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Most Useless Profession

  • 25-07-2012 11:26PM
    #1
    boo3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭


    Ok i don't know how many of ye are familiar with the book 'A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' (it's brilliant) but there's an idea in there that one third of a societies professions are unnecessary and we should get rid of them. In the book they're tricked to boarding a space ark and shot out to space never to be seen again.

    I'm up for it if ye are. But who should we send? For me it's lawyers, they do nothing for society but translate arguments into and out of legal speak and charge a fortune for it. We don't need them, goodbye.

    I know there's been a thread here recently; most hated professions. But just to clarify this isn't about who you hate, it's about who we don't need. For example, i might hate doctors (i don't) but i still recognise the need for them.

    Oh and please explain why the profession is useless, even if it may seem self explanatory (HR is it?).


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Comments

  • #2
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Members of the Seanad


  • #3
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Milkmen. Just walk to the shop yourself you lazy cnuts.


  • #4
    flyswatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    Psychics.


  • #5
    crazy cabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭crazy cabbage


    Seriously. Proberly the people who follow celebs around and write about everything little thing they do and publish it in newspapers

    This is closly followed by the clebs themsleves


  • #6
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,956 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Public Relations - basically bull**** artists and spin merchants who
    have made politicians and celebrties believe that they "need" them to have the right "image" in the fickle media.


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  • #7
    CavanCrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭CavanCrew


    Forum Admin.............. Coughhhh.


  • #8
    Jesus Shaves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Jesus Shaves


    Weathermen/women


  • #9
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    phasers wrote: »
    Milkmen. Just walk to the shop yourself you lazy cnuts.


    Professional Milkmen. LOL :D :rolleyes:


  • #10
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Life Coaches!! :rolleyes:


  • #11
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Taxi drivers.


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  • #12
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Priests.


  • #13
    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    telesales people! especailly the cnuts the call you up or come to your door


  • #14
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »
    telesales people! especailly the cnuts the call you up or come to your door

    Hang on........ they come to your door and then ring you? Or do they ring you first and then come to your door while on the phone?


  • #15
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    Film critics.

    Only one thing worse - people who think they're critics.


  • #16
    MarkHitide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭MarkHitide


    Governmental departments' PR professionals-


  • #17
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    flyswatter wrote: »
    Psychics.

    I knew you were gonna say that ;)


  • #18
    rusty_racer94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭rusty_racer94


    Art critics.


  • #19
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Governments shills.
    They walk these boards.......


  • #20
    Tea_Bag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭Tea_Bag


    priests/monks/missionaries etc.

    actually just religion.


  • #21
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    flyswatter wrote: »
    Psychics.

    Bet they didn't see that coming. Honestly, I'd get rid of Priests. I know there's more we could eject into space.


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  • #22
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Whoever it is that decided all wet floors needed to have a sign saying 'wet floor' on them.
    If you can't look at a floor and tell it's wet, you deserve to fall on your arse.


  • #23
    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »
    telesales people! especailly the cnuts the call you up or come to your door
    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Hang on........ they come to your door and then ring you? Or do they ring you first and then come to your door while on the phone?

    If you bothered to see i used OR meaning one or the other :rolleyes:


  • #24
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    crazy cabbage wrote: »
    Seriously. Proberly the people who follow celebs around and write about everything little thing they do and publish it in newspapers

    This is closly followed by the clebs themsleves

    And then throw in the people who buy to read and hang on every word and picture in same said newspapers and magazines.


  • #25
    LoanShark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭LoanShark


    X Factor judges.. And X Factor contestants..


    The man that drives the Gatso van..


  • #26
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    these feng shui 'experts'. the people who hire them deserve to be ripped off


  • #27
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    Telephone Sanitizers.

    Just finished re watching the old series, one for the coincidence thread maybe...


  • #28
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    boo3000 wrote: »
    Ok i don't know how many of ye are familiar with the book 'A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' (it's brilliant) but there's an idea in there that one third of a societies professions are unnecessary and we should get rid of them. In the book they're tricked to boarding a space ark and shot out to space never to be seen again.

    [pedant alert] Alas if only this were true, the whole joke about the Golgafrincham Ark B was that it contained the people who go on to populate Planet Earth.[/pedant alert]


  • #29
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    boo3000 wrote: »
    Ok i don't know how many of ye are familiar with the book 'A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' ...
    Actually, the Golgafrinchams feature in the sequel, "The Restaurant At The End of the Universe".
    :rolleyes:
    :P
    boo3000 wrote: »
    (it's brilliant)
    This bit is absolutely correct.


  • #30
    Robert McGrath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭Robert McGrath


    boo3000 wrote: »
    Ok i don't know how many of ye are familiar with the book 'A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' (it's brilliant) but there's an idea in there that one third of a societies professions are unnecessary and we should get rid of them. In the book they're tricked to boarding a space ark and shot out to space never to be seen again.

    I'm up for it if ye are. But who should we send? For me it's lawyers, they do nothing for society but translate arguments into and out of legal speak and charge a fortune for it. We don't need them, goodbye.

    I know there's been a thread here recently; most hated professions. But just to clarify this isn't about who you hate, it's about who we don't need. For example, i might hate doctors (i don't) but i still recognise the need for them.

    Oh and please explain why the profession is useless, even if it may seem self explanatory (HR is it?).

    I know this is AH but ...

    In a democratic society you will need criminal and civil law to regulate behaviour and contracts etc

    There will inevitably be some ambiguities in that law that need to be decided on by an appointed referee or judge

    The law is inevitably complicated at times because human behaviour is complicated and it is right that people should not be sent to prison on a whim

    Not everybody can be an expert on the law (in the same way not everybody can be an expert in medicine) so we need those who are expert to represent our interests.

    TL;DR version: Lawyers are a necessary by-product of a peaceful democratic society

    Agree with you on the Hitchhiker's Guide, though ... Great read


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  • #31
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Is fluffer a profession or a perk?


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