Labour Conference....total maddness or even possable ?
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scenario8 said:
As a middle aged middle class man brought up by CofE types, married to a practising Catholic I have no idea what cosplay is and those images didn't really assist.
Is it something I'd be best advised not to google on the work pic? Or at all?
Fetches wife's iPad...
Hmmm. Maybe my position and upbringing makes me cosplay material after all.
Its when people dress up as their favourite characters from video games, films, etc.Is it something I'd be best advised not to google on the work pic? Or at all?
Fetches wife's iPad...
Hmmm. Maybe my position and upbringing makes me cosplay material after all.
Read all about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay
KTF said:
scenario8 said:
As a middle aged middle class man brought up by CofE types, married to a practising Catholic I have no idea what cosplay is and those images didn't really assist.
Is it something I'd be best advised not to google on the work pc? Or at all?
Fetches wife's iPad...
Hmmm. Maybe my position and upbringing makes me cosplay material after all.
Its when people dress up as their favourite characters from video games, films, etc.Is it something I'd be best advised not to google on the work pc? Or at all?
Fetches wife's iPad...
Hmmm. Maybe my position and upbringing makes me cosplay material after all.
Read all about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay
There is so much "sorry, what?" in that link! At least for me, anyway. The Ginny Weasley girl is that hot BBC2 history Professor, isn't she?
Blue62 said:
I honestly don't know why you bother but I admire you for your efforts to set the record straight, there is so much ignorance of political and social history on here that I've given up.
Cheers! I am tempted to give up also, but being in the wrong job (I am supposed to be a History Don but ended up being a lawyer by mistake) I find it hard to sit by and watch while massive historical ignorance prevails. motco said:
Interview with Mr Corbyn by Laura Kuenssberg and a model of the UK economy after Labour gains power in the background.
Looking on the bright side, it seems that they realise that their policies will bring the Country to its knees economically and are planning for it.........Breadvan72 said:
You may have missed the small matter of the UK leaving the EU. Whilst there will likely not be a financial meltdown, the notion that things will all just carry on just fine and dandy is, at the least, debatable.
UK leaving the EU is hardly on a par with Rhodesia in its final days, although there is acceptance that there might be a rough ride in the beginning.IMO Labour getting into power is much closer to that scenario, though.
That is so left field and bazonkers, even by NPE standards, that I can only say fishcake.
The last days of Rhodesia were mostly to do with a big boring conference to stop the war and transfer from breakaway terrible nutjob racist regime to majority rule (which in turn became terrible nutjob racist regime of another kind). That era at least gave us the name for a mediocre degree.
The last days of Rhodesia were mostly to do with a big boring conference to stop the war and transfer from breakaway terrible nutjob racist regime to majority rule (which in turn became terrible nutjob racist regime of another kind). That era at least gave us the name for a mediocre degree.
The Shadow Justice Minister has said she wants to look at setting up an inquiry or commission to explore ways of opening up the legal profession to people of all backgrounds. I don't deny that the legal profession needs to get better at this, but her comment would seem to suggest that she's decided the new legal apprenticeships and new qualifying exam won't work before they've even got started, or (the jaded cynic in me might think) she is unaware of their existence.
REALIST123 said:
motco said:
Interview with Mr Corbyn by Laura Kuenssberg and a model of the UK economy after Labour gains power in the background.
Looking on the bright side, it seems that they realise that their policies will bring the Country to its knees economically and are planning for it.........Entry to all professions has once again become the preserve of the posh. When I became a lawyer from a non posh background in the 80s, the law was white and male and posh. Then it became less white, less male, and less posh. Nowadays it is male and female, white and a bit brown (but not black) but is getting posh again. This is because of training costs and Bank of Mum and Dad. You have to go to a good university and then be able to do some postgrad training. Things are even worse in the media, where you have to do long internships. Medicine too is reverting to posh.
Most of the young people that apply to my chambers are super bright and very fabulous and also, in general, middle to upper middle class. They tend to be a mix of suburban State school and private school, Oxbridge, KCL, QMC, UCL, LSE etc (or Rhodes Scholar equivalent, so McGill or Monash or whatever), and often with a bit of postgrad Harvard or Yale thrown in. We still get a very few from council houses, but fewer than we used to. There is a large brown middle class now, so brown applicants are not an issue, but black applicants are. Male vs female is not an issue, and glass ceilings have gone.
