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simkin_mouse ([info]simkin_mouse) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2005-02-13 23:36:00


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Current mood:Goofy

God rest ye merry English Majors, let nothing you dismay...
Aaah, fanficrants, pit of rambles and general unholiness, how good to be able to time my watch after your daily wank explosions!

sakuracorr posts a seemingly innocent rant on English Majors and their annoying tendency to get on their high horse and declare their superiority to all the puny little authors who've not undertaken any explicity literature studies. Because, alas, they are the English Majors, and theirs is the right claim to the One True Authorship, bless'em.

All pink'n'pretty, until tomakobriefs mentions how, really, English is a silly thing to major in.

Cue for general indignation, reports on what does and does not matter when applying for a job, and the (so the simkin-mouse predicts) soon-to-be classic, "Your icon is ugly".

I say, how can you not enjoy it? Go, my prettehs, laugh your merry hearts out. Also, the mousey's first wank, so I'm a bit confuzed on the netiquette -- do I get to smoke my cigar now? Forget the cigar, someone hit me over the head with the HTML manual.




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[info]wankprophet
2005-02-14 12:07 am UTC (link)
You can smoke your cigar, but first you need to fix your tags.

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(no subject) - [info]simkin_mouse, 2005-02-14 12:14 am UTC
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[info]rogue
2005-02-14 12:07 am UTC (link)
Woaaaaaaaaah now there's an html failure if I ever saw one.

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(no subject) - [info]simkin_mouse, 2005-02-14 12:18 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-02-14 12:09 am UTC (link)
I say, how can you not enjoy it?

Because we can't freaking READ it!

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[info]big_bad_wolf
2005-02-14 12:19 am UTC (link)
Damn your eyes, I just posted this on i_wank!

The "your icon is ugly" was me. Words failed me at that point.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-02-14 12:41 am UTC

[info]tabby_phobos
2005-02-14 12:21 am UTC (link)
I think I deserve a medal for not wanking myself when I saw this explode on my flist. No? How about a pizza?

/getting a degree in Networking Systems

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(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2005-02-14 02:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tabby_phobos, 2005-02-14 02:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nevadafighter, 2005-02-14 02:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarajayechan, 2005-02-14 03:04 am UTC
you beat me lol
[info]sunhawk
2005-02-14 12:23 am UTC (link)
i knew this was gonna get posted one way or another *g*

my favourite part of the wank was the part where we learned that "Language comes and goes... Why, English could be one of them, given enough time!"

Yeah, because i really think that's gonna happen anytime soon LOL

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Re: you beat me lol - [info]nevadafighter, 2005-02-14 02:03 am UTC
Re: you beat me lol - [info]sunhawk, 2005-02-14 03:22 am UTC
Re: you beat me lol - [info]kraken_sleeps, 2005-02-14 11:24 am UTC
Re: you beat me lol - [info]sunhawk, 2005-02-14 08:07 pm UTC

[info]disturbedenuff
2005-02-14 12:27 am UTC (link)
WHACK!

Damn. *looks over manual and notes the lack of dent* They sure make these things thick, don't they?

*notices an unconscious mouse beside her and whistles innocently while setting the manual down and slipping out of the scene*

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Your Icon... - [info]platedlizard, 2005-02-14 06:05 am UTC
Re: Your Icon... - [info]disturbedenuff, 2005-02-15 12:10 am UTC
Re: Your Icon... - [info]platedlizard, 2005-02-15 04:04 am UTC

[info]tyraarane_
2005-02-14 12:29 am UTC (link)
Wanked. Couldn't help it. Curse my being a silly and useless English major!

And the worst part is, I know this girl. She's dating somebody on my flist. She's been posting fairly inflammatory stuff on fanficrants ever since she joined...I'm surprised she hasn't shown up here yet. *headdesk* I'm way too close to this wank for comfort.

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(no subject) - [info]funwithrage, 2005-02-14 01:30 am UTC
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[info]nekoneko
2005-02-14 12:30 am UTC (link)
I agree with the OP's post, but that's about it. (I've had other English majors tell me that it should be easy for me to write an essay, just because I am an English major. I wish.) It's taking most of my self control to not wank right now.

