things that have irked me today

[El Pibe]

moderators with an onanistic sense of humour...gits!!!

[Alan Medic]

Words I don't understand the meaning of.

[Otta]

Oops, sorry I nevet turned the italics off properly. Alwayd but the i and the / the wrong way round.

[Otta]

I suspect the 15 year okds not being toilet trained has something to do with hand washing or lads pissing on the seat. But that is a total guess.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Normal, in other words.

[Otta]

Exactly.

[Robert Poste's Child]

...though that's conjecture too, of course.

[civilservant]

lazy writing. lazy analysis. and in the Indy, did you say?

Otta Wrote:

>

> The survey of 602 teachers in primary schools and 561 teachers in secondary schools found that

> pupils as old as 15 were not toilet trained, despite having no medical conditions or developmental issues.

>

So all you can really say was that the oldest kid who wasn't toilet trained was 15. We aren't told if there was more than one nappy wearer of that age

>

> Nine per cent - almost one in 10 head teachers and

> senior staff - said that a child aged between five

> and seven had come to school wearing a nappy in

> the past year.

>

So this could have been a single kid per school per year in 9% of the sampled schools?

>

> The figure was five per cent for classroom teachers.

>

what rahrahrah said!

> If the figure is representative of schools across England, it could mean that up to 1,600 of the

> 16,000 primary schools in the country have at least one pupil over the age of five still wearing

> a nappy.

>

>

so... 1,600 5-7 year olds still in nappies, out of around 2 million 5-7 year-olds in England

that's hardly an epidemic!

[steveo]

Drunk blokes in short jackets in Covent Garden

[LadyDeliah]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> vgrant Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > the woman on the train yesterday talking about

> > going on a detox. Not the woman herself, but

> those

> > who make and market this shite by reinforcing

> > insecurities and body image ting. innit

>

> Wasn't me, but don't knock it till you've tried it

> (a proper one though or you're wasting your

> money). Most people use the word detox to mean

> having a slightly less self-indulgent lifestyle

> for a bit. The real thing is nothing to do with

> body image. I can't bear the words 'pampering,

> 'spa' or 'me time', either - if you ask me that's

> what's leading to five-year-olds arriving at

> school still in nappies and unable to have a

> conversation.

Cos mothers are supposed to devote their every waking hour to serving the needs of their offspring. Dads are ok to do their own thing tho, kids only need mums as slaves.

And before you say your comment was gender neutral, not many guys I know do spa pamper days.

[Otta]

civilservant Wrote:

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> lazy writing. lazy analysis. and in the Indy, did

> you say?

Yep. Although that was the best I could find. The Mail and Telegraph links to the same (non)"story" were worse.

[Robert Poste's Child]

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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>

> Cos mothers are supposed to devote their every

> waking hour to serving the needs of their

> offspring. Dads are ok to do their own thing tho,

> kids only need mums as slaves.

>

> And before you say your comment was gender

> neutral, not many guys I know do spa pamper days.

Your interpretation not mine, but you're right to the extent that men do narcissism differently.

[vgrant]

not all fathers do their own thing to the detriment of their families and partners btw.

[LadyDeliah]

Ditto mothers.

So, RPC are you saying that parents doing pamper/spa/me time type stuff are narcissistic?

Do you think that parents should put their kids at the centre of their universe and devote all their energy to them?

Just interested because I'd rather top myself than feel obliged to become that kind of parent or I'd want to kill the bratty, self-absorbed kids that kind of parenting produces.

[El Pibe]

remember life's too short to get irked, i saw an inspirational message the other day in one of those inspirational messages that do the rounds on t'interweb, that I sooooooo love!!!!

 

[Robert Poste's Child]

LD, I was talking about words that reflect an aspect of our culture that I'm not keen on, but by all means take it to extremes and be dismissive if it makes you feel good.

[vgrant]

my thread, my rules- please move this this discussion elsewhere. we dont tolerate no dialectics here innit. this is for low level shouting at the world and raising your fist to the heavens

[Otta]

Special Schools for the Visually Impaired!!!

I recognise that this is something of a niche irk, but believe me, my fist is raised.

[Robert Poste's Child]

vgrant Wrote:

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> my thread, my rules- please move this this

> discussion elsewhere. we dont tolerate no

> dialectics here innit. this is for low level

> shouting at the world and raising your fist to the

> heavens

Happy to oblige.

On the shouting/fist-waving, how is that different from any other thread?

[vgrant]

its more grumbling and paltry fist waving than incandescence and seething fury

[Robert Poste's Child]

Thanks, that's much clearer now.

*stamps off to passive aggressive aka 'wrong thread' thread*

[????]

New students new to London on the bus(every year I forget and then THERE THEY ARE). Tonight's egs from the 40

"is this still London?" (not even at Green Street) "erm, not sure, may be Surrey?"

" I've a lecture at 9am...I just don't do 9am"

[StraferJack]

Green st? On the 40?

Newbies eh?

[uncleglen]

He might mean Goose green.....Green Street is E13

[StraferJack]

My point exactly uncleg