That figures....
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Given that the new curriculum is being foisted on them by a bunch of people who have no clue and sticking to old-fashioned, often dogmatic, approaches about what they should be doing, I'd say all this over-prepares them for a life in modern Britain. I would say a working life, but I guess that opportunity will be denied to a lot of them. As for Shakespeare, my experience is the schools (as the knife addled rape shed I went to did) will take the easiest options, namely the "comedies". Comedy- perhaps, funny - nope. Two years studying A Midsummer's Night's Dream and Twelfth night, and the funniest thing was the name "Titania". Seeing one of the "proper" plays - "King Lear" later in life was a revelation though. Sill, I guess 16th/17th century plays set in some kingly palace or other will all be immediately relevant to a child born in Felling 400+ years later.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I would say a working life, but I guess that opportunity will be denied to a lot of them
Haven't you heard? We have a shortage of Shakespearean actors... :~
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as the knife addled rape shed I went to did
Have you ever considered a job in PR? ;P Yup, my knife-addled rape shed just taught those 'comedies' too. Still waiting to get my own kingly palace! Hopefully it will all become relevant one day!
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Yeah, that's an important one, I definitely use that all the time, makes the code reviews interesting ;)
Certainly makes the comments flow, and method names have a real pizzazz to them.
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"A spokesman said the government wanted "all children to learn the core knowledge in key subjects - the ones universities and employers value the most"." Exactly. The thing I value most about my employees is their Iambic Pentameter.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Iambic Pentameter
I had to look that up[^]. This article is very funny : it introduces Iambi...thing as a metric line, and then shows that you can pretty much swap syllables, add syllables, break the rule as you like. ;) A rule with moving limits: maybe the definition of poetry. :doh:
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.
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"A spokesman said the government wanted "all children to learn the core knowledge in key subjects - the ones universities and employers value the most"." Exactly. The thing I value most about my employees is their Iambic Pentameter.
Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience.
Juliet, a likewise young woman of remarkable grace.
Ophelia, a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet.
Hamlet, the flatterer of Andersen Insulting A/S.Act I: Hamlet's insults and flattery. Scene I: The insulting of Romeo.[Enter Hamlet and Romeo]
Hamlet:
You lying stupid fatherless big smelly half-witted coward!
You are as stupid as the difference between a handsome rich brave
hero and thyself! Speak your mind!You are as brave as the sum of your fat little stuffed misused dusty
old rotten codpiece and a beautiful fair warm peaceful sunny summer's
day. You are as healthy as the difference between the sum of the
sweetest reddest rose and my father and yourself! Speak your mind!You are as cowardly as the sum of yourself and the difference
between a big mighty proud kingdom and a horse. Speak your mind.Speak your mind!
[Exit Romeo]
Scene II: The praising of Juliet.[Enter Juliet]
Hamlet:
Thou art as sweet as the sum of the sum of Romeo and his horse and his
black cat! Speak thy mind![Exit Juliet]
Scene III: The praising of Ophelia.[Enter Ophelia]
Hamlet:
Thou art as lovely as the product of a large rural town and my amazing
bottomless embroidered purse. Speak thy mind!Thou art as loving as the product of the bluest clearest sweetest sky
and the sum of a squirrel and a white horse. Thou art as beautiful as
the difference between Juliet and thyself. Speak thy mind![Exeunt Ophelia and Hamlet]
Act II: Behind Hamlet's back. Scene I: Romeo and Juliet's conversation.[Enter Romeo and Juliet]
Romeo:
Speak your mind. You are as worried as the sum of yourself and the
difference between my small smooth hamster and my nose. Speak your
mind!Juliet:
Speak YOUR mind! You are as bad as Hamlet! You are as small as the
difference between the square of the difference between my little pony
and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little
codpiece. Speak your mind![Exit Romeo]
Scene II: Juliet and Ophelia's conversation.[Enter Ophelia]
Juliet:
Thou art as good as the quotient between Romeo and the sum of a small
furry animal and a leech. Speak your mind!Ophelia:
Thou art as disgusting as the quotient between Romeo and twice the
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28987787[^] The Department for Education said its aim was to prepare children for "life in modern Britain" ... by studying at least two Shakespeare plays. :wtf:
What they need to be teaching them is how to deal with real life; how to spend you unemployed time to pursue your dreams, how to trade food stamps for drugs, the does and don't of selling meth, Walmart shopping fashion. Just the basics you know.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28987787[^] The Department for Education said its aim was to prepare children for "life in modern Britain" ... by studying at least two Shakespeare plays. :wtf:
Instead of Latin? In another continent, and another millenium, one of our high school teachers taught us the offside rule. One of us actually used that one at work: he played football (the one with the round ball) professionally.
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What they need to be teaching them is how to deal with real life; how to spend you unemployed time to pursue your dreams, how to trade food stamps for drugs, the does and don't of selling meth, Walmart shopping fashion. Just the basics you know.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
You should suggest that: https://www.education.gov.uk/help/contactus[^] ;P
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Instead of Latin? In another continent, and another millenium, one of our high school teachers taught us the offside rule. One of us actually used that one at work: he played football (the one with the round ball) professionally.
