Over at academics_anon, wmchichiri announces that she/he is doing his/her Masters Thesis Defense and would like some words of advice.

Poor, poor wmchichiri. Because there's a dearth of words of advice, but gosh is there a lot of wank.

clevergirl posts that at her institution, powerpoint and business suits are the norm.

theoria responds with Remind me never to go anywhere near your institution.

This is the first place that Theoria says this, but not the last. Almost every comment that says what the defenses are like at someone's University is met with this comment, or a varation of it.

( Since I'm not the only academic that thinks my university was the best in the world, EVAR!!!, wank ensues )

( The Hilights, in power-point form: )

( And because I'm an academic, I want to classify this better.... )

My favorites are reading the people who are trying to be calm, cool, and collected while arguing with Theoria.

( A thesis defense of wank (breaking the Law of Fandom Medication) )

People start posting "Okay" after a while. (Well, it's only one person. But I really think more people should be doing it.)

And then pockawida comes along and politely asks everyone to please be nice and remember the point of all this. To which I wish him/her/it the best of luck, because I suspect it's going to get ugly again soon.

I feel so bad for the OP, because I don't think she got much advice.

(Wow, today is busy here. I like busy. *grin)

Edited: because I thought someone might actually want to see the link to where it's all happening. Or you could just trust me, because that's always fun. *grin*

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Count on the Christian Right to try it again. Their mission statement is Grade A Conservative!Wank, and the idea of "We don't like what the Supreme Court says, so we're going to force one State of our choice to secede from the Union by gangbanging it with 50,000 Christians."

So let's get this straight. Since the government is taking their moral standards off the law books, they feel they have the right to force a State they pick to break away from the country by moving maybe...another 1% of the State's net population-worth of Christians into it?

*points to icon*

ETA: Moved to political_wank

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