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What really grinds your gears?

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Dec 2013
4:41pm, 4 Dec 2013
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Christmas rose (hip)
"To me the person cleaning the operating theatre is just as important as the person wielding the scalpel. We need to get away from the idea that some things are not worthwhile. Its that or we'll be up to our ears in PHd students Polish plumbers and rubbish."

Yes :)

ok, so maybe aspiration isn't the wor - if it is taken to mean wanting uni and being a CEO or top surgeon.

I took it to mean having the desire to make one's own way in the world and having the means to make a choice of how to do it
Dec 2013
4:55pm, 4 Dec 2013
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Agreed
Dec 2013
7:35pm, 4 Dec 2013
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Ding Dong! Jambomo on high!
"To me the person cleaning the operating theatre is just as important as the person wielding the scalpel. We need to get away from the idea that some things are not worthwhile. Its that or we'll be up to our ears in PHd students Polish plumbers and rubbish."

Totally agree but part of the problem isn't just aspiration for a good job. Being the cleaner (or similar work) these days can mean you are treated like crap by your employers, forced to work ridiculous hours/contracts and genuinely live in poverty as often they are minimum wage and need the help of benefits, to which the Government decides to create the idea that you are a lazy b*****d living off the state.

We need a massive social and cultural change for manual work to be acceptable as a life choice.
Dec 2013
7:38pm, 4 Dec 2013
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Ding Dong! Jambomo on high!
Anyway, grinding my gears today is charity adverts laying on the guilt trip for Christmas. They go from the position that you are in someway a bad person, no matter how much you give or what you do for charity otherwise, if you don't feel guilty and send the lots of money right NOW. Not that they ever mention how much the charity will actually get after they take their 'admin' costs.
Dec 2013
8:56pm, 4 Dec 2013
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On a lighter note - mince pies. They are hideous. I don't believe anyone really likes them, otherwise people would want them other times of the year. They don't.
Dec 2013
9:20pm, 4 Dec 2013
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Welld one JB well done Ding Dong.

School isn't al about exams it's about principles, and I see no reason why the school around the corener should nto be excellent and should not cater for every one. They do not as fa a I can see anymore.

Mine had this thing called streaming. So you were looked after according to yyour abilites in whatever subjetcs you chose.
Dec 2013
9:25pm, 4 Dec 2013
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WS: you need to check your typing before banging on about education reform :)
Mince pies are lovely. I'd happily eat them any time of the year :)
Dec 2013
9:26pm, 4 Dec 2013
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What grinds my gears though is fucking foxes fucking SCREAMING! Fucking hideous fucking wankington animals.
Dec 2013
9:27pm, 4 Dec 2013
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Yes, my typing is awful, but my brain is thinking about something as soon as I start writing
Dec 2013
9:28pm, 4 Dec 2013
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Tinsel Snake
Anyway I am old and prefer writing

I did Caligraphy at scholl, bet they don't do that anymore.

Do I bang on?

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