Also in the News - Part 2

[Zear0]

14 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I know what you mean, I went to Longslade and the only thing I learned there was how to be a gentleman

Sent the same comment to a school friend who reminded me we did have a few briefly placed and they survived for 3 whole days.

[dsr-burnley]

23 minutes ago, Sideshow Faes said:

That's quite a leap from what I've said to communism. Perhaps if you engage with what I actually said, instead of a perverse extrapolation we could have a more meaningful discussion. We were discussing private education, whether there's any good reason for it's existence and some of the tax breaks it's afforded. 

My apologies, we seem to have got at cross purposes.  My point was basically referring to the comment about "My view is that we should want a society where life outcomes are based on the skills and efforts of the participants, not the wealth of their parents." If that was only directed at super-rich people, not 'ordinary' rich people, it's a different matter.

[dsr-burnley]

32 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

For those of us who went to elite schools such as Stonehill/Longslade like myself, I wonder how long the below would last before someone kicked it over with a pupil inside...

At least the porta-potties have a roof.  The toilets at my school didn't!

[ealingfox]

Fair play, this is superb banter. Claiming the Department for Education isn't responsible for schools and then crying that nobody's thanking you for being such a hard-working Education Secretary in the next breath.

 

 

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

26 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Sent the same comment to a school friend who reminded me we did have a few briefly placed and they survived for 3 whole days.

I was quite lucky really in that my year wasn't full of nutters and I did pretty well, but yes, I saw some sights

[Zear0]

Already posted above.

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Too slow

[Foxdiamond]

19 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

Fair play, this is superb banter. Claiming the Department for Education isn't responsible for schools and then crying that nobody's thanking you for being such a hard-working Education Secretary in the next breath.

 

 

 

Daniel Hewitt doing a great job here. He is also highlighting the disgrace of homelessness in this country. 

[Guest Sideshow Faes]

1 hour ago, dsr-burnley said:

My apologies, we seem to have got at cross purposes.  My point was basically referring to the comment about "My view is that we should want a society where life outcomes are based on the skills and efforts of the participants, not the wealth of their parents." If that was only directed at super-rich people, not 'ordinary' rich people, it's a different matter.

It was directed at having a two tier system for public services mainly.

 

I don't think anybody minds the ordinary rich being rich. If you've worked for it that's fair enough. It's the billionaire class that make their money from use of specially built financial products, large shareholders and CEOs who allow job losses and pay restraint for the masses while they get pay rises which most people can see problems with.

[kenny]

14 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Most of the appear to have been built in the 1960's and 70s?

I might have found the first to be confirmed as being built in the 1940s last week.

[Górnik Leicester]

New jobs for a few of the Leicester MPs. Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South) the new Shadow Paymaster General, and Liz Kendall (Leicester West) takes his place as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary.

 

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The BBC reported, while the move “might seem like a demotion” as it is considered "a more junior role" than that of shadow secretary of state, it is “understood” Mr Ashworth is “still a full shadow cabinet member” and is expected to “play a big role in Labour’s general election campaign”.

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 hour ago, Górnik Leicester said:

New jobs for a few of the Leicester MPs. Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South) the new Shadow Paymaster General, and Liz Kendall (Leicester West) takes his place as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary.

I really wish Labour would promote more women to senior posts

[ClaphamFox]

3 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I know what you mean, I went to Longslade and the only thing I learned there was how to be a gentleman

Which years?!

I also went to Stonehill/Longslade. My only memories of those days are the fencing lessons, afternoon crumpets and the annual ski trips to St Moritz. 

Edited 4 September 2023 by ClaphamFox

[Danizen]

Imagine a man not going home to his family because of your unimaginable vanity.

 

Congratulations, I guess.

[Bellend Sebastian]

12 minutes ago, Danizen said:

Imagine a man not going home to his family because of your unimaginable vanity.

 

Congratulations, I guess.

They stopped making that type of aircraft in 1981. I know they were probably built to a better standard, but if you went for a drive in a MKII Escort you wouldn't be completely confident of completing your journey, would you?

[foxile5]

2 hours ago, Danizen said:

Imagine a man not going home to his family because of your unimaginable vanity.

 

Congratulations, I guess.

Good lord this kind of stuff is so ****ing dreadful.

 

Self absorbed and weird as shit. Are you emotions even valid if you don't project them outwards to everyone else.

 

The very epitome of 'look at me' culture.

[Guest Sideshow Faes]

3 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I really wish Labour would promote more women to senior posts

She was replacing John Ashworth, that's the 'he' being referred to.

[Tommy Fresh]

3 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

Which years?!

I also went to Stonehill/Longslade. My only memories of those days are the fencing lessons, afternoon crumpets and the annual ski trips to St Moritz. 