I'm assuming they'll be treating Latin as one of the compulsory 'Modern Foreign Languages' ;P Glad someone got to use that one. They get upset when I kick a ball around the office!
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I would say a working life, but I guess that opportunity will be denied to a lot of them
Haven't you heard? We have a shortage of Shakespearean actors... :~
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as the knife addled rape shed I went to did
Have you ever considered a job in PR? ;P Yup, my knife-addled rape shed just taught those 'comedies' too. Still waiting to get my own kingly palace! Hopefully it will all become relevant one day!
WiganLatics wrote:
Still waiting to get my own kingly palace!
It'll be by the church. Most. Laboured. Joke. Ever.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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What they need to be teaching them is how to deal with real life; how to spend you unemployed time to pursue your dreams, how to trade food stamps for drugs, the does and don't of selling meth, Walmart shopping fashion. Just the basics you know.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Another key skill seems to be how to avoid paying rent. You have to have the skillset to freeload on people, and get in and out of apartments/houses without actually paying any bills. I think there are subtle skills involved in that. Like having kids so you can put bills in their names, and changing numbers in your social security number. You got to talk people into letting you stay for a couple of weeks, and then be able to be subtle about turning that into months. Possibly, if you've taken enough of these courses, get the person you're staying with to help pay deposit and first rent at your new place.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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"A spokesman said the government wanted "all children to learn the core knowledge in key subjects - the ones universities and employers value the most"." Exactly. The thing I value most about my employees is their Iambic Pentameter.
That's what she said
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Yeah, that's an important one, I definitely use that all the time, makes the code reviews interesting ;)
Comments must be written in Iambic Pentameter and variable names must rhyme. I'm adding that to my coding standards now!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28987787[^] The Department for Education said its aim was to prepare children for "life in modern Britain" ... by studying at least two Shakespeare plays. :wtf:
don't worry it is only until Labour gets in then it will be replaced by 2 TOWIE episodes
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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don't worry it is only until Labour gets in then it will be replaced by 2 TOWIE episodes
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Ha well I suppose TOWIE is contemporary show. Maybe it has some relevance ... :~ I would hope that they temper it with this though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4r_a5adehs[^]
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Given that the new curriculum is being foisted on them by a bunch of people who have no clue and sticking to old-fashioned, often dogmatic, approaches about what they should be doing, I'd say all this over-prepares them for a life in modern Britain. I would say a working life, but I guess that opportunity will be denied to a lot of them. As for Shakespeare, my experience is the schools (as the knife addled rape shed I went to did) will take the easiest options, namely the "comedies". Comedy- perhaps, funny - nope. Two years studying A Midsummer's Night's Dream and Twelfth night, and the funniest thing was the name "Titania". Seeing one of the "proper" plays - "King Lear" later in life was a revelation though. Sill, I guess 16th/17th century plays set in some kingly palace or other will all be immediately relevant to a child born in Felling 400+ years later.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Keith Barrow wrote:
funniest thing was the name "Titania"
And Bottom. Don't forget Bottom.
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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Keith Barrow wrote:
funniest thing was the name "Titania"
And Bottom. Don't forget Bottom.
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
Heheheheh.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28987787[^] The Department for Education said its aim was to prepare children for "life in modern Britain" ... by studying at least two Shakespeare plays. :wtf:
I am probably a bit of an outlier on this - I think this is a brilliant idea. I studied the Scottish play when I was fourteen and read and saw other plays, written by the Bard, in my early twenties. I do have something of a bias as I was a voracious reader of English literature in my twenties and encourage everyone to explore the treasure trove that is our great literary tradition in the UK(I don't include Dan Brown...).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I am probably a bit of an outlier on this - I think this is a brilliant idea. I studied the Scottish play when I was fourteen and read and saw other plays, written by the Bard, in my early twenties. I do have something of a bias as I was a voracious reader of English literature in my twenties and encourage everyone to explore the treasure trove that is our great literary tradition in the UK(I don't include Dan Brown...).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
I'm being facetious really, I don't have a problem with learning about Shakespeare. It's just that they are harping on about 'modern Britain' at the same time. ;) Although ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM-Y1ch4b5c[^]
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I am probably a bit of an outlier on this - I think this is a brilliant idea. I studied the Scottish play when I was fourteen and read and saw other plays, written by the Bard, in my early twenties. I do have something of a bias as I was a voracious reader of English literature in my twenties and encourage everyone to explore the treasure trove that is our great literary tradition in the UK(I don't include Dan Brown...).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
My father was often beaten as a child at school, once for stating that in his view Shakespeare was "a tit-brained quill pusher". I preferred reading Tom Sharpe when I got to school, although the English teacher thought that inappropriate.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm assuming they'll be treating Latin as one of the compulsory 'Modern Foreign Languages' ;P Glad someone got to use that one. They get upset when I kick a ball around the office!
Being able to swear in Latin comes in handy at times...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
