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Are many people snobs?

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  • #62
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    efb wrote: »
    Who are they?

    It's not hard to look up dude. Research things rather than worshipping Oxbridge.


  • #63
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    If a snob is someone who knows and admires what is best, then I am a snob.
    I have no notion of that Darndale College place or its graduates.
    A PhD –ffs for what, useful only in academia.
    Publishing papers – there already is enough waffle out there. Academia again.
    Proud of a degree from an Irish Uni? Have you looked at the rankings? (They are based on results, research and incomes of graduates)
    Pedro. INSEAD & RSM. pip pip old chap!

    PhDs actually contribute to medical research ect.


  • #64
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    It's not hard to look up dude. Research things rather than worshipping Oxbridge.

    Spit it out or is it a riddle for me???


  • #65
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    efb wrote: »
    Spit it out or is it a riddle for me???

    Google "Nobel laureate Ireland". It's not rocket science.


  • #66
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    If a snob is someone who knows and admires what is best, then I am a snob.
    I have no notion of that Darndale College place or its graduates.
    A PhD –ffs for what, useful only in academia.
    Publishing papers – there already is enough waffle out there. Academia again.
    Proud of a degree from an Irish Uni? Have you looked at the rankings? (They are based on results, research and incomes of graduates)
    Pedro. INSEAD & RSM. pip pip old chap!

    You're a snob who knows and admires the best but you think PhDs are waffle..... Please stop letting everyone tell you what to think.


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  • #67
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    PhDs actually contribute to medical research ect.
    'course they do. Years of pouring over a bench. A friend of mine started a PhD in biology. Spent most of her time counting dead flies after a dose was administered to them, then gave it up. Married a guy with a pass leaving cert and a brass neck, now has a very nice house in Dalkey and another in S of France. That says a lot.


  • #68
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Senior Spielbergo wrote: »
    Cant really take Boards seriously though can you. Full of trolls and just general bullsh!tters.

    If I were you, I'd hold off on those judgements till I see if it rains on Saturday or Sunday. If it does, try again on Monday, when you will have been here a wet weekend and might be a better position to comment.

    ;)


  • #69
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    'course they do. Years of pouring over a bench. A friend of mine started a PhD in biology. Spent most of her time counting dead flies after a dose was administered to them, then gave it up. Married a guy with a pass leaving cert and a brass neck, now has a very nice house in Dalkey and another in S of France. That says a lot.

    It says nothing. It only illustrates your confirmation bias.


  • #70
    markc2951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭markc2951


    That's the joys of living in rural ireland..for example if two cars meet on a narrow road and slow down for each other there is automatically a wave from both parties..all us country folk are tight


  • #71
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Tut tut! I never said PhD's were waffle. I'm not an elderly white female but arguing with you might give me Lady Windemere Syndrome. Off to Finnegans for a quick sherry!


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  • #72
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Google "Nobel laureate Ireland". It's not rocket science.

    The other one.. You'd have me told by now...


  • #73
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Google "Nobel laureate Ireland". It's not rocket science.

    The guy with a PhD outside these islands??? Not applicable


  • #74
    Senior Spielbergo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Senior Spielbergo


    endacl wrote: »
    If I were you, I'd hold off on those judgements till I see if it rains on Saturday or Sunday. If it does, try again on Monday, when you will have been here a wet weekend and might be a better position to comment.

    ;)

    Spare me, im here a few years, just a rereg. Love your comments around this site the most ;)


  • #75
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    efb wrote: »
    The other one.. You'd have me told by now...

    No I assumed you could search for "highly cited Irish scientist". Is that something you don't understand how to do?


  • #76
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    It says nothing. It only illustrates your confirmation bias.
    Nope. Just says that she was clever enough to recognize success/business accumen and that there was more to life than counting dead flies to get a PhD.
    Outside of the sciences and a few quants (god help us) I don't rate PhDs.

    Why is it that nobody drinks Madeira anymore?:confused:


  • #77
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    No I assumed you could search for "highly cited Irish scientist". Is that something you don't understand how to do?

    That wouldn't give an absolute it's a woolly phrase


  • #78
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    efb wrote: »
    That wouldn't give an absolute it's a woolly phrase

    You're actually hurting my brain efb.


  • #79
    booooring!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭booooring!


    Have you ever had a look at the motor forum?


