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Sun Wukong
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PostPosted: 14:01 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:


You can't do it forever, you'll need to enter adulthood at some stage.


Laughing

I've not borrowed a penny for my current studies. I grafted like mad for the preceding 9 months, and refused to spend any money unless totally necessary.

Or the 9 years working life between my batchelors and my current masters, with almost constant sacrifice to maintain positive cash position in extreme circumstances. It still beat coming back to the UK to pay the government tithe while working at Greggs.

Now, tell me again how you earnt the massive increase your state house, sold to you for a pittance, has entitled you.
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Jewlio Rides Again LLB
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PostPosted: 14:14 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
Sun Wukong wrote:

Their generation had it the roughestest, don't complain Laughing


My generation work for a living instead of hiding away in education for as long as possible, whilst living on borrowed money which they have no intention of paying back.

You can't do it forever, you'll need to enter adulthood at some stage.


Hark at the night schooler who thinks his ten bob IT course makes him Tim Berners-Lee. Rolling Eyes
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Sun Wukong
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PostPosted: 14:29 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
Ah another middle aged Peter Pan Student, hiding away from adulthood.

Makes sense now.


I'm glad something finally does for you Thumbs Up

I thought I was going to have to re-type it in words of two syllables or less.
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Sun Wukong
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PostPosted: 14:31 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jewlio Rides Again LLB wrote:

Hark at the night schooler who thinks his ten bob IT course makes him Tim Berners-Lee. Rolling Eyes


Oh no, when he does extra learning from the O-levels base line, he is bettering himself.

When others do it, they are simply avoiding responsibilities and adulthood.

Hypocrisy is the sign of a weak mind and spirit Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
Ah another middle aged Peter Pan Student, hiding away from adulthood.

Makes sense now.


Laughing Laughing Laughing

From the bloke who hasn't grown out of playground insults and character attacks yet.
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Jewlio Rides Again LLB
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PostPosted: 16:39 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sun Wukong wrote:
Jewlio Rides Again LLB wrote:

Hark at the night schooler who thinks his ten bob IT course makes him Tim Berners-Lee. Rolling Eyes


Oh no, when he does extra learning from the O-levels base line, he is bettering himself.

When others do it, they are simply avoiding responsibilities and adulthood.

Hypocrisy is the sign of a weak mind and spirit Thumbs Up


You also have to wonder why he is so nonchalant re historical abuse claims, and doesn't criticise tax dodging. Thinking
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PostPosted: 17:59 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
My generation work for a living instead of hiding away in education for as long as possible, whilst living on borrowed money which they have no intention of paying back.


Is this the same generation that not only had their tuition fees at university paid but were also given maintenance grants (a thing not even dreamed of in this day and age?)

Where has this idea of the previous generation "pulling itself up by it's bootstraps" come from? Especially when state welfare had never been so high as when they were growing up; education, healthcare, prescriptions, infrastructure (public transport, roads etc) all saw vastly increased spending. This most independent-minded and self sufficient generation came up on unprecedented levels of state spending (ie debt).

Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but let's not pretend that this is the first generation ever to get support from elsewhere.
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PostPosted: 18:38 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sun Wukong wrote:
I thought I was going to have to re-type it in words of two syllables or less.

Fewer.

Weren't you teaching Engrish at one point? Thinking
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PostPosted: 19:51 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Weren't you teaching Engrish at one point? Thinking


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The Cambridge Guide to English Usage notes that the "pressure to substitute fewer for less seems to have developed out of all proportion to the ambiguity it may provide in noun phrases like less promising results". It describes conformance with this pressure as a shibboleth and the choice "between the more formal fewer and the more spontaneous less" as a stylistic choice.[10]


Style, Borgy. You either have it, or you don't Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:23 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sun Wukong wrote:
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage notes that the "pressure to substitute fewer for less seems to have developed out of all proportion to the ambiguity it may provide

I'm sure much people would agree with you but in the end it comes down to how many you care about the issue.
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Jewlio Rides Again LLB
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PostPosted: 22:33 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Sun Wukong wrote:
I thought I was going to have to re-type it in words of two syllables or less.

Fewer.

Weren't you teaching Engrish at one point? Thinking


CSB - One of my high school Science teachers, when writing up on the board, made spelling mistakes such as '[...]the cat would role up[...]'
I took delight in pointing that out to her. Laughing
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PostPosted: 22:43 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sun Wukong wrote:


Style, Borgy. You either have it, or you don't Thumbs Up


Less people have fewer of it these days.
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PostPosted: 22:53 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Taaaakke meeeeee hoooooome....

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PostPosted: 23:05 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wish I'd been embarrassed by these 'Paradise Files'.
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Sun Wukong
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PostPosted: 23:32 - 12 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Alright smart-arses, you shall be punished.

Behold this mastery in linguistics, in full glory.

Comparing the archaic grammarians fewer (evolving out of common use swiftly) with many and much, actual basic cornerstones of English sentence composition.

How very dare you, and your strawman.
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PostPosted: 01:22 - 14 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
Nope you've lost me. You claim to not live on benefits yet live in a state subsidised house, even though you refuse to answer the question

For some reason, you want me to guess the name of a builder who built my freehold house in the 70's to make me a hypocrite.

Ask one of your neighbours, I'm sure they'll know Wink
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PostPosted: 19:47 - 18 Dec 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 19:49 - 18 Dec 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
One of the few times I'm sure the majority of us want the BBC to win?
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I'd still like to know what my connection is with Bolton, oh mighty fukwit?
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PostPosted: 09:15 - 19 Dec 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jewlio Rides Again LLB wrote:
One of the few times I'm sure the majority of us want the BBC to win?

You'll have no problem posting your bank account details then.
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PostPosted: 13:46 - 19 Dec 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
They already have all of mine.
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