I have to Chair a debate on this issue tomorrow. Honestly, reading the comments that some people have made on the website, am I the only person in this country that thinks that a line should be drawn when the government starts telling us what we should wear? All right, if children can't understand what their teaching assistant is saying, then she ( Read more... )

I have been offline for a scarily long time, for no particular reason that I can think of. However, this time has not been passed unconstructively:

~ I have submitted my application to St Catharine's College at Cambridge (only a week after the deadline - go me!) although I have no great hopes for my chances, because a) wow, do they make those forms ( Read more... )

Someone just crashed their car into a tree opposite my house. And I'm mean properly crashed. The entire front of the car is crushed in. Luckily, the guy seems to be okay.

I was walking back from college, and heard this screeching and huge 'ker-thump' grinding noise. I looked around, thinking, "What the hell was that?" and then noticed that there ( Read more... )

So today in Politics, in between voting for the various political parties that our class has invented to make learning voting systems fun - the best choices being in between the Republican Party (Down with the Queen!), the Conservative Party (Down with the commoners!), The Discriminatory Communist Feminist Party (We don't have bollocks, but we can ( Read more... )

The government of my country, in all of its infinite wisdom, has decided to introduce a 'Citizenship Test' to give to all potential immigrants to the country. (Questions including such gems as 'Where are the Geordie, Cockney, and Scouse dialects spoken?')

I took the BBC version of it here. Needless to say, I failed rather dismally. I mean, who is ( Read more... )