Comment on Anon is an engineer

rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They might not be American - I don’t think anywhere else does the iron ring thing…

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The what ?

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    • ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      North American engineers sometimes wear an Iron Ring, apparently.

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hope they all take it off before doing anything power tool related or near any machinery that could catch it…

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      • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A myth persists that the initial batch of Iron Rings was made from the beams of the first Quebec Bridge, a bridge that collapsed during construction in 1907 due to poor planning and design by the overseeing engineers.

        How can you do that to my, Wikipedia? I never believed in Santa, but I believed in the tragic origin of the ring.

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      • KittyCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think its common anymore, I didn’t even see anything about this in undergrad or grad school.

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    • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, in America, at the end of engineering school, all the students are gathered into the Iron Ring and they fistfight to see who actually gets a degree. Top 30% or so win. That’s why I didn’t go to engineering school, I didn’t have enough time for gainz

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      • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s 100% fake, you’re busted

        In america it would be a gunfight not a fistfight

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At my university in the US it was optional and cost money. I was broke so I just didn’t do it. It was also framed as a Canadian thing we were starting to offer

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