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Lip Gloss Feb 2022 8:28pm, 23 Feb 2022 59,301 posts	Quote Pin Lip Gloss Still standing outside places for the 10pm news when there’s definitely nothing happening.
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Feb 2022 8:54pm, 23 Feb 2022 17,577 posts	Quote Pin 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Poorly worded multiple choice questions.
Ally-C Feb 2022 9:00pm, 23 Feb 2022 1,580 posts	Quote Pin Ally-C People who leave their dogs outside to bark incessantly in the early hours. I’ve been trying not to listen to them since the noise roused me from my slumber before 3am. I do not have the energy or presence of mind to determine their location in such a built up area. I assume the owners either work nights, or sleep like the dead, to be unaffected by their pets’ endeavours. My mother in law got a rescue dog that didn’t bark, she taught the fecking thing to bark!
nme2no1 Feb 2022 10:23pm, 23 Feb 2022 204 posts	Quote Pin nme2no1 Ally-C I’d like to assume MiL taught the dog to bark in certain circumstances, rather than repeatedly over a prolonged period. They were quiet last night, so I’m hoping for the same again tonight.
Eynsham Red Feb 2022 10:39pm, 23 Feb 2022 8,531 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red Poorly worded multiple choice questions. Agreed! The Civil Aviation Authority engineering multiple choice exams questions were often worded in such an ambiguous way that you’ve probably need a degree in code breaking to understand what they were asking. It’s supposed to be an exam to test your knowledge of the subject, not how to decipher ambiguity!
Raemond Feb 2022 10:51pm, 23 Feb 2022 9,011 posts	Quote Pin Raemond The civil service judgment assessment thing is acutely terrible - you get presented with a scenario and some actions you might take in light of it, and they're all usually terrible options. Or, at best, a single action that ought to be part of a larger sequence or plan. And then you have to give each option an 'effectiveness' ratings. You're supposed to determine if they're counterproductive, ineffective, partially effective, or effective. No single action in the face of a complicated problem is every going to be entirely effective - they will always be dependent on what else you're doing. If you only did exactly the thing described in a single option they are all ineffective or counterproductive. All of them. For any one of them to be even partially effective you have to assume a bunch other stuff not explicitly contained in any single option (which is exactly what you're told not to do in the introduction to the test). I hate them.
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Feb 2022 11:09pm, 23 Feb 2022 17,581 posts	Quote Pin 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Same is roughly speaking true of the ITIL exams. They're even worse when you get to the written answers because a lot of the right or best answer is purely subjective or even a matter of opinion!
Ally-C Feb 2022 1:44pm, 24 Feb 2022 1,583 posts	Quote Pin Ally-C Ally-C I’d like to assume MiL taught the dog to bark in certain circumstances, rather than repeatedly over a prolonged period. They were quiet last night, so I’m hoping for the same again tonight. Nope, just bark, as it does when it’s excited. It’s now a pain in the arse. Once it starts it takes some stopping.
macca 53 Feb 2022 2:29pm, 24 Feb 2022 29,618 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 Chewing gum. More specifically, everybody who drops it on the pavement outside every single bar/restaurant.
Lip Gloss Feb 2022 2:33pm, 24 Feb 2022 59,313 posts	Quote Pin Lip Gloss Ally-C I’d like to assume MiL taught the dog to bark in certain circumstances, rather than repeatedly over a prolonged period. They were quiet last night, so I’m hoping for the same again tonight. Nope, just bark, as it does when it’s excited. It’s now a pain in the arse. Once it starts it takes some stopping. Why would she want that?