18 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Yes, 

But for anyone to consider holding a Smut-Show on the Chancel of a Chapel...

 

This seems far more like something we would expect from Rosemary's Baby, or in the Exorcist, or one of those films.

 

Have these young students no sense of proportion and no perspective about accepted conduct and mores.

 

I believe they are just completely ignorant, and therefore are unable to gauge the incongruousness of their performance and their behavior.

 

It seems to be a matter of ignorance and idiocy, rather than any intentional wish to push boundaries.

They seems so lacking in education, in fact.

No sense of propriety, as if they had been raised as wolf cubs, by some surrogate wolf mother in the forest.

Not even part of the acculturated sector of the human race.

 

Truly bizarre behavior.

And, it was the administrators, seemingly, that approved their scripts?

 

 Also, I can tell you:  At Penn, even today, you would not find even one single undergrad imbecilic enough to waste their time attending, much less performing, in a skit or program such as this.  Nobody at Penn has time for such nonsense.

 

Lousy school, too, Amherst.

Not worth the inflated tuition.

And, a far overinflated sense of the worth of their school, for sure.

Go to Penn, Columbia, CalTech, MIT, but Amherst should be turned into a commune for new-age hippies...and then we should call in the Ohio Militia.

We did the same at Kent State, after all...

 

God is not real, get over it and yourself. If you were serious, you would get out of Pattaya.

1 hour ago, Will Iam Not said:

I got all the sex education I needed at Ashton-under-Lyne

 

Was that the same sex education that others received at under-the-Boardwalk?

 

7 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Was that the same sex education that others received at under-the-Boardwalk?

 

We did not have boardwalks in Lancashire, only proper cobbled streets. 555

 

1 hour ago, Presnock said:

I don't know how true that fits all the colleges/degrees but I do read that the graduating students lately are having the most difficult time finding adequate professions.  It began this downfall IMHO due to O telling all the kids that a degree was necessary and pushed loans of hundreds of thousands of US dollars that many will never be able to repay.  Too many students opted for just any degree without thinking what they might be able to do with that.  My daughter asst CEO of a medium-company interviews folks for openings at her company.  They insist that prospective hirees must have some economics in their degrees and yet none of those people she has interviewed over the past couple of years can answer even basic economics questions.  In addition, she says that ALL of the prospective interviewed folks are very unhappy with the salaries proposed so she says not many folks are being hired by her company.  She says that all those interviewed say that they could not live and survive on the salaries mentioned especially if they lived anywhere near that company.  I myself never went to college as my family could not afford it so I went into the military (and VN which began while I was in basic training).  

 

If a soldier is qualified, then the US Army will be most happy to send said soldier to Harvard, for an advanced degree, or to the War College.

The Army does not waste talent.

 

At the time you were graduating HS, the US Gov was offering tons of scholarships and no-interest loans, etc.

Those great opportunities have now almost completely dried up.

 

The US Gov does not want to educate the youth, fearing, probably, rebellion of a much more educated student body.

 

People kept in debt are happy docile people, unlike educated students with time on their hands in which to think.

 

51 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Why do you LIE so much?!?

Amherst College is ranked in the US News and World Report as second in the nation among liberal arts colleges.

Brown is a great school too.

Way too expensive? Without any doubt.

 

 

Is the US News and World Report a lying old rage then?

 

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Why do you LIE so much?!?

Amherst College is ranked in the US News and World Report as second in the nation among liberal arts colleges.

Brown is a great school too.

Way too expensive? Without any doubt.

 

Here is what I am talking about:

 

 

Concerning that garbage school, Amherst....well....

 

Compared to Top-Flight Schools.....it is about number....350...

 

But, if you love it so, then please do go.

It's all a matter of taste.

 

Some love to have sex on the alter while attending chapel services, and other might not.

 

Of course, once one graduates from Amherst, then one must spend the next decades and pay Big Bucks, just to become DE-PROGRAMMED by some shrink.

I cannot say this from personal experience.

 

However, for some, attending a school like Amherst, in a bubble, and then COMING OUT into the world of REALITY, often short-circuits these students who are not resilient enough to endure all the dissonance.

 

I would never go there.

I could not hack being separated from reality for 4 Long years.

 

 

In case we might not know, this is the meaning of QS Rankings by Subject.

Amherst is just WAY DOWN THERE in the dumps, as I said.

 

I was NOT lying.

 

Note:  It is possible that Amherst might be approaching Number ONE in fornicating, these days, however....

 

3 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

God is not real, get over it and yourself. If you were serious, you would get out of Pattaya.

 

What would make anyone think I were ever in Pattaya?

I am very serious about never having lived in Pattaya, nor have I visited Pattaya, except once for about 15 minutes, on the way somewhere else.

