Italian coup de'recherche.

[realityhack]

A group of Italian researchers revealed how they conned their university into subsidising weeks of drunken debauchery, clubbing and smoking by holding clipboards and pretending to be all scientific, like.

In what might be the greatest tenuous premise yet - purporting to be investigating cognitive neuroscience re the specialisation of right and left brain hemispheres - they conducted 3 studies:

• Going clubbing, and watching 286 fellow clubbers.
• Going clubbing (again), and blagging smokes from people, and
• More of the same, working out how to blag more smokes.

Students worldwide are said to be 'well chuffed' with their Italian counterparts' groundbreaking precedent-setting, and hope to fabricate similar premises around female predatory sexual behaviour, correlation between IQ and class A drug consumption, and auditory responses to loud rock music in a festival setting.

A paraphrase of the above can be found here. (SFW)

[bogeyman]

Good on 'em.

At least I imagine the Italians did it with style, good haircuts and natty suits. They could probably dance as well.

If British students did this research, they'd just look like a bunch of pissed-up arseholes in slightly soiled GAP jeans and T shirts blundering their way around and trying to locate the toilets.

[Mich the Tester]

<daily wail mode>
tut tut these people....they should bring back national service!
<daily wail mode/>

Their behaviour is a disgraceful waste of public money. Having studied Geography and having only made use of taxpayer funded field trips to the Bay of Naples, the Portuguese coast, Cornwall and Goa, strictly to research the pull factors influencing migration to warm sunny coastal areas, I am appalled that scientists should allow themselves to act in such an indisciplined fashion. Really, they give us all a bad name.

[bogeyman]

Having studied Geography...

All I remember from my geography studies is ox-bow lakes and rift valleys.

[Churchill]

Good on 'em.

At least I imagine the Italians did it with style, good haircuts and natty suits. They could probably dance as well.

If British students did this research, they'd just look like a bunch of pissed-up arseholes in slightly soiled GAP jeans and T shirts blundering their way around and trying to locate the toilets.

I had a team of software engineers like that once!

[bogeyman]

I had a team of software engineers like that once!

Only once? God! You've been lucky.

[cojak]

A group of Italian researchers revealed how they conned their university into subsidising weeks of drunken debauchery, clubbing and smoking by holding clipboards and pretending to be all scientific, like.

In what might be the greatest tenuous premise yet - purporting to be investigating cognitive neuroscience re the specialisation of right and left brain hemispheres - they conducted 3 studies:

• Going clubbing, and watching 286 fellow clubbers.
• Going clubbing (again), and blagging smokes from people, and
• More of the same, working out how to blag more smokes.

Students worldwide are said to be 'well chuffed' with their Italian counterparts' groundbreaking precedent-setting, and hope to fabricate similar premises around female predatory sexual behaviour, correlation between IQ and class A drug consumption, and auditory responses to loud rock music in a festival setting.

A paraphrase of the above can be found here. (SFW)

No, don't tell me - you're bored (now there's a rare thing..) and you're currently wondering where you can get hold of a clipboard...

[ace00]

If British students did this research, they'd just look like a bunch of pissed-up arseholes in vomit covered GAP jeans unconscious on the floor of the toilets.

Or was that just me?

[realityhack]

No, don't tell me - you're bored (now there's a rare thing..) and you're currently wondering where you can get hold of a clipboard...

Not bored... procrastinating. I think there's a difference.

[cojak]

Very true.

..the difference is that you're proactively unproductive...