tracing app? I was going to say that Coan's students will get the most out of his teaching ever this semester.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 16:58:18 GMT
I've started to wear a baseball cap due to shaving my head during lockdown. Bought a sox one because i always thought they looked cool. Have to say,guess i'm a baseball cap guy now.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 4, 2020 17:07:07 GMT
I've started to wear a baseball cap due to shaving my head during lockdown. Bought a sox one because i always thought they looked cool. Have to say,guess i'm a baseball cap guy now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 17:13:35 GMT
I've started to wear a baseball cap due to shaving my head during lockdown. Bought a sox one because i always thought they looked cool. Have to say,guess i'm a baseball cap guy now. Couldn't find a .gif for a Giants baseball cap? says it all really. Go SOX!!!! #Rounders4Life.
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