Does your name come from cells, your love of rats, serious illness or some combination of all of them.
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Does your name come from cells, your love of rats, serious illness or some combination of all of them.
I could tell you that, but I wont... me being a cunt and all :lol:
Yeah, I heard it during a lecture once....as a type of epithelial cell. I just liked the word. Should be squamous really but I mis-spelled it. I wish it was more interesting than that :dry:.
its a cross between a squeak & a mousse.
I had assumed the mis-spelling.
In what circumstances were you attending this lecture. Were you tax dodging at the time and if so to what end.
'Tisn't :snooty:
Well! That's a very cynical way of putting it! :shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley
I believe I was trying to pass exams at the time and going to 2/3 lectures was a prerequisite for being allowed to stay on in the uni bar for another year.
And the ultimate goal was a degree presumably. I'm just interested in what you were studying at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by SqueamousWell! That's a very cynical way of putting it! :shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley
I believe I was trying to pass exams at the time and going to 2/3 lectures was a prerequisite for being allowed to stay on in the uni bar for another year.
Yeah I know.....I just thought the answer would be boring :(. Biology.
Not boring at all, it interests me.
Did you complete this course and go on to be a biologist or do something else.
Snap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squeamous
Squamous is a brilliant word. Other phrases I love include:
Crypts of Lieberkuhn, Islets of Langerhans and Phloem.
Brilliant.
I love those ones too! God we're sad.
So did you go into a career in biologism or do something else.
Look, can we just cut to the chase...you know your finger is itching over that ignore button. Just tell me what you're waiting to hear and we can get it over with.
Not at all, I am genuinely interested.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squeamous
True Story.
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Originally Posted by Mr JP FugleyNot at all, I am genuinely interested.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squeamous
True Story.
I think JP's just making conversation, like. It's been known to happen.
Ignore him first... go on ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Squeamous
i love the way Squeamous chose to take the harsh route over the make idle conversation route. :glag:
classic post.
Don't you dis the "True Story" post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien5:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley
Harsh people get thought of harshly.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Snee
Mellow JP is more unsettling than regular JP
Strange but true.
diet jp > regular jp.
Wellll...alright then Fug....but if you're nasty to me that's it, we're finished :snooty:.
I became a school lab tech and then went into medical research.....been there ever since.
It does feel a bit strange :unsure:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggles:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Snee
Mellow JP is more unsettling than regular JP
Strange but true.
I was also a school Lab Tech.
True Story.
How did you get into medical research. Did you re-train.
Hardest game in the woooorld....
Nope, just went for a new job and got it. It took lots of training to do but I was paid for it. Truth be told I didn't know what it was all about and I kind of landed on my feet.
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Originally Posted by Squeamous
30 years, man and boy.
So are you still working as a technician or did you really go back to square one and re-train from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squeamous
As a school technician? No, I did it for about a year. I left uni in Leicester and outside the university there's fuck all to do with a science degree. Worked in a bar for 6 months, then a school in Rutland for a year as a computers in science tech, setting up/devising datalogging experiments for the kids and being general PAT testing/maintenance dogsbody. I didn't really go back from there, it was a step up. I got a job in a medical research facility as a technician with more money and responsibility and everything. The job used my degree education better and rather than re-train me, gave me some training in something practical rather than academic. I'm useless for anything else now, my role is so specific, but there are at least a few places that do it in the UK and I could go abroad and do it. Just as I took the job (it's been 6 years now), all this stem cell research started bearing fruit and micromanipulation skills of said stuff became really useful. Hence, I was really lucky :yup:.
Forgive me for this and I know it's probably like asking you to crochet jelly but what is it that you actually do, in a way that a non medical researcher would understand.
If you could manage it in words of as few syllables as possible that would also be nice.
Ok, I work in a technical support division. The academic labs use our services to do things that are fiddly. So, we create genetically altered mice and we help with storage of mouse, fish and rat lines and assisted reproduction (like IVF). I suppose we help them maintain and create their animal colonies is the best summary. None of it is that difficult to understand, it's just fiddly work that scientists can't be arsed to learn. Like, you buy your shoes from a shop because you can't be bothered with cobbling them yourself type of thing....and if you did they'd probably fall apart in a few weeks.
It would probably be a bit a of a shame if the mice started falling apart, like. Good thing you are there.
You've done well there. I'm glad you are using your degree in your job. The nearest I get is talking about vineyard pests!
It's like this week's episode of South Park was based on you or something else. :OQuote:
Originally Posted by Squeamous
Uncanny.
Have you ever grown an ear on a mouse. :unsure:
If yes, is there anything you wouldn't grow on a mouse. :naughty:
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Originally Posted by Snee
I didn't tell them my specialisation was in botany...that's what my final year was on :shifty:. You have to lie a little bit don't you? I mean a lie of omission isn't as bad as one of addition, and I was desperate.....right? :unsure:.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrabGirl
So are you working for defra or something or a private company? I know people from my course who are working for banks or in the service sector....now that's a real waste of a science degree I think.
I'll probably have to wait a couple of years to see it. I don't have cable and the DVD box sets are only out up to the fifth season so far. I'm not sure I like the way they always portray us as being obsessed with putting extra arses on everything but I suppose I'll live with it :dry:.Quote:
Originally Posted by benchez
I once glued my glove to a mouse by accident, but no I've never grown anything on one. I would probably draw the line at an extra arse.
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Originally Posted by SqueamousI didn't tell them my specialisation was in botany...that's what my final year was on :shifty:. You have to lie a little bit don't you? I mean a lie of omission isn't as bad as one of addition, and I was desperate.....right? :unsure:.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrabGirl
So are you working for defra or something or a private company? I know people from my course who are working for banks or in the service sector....now that's a real waste of a science degree I think.
No sadly I'm working in the service sector for a wine company. Wasn't doing too badly within the company but cutbacks and relocation have just stripped my department back to the post I was in two years ago. I graduated specializing in ecology, primarily also botany and spent a few years working in conservation officer posts for various charities, and within environmental education. Most of these were short term contracts as they often are and because i stupidly decided to stay in the west country where opportunities are limited, I was forced to take customer services roles in between "proper jobs" and now I'm kinda stuck. I'm looking for jobs further afield again though now.
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