Le Stu

Buying new headphones at lunchtime, then not being able to use them because my whole office can hear the music if I turn it up beyond 10%. My last ones were the kind that you can burrow so far into your earhole that it almost hits your brain, hence no noise escape and I could routintely deafen myself. But these new ones are sort of odd shaped and they don't go into your ear properly and everybody can hear it. 22 well spent They do sound good though.

I used to take these fuckers in to work:

no one could hear a damn thing. closed back cans aren't good for the hearing though. I've had ringing ears after some sessions.

some of the girls said I looked like a DJ mans lol.

Let The Right One In

Brilliant film full of subtlety and great performances from the two kids. There was a few uncomfortable moments, but it's a film about a child vampire so fair enough. Guess it shows how much you feel for the characters when the moments of violence and fear makes you uncomfortable. Loved it. Never want to watch the American version as long as I live, no good can come of it.

It's apparently quite good but I have no desire to watch another version. The Swedish one is excellent.

I've seen Martyrs, and it's like a Disney film compared to some of the stuff in ASF.

I'd say you're better off just going to the BBFC website to read the list of cuts that didn't get in rather than subject yourself to the movie....

I've heard about this film, and I'm out. I think I know my limits and I'm not afraid to admit them. I even sat through Antichrist which is appalling for other reasons but this film sounds like 100% fucked up shit, might as well just watch a snuff tbh,

Obviously he tried to rush the thread too hard and got spawn trapped.

Martyrs is pretty brutal as well. Not exactly a good date movie, put it that way.

that's amazing.

probably a redux of the entire film's strong points though. Still, Bollywood does it better than Michael Bay. Maybe there's a song and dance section in there somewhere, that's the sort of irrelevant padding I could actually deal with.

I haven't seen this film, but I kind of want to

Just to clarify that wasn't a conspiracy theory, just underlining how bizarre a coincedence it was!

you quoted the wrong poster but at least you didn't call me a cunt.

Really? No one finds this a bit bizarre that it's happened to three different people 4 times in 1 month on prominent news shows?

Not really, British anchors are always fumbling their sentences. Was funny though.

Read about what happened when the NHS was first introduced, all sorts of people came forward with chronic conditions, such as prolapsed organs, protruding hernias, and some other horrorshow stuff, that in some cases they had suffered with for decades due to the expense that fixing them would have entailed. You do not know you are born, just like me, and pretty much everyone else here, so don't come your third-hand, tenth-rate neo-lib pish, just because you don't give a shit if some drop dead in the gutter, to lower your taxes.

And Sweden is even more thought-policetastic than Britain, not easy to achieve.

It's true, the NHS brought in major improvements in public health when it was introduced. Still, I don't see why we should be clinging to a 20th century system of public provision. Other European countries run 2 or 3 tier healthcare systems, with a mix of public and private providers, even non-profit insurers in Switzerland. I look at what happened with dentistry in this country as a failed opportunity to privatise provision but retain a single payer system and I don't want that to happen with our healthcare.

As usual we'll resist change tooth and claw until we get exactly the kind of reforms we feared all along.

Leave our private schools alone: Tories' warning to 'quango queen' - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

So, if I have this right, she wants certain private schools to offer more bursaries to finance the private education of certain pupils, due to their charity tax status, but the government doesn't want this because they think the schools will be forced to raise tuition fees?

This sentence gives me the boke

well, your gastric movements don't answer my question, particularly.

There's plenty money going around, it's just being spent unwisely.

These cuts do not NEED to be made, it's a political choice.

Oh you mean the coalition cuts? Well, we could probably kick the can down the road for another decade, bar further crises, but then we'd have difficulty funding anything public after that. Japan is just about there and I find it disturbing how complacent they are.

But I'm pretty sick of all the partisan splitting of hairs and propaganda, tbh. I can easily see the government back down on the pace of the cuts if debt-deflation takes hold again.

Everyone seems to be saying that these days.

Not one has said why...

Well, they'll go the ways of woolies if they don't. Things aren't that bad yet but consumers are tapped out, downsizing retail overcapacity, especially where store duplication can be found, is the way to survive.

This seems logical, we had a huge consumer boom and it was unsustainable, now there's overcapacity that needs to be removed.

Out of curiosity, what does everyone think of faith schools? Morally wrong?

