English: "I already learnt english at school, hur hur"
Maths: "I already know maths. 2+2=4, hur hur hur"
Physics/chemistry: "Oh, brainbox now eh? Mad scientist eh hur hur hur"
Philosophy: "What are you gonna do with that then? hur hur hur"/"so you just gonna sit around all day and think then? hur hur hur"
Any foreign language: "Why would you want to? Everywhere speaks English already"
Geography: "Oh can't you read a map then? hur hur hur"
Anything involving computers: "Yeah, that's good that. You'll need that, everywhere uses computers nowadays"
Any more?
Psychology:
I bet you know what I'm thinking hur hur
^ actually heard this
it's largely because of the public perceptions
of psychology thanks to media cunts, Big Brother producer and consultant fannies and that Linda Popadopolis twat.
Science should be represented in the media
but only if it is going to truthfully represent the discipline.
^Pondering starting a thread
but better to just argue with myself here
paging Dr Raj Persaud
:)
What a twat.
ooh look
all my derogatory terms are derived from words for female genitalia.
I hate women clearly
^conclusions of a media psychologist
please stop posting
^this
why you...
why i oughta
I can't help noticing
your right foot is at a 7-10 angle to your left foot. This means you're guilty about what you had for breakfast.
Pamela Stephenson Connolly
and the only one even leaning to solemnity - Dr Raj - has disgraced himself!
Music: 'Ha'
.
"Film Studies?!
You gonna sit around watching Ben Hur Hur Hur are ya?!
:D
when everyone knows you
really sit round watching Un Chien Andalou.
Followed by Air Bud 2
I think it's the one where he plays hockey.
I
just actualol'd!
:D
Law:
You must be really smart.
well...they got that one right :)
and evil
. :)
law
-i'll be in touch next time i'm nicked then...hur hur hur
-actually i'm doing commercial law
-just in it for the money then are ya?
does anyone assume people doing law are smart?
my sweeping generalisation
would be unimaginative.
PS I don't think all law students are, some of my best friends are lawyers etc.
I think I'm smart
the evidence probably tends to tilt the balance the other way tho.
Hope not
only person in my year to get an offer for oxford/cambridge got it for law and thought the famous film was called "Forest Dump".
so what?
probably didn't come up in the interview though, in fairness
Yeah, but still.
she got in due to her major Knowledge VS Wisdom imbalance on the side of knowledge.
Student DeathMatch: Facts vs. Thoughts - The Final Showdown
what, she HAS knowledge?
but forrest gump/dump lies in the realm of wisdom?
she has all that knowledge because she doesn't sit around watching tom hanks all day.
no
well then i am happy that
the future judiciary system is in the hand of the wise
law = greed
its obviously going to be very boring and they didnt know what else to do, so £ was the prime motivation for doing it.
but yeah you have to be semi smart.
Law wasn't boring!
I liked doing Law!
uh huh
:)
why do you have to be smarter than for
most other subjects?
Answer: you don't. In fact lots of lawyers are not at allparticularly bright by any worthwhile definition. The discipline leaves little scope for imagination (instead being about a very rigorous but rigid way of doing things) which is why most of the smart people get bored of it and bugger off and do other things.
and there's tons of scope for imagination
unless you end up in some shit area of law where you fill in th same forms every day...but why would i want to do that?
what area do you work in?
currently construction
(i'm still training)
but it's all about coming up with solutions to problems which vary greatly from project to project...
i chose the degree
because it was interesting and something i wanted to study...
i ended up with the career because i really enjoyed the degree...
it's really not about the money...my starting salary is not as amazing as everyone assumes it'd be...
my mate kept saying the same thing
about his starting salary. And it's true that the starting salary tends to be pretty low. But then he was also making LOADS of money from being on call as a duty solicitor
well that's great for him
but i'm not doing criminal law so i won't have the on-call work...i'm going to be working very hard for my money...and sure it will get better, but if i was after making tons of money rather than doing something i liked i'd have gone into banking...
lawyers = greedy is a very lazy stereotype these days...
it's a parasitic industry though
but yeah that doesn't implicate all lawyers
in my experience, yes
doesn't mean it's true though
Politics:
"Oh you gonna be prime minister then? hur hur hur hur hurt me"
^THIS
Politics
So you gonna be the next prime minister then hur hur
oh my god
Bloody hell
I had that said to me so many times during my A Levels.
Still, the fact that we said almost exactly the same thing...:|
Are you though?
Yes!
And I'm doing a shit, shit job. Sorry about that.
