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Fry was an exceptional scholar and it was expected he would achieve a first-class degree in Classics and enter the Indian Civil Service with an illustrious career ahead of him. Although he rarely discussed his last year at Oxford it seems he had a serious mental breakdown shortly before his exams. His mother was ill and his financial situation was dire. His father was unable to support him financially and his only income was £80 per year scholarship money at time when Wadham students often had incomes of over £400. At one point Fry resorted to nude modelling to earn money. He was awarded a fourth class degree.
It just goes on and on!!!!!
He was born in Croydon . . . . . He . . . reputedly turned down the throne of Albania!!!!!!!
That’s so cool!!!
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@panda12 wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
. . . Oh and btw will there be beach volleyball again this time? [/color] :) [/b]
Hell yeah!
Now if we can get the synchronised swimmers to do the beach volley ball . . . . . Man that game could do with some curves . . . .
You’re living in Cloud Cuckoo Land. No female athletes have curves. :D
However, I heard Clarrisa Dickson Wright will be appearing as the quintessential farmer’s wife in the opening ceremony:
Now that’s what Oi calls a real wumn!
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
. . . Oh and btw will there be beach volleyball again this time? [/color] :) [/b]
Hell yeah!
Now if we can get the synchronised swimmers to do the beach volley ball . . . . . Man that game could do with some curves . . . .
@panda12 wrote:
“Meadows, fields, rivers, farmers tilling the soil and people playing cricket on the village green. It’s the British countryside the Olympics opening ceremony will beam around the world. But is this rural idyll a realistic representation of the UK?
On 27 July the Olympic Stadium is to be transformed into country scenes as part of artistic director Danny Boyle’s vision of a “Green and Pleasant” land.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18424058
Am I the only one who thinks this is a load of b*llocks?
To me it is not representative of Britain at all! Who are they trying to kid?
I can’t emphasize with it.
Oi! If I’m paying for this b*ll*cks from my council tax you could at least have the good manners to enjoy it, ‘cos I’ve already had enough flack for saying there’s too much money spent on it!
Repeat after me . . . . . This is our shop window on the world! Everyone’s going to see how great Britain is! Tourism will increase! People stuck in the traffic will throw tenners out of bus windows which will magically pay back the deficit! The Beatles will Re-Form! Pigs will fly! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Fair play pepper
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
Good one man!
… . . . . I have no idea what tree is being barked up with regard to “tolerance”.
It’s also abundantly clear that my “every day” reference was in relation to media coverage and myself and punda’s differing view on that part of proceedings.
So, an odd one indeed.. No such lapses in parental judgement should ever be “tolerated” upon the threadbare premise of their rate of frequency. Such a facile defence was never put forth. Therefore comparing what has been said to the conscious decision to endanger lives behind a wheel is to me a rather pompous assertion that does a great injustice to some of the more honest and open admissions posted on this thread. . . . . . . .
Calm down pepper, it’s not all about you.
Desmondy suggested that those “pointing the finger haven’t experienced that awful feeling when you think you’ve lost one of your children. It can happen to anyone, we’re only human, even politicians.” Note that the reference was not to the actual loss, but to the very human feeling that would go with it. I won’t bore you with my own stories, or my reactions at the time.
In your case the reference to ‘every day’ was not in the context of excusing the incident but in questioning whether the press would have made as much fuss. From your response to the final part of my post, we seem to agree on why that might be.
However in earlier posts you did refer to “a one off, unfortunate episode” and that it was “a little too comfortable to accuse Mr. Cameron of being pharisaic”, hence my joke which was intended to be at my own expense. It appears I failed in that. My subsequent point was that the incident was more significant than your phrase suggested, at least to me.
Of course you are entitled to think me or my assertions pompous but I would like to state clearly that in no way do I think myself or my views superior to anyone else’s on here. I do however think that I am as entitled as anyone to state my views and that my views are as worthy of assertion as your own.
I consciously try to put them over in a way which doesn’t overstate their importance, it appears that on this occasion I have failed. I apologise. I also apologise if on any occasion I have in disagreeing with your opinion even hinted at characterising you as pompous or in any other way disagreeable as a person.
Even when I have indicated that I felt personally insulted by your style, my intention was solely to refer to your presentation. I have not presumed to be able to try to hint at your character or anything else beyond what I have seen on my screen.
@anc wrote:
At least he didn’t leave his child in a bath whilst nipping down to the pub or wherever!!! – in today’s DM :(
So that’s ok then!!!
@sceptical guy wrote:
. . . . . . I would complain about the national security leak which led to David Cameron not getting lost.
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My previous comment might have been substantial enough for Pepper to rest his case on but it was a jest about my own political bias.
But seriously. they travel in different cars for good reason. Dave has national security stuff to take care of, so the daughter would have to be with in another vehicle and the responsibility lies with her mother on a personal level.
It would be bad enough if she had disappeared like Maddie, or been molested or worse.
If she was kidnapped and held to ransom, what peril could the country have been put in? In fact, with the late reporting, we don’t know that didn’t happen.This is a serious national security error and their security staff are responsible in the second place.
It’s one thing when a child wanders off while her parents are distracted and something else when the parents and entourage actually drive off and leave the place without her.
It was a mistake, it was a human mistake, but I’d like to register my dissent from the spirit of tolerance. It’s no more excusable because it happens every day than dangerous or drunken driving.They are not just any family. His job is not just any job. This was not just any disappearance.
