THE BRITISH THREAD II

Excellent attitude, TPQ.

Hours has got an H, by the way.

I have left stress behind, and am in a beatific state of Zen kharma.

No, I don't know what it means either.

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

The Pentacle Queen wrote:
Hello fellow Britons
I'm afraid I have come to rant!
I was in Pizza Hut tonight with some friends, and one of them (a really blunt rude one.) Voiced her opinion that she thought it was harsh that I am getting funded to go to university to do music because apparently it's not a subject that is important.
Well, understandably I was upset by this. Since you are all tax payers, can I ask what do you think?

It's a disgrace. get a job you lazy cow.

WooOOOoooh!

Who's a little grumpy-chops this morning, then?

Remember to start a new sentence with a capital letter, always.

But Mathos won't mind.

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If a lot less people went into higher education the labour market would become unbalanced causing high unemployment or deflated wages or the production of too many goods and services.

The issues involved are far too complex for the members of this thread to understand let alone discuss.

To Ramona. Bob Dylan- Google that Queenie.

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A lot fewer people.

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If fewer people.

(snigger)

x

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McTag wrote:

Dorothy Parker wrote:
The Pentacle Queen wrote:
Hello fellow Britons
I'm afraid I have come to rant!
I was in Pizza Hut tonight with some friends, and one of them (a really blunt rude one.) Voiced her opinion that she thought it was harsh that I am getting funded to go to university to do music because apparently it's not a subject that is important.
Well, understandably I was upset by this. Since you are all tax payers, can I ask what do you think?

It's a disgrace. get a job you lazy cow.

WooOOOoooh!

Who's a little grumpy-chops this morning, then?

Remember to start a new sentence with a capital letter, always.

But Mathos won't mind.

Save it MacT. It was a joke. AND I don't need advice about grammar thank you very much, I have an A level in English language. I will type any damn way I please.

Laters dudes.

:wink:

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McTag wrote:

Excellent attitude, TPQ.

Hours has got an H, by the way.

I have left stress behind, and am in a beatific state of Zen kharma.

No, I don't know what it means either.

Who made you professor in charge of everyone's spelling all of a sudden?

Highly irritating.

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Just in case you were going to banjax me Dorothy, I really like Prince!

Wow!

I bet she'd make a cracking boxer! :wink:

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

McTag wrote:
Dorothy Parker wrote:
The Pentacle Queen wrote:
Hello fellow Britons
I'm afraid I have come to rant!
I was in Pizza Hut tonight with some friends, and one of them (a really blunt rude one.) Voiced her opinion that she thought it was harsh that I am getting funded to go to university to do music because apparently it's not a subject that is important.
Well, understandably I was upset by this. Since you are all tax payers, can I ask what do you think?

It's a disgrace. get a job you lazy cow.

WooOOOoooh!

Who's a little grumpy-chops this morning, then?

Remember to start a new sentence with a capital letter, always.

But Mathos won't mind.

Save it MacT. It was a joke. AND I don't need advice about grammar thank you very much, I have an A level in English language. I will type any damn way I please.

Laters dudes.

:wink:

Mine was a joke too.

Carry on.

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DP wrote-

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AND I don't need advice about grammar thank you very much, I have an A level in English language. I will type any damn way I please.

If everybody took that view, which they are perfectly entitled to if it is legitimate for DP, pretty soon no-one would know what anybody else was talking about. The rules of syntax exist for the very reason of avoiding such a ridiculous state of affairs.

It is something of a disgrace that someone with an A level in English could make such a remark. One can only conclude that the award of that qualification was made for other reasons than a satisfactory knowledge of English and that an A level in English is now nothing but a worthless piece of paper to wave in the faces of those who know no better.

What a shame for those who hold such a qualification from the days when it meant something to see it besmirched in this gratuitous manner.

You need a very great deal of advice DP.

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How very dull.

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How very original. I'll be a silly man next and I might even be talking out of my arse.

