So for the Labour Party leadership we can vote for one of two Cambridge graduates or three Oxford graduates!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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let's hope they went to the right school bob, cannot have any riff raff standing for leader.
Personally I think it terrible that we are faced with having such elitist leaders.
Whilst they are all obviously 'clever' since they have excelled in a system which is based on ''IQ' what about their 'EQ' emotional intelligence?
Is it right that we should have people running the country who are merely tested upon analytical skills, inherited high ability (see Herrnstein Murray) and a meritocratic system?
Thank God the Trade Unions are not so set in tradition......
Why such prejudice against educated people? Bob - I think I love you................
Let's look at them: three state school boys madee good, one rather more privileged and someone claiming to represent women. She doesn't represent me, she just makes me laugh - she is a real demonstration of the fact that being bright and getting a degree are not the same thing or even mutually necessary! On the radio on the way to work I heard she didn't have enough support to stand and that was about right, although her even standing was a bit of a joke. On the radio on the way home I heard she had the necessary support................I wondered if I had wandered into the 18.30 comedy slot by mistake. Balls despite his privilege is barely able to string a sentence together. He sounds like a third rate geography teacher trying too too hard to impress the public school teachers at conference. Fortunately for him, he is oblivious.
Bern, 'Why such prejudice against educated people?'
Dunno (sic). Just thought I'd go with the flow for a while rather than kicking against pricks. (No. It does not mean willies so you can stop giggling at the back. It is a ploughing reference from Acts 9)
As I tell my students 'this is the only country in Europe where being described as 'too clever by half' is an insult'.
Don't forget a personal favourite of mine "such a boff". Even those 150 years ago when I was at school I remember having to pretend to be stupid to avoid bullying. Of course it didn't work - those nuns, eh?
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Isn't 'kicking at pricks' all part of being British? Our sports stars are prima facie examples........set on pedestals by the tabloid media only to be shot down when their name sells newsprint.
True friends stab you in the front.
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But eh, Andy an' Bob, you is bofe toffs, innit? I knows yer bofe an' yer bofe talks like toffs. And yer is bofe eddicated int'yer? Me, I reckon dat Diane Abbott is one hot babe. Shame she seems to be cosy wiv Mr Portaloo tho.
PG.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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Guilty as charged, Peter. (Welcome aboard, by the way!) I also try to use the English language as it was intended. Innit.
True friends stab you in the front.
That's our problem Andy, no street cred.
I was chatting to mate of mine about education and relevance to work etc. He said when asked the inevitable question, be it verbal or on a form, he always puts "Old Etonian". He reckons the conversation and educational snobbery ends right there. Like me, he feels something done decades ago is of no relevance to a position bing sought today, but, HR and recruitment types don't understand that. Easy to say I guess when you come from Eton!
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'Old Etonian' speaks volumes about whom you know, but nothing about what you know. Innit, eh?
PG.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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I'm an 'Old Blue'.......leaves most HR personnel looking baffled, just the way I like it. Sounds a bit pervy, I know, but it actually means I went to the religious, royal and ancient foundation (their words, not mine) of Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, founded in London in 1552 by King Edward VI, which makes it the second oldest school in the country after Winchester.
See, Peter was right; I am posh! Hasn't opened too many doors for me, though....
If anyone's interested, here's their Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ's_Hospital
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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looks like i will have to start cultivating you andy, that posh barry turned out to be a complete washout, the years i have wasted on him.
do you erm, are you erm, how can i phrase this?
lodge maybe?
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No.
Freemasonry is something I find very hard to take seriously; all a little too up itself for my liking. I prefer to bond with people through other means, Howie.
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Freemasonry isn't my bag either, but many people over the years have tried to drag me into it. However it is a very serious organisation which raises untold millions for good causes. It's not just funny handshakes and rituals with your trouser leg rolled up!
PG.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
I too have been approached a number of times to join (usually by members of the Police with whom I was working at the time).
Whilst I can understand membership of sporting clubs and 'charitable clubs such as Lions and Round Table, I really can't understand joining a club whose main aims and object seem to be to to enact various weird rituals with a dubious history.
Notwithstanding, my non belief in Supreme Beings, Great Architects and Sky Faeries in general precludes me from membership!
Bern. re #4.
bob.frost@gmail.com ! (today, faced mostly with marking we are listening to Wagner)
