BF2S Forums EE Chats January - Over the Fiscal Cliff

haha the front wing in like a metre off the ground

pirana6 wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

pirana6 wrote:

Cats Kill Billions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21236690

And? My yard is still carpeted in birds every morning. They can keep up.

It was more the headline (that I strategically paraphrased) that I found funny. As long as theyre killing mice/pidgins/crows I'm happy.

Yeah...good luck with crows, cats. That's big game there. Damn animals take on birds of prey.

ive seen a site like that

lol
he give you xp?

hey bevo mate how are you mate

hey eleven bravo mate how are you mate

Where
The mothafuckin dope at?

aw sik

This light Brown Asian girl sitting next to me has a ton of acne on her face. Combine that with the odd shape of her head and her puffy cheeks and she looks like a burn victim who had their face reconstructed

He's already got her number.

steve that was the first pm ive read in a year

Uzique The Loser wrote:

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/queen-awards-prestigious-regius-professorships-twelve-universities
pretty cool m8
big up the arts and humanities posse

Roho got the token arts vote, why so serious?

Pochsy wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/queen-awards-prestigious-regius-professorships-twelve-universities
pretty cool m8
big up the arts and humanities posse

Interesting. Why didn't a Cambridge or Oxford department win a single one of these chairs if they are awarded based on excellence?

because oxbridge have been 'the' seats of excellence since like the 15th century. although their reputations carry them to the top of world rankings, a large part of it is 'brand' factor. there are a good 20 universities in the UK that all give oxbridge a run for their money, academically, especially in specific subjects/specialities... of course, employer prospects are another thing, and are often divorced from factual reality (constituting something more of a 'social fact' or truth, i suppose). for e.g. rhul is the best in the country for the (academic) study of music. warwick is leagues ahead when it comes to maths. imperial college trumps oxbridge at engineering. manchester's physics department has just as illustrious a history - of discovery, invention, nobel prizes, etc. - as cambridge's cavendish. etc.etc. oxbridge is like harvard-yale: massive names, massive research budgets, massive funding allocation. but the giants aren't always the best. even at traditional-high subjects, like history, or english, they're not the best. york and durham in the uk are two universities that barely grace the world top100, and they are both ahead of oxbridge in english literature - something you'd perhaps find surprising, considering oxbridge's whole 'image' is the quiet peaceful quads and contemplative lit/philosophy types swanning around, etc.. it's just not that simplistic.

as much as oxbridge gets fetishised and fawned over - particularly by international students with a simplistic, tourist-eye view - they are not the be all and end all. i'm going to oxford cause it has the largest funding budget. for literature - modern literature especially - i'd possibly be better off going to york, or staying in the university of london and switching departments to the university college.

i welcome the fact that universities outside of the 'superunis', which already hoard quite enough media attention and public finance, are finally getting celebrated.

dilbert wrote:

Roho got the token arts vote, why so serious?

why so predictable and boring? 'token arts' vote? the arts have just as much prestige in academia as your beloved engineering. you can argue til the cows come home about graduate job-markets, but the fact is that the ivory-tower is more traditionally about humanities and seats of learning than it is about new-fangled laboratories and medical research.

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