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Can one really think straight if one hasn't undergone rigorous training ....

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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    ...in a hard, highly logical subject at a decent university e.g. maths, physics, engineering, even computer science, and mastered the course with a very good grade?
    Aren't those who have done so snapped up by businesses, for good reason?
    It's obvious that the more poorly educated in the CUK congregation lack thinking skills.
    But what's more worrying is that our leaders Cameron (PPE - requires AS level maths only) and Osborne (History) probably can't think straight.
    Not gonna read through 11 pages. I agree.

    My maths / physics based degree set me on a course that encompassed computer science, music and just about everything in between, doing research in itself trains a particular mindset.

    Analytical and logical I sort problems other's can't, there's a career summed up.
    Me, me, me...

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      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      I would say my true metier is knowing people - that's why I was quite senior and why I can tell the fools on this forum straightaway. HTH
      métier (couldn't find an icon for accenting. )
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        Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
        Analytical and logical I sort problems other's can't, there's a career summed up.
        And how long have you been a plumber? *

        * Imagine Prince Charles was asking you that.
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          Originally posted by nomadd View Post
          And how long have you been a plumber? *

          * Imagine Prince Charles was asking you that.
          What does a plumber do?
          Me, me, me...

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            Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
            What does a plumber do?
            That is the correct answer!
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              Originally posted by nomadd View Post
              That is the correct answer!
              Another cretin.
              Me, me, me...

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                Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
                Another cretin.
                Another SAS sockie.
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                  Originally posted by nomadd View Post
                  Another SAS sockie.
                  7.5k+ posts and a sockie who's met many on here? Dream on.

                  You can't spot a sockie but I can spot a cretin.
                  Me, me, me...

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                    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
                    You can't spot a sockie but I can spot a cretin.
                    That'll be those unrecognised 'analytical skills' of yours you mentioned in the other thread...
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                      Originally posted by nomadd View Post
                      That'll be those unrecognised 'analytical skills' of yours you mentioned in the other thread...
                      Keep digging the hole. Cretin.
                      Me, me, me...

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