Most of the young people that apply to my chambers are super bright and very fabulous and also, in general, middle to upper middle class. They tend to be a mix of suburban State school and private school, Oxbridge, KCL, QMC, UCL, LSE etc (or Rhodes Scholar equivalent, so McGill or Monash or whatever), and often with a bit of postgrad Harvard or Yale thrown in. We still get a very few from council houses, but fewer than we used to. There is a large brown middle class now, so brown applicants are not an issue, but black applicants are. Male vs female is not an issue, and glass ceilings have gone.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 26th September 18:33
REALIST123 said:
Looking on the bright side, it seems that they realise that their policies will bring the Country to its knees economically and are planning for it.........
That is good news, so it's a kind of political disclaimer 'you can't blame us because we told you we had a contingency plan for when it all goes to s
t and you still voted for us, oh and btw that free stuff, yeah sorry it's not' Breadvan72 said:
Entry to all professions has once again become the preserve of the posh. When I became a lawyer from a non posh background in the 80s, the law was white and male and posh. Then it became less white, less male, and less posh. Nowadays it is male and female, white and a bit brown (but not black) but is getting posh again. This is because of training costs and Bank of Mum and Dad. You have to go to a good university and then be able to do some postgrad training. Things are even worse in the media, where you have to do long internships. Medicine too is reverting to posh.
Most of the young people that apply to my chambers are super bright and very fabulous and also, in general, middle to upper middle class. They tend to be a mix of suburban State school and private school, Oxbridge, KCL, QMC, UCL, LSE etc (or Rhodes Scholar equivalent, so McGill or Monash or whatever), and often with a bit of postgrad Harvard or Yale thrown in. We still get a very few from council houses, but fewer than we used to. There is a large brown middle class now, so brown applicants are not an issue, but black applicants are. Male vs female is not an issue, and glass ceilings have gone.
How old are you?Most of the young people that apply to my chambers are super bright and very fabulous and also, in general, middle to upper middle class. They tend to be a mix of suburban State school and private school, Oxbridge, KCL, QMC, UCL, LSE etc (or Rhodes Scholar equivalent, so McGill or Monash or whatever), and often with a bit of postgrad Harvard or Yale thrown in. We still get a very few from council houses, but fewer than we used to. There is a large brown middle class now, so brown applicants are not an issue, but black applicants are. Male vs female is not an issue, and glass ceilings have gone.
Edited by Breadvan72 on Tuesday 26th September 18:33
Breadvan72 said:
Entry to all professions has once again become the preserve of the posh. When I became a lawyer from a non posh background in the 80s, the law was white and male and posh. Then it became less white, less male, and less posh. Nowadays it is male and female, white and a bit brown (but not black) but is getting posh again. This is because of training costs and Bank of Mum and Dad. You have to go to a good university and then be able to do some postgrad training. Things are even worse in the media, where you have to do long internships. Medicine too is reverting to posh.
Most of the young people that apply to my chambers are super bright and very fabulous and also, in general, middle to upper middle class. They tend to be a mix of suburban State school and private school, Oxbridge, KCL, QMC, UCL, LSE etc (or Rhodes Scholar equivalent, so McGill or Monash or whatever), and often with a bit of postgrad Harvard or Yale thrown in. We still get a very few from council houses, but fewer than we used to. There is a large brown middle class now, so brown applicants are not an issue, but black applicants are. Male vs female is not an issue, and glass ceilings have gone.
If I ever get into trouble, I want to represdented by someone proper cahncil. She'll have her Hair in a bun, hoop earrings, trekkie bottoms and a fabulous grasp of Eastury English: the lot. "He aint done nuffink, ALRIGHT!..."Most of the young people that apply to my chambers are super bright and very fabulous and also, in general, middle to upper middle class. They tend to be a mix of suburban State school and private school, Oxbridge, KCL, QMC, UCL, LSE etc (or Rhodes Scholar equivalent, so McGill or Monash or whatever), and often with a bit of postgrad Harvard or Yale thrown in. We still get a very few from council houses, but fewer than we used to. There is a large brown middle class now, so brown applicants are not an issue, but black applicants are. Male vs female is not an issue, and glass ceilings have gone.
Edited by Breadvan72 on Tuesday 26th September 18:33
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