11/11/11

[The Year Of The Fox]

It's getting awfully GCSE in here.

You mean childish? I was actually quite kind in what I said earlier as I was half asleep. It's a good job the old boys didn't 'forget' to turn up on D Day. It's the typical student thing, so pre occupied in their own little lives they can't see beyond the ends of their noses.

Not just aimed at ajthefox. My Fukin brother finished his officer selection yesterday down wiltshire. I asked him whether they did a bit of a parade at 11am, to which he replied that he was already at the station by then and he forgot all about it. Cnut.

[Guest Bilo]

You mean childish? I was actually quite kind in what I said earlier as I was half asleep. It's a good job the old boys didn't 'forget' to turn up on D Day. It's the typical student thing, so pre occupied in their own little lives they can't see beyond the ends of their noses.

Not just aimed at ajthefox. My Fukin brother finished his officer selection yesterday down wiltshire. I asked him whether they did a bit of a parade at 11am, to which he replied that he was already at the station by then and he forgot all about it. Cnut.

:yawn:

Now stu, I think you sometimes get an unnecessarily harsh rap on here, but your obsessive loathing of students is as boring as it is inexplicable.

I'm actually beginning to wonder if you've ever met a student, such is your dogged insistence on adhering to tired, inaccurate stereotypes of those at university.

One of the great things about university is the diversity. For every lazy cnut who went simply because everyone else did; you'll meet many, many more who do hour after hour of voluntary work a week for a range of great causes, work hard at getting the best degree they possibly can and go into jobs that often reflect what they did at university to help those less fortunate. After three years at university, I can probably count on one hand the number of students I met who are anything like you've described.

There is no such thing as a 'typical student,' try telling the student poppy sellers outside DMU and Leicester University campuses or societies that raise money for the Poppy Appeal while it's pissing it down with rain and freezing cold that students are 'too occupied in their own lives' to show respect.

[The Year Of The Fox]

:yawn:

Now stu, I think you sometimes get an unnecessarily harsh rap on here, but your obsessive loathing of students is as boring as it is inexplicable.

I'm actually beginning to wonder if you've ever met a student, such is your dogged insistence on adhering to tired, inaccurate stereotypes of those at university.

One of the great things about university is the diversity. For every lazy cnut who went simply because everyone else did; you'll meet many, many more who do hour after hour of voluntary work a week for a range of great causes, work hard at getting the best degree they possibly can and go into jobs that often reflect what they did at university to help those less fortunate. After three years at university, I can probably count on one hand the number of students I met who are anything like you've described.

There is no such thing as a 'typical student,' try telling the student poppy sellers outside DMU and Leicester University campuses or societies that raise money for the Poppy Appeal while it's pissing it down with rain and freezing cold that students are 'too occupied in their own lives' to show respect.

Fair enough.

I DO know many students. I probably know more students than non students. Most have long hair (IWAN IS A WELSHMAN *cough*) or walk around the Spa shop in a rugby shirt (sleeves rolled up) shorts and flip flops in December. Perhaps 40 of the graduates I know from school no longer associate themselves with people without a degree. The snobbery is embarassing (not iwan is a welshman)

Everytime you watch the news they seem to be protesting or tree hugging. Perhaps instead of spending a day protesting about increasing tuition fees, they went and got their heads in the books then they'd be getting the full value of their tuition fees?

Yes there are some decent students, I am wrong to tarnish everyone with the same brush, though I think people on here take my comments too literally.

But sorry, if you 'forgot' to observe the two mins yesterday then clearly heads are up ones arses. I bet the 40 odds students sat with AjTheFox don't forget to take their NUS cards out with them when they want discount from a shop do they? Its all to do with priorities.

Whilst we're on about NUS cards, what gives them the right to have everything discounted anyway? They probably have about as much money as someone whos left school and started an appreticeship (£80 a week in some cases) The majority think they have a definied right to do what they want.

I could go on but I'm not gonna

[21st Century Fox]

Fair enough.

I DO know many students. I probably know more students than non students. Most have long hair (IWAN IS A WELSHMAN *cough*) or walk around the Spa shop in a rugby shirt (sleeves rolled up) shorts and flip flops in December. Perhaps 40 of the graduates I know from school no longer associate themselves with people without a degree. The snobbery is embarassing (not iwan is a welshman)

Everytime you watch the news they seem to be protesting or tree hugging. Perhaps instead of spending a day protesting about increasing tuition fees, they went and got their heads in the books then they'd be getting the full value of their tuition fees?

Yes there are some decent students, I am wrong to tarnish everyone with the same brush, though I think people on here take my comments too literally.

But sorry, if you 'forgot' to observe the two mins yesterday then clearly heads are up ones arses. I bet the 40 odds students sat with AjTheFox don't forget to take their NUS cards out with them when they want discount from a shop do they? Its all to do with priorities.

Whilst we're on about NUS cards, what gives them the right to have everything discounted anyway? They probably have about as much money as someone whos left school and started an appreticeship (£80 a week in some cases) The majority think they have a definied right to do what they want.

I could go on but I'm not gonna

[The Year Of The Fox]

Before we get too involved in this, I don't want this thread to get hi jacked talking about students. I kow I started it, but lets do it somewhere else, not on this thread

[Rincewind]

In my case if somebody in charge had called for a two minute silence I would have observed it as I am sure all the others in the room would have. But they did not and I was reading text on a screen which did not have a clock. It's amazing how time flys when you're having fun. The room was quiet anyway and I did stop what I was doing when I realised it was past eleven and pause for a minute or so.

