Comments on: Soccer’s swampy bugs out http://www.off-grid.net/2010/01/15/soccers-swampy-bugs-out/ renewable energy,survival,save money,self build,Green homes,Solar power, cheap power, 12 volt, Solar panels, Wind power, peak oil, Batteries, Inverter, Generator, Rainwater harvesting, survivalist, prepper, self-sufficient, vans, yurts, yachts, RVs Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Ronski http://www.off-grid.net/2010/01/15/soccers-swampy-bugs-out/comment-page-1/#comment-284372 Ronski Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:17:14 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/?p=4409#comment-284372 An honorary doctorate from Bolton University? - isn't that an oxymoron? (Apologies to all those hardworking students and alumni of Bolton, but I just couldn't help myself. I didn't even know that Bolton had a university. Recent political upheavals have decreed that once-lowly Polytechnics and colleges can now call themselves "Universities"). Doesn't it devalue the Doctorate when an ordinary person off the street, whose only claim to fame is to kick a ball between two posts, walks off with a doctorate? I have a doctorate, not from Bolton, and I'd hate to think that I had anything in common with this footballer. I feel immense sympathy for past alumni. An honorary doctorate from Bolton University? – isn’t that an oxymoron? (Apologies to all those hardworking students and alumni of Bolton, but I just couldn’t help myself. I didn’t even know that Bolton had a university. Recent political upheavals have decreed that once-lowly Polytechnics and colleges can now call themselves “Universities”). Doesn’t it devalue the Doctorate when an ordinary person off the street, whose only claim to fame is to kick a ball between two posts, walks off with a doctorate? I have a doctorate, not from Bolton, and I’d hate to think that I had anything in common with this footballer. I feel immense sympathy for past alumni.

]]> By: RobLOn http://www.off-grid.net/2010/01/15/soccers-swampy-bugs-out/comment-page-1/#comment-284058 RobLOn Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:12:01 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/?p=4409#comment-284058 Well I admire him for doing some positive - there are so many examples of his fellow leather footers doing stupid things that it is nice to see one who is starting to take an interest in the world. Why do so many comments on here seem to come from the liberal equivalent of a Daily Mail reader? If you can't say anything positive then don't say anything at all. Well I admire him for doing some positive – there are so many examples of his fellow leather footers doing stupid things that it is nice to see one who is starting to take an interest in the world.

Why do so many comments on here seem to come from the liberal equivalent of a Daily Mail reader? If you can’t say anything positive then don’t say anything at all.

]]> By: ex- Stretford Ender http://www.off-grid.net/2010/01/15/soccers-swampy-bugs-out/comment-page-1/#comment-283732 ex- Stretford Ender Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:32:49 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/?p=4409#comment-283732 A thinker would be thinking some of that 5 million pounds could be better spent on making this world a better place. A thinker would be thinking some of that 5 million pounds could be better spent on making this world a better place.

]]> By: Niall http://www.off-grid.net/2010/01/15/soccers-swampy-bugs-out/comment-page-1/#comment-278196 Niall Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:31:36 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/?p=4409#comment-278196 "England’s most-capped footballer is also a thinker, and accepted an honorary doctorate" He's not England's most capped footballer by some distance, and a thinker? He's such an intellectual that he thinks there's anything enviromnentally friendly about owning a Prius. You do realise that an honourary doctorate is one you get given for being a celebrity, don't you? Great article :/ “England’s most-capped footballer is also a thinker, and accepted an honorary doctorate”

He’s not England’s most capped footballer by some distance, and a thinker? He’s such an intellectual that he thinks there’s anything enviromnentally friendly about owning a Prius. You do realise that an honourary doctorate is one you get given for being a celebrity, don’t you?

Great article :/

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