The Politics Thread

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

Puskas be fair - it isn't easy being a clown... Having to live with people laughing at you, day after day.

But at least it makes him aware of what it'd be like to work in a secondary school.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Are you one of them primary teachers who couldn't add up?

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

Oh, now come on. You can do better than that. I must have heard that a million and one times. 995,000 from parents, and the other 3,000 from internet message boards.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Fook me you have got a lot of spare time.

ps very funny.

[as]

Media Studies are demanding courses???? Pull the other one, it's a course you take to avoid working the old 9-5 for a few years.

Any evidence for this splurge of prejudice?

I'm guessing you're either related to or know someone doing this course.

I've met a total of three people who completed and passed it, and all confirmed it's a cop-out course, so my info is straight from the horses mouth (well, one of them was fit anyway).

You could argue, but you'd be wrong.

Prejudice?

Nope, not related to or know anyone personally doing a media studies course.

Do know several people who devise, teach, and write in the field.

I don't (in any direct sense) - though I teach some writing courses within film, tv and radio from time to time.

I could argue. Thanks for permission.

I'm right. These are demanding courses. And it's important, imho, to investigate such a significant cultural field.

Every innovative subject is treated with suspicion and hostility, pretty much. Usually by people who know feck all about the subject and can't be arsed finding out.

And there we go, confirmation that you're being biased.

I looked into doing a Media Studies course back in 2003, but thought getting a job would be a better option than taking some cop-out course, which wouldn't help me at all in the 'real world'.

Innovative subject? Really? Methinks your pants are on fire, William.

I'll pop downstairs and ask the many graduates about their 'difficult' courses and report back to you, maybe one of them studied the ever-so-demanding Media Studies, though I doubt it, as any employer wouldn't like someone with such a highly regarded degree get away from them......

[William the White]

Media Studies are demanding courses???? Pull the other one, it's a course you take to avoid working the old 9-5 for a few years.

Any evidence for this splurge of prejudice?

I'm guessing you're either related to or know someone doing this course.

I've met a total of three people who completed and passed it, and all confirmed it's a cop-out course, so my info is straight from the horses mouth (well, one of them was fit anyway).

You could argue, but you'd be wrong.

Prejudice?

Nope, not related to or know anyone personally doing a media studies course.

Do know several people who devise, teach, and write in the field.

I don't (in any direct sense) - though I teach some writing courses within film, tv and radio from time to time.

I could argue. Thanks for permission.

I'm right. These are demanding courses. And it's important, imho, to investigate such a significant cultural field.

Every innovative subject is treated with suspicion and hostility, pretty much. Usually by people who know feck all about the subject and can't be arsed finding out.

And there we go, confirmation that you're being biased.

I looked into doing a Media Studies course back in 2003, but thought getting a job would be a better option than taking some cop-out course, which wouldn't help me at all in the 'real world'.

Innovative subject? Really? Methinks your pants are on fire, William.

I'll pop downstairs and ask the many graduates about their 'difficult' courses and report back to you, maybe one of them studied the ever-so-demanding Media Studies, though I doubt it, as any employer wouldn't like someone with such a highly regarded degree get away from them......

Enjoyed the wink...

Writing radio, tv and film is in no direct way connected to media studies... As a cursory glance at any media studies syllabus would show you... but don't let reality intervene, FFS! Think of the difference between courses in Art and those in Art History... One is about creating art, the other studying it... I know this might be difficult for you, but it ain't that hard...

Enjoy the real job.

[Verbal]

People who are having a go at media studies...please do tell me where you get the evidence from to back up your opinions? Not meant to be a dig, just a serious question.

[Lord Kangana]

Prime Suspect has to be The Daily Mail.

[William the White]

Prime Suspect has to be The Daily Mail.

Then there's yer mates down the pub, especially those pissed off at paying their taxes for courses like these... they'll help you see things rationally...

[Lord Kangana]

Actually, can I add TalkSport into the mix.

Lots of repressed anger on there. Hangings too good for them, they say. Presumably whilst not debating hanging baskets. Or mobiles. Or light fittings. Or balls, possibly. Which ironically its generally lots of.

