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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 21:17:13 GMT
I'm not saying a word...yet. Just wondering if you've heard of it and if so, any thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 21:25:36 GMT
I changed the battery in my digital watch does that count?
Its the first digital Japanese wristwatch imported to the UK.
Still works.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 21:40:25 GMT
I did the "Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Li Fuk, Bang Ding Ow" news video with the girls yesterday. I don't think they got all of it but they did giggle about it when I told them to.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 5, 2021 21:50:45 GMT
I did the "Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Li Fuk, Bang Ding Ow" news video with the girls yesterday. I don't think they got all of it but they did giggle about it when I told them to. Just for anyone who isn't aware of the import of this...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 21:59:20 GMT
Yes Leila my younger daughter who is 8 did ask me "why did she say "Ho Lee Fook" not "Ho Lee Fuck?".
I was really thrown by this so I just said "look dear, I haven't got a fucking clue and I don't give a shit".
I'm just glad they are back in school from Thursday otherwise they would be subjected to more silliness and I'm sure there are better things for them to be doing..
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Post by thebfg on Jan 6, 2021 2:17:20 GMT
Yes Leila my younger daughter who is 8 did ask me "why did she say "Ho Lee Fook" not "Ho Lee Fuck?". I was really thrown by this so I just said "look dear, I haven't got a fucking clue and I don't give a shit". I'm just glad they are back in school from Thursday otherwise they would be subjected to more silliness and I'm sure there are better things for them to be doing.. Are they. Mine aren't. Till at least half term
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2021 6:36:44 GMT
Are they. Mine aren't. Till at least half term Yes, their school is quite a large (567 pupils) inner city state primary school. It is open for eligible children and they are eligible. Last time there were around half a dozen children in total going to school. So that's about one percent of normal volume. I guess it is down to individual schools what to do about it and whether to open at all. Not sure but I think it might be a decision made by head teachers. I presume it is due to the size of the school. A smaller school may not have sufficient staff numbers to be able to open.
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Post by quaysider on Jan 6, 2021 7:43:57 GMT
Are they. Mine aren't. Till at least half term Yes, their school is quite a large (567 pupils) inner city state primary school. It is open for eligible children and they are eligible. Last time there were around half a dozen children in total going to school. So that's about one percent of normal volume. I guess it is down to individual schools what to do about it and whether to open at all. Not sure but I think it might be a decision made by head teachers. I presume it is due to the size of the school. A smaller school may not have sufficient staff numbers to be able to open. It's funny how things change - the primary school I went to had 14 children in it (including me) in total. With 1 'Headteacher' and a caretaker who came in to light the fires/clean. It stayed open with 6 foot snow drifts blocking all but the kids who could walk to it (expectation of about 2 miles)...and no nice masks to keep our faces warm.
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Post by Trina on Jan 6, 2021 8:27:21 GMT
The primary where I was a teacher for mannnnnny years,has almost 1,000 pupils on roll(including nursery classes) ! It was a massive primary when I was there,but has got even bigger since 2014 when I retired.Four form entry,meaning 120 children approx in each year group,it was 3 form entry when I was there.
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Post by Jim on Jan 14, 2021 19:43:29 GMT
The primary where I was a teacher for mannnnnny years,has almost 1,000 pupils on roll(including nursery classes) ! It was a massive primary when I was there,but has got even bigger since 2014 when I retired.Four form entry,meaning 120 children approx in each year group,it was 3 form entry when I was there. Was it the biggest primary school? Tipton? If so did a circus job there with Noreen many years ago.
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Post by Trina on Jan 14, 2021 20:51:14 GMT
It was in Smethwick.(Smerrick).We had a few circus experience days which the kiddiwinks loved.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 21:05:56 GMT
False start last week as one of the cleaners at the school had a positive test. However it reopened this week and all going ok. Hardly anyone there at all a few more than lockdown mk1 but probably no more than 20 kids overall at school.