  • #80
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    efb wrote: »
    The guy with a PhD outside these islands??? Not applicable

    Ah right you talked about degrees. So when you talked about hiring people with degrees I assumed you were referring to degrees and not PhDs.


  • #81
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    No I assumed you could search for "highly cited Irish scientist". Is that something you don't understand how to do?

    But didn't you go to Oxford?

    I think Irish universities are of fairly high standard at undergraduate level, above the British average, but we don't have the resources or "brands" to compete with the best there. Also we don't funnel the best and brightest into two universities. There are different specialities across the range.

    Here's an interesting fact. In the US a STEM degree ( science, technology, engineering, medicine) from any university trumps an arts degree from the top US universities in terms of life long earnings. Extraordinary when you think about how much the degrees from the elite universities cost.

    In Britain any Oxbridge degree makes money. Partly that's a bias towards Oxbridge which is self re-enforcing (both the civil service and the city rate a degree in classics highly, not because of what it is but how hard it is to get in and pass).

    Anyway in my brief sojourn there I met the kind of arts students who do well on university challenge etc. Smart and educated in the old fashioned way – knowing things.

    American students of non science/vocational degrees seem to engage in infantile SJW stunts and trigger alert narcissism. I wouldn't hire a Harvard gender studies grad to clean the toilet.


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  • #82
    questionmark?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,090 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    efb wrote: »
    I would gladly employ anyone with a first from Oxbridge over anywhere else on these islands

    Funnily enough we said the same in my work place. Hired an Oxford Grad, full of high hopes for the guy, turns out he was a snob with an inability to listen to anyone. He didn't pass his 6 month probation!!


  • #83
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    questionmark? wrote: »
    Funnily enough we said the same in my work place. Hired an Oxford Grad, full of high hopes for the guy, turns out he was a snob with an inability to listen to anyone. He didn't pass his 6 month probation!!

    What was the job?


  • #84
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Loads of snobs about.

    People from 'rough' estates looking down on someone who goes to college and has airs and graces.
    Match going soccer fans over the ones you don't go.
    League of Ireland fans over those you follow foreign teams.
    People working and those on the dole.
    Diesel cars over petrol.
    Combustion engines over electric and vice versa.
    Football fans who follow European football over those who follow English.
    Sports fans who prefer their sport over another. Rugby fans opposed to football fans.
    Real music fans over those who like pop or not real music.
    Indie or not mainstream film fans towards popcorn movie fans and the reverse.
    Couple with kids over those without and couples without kids towards those who have kids.
    Literary fiction lovers towards genre lovers and the turnaround.


    There's loads of snobs out there and people can find almost anything to be snobby and superior about. Of course loads of people don't give a **** either and I'm one of those and I think those whi don't feel that way are just the worse.

    When I was a poor boy I had "no prospects" now I'm apparently "a posh fu*k". I really can't win :o


  • #85
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    captbarnacles wrote: »
    People tend to be more vocal about their prejudices with some sort of anonymity than in person. True story.

    Yes that's obvious I suppose.


  • #86
    Inspector Coptoor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Inspector Coptoor


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    When I was a poor boy I had "no prospects" now I'm apparently "a posh fu*k". I really can't win :o

    Are you playing the "poor boy done good card" again?

    It's all you seem to post about


  • #87
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Snob:
    One who affects an offensive air of self-satisfied superiority in matters of taste or intellect.

    If you use the above definition of snob, then we all have our petty snobberies.

    Atheists vs believers, sports team rivalries, universities vs IT's, brand snobs vs the I'm-too-clever-to-be-a-brand-sheeples, the spenders vs the savers, and even the supermarket chain people prefer - they've all been the subject of threads here that have revealed arbitrary and usually inexplicable bias.

    It's something I started to notice after someone said they never went to Aldi, because they didn't stock 'High-end fruit and vegetables'.

    I've encountered snobbery, not always the conventional kind.


  • #88
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Inspector Coptoor wrote: »
    Are you playing the "poor boy done good card" again?

    It's all you seem to post about

    Good old Irish begrudgery. ;)


  • #89
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Oh yeah, I'm an Apple snob too!


    (Posted from iPhone 6s) 😉


  • #90
    La Fenetre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭La Fenetre


    Inverted snobbery seems to be the most common and popular form of snobbery in ireland


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  • #91
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles.


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