Ginger_Warrior

Honestly? No, I can't see the hypocrisy in selling yourself. Are you telling me other candidates won't be sexing their CVs up slightly? Medicine is the most difficult subject of all to get a university place on, of course they will. I hate to break it to you, but to get anywhere in medicine other than GP or Psych, you have to be a bit of a dick at times.

Of course. I'm just saying that, of the two examples, I know which one is more harmful, and which one I'd want to be more proactive about stamping out.

"I have performed well academically, achieving a X.XX GPA, for which I was offered to join an invite-only honours society at my university." You could all do a better job of writing that a bit more creatively, but even so, I'm not sure how that statement is one of a "weak" candidate. Is Benjamin Zephaniah any less of a poet because he once wrote that he'd refused an OBE from the Queen? Don't be ridiculous.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but I honestly didn't mean to offend those who would want that. I'm not going to lie, I hate dinner parties, though it should be noted that such events are a reality in a trainee doctor's life. It's just I think there's many, more relevent ways to show you're interested in medicine. Organisations stroking egos is something you'll kind of have to get used to. Take it from someone who's been to medical school, and knows people who carried on with it (I left to enter social care and pursue a career in nursing instead). We got our own special bank accounts from Natwest, including personal contact with the area manager, just for being medical students. They called it an "investment" in our future and that we'd never have enough money to get by without their help, given medical textbooks and stephoscopes etc. cost more for us than other students. I'm sure you can work out the conclusions for yourself; they were basically buttering us up because they know that in ten years time, we'd all be on £30K salaries and wanting real estate, and since we were students just like everyone else at university, we'd grab all the money being made available to us. One thing you could look at is what voluntary experience is made available through this organisation. If it's an overseas trip to a third world African country helping to deliver aid, I'd grab it and bite their arm off, the $80 really pays for itself there. If it's helping out at a sharps amnesty, where drug users can give their paraphernalia to healthcare professionals without fear of the police chasing them for it, you can probably find that opportunity through your local health authorities if you talk to the right people. Of course, there's the old and tested ways: retirement homes, community first aid, shadowing doctors on hospital wards, medical conventions. See if the voluntary work in GK is really worth more than what you've got in front of you for free. As you say, worst case scenario is fall back and say you were invited to join GK. Academically. it still means the same. Not like they can sue you for it, just keep the letter and a it's a matter of fact.

Isn't that how most people got into RuneScape though? I think MMOs in general are an exercise in avoiding boredom.

If I was an admissions tutor for a medical school, I'd be more interested in what experience you have of being in a "caring" role, what voluntary work you've done to prove you're not just motivated by money, and what interests you have to sustain a very long, difficult and stressful university experience, not to mention the two years of post-grad rotations. But if they're more bothered about whether you like wearing twee jackets and attending dinner parties, then I guess you should pay the $80. Honestly, I think the question is this: Do you want to join this society?

Does being "white trash" mean you or I face being prejudiced by a member of the racial majority in your day-to-day life? Prevent you from receiving as much pay on average? Lead to you being unemployed for longer periods of time? It's double standards in the strictest sense, yes, but the implications of racism on white people and the implications of racism on black people are on two different levels, hence there being two standards.

Haha... :wall:

Bush won a lot of popularity because he talked like "one of them", the common man and woman. You're not seriously blaming anyone for holding double standards when they're promoting an image Bush himself wanted, are you?

I suppose it is theoretically possible that the world of SMT is a 50-50 split between men/women, and that 60% of all females in SMT are on maternity leave (and every single one of their positions being taken temporarily by males rather than another woman). I think it's far more possible, however, that the top jobs simply aren't as accessible to women as they are to men. You've also ignored the fact that, in the UK at least, men have very similar rights on maternity leave to women, but you seem to be suggesting they only affect women.

The number of women in senior management remains horrible disproportionate to the number of women in the workforce.[1] There are also problems with the distribution of women across the workforce nationwide. Although there are more male nurses, teachers and cooks than before, the overwhelming majority of people in these occupations are female.[2][3][4] Women are also under-represented in most democratic parliaments.[5] Women are not equal to men in most occupations, and for the kind of paid work women have traditionally relied on, there aren't enough men coming through either.

