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  1. I mostly agree with the previous two posts, but total equality is utter pie in the sky. You could distribute every penny in circulation between the population of the UK, and within a month, maybe less, there'd be millionaires, and then there'd be the penniless destitute. As for birth denoting which category one falls into, well, that's a good one. How many lottery winners have changed from lower to upper class solely on the result of winning a fortune ? Non I'll bet. I know folk with class, elegance and grace , but were born working class and had a good upbringing, and have worked
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  2. I agree with every thing you say, the worst thing in the UK is upper class and lower class, to me every one should be equal. yes we had slums I was brought up in one of them but it doe's not make me any worse or better than anyone out there. I also agree that the kids now days get things easy, but are we adults to blame for it, I suppose that we had to work hard for what we wanted so when (baby boom 60ish) we just gave our kids every thing. Going back to education when I taught hair and beauty some parents and girls/boys thought it was a easy option for a job. One student who was with m
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  3. All Americans write the exactly same (cursive writing) which I've always found odd ..... there's no individuality in it. How many of us actually write much these days, apart from Birthday and Christmas cards oh and shopping lists which I personally find very necessary as I age! My favourite comedian Peter Kay did a sketch about going back to school after the 6 week summer holiday and not remembering how to write!!
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  4. Same everywhere. Hollyweird and television along with a lot of rock and rap have been brainwashing 'em for years. . Not to mention deliberate dumbing down in the school system. They recently did away with cursive writing here. Now you just print. Why learn anything if you can just pull it up on your phone. Assuming you can read. Rob them of their ability to think critically and soon you can have them all back to a Middle Ages serf type class. Dangerous but serfs nonetheless.
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  5. Don't like to think i'm Plodding yet............but at the weekend had a game of Babminton and about 20 minutes five-aside football..........i was playing against 40 ish others........and while i still had the co-ordination my reactions were much slower....same as Fly 72,........still enjoyed it........went in goal and took my glasses off..........did'nt see the first 3 goals i let in........lol.
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  6. The old social hierarchies still exist but realistically class these days is all about power and influence. All stems from nature's natural order of things, food chains, top predators, the survival of the fittest etc. As FLY said, make everyone equal and soon there will be winners and losers. I was reading about Napolean recently, part of the Revolution despite being well-born himself. After the king and aristos were turfed out and everyone became equal, Napolean was soon in power, next he's made his brother the King of Spain. Didn't take long for things to get back to normal. Tha
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  7. Yes, I agree. The majority of the population tend to remain in their predetermined niche in life. I definately agree regarding the doctor/ bin man scenario. We all depend on one another at sometime. That's why I always acknowledge my bin man, window cleaner, postman etc. They're no better or worse a person than I am.
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  8. And I agree with you too Mary. Not sure we can ever all be equal, but we certainly should have equality of opportunity. I'd also like to see something done about the huge pay differential between bosses and workers, the ludicrous way that some people can 'earn' more in 'Director's Fees' just for turning up for a few hours board meetings per year than most of us earn in years, and the huge gap in Govt spending between London and 'the rest. That'll do for starters! Col
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  9. Thirteen years ago today since Brian Cloughs passing I know it's a novelty game, but let's hope Forest can beat Chelsea tonight down at Stamford Bridge ...... For Cloughie x
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  10. For any youngster reading this. If you want a great education free and are prepared to work hard join HM forces as an officer. My friends grandson went to what is now known as Arnold Hill Academy, not the best reputation but he studied hard both at school and outside. At the age of 15 off his own bat and with out telling anyone he went to the recruiting office and made enquiries as to what he would need exam wise to join as a naval officer. Getting the required amount of O levels he was accepted for the next stage and sent to Welbeck College for two years as
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  11. And what about that "writing" you have to do when you sign for a parcel delivery. You are handed a small plastic stick and asked to write your signature on a shiny plastic square which is about 3 inches wide. It's impossible to come up with anything vaguely recognisable.
