tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post2148161973139374590..comments2024-03-28T18:32:00.146+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Help A London Glaswegian Child...JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-67137531493758485092010-09-23T05:45:04.152+01:002010-09-23T05:45:04.152+01:00"I know....we could call them 'grammar sc...<i>"I know....we could call them 'grammar schools'."</i> <br /><br />Heh... ;)JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-62313949533299493452010-09-23T05:44:29.103+01:002010-09-23T05:44:29.103+01:00"AKA Self Improvement, one of those nasty Vic...<i>"AKA Self Improvement, one of those nasty Victorian ideas we were so happy to get rid of?"</i> <br /><br />Quite!<br /><br /><i>"Well, fuck, where's my share? And I want extra for the Boer War and the Crimean campaign - no I wasn't in it but some of my genes were."</i> <br /><br />Indeed! Where does it ever stop?<br /><br /><i>"Could it be that many people are the pigs' ears in employment terms and we have nutter schemes around to turn them into silk purses when the answer lies in factory work and community projects, not the vaunted education, education, education?"</i><br /><br />Indeed. What's the value of a PhD in media studies? When my pipes burst at 3:00am, I need an emergency plumber, not a dissertation on the films of Quentin Tarantino...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-23664614143236579302010-09-22T18:56:24.235+01:002010-09-22T18:56:24.235+01:00"I swears at me effin' kids 'cos they..."I swears at me effin' kids 'cos they bastards" will, under our enlightened rulers in the quest to eradicate poverty, smoothly become: "I swear at my effing children because they are without a father."<br /><br />I love socialism... it makes everything perfect!Heard on the streetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-71544659798310384452010-09-22T18:34:40.923+01:002010-09-22T18:34:40.923+01:00"astonishing gaps in academic attainment betw..."astonishing gaps in academic attainment between poor children and affluent ones.". No, most if not all children are poor. What is meant is " astonishing gaps between children of high achieving and therefore wealthy parents and those children of low achieving and therefore poor parents". I suspect that most children of tall skinny parents are less dumpy than those of short little fatties. Such is life.ReefKnotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-83826961373428855092010-09-22T17:20:58.004+01:002010-09-22T17:20:58.004+01:00Last week, the charity revealed astonishing gaps i...<i>Last week, the charity revealed astonishing gaps in academic attainment between poor children and affluent ones. </i><br /><br />Well STC has got pots of money. Why doesn't it select some poor children and give them an education? You can do ten years of reasonable quality education for a child for the same cost as one year of a middle-ranking marketing manager (say, £60k) and that way you might be able to help at least some children. <br /><br />Better choose the brighter ones, though, or else it'll be chucking money down a hole.<br /><br />I know....we could call them 'grammar schools'.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-83099671607054621652010-09-22T16:41:08.168+01:002010-09-22T16:41:08.168+01:00If women didn't work, as was once an ideal (ne...If women didn't work, as was once an ideal (never a reality) we might have full employment.<br />Could it be that many people are the pigs' ears in employment terms and we have nutter schemes around to turn them into silk purses when the answer lies in factory work and community projects, not the vaunted education, education, education? Could we be keeping these estates in reserve for the next war? I doubt more than one or two nutters in them thinks they are owed a living because great grandfather was forced over the top.<br />My guess is these people are merely the first victims of productivity increases and globalisation. Little in this is new as we can find mass unemployment, crap pay and so on throughout history. War and plague have been amongst the cures.<br />Crud like this is all a blind to what is going on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-65381379899195557712010-09-22T14:59:43.378+01:002010-09-22T14:59:43.378+01:00"Pre-earned the right to significant state in..."Pre-earned the right to significant state intervention" because of what their ancestors have done? Something they themselves did not, could not, have anything to do with? Well, fuck, where's my share? And I want extra for the Boer War and the Crimean campaign - no I wasn't in it but some of my genes were. And has anyone told the Irish? They had a civil war so <i>everybody</i> wins the compo bingo there.<br /><br />/facepalmAngry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-55355842247774850912010-09-22T12:54:03.157+01:002010-09-22T12:54:03.157+01:00"...take them to an art gallery the legacy wi..."...take them to an art gallery the legacy will last for ever."<br /><br />AKA Self Improvement, one of those nasty Victorian ideas we were so happy to get rid of?Roue le Jourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099318677226041054noreply@blogger.com