This to be honest. If the flasks can be refilled at 1 dose then there is no point making them break in the first place. Agreed, which is why it would be a design flaw. If you're going to make them 6 doses and break OR 5 doses and last forever, you may as well just release a flask that holds 5 doses and lasts forever. Which is why I think it will be just 6 doses and break.

I'd actually argue the opposite. If they haven't designed it so that flasks cannot be refilled, I think it's a serious design flaw. They should make so that you have to use the six doses and that's it, otherwise it's a pointless exercise.

I think it helps the individual if they develop a thick skin to the discrimination and helps them to ward off the effects of the abuse, but it doesn't mean we cease doing anything about it, I agree.

Has anyone who's white on this thread so far claimed to be oppressed? We were talking about women vs men at first. Do you enjoy shouting at strawmen in your spare time? I don't feel oppressed anyhow. And I'm a white, heterosexual, non-Jewish male. Just sayin'.

Do you have any consistent opinion whatsoever on this matter?

There is a very serious problem with men who are the victims of sexual or physical abuse by females not reporting it, because there is a perception in society that men are stronger than women and therefore cannot be raped. I don't think that the above statement is particularly conducive to reversing that trend, or getting male domestic abuse victims the help they need. All rapes are serious. Lying about being sexually abused is abhorrent, as far as I'm concerned, but it doesn't mean we should treat reported rapes any less vigilently, and it certainly doesn't mean we should assume a woman is "telling stories".

I don't think there's any significant difference either way, I personally use BA because I find it challenging and fun, and it breaks the monotony up, but I'm not going to pretend that it gives a lot more experience, because it doesn't.

I did that by reading history at college (would be high school in US). I didn't need one month in the year to be dedicated to black history in order to accomplish it. As Maddy said before, BHM is recognised in the UK in October but is seldom ever mentioned. Perhaps if the history you were taught was more relevent to American history, instead of learning about Tudor kings and queens and the Soviets, you wouldn't have this problem. As for those who "couldn't care less" about black history... you think making a month dedicated to the subject so you can shove it down their throats is going to make them care?

Which is why it's a flaw in Runescape. Diary rewards have many versions from lesser to greater. Take Ardy cloak: Ardy easy Ardy medium Ardy hard Ardy Elite Plus someone mentioned that Comp cape should have more rewards (besides myself) for all skills. And that's pretty smart. The Ardougne Tasks are meant to be a general list of the whole area though, regardless of which particular skills the area encompasses. It's about the place, not the skills per se. I think it's a misnomer to call what you're proposing a "comp cape", since only focusing on combat isn't completionist in any way. But you are right, and it goes back to the old debate when skillcapes came out of why level 3 skillers were receiving capes for cooking and fletching which outclassed high-combat players who'd only maxed out in strength alone. Surely the cape for being 99 strength should be more powerful combat-wise than the capes for fletching and woodcutting. That's what I meant about making people do all things. If you want the most powerful combat-related cape in the game, you need to have grown herbs, flowers and trees up to 99 farming... Why?

You do have to wonder why someone needs to be a master in chopping trees down and cooking food in order to have a cape that boosts their combat performance. One of RuneScape's biggest strengths is that, because it has no "races" of players or "perks", it can be all things to all people, but that doesn't mean all people should be forced to do all things.

My FPS rate is down to just four in the newly updated Taverley area. As pretty as the rework undoubtedly is, this game is fast becoming inaccessible to my computer, bought only three years ago (it's not great for gaming, but was easily good enough for RS when bought). I wouldn't mind anyone who a specialist gaming computer having fancy graphics so long as they kept the minimal specs low enough for everyone else to deal with.

I just laughed out loud for at least a full minute. Yeah... you can probably tell by now that I don't take BHM very seriously and, frankly, I don't think most black people do, which is what makes it all the more tragic.

If it does go all the way to the European Courts it could have an interesting effect on Jagex's stance on the possession of in-game items. If the amulet and the necklace were the victim's items to be stolen, were they also the victim's items to be sold in exchange for material goods (i.e. cash)?

Why's it so controversial? They get one month, we get eleven. Good deal. [hide=Disclaimer]If you can't tell that the above sentence is an attempt at dry sarcasm, and that it doesn't really represent my viewpoint or of white people in general, then you should just avoid all Internet debates from now on.[/hide]