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...Jeez has it come to this tripe to keep us glued to our tv's.

I detest the tsunami of shows were every C list celeb is taken around the world trying out obscure ‘adventures’ or trying new experiences for the entertainment of the feckwits who watch them. Even worse is where they take their precocious child along with them as well… ‘TV Star Barry Chipboard and sons Fernando and Trezeme Chipboard go to Finland to see if snow really is white and cold’……
If you want fancy holidays, pay for it yourself you talentless gobshites.

once we only had celebrity this and that at christmas time. you could put up with that because with others in the house you did not have the tele on. at least in those days you actually knew who this celebrity was unlike in todays world guessing who and what people are and do is akin the a quiz. a quiz i rarely get an answer right. my lad summed tele up quite well. says they do not make programmes for old gits but make em for those of his age and younger who never watch the tele.

One time, celebs we’re celebs after a lifetime in the business, but now they’re gormless rent a brains fresh out of school who turn up briefly in some tawdry ‘reality’ shag bore, reveal their ignorance to the nation and become ‘celebs’.

Aye,give me The Real Housewives of Beverley Hills any day over that load of old tosh.

Thought you'd be a 'Forged in Fire' man myself Sussex?

If we could, you’d organise a pie and pea supper and bingo. The Hugh Hefner of Eastbourne strikes again

you could get the real housewives of horden and that would make em all celebs nowadays.

As for that Wim Hof (who's he?), freezing a group of thickets dilge, words fail me, is it the government intending to prepare us for the fact we can't afford to put our heating on any more?

This and quite a few other programmes like it, reveal a pleasure amongst their ‘audience’ in seeing their victims suffer….. it’s sadistic pleasure in watching so called ‘celebs’ feeling pain.
They’d describe it as good clean fun.
That Wim Hof character on the trailer bangs on about mind control over the power of the cold water…. My Uncle Freddy was in the Navy on convoys to Russia and said survival time in the water was three minutes… end of. I wish my Uncle Freddy could have met him.

well after all these years on the planet my mind controls me to avoid all water unless its warm. thats called a bloody bath. who thinks up all this utter shite and bollox. next thing it will be sending em to the sahara to use mind control to imagine its cold at midday and not hot. the old time commedians would really love todays world with all the material it gives them.

My favourites are where some non entity of TOWIE or Chelsee find themselves pregnant, and get a series telling us mere mortals how hard it is, or passing on "tips" to make it easier, as if no-one has ever been pregnant before.

90% of these people would sub-contract out the pregnancy if it was possible and wait for a text telling them when to collect little Garnier and Trezeme from the sorting office.

Years ago I remember our instructor telling us the following…...”You go on the water…not in the bloody water!”

Neither of you have thought of taking up the Ice Bucket Challenge to help with poor circulation then?

Your secret is safe with us Mr S

Was bored, saw Who Wants to be A Millionaire. Celebrity special...fuck sakes.

Scarlett Moffat, what does she know about ITV to get so many appearances?

And of course they get questions the average Joe would get in seconds. Are us peasants no longer allowed on TV?

Last Sunday our lass bought two things at £ 1.50 each at a charity stall, when presented to pay the lass behind the counter couldn’t find her calculator …… the proceeded to work it out on a piece of paper Best of all, when the wife’s sister presented her with exactly the same items, she started from fresh all over again.ffs.

In a similar situation, a woman on the till added up the items, I handed over twenty pounds, till told her how much change to give back, and she struggled to give me the right change...cashless society, were you forget how to add up, and count out correct change. this happened last week.

Good point, we were talking yesterday about this, regarding calculators. When they first appeared, you had that basic grounding in maths that let you think “hang about, that doesn’t seem right”…. and double check the figures whereas now some people just assume it’s correct.

actually when you show em how to do basic maths, you know the type of thing you did before big school, they look at you blank and reply we do not do it that way. ask em how they are told and its so complicated no wonder they use calculators. no wonder many do home schooling now if they have the time.

Different approach now…when we went to school you were gonna learn maths or else.
Now it’s making maths interesting to ‘catch the imagination’.

yes, its caught the immagination so much the vast majority cannot wait to leave school as quickly as possible without the tools we had when we left. some will never cope with a boss telling em what to do instead of a teacher who wanted to be tret as a friend.

TBH my ability to write has declined with it taking 30 seconds to get hands going fluently also spelling and mental arithmetic not as good as it was but i put it down to lack of practice than anything else.

Did anyone ever have to use Algebra or Geometry during their career after leaving school ?

I often listened to Steve Allen early in the morning on LBC and he slated some of the Z list so called celebrities.

His favourite was Gemma Collins who he called "a fat talentless cow" and how he got away with it I don't know. Must be because his description was/is right.

Geometry yes, but that was work related, algebra nah.
I think we really should teach kids practical maths, like interest rates, percentages etc.

agree, but the most pointless subject for me was art. something you cannot really teach and if you hadn,t a clue like me it became a nightmare 40 minutes. managed to avoid having more than 1 kid so biology did come in useful though.

