man that is one pretentious degree.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:01, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I considered Classics and Scandi Studies at Edinburgh
but that would have involved about 5 languages.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:02, Reply)

My ideal course
would have been Celtic Studies but that would have meant a lot more language-based stuff (which I am weak at), and also moving to fucking CARDIFF. No thank you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I did consider Anglo Saxon Norse and Celtic, but that's traditionally the degree you do just to get into Cambridge
plus I didn't want to go to Cambridge.

Doing Beowulf next year yesyesyesyes I'm a little excited about that.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:06, Reply)

My father used to read it to me when I was a boy, I adore it.
What did you make of the Seamus Heaney translation? I prefer the old Penguin Classics one, I think.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:08, Reply)

I have to say I've only dipped into my SH copy
(though it's a parallel translation... eee) I need to go to the library soon enough, so I'll pick up the PC version.
I'm very very poorly read. I know a lot about these sort of things... though I remember reading an extract when I was about 9, about Grendel picking his way through the hall full of sleeping men... Scary stuff.

I keep meaning to read the Prose/Verse Edda too.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:12, Reply)

I have the Marillion version on a bootleg tape somewhere

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Why?
What should I have studied?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:02, Reply)

I don't know, what career could classical civilisation with philosophy have led to?
I suppose I shouldn't really throw stones, living in my glass house of retardedness, especially doing such an airy fairy bollocks degree myself.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:06, Reply)

MASSIVE DRUGS.

( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:07, Reply)

This ^

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:07, Reply)

haha yeah if he'd studied chemistry or botanics he'd be a millionaire
and probably dead.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:08, Reply)

probably
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:09, Reply)

The reason my grandfather became a horticulturist
rather than a doctor was because his mother told him that because Israel was so arid, they needed more horticulturists than more Jewish doctors. So thus he became a horticulturist and discovered something to do with the seeds of a pepper.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:13, Reply)

Chemistry.
Or Liberal Studies.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:07, Reply)