Fair enough, IMO. If people want to raise their kids in a faith-based tradition, that's their look out. If they're teaching garbage though, they shouldn't be accredited.

(in before smartarses, by garbage I don't mean religious studies, but alternative 'scientific' views)

Yeah we definitely need more focused undergrads and unis like Robert Gordons, with strong industrial links, which represent a real network. It is who you know as much as what you know. As yet, we don't know the future of tuition and higher education In Scotland. I'd sooner we had a public system based on merit rather than ability to pay, and apply that to the top percentage of a school year. So, if you don't make the grade you'll have to pay or consider your options more carefully.

I don't believe in combating wealth inequality though, I see it as futile, even self-defeating. Better to accept the stratified society and empower those individuals who can better themselves and attain mobility, IMO. My own family came out of the London working-classes and opportunity was all it took.

We do have free education for all though, just as we have free health care for all. The existence of private schools and Bupa actually takes pressure off our public education and health care systems.

I suppose it's unethical for me to see a private dentist as well? I prefer the choice, especially the choice to not have mercury fillings.

This country has an unhealthy obsession with 'fairness', IMO. I'm all for welfare to support general public health and well being but I fail to see how those of means purchasing their own services is unethical, especially if they've worked their way up in life and want a different experience for their kids.

Noel has not yet settled to his natural level, Living TV or somesuch, anyhoo, if you never saw Swap Shop in its prime, then you could never understand!? I meant the Belgrano gotcha, not a *shudder* pranksters sub Dom DeLoise shtick.

He didn't seem as weird then, honest, he hadn't gone prime time, thats when the sinister shit started going down. Icke seemed normal once too remember!! (I can't helps it, the 70s are a perpetual sunlit/crisp snowy upland in my memory)

They seemed a bit brown, from what I recall, and a bit 'strikey'. Still the grammar school educated sent that bunch packing eventually.

But it's good Noels working again, bringing joy to good Christian people, blessing them with the randomness of numbered boxes Our Lord sends them.

The BBC is inherently ace in a way free market ideologues are not intelectually equipped to understand; what know they of nuance or subtlety, those who deal in comms hacking, triangulation and gotchas.

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Le Stu aged 12.

lol that came later. if you were in elgin in the early 90s you will know exactly what I'm talking about. hairforce was a fucking pleb factory.

Public schooloys would get bullied in a state school. The mong bit was me though.

They maybe would but no more than a fat/gay/disabled/smelly kid.

I have to doubt that, based on the weekly trip of Goudonstoun kids to my town. Hatred was palpable.

Much to be envied though, by the shit 3 hairstyle having chattering classes lol. gone all emo now lol. sorry i fucking hate elgin.

It's not as if private education is only reserved for the Old Money crowd, which is worth pointing out. I have friends whose parents are obviously real working class who put their kids through Gordons and they've done well. Others haven't, despite being from more affluent backgrounds. Private education isn't necessarily better but to remove the option for those of means is to deny the socially mobile a basic economic freedom, IMO.

Wrong I'm afraid. Disruptive children cause a teacher to spend more time keeping order in the classroom and less time teaching. Less time teaching means that the lessons are less involved so the children who want to work and can work are no longer being challenged. When they are no longer challenged they become bored and their boredom leads to bad behaviour. So the opposite of what you are saying is true.

I'm inclined to agree with that. My mother worked in learning support for her career and she admits that a lot of the kids she was brought to teach were beyond her. If they're young enough then she can work wonders but, past a certain age, they just get angry and resentful at being put in an environment with kids of higher ability and they don't have the emotional maturity to deal with it. This leads to playing up and disruption and impacts the other kids.

There's such a taboo around returning to early assessment and streaming, which the programme kind of pussied out on. There should be more debate about this.

Nah, I meant less as in 'not as -adjective- as before' rather than amount.

No trolling meant at all. You put bad kids with other bad kids they just get worse. Same happens when you put snooty poshos with more snooty poshos. Mixing it up is much better.

You probably didn't go to Elgin Academy. Oh how I wished I had nobby parents or a grammar to go to, to escape those fucking wastemen.

I suppose I'm just a positive person who can see that an unequal system that offers an advantage to those born into relative wealth is still preferable to rule by the lowest common denominator