"I think he's saying that if you can't afford to send your child to Eton, then you have no business having children at all..."
Not at all. State funding of education is one of the few state actions that I support.
I have had a very good education although -- as I've repeatedly pointed out -- its value was in the extra-curricular activities offered.
I just think that state provision of education is shit (although, to be fair, in Scotland it's rather better); education is, like health, used as a political football for politicos and the education of the children always takes second place to the politically measurable results.
And it makes me very cross and so, ironically, I swear less...
DK
Well, to be honest, I don't actually think that - I just said it because I thought it was funny.
I don't particularly think kids are coming out of school stupider than previous generations did. I'd say the rate of idiocy in the general public is pretty constant from cradle to grave...
And education is used as a political football, it's true. It won't be once I take over, though. The political footballers will be first against the wall, no matter how many keepie-uppies they can do.
Heh! Fair enough, sir. I left the comment, not because I didn't think that you understood it, but because your readers might not...
Now, carry on making me laugh, please...
DK
And the people saying that we're 'test-passing morons' can fuck off. There's a distinct possibility that I'm a moron, but I can say with a degree of certainty that I've failed my exams.
"I left the comment, not because I didn't think that you understood it, but because your readers might not..."
Oooh! Get her!!
Now, what am I supposed to have understood again?
They need to understand that hardcore internet gangbang porno videos [...] are not step-by-step instruction manuals for the making of sweet love to young ladies.
I assume that you are speaking from chastened experience.
I assume that you are speaking from chastened experience.
Naturally, although "Young ladies" would perhaps be stretching euphemism to breaking point.
I don't know about the breaking point of a euphemism, but after last week's unfortunate argument with the NZ Symphony Orchestra, I can tell you all about the breaking point of a euphonium.
"The political footballers will be first against the wall."
We could probably medal in that.
The political footballers will be first against the wall
I'm with you on that. The 'political football' phrase is simply too vague -- do they mean soccer or rugby? Should we expect the politicians involved to fall over on the pitch, clutching a supposedly-injured shin and wailing in agony until their side is granted a penalty, or to bite one another's ears off in the scrum?
I would be happier if the political commentariat adopted some more specific sporting cliche -- "The health system is being used as a political beach volley-ball". Or what's that Mongolian game where two teams on horseback try to drag a calf's head from one end of the field to another? "The health system has become a political calf's head" -- that sounds better.
It's probably most like Aussie Rules - that is, no-one knows what the fuck is going on.
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