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Duckvillelol
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Australia1259 Posts
December 02 2010 05:55 GMT
#1
G'day folks,

So... apart from being incredibly tired all day today, had a semi-interesting experience with a client.

We deal with the media a lot where I work, and a particular client wanted some media coverage - and so I tried to find out what company they were from... and they said "APM".

Naturally, my first thought was Actions Per Minute. I said to them "Umm I'm not sure if actions per minute is a company with us currently?" being the tired, idiot I am.

Client then of course mentioned their real name, to which I then face-desked afterwards.

Anyone else have RL experiences where there is a "Starcraft Term" or something like that where their first reaction was to think of the SC reference - instead of the PROPER reference? I'm sure there are some Doctors/Nurses around who have heard a patient talk about DT's and thought about invisible brotoss units inside a patients body.

Cheers

****
Former SC2 commentator. youtube.com/duckvillelol
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-02 06:00:52
December 02 2010 06:00 GMT
#2
Every time I hear "HBr" in chem class I think of heartbreak ridge
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
December 02 2010 06:04 GMT
#3
Computer Science kids always talk about macros, which reminds me a lot of macro.
LiquipediaBrain in my filth.
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
December 02 2010 06:06 GMT
#4
I got hit pretty hard by Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) a few years ago. =/
Duckvillelol
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Australia1259 Posts
December 02 2010 06:09 GMT
#5
On December 02 2010 15:00 Kyuukyuu wrote:
Every time I hear "HBr" in chem class I think of heartbreak ridge


Hahah wow - I bet science-sorta things like that would have trouble all the time with the abbreviations all over the place...
Former SC2 commentator. youtube.com/duckvillelol
Cadgers
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States514 Posts
December 02 2010 06:10 GMT
#6
Watched a documentary in a class once called The Macro View and all I could think about was SC.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-02 06:48:04
December 02 2010 06:10 GMT
#7
I see a TVP soup flavour at work every second day and naturally think the most imbalanced matchup in existence.
+ Show Spoiler +
I kid, I kid; that's ZvP
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-02 06:13:21
December 02 2010 06:12 GMT
#8
This happens to me every day, not only when doing real life work but in conversations about TL itself. Here is an example from irc.

[00:32] (HotBid) i cant tell what the difference is between this code and other code, is it MBCgame_Ruby or ICCup Python
[00:32] (HotBid) or Mox Pearl
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
OmgIRok
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Taiwan2699 Posts
December 02 2010 06:15 GMT
#9
Reading Fahrenheit 451, where the protagonist is Guy Montag...
"Wanna join my [combo] clan?" "We play turret d competitively"
BenKen
Profile Joined August 2009
United States860 Posts
December 02 2010 06:18 GMT
#10
I always think that Artosis is the opposite of cellular mitosis.

Also, every day on my way to work I pass a pair of office buildings for a company with the initials BBS. It's even on BBS road. Best part is it's halfway between work and home and surrounded by nothing, so I always joke to myself in my head that this must be what an actual Barracks-Barracks-Supply must look like to a scouting probe. 2 huge buildings in the middle of nowhere, about to ruin my day.
I deadlift for Aiur
j0k3r
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States577 Posts
December 02 2010 06:33 GMT
#11
On December 02 2010 15:18 BenKen wrote:
I always think that Artosis is the opposite of cellular mitosis.

Also, every day on my way to work I pass a pair of office buildings for a company with the initials BBS. It's even on BBS road. Best part is it's halfway between work and home and surrounded by nothing, so I always joke to myself in my head that this must be what an actual Barracks-Barracks-Supply must look like to a scouting probe. 2 huge buildings in the middle of nowhere, about to ruin my day.


Could it be BBS, world's foremost race wheel manufacturer?
xxpack09
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2160 Posts
December 02 2010 06:42 GMT
#12
On December 02 2010 15:15 OmgIRok wrote:
Reading Fahrenheit 451, where the protagonist is Guy Montag...


You realize that that book is Gui's namesake, right?
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
December 02 2010 06:47 GMT
#13
On December 02 2010 15:15 OmgIRok wrote:
Reading Fahrenheit 451, where the protagonist is Guy Montag...

