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Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills
PeterAitch writes "According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into the world of work'. The 440 students enrolled in the master's degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, impress people at parties and cope with rejection(s)." The class is taught by a superficial model, who will fall in love with the nerdiest student at the end of the semester after realizing that he is beautiful on the inside.
Who here sees the irony?
German teaching social skills?
Anybody who lives in Europe knows about German "social skills"
1) Queues? Who needs them, I will just jump ahead.
2) Reserving lounge chairs with towels at 5 AM! Yeah that makes sense, I will reserve something when I am not even there...
3) Taking a vacation anywhere in Europe only to hear the noisy drunks, and people asking, "why can't they get real bread or real sausages, like we have in Germany." When I was living on the French Riveria, German friends brought their own food. I asked why? They said, "French can't make food like Germans can." Oh YEAH, the German cuisine is known for its good taste! Better than French (NOT!)
Germans are good at many things (building [insert product name here]), but social graces is not a German trait. But then again, maybe this course is typical German! Pushy, want to right the system and think on how they have social graces...
For those wondering, I AM GERMAN (born there, have the passport, though lived for the most part in Canada and the States)! Right now I live in Switzerland. And yes I have problems living with my own "country kin".
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
And anyone who disagrees can have the Israel Defense Force remind your "master race" of why that idea is no longer allowed.
Yeah, let's not be mean to furries. They're going to cease conscious existence when they die just like all other sinners against God anyway, so in the end it's not worth it!