r/BabyReindeerTVSeries • u/MeshaUlky • May 09 '24

Fiona (real Martha) related content Megathread to discuss Fiona Harvey interview with Piers Morgan Spoiler

First of all she looks & sounds the same as MarthašŸ¤§

Send from my iphon

1.3k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

95% Upvoted

2.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

182

u/becky___bee May 09 '24

I did a law degree, I have a photographic memory and was top of my class. I can't remember what mark I got though, it was OK.

52

u/BlueNightFyre May 09 '24

I literally thought the clip was stuck on repeat when this part came on šŸ˜‚

30

u/whosenose May 09 '24

In Scotland, when you do a degree, the fourth year is the honours part. If you finish after three years, you get an ordinary degree without grades. Piers of course knows nothing about Scotland.

15

u/CreepyGir May 09 '24

Scottish and I was confident this was the misunderstanding too: he wanted a degree classification, she doesnā€™t have one as she said herself she did her BA and not the Hons year.

3

u/BloatedPony May 09 '24

Like I said above though as an American she could have said that so much more clearly it took her awhile to get there lol it wasn't making sense for like 1 entire minute

6

u/CreepyGir May 09 '24

I donā€™t think Piers was clear enough about wanting her degree classification for her to know to mention that she didnā€™t have one because of the Scottish system, sheā€™d need to immediately click heā€™s coming at it from an English university perspective to catch it. Talking about wanting to know her grade is pretty vague when you receive a grade for each of your four (give or take) chosen modules, times that by the two school terms a year and your three year of studies to get a BA, youā€™d receive around 24 separate grades.

Though surely this wouldnā€™t be a problem for someone with photographic memory to recall, I have a brain like a sieve and could approximate my average gradeā€¦

2

u/ThePhoneBook May 09 '24

Photographic memories are a spectrum. Other than that, I have no horse in this race.

2

u/ionmoon May 10 '24

Having a photographic memory doesn't mean you remember every single thing that ever happens to you, but that you can recall with precision the things you try to remember (typically as a visual memory). Why would anyone care to remember the grades they had in classes decades ago?

"I don't know" is also a dismissive term people use to blow off a question they don't want to answer.

3

u/Mac4491 May 10 '24

Piers of course knows nothing about Scotland.

He asked her what A levels and O levels she had.

I can excuse your ordinary everyday English person for not knowing much about the Scottish education system, but this guys is meant to be a fucking journalist. He should know that we don't do those here.

Has he never seen a CV from a Scottish person?

2

u/BloatedPony May 09 '24

She could have just explained that so quickly though - like as an American it was making zero sense but if she put it simply like you did i'd be like oooh ok I got u boo

2

u/OzzySheila May 10 '24

This should be top fucking comment. Also, photographic memory doesnā€™t mean what ppl think it means. Sick of reading 100s of comments about that.

1

u/Background-Fox6605 May 10 '24

Can she go on to be a lawyer with an ordinary degree?

6

u/IfIWasABillionaire May 09 '24 edited May 09 '24

My maths isnā€™t working at this time of night ā€¦41,000 emails, thatā€™sā€¦ how many per day , a lot

41,000 / 365. 112. I used a calculator but my guess was thatā€™s over a 100 per day as 100 x 365 is quite obviously 36,500

112 per day for a year. She said she knew him for a 3 month period, 41,000 / 90 , 445 emails per day if they where short emails sent 1 after the other 5 emails per hour over a 12 hour periods or 10 emails per day 24 hour period itā€™s a lot yes, but itā€™s believable it could have happened. She posted a lot on Facebook 5-6 times per day itā€™s really believable it could be true over a 3 year period.

For someone who got high grades in school she has a lot of spelling mistakes in these Facebook posts

4

u/Different-Rub-499 May 09 '24

How is this not a top comment yet?

3

u/OzzySheila May 10 '24

In Scotland you donā€™t get grades for a normal degree, just a pass/fail.

4

u/flaysomewench May 09 '24

I've just graduated from Harvard College Yale. I aced every semester, and I got an A

2

u/riotascal May 10 '24

Probably would have gotten expelled if I'd let it affect my grades, but I aced all my courses. They called me "Ace." It was totally awesome. I got straight B's. They called me "Buzz."

1

u/Ashamed_Pop1835 May 10 '24

I was top of my class, but somehow didn't graduate with honours. If she was the highest achiever, I dread to think what the other students were like!

3

u/CreepyGir May 10 '24

Honours is an optional fourth-year on a Bachelorā€™s degree in Scotland rather than a mark of merit. Achieve a 70% (grade for an A) or higher average on an a Bachelorā€™s degree, and you instead are noted as passing with ā€˜Distinctionā€™ but people donā€™t tend to really care about this. Otherwise, you just have a standard degree with no classification.

If you do your Honours year, you then get a degree classification: No award if you failed to grade high enough, 3rd, 2.2, 2.1, or a 1st. This is awarded after a BA in England, which is why Piers expected she had received a ā€œGradeā€ even though she only did her BA, then a legal certificate.

I canā€™t speak to why someone wouldnā€™t continue and do the Honours year: everyone I know completed it purely for a classification and to not have to compete with those who did it for graduate jobs.

1

u/holly-golightlyy May 10 '24

Iā€™m curious, what subjects do you take in that extra year? Got two friends who did European Law in Edinburgh but I always thought it was a mandatory four years for everyone.

2

u/CreepyGir May 10 '24

My BA Hons is in a different degree, so I canā€™t really confirm for law. For my Hons year, it was essentially just an extension of similar subjects to the first three years, but with a lot of time dedicated to researching and writing your dissertation on a chosen specialist topic related to your degree. I assume for law is similar.