Comment on Anon is an engineer

• ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  North American engineers sometimes wear an Iron Ring, apparently.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s 100% fake, you’re busted

    In america it would be a gunfight not a fistfight

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