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Café Pedro 2: Revenge of the Portuguese
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 18-08-2010 18:45
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jph27 wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Got back from Portugal earlier today. Nice country, not as warm as Turkey, but warm enough -- and way more "civilized".
My Uncle got stuck in Turkey, which was funny. 
Yeah, I remember that one.
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| untal |
Posted on 18-08-2010 18:48
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doddy13 wrote:
we must be careful what we say about Pass. We don't want to wake up any angry Portugalians.
Portugueshes, Doddy, angry portugueshes.
And Crue, you missed these colder days, I suppose. Still, it's over 27ºC in Albufeira. |
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 18-08-2010 18:49
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no. Portugalians.
You are since I called Sérgio Paulinho - Serge the Portugalian
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
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| Waghlon |
Posted on 18-08-2010 18:57
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SportingNonsense wrote:
rjc_43 wrote:
Well, after being hit last year (11 months ago) by a car whilst out riding, I can now successfully say I have received my compensation. £3,453.09 for the pleasure. I'm rich. Finally.
I thought you'd been Rich for a while?
*crickets*
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| Kami |
Posted on 18-08-2010 23:22
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Waghlon wrote:
SportingNonsense wrote:
rjc_43 wrote:
Well, after being hit last year (11 months ago) by a car whilst out riding, I can now successfully say I have received my compensation. £3,453.09 for the pleasure. I'm rich. Finally.
I thought you'd been Rich for a while?
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*crickets*
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-08-2010 13:45
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A-level results day today in Britain
I got:
A* - Maths
A - Further Maths
A - Geography
A - History
And so off to university I go.
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 19-08-2010 13:57
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Congratz SN 
What will you be studying?
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:28
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Thanks
In short: Maths
In long: Maths, Operational Research and Statistics
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:38
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SportingNonsense wrote:
A-level results day today in Britain
I got:
A* - Maths
A - Further Maths
A - Geography
A - History
And so off to university I go.
What is the difference between Maths and Further Maths? Is Maths algebra and Further Maths calc or something?
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In long: Maths, Operational Research and Statistics
I've got a great statistics joke for you.
Three statisticians go duck hunting. They go out into a muddy field, and they see a duck. The first statistician aims his gun and fires. The recoil of the gun and the slippery mud causes him to fall down, and his shot goes just high. Then the second statistician takes aims, fires, and falls from the recoil and the ground, with his shot going just low. The third statistician throws his gun down to the ground and starts shouting "We got em boys, we got em!"
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:42
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Basically, Further Maths is the same sort of thing as Maths, only to a higher level (so harder)
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:44
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Basically, Further Maths is the same sort of thing as Maths, only to a higher level (so harder)
I figured that, but what specific level of math is the difference? Calc, pre-calc, stat? |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:46
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We got the same here (further maths) for those who did sciences (like me), although I did further physics & chemistry (and could also have done advanced geology & biology).
Usually further maths were for those who'd become engineers, or were the most comfortable with abstract stuff. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:49
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Again, that doesn't explain what was actually in it, you're just saying it was advanced.
Does sound sort of like AP courses here in the US, where you take college level courses in high school, and if you get a good result on the exam at the end of the year you get "placed out of" or get to skip the course in college. |
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:50
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Aquarius wrote:
We got the same here (further maths) for those who did sciences (like me), although I did further physics & chemistry (and could also have done advanced geology & biology).
Usually further maths were for those who'd become engineers, or were the most comfortable with abstract stuff.
That depends on the modules taken. Further Maths wasnt at all like that for me.
In the UK it tends to be split into 3 - Pure, Applied (Mechanics) and Statistics.
For my school, the Normal maths course consisted of 4 Core modules and then either 2 statistics modules or 2 mechanics modules.
Further Maths for me had 2 Further Pure Modules, 2 Decision maths modules, Numerical Methods and Statistics 3. (Although the rest of my class, who did mechanics rather than statistics, did Differential Equations rather than Stats 3)
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:55
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In France, further stuff (2 hours per week) was more experiments in physics, so we were more handy when it came to manipulating devices and all during regular lessons.
We also got +2 coefficient for that speciality at the A-level exams (physics & chemistry : 6+2, maths : 7, biology & geology : 6, written French : 2, spoken French : 2, philosophy : 3, English : 3, History & geography : 3, sports : 2).
As for maths, it were more or less college/university stuff (which is also basically, say for 90% of it, grammar school/high school stuff pushed further), but that didn't give any right to miss the courses at the above level (well sometimes you can miss and just go to exams, as long as you succeed nobody minds).
edit : I thought that with E.U. rules they would harmonise what we're learning at different levels, so that we can do Erasmus more easily (of course it's way too late for me).
What you did, SN, is more like what I did at the university later. First trimester was mathematics methodology (groups of elements, etc.), then it was algebra (matrix, etc.), and ultimately it was ?? might be something to do with calculations, I can't remind (I should have attended more lessons perhaps  ).
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-08-2010 14:58
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Deadpool wrote:
Again, that doesn't explain what was actually in it, you're just saying it was advanced.
Does sound sort of like AP courses here in the US, where you take college level courses in high school, and if you get a good result on the exam at the end of the year you get "placed out of" or get to skip the course in college.
Its broadly similar here then I guess - for example, the university course Im taking will include some of the stuff Ive done in Further Maths, in the first year of the course. (Not all schools offer Further Maths, so universities cant assume all taking the course will know it beforehand)
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 19-08-2010 15:02
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Well done SN. Where will home be for you then next year?
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 19-08-2010 15:03
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
Well done SN. Where will home be for you then next year?
Thanks. Im going to Cardiff Uni
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 19-08-2010 15:05
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SportingNonsense wrote:
wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
Well done SN. Where will home be for you then next year?
Thanks. Im going to Cardiff Uni
Are you Welsh or are you just going there? |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 19-08-2010 15:05
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So's my sister. I'll make sure she says hi.
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