[FoxesAreBlue]

On my PT course we were involved in a heavy discussion and if any noticed it was 11 o clock they certainly didn't speak up - I didn't see the time by at about 20 past the tutor looked at his watch and saw and we all did the 2 mins, albeit a bit late

[Houdini Logic]

Perhaps 40 of the graduates I know from school no longer associate themselves with people without a degree. The snobbery is embarassing (not iwan is a welshman)

Ever thought there may actually be a different reason why they don't associate with you?

Whatever helps you sleep at night, I guess.

[Alexikokopops]

I DO know many students. I probably know more students than non students. Most have long hair (IWAN IS A WELSHMAN *cough*) or walk around the Spa shop in a rugby shirt (sleeves rolled up) shorts and flip flops in December. Perhaps 40 of the graduates I know from school no longer associate themselves with people without a degree. The snobbery is embarassing (not iwan is a welshman)

It sounds like you're just describing rugby boys.

[The Doctor]

I DO know many students. I probably know more students than non students. Most have long hair (IWAN IS A WELSHMAN *cough*) or walk around the Spa shop in a rugby shirt (sleeves rolled up) shorts and flip flops in December. Perhaps 40 of the graduates I know from school no longer associate themselves with people without a degree. The snobbery is embarassing (not iwan is a welshman)

Everytime you watch the news they seem to be protesting or tree hugging. Perhaps instead of spending a day protesting about increasing tuition fees, they went and got their heads in the books then they'd be getting the full value of their tuition fees?

Yes there are some decent students, I am wrong to tarnish everyone with the same brush, though I think people on here take my comments too literally.

But sorry, if you 'forgot' to observe the two mins yesterday then clearly heads are up ones arses. I bet the 40 odds students sat with AjTheFox don't forget to take their NUS cards out with them when they want discount from a shop do they? Its all to do with priorities.

Whilst we're on about NUS cards, what gives them the right to have everything discounted anyway? They probably have about as much money as someone whos left school and started an apprenticeship (£80 a week in some cases) The majority think they have a definied right to do what they want.

1) Nowt wrong with long hair and sandals.

2) That's kinda beside the point isn't it? Yes students have been protesting a lot but the protesters have a very valid point. Trebling tuition fees is push uni education back towards the upper classes - even if there's no really difference from the system up to this year (max fees raised by 6k, lowest point at which students start paying in back - raised by 6k. Still pay back the same percentage of income over that limit etc.)

3) I'm not keen on that generalisation about NUS cards - Yeah you get a discount in a fair few shops but I think I've only used it once - buying a new pair of sandals.

[The Year Of The Fox]

1) Nowt wrong with long hair and sandals.

2) That's kinda beside the point isn't it? Yes students have been protesting a lot but the protesters have a very valid point. Trebling tuition fees is push uni education back towards the upper classes - even if there's no really difference from the system up to this year (max fees raised by 6k, lowest point at which students start paying in back - raised by 6k. Still pay back the same percentage of income over that limit etc.)

3) I'm not keen on that generalisation about NUS cards - Yeah you get a discount in a fair few shops but I think I've only used it once - buying a new pair of sandals.

They protest for the sake of it large al. Half of em won't know what they're protesting about! If they're not protesting its tree hugging, or campaigning for such and such to get released from prison as its breaching their human rights.

It's not just about using NUS cards in shops. You look how many people on here moan if away tickets don't have a student price, (which may save them 5quid) and then (barnsley) want to protest about it

However wrong or right tuition fees are, a loan that only has to start being paid back when you're on 21k minimum, and then gets wiped out 30 years later regardless of what's left, there isn't much to complain about. Half those who go to uni don't even need to actually go. The amount of degrees that are pretty worthless and are only obtained by people who want to go to uni to either delay growing up, or by people who want to appear superior (re houdini logical comment)

Then they have the cheek to moan there aren't many postgraduate jobs going around! Uni is not the be all and end all like it once was. Employers take experience and common sense over a bit of paper.

[The Doctor]

They protest for the sake of it large al. Half of em won't know what they're protesting about! If they're not protesting its tree hugging, or campaigning for such and such to get released from prison as its breaching their human rights.

half is a bit of an exaggeration although I agree there are some idiots who do it for the sake of it, but why should the actions of the minority have such a negative impact on the majority?

[Zingari]

i think this last scene from blackadder goes forth is always worth a viewing

[Head Honcho]

How do you know that?

For one reason or another it did not dawn on me at 11.

I was sat in a lecture room with about 40 other people waiting for our lecture and then all of a sudden someone starts getting uppity about it.

As soon as someone mentioned it I and everyone else talking shut up, but how dare you or anyone tell me how much respect I have for those who lost their lives just because I forgot about it.

For these pillocks to just carry on talking when every other fvcker in the shop is silent is showing no respect

How difficult is that to understand?

[Rincewind]

There is a difference between forgetting the time because being occupied by other things and deliberately not abiding by the silence when it is obvious that others are doing so.

[Finnegan]

Before we get too involved in this, I don't want this thread to get hi jacked talking about students. I kow I started it, but lets do it somewhere else, not on this thread

You did start it, yes. And completely unnecessarily.

My quip about GCSEs was purely about the amount of very obvious war poetry being posted.