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(no subject) - [info]tyraarane_, 2005-02-14 12:37 am UTC
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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2005-02-14 12:39 am UTC (link)
I have the sneaking suspicion that tamakobriefs is either a troll or has no idea what an English major actually entails. It's not all grammar and writing technique, 'k doofus?

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(no subject) - [info]kannaophelia, 2005-02-14 01:51 am UTC
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[info]eclair
2005-02-14 12:41 am UTC (link)
I... I don't even know where to begin.

Is it wrong I wanted to go into an English major because in the seven schools I've been through for PK~12, I only started learning grammar in 8th, 10th, and 11/12th grade(two grades in a year)?

Seriously, just last week I learned how to properly use a semicolon. Yay for Universities.

That being said, anything can be a Major, and I'm pretty damn sure almost anything can somehow, somewhere, be considered useful. I honestly would think the last place you would want to piss of English majors would be somewhere like Fanfic rants.

I think my favorite thread is the one that mentions this : "The Vatican doesn't think Latin is a dead language."
"Guess what! I'm not Christian!!"

It burns, it burns. (Languages are love, seriously [info]tomakobriefs. They're beautiful, beautiful things. Its a shame they're not very well appreciated.)

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[info]disturbedenuff
2005-02-14 01:30 am UTC (link)
God, now that I've had the time to look over all that, just... argh!

Useless majors and other twaddle?! PLEASE! It's not the major, or area of study that's useless, it's most often than not, the person! I went down a path everyone around me saw as a waste of my life and here I am, gainfully employed for 5+ years, in my field, loving it, with a home, car, family, and yet- many of my old classmates who pursued 'useful' majors flunked out, are working at McD's, or living off their parents at 27 because they're lazy!

And yet, they continue the bitch fest just to get the last word in. Who gives a flying fart in space about majors? Get back to the point...

Those high and mighty know-it-alls! *laughs*

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[info]kalicephirot
2005-02-14 01:40 am UTC (link)
So, since English isn't my home-language, can I get an English Major or would it also be useless for me?

I kind of guessed this was going to get wanky. *sits with popcorns* Anyone wants?

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I've got the final solution! - [info]luckdragonfujur, 2005-02-14 07:32 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]25th_of_april, 2005-02-14 04:04 am UTC
anon reporting wank
(Anonymous)
2005-02-14 01:41 am UTC (link)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/lady_greysgate/3844.html

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Re: anon reporting wank - [info]jetamors, 2005-02-14 01:53 am UTC
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Re: anon reporting wank - [info]jetamors, 2005-02-14 02:24 am UTC
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Re: anon reporting wank - [info]lurker32, 2005-02-14 02:17 am UTC
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Re: anon reporting wank - [info]nostalgia, 2005-02-14 09:04 am UTC
Re: anon reporting wank - [info]nostalgia, 2005-02-14 07:44 am UTC

[info]wankprophet
2005-02-14 01:54 am UTC (link)
English is a silly thing to major in. Anyone can scribble some words on paper. 9_9 People ought to major in useful things. Like medicine, or business, or (like me) architecture. English can't get you very far unless you've got talent to begin with.

You know, I was under the impression that architecture couldn't get you very far unless you had talent to begin with either. Of course, tomakobriefs might prove to be the exception. Though it seems more likely that once he's spent 30 years in the real world doing gruntwork drafting for a mobile home design company, he may start to feel differently about the "usefulness" of his major. OTOH, Mies Van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier have certainly done more to make the world a better place than any nasty old English teacher or novelist or journalist. Cause, you know, cool new building designs make the world go round.

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(no subject) - [info]mindset, 2005-02-14 03:03 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]telophase, 2005-02-14 07:58 pm UTC
Wank report
(Anonymous)
2005-02-14 01:59 am UTC (link)
The RemusxSirius (http://www.livejournal.com/community/remusxsirius/) community has been discussing what HP would be like if Remus and Sirius are girls. Now someone (not a mod) has stepped in tell everyone to shut up about that, because she doesn't like it. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/remusxsirius/894516.html)

Highlight: femme!Remus/femme!Sirius is apparently more OOC that MPreg (http://www.livejournal.com/community/remusxsirius/894516.html?thread=8873268#t8873268)

P.S. I would have joined and posted this myself, but I don't have a code. :-(

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Re: Wank report - [info]adora_spintriae, 2005-02-14 03:13 am UTC

[info]gaisce
2005-02-14 02:24 am UTC (link)
Tomakobrief's love of English shows in her inability to form a coherent argument. The logic fallacies, it burns us precious...

