A Degree of Common Sense

Higher education is a wonderful thing - it appears that all you need is to have a brilliant mind to have absolutely no common sense whatsoever. A case in point being the two Cambridge undergrads who though that you could send small furry creatures through the post. Quite what they expected to happen I really don't know but I wouldn't have been at all surprised to learn that they thought the greatest threat to the hamster in question was being eaten by Jess (Postman Pat's black and white cat). Not that I have any sympathy for hamsters after that bloody hamster dance website...

Second case of acute stupidity must be the Oxford lot who decided to jump from a bridge into an almost dehydrated River Cherwell and were greatly shocked to discover that they had complicated fractures of both ankles after going though an inch of water and hitting the river bed at how ever many metres per second squared. One must assume that they were not reading physics, but you never know.

Now if we consider my old Alma Mater the problem is that these sort of buffoons have clearly managed to get onto the staff because I cannot really imagine why anyone would decide that Armenian Textile Design, Tourism Through the Ages or Advanced Nose Picking were really degree level subjects. Makes you want to send your degree certificate back.