Holmes_and_Watson

"No Weston. The bottle of whisky isn't to help with your pain. We find being blind drunk helps with the surgeon's guilt. Now, let the sawbones do her work."

Turns out that's just a romance scam to get engineers over to France to fix things, while locked in captivity.

Yup. Different life paths. circumstances and drives also make a huge difference. That results in loads of talented people with all sorts of backgrounds and academic achievements.

A quite scathing, but not always, review of Nolan's film from a translator of Homer's work. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man I think her translation was mentioned as being excellent by the Rest is History podcast.

Thanks for letting me have my grump. I enjoyed that. 🙂 I've found "intelligence" to mean different things over the years, particularly when having to be applied. Focus, wisdom, attitude, willpower, resilience, communication and retention all intertwine too, resulting in a useful skillset. I've known people who were very intelligent, but in a very focused way. They suffered academically and in the workplace. I've known plenty of others with great qualifications who I'd not ask to turn on a light. I'm sure we've all met people falling I to different categories. My point being that intelligence is not enough on it's own, and really has a broader definition. Also, that Big School courses aren't necessarily the best places to not only show intelligence, but to show that you'll be useful in a working environment. I see that 2 of the 3 professions have already been noted, by yourself as not really needing a degree. I'd argue that Doctors really have their own graduate/post graduate/specialty pathway that is distinct from a lot of other courses. Putting myself back in grump mode, apart from unis being based for the elite, the intelligent and/or for key professions, I do agree that the shift in focus is a good step. 🙂

Fluid mechanics? Internet Architecture?

Narcotic

Welcome to SaintsWeb, Locationremot4! 🙂

As proof I'm only in the centrist club because my views cancel out, that pushed my inner socialist button. 🙂 Who are these elite people for whom university should be for? Firstly, I have a button that rejects "elite" on principal. Thirdly, (inside SaintsWeb gag, from when @Matthew Le God was telling us how smart he was, only to not be able to count to two.) Secondly, what are the key professions, and is university the best place for people to get the key skills for those professions? Thirdly, is a personal anecdote. When I was at Big School, I had to do a day release at a technical college for a while, as they were building new labs. The people on the similar courses there were brighter and more technically minded. They were the people you'd actually depend on, if you wanted something done, over our lot. Even then Big Schools were more concerned with their own profits than courses. In the times I've been back, that's only accelerated. There are "pointless degrees" and there are also plenty of seemingly useful ones, that aren't fit for purpose. It's been an industry for a long time now. Burnham's focus on technical skills are welcome. But it's just part of a needed overhaul.

That time they won the league?

Not having BAME elves and dwarves because "Middle earth was always about a collection of developed people and cultures" came across unintentionally badly. 🙂 I've not seen it, so have no opinion on it's qualities. A quick peek showed a lot of criticism on a ton of differences to source material. But I'm reading that the Tolkien estate didn't give Amazon the rights. So they're basing the show on fragments they do have access to. That they ploughed on, was going to open them up to a lot of flak. Lots of criticism on the plotting, writing, acting etc. which you'd get with lots of shows. Personal taste or objectively well or badly executed. Having characters justify their casting in character is really clunky. Nothing derails a million fantasy worlds and RPGs more than a cut scene to the Orc town, where the little ones ask when daddy is coming home. "Well, those elves are sending scouting parties through our lands, pretending they're on a quest again." "Mommy? Didn't the elves kill all their non-white people?" "That's right son. They're not tolerant like we are. Although they say there's a lone, black one now." "Is that like a Dark Elf, a race always portrayed as evil in fantasy because of their skin colour?" You just don't know your elven lore. 🙂 Fantasy only begins with imagination. After that it's shackled to canon by gatekeepers.

Tell me about it. I read the news in my Fererro Rocher home in horror. Only the sell by dates of each room can help me now.

If it's a Lego house you build, how much tax will you be paying on it? 🙂

I've not seen many of those. Female Ghostbusters - Their marketing campaign on the radio labelled it a feminist take on the original. Not funny, not good in it's own right. Just feminist. So, I missed it as being shown a bandwagon instead of a film isn't for me. I saw it years later. It wasn't that good. I remember one good performance, and not from the person trying too hard to be funny. Star Wars - The pain of sitting through those is partly why I was so pleased to enjoy The Odyssey. No idea about the casting of Star Wars. The poor plots and hours of fan service sunk them for me. Doctor Who - No doubt leaving sprinkles of LGBTQ+ stardust as the TARDIS skips through BBC spacetime. 🙂 Trotting out everyone for a nod was a low point in a Russell Davies series that I was bored with. Nothing to do with the casting. Mark Gattiss watched all the same films growing up, so the writing on those episodes just reminds me of the better plots his are from. I only saw one Jodie Whittaker episode. Trying too hard to be Tennant, but had good moments, so can't judge. The last one I saw, with Gatwa, had a drag queen as a villain, and a musical number at the end. And it was fun.

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