I’ve been teaching for 30 years

taught a lot of Megans

Not a wrong’un amongst them – all been fantastic, well-balanced, high-achieving

Go for it

pupil referral unti

obviously that line got truncated and should read

pupil referral until they get sent to prison unit

Intrigued by the idea of cyclocross for youths in a “behaviour unit”

Would that be a unit for kids whose “behaviour” is positive, constructive, supportive, consistently legal, non-violent, socially-constructive, respectful, appropriate to their age etc?

Excellent! Just the kind of people we need in the sport.

Keep up the good work,

Hello molgrips

I know it’s probably hours too late (or probably, years) to tackle you on solipsism, but here goes anyway.

The title of this post is “good old England collapsing”

solipsism is the tendency to think you are the only person in the world who matters

so just because YOU are focussed on the adventures of the men’s England cricket team, you think “England” in a post title means the men’s England cricket team. Your interpretation of “England” is utterly solipsistic.

You fail to take account of the success of the women’s team , and the fact that others who have zero interest in cricket may have completely different, completely valid responses to the same term, and therefore resent being suckered into reading a post about sport

We keep being told – if you object to a post, don’t read it. But ambiguous post titles don’t help.

What would have been so hard about titling the post “Good old men’s England cricket team collapsing, while the women’s England team are world champions”?

God I hate sports bollox

Oh God more solipsistic sports bollox

“England” is a country. The country may or may not be collapsing, but if you mean the England cricket team, say so – because some people on here don’t give a toss about sport, and want to avoid being suckered by ambiguous post titles into reading posts about sport.

Also I notice that for sports fans of all persuasions, using “England” gets round the problem of using “the English … team” because actually that team includes a load of overpaid foreign nationals whose only loyalty to “England” is that they are paid huge amounts of money for their temporary allegiance.

Would this by any chance be an event in which people will participate “for cherideee”?

There’s lots of sensible advice on this post about the statistics and psychology of gambling.

May I suggest a simple point for potential gamblers to consider:

A person who suggests a bet does not expect to lose it. Think on.

I hate fine weather because of what it does to the neighbours (all of them!)

They open their windows and share their foul music with me
They let their incessantly barking dogs out
They let their screaming kids out
They take their shirts off and expose their disgusting, pasty, tattooed and pierced flabby torsos
They tinker with car and van engines, which seems to require insane levels of revving to “test” whatever minor adjustment they have just made
They get out their strimmers, Karchers, Kangos and jackhammers and start readjusting the universe to their liking
They converse loudly with each other in coarse, uneducated accents, about football and other bollocks
They start incinerating vast quantities of cheap, BSE-infected meat, producing huge clouds of toxic smoke.
Roll on winter I say 🙂

hiya oscar

you up for a blast round Spazz woods on Friday?

sorry didn’t see you at Effo – KellieLeigh sends her luv

Weyheyman!!!

A friend lent me Series 1. Watched first 2 episodes and felt no desire to watch any more.

All you fans out there – convince me? What am I not getting?

Nomesame, you MOFOs?

Four surgeons discussing what sort of patient is easiest to operate on.

Surgeon 1 says: “I prefer electricians. When you open them up, everything is colour-coded and easy to follow.”

Surgeon 2 says: “I prefer librarians. Everything is neatly sorted in alphabetical order.”

Surgeon 3 says: “I like mathematicians. Everything is numbered.”

Surgeon 4 says: “I’d rather operate on a politician – no guts, no brains, no balls, no heart, no backbone, the arse is identical to the elbow and the mouth is interchangeable with the anus.”

nickc

so your eleven year old told you TGD was “shite”?

and this was “many moons ago”?

what are you? some kind of really weird free speaking North American Indian?

FFS “many moons ago”
FFS encouraging your 11-year old to share your uninformed views on TV programmes
FFS using “always” to mean “sometimes, in my utterly uninformed opinon”

please reconsider your “shite” post

I read somewhere that frequent ejaculation helps prevent PC

Apparently it doesn’t matter whether the ejaculation is the result of sexual contact with another person, or “self-induced”

Most people on here appear to be well-protected, then

Have none of you ever heard of the old adage that if an offer looks too good to be true, it probably is?

These days, scams are everywhere, but there’s a foolproof way of spotting a scammer

He/She looks and behaves just like you

Looking for scammers on eBay is a bit like looking for hay in a haystack. Every transaction has a scammer on both ends. Someone who wants an inflated price for useless tat on one end, someone who wants something for nothing on the other.

