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Laelia · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:02 pm

Aestu wrote:

Usdk wrote:

except joklem has achievements under his belt

Yes, you do have to go to college to understand what a joke a PhD (and those for whom it is their only accomplishment) is.

It depends what you mean by "a joke". Completing a PhD is a tremendous amount of work, even if it doesn't require an exceptional level of ability.

Aestu · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:11 pm

Laelia wrote:

It depends what you mean by "a joke". Completing a PhD is a tremendous amount of work, even if it doesn't require an exceptional level of ability.

So is coal mining.

Usdk · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:29 pm

A nerve, it has been struck.

Laelia · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:44 pm

Aestu wrote:

Laelia wrote:

It depends what you mean by "a joke". Completing a PhD is a tremendous amount of work, even if it doesn't require an exceptional level of ability.

So is coal mining.

Would you describe coal mining as a joke of a job? What qualifies a task as "a joke" to you?

Aestu · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:49 pm

Laelia wrote:

Would you describe coal mining as a joke of a job? What qualifies a task as "a joke" to you?

Being a soup chef isn't necessarily a joke, but it becomes one when taken out of any proportion.

Having a PhD isn't necessarily a joke, but it becomes one when wearing it as a badge of intellectual superiority.

Laelia · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:53 pm

Aestu wrote:

Laelia wrote:

Would you describe coal mining as a joke of a job? What qualifies a task as "a joke" to you?

Being a soup chef isn't necessarily a joke, but it becomes one when taken out of any proportion.

Having a PhD isn't necessarily a joke, but it becomes one when wearing it as a badge of intellectual superiority.

That's reasonable, but it's a bit of a leap from there to your earlier blanket statement "what a joke a PhD is".

dek · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:12 pm

coal mining can be fun

Usdk · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:17 pm

Laelia · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:17 pm

dek wrote:

coal mining can be fun

It also pays better than getting a PhD.

Azelma · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:56 pm

Usdk wrote:

/thread

Love this song. My brother and I listen to it while we lift - because we are manly men.

Yuratuhl · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:24 pm

dek wrote:

coal mining can be fun

expected a minecraft picture

Joklem · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:40 pm

I don't have it yet, and I can firmly say that doctoral studies & research in physics (whatever your specialization/research area may be) has no "joke" attached anywhere near it.

edit: I guess I'd have to "flunk out" and join the "internet quacks community" to understand the "joke".

Jushiro · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:57 pm

Laelia wrote:

dek wrote:

coal mining can be fun

It also pays better than getting a PhD.

I want a masters, idk about a PhD masters is enough work. buh

Quittermike · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:51 pm

Aestu wrote:

Usdk wrote:

except joklem has achievements under his belt

Yes, you do have to go to college to understand what a joke a PhD (and those for whom it is their only accomplishment) is.

157 mounts though...

Jubbergun · **Posted:** Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:32 am

Aestu wrote:

Being a soup chef isn't necessarily a joke, but it becomes one when taken out of any proportion.

I think you might have meant "soux chef."

Also, I actually was the SOUP CHEF for an Admiral for a while, and let me tell you, that was SRS FCKN BZNS. Though he took me golfing once a week, so that was pretty good.

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