Students not as clever as they used to be?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:12 am

Went back to my old uni for a reunion last weekend. The SU bar was much the same, except it had two Paragons and two Ind:Es (one a Paragon rebuild) in it. I suppose I should have expected quiz machines to do well in a University.

However, it quickly became clear that, despite the highscore tables being full, no-one had got that much out of any game on there. Avoiding DOND, Bully and WWTBAM I quickly had about thirty quid in total from my fave alternative games, which were all in a very generous mood, across all four machines!

That's never going to happen again, but it was very nice while it lasted!

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:08 am

The machines are probably played very frequently by students of widely varying abilities, so they're bound to pay out to someone who is much better than the average.

Our university challenge team used to practice on the machines, but they stopped, telling me that they found the questions either trivial or random (spoiler). They didn't bother trying to learn the spoilers though, which would have been the obvious way to get some money.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:55 pm

the ratio of the amount of people around a machine is often inversely proportional to how good they are going to be and students notoriously hunt in packs. i think Ernest is right about the throughput of money, when i was a student i had soooo much time to kill and would happily spend the whole afternoon on golden tee or gamebox v1.0. i used to even use the PM function on those old photoplay linked terminals and pretended to be in prison/foreign/monumentally thick. my favoulite was the guy flom japan who onry evel asked what someone's favoulite coroul was. he would also keep changing his mind:

me (as yang ha): prease excuse my ludeness but what is your best coroul prease. Mine is brue.
other guy: erm. hi Yang, i suppose my favourite colour is green.
me: gleen is nice but my favoulite is olange.
o.g.: i thought you said you liked blue?
me: don't be sirry, my best favoulite is actuarry pulpre. what is youls?

it hardly has the sophistication of fry&laurie or the malevolence of the jerky boys but it kept me entertained.
little things please little minds.

anyway i think students these days probably are less intelligent in GK but more honed in whichever area of expertise. if you could show me a room of three paragons i'd make myself comfortable, unless Mr Bob had been at them.

also is it not close season for (most) students at the mo? could be that the machines have been impregnated by dinner ladies and potwashers who are notorious alcies and wastrels.

end of bigoted bored drivel.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:29 pm

I've no idea what the "photoplay linked terminal" palarver was all about, but I'd like to correct one thing...

unknownpseudonym should have wrote:
when i was a student i had soooo much time to kill and would happily spend the whole afternoon on ha'penny nudgers and what the butler saw machines.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:47 pm

shut up muttley you snickering fool.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:08 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:impregnated by dinner ladies

NikLP · Post by **NikLP** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:41 pm

dinner ladies and potwashers who are notorious alcies and wastrels

That's a bit rich isn't it? I've washed more pots than you've pissed in, but that only made me more of a man.

[After further predictable snickering] Yeah, whatever, suck it up.

cool · Post by **cool** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:18 pm

When I went to University only the cream went, now the rest of the bottle wants to go. My university had a student population of 4,000 1980 , it now has a population of over 20,000 and another 'university' has opened up within the city awarding a similar number of degrees. The value of a degree has been devalued to such an extent that it will soon be neccessary to have a degree to be a cleaner! How many of the contributors to fruitchat are under 30?-not many,if any. Students cannot be that bright if they believe universities are there for their benefit.They are there to grow and milk the students- My university facilities are year on year improving and expanding and as I am an alumni I am benefiting-THANKS MUGS!

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:57 pm

Typical stone age elder statesman comments there cool

Matt

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:11 pm

cool wrote:alumni

alumnus

cool · Post by **cool** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:53 pm

sorry vaginalbob you are correct. Fortunately I didnt do English!