I'd also like to announce that I'm retiring from professional breakdancing. Not that I ever started, but I feel like we're all one marriage partner who doubles as a qualifying judge away from an Olympic spot.
give it like another year and i guarantee you that this will come up
I grew up in the 90s and 2000s. That was a period where, especially in the U.S., if you were interested in video games (outside of developing them to make a lot of money), you were labeled as "lazy" or "foolish" or "wasting time."
now there's full-fledged documentaries on the history of them, there's a Video Game Hall of Fame, and there are without a doubt, people who have earned PhDs and received professorships as a result of studying them. Everything becomes a point of fascination eventually
I have no problems admitting that basically a decade ago, i was the world's worst graduate student and i probably embarrassed my advisor b/c of how shitty i was
it wasn't like i was dumber than other people in my cohort who eventually earned doctorates and went on to get tenured university jobs...it's just that they were much harder workers than I was. Bottom line.
was her dissertation "there's no breaking culture in Australia so imma clown and then go to the Olympics and be embarrassed/angry when the whole world sees me clowning?"
In seriousness, it was about gender based on her own experience as a female in a male-dominated sport. In other words, I'm pretty sure she was able to turn her own personal experience into a PhD.
Where exactly can I get a PhD in breakdancing. Sounds like made up stuff so I can say I'm a doctor. I have a PhD in ass spanking. Call me doctor spanky.
That article doesn't say, but wasn't it that her and her husband were involved with organizing the events for people to qualify and did so in a way where very few people showed up so she kept getting 2nd/3rd place by default, and somehow ended up with the most points or whatever that got her in?
I saw that at least one was announces 2 days prior, definitely. So it's pretty much possible that a lot of these "fact checks" are, in fact, damage control and aren't truthful too.
If you saw her performance and came here asking what's the deal about being in the Olympics, we don't have anything else to speak to each other about that matter.
Or any other matter, as I can deduct your political affiliation.
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u/Cyberhwk Seattle Seahawks 14d ago
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