M.a. From Cambridge

[ProfessorFart]

Oh dear still smarting from our last encounter are we?

No Boris. Merely enjoying the fact that one who claims to be a Cambridge graduate, and one who 'has never beeen a teacher' is wallowing here in the depths with those who may have once been to Pattaya or indeed drunk a lager in Thailand!

I still note that for your 'Cambridge' education you still can't punctuate.

Troll!

Or would you care to prove me otherwise?

Or will you just resort to insults about where I live and where I go on holiday whilst ignoring the fact you have been defeated in the debate again?

[boris]

Oh dear still smarting from our last encounter are we?

No Boris. Merely enjoying the fact that one who claims to be a Cambridge graduate, and one who 'has never beeen a teacher' is wallowing here in the depths with those who may have once been to Pattaya or indeed drunk a lager in Thailand!

I still note that for your 'Cambridge' education you still can't punctuate.

Troll!

Or would you care to prove me otherwise?

Or will you just resort to insults about where I live and where I go on holiday whilst ignoring the fact you have been defeated in the debate again?

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Why don't we leave it to others to decide who has won the argument since you and I will never agree.What was the argument by the way? Don't take it too seriously.I'm not a troll but I do enjoy a mild tease from time to time, especially when the target rises to the bait so predictably.And, yes, there is a mildly comic side to places like Pattaya and "vibrant multicultural" Tottenham, gateway to the North to borrow from that old Peter Seller riff.I agree my punctuation's not great but do you know I wasn't taught it at Cambridge but at my rather rough primary school.Yes I am wallowing in the depths to use your own rather good expression.I've never claimed to be other than I am.Shall we call it a day before we bore ourselves and everbody else rigid.

[ProfessorFart]

Fair enuf Boz!!

[astral]

Well of course they and graduates of other elite universities(Harvard,Yale,Oxford etc) are just human beings and have no moral superiority...............

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Since it is these people who make up the government in the USA,

I doubt their entire moral base...................

[boris]

Well of course they and graduates of other elite universities(Harvard,Yale,Oxford etc) are just human beings and have no moral superiority...............

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Since it is these people who make up the government in the USA,

I doubt their entire moral base...................

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Can you make your point in an articulate manner or is this just more Chang charged drivel?

[Sully]

Well of course they and graduates of other elite universities(Harvard,Yale,Oxford etc) are just human beings and have no moral superiority...............

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Since it is these people who make up the government in the USA,

I doubt their entire moral base...................

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Can you make your point in an articulate manner or is this just more Chang charged drivel?

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Yeah we're all doomed so gimme some of whatever it is they're drinking...

Sully

Columbia Univ.

[mijan24]

Considering we are completely off track and the banter has turned to "one upmanship" I would use this opportunity to refer to an old classmate who having joined the Aust Army as an Apprentice rose to the rank of Brigadier without an MA or even a BA but purely on ABILITY.

Much to the disgust of the snooty nose brigade when discussions such as this arose he was never backward in calling for "quite" and informing one and all they should never forget "We all sit down to sh*t". Some may consider this to be crass but others may recognise it for its levelling value!!

Regards to all

Mijan24

[boris]

Considering we are completely off track and the banter has turned to "one upmanship" I would use this opportunity to refer to an old classmate who having joined the Aust Army as an Apprentice rose to the rank of Brigadier without an MA or even a BA but purely on ABILITY.

Much to the disgust of the snooty nose brigade when discussions such as this arose he was never backward in calling for "quite" and informing one and all they should never forget "We all sit down to sh*t". Some may consider this to be crass but others may recognise it for its levelling value!!

Regards to all

Mijan24

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What's your point of your commonplace little anecdote? There are many distinguished officers who rose from the ranks in many armies.Bill Slim (WW2 hero)was one but there are many others.They rightly have the respect of all.It's only in recent years that army officers have tended to take university degrees anyway.

[PeaceBlondie]

There are many distinguished officers who rose from the ranks in many armies.Bill Slim (WW2 hero)was one but there are many others.They rightly have the respect of all.It's only in recent years that army officers have tended to take university degrees anyway.

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Maybe the British and Australian armies have had lower entrance requirements for the 'recent years' but the USAF has required a full bachelor's degree before commissioning any officer, since at least 1965, and all the other branches of the US military took suit by 1970 or 1975. Many have earned a master's before or after commissioning.

I suspect "MA from Cambridge" is a complete phony. That sort of thing's easy on the internet and sometimes even works in Thailand for years without the ditchdigger from Birmingham getting caught. There's no way to prove or disprove a degree without blowing your anonymity completely.

[boris]

There are many distinguished officers who rose from the ranks in many armies.Bill Slim (WW2 hero)was one but there are many others.They rightly have the respect of all.It's only in recent years that army officers have tended to take university degrees anyway.

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Maybe the British and Australian armies have had lower entrance requirements for the 'recent years' but the USAF has required a full bachelor's degree before commissioning any officer, since at least 1965, and all the other branches of the US military took suit by 1970 or 1975. Many have earned a master's before or after commissioning.

I suspect "MA from Cambridge" is a complete phony. That sort of thing's easy on the internet and sometimes even works in Thailand for years without the ditchdigger from Birmingham getting caught. There's no way to prove or disprove a degree without blowing your anonymity completely.

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I think most British army officers have degrees these days but the trend is relatively recent(as from what you say it is in the United States).Sandhurst was effectively the army training college.Winston Churchill for example attended Sandhurst but not university.I'm not sure that a full bachelors degree in the US means a great deal unless one knows the university concerned.Some of the state universities are truly dreadful:obviously the major schools are the best in the world but the military may only attract a few from ivy league schools.

If you read the thread carefully you would see that I don't regard a Cambridge M.A as a big deal.As to my attendance you will have to take it on trust although it doesn't really matter one way or the other

[mijan24]

Boris

Everyone to their own way of thinking, I suggest if you can not see the learning from my little dit it may relate to a severe case of " Tunnel Vision".

Your reference to "recent years" is of course straight off the top of the head which probably identifies two items of little substance.

Mijan24

There are many distinguished officers who rose from the ranks in many armies.Bill Slim (WW2 hero)was one but there are many others.They rightly have the respect of all.It's only in recent years that army officers have tended to take university degrees anyway.

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Maybe the British and Australian armies have had lower entrance requirements for the 'recent years' but the USAF has required a full bachelor's degree before commissioning any officer, since at least 1965, and all the other branches of the US military took suit by 1970 or 1975. Many have earned a master's before or after commissioning.

I suspect "MA from Cambridge" is a complete phony. That sort of thing's easy on the internet and sometimes even works in Thailand for years without the ditchdigger from Birmingham getting caught. There's no way to prove or disprove a degree without blowing your anonymity completely.

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I think most British army officers have degrees these days but the trend is relatively recent(as from what you say it is in the United States).Sandhurst was effectively the army training college.Winston Churchill for example attended Sandhurst but not university.I'm not sure that a full bachelors degree in the US means a great deal unless one knows the university concerned.Some of the state universities are truly dreadful:obviously the major schools are the best in the world but the military may only attract a few from ivy league schools.

If you read the thread carefully you would see that I don't regard a Cambridge M.A as a big deal.As to my attendance you will have to take it on trust although it doesn't really matter one way or the other

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[Ijustwannateach]

Could we close this thread or move it to the Hong Kliay whatever thingy? It hasn't even been in the neighborhood of On-

Topic for many posts now....

"Steven"