Fucking precious snowflakes aren't they?

Paul Calf was right.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37926729

Mardarsed twats.

Burn them with fire.

 

It's one of my unfulfilled life's ambitions to go on University Challenge, unfortunately I studied at Scumbag institutions so no go.

 

edit: actually Salford qualified, and one year I was there, they kept it quiet, their loss, probably did shite without me in the side.

 

http://www.blanchflower.org/uc/teams_list.html

Edited November 9, 20169 yr by Youri McAnespie

I fucking hate students. Just fuck off

Even when I was a student I didn't like students

 

This is why

I loathed students when I initially was one, probably because I was older by a few years and playing house with a girl, had a job concurrently etc. (I also did biz)

 

When I went back at 29 I was free and single and had a great time, I forgave my younger peers' follies of youth. (I done well this time).

Edited November 9, 20169 yr by Youri McAnespie

I take it they lost?

Never knew any students when I left school in 69.Only folk I knew went being bus conductors or learning how to drive a coal barge down the canal.

As a mature student this last 3 years in Leeds I have kept my eyes open. Kent says its a minority and he is right. However, that small minority controls all media and propaganda on campus, egged on by many of their "right on" tutors. You are bombarded with "immigrant welcome here"and "swp activism" wherever you turn on every notice board in every study area.

As a mature student this last 3 years in Leeds I have kept my eyes open. Kent says its a minority and he is right. However, that small minority controls all media and propaganda on campus, egged on by many of their "right on" tutors. You are bombarded with "immigrant welcome here"and "swp activism" wherever you turn on every notice board in every study area.

It's the same at Salford - but nobody cares. Not even the foreign Muslim students - they're more interested in talking to me about football for the most part. I thought about setting up an atheist society when I was in my first year - just to buck the trend. Then I realised I couldn't be arsed either! :-)

National service.

 

That's all I'll say.

"Give us some easy ones, Bambi. You big bottom boil!" ????

the cream of our talent - the great unwashed, scruffy mard arses. Get a proper job and pay your student loans back!

Unbelievable. Soft wankers.

At the end of their degrees all the lefties get their hair cut and gets jobs in accountancy or banking. Happened at my place.

I think I was the most right wing on my course (it was music and drama though!)

 

I did a polemic to my year about how Thatcherism was good for the arts. Got me a first. Made me about as popular as an outbreak of meningitis.

 

EDIT: Just to say, I didn't and don't believe it was, but from a certain standpoint you can argue the case if you are so inclined.

Edited November 10, 20169 yr by Not in Crawley

 

 

I did a polemic to my year about how Thatcherism was good for the arts. 

 

 

 

I can't believe that I'm saying this......but I'd love to see how you spun that one

I can't believe that I'm saying this......but I'd love to see how you spun that one

The main thrust was basically that by strangulating funding and only celebrating money making musical hits she effectively created a groundswell of creative young, politically engaged artists who actually wanted their work to resonate with everyone, not just a middle-class elite and also tackled politics on both the right and left. No other British politician has inspired so much work to be created. \plus the 80s was a boomtime for original British musicals which more people see still today than The Two Hatted Lesbian Mung Bean Dance Company in Wankstain Arts Centre, Pretentioustown. That and the fact that many music groups and artists were formed and worked because they could get dole whilst trying a career in the arts for an extended period. Which isn't possible today.

 

Against over-funding which can create laziness, centralised inertia and isn't a good breeding ground for creativity in organisations with a on reliance of handouts.

 

As I said, I don't believe it at all, (I'd argue her real legacy is the fact we still have to argue for the pittance the arts receives from the public purse is, as Michael Billington says 'A fruitful investment, rather than a frivolous expenditure.')

There's enough funding for the arts but it is all concentrated in London.

 

Then again the rest of country is mainly interested in X Factor Live! and watching z-list celebs ice skating.

There's enough funding for the arts but it is all concentrated in London.

 

Then again the rest of country is mainly interested in X Factor Live! and watching z-list celebs ice skating.

 

The majority is but that's because it has the highest concentration oif NPOs and MPMs, as you would expect of a capital city. But you are right, it is an ongoing problem. http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/how-and-where-we-invest-public-money 

 

And the rest of the country really isn't. Have a look www.audiencefinder.org