The Meldrew 'I don't believe it' thread.

[flatandy]

In the US, Mids would be on the center-left and vote Democrat because he knows this crap is embarrassing rather than actually caring about it deeply and wanting to fight a war over it.

[mids]

I see Bristol Uni hates Britain. Interesting that they wail about the national anthem but there's no sign of them knocking down the building pictured in the link, the Wills Building, even though it was paid for by W.D. & H.O. Wills, the tobacco firm.

"But since last year graduates at the institution — ranked ninth in the UK — have not sung it.

God Save the King will now be played only when a representative of the Royal Family is present.

University bosses have been accused of hating British culture and pandering to wokes.

Free Speech Union director Toby Young said: “Why are Britain’s most prestigious universities openly contemptuous of the country’s history and heritage?”"

www.thesun.co.uk/news/24983662/university-goes-woke-axes-national-anthem-graduation-ceremonies/

[Repat Van]

Dec 8, 2023 12:26:48 GMT mids said:

I see Bristol Uni hates Britain. Interesting that they wail about the national anthem but there's no sign of them knocking down the building pictured in the link, the Wills Building, even though it was paid for by W.D. & H.O. Wills, the tobacco firm.

"But since last year graduates at the institution — ranked ninth in the UK — have not sung it.

God Save the King will now be played only when a representative of the Royal Family is present.

University bosses have been accused of hating British culture and pandering to wokes.

Free Speech Union director Toby Young said: “Why are Britain’s most prestigious universities openly contemptuous of the country’s history and heritage?”"

www.thesun.co.uk/news/24983662/university-goes-woke-axes-national-anthem-graduation-ceremonies/

Waaaaaaaaaah!!!!

“ But since last year graduates at the institution — ranked ninth in the UK — have not sung it.”

What does idiot Young want to happen? Force people to sing it.

Seriously it’s a bit odd to play the NA at graduation ceremonies.

I had not realised this was a thing.

On a side note our anthem is rubbish. I definitely think the Yanks and Frenchies have better ones.

[Repat Van]

And once again this is conservatives showing they don’t know what “woke” means.

[mids]

Wahke, more like.

[voice]

That article has an overpowering stench of weak piss about it.

[mids]

Golden eye.

[perrykneeham]

"Spy cameras disguised as clothes hooks are for sale on Amazon, despite the firm being sued over the gadgets.

One clothes hook camera listing seen by the BBC features a picture of the device positioned in a bathroom.

A US judge recently ruled the retail giant must face a case brought by a woman who alleges she was filmed in the bathroom using a clothes hook camera purchased on Amazon.

A privacy expert has said the misuse of such devices may break British laws."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67652317

You have to wonder how some people can sleep at night.

[perrykneeham]

I am currently amusing myself by pulling the legs and wings off a local company that I caught bang to rights, trying to scam my parents. Arseholes.

[mids]

Show no mercy.

These cameras are probably designed and made in China as part of their plot to collapse the West (along with but not limited to woke, the BBC, the RSPB, Gary Lineker, the UN, Labour and the teacher industrial complex).

[flatandy]

You forgot the National Trust

[perrykneeham]

I can assure you that teachers and industry have never met.

[flatandy]

How useless must the people who can’t hack it as a teacher be?

[perrykneeham]

Someone offered me a teaching gig today, funnily enough, but in FE rather than <shudder> schools.

[Repat Van]

Dec 12, 2023 10:35:46 GMT flatandy said:

How useless must the people who can’t hack it as a teacher be?

Rude.

Have you SEEN today’s batch of teens?

I think teachers are saints with nerves of steel.

[perrykneeham]

To a considerable extent, the teaching profession has been complicit in creating the conditions that make teaching such a bloody awful job. It's an interesting mix of piety, naivity, incompetence and self interest.

Keeping kids in education until 18 is mental.
The legal requirement for mixed ability classes is mental.
The standards of attainment are pitifully low (TBF they always were).
The amount of teaching per day is shockingly low.
The doctrine of self-led, research instead of "talk and chalk" is an offence to common sense, but oh-so trendy.

[perrykneeham]

As I was walking into M&S this afternoon, a bloke sort of got in my way. He was walking towards me and reading a copy of The Sun. How very 1970s. I got to wondering who reads a hard copy of a newspaper these days?

Also, what kind of Andy Capp still walks around reading The Sun in public?

[perrykneeham]

Also, who gives any thought to the pulchritude of airline cabin crew these days? Surely nobody's buying airline tickets on the basis of getting a painful, throbbing erection every time the drinks trolley comes down the aisle.

[Repat Van]

Dec 12, 2023 18:34:08 GMT perrykneeham said:

To a considerable extent, the teaching profession has been complicit in creating the conditions that make teaching such a bloody awful job. It's an interesting mix of piety, naivity, incompetence and self interest.

Keeping kids in education until 18 is mental.
The legal requirement for mixed ability classes is mental.
The standards of attainment are pitifully low (TBF they always were).
The amount of teaching per day is shockingly low.
The doctrine of self-led, research instead of "talk and chalk" is an offence to common sense, but oh-so trendy.

When did they phase out teaching sets / streams in classes?

I don’t have that big an issue with kids being required to stay in education till adult. Although it would be better if there were actual clear options for those wishing to leave school at 16. I had long forgotten it was ever 16.

[Repat Van]

Jan 3, 2024 17:40:10 GMT perrykneeham said:

As I was walking into M&S this afternoon, a bloke sort of got in my way. He was walking towards me and reading a copy of The Sun. How very 1970s. I got to wondering who reads a hard copy of a newspaper these days?

Also, what kind of Andy Capp still walks around reading The Sun in public?

My mom buys a hard copy of a news paper every day. The Mirror.

It used to be the (*vomits*) Daily Mail and The Mirror but she has finally seen the light.