r/interestingasfuck • u/Pepper_Kalaki • 16d ago

/r/all Why yo my dino nuggets spinning?

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u/moniefeesh 16d ago

Update: i have returned after watching all 3 of her rounds. It was hilarious and delightful, and the fact that she's a 36 year old doctor was the cherry on top. It was bad, like, atrocious, but I could tell she was having fun and it brought me joy that she kept going and that the commenters did not know what to do with her. She should be treasured.

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u/samosamancer 16d ago

Ohhh, doctor as in PhD, not medical doctor — I was confused for a bit.

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u/Minimum-War-266 15d ago

Yeah, her undergrad was in Throwdownosophy and Cyience, with her PhD in pure Breakology.

Her thesis actually was called Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying.

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u/No_Educator7268 15d ago

this is why I can't take academia seriously as a whole

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u/DorkusMalorkuss 15d ago

You didn't believe that did you? Lol

She has a PhD in Cultural Studies and a BA in Contemporary Music.

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u/No_Educator7268 15d ago

ok, to my defence... my comment was aimed to her thesis which seems to be real, so... I stand behind my words

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u/No_Educator7268 15d ago

shit... :D

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u/TheNotSoGoodCuber 15d ago

With a thesis titled "Deterritorializing gender in Sydney's breakdancing scene: a B-girl's experience of B-boying"? Not sure this helps her case at all...

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u/imperabo 15d ago

Most of academia has no connection to this nonsense and is very rigorous.

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u/Lloyd--Christmas 15d ago

MD’s stole the term doctor from PHD’s.

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u/Interesting-Back5717 15d ago

Yep, there’s even doctorate in nursing, which is ridiculous as a title. They need to either designate non-medical doctorate degrees with a different term or designate medical doctorate degrees with a different term. Patients literally get confused all the time, and it’s to their detriment.

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u/LooseAlbatross 16d ago

Where did you find the videos? Her lawyers and the IOC have tried to scrub them from the internet. I genuinely want to see the full sets.

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u/Leading-Mode-9633 15d ago

At first a lot of Australia felt something like that. But since she got back she's made a dickhead out of herself suing a small comedy show that was using her likeness (with the profits going to a woman's domestic violence shelter) that we've mostly turned against her. Raygun can fuck off.

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u/freddie2ndplanet 15d ago

dont celebrate bullshit

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u/Resolution-Academic 15d ago

She should not. Elevating her shit performance when scores of people better than her have trained their whole lives for this opportunity and the effectively spit in their faces with her performance. She made it a farce

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u/vegemitebikkie 15d ago

As an Aussie, she’s a rich, privileged, smug cu next Tuesday. Her husband is her coach and was one of her judges in the qualifying round that let her win, and go on to the Olympics. We don’t like her at all down here. She can get farked .

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u/socksmatterTWO 15d ago

She was dirty from the beginning and got 25 million in funding for THAT DISPLAY

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u/boluserectus 15d ago

She acted like a little bitch later on, no treasuring needed in my opinion..

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u/AmIFromA 15d ago

It's weird how much hate she got. Especially when you compare her with beloved competitors like Eddie the Eagle or Eric the Eel. I wonder what is different with her compared to those two guys. Can't put my finger on it, really.

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u/StandardReaction1849 15d ago

That she took the place of serious competitors makes her less of a beloved underdog figure than someone stepping up because no one in their country has those skills. Not saying that misogyny had no role in the reaction but it’s not the main thing.