|
time_is_now
|
 |
« Reply #300 on: 19:30:47, 22-01-2008 » |
|
I don't reckon an hour a day of housekeeping is a problem at all.
It is when you leave home at something past 8 in the morning and get back at going on midnight if not later, which is not unusual for me ... |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
martle
|
|
« Reply #301 on: 19:36:09, 22-01-2008 » |
|
An HOUR? A DAY??  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Green. Always green.
|
|
|
|
Morticia
|
|
« Reply #302 on: 20:09:51, 22-01-2008 » |
|
Gosh tinners, I think I might be your mum! It`s in the genes  Ruth, you might be a long lost cousin of mine! I have never been a Domestic Goddess, there`s just so much else to do and, like tax, dust is always with us. Wipe it away and it`s back there in the morning. And when you share a house with cats!  Never ending struggle. Sherlock probably had the right idea. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Reiner Torheit
|
|
« Reply #303 on: 07:00:45, 26-01-2008 » |
|
Lynne Truss would certainly have something to say about the omission of the comma in the middle of Mr Johnson's election slogan: |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
|
|
|
|
marbleflugel
|
|
« Reply #304 on: 21:52:56, 26-01-2008 » |
|
Wonderfully shifty-looking photo of him on the cover of todays' Grauniad-looks like he walked in to Ken's Payola trap. Japanese company leasing Boris back space in County Hall-strong reek of Moriarty (in the underwater fishcrate weaving saxophones of course)and Gryptype-Thynne about this.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
Arnold Brown
|
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #305 on: 02:11:36, 27-01-2008 » |
|
strong reek of Moriarty (in the underwater fishcrate weaving saxophones of course)and Gryptype-Thynne about this
I have to admit this one's foxed me, mf, tired as it is and late as I am. (Oh, sorry, other way round. Still foxed, though. Ubbums.) Lesbian marsupials maybe: would they unfox me? They're the answer to everything, I'm led to believe, apart from baked beans of course. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
Reiner Torheit
|
|
« Reply #306 on: 11:07:26, 27-01-2008 » |
|
strong reek of Moriarty (in the underwater fishcrate weaving saxophones of course)and Gryptype-Thynne about this
I have to admit this one's foxed me, It's an allusion to THE GOON SHOW, tinners.. the broadcasts were all over while I was still in short pants, so for a person of your youthful vigour it's a matter of no account at all  As marvellous examples of surreal humour they're worth seeking out on disk, though... few of them have dated, although the topical references have faded as could be expected. I described a particularly odious little twerp on TOP as "peashooter-wielding" yesterday, and the Mods still found that sufficiently current to have the posting struck-off by this morning |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
|
|
|
|
marbleflugel
|
|
« Reply #307 on: 19:22:30, 27-01-2008 » |
|
Cheers RT. Sorry to have stumped you there Tinners. What strikes me about Boris is that he is somehow
Moriarty and Gryptype-Thynne simulataneously- desperate and spivvy?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
Arnold Brown
|
|
|
|
Reiner Torheit
|
|
« Reply #308 on: 21:05:18, 27-01-2008 » |
|
Cheers RT. Sorry to have stumped you there Tinners. What strikes me about Boris is that he is somehow
Moriarty and Gryptype-Thynne simulataneously- desperate and spivvy?
"I think he's a bit of a crawler...." "Sapristi!" |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
|
|
|
|
Reiner Torheit
|
|
« Reply #309 on: 21:16:57, 27-01-2008 » |
|
Meanwhile in Brown Britain, you can now get an A-Level in hamburgers... ... no, I'm not joking, I'm afraid... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7211958.stm |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
|
|
|
|
Aitch
|
|
« Reply #310 on: 09:31:45, 28-01-2008 » |
|
The Network Rail GCSE/A-levels look a bit like a stealthy re-introduction of the beginnings of a sort of apprenticeship scheme.
Which is probably a good thing.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Daniel
|
|
« Reply #311 on: 12:06:19, 28-01-2008 » |
|
Well, far be it from me to aid in any way McDonald's deleterious and creeping progress over the planet, but at first glance, it seems like these exams could be a positive thing for some people. Perhaps I am being very naive, and just believing what McDonald's wants people to believe, and I know that there are many 'initiatives' around that are no more than a ploy to enhance a government's or company's reputation while hiding a far less attractive reality. But if there is a situation where some of the people working there do not have any kind of qualification or more broadly applicable training, then acquiring these as a result of these exams I suppose could lead a greater sense of confidence about themselves in work situations, and possibly mean better employment opportunities elsewhere. So that even if McDonald's motives are purely Machiavellian, there may be some coincidental good that emerges from this. But what do I know? This may well be after all just another image booster which will be of no benefit to anyone other than those at the top who are already in receipt of plenty. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Reiner Torheit
|
|
« Reply #312 on: 08:01:34, 29-01-2008 » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
|
|
|
|
IgnorantRockFan
|
|
« Reply #313 on: 16:29:33, 29-01-2008 » |
|
Will these exams be overseen and regulated by the bodies that currently oversee A levels? Will universities accept them as valid qualifications or will we start seeing entry requirements like "Two A-level passes, not including McDonalds"? What happens the first time a rejected university applicant challenges the rejection on grounds of unequal opportunities? Why don't they just call them apprenticeships, which everybody seems to agree are a Good Thing? How many years will they spend arguing about these questions before the first courses roll out? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Allegro, ma non tanto
|
|
|
|
|
|
