Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
The Dick Van Dyke Show basically invented the sitcom that we would recocniseOriginally Posted by Rhyfelwyr
lol, I remember that episode as well! I always wondered what would happen if they did something like that in an otherwise reality based TV show... Dick van Dyke is the man.
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Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
The absurd politeness and weird rituals were the icing on this shows cakeDiefenbaker ruled.
They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.
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Better to double the amount in them, then I wouldn't be marking papers without basic formatting or comprehension.
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Actually, this is a much better suggestion. There is not even any point in writing an 800 word paper. The average essay is 2,000 words, which is also far from ideal. Heck, my dissertation is 15,000 words and I wish it was triple that to make all the points I need to.
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I'm against the concept of "borders" by principle, of course I'm all in favour of free movement of labour.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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What?! I thought international capitalism and the free exchange of labour/goods is what allowed the western bourgeoisie to artificially extend their time in power, even Marx said imperialism gave capitalism a new lease on life. The decadent west thrives on the fruits of the labour of the little boy working in an Indian sweatshop!
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
No, they are scum.
Students have a legitimate right to protest, but these, well i wouldn't cry if they were dragged down back alleys by french riot police.
Now they know how to party!
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Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
'real degree' =
'real Uni' =
'real job' = I don't think KFC comes under that...
Sorry, but at the real universities, there is no two hours per week. There is 2 hours peer week per module at least, and there is usually at least 3 modules. This is no even accounting for all the pre-seminar work, readings and lectures themselves, the hours listed were just seminars. I even asked friends and family members, and they say the same in other universities. So with Oxford (1st), Cambridge (2nd), St Andrews (4th), Lancaster (6th) being accounted... It isn't jealousy, I find it insulting.
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Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
I, for one, applaud internal British resistance to global Anglo-capitalist oppression.
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I meant jealous at my lack of a workload, not my Uni.'real degree' =
'real Uni' =
'real job' = I don't think KFC comes under that...
Sorry, but at the real universities, there is no two hours per week. There is 2 hours peer week per module at least, and there is usually at least 3 modules. This is no even accounting for all the pre-seminar work, readings and lectures themselves, the hours listed were just seminars. I even asked friends and family members, and they say the same in other universities. So with Oxford (1st), Cambridge (2nd), St Andrews (4th), Lancaster (6th) being accounted... It isn't jealousy, I find it insulting.
Anyway, my two hours are for one module. My dissertation counts for my other two this term (3 in total each term over 4 terms in 3rd/4th year. I'm pretty sure Glasgow counts as a real Uni. And I don't plan to build a career in KFC, don't you have a part-time job?
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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Then you should do some more thinking
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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Pffft what kind of leftist are you?
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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The awesome kind.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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You mean the wishy-washy liberal kind. What happened to the real leftists? The leftists that called for the extermination of ethnic minorities? The leftists that called for prohibition? The leftists that wanted people to work for their share of the fruits of production?
You're just a pick and choose leftist!
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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My brother has both a BS and a MA in History/Liberal Arts and.... He is worknig at Target's. That proves Rhy's point quite well.
Why do your Brits complain about this? We pay (I'm not,going to community college :D) $25,000 a year and your Brits pay what, only 5,000 or 10,000 a year? Give me a break. Go out and get a job you bums
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Correct - I'm a social democrat
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
Quite a lot of intellectual elitism coming from you Beskar, got to say I'm not impressed. Hate to break it to you but unless you went to Oxford and got a first, then there's always going to be someone claiming that their education is better than yours. What would you define as a real university anyway? As far as hours go as well, that's another poor indicator as hours vary per university and more so per subject. I currently have three hours worth of lectures per week from history (one module) and yet my two politics modules only have 2 hours per week of lectures between them. The work load for both is still the same however, it's just structure. Oh, and before you do bring it up, I do go to a "real" university, if by real you mean Russell group. I personally don't think this is a fair indication of a "real" university though.'real degree' =
'real Uni' =
'real job' = I don't think KFC comes under that...
Sorry, but at the real universities, there is no two hours per week. There is 2 hours peer week per module at least, and there is usually at least 3 modules. This is no even accounting for all the pre-seminar work, readings and lectures themselves, the hours listed were just seminars. I even asked friends and family members, and they say the same in other universities. So with Oxford (1st), Cambridge (2nd), St Andrews (4th), Lancaster (6th) being accounted... It isn't jealousy, I find it insulting.
