A Conversation for The Beginner's Guide to Human Geography
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Started conversation Dec 12, 2002
I could swear that human geography is the subject that the stupid and the lazy people at uni do to avoid studying a proper subject. 
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Dec 31, 2002
That's funny. Did you study human geography?
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friendlywithteeth Posted Jan 1, 2003
Nope: I'm going to do it next year at uni.
What about you?
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Jan 2, 2003
I did a proper degree, graduated in the summer and now I am taking heroin as part of a medical experiment.
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Jan 3, 2003
Well, I dropped the E part after 6 months because it is the dreary domain of capitalist thugs. Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
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friendlywithteeth Posted Jan 4, 2003
And you call my degree stuff and nonsense, then I sir call yours a load of poppycock and balderdash!
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Jan 6, 2003
But the difference would be that I am right and you are wrong. Half my housemates last year were studying physical geography and readily admitted that they did so because they wanted an easy life and couldn't be arsed with doing a 'proper degree' (their words not mine).
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friendlywithteeth Posted Jan 6, 2003
Aaah! But that is physical geography which is clearly rubbish and boring: it's human geography which is good 
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Jan 7, 2003
Oops! Meant to put human. Undoubtedly there are interesting parts to it put it is still a nonsense degree! One housemate did his dissertation on the geopolitical impact of the cocaine trade in Columbia over the last 20 years and he genuinely enjoyed doing the months of research for it. At the end of the day though, it is still a nonsense subject!
You should wedge on some other subjects with it. Joint honours is the way forwards.
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friendlywithteeth Posted Jan 7, 2003
No it's not....compared with PPE it's the most useful degree since sliced bread!
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Jan 8, 2003
Oh, I see clearly now, we need a nation of town-planners rather than philosophers and thinkers.
Now, where shall we build that leisure centre...
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Hathornefer (ACE) Near miss - isnt that what you'd call a hit Posted Feb 5, 2003
Funny - I never considered that many of our town planners were qualified. I think it would make a nice change.
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Rt. Rev. Lesley Gentle Posted Feb 5, 2003
But seriously. Geography and more specifically human geography is often the most popular degree at university because it is an interesting degree compared to the hardcore sciences (test tune crew) and has the benefit of lots of trips abroad and about 6 hours a week lectures. The geography lot tend to be in it for the craic more than most other subjects and it should be studied as an accompaniment to university life rather than as the focus.
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