I liked the part where he said
Oh, never mind.
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Ha! Well screwed that joke up.
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The word “beeef” has now lost all meaning to me. Beaf?
I’m guessing it had been a long conference.
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While this professor was apparently fine with both the recording and the posting, for some of us this is one of the most annoying parts of classes moving online. Producing several lectures/week is difficult enough when you can be casual in a live classroom and not think about the possibility of a verbal tic or worse being preserved for perpetuity.
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It’s what’s for dinner, dammit!
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In a book by Dave Eggers or someone like that, a character mentions training themselves to stall by saying “now” (rather than “so”, “um” or “well”), on the grounds that “now” sounds decisive and active, and it’s easier than not using stalling words at all.
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I think we found where the beef is.
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Just a thought, maybe the professor said BEEF so often because the he wanted to debug his presentations later?
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The hide. This angus me. Bet he was trying to flesh his presentation out - I’ll waygu a dollar for a dime.Tho, maybe he just wanted to be certain his audience herd. They should take a pol on it.
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I’ve thought the same about Brits who start a lot of sentences with “Right!”
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When I started giving training lessons, I talked to an experienced trainer. He told me “At any given moment, I reckon about 10% of the class is asleep, 10% is paying attention, and 80% are thinking about sex. It’s a real privilege, having a job where you make 80% of your audience so happy.”
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Well, what the thing is, is that, in my experience, the British Sentence Opening Gambit is, “Well, what the thing is, is…”
@VeronicaConnor If I’m not being too forward, what is the name of your YouTube channel?
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Oh wow, I feel this soooo hard (pun probably not intended). I had a feeling I overused ‘so’ at the start of sentences, but when I had to do a couple of pieces to camera (not my favourite thing) last year in the first lockdown, I almost wouldn’t let them be used. Unfortunately there was no time to re-record with the press guys interviewing me so they ‘aired’ as planned.
The only consolation was that when I mentioned this to cow-orkers, they thought it was all fine and couldn’t see what I was fretting about 
Regarding the article video, I lost it at “Nothing but beef” 
Now, I have a hankering for some Rich Beef Sausages.
Is there any chance that halloween costume was of a numberjack?
sorry, I couldn’t help it
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Pure teutonic king of a giant herculean hamburger, beef carcass with a few more steaks. The Mighty Hamburger.
Is this gonna beef on the exam?
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My wife has now heard me on a lot of Zoom calls, and apparently mine is “like say…”
@xkot I’m glad you commented, I almost didn’t watch. The comic timing and choices around adding in additional words and pauses was pretty great. I can’t wait for the autotuned / musical remix.
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