Defend the indefensible: Josie Long

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See, you think science (and the people associated with it) is "uncool". I just think I got my entire teenage years wrong as a result of a chance encounter with a bunch of socially-retarded fun-hating kids with pushy parents and no-one wise to tell me that I couldn't be somewhere inbetween smart and popular, and not being mature enough to suss it out for myself. Years of actually being a grown-up have taught me where I went wrong, and have let me redress the balance.

But hey, you're the one with the social *and* the academic skills.

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ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

That's an incorrect ZING.

Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Dave Gorman is marvellous, except that horoscopes programme he did on the telly which was rubbish.

ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't saying I was right in thinking that! Notice the quotation marks around 'uncool'. My perception of science THEN was 'uncool'; this was I realise now a petty, small-minded and lamentable attitude. Although most of the fun-haters were scientists.

Anyway, Ailsa, didn't we promise not to have any more arguments about education? :(

You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan
he's not easily impressible, what with being a Jandek fan

Dedicated to Jaggers Who Do Drive-Bys (noodle vague), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but you use "cool" without scare quotes in the next sentence. Also, you use scare quotes.

(I didn't promise anything. And this isn't an argument. Or about education.)

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ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Cool without 'scare quotes' indicates that they were genuinely awesome, well-rounded people.

You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

New College = St. John's Cambridge equivalent, then? Rah-rah we've-got-more-dosh-than-you exclusivism?

no, more... 'fast' than that. less old skool public school.
rah-rah we've-got-more-cocaine-than-you exclusivism.

st john's cambridge ox equiv = st john's oxford.

EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link


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