I could play the "yes but the Bengalis would rather their kids went to the local madrasa but I am like 'don't go there' "
Anyway the joys of a wealthy English background and my own children in an undersubscribed inner city slum school know no ends !
As long as the kids are happy with it, and they are, then that's good enough for me.
It's actually a really good school !
Nobody wants to put their children in it but that's mainly because it is 99.5% Bengali.
Bloody furriners. It's terrible!
I'm not sure what the east London teachers think of my girls' rather posh English accents but I quite like it.
"Fuck middle England, brain-dead Tory bastards" was a sticker placed on my car in the mid nineties when parked near to my sisters flat in Islington at the time.
I rather agree.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jan 14, 2021 23:37:18 GMT
I'm not saying a word...yet. Just wondering if you've heard of it and if so, any thoughts? There are various different theories. It seems likely that socialism will come more to the fore, aided by money printing. Biden is about to set the printing presses rolling across the pond. Closer to home a semi literate footballer has convinced even Conservative politicians that feeding children should be for the collective, rather than being a responsibility of parents. Naturally, no government could ever be elected if it imposed taxes sufficient to balance the socialist largesse. And so, the printing presses will be busy for some time to come. Some suggest that money printing is perfectly fine, it's a reasonable model for a sustainable (better) future. Unfortunately though, money printing, benign in the short term, isn't sustainable in the longer term. Yes, plenty of people will feel good because the value of their houses increases. But when that pound that used to be able to buy you a small bag of potatoes in Co op now only buys you some carrots when Aldi have them in their bargain section, the inner glow wont be as warm, I'll suggest. Anyway, if money printing does ratchet up, devaluing it, people will just move to other storage means of wealth, ones that have stability of supply, that governments can't control.
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Post by ianali on Jan 15, 2021 0:08:08 GMT
I'm not saying a word...yet. Just wondering if you've heard of it and if so, any thoughts? There are various different theories. It seems likely that socialism will come more to the fore, aided by money printing. Biden is about to set the printing presses rolling across the pond. Closer to home a semi literate footballer has convinced even Conservative politicians that feeding children should be for the collective, rather than being a responsibility of parents. Naturally, no government could ever be elected if it imposed taxes sufficient to balance the socialist largesse. And so, the printing presses will be busy for some time to come. Some suggest that money printing is perfectly fine, it's a reasonable model for a sustainable (better) future. Unfortunately though, money printing, benign in the short term, isn't sustainable in the longer term. Yes, plenty of people will feel good because the value of their houses increases. But when that pound that used to be able to buy you a small bag of potatoes in Co op now only buys you some carrots when Aldi have them in their bargain section, the inner glow wont be as warm, I'll suggest. Anyway, if money printing does ratchet up, devaluing it, people will just move to other storage means of wealth, ones that have stability of supply, that governments can't control. Why did you feel the need to have a dig at Marcus Rashford? He appears to be a very caring human being, who by the way, is probably better educated than yourself. He studied, and passed A levels at school as well as having a great talent for football. He has shown true compassion for those who are struggling. I fail to see whatβs not to like about the young man. He does his best to help others. One of the few plusβs from this mess.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jan 15, 2021 0:48:44 GMT
Nothing against Rashford. I watched the recent documentary which he was in. He seemed like a really nice bloke. I can't imagine anyone disliking him. There again, just because he's a nice bloke doesn't make him an expert on social affairs or the politics that surround this. Yes, he was brought up in a single parent family but the fact that he went on to be an elite footballer doesn't make him an expert in social matters, any more than you or I are. Perhaps his childhood was more difficult than yours and/ or mine but coming from a position of adversity might give you a perspective but it neither makes you an expert nor the arbiter of right and wrong.
Rather than the entire media sucking up to Rashford perhaps they might ask him if things might have been better for him and others in similar situations if there had been a father around, as well as a mother. Perhaps then, he wouldn't have gone hungry when he was young. I realise that many would view this as an extreme position, in the current climate. That's ok, the media/ establishment can put a sticking plaster over reality for as long as it wishes to but at the end of the day, the truth will prevail.
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