I took Art at O level and got an A, but for most kids, like footballers it’s half natural talent and half desire, doing something you enjoy.
Most kids will never be pro footballers and most kids in Art classes would rather be somewhere else.

Came in yesterday and one of my sons showed me a clip he’d recorded earlier on GB News.
A political correspondent was summing up events and that irritating bloke in the background kept shouting as he does behind everyone…. The anchor in the studio suddenly stooped and she said “can someone shut that gobshite up”…..

When it came to my "O" Levels I had a strange set of results.

Took English (good at) & English Lit (didn't understand) and passed on English Lit only

Took both History (very good at) & Geography (good at) but only passed on Geography

Took Maths (best subject) and passed easily

Now when it came to French there were about 120 boys in my year all taking this exam and I was head & shoulders the worst pupil. My teacher said it is not worth taking this exam but I did. Did no revising at all and passed both the oral & written exam with flying colours, so much so that I finished top of all the 120 boys.

As Del Boy would say "CHATEAUNEUF du PAPE"

My last school report for Technical Drawing was an E with the comments "this is not due to ability its lack of effort"

Know the feeling, a twist on that experience, my art teacher said I couldn’t do the O level but the old girl went storming down pointing out I’d been 2nd or 3rd in term work, headmaster put me in.
Funny how teachers have that discretion to fuck things up for you for no logical reason…

[quote="Critical Thinking"]When it came to my "O" Levels I had a strange set of results.

Took English (good at) & English Lit (didn't understand) and passed on English Lit only

Took both History (very good at) & Geography (good at) but only passed on Geography

Took Maths (best subject) and passed easily

Now when it came to French there were about 120 boys in my year all taking this exam and I was head & shoulders the worst pupil. My teacher said it is not worth taking this exam but I did. Did no revising at all and passed both the oral & written exam with flying colours, so much so that I finished top of all the 120 boys.

As Del Boy would say "CHATEAUNEUF du PAPE"

all that brought back good or bad memories for me and the 5 years of pointless schooling to pass and fail on subjects you should have obtained the opposite results in. back in my day we had end of year tests that were firstly competitive and then gave teachers some kind of seeing your progress. was always in the top 3 in maths but failed it at O level. completely the opposite in both english subjects as i hated learning poetry by heart, shakespeare with no mean streets in stratford, spelling which i am still dodgy on and for the life in me still do not know what or who is the subject of a sentence. lo and behold i passed. begs the question what is the point of exams when they seem to be like picking out a tombola winner.

That last year of school for me, there was a Career's Master, that came in to discuss (tell) the kids what their first job should be after leaving school.

Said CM asked me what I liked and I replied Maths and straight away he said - "Bank for you" I needed 4 "O" levels to apply which as said above I got.

So first job was working for Barclays Bank in those old days when the opening hours were 10am to 3pm and my wage (salary) was £340 per year and after 12 months rose to £370 per year. I would cash a cheque for £5 and get 10 new & crisp 10 shilling notes.

They were the days when on Friday we all went to the pub after work and I was still 16 and a pint of mild was 1 shilling & 7 pence and I could get p*ssed for 1 of those 10 bob notes.

Careers advice that framed your life was virtually nonexistent.
Often if given was based on prejudices of the teacher as to your background.

[quote="Critical Thinking"]That last year of school for me, there was a Career's Master, that came in to discuss (tell) the kids what their first job should be after leaving school.

Said CM asked me what I liked and I replied Maths and straight away he said - "Bank for you" I needed 4 "O" levels to apply which as said above I got.

So first job was working for Barclays Bank in those old days when the opening hours were 10am to 3pm and my wage (salary) was £340 per year and after 12 months rose to £370 per year. I would cash a cheque for £5 and get 10 new & crisp 10 shilling notes.

Sounds like the one we had. It was always a white colour job they tried to get you into and i fell for it. Another lad wanted to be a mechanic in some field. Was told that was a dead end job and he had wasted his 5 years of grammar school study. Luckily for him he ignored this old fashioned bull shit and when working he must have paid more tax than i ever took home in a few years after.

Don’t ever recall getting career advice at school ….. went to careers ‘conventions’ and hey presto, got fixed up. No regrets.

When I left school there was no need for a Careers Officer as there was an abundance of jobs, you took your pick.
The only career related thing we got at school was when the army come and did a presentation for the Junior Tradesmen Regiment, (JTR) it was slides wow I fancy that looks great. I went home told my Mother I was joining army, she went of it no way !

They are going to make a musical based on Bake Off, wtf !

I've decided not to go on Love Island as everybody seems to be breaking down in tears.

When they interview these permanent tanned, white horse teethed, Botox riddled, bicep bulging, bling covered shop window dummies for their place on Love Island ( formerly known as Rat Island) do they select the bottom of the list ‘interviewees’ to maintain such a consistently low level of dross?

A good bottom helps..and what about them disgusting thongs they wear ?? and they can figure out everything about a person after 5 minutes of chat .

5 minutes? That long? You’re having me on.

true, and i used to think that big brother and that jungle thing were shite after watching both once.

Thongs are just anal dental floss