Using PayPal is like putting your bank account and credit card details in your FaceBook profile

Bose over-ear ones are great. TBH I mainly use them for cutting out the noise of neighbours/fellow-passengers rather than playing music. Stick in a pair of standard expanding foam earplugs, slap on the Boses and peace and quiet rules!

Boses are expensive tho – but they do have a retruns policy if you don’t like them

Ahhhh….EFL!

Please fondle my bum
My nipples are exploding with delight

born 1948

work it out!

What area of teaching are you analysing?

Are you hoping to become some sort of teacher?

I only ask because I have children

Glad to see the NHM has the same opening hours every day of the week

However their Tring offshoot opens later on Sunday. Why Sunday? (Strokes atheistic chin)

And they both close over the Midwinter Festival – but then we all do, don’t we?

Look at Chuck Green’s site – this guy is a design inspiration

Chuck Green’s website

I’m guessing serendipity rather than design here. An arrow as a symbol for a delivery company is a totally cheesy design cliche anyway.

But I love the “spoon” in FED !!!

Wrong forum Mr Nutt!

If we’re into insulting French military prowess, let’s compare recent naval exploits.

Off Somalia the French navy have been kicking pirate ass.

and off Iran the British navy have been surrendering and shuffling home with embarrassing goodybags from Imadinnerjacket

I still squirm to think of it

Praps worth pointing out that the German generals behind the plot wanted Hitler dead because his incompetent, chaotic leadership was losing them the war – i.e. they still clung to the idea of a 1000 year Reich with Germany occupying most of Europe.

Their failure actually shortened the war, and meant we were spared a Europe run in the interests of the Prussian military caste of which von Stauffenberg was a prime scion

Complicated stuff, history (as opposed to Hollywood remakes of it)

Then, to be fair, you should alert our correspondents to the long-standing Scottish Mountaineering practice of trying to confound the English by deliberate understatement of difficulty in grade-descriptions, guide books etc

The “Scottish Diff” and “Scottish Severe” of climbing are long standing sources of amusement

Applicable in this case is the traditional and often misleading Scots use of “Tourist Route” for the “easiest way up e.g the tourist route on Sgurr nan Gillean on Skye, which as you probably know can hardly be described as a pedestrian route!

That area of the Buachaille may be, as you say “probably the most dangerous area in the UK for avalanches”, but Scots refer to it as the tourist route!
Obviously given the time of year, weather and location, this was a serious mountaineering expedition which just got unlucky.

It only takes a bathtub full of snow to bury you!

Smee

You Scottish?

I’d celebrate any man described in a recent Independent review as…

creator of all those love songs to women who could write to a friend of his heavily pregnant wife, “… I have **** her till she rejoiced with joy unspeakable and full of glory … and I took the opportunity of some dry horse litter and gave her such a thundering scalade that electrified that very marrow of her bones.”

Poetry is not just for aesthetes!

Whe my luggage was delayed by two days on a summer skiing holiday, BA reimbursed me £100 for "emergency" expenses (toiletries, sox, kecks, shirt) and my insurance coughed up £300 for the ski gear I had to buy or hire – I actually spent more than that, but got a v. nice goretex jacket out of it so I’m not complaining too hard.

I broke one in a heavy fall skiing at New Year. Still hurts like hell when I sneeze or cough, but slowly getting easier. Still have to sleep propped up on pillows. I reckon about another week should see most of the ill effects gone.

I found this time it responded well to Ibuprofen tablets and warmth.

When I broke two a few years ago the pain was so bad I went to the doc and he gave me dihydrocodeine, which are wooooooooooo ane help you to sleep!

Hope you soon feel better

I’ve got an Oregon ATC3K too

Very good so far – echo the comment about Lithium batteries – I used mine on Whistler in temp of -6C with no probs.

Here’s a sample

watch

soobalias

your post is utterly pathetic

if you don’t want to read a post, just don’t, just stop reading, it’s easy you fwit

but if I don’t want to interact with an aggressive dog, I can’t just decide not to interact with it, it won’t go away

I’m just going to stop dealing with your pathetic ideas right now

and if they keep approaching me I’m going to kick them in the head

i feel so frustrated and angry about the situation I can hardly bear to read about it

Nor can I – which is why I try to make sense of it by looking to history for some sort of comparisons

Another “yawn” response?

Yawn!