Gove boat?

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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Speaking of Gove..

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 674889.stm
    She had sat her English GCSE early, achieving a low pass, but her hopes of improving the grade could not be realised in the alternative provisions she has attended. She knows she will leave education at 16 without decent qualifications:

    "Basically I'm going to be thick all my life and not have anything," she says.

    Hopefully it won't be true, but it's very disheartening that kids are finishing school with that kind of mindset.
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  • asprilla
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    mrc1 wrote:
    I imagine Costa Concordia might be flogging a few ships soon so maybe Gove can pick one of those up under budget?

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited January 2012
    Having said that, my 6th form, does quite well in the ratings, refused to pay/enter a girl in my history class since she was predicted below a C, so she had to enter herself separately...

    I was a little surprised, but she wasn't the kind of person who would make it up.
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  • Wallace1492
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  • rjsterry
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    bails87 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Speaking of Gove..

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 674889.stm
    She had sat her English GCSE early, achieving a low pass, but her hopes of improving the grade could not be realised in the alternative provisions she has attended. She knows she will leave education at 16 without decent qualifications:

    "Basically I'm going to be thick all my life and not have anything," she says.

    Hopefully it won't be true, but it's very disheartening that kids are finishing school with that kind of mindset.
    Always easier to jump up the league table if you don't bother teaching anyone that's a bit of a challenge. In short, academies are independent selective schools by the back door, yet still publicly funded. And here we are back at the grammar school argument.
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  • rjsterry
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    And now Cameron has told him to shut up too. Ripe for a reshuffle?
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  • anonymousblackfg
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    hey we could all save 61p a year by having a big royal bonfire, it would also help on the heating bills. Sadly, comments like Gove's bumps him up the list above queenie for those who should be shot.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    rjsterry wrote:
    And now Cameron has told him to shut up too. Ripe for a reshuffle?

    I would say I hope so, but I have no idea who the replacement would be.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Don't reaaally want to start a new thread, but I reaaally want to show this graph to people.

    Screen-shot-2012-01-16-at-2.50.32-PM.png

    Where the Y axis shows how much a one per cent rise in your father’s income improves your expected income and X axis is is the Gini coefficient – a measure of inequality.
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    I dunno, but after 60 years we should probably get her something? Gold watch?
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  • Ben6899
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    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    I dunno, but after 60 years we should probably get her something? Gold watch?

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  • mybreakfastconsisted
    mybreakfastconsisted Posts: 1,018
    If the Queen can't afford to buy her own boat, she should take her chances on Bullseye just like the rest of us.
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Ben6899 wrote:
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    I dunno, but after 60 years we should probably get her something? Gold watch?

    Pearl Necklace?

    On you go mate, don't let the sight of a Beefeater with a halberd put you off in any way.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Even if giving her a boat was a good idea, how long does it take to design and build a boat?
    It is her anniversary this year.

    Or were they already doing it on the cheap and giving her a secondhand one?

    Badly thought out idea. If thought at all.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • mybreakfastconsisted
    mybreakfastconsisted Posts: 1,018
    £60M would pay for three Royal Weddings.


    £10M for Harry and £25M apiece to bribe men to marry Beatrice and Eugenie.
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    I'd marry one of them... the slightly less horsey looking one. Defo.
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  • jimmypippa
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    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Don't reaaally want to start a new thread, but I reaaally want to show this graph to people.

    Screen-shot-2012-01-16-at-2.50.32-PM.png

    Where the Y axis shows how much a one per cent rise in your father’s income improves your expected income and X axis is is the Gini coefficient – a measure of inequality.

    I'd like to see the UK from 1985 to 2010 as well...

    I think that any yacht for our royals should at least be as highly specced as those used by bond villains, and HMS Queen Elizabeth won't be very useful as an aircraft carrier with no aircraft, so it might as well be used as a yacht. There would be plenty of flat space for deck sports.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    jimmypippa wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Don't reaaally want to start a new thread, but I reaaally want to show this graph to people.

    Screen-shot-2012-01-16-at-2.50.32-PM.png

    Where the Y axis shows how much a one per cent rise in your father’s income improves your expected income and X axis is is the Gini coefficient – a measure of inequality.

    I'd like to see the UK from 1985 to 2010 as well...

    To see if it's got better or worse?

    Gini coefficient over the years in the UK

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited January 2012
    bails87 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Speaking of Gove..

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 674889.stm
    She had sat her English GCSE early, achieving a low pass, but her hopes of improving the grade could not be realised in the alternative provisions she has attended. She knows she will leave education at 16 without decent qualifications:

    "Basically I'm going to be thick all my life and not have anything," she says.

    Hopefully it won't be true, but it's very disheartening that kids are finishing school with that kind of mindset.

    I watched the newsnight report (here) into this last night, on which the article above was based on.

    In brief, it seems academies have a propensity to 'sideline' and 'quietly push out' difficult, low achieving students to maniplate their figures.

