3 years at university studying Geology...
...and I found myself working for a company digging cassiterite (SNO2) out of the ground in a God forsaken part of Bolivia. I wouldn't mind but everyone there had the tact of a pork salesman at a Jewish wedding. Some poor sod got crushed in a sub surface rock fall and they all thought it was hilarious!

I wasn't amused. I was quite friendly with a minor government official who had a thing for British food(!) and we hung around together. I told him about this sort of thing - complained about the safety of the place and how people treated the death of workers with insensitivity and stupidity.

He thought it was funny too - even told the story to lots of his mates in his department...who ALSO thought it was funny.

That's when I realised I was in a pro-crass `tin' nation.
(Audax Victor, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 17:28, 6 replies)

Don't you mean
SnO2?
(sailorspoon started wiping his own arse from, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 18:53, closed)

Always one...
Pedunt!
(Audax Victor, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 19:02, closed)

SnOT
It's a green, runny substance.

Ning, Dax. How's it going over there?
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 17 Nov 2008, 20:24, closed)

That is actually a real chemical
tin(i)tritium oxide
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 23:52, closed)

ah...I was wondering wtf
SNO2 was.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 17 Nov 2008, 21:10, closed)

And even then
its still not even tin its tin(iv)oxide
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 23:50, closed)