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To you MacT, I apologize for my rude outburst, which was un-called for.

Yes there is a time and a place for perfect spelling , grammar and syntax but I don't necessarily think a chat forum is that place.

Spendius, I still have no interest in any of your rambling crap.

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I was simply trying to correct an impression that the British allowed statements such as-

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AND I don't need advice about grammar thank you very much, I have an A level in English language. I will type any damn way I please.

to go on the record in front of an international audience without any opposition in case they came to the conclusion that we Brits are all as stupid as you are starting to make yourself look and sound.

If you think that just blurting out that anybody who says anything you don't like is "dull" or spouting "crap" you are going to experience one long miserable life.

Some of us, maybe a decreasing number, have standards and when they get shredded, as your statement recommended, we will be lost.

All those with a genuine A level in English must weep to see it devalued in the way you did.

You will need advice on grammar for as long as you live and if anybody can type "any damn way" they please we will have to hope that you are the only one with such a solipsistic view.

The site is called Able 2 Know. I want people to be abled to know that a British thread represents our Britishness and that that is something to be admired and not laughed at.

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Mine is a genuine A level spendius, even though, as you say, it is obviously not worth the paper it is written on.

It is not everyone I find dull spendius, usually just you.

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

To you MacT, I apologize for my rude outburst, which was un-called for.

Yes there is a time and a place for perfect spelling , grammar and syntax but I don't necessarily think a chat forum is that place.

Don't worry about it baby, I still love you. xx

Hey we went up to the Saddleworth brass bands competition last night. Does anyone want to hear about it?

(My last offering about cycling-pacer motorcycles fell a bit like on deaf ears)

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DP wrote-

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Mine is a genuine A level spendius, even though, as you say, it is obviously not worth the paper it is written on.

It's obviously not worth much. The modern educational system is geared to the inflaming of egos. I know something about it. I know that a D grade is proof that a person has very little idea of the subject they have been studying. I've met people who had to be treated for depression after only getting a second-class honours degree. Outside of top grades it's a mere image posture. For the Ministry, for the school, for the student and for the parents. I never even studied English seriously and I consider some of the stuff you've written to be incoherent and abysmally lacking in style and evidence of any interest in English.

Anyone reduced to assertions such as "dull" and "rambling crap" in lieu of argument is very run-of-the-mill and your attitude towards my trying to teach you to know better suggests a refusal to even try and a resistance to any ideas you don't already have and that's anti-educational.

What attracted you to Able 2 Know? If someone trying to teach you something valuable is just dismissed as "dull" or "crap rambling" what was it you wanted 2 Know? Do we all have to mouth specious politenesses and flatter you in that wedding reception grovelling, cliched and mannered foam in order for you to find us not dull.

It's as if your idea of dull is the only idea of the what the word means. That's insulting the intelligence and independent mindedness of other viewers.

It is difficult to understand why you would read anything as dull as you say my posts are let alone respond to them.

I don't find anybody dull. It's a self-defeating life strategy and you would do well to eradicate it from your cornucopia of charms which are being diminished by it.

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Wasn't it just wonderful to see Henry Cecil lead in another classic winner?

What an up and down life that guy has had. And the self-effacing manner with which he took the plaudits was an object lesson to anyone who puts any value at all on Britishness. He's a real gent. Most of us would have gone to pieces. I'll forgive him that one tear.

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Spendius wrote

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It is difficult to understand why you would read anything as dull as you say my posts are let alone respond to them.

Yes it is difficult to understand. I will just go back to ignoring you in future. Getting into any sort of argument or discussion with you is futile because you see, I have other things to do, unlike you who's life seems to be filled only with visits to your local pub where you leer and lech at women (who you hate) or sitting at your computer festering in your own bodily secretions ready to reel of another waffling, bitter diatribe.

I don't read your posts. I scan them quickly to get the general gist which is usually along the lines of pouring scorn on things other people like or have said. It's pretty much predictable.

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Where's Steve? Steve, are you there?

Stevie!

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