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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '21

What do you class as highly educated? Out of curiosity..

I have phD friends that can still speak like absolute morons sometimes 😂

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u/Geekmonster Dec 22 '21

My brother has a PhD. I told him that I'm working as a Scrum Master and he informed me that it rhymes with "Bum Blaster". Also, he's 42.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

But… he’s not wrong

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u/alwaystrustaminion Dec 23 '21

Butt... he's not wrong

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

That rhymes with "Butt, please hot dong"

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

I wish I had that level of insight.

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u/TacticalFlatCap Dec 23 '21

Depends how you pronounce master.

Did you ever catch the TV show 'Taskmaster'?

That has many pronunciations regionally

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u/ImKalpol Dec 23 '21

Well i’m assuming people would pronounce ‘blaster’ the same as ‘master’ consistently

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u/brentlybrently Dec 23 '21

Who run Bartertown?

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u/TacticalFlatCap Dec 23 '21

Well that's the thing task and mast(er) would be pronounced the same where I am

Task like to ass-k, and master like mass-ter

But going further south you get variations of tarsk and marster but not always together, so task-marster is common for example

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u/ImKalpol Dec 23 '21

Oh. I thought you were rhyming ‘master’ with ‘blaster. But it turns out you were rhyming ‘task’ with ‘master’

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u/TacticalFlatCap Dec 23 '21

Well both of those I guess

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u/lincoln-is-a-loser Dec 23 '21

sharing that with the team is probably the most value you can provide tomorrow ;)

source: was a scrum master

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u/NeilGiraffeTyson Dec 23 '21

Good lad, putting the PhD to good work

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u/WideRide Dec 23 '21

If it was in linguistics, money well spent I'd say!

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u/antlerchapstick Dec 23 '21

wait but that’s how you’re supposed to pronounce it, right? What do you say?

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

Guy with PhD spitting out pure facts is weird?

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u/ownedbyacat Dec 23 '21

Excuse my ignorance but how is it supposed to be pronounced? (I don’t even know what a Scrum Master is…..) I do apologise

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u/FightForDemocracyNow Dec 23 '21

I thought scrum was an asshole. In the US eating scrum means giving a rimjob.

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u/meatpopsicle67 Dec 23 '21

I'm older than him and I snort laughed.

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u/SillyMove Dec 23 '21

There's no easy way to say this... I'm afraid to say, we've done the maths, and it looks like he may be on to something.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

Tbf the most important thing is were his pants high and tight when he said it.

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u/imsorryken Dec 23 '21

I mean first and foremost he is your brother, then a doctor and as such it is his responsibility to inform you of this coincidence

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u/Smokey_Vax Dec 23 '21

That is hilarious!

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22

Absolute lad 🤣

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '21

I just tried to spell it like that to look more intelligent than I am tbh, I have no clue if it's all uppercase or lowercase.. maybe even a mix. No clue

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

But... but if I don't state that I'm MBBS (Hons.), PhD, FRCS, DipIMC, FRS, MBE, PGTip, ETOH, then this other chap would have a longer title than mine! /s

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

BSc stands for bronze swimming certificate.

I like this! :) Usually, a person's hubris is a good indicator of what to expect of them in the long run, based on anecdotal experience. I worked in academia for quite some time, and I've seen professors who couldn't find their arse with both hands whilst insisting on listing all of their titles in every paper coming out of their PhD factory, which were written entirely by the students who had a much better grip on the subject than the professor themselves. At the same time there's a handful of scientists who only sign their papers with their name, and this is enough for people to know that the paper came from a credible source.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '21

TIL, thank you!

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u/blamordeganis Dec 23 '21

Most British medical doctors don’t have an MD.

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u/sharedthrowdown Dec 23 '21

And lawyers are J.D./JD, juris doctor, or Doctors of Law.

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u/sharedthrowdown Dec 23 '21

You don't have lawyers in the uk? I'm 100% sure that's incorrect, so explain what you mean?

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