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Which, as we all know, is the priority here.

Apparently Derby are having a shit start mind - scored 1 goal and conceded 3. The latter is actually fairly ok for three games, but it sounds like they're having some serious bother up front.

Less horrifyingly, but still not great, the Tories are struggling to produce any evidence that Grammar schools are actually going to be helpful: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/09/greening-struggles-to-produce-evidence-to-back-grammar-schools It could all just be a distraction, this.

I mean, I don't know if he dies. I just think I'd want to. But basically yes. Grim stuff.

I fucking knew someone would make that joke. I thought it'd be Gemmill but I knew it would happen. I almost edited it to avoid this very thing

I think found it on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Which is a site no one should visit, ever (and certainly not at work). It was a gif though, so I didn't even have the option to 'not view'. 'What is seen cannot be unseen' was, I'm certain, thought up for that gif.

I came across that too. Not a good way to go... I assume the guy died. I'd want to after that.

...really?

Is that not probably a malware issue rather than an email provider issue? i.e. it'll be something on your actual machine? That said, I appreciate the point of that post is that Virgin are useless on techsupport I can only assume that he thought you suggested you'd take your cock out instead of cop-out?

Sounds about right.

Is there any indication whatsoever that Smith might win? This all feels very futile from his point of view.

Wow. Bold fucking advert.

...darker as in sex scenes involving jabba? Did you quote the right comment?? I think you meant my one about Rey smurfing everyone. On that I'd agree. No chance of it.

Good post.

I went to a bog standard school with no selectiveness. It was a decent enough school but they would let anyone in. I did reasonably at A level but worse than I hoped/predicted and had to go into clearance. I found a degree which I thought would work for me and got a 2:1 - in Chinese. Under the model that both Fish and Ant suggest, I would have either been too poor (only able to afford university, even back before the tuition fees hike, because I qualified for a government grant and higher than normal student loan), or not successful enough at school to qualify. I now have a second degree in which I got a distinction, and run a £2m company (not mine, I hasten to add). I would not have had the opportunity to do this if either of your policies were in place. And I'm damn sure I do better than most people who outperformed me at school. As someone else very wisely said, people progress at different speeds, and school education performance should not be something that dictates what happens across the rest of your life. University gives people options and the chance to work out where they're heading in life, especially those people (arguably like me) who just weren't hugely interested in school. If I hadn't had this opportunity, I genuinely dread to think where I'd be in life - because I was fucking useless before University.

Broadly agree with CT's utopian vision, but it's really hard to cater for the hugely increased challenges that kids from disadvantaged backgrounds have without actually tackling social inequality in general. They need to start on making the economy fairer (and, I would argue, offering better mental health services to people from disadvantaged backgrounds). You could do really extreme things like remove all children from their parents until they're 10, offering them all an equal chance at development; that would level the playing field but no one would vote for it

I got Gordon Brown. Which I'm ok with, oddly enough

Occasionally I wonder what opposition fans must make of our match day threads...

They are definitely lacking the raw sex appeal of Jabba in the latest film. Surprised that was overlooked.

Why can't the bad guys win for once!! FFS.