Comment on Anon is an engineer

• 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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      • ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As originally conceived, the engineer’s iron ring rubs against the drawings and paper upon which the Engineer writes and even in modern times, serves as a reminder when working on a computer.

        Think it’s intended more for the design engineer than the construction engineer.

        But that said you can get some decent silicone rings that won’t de-glove you if they get caught these days.

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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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