On a Dublin Bus this morning
William writes:
“‘Qualified success’ means ‘partial success’ – so their college poster-child [possibly posed by model] is literally saying ‘I want to be a partial success’. All the more amusing as this college specialises in communications…”
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i thought this was going to be about the seanad, you got me
William, the pendants of the world had a meeting (I was also present). We want to you to be our leader :)
Fupp you and your poxy ‘pendants of the world’ society.
Us choker-wearers have been standing on the outside looking in for too long!
Noooooo!!! The supreme irony of misspelling “pedants” is not lost on me.
:0)
Well their communications skills managed to get their bus poster shared on Broadsheet. A qualified success in itself.
The fact you felt you had to explain it makes me sad…
Explain why, please.
Never trust a private business college!
She looks like she’s taking up the rear.
Analyse that.
The rear of the bus?
A few inconsistencies too: “Environmental Management” vs. “Retail management”. Not great for the Communications and Management Institute.
Double exclamation point after “Now Enrolling” – madness!
Even Trinity College are the business of hawking Master’s degrees on buses and DARTs.
No wonder they’re slipping the ranks so quickly.
Could just be honest advertising from a college that, let’s face it, tends to attract people who can’t get in anywhere else. “It’s not quite Ivy League, but doing a course here will probably be of some use when it comes to getting a job.”
bourgeois much?
Best thing on BS in a long time.
“Qualified success” could also mean a successful person who has an academic qualification but don’t let the facts get in the way of something else.
That’s not what it means, it’s not how that word is used. This isn’t pedantry or misreading, if something is a ‘qualified’ anything, it means there’s a ‘but’ after it.
John Murphy is a qualified accountant but someone over there just drew a picture of crystal meth on a carpet.
The ad copy was only provisionally approved
I’m sure they’ll offer a fulsome correction. Fulsomely.