http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52426 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 08:36:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52426#post-150915 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:39:53 +0000 JonnyJP 150915@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well that's certainly funnier than my story. 5 stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52426#post-150879 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:51:52 +0000 JonnyJP 150879@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's late so my grammar won't be the bestest. Or the attempted comedy </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52426#post-150878 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:51:15 +0000 JonnyJP 150878@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Following the huge popularity of internet crazes like ‘planking’ and ‘milking’, a new trend is rapidly gaining notoriety amongst British students and is soon to be the fastest growing internet waste of time ever.</p> <p>‘Learning’ is believed to have been started at the academic powerhouse Liverpool John Moores University and involves students filming each other taking part in a variety of ridiculous activities that attempt to improve their knowledge and allow them to pass a sole exam each year.</p> <p>A 30 minute video posted on YouTube last week that showed a group of journalism students attending one of their 3 lectures attracted 50,000 views in its first week. The ridiculous and unusual behaviour has prompted other students to follow suit as more videos are posted each day. The most recent, 5 Lincoln University Media Studies students sitting quietly in a library reading through their course notes, amassed over 500,000 hits in 4 days.</p> <p>Keith Waterman, who posted the original ‘learning’ video online couldn’t believe how popular his skit has become in the UK.</p> <p>“After a hard days standing perfectly still in strange locations and pouring dairy products over my body in a busy shopping centre me and my mates were trying to think of something outrageous we could do. Then it hit me. Why not do something with this 3 year free ride and actually go to some of the £9,000 per year lectures my parents are paying for”.</p> <p>The pointless activity, despite over a billion likes on its Facebook fan page, is causing concern for Education Secretary Michael Gove who believes these kinds of fads are more harmless than fun.</p> <p>“This irresponsible behaviour should be nipped in the bud immediately” the Pob-faced politician argued. “If all students actually started learning stuff then this would lead to a generation of adults who might actually realise we’re pretty shit at running the country. Plus we need De Montford class graduates so there is a stream of workers able to serve burgers to Eric Pickles for him to stuff in his stupid fat face”. </p>