UK students in crisis

vilkrang wrote:This sounds like a nice amicable break up .

I was never with her... Not a chance

Not even sure what she meant by the comment, but I assume she meant she is now single. Didn't even know she was attached.

Failbook.com has some hilarious mistakes made by people in their status updates. Good for much laughter.

Clamson wrote:I had to dump an ex partly because she was way too stupid:

"Northern Ireland isn't part of Ireland?"

"That sign means it my right of way"
"No it doesn't it means it's cars coming the other directions right of way"
"Nah, it's my right of way"
Very near miss follows, accompanied by a repeated loud horn...
"F this, I'm getting out if you do that again"
She had to go.

Also, I have a university in my town. Not a proper university, one where people go to study photography or travel & tourism or some equally imbecilic subject. Every time I meet a student here, I know that they are not worthy of getting a degree. I usually fail to hide my disdain for such subjects AT DEGREE LEVEL, and then they get annoyed. Only in it for the piss ups - most of them are stupid, and I'm being kind.

HND in Greenkeeping
BA Womens' Studies

There are two courses to conjure with and if I come across another student on a Media Studies degree I think I might commit murder!

Most Gen X know very little about Geography. A few in recent times included the suggestion that Netherlands and Holland were different countries, South Africa was a region, not a discrete country, the population of the US was about 24 mil, women got the vote in Australia in the 1990s, total ignorance of the equinox and the path of the sun etc. The sad thing is that many educationists discount the need for any sort of content and blabber on about how today's students are taught to think. Some of the dumb responses above wouldn't be given ironically if they actually tried to apply some logic.

And don't get me started on spelling. I saw one example of a Mr Meaner when talking about an indiscretion. Businesses are a fruitful reservoir of misspellings. There is a van selling kebab's in the beach carpark at the end of my street. The real estate agent down the road specialises in accomodation which has houses with dinning rooms and seperate bathrooms. The electrical store I went into the other day was selling cut price superseeded dishwashers which were just next to his stationary drawer. All these seemed to be staffed by the upwardly mobile looking from the Gen X demographic.

You do realise that those misspellings are made deliberately so that they catch your attention?

If there's one thing I hate, it's people banging on about how kids today are getting stoopider etc etc. No. People have always been stupid. In fact, people have always been chronically stupid. Even people at the forefront of science believed in flogiston and aether till quite recently.

The thing with these surveys is that no one was doing them 50 years ago. We never get to see the daft answers that the slow ones amongst my parents' generation were giving. I can almost guarantee you, ignorance was just as rife, if not moreso, back then. You should hear some of the things a friend of my mum's comes out with. Seriously

There are literally loads of sharp, witty, well-informed people out there in their late teens and early twenties. They've just got more sense than to hang out in Wetherspoons with all the perma-tanned dunderheads.