mockney piers

Hello stranger!! reminds me http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,134089,page=1

Current events are uncanny aren't they.

It's a bit patronising to your average punter to say that their time in school was a brainwashing and that's why they're in the rat race. Compare today's rat race with a literate and largely skilled population to any time prior to the 20th century and I know when I'd rather live. To be honest, if government is going to pay for education you can't expect them to teach you how to bring a government down; well, not unless you're teaching our youths in the army how to bring someone else's government down. I'm afraid for 60 million of us to survive on this island we're going to have to play a something of a cog no matter what your politics are, ain't enough wealth, land or food to go round love. Fine if you finally get your AK, but personally I'll take my chances with, you know, a job and stuff.

Hmm, yes, poor choice of words given events. Again, he may have given the nod to Kratos, but from what I've managed to read he had no involvement with the running of that operation. In fact it was hours before anyone dared to send the info up the chain that they'd quite clearly killed an innocent man, hence much of the misinformation that flew about in the hours after the shooting.

We're not going to enjoy all lessons, but it's still important to get something of a rounded education, so i think it's still important to go to lessons that don't interest you prior to GCSEs. But agree that encouraging and inspiring (and a great teacher can do that even with an unpopular subject) is more important than stuffing stuff down throats. I'm glad your kids are enjoying school, long may it continue. ps I should briefly point out that I may have juxtaposed national curriculum and obsession with stats implying that the former was also labours fault. It was a Tory policy and I'm sorry if I unintentionally misled. pps was going to make another stuff joke, but it would have been far too blue for the forum's sensibilities ;)

Ian Blair was brought in as a troubleshooter and moderniser, and yes was very much a Blair man. He's done pretty well given his remit and that he was largely strategy and policy rather than operational, but unsurprisingly managed to alienate virtually the whole rank-and-file in the process, not to mention put a lot of more senior noses out of joint having been fast-tracked to that position. I've no love for the man as any one reciting party lines (yeah, you Harman, Blears et al) by rote is guaranteed to wind me up. I imagine Boris has had a word with police and said, what do you need to do your job, and most of them have said less red tape and get rid of Blair, the writing was on the wall the second his namesake left office frankly.

Seriously for aq moment, that's not an easy one to quantify. My (comprehensive) education was excellent but I know my old school has gone to pot, partly through half the schools in the town being closed down while the remaining schools both doubled in size, partly because, in order to fund said 'cost saving' strategy, experienced teachers were given involuntary redundancy and school leavers were hired to fill the vacancies. Short sighted strategy that will take decades to fully recover from. How can you measure an education? Ask labour and they'll chuck a bunch of league tables, exam results and so forth at it, but what was so good about my school was that so much of what we were taught had nothing to do with the curriculum, but encouraging the kids to think for themselves (plus it was pre national curriculum so veering away from the text book was not an issue). In short, impossible to answer, but the best placed to answer is the educatee I guess, judging the quality of the teaching and their own participation in retrospect. How do you feel about yours?

Me. Judge jury and person who puts stuff in the stocks.

Graham Le Saux suffered homophobic abuse for years just for reading the guardian and being a bit French

Count me in as a judge, I've long said that the Mojito (and a Martini to be fair) is the litmus test of quality for any bar.

We are all so going to hell!! ;-P

amazing what people will do in order to be accepted!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7647099.stm

I think the stocks will suffice ;) mmmmmm stock

busy busy busy, hope to catch you all next time.

Biblical metaphors in a football chant, impressive frankly, disregarding the racist and distasteful overtones. Plus I'm sure anyone singing that isn't saying "racist, me? no guv", but quite content in their overt racism.

I can accept dyslexia as a disablity, but a poor education has to be a disadvantage I'm afraid. Objection sustained.

Typical, I've only just got the current one to replace the old one stolen by my niece-in-law!!!

What happens when God spills his deposits on stony ground? Snowmen?

careful jah, it's open to interpretation that one. raisins not virgins Who'd have thought misunderstandings could arise from ancient mistranslations eh?

"yet not eternal as that implies a liner passage of time" Talking of which, what's that classic black & white film about the characters on a passenger liner, each of which rather unsure as to why they're there, tells each other their life story, and it soon turns out they're all dead (and presumably in purgatory) and not until each resolves their issues are they allowed to walk through a door to their respective fates. I watched it when very very young and I believed in god, and I had an issue with the plot about the recently married sailor (I guess sunk, it was during the war) had to come to terms with the fact that he couldn't go back to his wife to tell her he's ok, but don't worry you'll be reunited again in heaven, she'll wait for you. I couldn't help but think that everyone would actually be telling her that she has to move on as he'd want her to live her life in full. No he doesn't, he's gutted from Ilford love and horrified at the thought of your getting some!! Anyway, it was one of the first times I questioned the logic of the tenants(sic) of the faith I'd been (rather half-heartedly) brought up with, and it pretty soon all came crashing down the moment I started applying any analysis (BUT WHY MUMMY?) to it.

"People who get on the lift on the 1st floor and off on the 2nd floor" I love that scene in Peep Show where the office junior does that, and as Mark begins to have a go at him, the junior limps out of the lift with an obviously crippled leg. Of course that turns out later to be a wind-up itself, but all very funny.

Like 'Kick Me', or all the doctors being naked under the surgical gowns, that sort of thing? Come on annaj/bn5, you do that sort of thing anyway don't you, I've heard about medical humour!!

Ha ha!! Touch?. Nicely spaced and formatted though wasn't it?

strictly speaking I think that's beyond Letchworth rather than Watford.

She doesn't strike me as being much of a media whore, at least no more than her career demands, and maintains her privacy where possible. Contrasted against the raft of talented nobodies who genuinely plague the fabric of modern life, she don't* look so bad all of a sudden. Mind you I've yet to be convinced she's especially talented bar her obvious prettiness, which agreed would be improved given a pie or two. *yes, I know it's 'doesn't' for all those on the grammar thread.