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Well you could always do a Gillian McKeith and do a correspondence course to get one :))


Edited to say: I never finished mine either, and it was a bit of a wrench the day I chucked out the filing cabinet full of raw data :)) but I hope if I had submitted it I wouldn't be sticking PhD after my name at every opportunity .......

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Rubbish generalisations irk me.


I'm just going on my inbox over the last decade. Every damn one of them is a US resident. And it's there on every damn email they send, hundreds and hundreds of times. [i've been on some professional email lists since the year dot.] Really irks me.

(The only other place I've seen it happen is India, where a few people do it.)

People who fill entire websites with sentences that all end with exclamation marks! And even headings! And sub-headngs! All with exclamation marks! Everything! An exclamation mark! At the end! Hundreds of them! On ever page! Why!?!?!

But they are bad form


On a typographical note, my pet hate is underlining... yuck yuck yuck It only exists because typewriters couldn't really emphasise in any other way even if it was ugly. And now it's redundant. And still ugly

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> It's v. bad form to use a doctorate unless one is

> in medicine or academia.


If I had GOT my doctorate I would have stayed in academia. But do agree that in other areas of life it is pretty nauseating.

1. the realisation that the weather in north africa can be worse than in london


2. the fact that I fall into the same old trap time and time again...



(when will I learn that looking forward to things too much just leads to disappointment??)

flapjackdavey Wrote:

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> Reg Smeeton Wrote:

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> > Opening a book by Terry Pratchett and reading

> any

> > sentence at random.

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>

>

> did you know the elephant shrew never closes its

> eyes ?


I did. And also that there is no proper name for the back of the knees. Now Vivien Stanshall WAS funny.

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