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  12. Lizzie i'm on about day 5 of writing with my wrong hand ie the right..........I also thought we don't write much nowadays,....but with having my 'shaky problem' its dawned on me how much we still write.......sign for a delivery........sign in hotel.or anywhere,......fill a form out.......write down details from a phone call........fill in peoples names at work..do a crossword.....even tick a prescription form.........and with the work I now do.....writing down peoples details......just can't do it with my left (writing hand).......so on this regime of writing with wrong hand...........just don
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  13. Ben. Re prizes just for showing up. This procedure does the kids no favors. After all if everybody gets the same prize anyway, why strive to be a winner at whatever one is trying to do? In the end it will just result in mediocrity alround. Edited to add:. Right on TBI. I fear that we are approaching that tipping point right now and it won't be pretty. I can never understand why those in leadership can't understand this and show some genuine empathy. Greed I guess.
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  14. I agree with most of what has been said about "equality" but wouldn't it be a fairer world if we could all have an equal start in life? Most of us did not and children born now do not!
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  15. I agree with you, Fly. Maybe I misunderstand you a bit too. I wasn't suggesting there could ever be total equality. We are all born with different gifts and abilities and we gravitate to where we feel most comfortable and useful. Usually anyway. I guess my thoughts are that if you are born with enough ability to be a medical doctor you should not look down on the guy who empties your bin or fixes your car. His services are necessary too. My comment about birth determining your category is where I'm not quite sure whether you agree or not. I simply meant if your ar
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  16. All I said was an equal start in life would be a good move............. What happens after that would be up to the child and their parents. It is sad that some children should really be protected from their inadequate parents............it is a dreadful world!!!!
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  18. A result.. yes and no....yes and no. Last week got a cheque for flogging a private number plate and made £600 profit..woohoo. End of the day some shares I've got had dropped £500 on paper after some adverse city comment. Oh well .. still £100 to the good. Got a cheque the other day for £300, my excess finally recovered after a no-fault motorbike accident claim two years ago... woohoo. Took wife's car in for service today, expected to pay standard service cost £150...ended up with a bill for £525, robbing b@st@rds. I think I'm about 25 quid up... better than nowt though..
    2 points
  19. Unless it's pigeon poo, dog turd or cow pat!
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  20. Plodding on, very probably FLY. But if one looks around the world...there is a saying 'history repeats itself'. If the so-called burgeoning 'underclass' gets to a point where it has absolutely nothing to lose and the time, circumstances and charismatic folk bent on anarchy are all in place. Come the revolution... Scary..
    2 points
  21. Ha, ha, that reminds me of a time many years ago, when I frequented Plessey Social Club at lunchtime. For years, I'd shown my membership card on entry, but one day, I was feeling confrontational and just strolled in, only to be apprehended by an officious little Captain Mannering ex corporal type. He stormed up to me, demanding to know if I was a member. I replied "yes" . He then stood in front of me and said "Yes what?". I replied "Yes I am" then made for the bar. I fully expected him to request that I salute, and call him "Sir". After that, I used to refer to him as 3P. Primal Donna, Pipsque
    2 points
  22. 'Social Mobility' is one of the answers to the rigidity of the class system. However, how to make it happen is always contentious. It's been as much of a political football as education is for as long as I can recall. Social mobility was one of the cornerstones of my work. Opening young people's eyes to possibilities.. getting them to see beyond the end of the street or the local factory and believe that they could, with the right application.. do better. But that is not the same as telling kids 'you can be anything you want to be'. You can't, but you shouldn't let anything or anyone
    2 points
  23. One of the factors in my decision to emigrate was the class system. I got more than a little tired of being told,. "The tradesmans entrance is at the back." Often said with a toffee nosed disdain. I can understand that some folks don't want you walking right through the house if the job is at the back that's o-k. Just say so, don't act like Mrs Bucket. I now realize there are class systems everywhere. They are less obvious here in North America, but they are still there, mostly based on money. In the UK they seemed to be more based on birth. You could be born working class
    2 points
  24. That's an interesting point Kev. Part of the Govt's excuse for doing away with my job was that 'Careers Information is all available online'. And of course much of it is. But then if all that was needed was the information.. we wouldn't need schools or colleges either. Teach them to read and log on. then leave them to it. It doesn't bear thinking about does it? People, especially young people, need advice and guidance too. They need to be able to distinguish between fact and fiction, and cwhat is and isn't relevant, for e.g. Those things aren't so easily digitised.
