You see, it's posts like that, that really anger me. Just because you are older, doesn't make you any better or more of a fan than I am. I've followed Hull City for as long as I can remember, which is since the early 90's. Football is my life, I can tell you (despite it's irrelevance) who has signed for Leyton Orient today, or which Triestina players are worth looking at for the sake of a Championship team (lets not go there now). I've seen TWF/ Percy come on here and post and yeah, some of it isn't agreeable, but ****, isn't that what a forum is for? If you like one sided arguments about football, then don't bother coming on. Percy is the same age as I am and I can tell you, growing up as a City fan wasn't exactly foot massages and caviar dinners for me either, I was one of only two city fans in my year out of 400. Now, I might be only 23, but I can appreciate City's history and like any other fan, have researched our history and can accept that we were, realistically, worse than other "big teams" around us. It didn't deter me, I couldn't get enough of watching Dwayne Darby and Julian Johnsson (although I am part Faroese, so I guess that's where that came from.) I always meet older city fans who state that "oh you had it easy". In fact, they apply it to everything they think relevant. Well, just because they didn't go to university doesn't make them any less of a person, just like me being born in 1988 doesn't make me any less of a City fan. I chose my path, they chose theirs. I had to make do with what I had; if that meant standing in the Kempton end wearing an overside Deano shirt, then so be it. If Percy wants to discuss his opinions on here, so be it, but I'm sick of coming on and people saying it's drivel, because some of it isn't. In fact, I think the facebook page is a bag of ****. Hence why I come on here. It's like, people scroll down looking at the posters rather than what they say and then post accordingly, rather than reading what they have to say, almost as if there was a rule that if they didn't, they would be taken behind the not606 bikesheds and fingered up the arsehole agains their will by the "bigger boys" of not606. Well, we aren't at Endeavour anymore people. I don't think anybody who posts under the Hull City board on not606 is a fake city fan, I have yet to encounter one (cue somebody posting as a fake Hull fan tomorrow). If you don't agree with the above, feel free to counter it, hell, I'll even read it, perhaps I shall reply. There isn't a single person on here whose views I haven't looked at and thought "that makes sense" - everybody is prone to a non sensical post - hell, the above is mine, and after 25 beers, I'd damn well hope it reads about as well as War and Peace in a Soviet portaloo. Or makes as much sense as that reference. Stuff off chest, cigarette lit, breathing engaged.
Percy, I normally defend your rights here but with this thread you have definitely shown yourself to be a fool, you seem to be trying to defend your position with your "intelligent" dissection of each point. It just comes across as an arrogant student who thinks they know everything but knows very little. Is that how you want to come across? It appears that you like to think because studying a maths degree makes you smart. I know hundreds of people with maths degrees and having one is no automatic qualification to be called intelligent (especially the way degrees have been dumbed down). The best thing you can do is learn some life skills, they will serve you much better. Just some advice from someone with a lot more life experience than you.
Well said, this sense of arrogance is something i've noticed in Percy's posts recently. Whether it's intentional or just used as something to wind people up i don't know, but either way it's very tedious and it's making him look a dick. I'm currently at university doing an english language degree, but this doesn't make me anymore intelligent than someone who didn't go to university, and being only 20 i lack the experience of certain life skills that people my senior do so won't claim that a degree automatically means i'm more intelligent or superior than anyone else. For me, it's not so much his views that are annoying at the moment, it's this air of arrogance and superiority he conveys in his posts and regardless of whether he's doing it intentionally or not, it's really condescending and annoying and needs to stop.
The steak pie from Jones the butcher in Preston is highly recommended. He also sells pots of gravy which is made with the drippings from the meat. Had one for our tea the other night - delicious!
I think it's quite clear from the way Percy writes on this board that he thinks he's a superior intellectual, yet makes constant attempts to try and appear as if he's joking.
I think it's unfair to say degree's have been 'dumbed down', but let's be realistic, as admirable as it is that Percy has got into a University, he's not at Oxbridge or UCL.
these days a degree really means squat, just a piece of paper showing you can step up further in your learning and i'm saying that as someone with a degree... not done me a lot of good
My 2/1 was (and is) worth diddly! Best thing about Uni was finding a few good mates and getting interested in things other than my degree....
Now a degree these days might not be what it used to be as far as getting a job but a Phd in the right field can get you some serious cash when you enter the job market. Any kind of engineering Phd will let you start at at least 100 k a year. I like the way this thread is shaping up we have covered a lot of topics
It would be impossible to get a job in the Computer Science Industry without a degree. A 2:1 is a minimum requirement plus experience in various things you don't even learn at Uni, you have to learn them yourself.
Are you in the computer science industry Sirius? If you are I might have someone you should meet when I get to Hull.
As someone who's starting a degree in September, I also agree that degrees have been devalued, not by 'dumbing down', but by an increase in the number of places available to students. My point regarding Percy was more that you still have to be reasonably smart to do a degree (and at least he's not doing Fashion Retail) and reasonably hard-working, but that his arrogance was unwarranted because he's not at bloody Cambridge.
