May 25, 2010

The Queen’s Speech

Today was the day of the Queen’s speech where she outlines the bills to be put forward in the new parliament.

Amongst them was a bill to scrap biometric passports, identity cards (hooray!) and limit the data that can be held about an individual.

I have a plan to take this even further: no personal data of any kind can be held about a person, BUT everyone must wear a T-Shirt proclaiming one embarrassing aspect of their views or past. For example:

“Evolution denier”

“Second cousin of G.W. Bush”

“Believes in fairies”

“Doesn’t like black people” (see how long the person wearing that one lasts…)

“Supported the war in Iraq”

“Cannot wee in the presence of others”

In addition to giving us all a good laugh, I believe this will help to bring us together as people. At the least it’s a lot more interesting than most of the proposals in the Queen’s speech, anyway.

komakino @ 1:20 pm

May 12, 2010

The Hierarchy of Degree Usefulness

I was thinking today about what ranks the most useful degree to graduate with, and what should rank the lowest. The rankings are based partly on difficulty of said degree, but mostly on the usefulness of the qualification towards getting a job or benefitting society.

In order, from most to least useful:

Medicine
Law
Engineering (Civil / Mechanical / Electrical)
Physics
Chemistry
Education
Foreign Languages
Computer Science
Biology
English
Mathematics
Marine Biology
Geology
Politics
History
Geography
Women’s Studies
Sociology
Sports Science
Psychology
Drama
Music
Art

Now there will no doubt be people with art degrees who will disagree with me, but those people should ask themselves just how useful their degree really was in obtaining their current employment with McDonalds.

komakino @ 12:09 pm

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