George Will is an angry old man

[Nikose Tyris]

Originally Posted by Satan's Onion

So, corset and high heels then? Ladies, take note: According to George F. Will, a woman is not attired tastefully until both her ankles are sprained and she can't breathe.

[Edit: on second thought, that's just too far, removing this incredibly bad joke. Sorry for all who witnessed it.]

Kotaku's gone and started ripping into this guy too. I like some of the arguements IN HIS FAVOR I've been seeing. :P someone's been arguing taxation without representation for gamers who buy video games that don't vote.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Like 95% of the people in our labs are wearing jeans at any one time. Why didn't they let you wear jeans?

Jeans "weren't professional." Basically, it boiled down to they were forcing absolute and immediate boring, formal adulthood on every fresh-faced 18-year-old to walk through the door so far as they could without actually giving anyone any ideas that they were in any way special or important (which was itself a shock because every last student they accept there is the cream of the crop). We didn't even have lab coats because those had to be "earned" by sticking around until the fourth year of the program and were bestowed in a pomp-and-circumstance ceremony. The expectation was that you'd spend three years wearing your best clothes from high school whilst working with hazardous chemicals and chopping up dead animals in your labs.

It was in many ways a cold, depressing place.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Jeans "weren't professional." Basically, it boiled down to they were forcing absolute and immediate boring, formal adulthood on every fresh-faced 18-year-old to walk through the door so far as they could without actually giving anyone any ideas that they were in any way special or important (which was itself a shock because every last student they accept there is the cream of the crop). We didn't even have lab coats because those had to be "earned" by sticking around until the fourth year of the program and were bestowed in a pomp-and-circumstance ceremony. The expectation was that you'd spend three years wearing your best clothes from high school whilst working with hazardous chemicals and chopping up dead animals in your labs.

It was in many ways a cold, depressing place.

I work in a "professional" lab... the clothing here is much worse than average society.
But no labcoat until 4th year..... Surely that's a ridiculous health and safety hazard. I mean that's a really serious problem.
Overhere you could get labs shut down for that.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

I work in a "professional" lab... the clothing here is much worse than average society.
But no labcoat until 4th year..... Surely that's a ridiculous health and safety hazard. I mean that's a really serious problem.
Overhere you could get labs shut down for that.

Messy operations got us gloves (only for dissecting) and smocks, and we had our own goggles, but the smocks weren't very long, so the only thing they really protected were your shirt and maybe your belt if you were short. Which is why I got a hole burned in my pants.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

You should really do something about. It's quite negligent.

[bluestarultor]

I haven't been a student there for quite some time, and honestly, at US$25,000+ per student per year, I think they have enough money to win any court case I might bring up. They're quite a highly-regarded school, too, so all in all, it's not worth the trouble when I'm happily elsewhere with a much better work environment.

[Azisien]

No I'm pretty sure no matter how high your tuition is, if you're not following basic lab safety protocols, you will be ordered to follow them once caught being negligent. We aren't even allowed into lab rooms, operating or not, without lab coats. The not wearing them when they're not operating is unofficially allowed because whatever, but its pretty strict here.

[Funka Genocide]

I'm pretty sure smocks suffice for legality's sake.

also, this thread got fuck-awful boring after someone mentioned lab coats. I'm not going to name names, but...

how did a thread about pants become a thread about coats?

the two are diametrically opposed!

[Mirai Gen]

Holy shit was that Nikose showing some good taste?

Between this and Noncon explaining jokes I don't know how much more I can handle!

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I haven't been a student there for quite some time, and honestly, at US$25,000+ per student per year, I think they have enough money to win any court case I might bring up. They're quite a highly-regarded school, too, so all in all, it's not worth the trouble when I'm happily elsewhere with a much better work environment.

It's basic lab protocol, it hard to weasel out of. I'm assuming US has some sort of Health and Safety dept, they would be all over this.

Originally Posted by Funka Genocide

I'm pretty sure smocks suffice for legality's sake.

also, this thread got fuck-awful boring after someone mentioned lab coats. I'm not going to name names, but...

how did a thread about pants become a thread about coats?

the two are diametrically opposed!

You are just lucky I didn't use it as a vessel for my side in the eternal debate of: Barrels vs Pants