That's a sign of a good book right there.
On December 02 2010 15:18 BenKen wrote:
I always think that Artosis is the opposite of cellular mitosis.

Also, every day on my way to work I pass a pair of office buildings for a company with the initials BBS. It's even on BBS road. Best part is it's halfway between work and home and surrounded by nothing, so I always joke to myself in my head that this must be what an actual Barracks-Barracks-Supply must look like to a scouting probe. 2 huge buildings in the middle of nowhere, about to ruin my day.

And I thought I saw a lot of BBS on iccup :O
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Joementum
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
787 Posts
December 02 2010 06:50 GMT
#14
On December 02 2010 15:33 j0k3r wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2010 15:18 BenKen wrote:
I always think that Artosis is the opposite of cellular mitosis.

Also, every day on my way to work I pass a pair of office buildings for a company with the initials BBS. It's even on BBS road. Best part is it's halfway between work and home and surrounded by nothing, so I always joke to myself in my head that this must be what an actual Barracks-Barracks-Supply must look like to a scouting probe. 2 huge buildings in the middle of nowhere, about to ruin my day.


Could it be BBS, world's foremost race wheel manufacturer?


Probably is. I just checked out Google Maps and the BBS headquarters here in the U.S. is surrounded by pretty much nothing in Braselton, GA on BBS Way. We now know where BenKen is from!
A marine walks into a bar and asks, "Wheres the counter?"
kOre
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada3642 Posts
December 02 2010 08:15 GMT
#15
On December 02 2010 15:33 j0k3r wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2010 15:18 BenKen wrote:
I always think that Artosis is the opposite of cellular mitosis.

Also, every day on my way to work I pass a pair of office buildings for a company with the initials BBS. It's even on BBS road. Best part is it's halfway between work and home and surrounded by nothing, so I always joke to myself in my head that this must be what an actual Barracks-Barracks-Supply must look like to a scouting probe. 2 huge buildings in the middle of nowhere, about to ruin my day.


Could it be BBS, world's foremost race wheel manufacturer?

Probably, BBS rims are expensive as hell lol
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BenKen
Profile Joined August 2009
United States860 Posts
December 02 2010 08:42 GMT
#16
On December 02 2010 15:50 Joementum wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2010 15:33 j0k3r wrote:
On December 02 2010 15:18 BenKen wrote:
I always think that Artosis is the opposite of cellular mitosis.

Also, every day on my way to work I pass a pair of office buildings for a company with the initials BBS. It's even on BBS road. Best part is it's halfway between work and home and surrounded by nothing, so I always joke to myself in my head that this must be what an actual Barracks-Barracks-Supply must look like to a scouting probe. 2 huge buildings in the middle of nowhere, about to ruin my day.


Could it be BBS, world's foremost race wheel manufacturer?


Probably is. I just checked out Google Maps and the BBS headquarters here in the U.S. is surrounded by pretty much nothing in Braselton, GA on BBS Way. We now know where BenKen is from!


Zomg, you've scouted me! Time to warp in a forge.
I deadlift for Aiur
BookTwo
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1985 Posts
December 02 2010 08:46 GMT
#17
I see tvp and tvz number plates everywhere. victoria>australia has threeletters and threenumbers as the standard combination. my brother has tvt number plates.

and I saw this:

[image loading]

Ecrilon
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
501 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-02 09:14:17
December 02 2010 09:12 GMT
#18
TVP refers to the important Temperature-Volume-Pressure relationships for various gases in chemistry and chemical engineering. Generally it is referred to as a TVP problem... and it usually involves DTs (derivatives of temperature) in some way -_-
There is but one truth.
chogoling
Profile Joined April 2009
Australia173 Posts
December 02 2010 11:13 GMT
#19
when I was at high school, during economics, macroeconomic and microeconomic policies kept messing with me
[TA] Terror Australis
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
December 02 2010 18:44 GMT
#20
On December 02 2010 18:12 Ecrilon wrote:
TVP refers to the important Temperature-Volume-Pressure relationships for various gases in chemistry and chemical engineering. Generally it is referred to as a TVP problem... and it usually involves DTs (derivatives of temperature) in some way -_-

DTs, the bane of TVP~
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
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