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Time to Abolish Christmas ?
Time to Abolish Christmas ?
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JRM is a very intelligent well educated man and well mannered who is also well off and this winds up people who aren't.
Corbyn is also from a well off family but pretends he isn't. And is thick as a pair of short things you can get from Jewsons. He went to a prep school, a grammar school, and even with all these benefits only got two Es at A level in **** subjects then dropped out of a crap course at a poly before becoming a trade union commissar... It's funny when lefties say that such schools give kids such an advantage. WTF would Jeremy The Thick Commie have got if he'd went to a crap state schools. |
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Would appear that he's loth to throw his own panama in the ring anyway, he's Boris's second now.
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Superflous "a" there. I really should stop editing and not re-reading my sentence...
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I got D & E A levels, makes me smarter than Jezzer, end of.
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Actually one of them woz general studies so that might not count.
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And I'm fully aware that I'm not as well bred as JRM.
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"The Thick Commie have achieved". Even at the thought of the great man, ones inner mog is pulsating through oneself and realising how much better one could express myself, should one take a second to consider ones vocabulary :)
All Hail The Mog. |
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I'm not a protestant either so I can't claim superiority on those grounds.
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I got a D in English
"The thick commie has achieved". |
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Actually I think that is a VERY good point I made above. If the logical postulate IS that things like prep schools and grammar schools give kids an unfair academic advantage, and Corbyn (brought up in what is virtually a manor house surely with huge parental support), and had all these advantages and was still incredibly mediocre, what does it say about him?
I find it HILARIOUS when people try to suggest Corbyn is a "man of the people". This is the house he was brought up in: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11818744/Jeremy-Corbyn-the-boy-to-the-manor-born.html A SEVEN BEDROOM MANOR HOUSE. Look at that house. That is not a 2 up 2 down in a mining village. How many people know that and Corbyn's actual background? If Mogg was brought up in that mansion I'm sure the left would talk about it .. but the BBC etc never talk about it .. yet his supporters say the BBC have it in for him.. |
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he does his own garden though
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I was working class but won the scholarship to private school. Dropped out in the 4th year though.
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Not sure that's anything to be proud of mouse. AFTER is understandable perhaps. DURING?
I've slipped out during and it's never been met with a favourable response. |
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Education is a results driven business. I needed to chill out a bit. I suppose what I learned is to take less notice of so-called "class" and get on more with doing my own sort of thing.
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And I've never worn the spiv tie, just the house tie and now I have a tie just for weddings and funerals.
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As to being right or left, lean towards the left a bit, you'll pull more birds.
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b]Education is a results driven business.[/b] In some aspects, correct, from the point of view of proving a point as to what a young person knows and can achieve. Some people (like myself, take that for what it is) like to learn for the sake of it so I learn things for the sake of it. BUT there is a reason people get qualifications and certificates, good reasons, and it will always be the case outside of failed state communist ****s. WTF else is an employer or uni supposed to look at. A uni won't read palms to decide if an applicant is good enough at Biology to study medicine.
I needed to chill out a bit. Fair enough! I suppose what I learned is to take less notice of so-called "class". No idea what you mean here. Either way I can think of it doesn't seem to make any sense. For working class kids a good education has always been the way to success. See 1. above! |
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For working class kids a good education has always been the way to success
Not if too much pressure applied by parents who aspire too much to have offspring that exceed their own level by a significant amount. I see this also now in my partner's youngest son who was pushed too far (not by her, by her ex). |
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Best to let the kids go their own way innit, dunno if JRM looks at it like that with his brood.
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tbf her older lad who's a bit more savvy won't have got the best out of it either, he's got his ba but saddled with the usual level of debt and no proper job at the end of it as yet.
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What a gloomy thread this has descended into, and to think the OP was advocating the abolition of xmas!
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Only 326 days to go
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"Not if too much pressure applied by parents who aspire too much to have offspring that exceed their own level by a significant amount."
I agree with this, not perhaps exceed but too much pressure can be counter productive, certaintly. "Best to let the kids go their own way innit" No, they are kids because they are kids. The "kids know best and will find their own path when the earth mother speaks to them" is imho rubbish, from my own observations of that approach. What YOU want to do mr mouse is read 212 rules for life" :) It's most certainly not a bible of absolute truth and frankly I disagree with a fair % of it, but it might make you have a think about this subject area as he talks about it a lot. The "kids always know best" is something I've seen trendy parents and it was pretty much 100% a disaster. |
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212 rules? Methinks the classic 10 commandments may be more manageable.
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*12 rules for life
212 rules for life is what happens when you get married. Silly rules. Rule 13. Don't leave toilet seat down. Rule 14. Don't leave cap off toothpaste tube. Rule 15. Don't roll in from pub and take dump in kitchen sink and photoshop pictures of my gran onto p0rn then post on facebook for laffs. Insane woman rules. |
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Googled 212 rules, can't find owt, do you have a link?
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re rule 14, I've found that all toothpastes come with an integrated cap nowadays.
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My toothpaste tubes don't? They have big fat caps, something to hold onto, "Kim Kardashian Arse Caps" as they call them in the toothpaste cap industry.
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rule 16 have a cuba libre nightcap at 2am if you so wish
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Has no one suggested that we have to abolish Christmas as its in the Brexit requirements.
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I'd prefer to abolish the leopard.
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I'd prefer to abolish Trilby !
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I thought they'd abolished slavery but I STILL get drool on my shirt when I'm hungry
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Irish traveller types still doing the old slavery bit.....group gets caught every month....and the sex traficers of various nationalities.
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they never try to pass dud 20s in town and when caught out they never threaten to return and smash the place up
or use youngsters to go in with 20s then the adults go in and threaten staff - I am glad to say they never do things like that |