Re: BBC In Spotlight Again Covid Exaggeration
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Heathblue
It's obvious that they were not very successful in getting me to turn up for skool :biggrin:
I did manage a Unix shell scripting course about 20 years ago in Cardiff Uni, was the only non uni person on the course and did manage to get a pass but lost interest and didn't take it any further. I was like a fish out of water in that class, Welder out of Ely meets and studies with geezers who talked propa n stuff, just wasn't going to happen. :hehe:
I don't see anything special about my experience. I was brought up in a terraced house, did my 1st year at comprehensive with a bunch of tearaways, and had a proper good laugh. I'm still the same kid who was brought up on the streets and got up to all kinds of mischief, and the move only happened because I was good at maths. I suppose it was good to meet different types of people, but the most interesting thing was how we were treated at school.
Re: BBC In Spotlight Again Covid Exaggeration
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Heathblue
I would disagree, your match reports always well written, informative and constructive.
The local press obviously thought so as well.
Thanks, to be more accurate, my sixth form formal education was a waste of time. I was on the mitch way too much, but this was partly brought on because I chose my A level subjects based on what I was told my Biology grade was on the day the results were released - it turned out the headmaster had read my grade out wrongly, he said I'd sailed through it, but I'd actually just about scraped a pass. Three months into the academic year I went to see the teacher because I was struggling so much and she said "well, I was surprised you chose to take Biology with such a low passing grade" I'd decided to take science A levels on the basis of what the headmaster had told me, but I was never going to pass it and so dropped out of the Biology course and the only subject which would take me on so late into the course was English, so I ended up taking that and Chemistry - I virtually gave up on the latter (didn't like the teacher much), but tried hard in English and managed to get a pretty decent pass. Looking back though, I'd have been much better off leaving school at sixteen, rather than eighteen.
Re: BBC In Spotlight Again Covid Exaggeration
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life on mars
Thats a ripping yarn
I used to have The Guardian delivered and I watched Newsnight every evening, plus Andrew Marr on Sunday, so I am well versed in this topic :-)
Re: BBC In Spotlight Again Covid Exaggeration
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Wales-Bales
I used to have The Guardian delivered and I watched Newsnight every evening, plus Andrew Marr on Sunday, so I am well versed in this topic :-)
Or you're just an old bloke trying to justify the rightward lurch you've taken since then.
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the other bob wilson
Or you're just an old bloke trying to justify the rightward lurch you've taken since then.
I'm not right or left, I just follow the different narratives :biggrin:
Re: BBC In Spotlight Again Covid Exaggeration
Anyone watching the Miners Strike 1984 on C4 shows how much the BBC ( and legacy media)lied about many many incidents reported at the time……and that was 40 years ago
Re: BBC In Spotlight Again Covid Exaggeration
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tomcat
Absolutely, usual biased crap from the Torygraph
Are you saying that the gist of the report is untrue?