 

I like to...READ ABOUT....Pattaya, however...because...

Who does not?

 

13 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

God is not real, get over it and yourself. If you were serious, you would get out of Pattaya.

 

What I seem to hear you saying is that....

 

God is not dead; He's a murderer.

 

Am I right?

 

4 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

What I seem to hear you saying is that....

 

God is not dead; He's a murderer.

 

Am I right?

 

No, god is nonexistent, therefore not relevant to any ongoing conversation. Imaginary friends cannot kill anyone.

The good news, GG....if I may play a little Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce...is universities are likely going the way of the Dodo bird.

 

Education will be a choice or a pastime, once AI takes over. What could anyone possible learn that AI won't be able to do better? Engineering? Biochemistry? Particle Physics? Humans no longer need Richard Feynmans or Paul Duracs or James Clerk Maxwells. The hard work's been done.

 

Of course we probably never needed PhDs in Flaubert, except maybe to tutor other PhD wannabes in Flaubert.

 

Universities will be free and online. Learning merely for the sake of learning. All those lovely old buildings on Ivy League campuses or at Oxbridge can be turned into low cost housing or Starbucks or maybe brothels with AI androids to take care of the increasing number of Incels.

 

It's your last chance to send the kiddies off to Harvard to run up $400,000 in debt to walk out into a barista job at Starbucks....at least until a robot replaces even the baristas.

 

And think of all the paper we'll save by not needing to print resumes. Think of all the lies and hyperbole not spouted on said same resumes. People will become slightly more moral because they'll be no need to lie. Nobody will care where you got your diploma, because you won't have one. Nobody will care what you do, because you won't do anything. You'll never have a final interview with the CEO, because even the CEO is going to be replaced by AI. You and Jamie Dimon can binge watch Netflix together, as equals, munching on Doritos and scoffing down root beer.

 

We'll all have more time to create meaningless topics on forums like AN, where we can argue and verbally attack each other, all while AI does the grunt work and creates and manages a world without challenge, where we're all equally superfluous and unnecessary.

 

1 hour ago, Wingate said:

The good news, GG....if I may play a little Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce...is universities are likely going the way of the Dodo bird.

 

Education will be a choice or a pastime, once AI takes over. What could anyone possible learn that AI won't be able to do better? Engineering? Biochemistry? Particle Physics? Humans no longer need Richard Feynmans or Paul Duracs or James Clerk Maxwells. The hard work's been done.

 

Of course we probably never needed PhDs in Flaubert, except maybe to tutor other PhD wannabes in Flaubert.

 

Universities will be free and online. Learning merely for the sake of learning. All those lovely old buildings on Ivy League campuses or at Oxbridge can be turned into low cost housing or Starbucks or maybe brothels with AI androids to take care of the increasing number of Incels.

 

It's your last chance to send the kiddies off to Harvard to run up $400,000 in debt to walk out into a barista job at Starbucks....at least until a robot replaces even the baristas.

 

And think of all the paper we'll save by not needing to print resumes. Think of all the lies and hyperbole not spouted on said same resumes. People will become slightly more moral because they'll be no need to lie. Nobody will care where you got your diploma, because you won't have one. Nobody will care what you do, because you won't do anything. You'll never have a final interview with the CEO, because even the CEO is going to be replaced by AI. You and Jamie Dimon can binge watch Netflix together, as equals, munching on Doritos and scoffing down root beer.

 

We'll all have more time to create meaningless topics on forums like AN, where we can argue and verbally attack each other, all while AI does the grunt work and creates and manages a world without challenge, where we're all equally superfluous and unnecessary.

 

 

What have you against Flaubert?

I became much smitten by Madame Bovary as a young teen.

The book was not an easy read for me at that age, but it was worth the slog, for sure.

 

I have also been convinced that the majority of colleges and NON-research universities will be shuttered, and shuttered much sooner than most people imagine.

Education will be offered, primarily, on-line, especially for undergraduates, with some sort of communal arrangement for social interaction so that these poor young things do not go NUTZO, as some did during the last pandemic.

 

Only Great Universities will be preserved and reserved for graduate work, and for research.

 

Amherst cannot last much longer, and this is a good thing, just judging from the YouTube vid I posted.

 

The thing that interests me is how parents today will adapt.

For example, they are preparing their children for the traditional university experience.

However, many of these colleges and universities will no longer exist in 10 years, with an unquantifiable likelihood, at this point.

There are many Asians (many Chinese) now planning to send their children to the USA for advanced study.

They have the money to spend.

So, the prestige unis will continue to be supported.

 

I will never verbally attack other TV members, however, no matter how many great colleges bite the dust during the next decade.