Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 10:58 PM GMTI'll tell you what - that doesn't half focus the mind at lectures!
Hannibal? What's he got to do with it?
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Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 11:04 PM GMTQuote: Marc P @ November 16 2010, 11:02 PM GMTI think the idea of a forum is to contribute?
Sorry should I be writing an essay? Just well done you is all I wanted to say.
No but kind of typing a word or two helps.
What? No text from BCG's, self-appointed, comedy 'guru'. 
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 10:39 PM GMTok..they need sustenance/food/water/shelter etc....err...what do they buy it with? Your simplistic view of 'economic games' has been happening for centuries - handle it. Money makes the world go round - not jobs!
So if we all stop working but we have money the world will carry on fine. SWEET. Quick Juan Kerr, let's gather the world leaders and solve all their problems at once!
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 10:39 PM GMTYou fall into the trap of one-dimensional thinking. 'Entrepreneur' need not mean someone who makes a shed load of cash. I mean it in the broader sense of being an entrepreneur of your own mind - taking control of your powers and optimising them - not being limited by the conventions of others and systems
Entrepreneur of my own mind? What the f**k does that mean?
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 10:39 PM GMT(i.e. to keep it simple for you - becoming a manual worker because your teacher/parent told you that's your limit. Taking some of the teaching away from 'teachers' is not a bad idea. All teachers do is help to perpetuate the stupid system that we have now.
Oh! Thanks for simplifying it for me, since what you were saying before made no sense! Nice to see that you've redrawn the boundaries of your argument too. Yes, bring a bit of business into the classroom, explain how that side of the world works. I've got no problem with that.
I don't think teachers ever aim to suppress their students. They aren't all cloistered away in academic offices jerking off over the idea that they've set limits on their pupils. In one post you argue that the government spent too much time saying everyone should have degrees and in the next there are all these shady teachers telling kids the best they can aim for is a bit of honest manual labour? S
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 10:39 PM GMTClearer now?
Clearer in the sense that you said something which was vaguely more reasonable? Maybe.
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 10:39 PM GMTLet me guess... You bought into the study/study/study/work work work/ bit - and it's all looking like its not what it said on the tin now?
Yes! Save me Juan Kerr from the folly of my own life choices! 
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 10:39 PM GMTIf you now apply my thoughts with my, hopefully, clarified explanation you may understand my thinking better. I Don't know how society works? Dont make me laugh - I've spent a lifetime observing and overcoming, succesfully, the s**t it throws up - thanks for the pontification anyway.
Now you just sound lonely.
phQnix
You confirmed exactly how I first perceived you........
Really? Not always.
You were bragging about never having taken benefits. I believe in the welfare state, I believe in giving and helping, students, unemployed the elderly the infirm and others. I don't like people belittling other people who have taken benefits, especially often as not when they have paid through their life on the state based insurance scheme so to do so in times of need. But good on you. And where is this comedy guru thing coming from?
Quote: Marc P @ November 16 2010, 11:17 PM GMTReally? Not always.
You were bragging about never having taken benefits. I believe in the welfare state, I believe in giving and helping, students, unemployed the elderly the infirm and others. I don;t like people belittling other people who have taken benefits, especially often as not when they have paid through their life on the state based insurance scheme so to do so in times of need. But good on you.
I agree.
Quote: Marc P @ November 16 2010, 11:17 PM GMTAnd where is this comedy guru thing coming from?
Honestly Marc? F**k knows. 
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 11:16 PM GMTYou confirmed exactly how I first perceived you........
Good for you!
Quote: Rob H @ November 16 2010, 11:18 PM GMTI agree.
Honestly Marc? F**k knows.
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 11:16 PM GMTphQnix
You confirmed exactly how I first perceived you........
Ok... 
Quote: Marc P @ November 16 2010, 11:20 PM GMT
With you, you comedy guru, you!
I never bragged (your interpretation), and I never belittled (once again, your interpretation). You should be a tabloid journalist.
I merely stated a fact. I'm fortunate to be able to afford private insurance -that's my choice. I actually save the state money by going privately.
Oh, and self-appointed comedy guru? Read your frequent pious responses - if you have to ask for clarification of it - that's scary.
Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 11:21 PM GMTI never bragged
I merely stated a fact. I'm fortunate to be able to afford private insurance.
Quote: Marc P @ November 16 2010, 11:23 PM GMT
You know Marc, it's really puzzling, but after around 10 posts a day on here for 2.5 years - you just don't seem to have got the hang of how conversations work on forums do you?
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Quote: Juan Kerr @ November 16 2010, 11:25 PM GMTQuote: Marc P @ November 16 2010, 11:23 PM GMT
You know Marc, it's really puzzling, but after around 10 posts a day on here for 2.5 years - you just don't seem to have got the hang of how conversations work on forums do you?
Beats the shit out of me.