Wot no A grade innit

[RichardCranium]

I used to watch those OU broadcasts on a Sunday morning

For some years I watched them simply because I had not gone to bed.

I learned all sorts about the arts, statistical analysis, environmental issues, maths and psychology. I really enjoyed them.

School told me I was useless at art and shouldn't waste any more time with it. The OU explained post-modernism and cubism in a way that I understood; I now have an appreciation for art thanks to the OU.

The OU taught me about building construction, heat efficiency, waste disposal problems and solutions. 20 years later the media and politicians start to catch up.

The OU taught me about the management and financial issues and treatment dilemmas the health service faces. Then the government brought in the health trusts: the opposite of the necessary solution.

The series on art in the 14th century Italy was absolutely fascinating. It was all about physics, construction, materials science and local politics. I would love to go on a 4 week tour of the sites described and explained in that series.


I did make a start on an OU degree, but I was a permie and had been convinced that doing unpaid overtime to impress the management was a far better investment of my time for my career development than mucking about getting a degree.

[Zippy]

The OU programmes gave me a mathematician phobia for years. I think I'm getting over it, but Zeity's kipper ties just induced a flashback ...

[sasguru]

No doubt a few who could get your wife pregnant. Though not sure if that is appropriate for any woman that puts up with you.

Assuming you married a woman you married. Or did you marry your gay lover in a civil ceremony?

You'll forgive me if I don't take you as the best authority on any marriage-related issues.

PS Irony isn't really your strong point, eh?

[Cyberman]

Create? She closed down more grammar schools than all Labour governments combined.

Wake up guys. Grammar schools give educational, social, and economic upward ability to some of the lower classes. Major might have approved of that, but Thatcher didn't (her record proves that), and public-schoolboy Cameron doesn't either (he has said so).

While the likes of Cameron don't want some of the lower classes moving up into their group, Labour doesn't want their brighter folk moving up out of theirs: they don't want just a few to join the higher ranks.

Only the Lib Dems are not against grammar schools.

She didn't come to power until 1980, and grammar schools were being made into comprehensives in the mid-70s.

[RichardCranium]

You'll forgive me if I don't take you as the best authority on any marriage-related issues.

You're really not happy today, are you? I suspect you are desperately in need of a BJ.

Do yourself a favour and pop out for an hour at lunchtime and see if you can find some relief. (Don't forget to get a receipt.)

[Menelaus]

The OU programmes gave me a mathematician phobia for years. I think I'm getting over it, but Zeity's kipper ties just induced a flashback ...

Z, m'dear ... don't worry about mathematicaphobia ... it's what I'm here for

[Zippy]

Z, m'dear ... don't worry about mathematicaphobia ... it's what I'm here for

Cool. Just don't take any sartorial advice from Zeity.

[Zippy]

I've got some novelty cartoon ties in there somewhere too...

Phwoar - now you're talking

[Peoplesoft bloke]

She didn't come to power until 1980, and grammar schools were being made into comprehensives in the mid-70s.

That is spectacular ignorance, even by your standards. Say sorry and admit you are wrong.

[sasguru]

Which part of "Thatcher closed Grammar Schools whilst Minister for Education during Ted "Grocer" Heath's Government in the 1970s" did you not understand?

Uppercut and the Cretin is out for the count.