    Rather than expelling students who are difficult, or working with them, they put a lot of pressure for them to leave.

    That way, the school keeps its low expulsion rates and achieves higher average grades.

    These kids usually end up in 'alternative' education, which offer classes on things like welding, metal work, road laying, brick laying etc. No actual academic education, and it's not ideal for everyone (as you can imagine).



    There were quite a few figures bandied about which seem to strongly correlate with the argument above, as well as the usual anecdotes.

    There's even a lawyer who now specialises in taking up these cases.

    The overriding political argument was that, ultimately, independent 'academies' who are left to their own devices, have less restraints and safety checks against the 'dark arts' of criteria manipulation, and so have a higher propensity and use of them.
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  • Gussio
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    clarkey cat wrote:
    I'd marry one of them... the slightly less horsey looking one. Defo.

    I'll put up with the other one then. Sorted. What is the next problem to sort out....?
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    David Cameron also wants charities to donate to the big boat instead of using their resources to stop people from being unhappy.

    He said: "Obviously we are not going to spend public money on this, because I'm not completely out of my mind. Michael Gove is, but that's why he's in charge of educating your children.

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/scie ... 201174776/
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  • chilling
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    New Boat? Can't we just buy her a ticket for a cruise?
  • NGale
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    daviesee wrote:
    Even if giving her a boat was a good idea, how long does it take to design and build a boat?
    It is her anniversary this year.

    Or were they already doing it on the cheap and giving her a secondhand one?

    Badly thought out idea. If thought at all.

    In theory yes, it takes a long time to design and build a ship. However that would be a new type of ship from scratch, but a ready build ship from stock, no problem, just hand over the cash and drive away that day!

    Yes you can pretty much buy a ship off the shelf!

    Anyway I believe there is something avaliable off the coast of Italy at the moment which may be going cheap..... :roll:
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    NGale wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    Even if giving her a boat was a good idea, how long does it take to design and build a boat?
    It is her anniversary this year.

    Or were they already doing it on the cheap and giving her a secondhand one?

    Badly thought out idea. If thought at all.

    In theory yes, it takes a long time to design and build a ship. However that would be a new type of ship from scratch, but a ready build ship from stock, no problem, just hand over the cash and drive away that day!

    Yes you can pretty much buy a ship off the shelf!

    Anyway I believe there is something avaliable off the coast of Italy at the moment which may be going cheap..... :roll:

    Isn't there a suitable yacht moored up at Edinburgh that you can hire?
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  • daviesee
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    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Isn't there a suitable yacht moored up at Edinburgh that you can hire?

    but, but, but - That's going to be our "Navy". :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    daviesee wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Isn't there a suitable yacht moored up at Edinburgh that you can hire?

    but, but, but - That's going to be our "Navy". :wink:

    Nooooo that's going to be two drunk Glaswegians on a pedalow :wink::lol:
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    Even if giving her a boat was a good idea, how long does it take to design and build a boat?
    It is her anniversary this year.

    Or were they already doing it on the cheap and giving her a secondhand one?

    Badly thought out idea. If thought at all.

    In theory yes, it takes a long time to design and build a ship. However that would be a new type of ship from scratch, but a ready build ship from stock, no problem, just hand over the cash and drive away that day!

    Yes you can pretty much buy a ship off the shelf!

    Anyway I believe there is something avaliable off the coast of Italy at the moment which may be going cheap..... :roll:

    Isn't there a suitable yacht moored up at Edinburgh that you can hire?


    The problem with Britannia now is that it has a hull which is essentially rusting away, there is no way now it would meet Lloyds specifications to go back to sea. It's nothing more than an expensive show piece.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    NGale wrote:
    Nooooo that's going to be two drunk Glaswegians on a pedalow :wink::lol:

    That'll be enough and it will cover 2 shifts then. :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    bails87 wrote:
    David Cameron also wants charities to donate to the big boat instead of using their resources to stop people from being unhappy.

    He said: "Obviously we are not going to spend public money on this, because I'm not completely out of my mind. Michael Gove is, but that's why he's in charge of educating your children.

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/scie ... 201174776/

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 201164772/
    Bill McKay, professor of jubilee gift theory at Roehampton University said: "If the question is 'what do you give the woman who has everything except a boat?', the answer is not 'a boat'.

    "If you're in a good mood then maybe it's 'a nice pen' and if you're in a bad mood then it's 'a copy of Das Kapital and 48 hours to leave the country'."
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    daviesee wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    Nooooo that's going to be two drunk Glaswegians on a pedalow :wink::lol:

    That'll be enough and it will cover 2 shifts then. :wink:

    As for your submarine service...well that's a drunk Glaswegian who's fallen out of the pedalow :wink:

    I believe it is planned that your army will be a bloke at the boarder with blue paint on his face wearing a kilt and playing the bagpipes :lol:
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