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Acrosticus · July 19th 03, 05:08 PM posted to uk.transport.london

From: "Cast_Iron"
Date: 18/07/2003 22:07 GMT Daylight Time

True, but are you really suggesting that I should give him no help or advice
simply because I cannot *immediately* lay my hands on a comprehensive
catalogue. I notice that you have contributed nothing to the posters request
merely sought to criticise another you made an attempt to get him/her
started.

Thanks however for the suggestion that I:

Try thinking before putting finger to keyboard, if you
have the capacity!

I'm just looking up at my BA certificate on the wall now
and wondering whether the fact I've got it means I can
think.

Like many people, you appear to be suggesting that education and
intelligence are one and the same thing. Have you never heard the phrase
that someone is educated beyond their intelligence? I've met many graduates
who are very intelligent and some that are as thick as five short planks and
couldn't work out that it was possible to walk and talk at the same time.
I've also met people with no post 16 education but who could leave a great
many graduates standing in the thinking stakes.

The foregoing doesn't look like exactly great PR when you started out to answer
a question posted by a student at Imperial College does it? It seems to make
you look a bit head strong, poorly educated and with a chip on your shoulder
about graduates. Or hadn't you noticed that in your rush to the keyboard?