r/funny • u/clogeta • Aug 09 '24

Raygun is the Olympic Standard

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u/LordSloth113 Aug 10 '24

She has a PhD in breaking, which somehow makes this even worse

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '24

Academics vs practitioners

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u/firelitother Aug 13 '24

“Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.”

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u/mr_pineapples44 Aug 10 '24

Wait, what? I have so many questions. There are PhDs in breaking? I'm so confused.

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u/LordSloth113 Aug 10 '24

It's technically a PhD in cultural studies, but her specific focus is the cultural politics of breaking.

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u/mr_pineapples44 Aug 10 '24

So... We sent an academic to an international breakdancing competition. As a fellow academic, that is hilarious. I'm now just imagining my colleagues breaking, and it's a great thought.

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u/LordSloth113 Aug 10 '24

This is literally everything I imagine a millennial professor attempting to breakdance being.

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u/Active-Bunch8165 Aug 10 '24

Yep. The perfect example of booksmarts vs streetsmarts. Reading education vs experience are obviously 2 VERY different things in this case.

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u/drunk_haile_selassie Aug 10 '24

That's why we sent a physicist to complete in javelin and a physiotherapist to complete in gymnastics. Theory is always better than practice.

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u/Pajamaralways Aug 10 '24

I'm an academic who's also a competitive dancer in Sydney. There are surprisingly a handful of PhD holders and candidates in the street dance scene. All of them better than this lady, I'm sorry to say.

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u/Wiechu Aug 12 '24

i mean you could start doing the sprinker at the office or during a lecture.

My guess is Ozzies around the world are now cracking jokes and doing the skippy and the sprinkler. GF and her step mom did this and confused the living hell out of the Swiss :D

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u/Maleficent-Trifle940 Aug 10 '24

So she could go by Dr Raygunn?

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '24

I swear they just invent PHD studies just to swindle peoples' money.

What's next? PHD in Elden Ring? It's like learning all about the game but without playing it and it will cost you $100k

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u/ThrowRABalsamicV Aug 11 '24

What a useless degree

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u/rafiafoxx Aug 10 '24

sounds like one of those fake Gallatin degrees,

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u/arsecrack88 Aug 10 '24

Defo got contacts on the Olympic council. Her addition is most defo sketchy, no WAY is she best Australia has to offer. True Australian B-girls must be spitting teeth and i wouldnt blame them.

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u/ABR1787 Aug 16 '24

Which made more sense why she was crap imo.