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Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Alan2005
(Post 8095389)
I didn't agree with wheatsheaf either. Though of Vancouver I would say it's multi-ethnic rather than mutli-cultural. It's reasonably diverse when you look at peoples faces, but it really doesn't feel multi cultural. Maybe because, as you say, canada is a bit of a cultural tabula rasa.
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Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 8095412)
Toronto, like NYC, though less so, is really multi-cultural. One can function knowing just one of perhaps two dozen languages. I know people who have been there for decades and managed with just French, just Cantonese, just Hebrew. Our office manager routinely uses Russian, French and Yiddish to talk to regular visitors such as the currency trader and FedEx guy; everyone else, myself included, gets Polish.
And we use english only in my office, though it is a bit like the UN. Cradle canadians are in the minority by a long way. |
Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 8095411)
Thank God for that. Obviously I've heard of that site, but have never had the courage to look at it.
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Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 8095493)
I think its more an undergrad thing. The 'Hotness' rating seems to be particularly puerile.
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Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 8095493)
I think its more an undergrad thing. The 'Hotness' rating seems to be particularly puerile.
It's rubbish. I know my colleagues pretty well and the comments are completely shotgun off the mark. Although of course I'm devastated not to have a positive Hotness rating. Do you think they'd notice if I did one for myself? |
Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Alan2005
(Post 8095450)
Thinking about it some more, maybe I'm misjudging it. Cos I lived in Asia I might have stopped seeing the differences, and Vancouver's diversity is primarily asian. Certainly, if I wander around china-town in Vancouver it still feels relatively western.
And we use english only in my office, though it is a bit like the UN. Cradle canadians are in the minority by a long way. Vancouver highly for the outdoors, the hippy culture, the sailing, lots of things, but not diversity "hey, I lived in Montreal". Apparently it's more diverse than Halifax but then I recall the emails from Halifax "send curry, send Black people, hell, send Tabasco, send Jews". |
Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 8095508)
Armed with your tip that I'm not on it, I had a peek.
It's rubbish. I know my colleagues pretty well and the comments are completely shotgun off the mark. Although of course I'm devastated not to have a positive Hotness rating. Do you think they'd notice if I did one for myself? |
Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 8095404)
Ha! Nice one.
Fred drifting....one of my fellow MBA students (from Canada's cheapest MBA programme, not the FT20 CEO of whatever bollox, the late and unlamented, koolio was drivelling on about) brought this website to my attention: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ I looked for you on there but disappointingly you are not to be found.;) |
Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by fledermaus
(Post 8095520)
We could put you on there, and vote for you :rofl::eek:
I'm lucky enough to teach nothing below 3rd year. I'd like to think that they've grown out of such tomfoolery by then. |
Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Partially discharged
(Post 8095530)
My brother was a prof at a US university and you better believe it profs read those reviews and some post their own to make themselves look better.
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Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 8095588)
Surely not if they have tenure? Well, perhaps, it is the US you refer to.
I actually had a colleague who'd simply read his notes out to the class without looking up. Many a time he'd screw up and read them out of sequence. Page 1,3,5 7 etc. then he'd go back and read pages, 2,4,6,8. He still got tenure. :rofl: |
Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 8095359)
I did see the one on that forum and yes, that was unacceptable. .
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Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by iaink
(Post 8096985)
Good god, I am shocked, shocked I tell you to discover that there are actually some things that dbd finds unacceptable!
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Re: Oh bollocks.
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 8095782)
Its only personal ego. They don't give toss how you teach in the US to get tenure. They just want to know if you've published the right stuff, in the right journals so you make the department look good. That, and shagging the Dean's wife might delay your chances a bit. ;)
I actually had a colleague who'd simply read his notes out to the class without looking up. Many a time he'd screw up and read them out of sequence. Page 1,3,5 7 etc. then he'd go back and read pages, 2,4,6,8. He still got tenure. :rofl: |
Re: Oh bollocks.
oh bollocks
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