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Oh I think I smell a rat
I think I smell a rat
All you little kids
Seem to think you know
Just where it’s at
I think I smell a rat
Walking down the street
Carrying a baseball bat
I think I smell a rat

Oh I think I smell a rat
I think I smell a rat
All you little kids
Seem to think you know
Just where is at
I think I smell a rat
Treating your…[Read more]

@Tinkerbell wrote:

I think some people just like causing trouble just for the sake of it.

Oh do shut your cake-hole.

Black catter.

Horse poo, like most herbivore poo, is harmless. As some have intimated, positively beneficial. Dog poo, on the other hand, is a menace. You can blind toddlers with just the proper application. There is a reason you have to clear one up and not worry too much about t’other. Silliness.

Teachers certainly do coach for success at exams. Like I say, I don’t blame them. I’ve had many a friend tell me stories of how the grapevine communicating the ‘flavour’ of the upcoming tests works. The brighter kids go in to tests having a fail-safe selection of essay answers ‘rote’ learnt.

What hateful rot.

It is not incidental, I’m sure, that the major upturn in the graph is at the time Thatcher decided that exam results for schools should be published with a view that schools then begin to compete in a market based around those results. A policy decision Labour were shockingly eager to endorse and strengthen.

Private (Public) schools generally get better A-Level results than state schools and colleges. What’s more, I think it’s true to say, the gap between the two has been widening – even under Labour’s recent investments that have coincided with rising state school results.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it. ~ René Descartes

I don’t think A-Levels have got easier. A quick scan of the past papers on t’interweb will show that.

I think the difference may be that there has been a shift in the teaching profession’s ethos from educating to A-Level…[Read more]

I’m sorry, Minim. I didn’t mean my reply to be a criticism of your ambition to study. I think that would be a fine endeavour. I was just airing my philosophical ideas about the whole thread, rather than your post.

I tend to think that when you diagnose, say, depression, you are actually labelling something in the same way you would, say, a broken…[Read more]

Who, by Bob Marley’s Spliff Tin, is Patrick?

How refreshingly civilised. God save the Queen.

To me, everyone’s answers seem to show how bankrupt psychology is as a philosophical system. Because it proceeds by diagnosis, there is an imperative to classify the many and varied states of human consciousness. It is my belief that the manifestations of the human psyche are too manifold, too…[Read more]

I remember being very moved to hear that one of the first things the Amish did, when faced with the aftermath of a spree killing in their community, was work to comfort the mother of the deranged guman as a person equal in loss to the families of the victims. A lesson in spiritual enlightenment that I think reflected very favourably on their creed…[Read more]

I wonder if she’s got any Humble Pie, Pete?

Blimey. How old is her mum?

Party ’round her house, then. Is she much of a looker or should I arrange for a sort of my own to accompany me?

A proper shambles. Another little piece of me has died.

But no one is talking about teaching them any of the things everyone is getting so worked up about.

@Pete wrote:

Kill that fox and another will claim the territory within 2 weeks.

Not if you kill enough of them.