How do you keep an idiot in suspense?

I think someone is tampering with the speellings (sic) in everybody's posts. Seriously, there's loads of deliberate looking mistakes, rather than genuine ones.

i went to W.H.Smiths and Waterstones to find that bugger, both in Manchester and Bolton neither of them had the hardback copy, they had a cliff notes book for studying which i don't understand.

 

For some reason I've got two copies in paperback, PM me your address and I'll post you one up for nothing if you want

I love that book, read it for the forst time about 2 years ago, I watched the film last year and thought it was crap (as generally happens when you watch a film after reading a book) - I re-read the book again on holiday a few weeks ago, and I loved it again

 

We did Of Mice And Men as one of our O Level Literature novels .

I still love it!

How do you keep an idiot in suspense?

 

 

Not heard that for years

i went to W.H.Smiths and Waterstones to find that bugger, both in Manchester and Bolton neither of them had the hardback copy, they had a cliff notes book for studying which i don't understand.

 

I bet Sweetens would've had one, saying that, is it still there/open?

Yorkshire people and the use of the word us gets on my nerves, "i'm going home for us dinner"

We did Of Mice And Men as one of our O Level Literature novels .

I still love it!

 

We did Far From the Madding Crowd. I loved it and still do. I was re-reading it at school and when I left I pinched it. Got me reading books that did. Paper for books and computers for, well computing.

When we read books, they were like scripts, some people in the class would get a character's lines and would read out loud, I only offered to do a part if I wanted to act silly and put on a voice, but sometimes's the teacher would pick the people who had to read.

 

Shakespeare was the worst, I really don't know why that was so common, I can't say I've used it since school, just like French and German, I said to my teacher " why do I need this, if I want to go to France, then I'll try and learn it then" think it was just an outburst when she told me off for not doing boring as fuck homework, I was quite good at it and was in set 1, which meant I had to do German also, I purposely got low scores, which meant I went down a set, I was with my best mates and it made that lesson way more enjoyable.

Edited October 26, 201213 yr by Didledee

I bet Sweetens would've had one, saying that, is it still there/open?

 

is sweetens the one facing whitakers?

For some reason I've got two copies in paperback, PM me your address and I'll post you one up for nothing if you want

 

What a gent, i'll drop you a pm later on pal

just like French and German, I said to my teacher " why do I need this, if I want to go to France, then I'll try and learn it then" think it was just an outburst when she told me off for not doing boring as fuck homework, I was quite good at it and was in set 1, which meant I had to do German also, I purposely got low scores, which meant I went down a set, I was with my best mates and it made that lesson way more enjoyable.

 

You're telling us all this in a regretful manner, I hope.

you're a bizarre one diddles

You're telling us all this in a regretful manner, I hope.

 

Why would I regret it? I've not once had to use those two languages since leaving school or put myself in a situation where I needed it.

 

I found it okay to learn, however also pointless for myself. Though this doesn't mean that I don't realise that there are advantages of knowing other languages in life and in work.

Edited October 26, 201213 yr by Didledee

is sweetens the one facing whitakers?

 

That's the one, although Whittaker's is called summat else these days. It's a bit shameful that I don't know, but I've stopped going into the town centre of late, trips there make me really depressed/infuriated.

Why would I regret it? I've not once had to use those two languages since leaving school or put myself in a situation where I needed it.

 

I found it okay to learn, however also pointless for myself. Though this doesn't mean that I don't realise that there are advantages of knowing other languages in life and in work.

 

Working in a your mum's shop means there's little call for needing to know a foreign language.

 

To be fair to you though, as NB has pointed out, you do seem to have, surprisngly, a good grasp of how to write properly.

Why would I regret it? I've not once had to use those two languages since leaving school or put myself in a situation where I needed it.

 

I found it okay to learn, however also pointless for myself. Though this doesn't mean that I don't realise that there are advantages of knowing other languages in life and in work.

 

I was referring to the way you dropped sets.

 

But yes, I have found having the basics of French and a little more advanced German helpful. If nothing, it got me around in the Euros.

You really never know when you will use things you've learnt previously, which is why it is a good idea not to knock back any opportunities.

If I ever want to take a career seriously than I learnt a lot in the job I had for 7 and half years, NVQ-3, flooring, painting, decorating, tiling etc, retail work, warehouse work, can use fork lifts, palets trucks, can do loads of things.

 

 

That's English Literature not English language though, isn't it?

Please don't tell me they have pooled both of these subjects together?

 

To be fair, didles writes very well, so it does seem odd he's sticking up for lazy people.

 

They weren't pooled together more linking the 2 together in lesson plans.

 

We studied the book in English literature then the film as part of our English syllabus.

 

Edited as my useless fingers keep typing studies and studied the wrong way round.

Edited October 26, 201213 yr by frank_spencer

I've found having a grasp of French helps me when I go over there on business or holidays. I was also pleased I knew a tad of German as well when I worked in Munich for a year. I didn't know when I was at school that these events would happen, but I did know that I would want to travel around a bit and not live in Tonge Moor and Bromley Cross for the rest of my life.

 

Didds, when you go on holiday each year, do you try and speak some of the lingo, or just speak loudly and slowley to them to try and get your poitn across......or do you simply have no interest in going abroad?

I was referring to the way you dropped sets.

 

But yes, I have found having the basics of French and a little more advanced German helpful. If nothing, it got me around in the Euros.

You really never know when you will use things you've learnt previously, which is why it is a good idea not to knock back any opportunities.

 

I don't really, I mean dropping sets meant I didn't need to do German and I was with my better friends in the lower set, I do believe that foreign language should be an option? like if you choose to do P.E, history, geography etc once you reach year 9 or 10.

 

It's been 9 years since school and I've forgot a lot of it, I can count in French and German, but a lot of stuff as been forgotten.

Edited October 26, 201213 yr by Didledee

We played in France and Germany in the UEFA Cup.

 

We'd had players from both countries play for us.

 

I've worked in both countries.

 

Etc.

They weren't pooled together more linking the 2 together in lesson plans.

 

We studied the book in English literature then the film as part of our English syllabus.

 

Edited as my useless fingers keep typing studies and studied the wrong way round.

 

Got you. Yes, we did that too. It's a good way to learn the nuances of the language by using the literature.

I hope they still do this as I found it a fabulous method of learning.

 

Oh, I got a B in Language and an A in Literature (they were O Levels though, proper exams )

A lot of learning is learning how to learn, then you can learn new skills more readily.

 

 

Got you. Yes, we did that too. It's a good way to learn the nuances of the language by using the literature.

I hope they still do this as I found it a fabulous method of learning.

 

Oh, I got a B in Language and an A in Literature (they were O Levels though, proper exams )

I got a C in English literature and a D in language.

 

I'd done no revision and looking back its my one big regret that I didn't try harder at school and my first stab a college.

 

I thought I was being cool when in fact I was being a tit.