I was watching a drama series on TV last night where the lead character (a bloke called Danny!) suddenly became dazed and confused after hosting a Q and A session with a couple of celebrities, it only turned that he found he couldn't read and that he had dyslexia yet he looked 18 at the time.

How can a 18 year old bloke not have gone through the British education system without finding this quite early on in his life ?

Because it's not real life?!?!?!

But it's got to be close to real life, to be realistic, surely?

What's that got to do, got to do with it ?

A small youth drama TV series on ITV1.

maybe Leeeeeeeeeeeeewis listened to the theme tune of said programme ahead of his car race and it inspired him to finish 5th....?!

What I was watching is irrelevant, the point above is the one I want to make.

By the way, dyslexia? What's it all about really? It's just another one of these new fangled ideas that the pc brigade have come up with to stick a different label on thick kids. If somebody can't read and write do you really want them being given artificially high marks in their exams just to make them feel better, and if so will your answer still be the same if you're ever due an operation and find out that the doctor is one of these thickies and about to cut you open?

Don't baffle the thick get with logic.

If you must know, it was BH....but that is irrelevant.

Ripper, people who are dyslexic are not necessarily thick. One of the lads at my school needed a computer to write, but he was as bright as a brass button.

If he can't grasp spelling and writing then he's not really top of the class though is he.

Or is that classed as bright nowadays?!

Benny Hill?

It was a subject of controversy on here last week when I talked about it's debut episode.

No, no. I'll put you out of your misery. It was Britannia High.

But the original point was supposed to be about this lad who was supposed to be dyslexic, but hadn't known until he couldn't read some question cards, when he was 18 ?

How does that work ?

Cos dyslexia doesn't exist and the pretendy character on your paedo show was just a bit thick like.

That's because he couldn't physically write, he wasn't a spastic like you're suggesting !!!

Well that's what you're suggesting, so don't suggest and I won't have to say the word will I?

Now now slowcoach, take a chill pill- we don't want you getting 2 yellows do we.

I don't know why you're giving me a yellow, I ain't done nothing.

It's pretend like some one said earlier.

It's a bit of completely tossy fantasy probably produced by a completely tossy 26yr old producer with a funny haircut the likes of which are responsible for the provision of supposedly youth attracting programmes which are completely inane. I'm sure if you got your bright as a brass button mate who can't read and write to look it up on his computer he'd find you another messageboard probably called Tossyvision for tossywatchers where the participants would find a discussion on the contents of crap like Britania High totally fascinating.

I concur, slowcoach.

Some people believe Einstein was dyslexic...he was certainly a late-developer, language-wise.

But as the thread isn't really about dyslexia, perhaps this news is irrelevant

Well I wanted the thread to be about it.

Yes, poor you, Mr Kent. Sometimes I feel you'd be happier on a more receptive, more civilised message board

Come to think of it, so would I


But no....I enjoy the challenge

I want never gets, as my mother used to say.

Now I know what she meant, but I'm sure that its literal translation isn't the same even though my mother wasn't thick and that like the folk who watch what has so eloquently been described as tossyvision.

Or at least how unrealistic the plotline of this drama seemed to be.

fofcufk

No, this is Britannia High.

'Heartbeat' is what Mr Half calls 'Brittania High'. He has an unnamed communication problem

No, this is The Bunker.

Brittania High is a tossyvision programme that is only watched by over 13s if they're either sat with their kids or are a raving paedo.

Has 1970 reached Aidensfield yet?

not sure bout the dyslexic bit, but they are now very sure now that Einstein was Autistic.

Some Autistic people have trouble developing people-skills but are very advanced with learning subjects they find interesting.

The question does seem to arise, Kent, why someone who's managed to get himself onto a university course is content to watch such very unchallenging entertainment??

Don't students ever dip into classics, these days/ keep up with decent modern cinema..that sort of thing?

Yes. Get yourself down to the flicks to see High School Musical 34 Poolie in Kent.

No, it's an insult to your intelligence. Find something more stimulating......oh no what have I said.

Yes, and that was probably part of the reason for him being written off by his teachers...interesting to speculate how many other Einsteins there've been, undiscovered because they were different

I hope that's not supposed to be aimed at me, Mr B.

I did say decent modern cinema

Sigh. No, Mr Kent. It was aimed at me...as in 'quote Florence'

Dont take this the wrong way Florence, but you dont appear to have a nose.

i was only elaborating on something Florence said

Hey I've read Of Mice And Men, Romeo and Juliet, The Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cold Mountain, Antony and Cleopatra etc.

I'm doing a course in French Cinema and watching films like La Grande Illusion (Renoir), Un long dimanche de fiancaillles (Jean Pierre Jeunet), Au-revoir les enfants (Louis Malle) etc and watched Jean de Florette, Amelie, Run Lola Run, Goodbye Lenin....

but sometimes you just need to relax from things that tax brain and I like things that cheer me up and don't make as miserable about the world as some on this message board.

Yours is nothing to write home about either

Fair enough.

I haven't seen 1 or 2 yet, so don't know what all the hoo-hah's about !