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Post by coverpoint on Jun 2, 2016 16:41:36 GMT
A question on county cricket to name a county in the county championship or minor league cricket which doesn't end in shire.
How did these people pass any exams if they think Bath and Chelmsford are a county?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2016 16:45:36 GMT
A question on county cricket to name a county in the county championship or minor league cricket which doesn't end in shire. How did these people pass any exams if they think Bath and Chelmsford are a county? I hope they didn't think they were a single county. |
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Post by fraudster on Jun 2, 2016 19:45:32 GMT
I didn't pass any exams and I can tell you that Bath and Chelmsford are not counties. I can go one better too and answer the question correctly - Yorkshire.
It was the pressure of the camera.
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Post by tiptoes on Aug 17, 2021 17:20:14 GMT
Both Pointless and The Chase have their share of dumbed down, low brow, idiotic trivia for the intellectually challenged contestants who are representative of our wider population.
The Chase is particularly irritating with chavvy host Bradley Walsh as pig ignorant as David Beckham, with Sean Wallace who's utterly useless at catching any team that scores 13 points or higher, and "The Beast" - firty free fousand pounds.
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Post by tiptoes on Aug 21, 2021 20:43:44 GMT
I switched over from the hundred final (a bit of an anti climax) to Millionaire. First time I've watched it since that arrogant ex public school buffoon Clarkson took over from Tarrant, not that I watched it in the old days, so bloody long to wait between the questions.
Straight away I gleaned that this is a quiz hosted by a toff show paying potentiality tidy sums of money to those who are already well off. We know the story of cheating Charles Ingram, his posh wife and brother who both had won big sums of money aided by the syndicate to wrangle their way on to the show. And wasn't Mrs Ingram crestfallen when she couldn't advance her £32,000 winnings.
The 5 minutes I saw which was enough to show me this was "the unacceptable face of capitalism" was the contestant who happened to be a Chemistry teacher from Rugby. Okay. Then Clarkson says "it says from my notes you taught my son." Right. So we're talking Rugby public school, 40K a year school fees and those fees mean school teachers don't work for peanuts.
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Post by gmdf on Aug 22, 2021 6:53:34 GMT
Then Clarkson says "it says from my notes you taught my son." Right. So we're talking Rugby public school, 40K a year school fees and those fees mean school teachers don't work for peanuts. I taught for more than 30 years, the vast majority in the state system (but spent a few years in public schools towards the end), and I can confirm that 'good' public schools (I would include Rugby in that, though I have no direct knowledge of that school) do pay more than state schools for comparable positions; (some less well known or run private schools pay less well). The most important differences between state schools and independent ones I found were in conditions of service, working conditions, class sizes etc. rather than just the salary. |
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Post by tiptoes on Aug 22, 2021 7:59:45 GMT
Then Clarkson says "it says from my notes you taught my son." Right. So we're talking Rugby public school, 40K a year school fees and those fees mean school teachers don't work for peanuts. I taught for more than 30 years, the vast majority in the state system (but spent a few years in public schools towards the end), and I can confirm that 'good' public schools (I would include Rugby in that, though I have no direct knowledge of that school) do pay more than state schools for comparable positions; (some less well known or run private schools pay less well). The most important differences between state schools and independent ones I found were in conditions of service, working conditions, class sizes etc. rather than just the salary. Rugby isn't a minor public school, must rank in the top 10%. I wouldn't be surprised if accommodation is thrown in with the salary. |
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Post by gmdf on Aug 22, 2021 8:28:55 GMT
I taught for more than 30 years, the vast majority in the state system (but spent a few years in public schools towards the end), and I can confirm that 'good' public schools (I would include Rugby in that, though I have no direct knowledge of that school) do pay more than state schools for comparable positions; (some less well known or run private schools pay less well). The most important differences between state schools and independent ones I found were in conditions of service, working conditions, class sizes etc. rather than just the salary. Rugby isn't a minor public school, must rank in the top 10%. I wouldn't be surprised if accommodation is thrown in with the salary. I certainly didn't mean to imply it is a 'minor' public school - I only worked in one on a fixed term contract that might be regarded as similar, and, yes they did provide accommodation (you paid a subsidized rent) for staff like me, and also had a scheme that allowed permanent staff to buy a house from them (it was in London, so houses were too expensive to buy even for their teachers, so the school would buy one and effectively the staff member would buy a % of the equity from them each year; I'm guessing they needed to do this to keep staff). |
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Post by liquidskin on Aug 22, 2021 14:11:01 GMT
I switched over from the hundred final (a bit of an anti climax) to Millionaire. First time I've watched it since that arrogant ex public school buffoon Clarkson took over from Tarrant, not that I watched it in the old days, so bloody long to wait between the questions. Straight away I gleaned that this is a quiz hosted by a toff show paying potentiality tidy sums of money to those who are already well off. We know the story of cheating Charles Ingram, his posh wife and brother who both had won big sums of money aided by the syndicate to wrangle their way on to the show. And wasn't Mrs Ingram crestfallen when she couldn't advance her £32,000 winnings. The 5 minutes I saw which was enough to show me this was "the unacceptable face of capitalism" was the contestant who happened to be a Chemistry teacher from Rugby. Okay. Then Clarkson says "it says from my notes you taught my son." Right. So we're talking Rugby public school, 40K a year school fees and those fees mean school teachers don't work for peanuts. Working class scum are allowed on too you know. Try. I'll go with you and do the coughing. |
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Post by tiptoes on Aug 22, 2021 16:42:25 GMT
Yeah, Judith Keppel descended from gentry. Hope your coughing symptoms aren't a sign of fatal covid, but on 2nd thoughts...
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