Saturday, November 08, 2008

Nerd News: Hilarious Advice for University Nerds

Take a look at this! An example:

Make sure your underwear fits and is unobtrusive, consider whether your eyebrows are a distraction to others and, at all costs, avoid looking cheap.

This is the grooming advice given to new staff at Leeds Metropolitan University as part of a guide to etiquette.

The rules were set out during “manners training”, which included how to walk wearing a hat, how to select the correct cutlery during dinner and how to make polite small talk.

In the chapter on developing a “personal brand”, the graduate trainees were told to avoid wearing “clashing colours, crumpled or stained clothes” and to make an effort not to appear “frumpy, tarty, [or] lazy”, Times Higher Education reports.
Tee-hee!

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