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Jippy said:
This is similar. Local papers do love running random punters' full names in the headline, as if you'd know them.

Kevin Overy, from Murston, banned from Iceland in Sittingbourne
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"They've banned me for speaking my mind...What do they want me to do, walk around with Sellotape across my mouth?"

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/banned-from-iceland-for-speaking-99742/

Iceland seems to bring out the worst in people, funnily enough.

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“All I said was you can take that food and stick it where the sun don’t shine.”

http://www.barkinganddagenhampost.c...ng_dagenham_shopper_for_complaining_1_4613753
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Old Kevin Overy says that none of the other supermarkets aside from Iceland sell Coffeemate:confused:
 
RedTiger said:
Old Kevin Overy says that none of the other supermarkets aside from Iceland sell Coffeemate:confused:
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You'd think that tin would last for three months. I'm surprised people use that shit through choice rather than just out of necessity in a low to middling grade hotel.
 
This is possible the greatest piece of local journalism. Massively detailed live blog of one man's sit-in protest when his 12-person signature to save a town's phone box is ignored. A real blow by blow account.

http://www.essexlive.news/man-stagi...elephone-box/story-29621187-detail/story.html

Highlights include (but are not limited to):

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14:40 'They're behaving like Nazis'

15:34 What Rashid is fighting to save
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15:55 Man doesn't realise the drama going on in his road
One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: "Such an old phone box. Jesus."
 
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Jippy said:
This is similar. Local papers do love running random punters' full names in the headline, as if you'd know them.

Kevin Overy, from Murston, banned from Iceland in Sittingbourne
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"They've banned me for speaking my mind...What do they want me to do, walk around with Sellotape across my mouth?"

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/banned-from-iceland-for-speaking-99742/

Iceland seems to bring out the worst in people, funnily enough.

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“All I said was you can take that food and stick it where the sun don’t shine.”

http://www.barkinganddagenhampost.c...ng_dagenham_shopper_for_complaining_1_4613753
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I must be missing something, these are 2 different people.
 
Jippy said:
This is possible the greatest piece of local journalism. Massively detailed live blog of one man's sit-in protest when his 12-person signature to save a town's post office is ignored. A real blow by blow account.

http://www.essexlive.news/man-stagi...elephone-box/story-29621187-detail/story.html

Highlights include (but are not limited to):

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14:40 'They're behaving like Nazis'

15:34 What Rashid is fighting to save
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15:55 Man doesn't realise the drama going on in his road
One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: "Such an old phone box. Jesus."
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Rashid explains himself
http://m.essexlive.news/watch-phone...9621547-detail/story.html#p4gbkv2pXadZ6rKE.99
 
I love the way they have all the teachers there now to give them support after opening their personal envelopes. Things have changed from the days when you had to jostle to read your results from a noticeboard in the corridor and then sort yourself out because there weren't any staff around. :lol:

Another thing - grade A was unusual when I was 18. Hardly anyone got a grade A in anything. What's changed?
 
Penna said:
I love the way they have all the teachers there now to give them support after opening their personal envelopes. Things have changed from the days when you had to jostle to read your results from a noticeboard in the corridor and then sort yourself out because there weren't any staff around. :lol:

Another thing - grade A was unusual when I was 18. Hardly anyone got a grade A in anything. What's changed?
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Grade inflation to meet the governments target of more kids going into further education, not sure it's necessarily a bad thing although as @hobbers rightly says, it is saddling an entire generation with debts they will struggle to pay off just to defer the struggle to find employment by another 3 years. 12% got A levels and went to Uni in 1975, 15% in the late 80s and nearer to 40% now whilst A grades were reserved for the top 5% at one stage but are now awarded to almost 25% of entrants with A* being for the top 5%. At the same time the failure rate at A level has dropped from 10-15% historically to less than 2% now.

Some of it is also down to more coursework based studies that mean the bulk of the graded work has been done in advance of the exams and fine tuned to ensure high marks, there's also more people sitting humanities type subjects rather than the harder maths and sciences although the grade inflation in maths is higher than anywhere else with a D in 1988 now being worth an A if you look at the comparable entrance level of the students.
 
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Penna said:
I love the way they have all the teachers there now to give them support after opening their personal envelopes. Things have changed from the days when you had to jostle to read your results from a noticeboard in the corridor and then sort yourself out because there weren't any staff around. :lol:

Another thing - grade A was unusual when I was 18. Hardly anyone got a grade A in anything. What's changed?
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The Internet must be a big help, think i'd have got better grades if it was around when I did my exams.
 
Dan said:
The Internet must be a big help, think i'd have got better grades if it was around when I did my exams.
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The ability to cut and paste then change a few words rather than having to write it all out by hand from memory in one 3 hour panic at the end of the 2 years, yeah I'd imagine anyone would do better but I'm not sure it's improved anybody's intelligence levels.
 
Thanks for those replies, I'd forgotten about the modular thing and coursework counting towards the grades. For me and many here, it all went on how well you did in two 3-hour exams, as Bury Red says. Feel a bit off that day? Too bad, that was your one and only chance.
 
Penna said:
Thanks for those replies, I'd forgotten about the modular thing and coursework counting towards the grades. For me and many here, it all went on how well you did in two 3-hour exams, as Bury Red says. Feel a bit off that day? Too bad, that was your one and only chance.
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I did my A levels in '94, pre-internet. I seem to remember it was 50/50 coursework/exam then and the exam was a three hour hand-crippler.
Apparently there is some evidence that each generation is slightly more intelligent than the last, as the sum total of the world's knowledge improves...but it is easy to doubt that at times, particularly as we get older and grumpier.
 
