Thread: WOKE...do you use this word incorrectly....or others?

Originally Posted by BradC

Not long after I arrived in Dubai I walked onto a site to be greeted with an office door marked "incharge". The occupant had "incharge" written on his helmet. He was the supervisor, but people wandering into site and asking "where is the supervisor?" were often met with a blank stare. This resulted in the inevitable "who is in charge here?". When you have > 100 nationalities of which the majority speak English as some second or third language things evolve differently.

The worst part was you had to learn what it all meant and then had to use it yourself. If I ever hear a person finish a conversation with "please do the needful ASAP" again, my head might explode.

A-S-A-P is another recent conversational "Bugsme".

Originally Posted by 4bee

That is par for the course for Coaches.

W anchor



To give 110% could put you in a Combustible Box.

It's taught at the school for "footy smarts"?

Originally Posted by Ronski

Give it your 110%.?? coaches and the like.
If using percentages, then 100 is the max, can't be 110%, does not exist.

What about volumetric efficiency in a supercharged engine?

Originally Posted by POD

What about volumetric efficiency in a supercharged engine?

Shirley that would follow exactly the same 100% is still 100% regardless of what other values one places on it.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Shirley that would follow exactly the same 100% is still 100% regardless of what other values one places on it.

SO, if I make something for $x and sell it for $x+60% of x and then find a way to make the same thing at half the cost, but sell it for the original, 60% mark-up, then that would be 120% profit, wouldn't it?

Originally Posted by 4bee

Shirley that would follow exactly the same 100% is still 100% regardless of what other values one places on it.

Yep 100% is definitely 100%- but it is not necessarily the highest possible %. 75 apples is 150% of 50 apples. a poor example. Forcing 1.5 litres of air into a cylinder of 1 litre capacity would make it 150% charged.

Originally Posted by POD

Yep 100% is definitely 100%- but it is not necessarily the highest possible %. 75 apples is 150% of 50 apples. a poor example. Forcing 1.5 litres of air into a cylinder of 1 litre capacity would make it 150% charged.

Not quite. It would be 50% overcharged.

Using percentage greater than 100% to represent a value is known as an ‘improper percentage’.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Not quite. It would be 50% overcharged.

Using percentage greater than 100% to represent a value is known as an ‘improper percentage’.

This guy reckons it depends on context

More Than 100 Percent? – The Math Doctors

But I don't know if he is woke or not.