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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Mind blowing. A compilation from the Labour conference.
That was awesome . The creature that speaks from about 8:50 on is probably the best ad the tories will ever get.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
@Snowy I live here mate and I have no real idea .... I think that
State - free to go to, govt funded
Private - cost to go to, non govt funded, bit more down to earth
Public - generalization for the best schools. Eton etc.But I could be wrong.
In the UK as far as I know there is no official designation of private schools. Any that are privately run are in reality called independent schools. Public schools are independent secondary schools. The name comes from the time when the practice of their charging fees allowed them to open their rolls up to students from outside their local areas in a way that grammar schools couldn’t. They were open to the public, hence, public schools.
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@JC said in British Politics:
@MajorRage said in British Politics:
@Snowy I live here mate and I have no real idea .... I think that
State - free to go to, govt funded
Private - cost to go to, non govt funded, bit more down to earth
Public - generalization for the best schools. Eton etc.But I could be wrong.
In the UK as far as I know there is no official designation of private schools. Any that are privately run are in reality called independent schools. Public schools are independent secondary schools. The name comes from the time when the practice of their charging fees allowed them to open their rolls up to students from outside their local areas in a way that grammar schools couldn’t. They were open to the public, hence, public schools.
I think you are spot on in correct terminology and how it should be used.
But I think I’m more right on how they are referred to on a conversational basis.
If that makes sense.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
On the bright side at least there were only 6 prosecutions for being mean on the internet. Luckily there was clearly no other presssing crime in London during this time where resources could have been better put towards.
Had a mate over from New York a couple of weeks ago. We got into a slanging match over which of our two cities we work in has the worst Mayor.
It got quite heated, as both of us are firmly entrenched in our position, but I think the violent crime rise over social justice bullshit slant got me the win.
Rory Stewart is going to run as an independent in the next one. I quite liked him on he campaign for PM which he ran. Certainly more centre right than Boris with what I'd view as the right level of pragmatism.
I literally cannot wait for this city to be freed of Sadiq. I thought he was a great move when he got it and showed the liberalism of this city. I was wrong.
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@MajorRage Ha that is quite a debate! But yeah Khan is actually killing folk so he wins that one. I've joined a Telegram group of one of the TR supporter crowd and there are all too regular videos being shared of London street crime which is absolutely shocking. One today had two women fighting each other on a main street when a bloke wanders over and starts stabbing one of them repeatedly with the police right there. Proper insanity.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
@MajorRage Ha that is quite a debate! But yeah Khan is actually killing folk so he wins that one. I've joined a Telegram group of one of the TR supporter crowd and there are all too regular videos being shared of London street crime which is absolutely shocking. One today had two women fighting each other on a main street when a bloke wanders over and starts stabbing one of them repeatedly with the police right there. Proper insanity.
I don't know if I'd say he's killing people, but he certainly isn't protecting them to the best of his abilities with the resources available to him.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
As a former awkward spaz when it comes to women, this terrifies me. I know some young guys who are justifiably afraid to ever approach a girl these days.
They should be fucking afraid - of the consequences - if they approach a girl the way which was reported in the article.
#notnormal
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@MiketheSnow said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
As a former awkward spaz when it comes to women, this terrifies me. I know some young guys who are justifiably afraid to ever approach a girl these days.
They should be fucking afraid - of the consequences - if they approach a girl the way which was reported in the article.
#notnormal
Of course its not normal its a teenage boy. They aren't exactly relationship experts. Prison time for touching a girl on her arm? A lot of lads don't have a father figure to help them navigate these situations and instead rely on teen movies where the handsome quarterback confidently approaches the gorgeous cheerleader touches her arm while looking into her eyes making her weak at the knees with desire. The kid's an idiot for sure, were you free from idiocy as a teen? I wasn't, hell this was me until well into my 20's.
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Times have drastically changed since we were his age.
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@MiketheSnow Yes... that is a truism. It is wether they have changed for the better in this regard that is the question.
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