The AQA, the exam board I took my GCSEs in English and English Literature, have decided to withdraw the poem Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy (a self-confessed lesbian) because the poem focuses on a person who feels driven to stab somebody.

Of course being the nanny state that we are and in order to protect young people from committing attacks after reading this poem, it has been withdrawn from the Anthology of poems studied for the GCSEs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7594566.stm

whats the difference between a self confessed lesbian and your standard run of the mill lesbian?

What difference does it make whether she is a lesbian or not anyway?

Would you have wrote...

Carol Ann Duffy (a self-confessed hetro-sexual married with 2 kids)

if that was the case?

Gays and lesbians shouldn't be allowed to teach kids.

No I wrote it like that so it would include a "funny fact" about her.

She's not a teacher, she's a poet.

I know.

But I still reckon that gays and lesbians shouldn't be allowed to teach kids.

I'm not sure if they should even be allowed any form of contact with them either.

It doesn't make me laugh

Why, they are human beings like us. They just like other of their gender.

Why?

Cos they might influence them at a vulnerable age, even subconciously.

Kids shouldn't be taught that homosexuality is in any way normal.

I prefer watching them in the act on babecast

That is the biggest load of rubbish I have ever heard.

Are you secretly scared that your children might become gay or lesbian if they were taught by one of them.

They don't cast spells like witches, you are either born with the chromosome or not.

That is the biggest load of rubbish that I have ever heard.

You were probably taught by them.

What, two gay people Sussex ?

I find megarotic's good for "menages a deux"

What like saying, 'Be a puff, be a puff, you know it makes sense......'

Do give over

Did you not see that programme with John Barrowman investigating why he was gay /

Just for the record, I didn't.

Now you're just being silly.

No.

It's will just have been another load of tosh served up by the queer majority in the media trying to make people think that it is now normal to be one of them.

The real investigation wouldn't have filled an advert slot. He's gay cos he likes cock. End of programme.

Was it called "Bummer, Its because I was born with the chromosome?" And was it on channel 4?

No more silly then your theory Mr Ripper....

Define normal please

"To act and talk on a message board nothing at all like Poolie of Kent."

It has lots of meanings depending upon the tense in which it is used.

Like a lot of words in the English language its context gives it its definition in many scenarios.

On this occassion however heterosexuality is the considered "norm", hence the commonly accepted use of the word "queer" for pufters- look up a definition of queer in the dictionary.

Oh ha, ha, ha...not !

Even more important is the revelation that boffins are developing a fast food carton that will show who has thrown it away. If it is found in a position where it is classed as litter then a prosecution could ensue. Apparently it is based on a code which reveals where it was bought and who actually bought it. It is one of the offshoots of ID carding related to fingerprinting.

What?

live and let live I say

ripper, can you drop my vibrating butt plug round when you get a minute give it a rinse tho this mate, eh ?

Aye, what they want to do behind closed doors is fine by me, no problem at all.

I just don't think that they should be allowed to influence kids, nor should telly programmes be allowed to show them kissing and stuff before about 10pm.

Carol Ann Duffy should have been offered the Poet Lauretship last time round (she probably wouldn't have wanted it, but that's a different issue). The reason she wasn't offered it was Blair thought that giving the post to 'a lesbian' wouldn't go down well with middle England. That's about the size of our country

I agree with Mr Kent this time

See Mr Kent is getting the hang of it now. Realising that we've all got bbc.co.uk and know how to read, he's took the thread to new areas of puppy licking, waste disposal and even the odd spot of sarcasm.

Now Mr Kent, if you really want some interesting news, here's a bit from China Daily:

'Firefighters were called in on Wednesday to free a woman resident of Tianjin municipality whose right hand got stuck in her toilet outflow pipe while trying to rescue her pet turtle, which she had inadvertently poured down the loo along with the water from its bowl.

Firefighters turned off the water supply, carefully broke the bowl and freed both the woman and her turtle without injury to either.'

(Daily Update)

Irony being she was probably growing it for scran.

I hope she had a shower before she performed cunnilingus on the nearest over-rated revolutionary poet.

Oh no, she wouldn't pour good soup down the cludgie.

Ah, but it has to be the right bin.

Oh good, another Chinese snippet. But why would it be ironic that she was 'growing' the turtle for scran?

Because it's been down the poo-poo channel and now she'll never eat it, silly. Therefore she'll have to pay for it's never ending appetite for seaweed for ages as they can live even longer than you. After all the publicity she can't just errr...flush it down the pan can she??

Incidentally, don't run away with the idea that it was just a hunky 'firefighter' smashing the nice uppy seaty easily accessible bog, these are like French ones with just a hole in the floor surrounded by porcelain. I bet they took photographs before they went for the hammers.

No when I meant funny I meant, an unusual or interesting fact.

I'm all for gays and lesbians to teach my children.

I was taught by a gay person in Year 5 and nothing has happened to me, so why should it happen now?

What's that supposed to mean?

How did you know he was gay Kent ?

Oh ha, ha, ha...not.

He joined facebook this year and he told me he'd had a Civil Partnership Wedding.

The origins of the Eurovision obsession are discovered!!

Seriously, why should pupils be aware of a teachers sexuality? It's none of there business when I was at school it was a big thing to find out a teachers Christian name. It's not as if they're going to mince into the room and announce that today's lesson is about felching is it?

But, to be ironic, it must not have occurred to the non-hunky firefighter that she was growing it for scran, and erm, this is China.
I mean, I've been reading all your posts and I'm not too proud to learn from anybody

iv just left school and i dont remember learning that poem :S and i learnt all the carol ann duffy poems, it wasnt in my anthology thats for sure

Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy - the contraversial poem

Today I am going to kill something. Anything.
I have had enough of being ignored and today
I am going to play God. It is an ordinary day,
a sort of grey with boredom stirring in the streets.

I squash a fly against the window with my thumb.
We did that at school. Shakespeare. It was in
another language and now the fly is in another language.
I breathe out talent on the glass to write my name.

I am a genius. I could be anything at all, with half
the chance. But today I am going to change the world.
Something’s world. The cat avoids me. The cat
knows I am a genius, and has hidden itself.

I pour the goldfish down the bog. I pull the chain.
I see that it is good. The budgie is panicking.
Once a fortnight, I walk the two miles into town
for signing on. They don’t appreciate my autograph.

There is nothing left to kill. I dial the radio
and tell the man he’s talking to a superstar.
He cuts me off. I get our bread-knife and go out.
The pavements glitter suddenly. I touch your arm.

I didn't even know he was gay until now - you dont and shouldn't suspect that anybody is like that.

He may be gay, but I don't think he's into Eurovision.

But as I said about Talbot's comments about students =

ORDINARY BLOKE LIKING EUROVISION = GAY = STEREOTYPE !

That is certainly not the case at all !!!! A boy at my school writes for a Eurovision website - he's straight as the A1, so am I !

How did you come to have this conversation Kent ?

Well, I don't know Sussex, but I think the word facebook gives it away !!!