What brainboxes have we?

[bonj2]

Ok then

7 O-levels (the last year of them)
3 A-Levels
BA(hons) Social Work
DipSW
PQ1 (don't ask)
Cycling proficiency certificate
driving license
tufty club badge

Plus all the ongoing training required of a social worker. Will be starting another Dip course this year in an entirely different subject.

What, so you mean you HAVEN'T got a qualification in how to tell a little disabled fella from a non-disabled fella?

 

[bonj2]

As i believe is common knowledge, i've got a third in physics. However, I have nonetheless forgot most of it. In fact I've forgot more than most of you lot know. I've also got a couple of microsoft qualifications, (one of the tests for which I scored 100% in, largely due to the fact that the questions varied very little in substance from ones which were downloadable off the internet), and which although are out of date technically still enable anyone who employs me to get discounts on certain products.

 

[bonj2]

Ok then

7 O-levels (the last year of them)
3 A-Levels
BA(hons) Social Work
DipSW
PQ1 (don't ask)
Cycling proficiency certificate
driving license
tufty club badge

Plus all the ongoing training required of a social worker. Will be starting another Dip course this year in an entirely different subject.

What's a PQ1?

And what did you have to do for 'tufty club badge'? Sounds suspicious.

 

[Dave5N]

Your degree in physics is real then?

Why didn't it encompass thermodynamics?

 

[bonj2]

yes

it probably did

 

[mickle]

I was so gutted when I lost my Tufty Club badge.

6 O levels.
2 A levels.
Foundation Diploma, Wimbledon School of Art.
BA Industrial Design Engineering, Central School of Art. (Fail!)
Mongoose Performance Technician. (until I lost the T-shirt)
NVQ3 Retail Management.
NVQ2 Plumbing.
Bronze, Silver, Gold swimming.
Certificate for climbing the Scott Monument.

 

[mr_hippo]

I am surprised that no-one here has a Blue Peter badge.

 

[Aperitif]

I have a rarer thing - a Tom Tom badge. (Awarded for guessing the minimum number of moves it takes for a knight to land on every square on a chessboard*. Don't ask how many it is but I happened to be reading a 'chess facts' book from the local library when the question was asked, and the answer was under my nose!)
Had to send in the answer on a postcard - small oblong piece of white card with handwriting upon + a Royal Mail stamp. Delivered by a postman promptly to the BBC... no 'text your answer to...' (Besides, a mobile 'phone 40 years ago would probably been the size of a Ford Transit! )

*I think that was the question

 

[summerdays]

I have:
7 O-levels
1 AO level
3 A-levels
BSc Geography
and....
1979 Cycling Proficiency - all on the playground.

Did my degree make any difference in my first job... well I went in one step off the bottom rung, (a difference of about £500 pa back then), after that it hasn't made any difference. Just returned to work, now the kids at all at school, and this year I should be able to claim back the tax that I have already paid. However the job is term-time, in school hours, so I'm still there for the kids and I'm happy.

 

[mikeitup]

i understand Kirst. Practical intelligence allied to conceptual skills seem quite a rare combination. i've known some utterly brilliant academics who can barely tie a boot-lace.

I know someone who designs rocket systems for NASA and had to be talked to through via mobile how to get off of the northern line.
Oh and needed instruction to open a can of beans.

I am NOT joking!

I got f**k all me, I am am thicker than a whale omelet.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

My mother's cousin was once in the Guiness Book of Records for having the highest IQ in the world (almost 200 or something ridiculous). He couldn't do many ordinary things and his 'eccentric' behaviour included lying on the floor at parties looking up women's skirts...

 

[Kirstie]

My mother's cousin was once in the Guiness Book of Records for having the highest IQ in the world (almost 200 or something ridiculous). He couldn't do many ordinary things and his 'eccentric' behaviour included lying on the floor at parties looking up women's skirts...

So that's where you get it from - I'm referring to your collosal perversions, not your intelligence

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

My mother's cousin was once in the Guiness Book of Records for having the highest IQ in the world (almost 200 or something ridiculous). He couldn't do many ordinary things and his 'eccentric' behaviour included lying on the floor at parties looking up women's skirts...

Was his IQ noticed as a result of his constantly defending himself sucessfully?

 

[Carwash]

In chronological order:

• 10.5 GCSEs
• 4 A-Levels
• BA
• MSc
• MA
• TISUS

I don't think a person's academic qualifications tell you much about their intelligence though, merely what they've studied. Some of the most insightful and intelligent people I've known had no formal education after leaving school.

Furthermore, a list of solely academic qualifications ignores a great deal. It doesn't tell you what else a person can do, what else they know. These things are often more important (or more interesting) than the things they have earned a bit of paper for.

 

[Fnaar]

I work in "academia", and though of course I am brilliant () there are some folk here who I really don't know how they manage to tie their shoelaces or get home of an evening.... AND, I've never, ever worked in such a humourless, paranoid environment! Take me away!!!!!!