Diplomacy

My English wife says, that I'm a master scone maker. Does that count?

@Pepijn If that is true, and your wife is a competent judge, then it does count. It's not what it is that is the question; it is the level of Mastery.

I'm a Pokemon master. I'm the reigning champion of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Kalos.

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I was mastering being a professional student, but I got tired of getting up for classes.

Well, it is true, as to her competency, maybe I should have clarified that she is from Devon, where scones are featured in the Devon cream tea. On the other hand, they are not the most taxing of recipes, so I find it difficult to say where the mastery comes in.

According to a piece of paper on my wall I mastered science.

@Pepijn You're disqualified! No master would ever be so unsure of his own craft. Look at these other asshats, they don't know anything yet they *claim* mastery. They've mastered the first step of mastery as such. You, you're gone! Disqualified for being mealy-mouthed.

@ Pepijn

You are the master of nothing. Devonshire dumplings (being little better than your average emmet) are famed across the civalised world for have no understanding of how to construct a cream tea. The cretins have somehow managed to get it into their heads that the cream is placed upon the scone before the jam!

The original and best cream teas are from Cornwall, and naturally the cream is placed atop the jam.

I've mastered bating...

Was that what you wanted to hear, Santa? :-)

I have mastered catching multi's and being modest.

Better than mastering being multis.

Othello, but it only took me a minute to learn.

Presumably only a piece of science abge

@Lando

One would think, and yet that's what it says.

Do they take away your Bachelor's degree when you get married? ¿NO? Well, a degree that says "Master's" is equally a misnomer. I'm talking about ACTUAL MASTERY, not some nonsense qualification that says you obeyed your thesis advisor adequately.

I am willing to bet good money that there's not a man alive that can best me at a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos.

A am the undisputed master of being Draugnar.

I dispute that

I'm muting this thread.

I mastered not mastering anything.....

tendmote is a Master of not being able to take a joke.

Hmm....I believe that I completely mastered the art of extreme off-topic outbursts based upon half-reading of threads in (quite successful) attempts to rile up the natives and turn otherwise (possibly) decent people in to poo-flinging dance monkeys.

Nope. Your not, krells.

I thought of a real one:

I'm a master of touch typing. I can write and code without looking at the keyboard. In fact, my keyboard is completely blank; it has no letters or symbols on the keys.

I'm a master of long road trips. I can drive 17-19 hours a day for multiple days in a row* while maintaining focus.

*(Well, the definition of "day" has to be lengthened a bit if I'm going to get reasonable sleep).

Abge - I once came to work and my coworkers had popped all my keys out and rearranged them. I smiled and went on about my day, touch-typing in spite of them.

@ Octavious

The statement has non sequiturs on so many levels, it's hard to know where to start! First, not being master of the noble art of scone making, does not mean that I am not master of something. Second, in which order to top the scones with clotted cream, jam and potentially butter, has little to do with my alleged mastery of baking. Third, according to my father in-laws, who claims to be Cornish by an inch, his countrymen do not use scones for cream tea but some other concoction.

@ Pep

You condemn yourself with your own words. An amateur baker may well be content with a decent quality naked scone. The master baker you claim to be would not be satisfied by leaving the scone in such a state, and would dress it to perfection the way God and Cornwall know to be correct... Jam then cream.

Butter?!? The shame of it!

Naturally your true Cornishman can use scones in many ways, but in the form of a cream tea there are certain rules that keep us from savagery that must be obeyed.

Master baker... Sounds a lot like something else...

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