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Title: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: STEMO on 09 January 2021, 13:21:07
The education secretary, Private Pike, told parents, if they weren't happy with the online provision being provided by their school, they should email OFSTED to complain. Some parents took a very dim view of this move from a very dim person, and started emailing OFSTED to tell them what a great job their school was doing. Thousands of them, enough to clog up OFSTED's inbox, emailed, the result being that OFSTED removed its email address from it's website. But to no avail. Parents just posted up the address on Twitter for others to make their views known. Oh dear, Pike.  ;D
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: dave the builder on 09 January 2021, 15:00:19
I see the BBC are laying on 3 hours per day of education
god knows what lefty snowflake population we'll have as a result of that  :-\
not that i've looked or researched any of the content  ;D
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Nick W on 09 January 2021, 15:08:50
I see the BBC are laying on 3 hours per day of education
god knows what lefty snowflake population we'll have as a result of that  :-\
not that I've looked or researched any of the content ;D


You're wasted as a builder.


You should be a government minister**






** I added the capital I you omitted, which I presume was done to add to your ministerial credentials :y
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 09 January 2021, 15:17:07
I see the BBC are laying on 3 hours per day of education
god knows what lefty snowflake population we'll have as a result of that  :-\
not that i've looked or researched any of the content  ;D

I've looked.

CRT
White privilege.

Just so the next generation of white nippers know how lucky they are and how racist they are........and just to show black nippers how oppressed they are  by white people. Those with a 'victim mentality' will love this.

Apparently this is all in the cause of bringing people together. :-\

Utter insanity.
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: dave the builder on 09 January 2021, 15:19:13



You're wasted as a shopper for the oldies in the family


You should be a government minister**

** I added the capital I you omitted, which I presume was done to add to your ministerial credentials :y
I did know about the capital "I" when referring to me ,but that involves using both hands to type  :P
I was born and lived in England all my life but still learning "the English"
I'm too honest to be a government minister sadly  :(
 "I"  ::) hear it pays well  :P
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Andy B on 09 January 2021, 16:23:27
I know it can be a norff sarf fing but .... when you have an education minister that says 'f' instead of 'th'
It's not that he can't say 'th' .... he does on some words, but says 've' rather than 'the' .... hardly the example I'd expect of an education minister
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: dave the builder on 09 January 2021, 16:38:57
Oh **** , it's the grammar police ,I best cheque me spelin   :-X

yes  :D ;D

Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Nick W on 09 January 2021, 16:42:44
I know it can be a norff sarf fing but .... when you have an education minister that says 'f' instead of 'th'
It's not that he can't say 'th' .... he does on some words, but says 've' rather than 'the' .... hardly the example I'd expect of an education minister


That all sounds normal to me, as a native estuary English speaker. But Williamson is a Yorkshire man, born bred and educated.
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 09 January 2021, 16:58:49
He was educated ? !  :o
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 09 January 2021, 17:01:46
Why do actors in Eastenders always say 'fings..... free.... nuffing' rather than  'things.....three.....and nothing'?



Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 09 January 2021, 17:21:10
Why do actors in Eastenders always say 'fings..... free.... nuffing' rather than  'things.....three.....and nothing'?
It's a Lundun thing, accentuated for implied authenticity  ;D
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Nick W on 09 January 2021, 17:25:22
Why do actors in Eastenders always say 'fings..... free.... nuffing' rather than  'things.....three.....and nothing'?


It's just an accent. As I said, it sounds normal to me whereas Brummies sound suicidally depressed, and Scouse makes the speaker sound idiotic. My sister's boyfriend is from near Glasgow, and if I can't see him I can't understand a word he's saying.
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 09 January 2021, 17:44:39
Why do actors in Eastenders always say 'fings..... free.... nuffing' rather than  'things.....three.....and nothing'?


It's just an accent. As I said, it sounds normal to me whereas Brummies sound suicidally depressed, and Scouse makes the speaker sound idiotic. My sister's boyfriend is from near Glasgow, and if I can't see him I can't understand a word he's saying.

I'm pretty sure 'posh London types'  don't say 'fings' :)

Speaking of regional accents, apparently the scouse accent is 'the least trusted accent' in the UK....with the Devon accent being the most friendly.

.......and I thought everyone trusted scousers. ::)
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Andy B on 09 January 2021, 18:03:25
I know it can be a norff sarf fing but .... when you have an education minister that says 'f' instead of 'th'
It's not that he can't say 'th' .... he does on some words, but says 've' rather than 'the' .... hardly the example I'd expect of an education minister


That all sounds normal to me, as a native estuary English speaker. But Williamson is a Yorkshire man, born bred and educated.

which is my point ....
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Nick W on 09 January 2021, 18:06:56
I'm pretty sure 'posh London types'  don't say 'fings' :)



Posh London types tend not to have been born there.


which is my point ....


yes, I was agreeing with you; he's pretending to be something he isn't
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: Viral_Jim on 09 January 2021, 23:32:01
Shame really, as there are some institutions that could do with someone to sort them out.

One of my former team is a working single mum, her school decided at 3.45pm last Sunday that their crimbo holidays weren't long enough and none of them were turning in on the Monday, so all the kids had to stay home.

No thought to those who actually have to work in the real world, as key workers for example, and have to sort things like childcare on fack all notice. Then of course Tuesday comes and they're all off anyway. Presumably just as this particular school had planned all along.

And their carefully thought through teaching provision for the week? A dozen worksheets that weren't even made available to the kids until Thursday... And all that from a supposedly excellent rated school.  ::)

In these days where every school seems to be full of laptops, pcs and other technology, I don't see why a programme of zoom/Google chat/ MS Teams lessons can't be offered? Particularly when they have the brass neck to fine parents for taking kids on holiday in term time because it's damaging their educational prospects.
Title: Re: The idiot Pike's idea backfires...again
Post by: New POD on 10 January 2021, 19:24:16
Why do actors in Eastenders always say 'fings..... free.... nuffing' rather than  'things.....three.....and nothing'?


It's just an accent. As I said, it sounds normal to me whereas Brummies sound suicidally depressed, and Scouse makes the speaker sound idiotic. My sister's boyfriend is from near Glasgow, and if I can't see him I can't understand a word he's saying.

I'm pretty sure 'posh London types'  don't say 'fings' :)

Speaking of regional accents, apparently the scouse accent is 'the least trusted accent' in the UK....with the Devon accent being the most friendly.

.......and I thought everyone trusted scousers. ::)

I live on Miseryside and don't trust myself.