studying for uk residency

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

"A referendum was called"

BY WHOM. WHO CALLED IT

THIS IS IN MY ACTUAL MEMORY. I WATCHED IT LIVE

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@nina_kali_nina yep and i fully intend to use that

[uint8_t@chaos.social]

@whitequark this book is quite nationalist and biased, compared to the equivalent german test (which is a few-hundred question multiple-choice test of rather basic facts about the federal republic as of today, with a bit of history)

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@whitequark It's giving me flashbacks to a course on my masters, where the exam was pick two of three essay questions, all of which basically read: "agree with the prejudices of the lecturer on the following subject".

Kind of hard, given that I disagreed so much with everything he uttered in that course, if he'd walked in and said "nice day outside", I'd have looked out the window to check...

[ingalovinde@embracing.space]

@jsbarretto @whitequark long ago, the four machines (the steam machine, the air machine, the cash machine and the Turing machine) lived in peace. Everything changed when the Turing machine attacked.

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@uint8_t it's genuinely pissing me off to read it

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@whitequark good luck! The actual test used to be a fair bit easier than the textbook, with many answers having obvious (but still incorrect) answers. Like, IIRC there was "what kind of bird humans traditionally eat on Christmas in the UK?" with "Turkey" as the expected answer ;/

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

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[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@uint8_t @whitequark the us naturalization test accepts "states' rights" as a reason for the civil war but it's not this off-putting in general

[robert@irrelevant.me.uk]

@whitequark
As a Brit, even, I'm embarrassed by this..

[mini_ninja_64@chaos.social]

@whitequark this reminds me of the wierd "british values" clause stuff they brought in to education at some point

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@nina_kali_nina @whitequark "Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat".

[aryl@mastodon.social]

@whitequark technically if you count the 2-3 unemployed guys pretending to be a new IRA offshoot that does nothing but petty street squabbles with local crime it's correct

[aryl@mastodon.social]

@whitequark swear there was some weird RW irish astroturf thing about an anti-drug chudded IRA

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

i can't read this any more i have to go do something less aggravating

[chuckmcmanis@chaos.social]

@whitequark Wait, the British invented the structure of DNA? Wow, all this time I thought that was invented long before mammals even walked the Earth, much less drank tea.

[ignaloidas@not.acu.lt]

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems honestly a bit wild to me that a "biased history quiz" is a requrement

Here it's a quiz on the constitution (generally free), and a language exam (the actual hard part because it's quite hard to even learn the basics).

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@ckape have you watched Hellsing?

[girgias@phpc.social]

@whitequark yeah GL with that my Hungarian gf did it last year. It's definitely weird. She acquired a "copy" that was referring to the King as: "her majesty King Charles" which shows the level of care that went into the contents

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@ckape it inexplicably has a better appreciation for the differences between Catholics and Protestants than most of the western media i happened to watch until that point