Did you go to that gig last night Gaz? Any good?
no I didn't
I was in work til 3am :(
Thats rough
3am? Ouch.
^ this this this
you're being pretty hard
on layman
or you live in some sort of idiot commune...
my thoughts exactly
it's ok he reads books and likes music so is obviously smarter than all the other proles out there.
those could be my thoughts
but i have absolutely no idea what you just said.
Medicine:
'Can you have a look at my back then, doc? hur hur hur'
History
Why do you wanna learn about the Romans it's all about the future hur hur hur
or if you're anything like my mum
she'll be talking about something that happened in the 70s or in a costume drama on tv and be like, "you should know all this, you do History, hur hur"
and you're all like, yeah mum, but you were THERE
:D first actualol of the day
Engineering:
"can you fix my car then?"
Not all laymen are stupid, but
Medicine: “Oh, have you got a moment, I got this really bad rash…”
And my personal favourite,
Architecture: “Ponce”
English
"So you're gonna be a teacher then?"
haha
'MEEJA STUDIEZ'
That's an elaborate way of getting a job in a warehouse!
Media
"So you don't want to do a real degree then? (hur hur hur)"
Golf Course Management
"Suppose you like golf courses then hur hur hur"
JUST FUCK OFF!
any arts degree
"yeah that's a knitting and politics degree, mate"
Finance
YAWN. hur hur hur.
They wouldn't be far from the truth though.
Chemical Engineering
"What's that?"
Sociology: ".........(blank.expression)......"
see also Classics
I'm reading Travel Brochures at the University of Lunn
formerly Lunn Poly
^ I love that joke
i study a subject
that's only done at about six unis in the country thus I get blank responses anytime I mention it. It's painful. Considering three of those handful of unis are Oxford, UCL and KCL, it's even more painful. At least people know what Philosophy etc is!
what is it?
you can try guessing if you want
I don't want to have to explain what it is on the internet like I have to do in everyday life. EVERYDAY. Hint#2: It's a BSc.
just the title will suffice
PPP?
philology?
?
human sciences?
?
we have a
winner.
So what's Human Sciences, then?
medical engineering?
Accounting?
Journalism
All I got was "Ooh, watch out".
I don't know what that means...?
chronic unemployability
don't EVER
tell someone who's doing a chemical engineering degree what course you do.
it gets any one of the above responses, in my experience.
'geography? HOW COME YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE ---- IS?
WHERE'S THE RIVER ----- SAM?huh?thought you'd know, you do geography.
no i don't know, and frankly i don't care'
transcript of a thousand 1st year conversations.
cunts.
i study geography!
i get a lot of 'colouring in maps' jokes and 'whats the capital of [come obscure country]...which they never know themselves.
i don't like it!
*some
.
^this
x10000000
Politics and American studies
General politics jokes combined with "obesity and guns, isnt it?" or questions about Obama/McCain/Clinton, which I cant be fucked to answer because they are usually based on incorrect assumptions about 'democracy' or 'race'.
Oh so there is another American Studies student on DiS,
I thought I was the only one. Yeah, I get a lot of that telling people what degree I do, along with the usual, "well what career can you go into at the end of it?" type of befuddlement from a lot of people who don't seem to understand that university isn't about a good career, it's about studying something you enjoy. Life isn't about £££s (something which a lot accounting and/or business students I know somehow fail to grasp).
you should meet
you are both quite cute too.
and is that last part a dig at my "i want a job that pays £40k+" rant on friday?
Economics
"What's that all about then?"
Me: "erm..."
or
"Suppose that's something to do with the economy is it?"
Technical Theatre
one of these three, always:
-"OH YOU LOVIE LOL"
-"YOU GONNA GO AND BE A STAR IN HOLLYWOOD ARE YOU!?"
-"... oh right."
i'm just gonna start telling people i'm taking english. no one ever questions english.
whats technical theatre
is it like working behind the scenes and such?
Whenever I say I'm doing an art degree
I get one of two responses, either, so you don't want a job then, you're happy with becoming a tramp etc or "oh you must be pretty deep then"
I think I prefer the first one to be honest.
The other day someone asked me if I had an "artist's heart" Yeah, I've got Picasso's in a jar in my bedroom love. Twats. I really really dread anyone asking me.
Also if I say what I want to go on to do (theatre design) people seem always seem to think I want to build theatres. I don't, for the record.
Why not?
Suppose it's beneath you, yeah?
being a bellend again?
;-)
I've found my calling
Zoology:
"So are you going to be a zoo keeper?"
"Business Degree ay?
Somekind of Del Boy now are you hur hur fucking hur"