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Stafford Flash Mob anyone??
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Stafford College
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Hi everyone, a student has asked for help recruiting volunteers to be filmed, flashmob-style doing the caramelldansen in the Market Square at 12pm on Tuesday. You probably know all about the Caramelldansen craze. For those, who, like me, didn't, it involves sticking your hands above your head like ears and wiggling your hips.
The student is making a film for Children in Need. The YouTube page will have a donate button on it and her friends will have collecting buckets during the flashmob filming. She is also going to send the film to the BBC Children in Need team - you have got to admire her initiative!
To give you an idea of what she is doing, you can see a rough edit of the filming she has done on the campus this week, here:
She is hoping to persuade some shoppers and local residents to take part. If you are willing to help her, please present yourself at the Market Square on Tuesday lunchtime and be ready to wiggle.
The student is making a film for Children in Need. The YouTube page will have a donate button on it and her friends will have collecting buckets during the flashmob filming. She is also going to send the film to the BBC Children in Need team - you have got to admire her initiative!
To give you an idea of what she is doing, you can see a rough edit of the filming she has done on the campus this week, here:
She is hoping to persuade some shoppers and local residents to take part. If you are willing to help her, please present yourself at the Market Square on Tuesday lunchtime and be ready to wiggle.
Gramaisc
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I would take 12pm to be midnight - but I'm presuming this will actually take place at midday..
Stafford College
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Yes. Noon.
Is that my fault for confusing everyone - I thought 12pm was daytime and 12am was the middle of the night?
Anyway, it is definitely NOON.
Will you be wiggling, Gramaisc?
Is that my fault for confusing everyone - I thought 12pm was daytime and 12am was the middle of the night?
Anyway, it is definitely NOON.
Will you be wiggling, Gramaisc?
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
It is.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I have shoulder issues at the moment, but you never know..
Which one is you..?
Dangerous to use either - it can't be either ante or post meridiem - best to use noon and midnight.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
12 noon or 12 midnight
or 12 green bottles
or 12 green bottles
Withnail
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Yes it can.
Noon is the meridiem therefore as soon as it's noon it is post meridiem - at midnight it is ante.
But we digress...
Gramaisc
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Midnight is both post and ante meridiem, depending on which way you're looking. Noon is the meridiem and so is neither.
It's why insurance policies often start at 12:01 am, so that people know which day it really is.
I'm happy to go with the NPL - http://www.npl.co.uk/science-techno...aqs/is-midnight-12-a.m.-or-12-p.m.-(faq-time)
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Agreed! Or use the 24hr clock.
Gramaisc
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Withnail
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What? Why?
'Noon' and 'midnight' are just words - words mean only what we agree them to mean. '12pm' is also a word - a word that has the same meaning as 'noon'. '12am' has the significant advantage of being a full four characters fewer than 'midnight' whilst meaning the same thing.
A tree is only a 'tree' because we agree it is a 'tree'. It has no intrinsic 'tree-ness' that makes it a tree - we all agree it is a 'tree' and that makes it so. A Frenchwoman would disagree that it is a 'tree', insisting that it is instead an 'arbre' - is she wrong?
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
Withnail
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In penance for my quite obvious inability to 'let it lie' i promise, barring disaster, to turn up @ 12pm to take part.
To whom, and to how, should i make my presence known?
To whom, and to how, should i make my presence known?
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, agreement is the problem, there are people who think that midday is 12am, as it completes the sequence 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 12 am and similarly in the late evening - 10 pm, 11, pm, 12pm. You may be lucky never to have an interaction with one where the confusion could occur.
Perhaps if we had a zero instead of a twelve?
Simplest to follow the NPL advice, no possibility of error.
Calling a tree an arbre is not wrong, if you're speaking French, but it is likely to draw some comment if you try it for no obvious reason in your English O-level exam.
Times in foreign languages are a further minefield - Czechs will think that 'half-one' is 12:30 - half towards one - a more forward looking people.
monkey bidness
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[quote="Gramaisc, post: 206451,
Times in foreign languages are a further minefield - Czechs will think that 'half-one' is 12:30 - half towards one - a more forward looking people.[/quote]
Likevize ze Chermanz. e.g. ' halb neun' = 8:30
Times in foreign languages are a further minefield - Czechs will think that 'half-one' is 12:30 - half towards one - a more forward looking people.[/quote]
Likevize ze Chermanz. e.g. ' halb neun' = 8:30
Withnail
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Where? Who? Why? Aaargh! It makes no sense.
I guess i'm just lucky then, as i have lived my life thus far without even being aware that this was an issue.
And that NPL stuff is patently codswallop. It might make sense if time magically stopped as the clock strikes twelve', if even briefly. But it doesn't - at the B of the Bong it is already no longer twelve but some time after.
Anyway, no doubt you will find some retort but i am going to put my virtual fingers in my virtual ears coz you is doing my [expletive deleted]-ing head in.
Stafford College
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I hereby promise never again to mention the time. Unless 'never', itself constitutes a measure of time. Or of no time.
ANYWAY
Did anyone go along? Please tell me that our student was there, camera in-hand...
ANYWAY
Did anyone go along? Please tell me that our student was there, camera in-hand...
Stafford College
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Fortuitously, I was showing some visitors around the campus while filming took place. Equally fortuitously, I gather that we arrived in various locations shortly after filming had taken place. Everyone had stopped wiggling and looked very sensible. Just as well as I have no idea what I would have told the visitors had we stumbled across a number of my colleagues waving their hands above their heads and attempting to dance on the spot: "And this is where students come for advice on important subjects like finance, travel and progression to university."