You've made it sound as if they were private schools 😂 

[Bellend Sebastian]

20 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

Good lord this kind of stuff is so ****ing dreadful.

 

Self absorbed and weird as shit. Are you emotions even valid if you don't project them outwards to everyone else.

 

The very epitome of 'look at me' culture.

I'm sure it was automatic but it looks like someone activates the last pink confetti blast after the plane has crashed.

 

Show must go on and all that

[Bellend Sebastian]

3 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

Which years?!

I also went to Stonehill/Longslade. My only memories of those days are the fencing lessons, afternoon crumpets and the annual ski trips to St Moritz. 

I mean, you've been on one exchange trip with an exclusive Swiss boarding school, you've been on them all really, haven't you?

 

I took my place at the seat of all knowledge between 1989 and 1993, incidentally the years when Kylie Minogue was at her hottest, which I don't think was a coincidence

[Sampson]

Never been to one and  might be unpopular but I don’t see a problem with those gender reveal parties. They’re just friends and family celebrating a new life. It’s no different to a christening, wedding, birthday party, Christmas, retirement party or anything else really. A lot of it is just an excuse to just get friends and family together

 

It’s sad about the pilot, but that’s a stupid stunt gone wrong. I don’t see what it has to do with the event really. Those kind of careless stunts that go wrong happen already all the time for Xmas, new years, birthday parties, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, weddings, retirement parties or just Friday night drinks.

[Foxdiamond]

10 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Never been to one and  might be unpopular but I don’t see a problem with those gender reveal parties. They’re just friends and family celebrating a new life. It’s no different to a christening, wedding, birthday party, Christmas, retirement party or anything else really. A lot of it is just an excuse to just get friends and family together

 

It’s sad about the pilot, but that’s a stupid stunt gone wrong. I don’t see what it has to do with the event really. Those kind of careless stunts that go wrong happen already all the time for Xmas, new years, birthday parties, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, weddings, retirement parties or just Friday night drinks.

Whatever the event is was a stupid stunt having an aircraft flying so low at what looked like almost directly above a crowd 

[Captain...]

3 hours ago, Danizen said:

Imagine a man not going home to his family because of your unimaginable vanity.

 

Congratulations, I guess.

Whilst I agree that gender reveals are the height of crassness and vanity, I don't think you can blame them for this death. Clearly there was something structurally wrong with the plane and if hadn't been this pilot at this event it would have been the next pilot at the next event.

 

Saying that not one of the guests gave a shit about the plane breaking into pieces and the safety of the pilot inside. Instead celebrating the random outcome of a 50/50 biological chance.

[Captain...]

17 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Never been to one and  might be unpopular but I don’t see a problem with those gender reveal parties. They’re just friends and family celebrating a new life. It’s no different to a christening, wedding, birthday party, Christmas, retirement party or anything else really. A lot of it is just an excuse to just get friends and family together

 

It’s sad about the pilot, but that’s a stupid stunt gone wrong. I don’t see what it has to do with the event really. Those kind of careless stunts that go wrong happen already all the time for Xmas, new years, birthday parties, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, weddings, retirement parties or just Friday night drinks.

There are a number of elements that make them beyond crass not least the fact that gender is rather more nuanced than pink/blue.

 

Ask yourself what are they actually celebrating? The genitals of their unborn child.

 

And if you really do care whether you have a boy or a girl then recording your reaction to your unborn disappointment for them to see when they are old enough to understand is not a good idea.

 

But essentially you are right it's just a reason to celebrate, it just really seems to have captured the imagination of the brain-dead morons. Just Google gender reveal gone wrong for stories of crocodiles, explosives, wildfires and just a catalogue of waste, littering and thoughtlessness.

[RobHawk]

7 minutes ago, Captain... said:

There are a number of elements that make them beyond crass not least the fact that gender is rather more nuanced than pink/blue.

 

Ask yourself what are they actually celebrating? The genitals of their unborn child.

 

And if you really do care whether you have a boy or a girl then recording your reaction to your unborn disappointment for them to see when they are old enough to understand is not a good idea.

 

But essentially you are right it's just a reason to celebrate, it just really seems to have captured the imagination of the brain-dead morons. Just Google gender reveal gone wrong for stories of crocodiles, explosives, wildfires and just a catalogue of waste, littering and thoughtlessness.

Gender reveals can't be all bad, we had a cake, and I ****ing love 🍰🍰

[ClaphamFox]

1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I mean, you've been on one exchange trip with an exclusive Swiss boarding school, you've been on them all really, haven't you?

 

I took my place at the seat of all knowledge between 1989 and 1993, incidentally the years when Kylie Minogue was at her hottest, which I don't think was a coincidence

Ha. It sounds like you were in the year below me, which would mean we attended the sixth form centre at the same time. I actually really enjoyed those final two years, which I can’t really say of the two that preceded them…😳

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