Well, if you will gatekeep such obscure authors
To me it was confirmation of just how dim he actually is. While he continues to cry about his two (maybe now three?) rejections from Oxford, it is exactly this sort of behaviour which should alert him to why he keeps being rejected. He is clearly not teachable. He doesn't have either the sense or the humility to simply say - "Ok, I haven't heard of these authors but I really want to know more about them, tell me more..." Instead he goes on about the fact he is a "published author" and doesn't need the likes of me pointing out the obvious.
Having worked with uni admissions before. Jack's attitude is fairly common in the more entitled applicants who can't comprehend being rejected. Also nothing puts academics and admissions staff off more than someone who doesn't take no for an answer. What that is telling them if you have attitude at the admissions stage, what will you be like when you get marks you don't like, or a unit or group you don't like etc etc. It speaks to character.
Haha. Much as students like to claim to be individuals, work with them long enough and you see patterns and groups emerge. That can be from different courses or like you say, different universities. People aren't as original as they like to thinkI'd always thought Jack was one of the better studytubers...is that wrong? I know he has a major problem with accepting his rejection/s but aside from that? Sidenote: this is interesting to me because I have a connection to Durham Uni (not a student there) and Jack really does fit a 'type' that I associate with the place. No disrespect to any Durham students browsing here - I know you're not all like that.
I always thought Durham was stuffed full of old money types who were too dim to be accepted into Oxbridge and console themselves by thinking they're at least richer/posher than all the Vee K types who got into Oxbridge via some social justice initiatives
One of my friends volunteered as a Clearing call operator last year at our university, and one student called purely to demand a place when he'd been rejected on Results Day, then his mother called to demand it too, then (and I have no idea why they agreed to do this) his MP called to ask if there was anything they could do for the rejected applicant, because the MP himself was an alumnus...
Sweet Jesus, I am CRINGING for that lad!
Yep...happens all the time. So many students are like that, and pulling in some connections to people higher up isn't uncommon either.
At a lockdown party in Downing StreetIt was. I wonder where that guy ended up.
What did you blow their minds with today?
I told them he is not reading the books that he claims he has read. Which is simply the truth. But the more rabid of his fans were all over me, justifying his lies, telling me he did so read them! When I told them that there are only two possible explanations for his bizarre book 'reviews' being full of holes and errors either (a) he doesn't read the books (b) he doesn't comprehend what he's read.
Oh please share screenshots!I told them he is not reading the books that he claims he has read. Which is simply the truth. But the more rabid of his fans were all over me, justifying his lies, telling me he did so read them! When I told them that there are only two possible explanations for his bizarre book 'reviews' being full of holes and errors either (a) he doesn't read the books (b) he doesn't comprehend what he's read.
It didn't go over at all well. They all turned on me telling me I was nasty, didn't have a job, was unqualified, was bitter etc etc and (ironically) should stop insulting a stranger on the internet!
Where is this on? YT/ Twitter?I told them he is not reading the books that he claims he has read. Which is simply the truth. But the more rabid of his fans were all over me, justifying his lies, telling me he did so read them! When I told them that there are only two possible explanations for his bizarre book 'reviews' being full of holes and errors either (a) he doesn't read the books (b) he doesn't comprehend what he's read.
It didn't go over at all well. They all turned on me telling me I was nasty, didn't have a job, was unqualified, was bitter etc etc and (ironically) should stop insulting a stranger on the internet!
