So the daughter got her A-Level results today (all fine, thanks for asking) and it

[Ash]

No idea. I remember some shít about rheostats (no idea) and mysterious circuit diagrams. All a load of bòllocks if you ask me.

What's physics ever done for anyone, eh?

Apart from just about every convenience and comfort of the modern world. As well you know.

[Burney]

Apart from just about every convenience and comfort of the modern world. As well you know.

Yes, but without an arts graduate there to explain in comprehensible terms to an uncaring world what the fùck the badly-dressed virgin is banging on about, physicists would never get anywhere.

[Ash]

Yes, but without an arts graduate there to explain in comprehensible terms to an uncaring world what the fùck the badly-dressed virgin is banging on about, physicists would never get anywhere.

People don't need televisions or high-speed travel explained to them. They do supposedly need know-nothing, bullshítting salesmen though, for some unfathomable reason. Arts grads can at least fill that void.