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How boring. I think I'm going to call everyone to the left of me a communist, just for the lulz.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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Well, I'm not studying at a Russell Group University, and I only have one elcture and one Seminar a week (three hours)
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Seriously though guys, enough with the measuring. If you din't go to Oxford 20 years ago your degree probably isn't worth much academically - live with it.
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Oxford??!? Cambridge is #1 Not that I got the grades, I had to go to Imperial.
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Oxford 20 years ago.Oxford??!? Cambridge is #1 Not that I got the grades, I had to go to Imperial.
I didn't get the grades either, by the by.
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Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
To get back to topic, there is a serious side to all of this, looks like the idiot that threw the fire extinguisher off the roof may get what he deserves.
Besides the idiotic act itself, he didn't even think to wear a mask, so if you scroll the article you'll see a perfect shot of his face. Someone must be feeling nervous tonight...
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One mans terrorist is another mans liberator.
the police.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
You say it like you reluctantly had to take up a place at one of the best universities in the world.Oxford??!? Cambridge is #1 Not that I got the grades, I had to go to Imperial.
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I hope this is just you being provocative. That could easily have killed someone, in fact from the video, at the time of it being thrown, I would guess there was a 50% chance it woud kill. It's infinitely worse that smashing trashing 1,000 party headquarters and if this sort of thing happens more often such idiots are going to put their fellow protesters in real danger.One mans terrorist is another mans liberator.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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I meant jealous at my lack of a workload, not my Uni.
Anyway, my two hours are for one module. My dissertation counts for my other two this term (3 in total each term over 4 terms in 3rd/4th year. I'm pretty sure Glasgow counts as a real Uni. And I don't plan to build a career in KFC, don't you have a part-time job?I apologise, there is some misunderstanding, which I will clear up first.
I am not being elitist, by the definition I am not actively saying "my university is better than yours". In short, I have a BSc and a MSc, and I had to work very hard for them, along side having a demanding part-time job which required 12-hour shifts and I had to completely self-finance myself with no aid from my parents (they don't have money). There was virtually no room for slacking and those who did slack walked away with having a third (aka, waste of a university attendance). There was constant demands on time and constant assessment.
The thing was, Rhyfelwyr was going around in a few threads and there were a couple of other comments about 2 hours a week, with the rest just doing nothing at all, saying the complete university experience is a blow-over which required no effort or commitment. Naturally, I have been in an environment with constant work and deadlines, having to work part-time, and pretty much only time I got any serious free time was after the term had ended (Xmas, Easter, Summer). So the issue is, is some one turned around and completely fobbing off University, I find that insulting and simply think they do not know what they are talking about, so they must either be on a waste of time 'art degree' or simply at a University which doesn't care.
So it isn't educational elitism, it is more of a case that I feel like I am being insulted and the work and effort I had to put in is being disgraced as I end up getting branded in the same category.
So when it comes to Rory possibly joking about University experience (He did Medical Science, so probably would be similar to me), however, the whole two hour thing is a complete disconnection.
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Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
What, no soccer match that day? Violence won't get them anywhere.
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Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
we had two jokes when i was at uni:
1) media studies students who had about three-four hours of lectures a week where we had twelve-sixteen.
2) geographers who'd opted for the pussy version of earth science, when anyone knew that stuff of
quaternary age or younger simply wasn't worth looking at.
people who wanted a truly character building university experience spent hours on the side of mountains in non-stop sleet battling hypothermia as we scratched notes with numb fingers into notebooks. my dissertation was six weeks in the outer hebrides!
of course the last laugh was had by the media studies wasters and geography pussies, because we were too expensive to train so they canned my department the year i graduated, after 125 years of sterling service. :D
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Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
Well as you can see it is not about the lecture hours because when you think about 12-16 is also a pretty small amount, school kids must do 30 odd, doesn't mean they worked harder than you.
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Re: Looks like the brits are still a fine people
I say, I find myself in full agreement with this chaps view on students....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F2LfRgJfYE
Is it a crime to have a pint without fear of being nudged by a student?
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