    2 points
  25. Crikey ...... This morning I found my 1st grey pubic hair! Normally this would not bother me, but it was in my Kellogs fruit & fibre
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  26. I thought the reference to car phone a bit outdated. A bit of checking indicates a consensus that 'Bill Gates' rules weren't down to him and come from nearly twenty years ago. However, summarised as get real, sort yourself out and don't expect others to do it for you, seems like great advice many of us would have received and indeed given out in the past. I have always believed apart from a loving home, the best thing you can do for your kids is ensure they get the best education possible. Support at this time is crucial. Then paragraph two applies....
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  27. To be honest, either I wasn't listening, or very few of my bosses said anything memorable.. I'll let you decide... The best advice I had was from my Grandfather.. before I started work... 'If a job's worth doing.. it's worth doing well.' Covers a lot of bases does that.. Grandad Jack was good at that stuff. He'd been a bit of a war hero in WW1, but he never employed the usual 'man up', 'get a grip' type cobblers. He was much more thoughtful. He'd ask me to think about things I was doing wrong and ask me to consider the consequences, not just for me,
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  28. Just had a visit from my lad & his lad, my grandson. Called around to show me his GCSE exam results, half a dozen all A & Bs with an A star thrown in what ever one of those is ! He will be going to sixth form college to study A levels next year, feel very proud of him bit after reading what a lots been said on this thread I can only say kid's nowadays also need a lot of luck as well as a good education. ! Also cost me & Mrs C £50. Hard work deserves rewarding !
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  29. The tame Robin is now almost in its full adult plumage and the local adult bird has begun chasing it around the garden. Looks like the fight for territory is now on. Luckily for me it seems to know that when I'm around it is safer with me than alone and so it comes to hand quite readily. Here it is seen landing on my hand, looking around whilst saying hello and then feeding. The camera was held in my right hand but the bird doesn't seem to mind me moving a little whilst it is settled on me.
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  30. It seems that my appointment at the QMC on Saturday eye dept did some good after all. Received appointment in the post this morning for next Thursday at 9.20am ! Ungodly hour tho.don't they ever sleep ?
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  31. I feel sad today for the kids born to what are called Chavs over there. Kid or kids born to a couple of drug and drink sozzled parents on welfare. Even assuming there are two parents together. Love and marriage are foreign concepts to them. At best they are dragged up with an entitlement mentality and the idea that if you don't get what you want the answer is violence. I guess it just becomes a self repeating cycle. If a kid can break out of that he/she has done very well.
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  32. Interesting thoughts and ideas, Willow Wilson. (I believe the universe didn't build itself, though!) Some of your ideas made me think of a simple analogy - our bodies. They functioned long before we knew all the intricacies of how they worked and before any textbooks were written. Maybe that isn't quite the same as the Universe stuff but I thought I'd just share it. I, too, am fascinated by prime numbers btw.
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  33. Then there are the "Do you know who I am ?" types. The times I've had that thrown at me with the stock reply "NO & I don't give a toss either"
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  34. I somehow don't think you'd find answers on the internet to the equipment I worked on or today's modern equipment, other than the manufacturer. Intermittent faults were the curse of our lives, didn't stay on long enough to diagnose, but long enough to lose production, one such fault eluded not just myself, but my Foreman, and the other three shift elecs who worked in the same district as myself. It was only a quirk that eventually gave me a clue of what in could be. We went through everything with a fine tooth comb on Saturday maintenance shift and still never found anything. Real headac
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  35. Nottingham the city of opportunity! Must admit I've been working around Harlaxton / Harrington / Rolleston Drive the posher the Student the more bonkers they are
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  36. Don't give up Mr Mills I did show my 90 year old Father your photos which jogged some memories & stories from him, I'm surprised Joy James as not back on she's the Musters Club specialist, I have found if you have anything interesting on Nottingham to post try around 5pm all the word/game gang nip off for their afternoon nap, anything good posted early morning will be buried.
