Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]

Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]

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Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

168 months

Thursday 30th April 2015
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People often say about various people that "they don't live in the Real World". Where is the Real World and what's it like?

Lugy

830 posts

184 months

Thursday 30th April 2015
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I've just watched a long train with wagons full of ballast reverse along the railway that's being built near my house, how does the driver know if it's clear or if he needs to stop? Does someone stand at the end of the train with a walkie talkie giving instructions or does he just wing it?

marshalla

15,902 posts

202 months

Thursday 30th April 2015
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Willy Nilly said:
People often say about various people that "they don't live in the Real World". Where is the Real World and what's it like?
<---- over there, and it's horrible.

BigGingerBob

1,701 posts

191 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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A couple here;
People keep telling David Cameron to 'fk off back to Eton'. What would the media do I i told Ed Miliband to 'fk off back to his scummy state comprehensive? So the question, really, is why is it ok to judge some people in their background but not others?

On the tv program The Island, which country does the island belong to? If I was on the island and got pissed off with one of the other people on there and killed then, what would the repercussions be?

TwigtheWonderkid

43,403 posts

151 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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BigGingerBob said:
A couple here;
People keep telling David Cameron to 'fk off back to Eton'. What would the media do I i told Ed Miliband to 'fk off back to his scummy state comprehensive? So the question, really, is why is it ok to judge some people in their background but not others?
I'm sure many former Etonians are saying of Ed Milliband "fk off back to your scummy comprehensive."

HTH.

lickatysplit

470 posts

131 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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What does 'bright eyed and bushy tailed' actually mean and where does it come from?

thismonkeyhere

10,385 posts

232 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
BigGingerBob said:
A couple here;
People keep telling David Cameron to 'fk off back to Eton'. What would the media do I i told Ed Miliband to 'fk off back to his scummy state comprehensive? So the question, really, is why is it ok to judge some people in their background but not others?
I'm sure many former Etonians are saying of Ed Milliband "fk off back to your scummy comprehensive."

HTH.
Not publicly they aren't.

Snobbery, and/or discriminating against someone of a lower/poorer background is WRONG.

Inverse snobbery - thumbup fine.

Not entirely dissimilar to White>Black racism / Black>White racism.

Ho hum.

gwm

2,390 posts

145 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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lickatysplit said:
What does 'bright eyed and bushy tailed' actually mean and where does it come from?
I always thought it related to squirrels for some reason.

ChemicalChaos

10,400 posts

161 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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thismonkeyhere said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
BigGingerBob said:
A couple here;
People keep telling David Cameron to 'fk off back to Eton'. What would the media do I i told Ed Miliband to 'fk off back to his scummy state comprehensive? So the question, really, is why is it ok to judge some people in their background but not others?
I'm sure many former Etonians are saying of Ed Milliband "fk off back to your scummy comprehensive."

HTH.
Not publicly they aren't.

Snobbery, and/or discriminating against someone of a lower/poorer background is WRONG.

Inverse snobbery - thumbup fine.

Not entirely dissimilar to White>Black racism / Black>White racism.

Ho hum.
Millipede didn't go to a comprehensive though. This 2-kitchened man of the people did, in fact, go to the renowned Haverstock Hill, in Hampstead. This was after attending the same primary school as Boris Johnson, and before his trip to Harvard - that other not-at-all-elitist establishment.

the man is, as usual, a lying hypocrite

AstonZagato

12,714 posts

211 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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ChemicalChaos said:
Millipede didn't go to a comprehensive though. This 2-kitchened man of the people did, in fact, go to the renowned Haverstock Hill, in Hampstead. This was after attending the same primary school as Boris Johnson, and before his trip to Harvard - that other not-at-all-elitist establishment.

the man is, as usual, a lying hypocrite
Grandees of the left make a bit of a habit of telling their electorate it is bad and yet doing it themselves

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3229453.stm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-could-lab...

My father was Controller of Education Services for a large London borough. He chose to send my boron her and I to private school. He did this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, he thought the public sector was underfunded; and secondly, he didn't want any teachers or heads trying to influence him by picking on us.

The Labour councillors called him into the chamber and gave him a rollocking. A few weeks later, the Labour leader came to see him to ask for recommendations on private schools for her sons.

DickyC

49,801 posts

199 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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AstonZagato said:
He chose to send my brother and I to private school.
my brother and me

getmecoat

AstonZagato

12,714 posts

211 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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DickyC said:
AstonZagato said:
He chose to send my brother and I to private school.
my brother and me

getmecoat
He sent you and your brother there too?


Gah. How did I miss that?

DickyC

49,801 posts

199 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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AstonZagato said:
Gah. How did I miss that?
It drives Mrs C up the wall when I correct folk on the TV with I and me.

There was a running gag on Minder where Terry would use 'me' correctly and Arthur would scold him and repeat what he had said with an incorrect 'I' in its place.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

234 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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just slip into a rasta-type accent and say "he sent I and I to school" and throw in a 'Babylon' or two

Asterix

24,438 posts

229 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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Hugo a Gogo said:
just slip into a rasta-type accent and say "he sent I and I to school" and throw in a 'Babylon' or two
...and finish every statement with a 'hear me now!'.

Jonboy_t

5,038 posts

184 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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You see a coat you like for £97 but have no money on you, so you borrow £50 from friend A and £50 from friend B. You buy the coat and have £3 change, so give both friends £1 back each and keep £1 for yourself. Now, you owe them each £49, which is £98 in total. Add to that the £1 you kept for yourself and that makes £99..... So where's the other £1 gone?!?!

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

234 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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the waiter kept it

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

262 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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Jonboy_t said:
You see a coat you like for £97 but have no money on you, so you borrow £50 from friend A and £50 from friend B. You buy the coat and have £3 change, so give both friends £1 back each and keep £1 for yourself. Now, you owe them each £49, which is £98 in total. Add to that the £1 you kept for yourself and that makes £99..... So where's the other £1 gone?!?!
The £1 you kept for yourself is included in the £98 you owe, so adding the 98 and the 1 is meaningless.

Jonboy_t

5,038 posts

184 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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Dr Jekyll said:
Jonboy_t said:
You see a coat you like for £97 but have no money on you, so you borrow £50 from friend A and £50 from friend B. You buy the coat and have £3 change, so give both friends £1 back each and keep £1 for yourself. Now, you owe them each £49, which is £98 in total. Add to that the £1 you kept for yourself and that makes £99..... So where's the other £1 gone?!?!
The £1 you kept for yourself is included in the £98 you owe, so adding the 98 and the 1 is meaningless.
So I'm £2 down? Dontgeddit frown

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

262 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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Jonboy_t said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Jonboy_t said:
You see a coat you like for £97 but have no money on you, so you borrow £50 from friend A and £50 from friend B. You buy the coat and have £3 change, so give both friends £1 back each and keep £1 for yourself. Now, you owe them each £49, which is £98 in total. Add to that the £1 you kept for yourself and that makes £99..... So where's the other £1 gone?!?!
The £1 you kept for yourself is included in the £98 you owe, so adding the 98 and the 1 is meaningless.
So I'm £2 down? Dontgeddit frown
No, you have a coat you paid £97 for, and a £1 coin. On the other hand you owe £98.

To put it another way, you have borrowed £100, then paid £2 back, so you owe £98.

You are Ed Balls AICMFP.
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