How does one decide to get their PhD in Romantic Comedies?

January 25, 2019, 06:29 PM

sigcrazy7

quote:
Originally posted by jljones:
That’s ok. I have a PhD in Bruce Willis flicks.

My dissertation was called “Yippie Ki yay Motherfucker”

Ha! With an undergraduate emphasis on Dumb and Dumber quotes.

“What was all that one-in-a-million talk back there?”

January 25, 2019, 06:38 PM

Gustofer

quote:
Originally posted by Chris42:
Masters Degree in Philosophy.

I still don’t know what you do with that...

Teach.

January 25, 2019, 06:43 PM

sjtill

I actually know a young guy who does exactly that, at a community college. He didn't want to "sell out" by getting a PhD or something like that.
Yes, he's still single at 36 or so.
His parents are friends; they pretend to be OK with it.
He wouldn't listen to them.

January 26, 2019, 05:44 AM

mrvmax

quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
quote:
Originally posted by Chris42:
Masters Degree in Philosophy.

I still don’t know what you do with that...

Teach.

That’s my first choice but there are still places that will hire for positions with unrelated degrees. One of my previous HR reps had her degree in psychology, she got into those jobs out of college and is still working in that area.

January 26, 2019, 12:25 PM

phydough

Maybe universities should offer degrees in Common Sense.

Nah, that'd make sense, teaching something that should come naturally.

January 26, 2019, 12:30 PM

TigerDore

quote:
Originally posted by phydough:
Maybe universities should offer degrees in Common Sense.

Nah, that'd make sense, teaching something that should come naturally.

It would be very hard to find professors.

.

January 26, 2019, 12:47 PM

Scooter123

quote:
Originally posted by mark123:
I'm just wondering what the thought process is. To dedicate the time and money into something that can never be of use or benefit mankind is boggling.

Someone that got laid off from the Huffington Post opinion column (a leftist echo chamber) tweeted her sadness of losing her job and stated she has a "literal PhD in Romantic Comedies". I thought it was an exaggerating but it isn't. She actually did her dissertation on chick flicks.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/chl...ew-rom-com-heroines/

They tell me the wage gap had nothing to do with career choice though.

All that and she still doesn't understand the difference between Literal and Literary. Hell I would have fired her just for not understanding the difference.

Sad to see that Universities today are no longer even a tiny bit concerned about Education and instead are simply collecting "rent" and providing Evidence (or perhaps Provenance) that their students have been fully Brainwashed.

January 26, 2019, 01:20 PM

oddball

quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
quote:
Originally posted by Chris42:
Masters Degree in Philosophy.

I still don’t know what you do with that...

Teach.

Reminds me of something Frank Zappa wrote in his autobiography. The only job that kids who major in Music Composition will get is teaching, wearing tweed jackets with leather elbow patches, smoking a pipe, praying for tenure, and spreading the disease to the next clueless victim.

_{"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965}

January 26, 2019, 05:44 PM

whanson_wi

The course work in the Common Sense pipeline would be fun to try. The professor would sound like Jeff Foxworthy, talking about putting a 600 pound television set on a TV tray...

January 31, 2019, 08:18 AM

joel9507

quote:
Originally posted by Chris42:
Masters Degree in Philosophy.

I still don’t know what you do with that...

Well, one would hope, with that one thinks clearly.

Though, there are strains in philosophy that try to convince the weak-minded that logic is worthless, that thinking clearly is a pipe dream, that knowledge is impossible and reality does not exist...

Thus, the qualifier 'one would hope' above - a Masters in that kind of philosophy wouldn't help clear thinking much.

January 31, 2019, 08:31 AM

darthfuster

Wants a PhD. Doesn't have the intellect for a real one.

January 31, 2019, 09:30 AM

rsbolo

"For the last three years I've been LITERALLY wasting my time while pretending to be scholarly."

I used to just love it when people would claim PhD abd... ALL BUT DISSERTATION. So really you've completed a few classes and are claiming a PhD that you have not earned!? STFU.

January 31, 2019, 01:31 PM

Sgt Neutron

quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
A candidate for one of the most highly educated baristas at Starbucks.

But she'll still screw up my Double Frappé, single half-soy, half-almond mocha, exactly 6 cubes of ice.