Not sure I follow – does one have to watch the video – or is it going to be an issue of plagiarising bollox from ole pig-face?
Noel Scoper
Egotist or just thick?
Dr. Keith Crainshaw says:
December 15 2016 at 12:34 pm
Good news. I remember reading some of the commentary at the time and it was nasty stuff. Saying you couldn’t do basic accountancy like calculating dividends, calling you a union shill and suffering from some Dunning-Kruger disease.
More power to you Richard.
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P Petain says:
December 15 2016 at 3:39 pm
I agree. You would think that somebody operating under the obligations of membership of a professional body would able to comply with just the basic requirements for treating others with courtesy and consideration, being honest and truthful, and avoiding making disparaging references to the work of others. Only a blithering idiot would struggle with what is essentially just being a decent human being.
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Dr. Keith Crainshaw says:
December 16 2016 at 8:45 am
You are right, and the fact that these people can’t see it in themselves means they are beyond help and should be ignored, or at least ridiculed.
and avoiding making disparaging references to the work of others
Interestingly, none of my professional codes of conduct, unlike ICAEW, forbid this. Probably because the engineering institutions would quite like professional engineers to make disparaging references to other engineers’ work when, and only when, it is unfit for purpose.
Considering that Murphy has yet to rise from his usual “complete and utter ignorant bollocks” to “obvious even to a an idiot (or a journalist, but I repeat myself) that it is total rubbish”, merely “unfit for purpose” is a dizzy height possibly beyond his comprehension, never mind a realistic target for achievement.
Matthew L
How did P Petain slip past his expert google skills?
Tim Worstall
Been managing it for at least a month too….
Theophrastus
Prof Steve Keen of Kingston University – the hallowed grove of academe that employs that intellectual titan, Sunny Hundal.
John Square
At Athens airport waiting for a flight in a silent lounge, and Mr Scoper’s post has made me snort booze out of my nose.
I may be being deemed unsuitable for executive level treatment as a result of this.
Chapeau, M. Petain!
Andrew M
> Kingston University – the hallowed grove of academe …
Isn’t Essex worse for terrible economics / accounting profs? Prem Sikka springs to mind; and their graduates occasionally grace the pages of the Guardian with silly ideas.
Theophrastus
Andrew M
I’m sure you are right. Essex does excel in other areas than economics, while Kingston is a ‘mickey mouse’ university.
Ian Reid
@Neil Soper
My mind read Crainshaw as Chainsaw. Which would be quite appropriate.
Not sure I follow – does one have to watch the video – or is it going to be an issue of plagiarising bollox from ole pig-face?
Egotist or just thick?
Dr. Keith Crainshaw says:
December 15 2016 at 12:34 pm
Good news. I remember reading some of the commentary at the time and it was nasty stuff. Saying you couldn’t do basic accountancy like calculating dividends, calling you a union shill and suffering from some Dunning-Kruger disease.
More power to you Richard.
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P Petain says:
December 15 2016 at 3:39 pm
I agree. You would think that somebody operating under the obligations of membership of a professional body would able to comply with just the basic requirements for treating others with courtesy and consideration, being honest and truthful, and avoiding making disparaging references to the work of others. Only a blithering idiot would struggle with what is essentially just being a decent human being.
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Dr. Keith Crainshaw says:
December 16 2016 at 8:45 am
You are right, and the fact that these people can’t see it in themselves means they are beyond help and should be ignored, or at least ridiculed.
Noel
That’s priceless…
“suffering from some Dunning-Kruger disease.”
Disease?!
I suppose in Murphy’s case it could be.
Interestingly, none of my professional codes of conduct, unlike ICAEW, forbid this. Probably because the engineering institutions would quite like professional engineers to make disparaging references to other engineers’ work when, and only when, it is unfit for purpose.
Considering that Murphy has yet to rise from his usual “complete and utter ignorant bollocks” to “obvious even to a an idiot (or a journalist, but I repeat myself) that it is total rubbish”, merely “unfit for purpose” is a dizzy height possibly beyond his comprehension, never mind a realistic target for achievement.
How did P Petain slip past his expert google skills?
Been managing it for at least a month too….
Prof Steve Keen of Kingston University – the hallowed grove of academe that employs that intellectual titan, Sunny Hundal.
At Athens airport waiting for a flight in a silent lounge, and Mr Scoper’s post has made me snort booze out of my nose.
I may be being deemed unsuitable for executive level treatment as a result of this.
Chapeau, M. Petain!
> Kingston University – the hallowed grove of academe …
Isn’t Essex worse for terrible economics / accounting profs? Prem Sikka springs to mind; and their graduates occasionally grace the pages of the Guardian with silly ideas.
Andrew M
I’m sure you are right. Essex does excel in other areas than economics, while Kingston is a ‘mickey mouse’ university.
@Neil Soper
My mind read Crainshaw as Chainsaw. Which would be quite appropriate.
Theophrastus
To my knowledge, Essex only “excels” in political science, and they are so far left they make Jeremy Corbyn look rational and bright.
My mother got her social work diploma from Kingston poly back in the 1980s.
I frequently use the term ‘bollocks’ when referring to other engineers work, sometimes adding ‘complete and utter’.
Bloke in La Mancha
And History. Hugh Brogan taught there – he of the masterly one volume history of the USA.
Bugger! Sometimes I correctly use apostrophes as well.
Trivium:
Hugh Brogan’s middle name is Vercingetorix.
Ahem:
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2016/12/13/prof-steve-keen-on-private-debt-and-his-solution-peoples-qe/#comment-44768
Keen admits he’s following Henry Ford and Hitler.
“Does whoever wrote this shite still work here?”
Why did I think Kingston Uni was the old Hull College of FE (Mrs SE being a rather non-proud grad thereof.)
MBE
Curiously, HVB is also an authority on the life and letters of Arthur Ransome…