Student Riots

[ShiftingGears]

No need to apologise! After all, given that English is not your first language, you can be excused the odd slip. Those who have been speaking it since birth have little excuse, especially if they went to university...

It's pretty unbelievable how many people at university still make basic spelling and grammar errors, like being unable to distinguish you're from your, they're from there from their, to from too, and so on.

[BDunnell]

So why do so many shall we say thickies feel it is their god given right to attend Uni if as you say they are already aware that they don't have the right stuff to get the most out of a University education?

Tony Blair filling their heads with all this nonsense.

Yes, I'm sure that 18-year-olds the country over live their whole lives on the basis of what Tony Blair tells them.

[ioan]

So why do so many shall we say thickies feel it is their god given right to attend Uni if as you say they are already aware that they don't have the right stuff to get the most out of a University education?

Tony Blair filling their heads with all this nonsense.

They are aware of this after they try it and see how they do, not before.

[Bolton Midnight]

The Sixth form college I went to achieves far better results than any Grammar school I could have gone to in the North West.

Well that won't be Clitheroe, Skipton or Lancaster as they will trounce the likes of Lancaster & Morecambe, Tuson (sp), Burnley, Blackburn

[BDunnell]

It's pretty unbelievable how many people at university still make basic spelling and grammar errors, like being unable to distinguish you're from your, they're from there from their, to from too, and so on.

As I said recently in another thread, it is in fact true that educated people have long had a problem with such basic things, which mystifies me as the rules aren't hard.

[Caroline]

Hard to tell sarcasm from heartfelt leftyism

I'm sorry to read that.

I shall have to use a blue type from now on to demonstrate my non lefty credentials, or indeed a nice mustardy yellow.

[BDunnell]

If I was currently earning over £21,000 in a job that I could only have got with my degree, then yes.

Maybe.

Fair point.

[BDunnell]

I'm sorry to read that.

I shall have to use a blue type from now on to demonstrate my non lefty credentials, or indeed a nice mustardy yellow.

I now prefer to think of the latter as a diarrhoea-y, vomit-y yellow.

[Bolton Midnight]

It's pretty unbelievable how many people at university still make basic spelling and grammar errors, like being unable to distinguish you're from your, they're from there from their, to from too, and so on.

or maybe just maybe they're not all that arsed because it is the internet and not something of earth shattering importance

Not to mention typos

Always a sure fire indication the other side is on the ropes when they pick up on typos

[Bolton Midnight]

I'm sorry to read that.

I shall have to use a blue type from now on to demonstrate my non lefty credentials, or indeed a nice mustardy yellow.

Ta muchly