There's many factors in play and I'm not saying they're all bad, I'm sure the parental drive to always want your children to do better than you did is also driving this. I know however that some of the subjects have changed so dramatically that it's making it much harder in Uni or in industry for the students. I'd covered some calculus in my O level syllabus in '85 and then did it to death in my A levels but due to a mistaken 2 years studying Architecture before switching to Civil Engineering I found myself studying it again with students who had sat A level maths only 2 years after me and at least half of them had never encountered calculus in their A level maths which led to them failing the first year of the Engineering degree.
 
Bury Red said:
There's many factors in play and I'm not saying they're all bad, I'm sure the parental drive to always want your children to do better than you did is also driving this. I know however that some of the subjects have changed so dramatically that it's making it much harder in Uni or in industry for the students. I'd covered some calculus in my O level syllabus in '85 and then did it to death in my A levels but due to a mistaken 2 years studying Architecture before switching to Civil Engineering I found myself studying it again with students who had sat A level maths only 2 years after me and at least half of them had never encountered calculus in their A level maths which led to them failing the first year of the Engineering degree.
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I agree, I was crap at maths and scraped a C to get into A level. My missus did the international bacalaureat in Mauritius and laughs at my inability to work out percentages, do long division etc...let alone calculus. She did go on to do an Msc in Finance though.
 
Bury Red said:
There's many factors in play and I'm not saying they're all bad, I'm sure the parental drive to always want your children to do better than you did is also driving this. I know however that some of the subjects have changed so dramatically that it's making it much harder in Uni or in industry for the students. I'd covered some calculus in my O level syllabus in '85 and then did it to death in my A levels but due to a mistaken 2 years studying Architecture before switching to Civil Engineering I found myself studying it again with students who had sat A level maths only 2 years after me and at least half of them had never encountered calculus in their A level maths which led to them failing the first year of the Engineering degree.
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Seriously? I can remember large swathes of O level maths was doing calculus.

Not that it's had any application in later life.
 
SteveJ said:
That bloody fool Liz Jones meticulously avoids using the word 'Muslim':

Why are we so bewitched by a sweet-guzzling bun baker?:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ssain-bewitched-sweet-guzzling-bun-baker.html
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They don't even bother to hide it in this one, despite the official report saying that there was no evidence
that the driver fasting was the cause of the crash.

Muslim train driver who went through two red lights and crashed causing days of delays had gone without any food or drink for 15 HOURS because of Ramadan
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3750195/Muslim-train-driver-went-two-red-lights-crash-gone-without-food-drink-15-hours-Ramadan.html#ixzz4Hys5Q7pb
 
They like a bit of misleading juxtaposition over there at the Mail, don't they? I guess causation is not necessarily at the forefront of their priorities when correlation is enough to infuriate and compel their readership.
 
Her take on arranged marriage.

I’d have loved to have someone set me up with a boyfriend
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Haircut refusal sad faces.

Transgender teenager, 16, 'is refused haircut at men's barber shop because they weren't sure of his gender'
  • Sam Vella, 16, went for shaved cut at Village Barbers in Manchester
  • The youngster claims the staff told him they 'didn't cut girls' hair'
  • They allegedly said he was a girl because he wore nail polish
  • Sam said he felt humiliated after they 'slammed the door' in his face
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-shop-weren-t-sure-gender.html#ixzz4I9APIgnR

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Penna said:
Haircut refusal sad faces.

Transgender teenager, 16, 'is refused haircut at men's barber shop because they weren't sure of his gender'
  • Sam Vella, 16, went for shaved cut at Village Barbers in Manchester
  • The youngster claims the staff told him they 'didn't cut girls' hair'
  • They allegedly said he was a girl because he wore nail polish
  • Sam said he felt humiliated after they 'slammed the door' in his face
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-shop-weren-t-sure-gender.html#ixzz4I9APIgnR

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I'd imagine the comments are entirely sympathetic, right?

On a side note, I always get confused about how newspapers report transgender stuff. They're using "he" and "him" throughout, so does that mean that they were born a girl but self-identify as male? (despite being physically female)
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I'd imagine the comments are entirely sympathetic, right?
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Clayton. Avoid at all costs.
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Fair point.

Hmmm... not sure they'll win the 'Sad Face of the Week' award
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Competition is fierce.

Why do you do this DM? All you have in this story is one teen with attitude and claims but not a single bit of proof. You then put up the picture of the barbers knowing the simpletons will launch a media hate campaign based on no truth or facts at all. I do wish you would be more responsible for when you load the gun, far too many idiots fire it. As to the claim, I doubt it, most barbers are just happy to have cash coming in these days.
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Actually not an entirely unreasonable point, although written like a twat.

So if he is a guy and wanting to be a guy why is he wearing long nails with nail polish ?
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There were go!
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I'd imagine the comments are entirely sympathetic, right?

On a side note, I always get confused about how newspapers report transgender stuff. They're using "he" and "him" throughout, so does that mean that they were born a girl but self-identify as male? (despite being physically female)
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He was born a girl, yes. He is in the process of transitioning. The problem for him appears to be that he still looks very like a girl.
 
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