The Weather!
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Desert Orchid
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Teachers in private schools in Scotland are paid more.
Desert Orchid
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Dying on its arse.
As is grammatical accuracy.
Euronymous
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I`ve tried in the past, i`ve opened threads on film and music and got bugger all interest. I`m not criticising the members, if people aren`t interested in films fair enough and as for music well CP was right over on FinalFurlong:
I'm not sure that dissing people's choice in music will get them to open up to much more discussion, somehow. If you pigeonhole people, they're likely to think 'oh, bugger it, why should I bother'. As for films, there have been quite a few discussions but maybe people don't go to the cinema as much as they used to? I wait for them to hit cable, others wait for the DVDs. Would that explain, perhaps, why there aren't too many participants in the film reviews?
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Maybe people can't be @rsed to respond to people who are abusive and foul-mouthed?
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Shouldn't there be an 'e' in whingeing?? :shy:
Euronymous
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Nice. Was that really necessary? If people post things that i see as plainly wrong i say so. Is saying shite really abusive? Only to sad old gits like you.
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Ardross
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And they expected him to pay for his own mortarboard and gown - cheeky sods
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Nice. Was that really necessary? If people post things that i see as plainly wrong i say so. Is saying shite really abusive? Only to sad old gits like you. [/b][/quote]
Firstly, I was generalising rather than personalising as you're one of a number.
If you genuinely read my posts you'll see I can f*ck and sh*te with the best/worst of them but it would be extremely rare for me to direct such language at a forumite. A jockey, trainer, etc., maybe, but not a forumite. You dish out insults in much the same way as Diver dishes out champagne.
Euronymous
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See, i think there is a difference between insulting a forumite and just making a comment on a post they`ve made:
I don`t see this as a direct insult. Apologies if that how it comes across.
I think this is the sort of shite Bobbyjo was expecting earlier in the thread. [/b][/quote]
I don`t see this as a direct insult. Apologies if that how it comes across.
I was taking a pay cut of around 3.5 grand because of the reduction in management responsibility. However, I was going through the threshold in September (worth 2.5 K) and wouldn't be getting that either. Their payscale equates pretty accurately with the state sector.
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I don`t see this as a direct insult. Apologies if that how it comes across. [/b][/quote]
But you do often direct abusive language at others.
The comment you cite would offend me had I posted it; I can't speak for harry. I stopped posting on a lot of racing topics largely on account of that kind of stuff and I'm big-headed enough to believe the forum is a poorer place without my opinions (which would be entirely the oposite of harry's, I have to say, but I'd never dismiss his opinion as "shite").
I'd much rather see constructive counter-argument but I'm sure God forgives you.
Euronymous
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The counter-argument i.e. my thoughts on the Gold Cup are there in the same thread.
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Which is what I prefer to see.
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....and it's gone from sunny this morning (it didn't feel particularly cold either!) to snowing now.....
Horrendous today - bitterly cold for the South West, snow, hail, rain, sun - we've just got over one bout of viral pneumonia with the dairy calves about four weeks ago when the weather was so variable then and it will kick off again at this rate! Rapid temperature change is a killer.
The mares will all be on go slow too - am relieved that the four that are away have all been covered, just keeping everything crossed at least some of them are i/f !!
The mares will all be on go slow too - am relieved that the four that are away have all been covered, just keeping everything crossed at least some of them are i/f !!
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Sunny here again now!
We had a huge rainstorm here on Sat night following hail, which followed several days of blazing sunshine - shirtsleeves weather. Yesterday we had a violent hailstorm. this morning it was sunny if windy, and now the landscape is covered in snow as far as I can see....... 
Feel sorry for all the baby creatures who have popped forth a but previous, like
PDJ, several of my friends in teaching moved to the private sector in middle age, less for the money, more so they could TEACH rather than just try to keep order. None of them ever regretted it for a moment. But why not wait till after you get your next threshold rise?
Feel sorry for all the baby creatures who have popped forth a but previous, like
PDJ, several of my friends in teaching moved to the private sector in middle age, less for the money, more so they could TEACH rather than just try to keep order. None of them ever regretted it for a moment. But why not wait till after you get your next threshold rise?
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Kathy
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Had all sorts of weather here today....snow, hail, wind and it's getting colder!
I am not going to complain as last Saturday & end of last week I was almost in shirt sleeves and The Cheltenham Festival was so much nicer with the weather bright and the ground safe.
Mother Nature can throw what she likes at us now, as long as it is only for a couple of days as I plan to go to Newbury races at the end of the week!
I am not going to complain as last Saturday & end of last week I was almost in shirt sleeves and The Cheltenham Festival was so much nicer with the weather bright and the ground safe.
Mother Nature can throw what she likes at us now, as long as it is only for a couple of days as I plan to go to Newbury races at the end of the week!
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Fair chance they had a specific candiate in mind all along, then, Paul. I've been there (on both sides of the panel).
I once applied for an unpromoted post in a private school. At the time I was already an experienced HOD. One of my staff, a hard worker and valued colleague but with limitations, also applied and I even wrote her reference.
She was interviewed and I wasn't.
When I enquired, I was told she "better fitted the person specification". I suppose the fact they'd have had to pay her about £10k less than they were paying me might have been a factor, as maybe was the fact that her kids attended the school. She didn't get the job. A newly qualified teacher got it.
I once applied for an unpromoted post in a private school. At the time I was already an experienced HOD. One of my staff, a hard worker and valued colleague but with limitations, also applied and I even wrote her reference.
She was interviewed and I wasn't.
When I enquired, I was told she "better fitted the person specification". I suppose the fact they'd have had to pay her about £10k less than they were paying me might have been a factor, as maybe was the fact that her kids attended the school. She didn't get the job. A newly qualified teacher got it.
Ted
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Euro, you must have a very bad memory if you think the above quote came from CPGagie
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Ardross
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" Job Interview " at Aintree ?
