Occupational Forensics

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Things like my melted cheese splash damage might suggest that there's a significant random element in these sorts of risks/injuries.

Burns are probably pretty random, but in the specific case of knife cuts, you're far more likely to get a knife cut on the hand you use to hold whatever you're cutting than on the hand you use to hold the knife.

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

My last cosmetically large cooking wound ended up being on my foot because that's where the melted cheese splashed after the screaming hot container just out of the microwave got dropped and hit the floor. The doctor called it 2nd degree and expected it to pucker and scar but it hasn't.

Harry Dresden? Is that you? How did you get on the Internet? ;-)

[ericthered]

I was recently asked if I was former military, because I was standing in parade rest while waiting for an IT guy to finish something. I'm not, and it was a coincidence, but apparently its a way military folks recognize each other.

[Flyndaran]

I was once asked if I was European just, because I cross my 7s and Zs.

I only started, because my poor handwriting otherwise makes them hard to distinguish from 1s and 2s.

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

cross my 7s and Zs.

I only started, because my poor handwriting otherwise makes them hard to distinguish from 1s and 2s.

That style can also be an indicator of US military service. I've known a couple of people that were trained to do so by their military experience.

Also slashing through zeroes (as is, or at least sometimes was, a habit of computer programmers).

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I was once asked if I was European just, because I cross my 7s and Zs.

I only started, because my poor handwriting otherwise makes them hard to distinguish from 1s and 2s.

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

That style can also be an indicator of US military service. I've known a couple of people that were trained to do so by their military experience.

Also slashing through zeroes (as is, or at least sometimes was, a habit of computer programmers).

I've understood it to be standard for anyone in engineering - and the slashing of zeros a less common version of the same thing. Likewise using the "open" number four as opposed to the "closed" one that can be mistaken for a nine when handwritten.

[Celjabba]

Ask someone what a six sided die is... if he answers "a d6", odds are he play(ed) rpg...

Edit : learned something: dice is always plural

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by Celjabba

Ask someone what a six sided dice is... if he answers "a d6", odds are he play(ed) rpg...

Or for that matter, without meaning to embarrass you, whether they say "die" or "dice" for the singular.

[Celjabba]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

Or for that matter, without meaning to embarrass you, whether they say "die" or "dice" for the singular.

That's also a good way to spot the foreigner with accented english instead of native :)
So, die for singular, dice for plural... I have been making that mistake for a long time, thanks!

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Celjabba

That's also a good way to spot the foreigner with accented english instead of native :)
So, die for singular, dice for plural... I have been making that mistake for a long time, thanks!

English doesn't believe in consistent rules for grammatical number (or case, or...), largely because it stole words from multiple languages with different rules.