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Post by ootlg on Mar 4, 2021 7:08:20 GMT
Poor soul. Indoctrination and mediocrity looms.
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 4, 2021 8:05:24 GMT
My youngest just found out he has two offers for uni in September, so he's a bit relieved, still waiting on a couple of others, but he's pretty sorted. Well done to the lad. What's he going to study? |
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 4, 2021 8:07:16 GMT
Poor soul. Indoctrination and mediocrity looms. Ah, the voice of a PhD from the University of Life. |
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Post by ootlg on Mar 4, 2021 8:24:35 GMT
You'd never understand.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 4, 2021 8:31:09 GMT
Also which uni has he selected Voice? (I know of exactly two Canadian unis).
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Post by ootlg on Mar 4, 2021 8:35:29 GMT
Not roughly two?
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 4, 2021 10:22:13 GMT
Oh, I do. I'm no fan of the uni system particularly. |
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Post by ootlg on Mar 4, 2021 11:49:48 GMT
Yeah, I think we've had this conversation before... unless it's a decent uni etc.
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Post by voice on Mar 4, 2021 15:14:48 GMT
He's been accepted at Vancouver Island University and University of the Fraser Valley to study Theater (Acting for the Stage and Screen) So a life making noncey over-sweet coffees at Starbucks beckons.
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Post by mids on Mar 4, 2021 15:17:37 GMT
Oh I dunno, sounds like ideal training for Justin's government.
Anyway, good luck to him.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 4, 2021 15:24:40 GMT
What a waste of a promising young life.
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Post by voice on Mar 4, 2021 15:33:18 GMT
What can you do. Though tbh there is a massive film and television industry in Vancouver, I know loads of people who work in some aspect of it, lots of big films are made here such as the X-man films dead pool all the planet of the apes ones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_shot_in_Vancouver), and loads of big production or long running TV series are made here, X-Files BSG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_series_produced_in_Vancouver) and you can make a decent living here just being a journeyman extra playing small rolls.
Anyway he's quite realistic, his degree will get him into teaching pretty easy, as that's his plan B.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 4, 2021 15:55:54 GMT
Yeah, I was actually going to say that if you were going to be a Actorrrrr! there's probably no better place than BC right now given that large amounts of US films and telly are made over the border, and people are even actually watching Canadian made show now, too.
But then I realised that being nice wasn't my job. Sarcasm was.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 4, 2021 22:15:44 GMT
He's been accepted at Vancouver Island University and University of the Fraser Valley to study Theater (Acting for the Stage and Screen) So a life making noncey over-sweet coffees at Starbucks beckons. Good for him. Chasing what he loves instead of doing a tedious miserable job for 40 years. An old uni mate of mine did Electrical and Electronic engineering to please his dad. After some miserable years working in his field he quit, moved to Italy and became an Opera singer. And he is fairly successful. |
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Post by ootlg on Mar 5, 2021 7:27:29 GMT
Full marks to anyone who steps out of the box. Society itself is programmed to program. Nothing evil about it, it's just that way.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 5, 2021 11:48:38 GMT
The moral of Van’s story seems to be that you don’t need to train to become an opera singer. You should go to university to study something dreary but useless as a fallback.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 5, 2021 12:47:35 GMT
The moral of Van’s story seems to be that you don’t need to train to become an opera singer. You should go to university to study something dreary but useless as a fallback. He did train. What are you talking about? |
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Post by ootlg on Mar 5, 2021 13:22:50 GMT
The moral of Van’s story seems to be that you don’t need to train to become an opera singer. You should go to university to study something dreary but useless as a fallback. I read that as 'fullback'. Was wondering where rugby came into it. It's Friday. |
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Post by flatandy on Mar 9, 2021 18:47:07 GMT
The missus has inadvertently proven a theory of mine.
I had never had a cauliflower crust pizza because the idea was horrific.
People who didn't enjoy food or who hadn't eaten pizza in years had claimed to me that "Cauliflower crust is a good as real pizza. And it's a great diet food."
The missus brought a cauliflower crust pizza which we just tried for lunch.
My theory has been proven correct.
The theory was: Cauliflower crust pizza is not as good as real pizza. It's a great diet food because it's nasty and you just don't want to eat much of it.
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Post by mids on Mar 9, 2021 18:52:24 GMT
I don't understand what it is or how it's even possible. A cauliflower is the wrong shape for a pizza.
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