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  1. Ian1779

    Nationalism

    It could have been worse - you could have been forced to go to church because your Mum decided we had to keep up the pretence of being religious so that we could go to a Catholic school. Every Sunday was shit for 5 years...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    No idea to be honest - we’ve not been told anything about this from either school or union. There was talk a couple of weeks ago about weekly/fortnightly tests but nothing has come through further on that. I do want the schools back open, but there are a few simple things that could go in place...
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    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    2/3 weeks into the new school term we will learn a lot about how kids contribute to the virus spreading. I am crossing everything to hope it’s not an issue but I am ominous about it.
  4. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I’m here looking at the situation in Northampton where I teach wondering if they are going to go into local lockdown. The rate is much higher than Birmingham currently. There seems little in terms of potential planning if they were to do some trade-offs to ensure schools open next month.
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    CCFC 20/21 fixtures released tomorrow

    With most of them available to watch on Sky if they correspond with CL.
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    CCFC 20/21 fixtures released tomorrow

    Let’s hope we can harness the winning mentality from the end of last season so we make a solid start. Will take a few games for teams to work us out too. Hopefully some of those teams that failed to get promoted will have a bit of a hangover to begin with.
  7. Ian1779

    Putting my cat down

    What an awfully shit situation, I’m really sorry you have this crap to sort out. My only advice (doesn’t mean it’s good and hopefully not relevant to you) is that whatever you decide to do it sometimes bring the questions about their own mortality - so maybe be prepared for that if they haven’t...
  8. Ian1779

    Nationalism

    You’ve mentioned mass rape repeatedly yet not once voiced your abhorrence at systemic child abuse rampant in the Christian Church throughout the ages, the BBC and government during the 2nd part of the 20th Century. You don’t give a fuck about the abuse of vulnerable people - just want a vehicle...
  9. Ian1779

    Nationalism

    There’s a train of thought that Nationalism can be considered to be the manipulation of patriotism which allows you to foster intolerance and hatred towards certain demographics in the notion that it protects your country, so it’s OK.
  10. Ian1779

    Nationalism

    You are literally a talking Daily Mail message board, and what seems to escape your thought process is that you haven’t proven a single fact in your diatribe.
  11. Ian1779

    Nationalism

    Going for bonus points now
  12. Ian1779

    Nationalism

    That’s bingo!
  13. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Of course the guidance is unclear at best - but essentially it’s heading towards a position where this is mandatory. What that will practically look like in a years time is anyone’s guess, with technical colleges going down the T level route, schools and 6th form colleges with have to pick up...
  14. Ian1779

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The biggest failing of the algorithm was that it failed to take into account a similar process that had happened in school. Granted that hadn’t been done consistently as it could have been, but schools that tried to do things in the right way were doubly penalised. As for the GCSE’s - schools...
  15. Ian1779

    Nationalism

    I don’t disagree - but now they’ve been given something to focus on.
  16. Ian1779

    Nationalism

    A lot of it has been exacerbated firstly by Brexit, but especially by Cov-ID. You don’t have to like Sturgeon but her handling of the pandemic had been a hundred-fold better than Johnson. They want to eliminate the virus a bit like New Zealand had but they see the biggest threat to that coming...
  17. Ian1779

    George Floyd

    Felt especially empowered since June 24th 2016
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    George Floyd

    The government are remotely bothered about solving this problem. They’ve had 10 years so far and have made no progress at all. It’s much more beneficial to them to allow intolerance and hatred to grow, so they can wheel it out as a distraction technique everytime something else they are...
  19. Ian1779

    George Floyd

    Your school sounds a bit shit to be fair. Not every school is like that. Don’t walk away too soon.
  20. Ian1779

    Council meeting for Mark and I

    At least we have Starmer now telling us which are the right Jews to interact with.
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