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(no subject) - [info]khym_chanur, 2005-02-14 02:39 am UTC

[info]elektra3
2005-02-14 02:35 am UTC (link)
See if you can find anything wrong with this sentence:

It wouldn't be hard at all to require children entering kindergarten to already know the alphabet and how to write down the letters - which are things that I was taught in the first grade.

So... in addition to learning their letters, first graders should be taught to build time machines so that they can know the alphabet when they enter kindergarten?

Okay then!

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[info]amethyst_mind
2005-02-14 02:35 am UTC (link)
I like tomakobrief's argument that English majors are useless because English will eventually be a dead language. That's like the Romans deciding to say "Screw our wonderful literature and our history texts, our language is just gonna die eventually." No one studies a language while considering WHEN IT WILL DIE.

Abandon your books now, because you won't need them in, oh, a couple hundred years! PLAN AHEAD!

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(no subject) - [info]megmurry, 2005-02-14 04:14 am UTC
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[info]senor_pinata
2005-02-14 02:45 am UTC (link)
I don't think someone that speaks Zulu is going to care that you can speak English really well. Wow. Someone really, really missed the point.

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[info]sarajayechan
2005-02-14 03:03 am UTC (link)
*snicker* I was thinking about posting this one myself, but figured someone would beat me to it. XD Thanks!

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tourette
2005-02-14 03:27 am UTC (link)
You know, I saw that this had over two hundred posts and I thought "Wow, I bet this is already up at F_W". It's something about the very essential nature of a rants community - postcount in triple digits cannot be anything but wank.

Also, I have an English degree, and people would be well within their rights to tell me it didn't do any practical good, but the fact is that going to university was one of the best things I ever did, and English is one of the few subjects I could actually have studied. In conclusion: shut up, Tomakobriefs. Also, most degrees are pretty useless unless one has some manner of talent.

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(no subject) - [info]hinata, 2005-02-14 02:21 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2005-02-14 03:30 am UTC (link)
When I taught at a college I used to have periodic problems when I corrected the grammar of English majors. Not all, but a certain portion would get grumpy at seeing my corrections over their essays and complain either that:

1. I'm an English major - I know how to use grammar and I don't need someone outside the English Department telling me how to use it.

or:

2. It's my style. If I wish to I can bend the English language to my steely will for I am in the English Department (well, they phrased it differently, but the argument boiled down to this).

I recall an hourlong tussle over the meaning of the word 'lucid' that had me pulling my hair out. Ah, wankiness you are everywhere.

For purposes of full disclosure I should say that I have several degrees in the almost entirely useless subject of Classics and now I teach in that area (spreading useless knowledge is my purpose in life). And I have nothing against English majors - with the exception of lucid girl whom I still loathe with an intense passion.

lesbiassparrow on livejournal.

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[info]littleshebear
2005-02-14 03:35 am UTC (link)
*points and laughs*

Try being a philosophy graduate, that's the paradigmatic useless degree according to practically everyone I've met outside University. It doesn't have any practical application...except teaching you how to use big words like "paradigmatic" on messageboards. :D

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[info]funwithrage
2005-02-14 03:56 am UTC (link)
Hee. This is such a weird wank for me.


I mean, I'm an English major. And I spend a lot of time disparaging the major itself and especially the form it takes at Brown--emphasizing not so much even themes and symbolism within the books as Societal Attitudes Of The Times and How Everyone Was Oppressed and Please Shoot Me In the Face, Right Now, No, Seriously, End the Fucking Pain Already--and how it allows me to have the most free time ever. And I certainly have no ambitions to be terribly useful to society in any non-grammar-checking capacity.


On the other hand, it will get me a job. It has exposed me to some classics and probably helped me appreciate certain themes a little more.* And I find myself getting pretty irked at whatshisbriefs. That whole nobody-can-insult-your-thing-but-you thing, I suppose.


*It's also enabled me to analyze "Little Shop of Horrors" in psychosexual Freudian terms and to tell people, straight-faced, that Super Smash Brothers is a facet of postmodern consciousness, but these are only benefits in a very select crowd.

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