[Verbal]

to be honest they could have mentioned any newspaper, website, whatever...they all come under the media umbrella. It is a business that informs so many opinions and influences so many people it needs study.

But yeah, t'mail. Bastards.

[as]

People who are having a go at media studies...please do tell me where you get the evidence from to back up your opinions? Not meant to be a dig, just a serious question.

I was passing the time, by being a child and trying to provoke a reaction.

Fair play to WtW, he saw right through me!

What people do with their own life is up to them.

[Hoboh]

People who are having a go at media studies...please do tell me where you get the evidence from to back up your opinions? Not meant to be a dig, just a serious question.

I was passing the time, by being a child and trying to provoke a reaction.

Fair play to WtW, he saw right through me!

What people do with their own life is up to them.

Aye agreed as long as I don't have to sodding well stump up for their "choices".
Christ bailing out the bankers and this current governments spending is costing enough already, we should start to process, pack, distribute then eat the unemployed to at least keep the animal lovers happy

I'm sure his lordship could come up with a dish or two, like Dover dole with lemon etc

[Puskas]

Soylent Green au vin.

But not the unemployed - they'll be all stringy and vile. Follow Lemmy and the Comic Strip. Eat The Rich.

[Lord Kangana]

They'd just need braising if they're a bit tough.

To be honest, I'd most like to cook the bankers. Not for the taste or anything, I wouldn't be eating them. Just because they're the set of c*nts who now have us debating which of our children shouldn't have a proper education.

[a1]

They'd just need braising if they're a bit tough.

To be honest, I'd most like to cook the bankers. Not for the taste or anything, I wouldn't be eating them. Just because they're the set of c*nts who now have us debating which of our children shouldn't have a proper education.

i remember about <4 years ago there where a lot of "credit whores" chopping and changing their creditcards/mortgages/loans every five minutes.

the shitstorm is everyone fault.

if i think about it more, you could probably blame gordon brown... he's the new thatcher.

whatever. its done now.

[Lord Kangana]

I'm sorry, can you explain really slowly and at length how someone who has maintained an A1 credit rating for the best part of a decade could be considered culpable? Just when you say 'everyone' no it f*ckin well isn't.

[Hoboh]

They'd just need braising if they're a bit tough.

To be honest, I'd most like to cook the bankers. Not for the taste or anything, I wouldn't be eating them. Just because they're the set of c*nts who now have us debating which of our children shouldn't have a proper education.

i remember about <4 years ago there where a lot of "credit whores" chopping and changing their creditcards/mortgages/loans every five minutes.

the shitstorm is everyone fault.

if i think about it more, you could probably blame gordon brown... he's the new thatcher.

whatever. its done now.

So let me get this right here, if x offers you a better deal than y and you take it up your a whore? And the fact a lump of lard from the northern badlands with one ambition to screw the English gets all his sums wrong, its our fault?
Maybe its the fault of a bunch of cowards called the Labour party who were quite happy for an UNELECTED Prime minister to run the country after a dodgy deal with smiler, just to stay in power at all costs?
A party that "fixes" things like positive discrimination and to hell with talent that lumbers us with crackpots like Harman or kids as foreign ministers who know nowt but benidorm! The same party that want to fix loads of foreigners coming over here because they are incapable of stopping illegals! That want to tell you what to eat drink etc, make you pay for the asshole down the road whose never heard of work or his siblings holidays because they are misunderstood instead of realising a good beating would be a better cure!

Christ I need a lay down

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I'm sorry, can you explain really slowly and at length how someone who has maintained an A1 credit rating for the best part of a decade could be considered culpable? Just when you say 'everyone' no it f*ckin well isn't.

Quite agree, but then your swipe at 'the bankers' is equally infantile.

[Lord Kangana]

Infantile? Interesting. We (taxpayers) are told that taxes (money we pay in for public services) will have to be used to keep the banking sector afloat. Without any consultation. Becasue of the mistakes the banking sector made. We are then told that this in turn will mean cuts in essential public service, including (but not exclusive to) education, on top of which the banking sector will not be paying back this loan in the lifetime of the next Parliament,leading to further spending cuts. The same banking sector (with the same people in charge) that now lends money to foreign business to buy a recognised British brand.

I may be infantile, but I'm not a mug.