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  37. It would be great if you re-posted them again. Just because there was no feedback, it doesn't mean that no-one was interested or bothered. People will be browsing Nottstalgia for no specific reason and come across something like that which they'll look at for a few minutes. They might not know anything about the subject or have any personal memories of it, but they'll be interested.
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  38. Plantfit, when I was at Clifton Colliery learning my trade, one electrician, Tommy Shaw, told me one thing that stayed with me until I said goodbye to the pits. Most of our time was spent walking to a breakdown. Tom told me to find out everything I could via the telephone, try and see if I could get the job running via the phone, remember half an hour downtime costs big money!! Then if all else fails and we had to set off to the breakdown THINK!! Evaluate everything the person on the site told you, and by the time we arrived on site we had a good idea what was wrong and only took a few minute
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  39. Sounds like Blakey was alive and well back then, Mick.
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  40. When my lad lived at home he was partial to that "House Music", I soon put a bleddy stop to that row !
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  41. I agree,I see the intellectual capacity of students spread all over the pavements out side most pubs near Lincoln university most mornings with the pigeons picking out the bits Rog
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  42. Apprenticeships the question is what apprenticeships. As far as I can see there are very very few real apprenticeships these days. It doesn't seem to matter what colour the government they have no idea what a real apprenticeship is, so they call any training an apprenticeship even down to making coffee. Now you may need to be taught how to make coffee or tea, I was when I started work it took almost an entire day, but by the next mornings tea break I had it sussed a sore earhole ensured that. In my view an apprenticeship is practical and theoretical training over an ext
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  43. I think technology has a lot to answer for for the lack of apprenticships. Many jobs have been 'deskilled' to the point where almost anyone can do it with the minimal of training, especially in the manufacturing sector.
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  44. Loppy, in short, Govt. ( Under Thatcher) scrapped all of the Industry Training Boards. It's gone down hill since then. It's more complex than that but at present I'm trying to photograph butterflies in the garden.. I shall return.. Col
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  45. I don't get it. If there are few to no apprenticeships available where is the country getting its supply of plumbers, electricians, carpenters, auto mechanics etc? Us old timers are long gone. Further to that I personally do not believe that the government should be providing funding for this process. It's often better when they keep out. Those words, "I'm from the govt, and I'm here to help." Often seem to be the death knell of any enterprise. At the time of my apprenticeship. The employer provided a job at a low wage while also providing the practical training to learn the
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  46. Obviously you have a point there Compo. Certainly the major maunufacturing and engineering industries have gone. But the idea of an apprenticeship can be applied to a whole range of jobs, and that is the current idea. The problem is that neither employers, nor Govt., are keen on stumping up the required funding. Also, for as long as I have known anything about this, and certainly for the thirty years I had one foot in education and the other in employment.. as a Careers Adviser, everybody has been blaming everybody else... Employers blame Government for the 'lack of
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  47. I think there's an echo in here, Compo! LOL.
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  48. Mrs C outside mowing the lawn, she likes her new mower. Went to Bulwell this morning called in at Wilko's & Mrs C mentioned she needed to give the door steps a fresh coat of paint. Bought her a tin of step paint, flowers the other day,now paint as well, you can see how much I spoil her !
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  49. Mary1947, the Starting Gate is in Colwick, near the Toby. Ginger Tom was then called Huckleberrys for a bit before it closed. Have to say I like the poaching alternative for Pretty Windows. Wonder what they hunted around Sneinton though...
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  50. The daft sod almost got himself stabbed with my hand fork in the polytunnel last night. I was digging a few worms for him and he couldn't wait to get at them; almost getting a prong in his neck !
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