Quote: zooo @ November 12 2010, 5:07 PM GMTAt least women can spell Bridget.
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Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 12 2010, 5:10 PM GMTIt's his keyboard.
He always blames his tool(s).
Quote: zooo @ November 12 2010, 5:07 PM GMTAt least women can spell Bridget.
Of course they can they wrote the rotten thing
All of them? 
I thought it was just one.
Wish I'd written it, I'd be a flipping millionaire. 
Quote: sootyj @ November 12 2010, 5:18 PM GMTOf course they can they wrote the rotten thing
Hey you, someone very close to me recorded the audio tapes and received an international award for it
We're onto you
Yeah, all the Bridget Jones' far outweigh all the Wuthering Heights'.
Quote: sootyj @ November 12 2010, 5:30 PM GMTWe're onto you
Won't be the first time
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ November 12 2010, 5:32 PM GMTYeah, all the Bridget Jones' far outweigh all the Wuthering Heights'.
That book was dreadful
it did inspire a good Kate Bush song thogh
My eldest son graduated this year with a PhD and thousands of pounds of debt. We supported him as much as we could and he worked while doing his PhD. He finished it in record time so that he could get into full time work asap and start paying off his debts. He cannot get a mortgage and has a heap of junk car. Not that he ever ever complains and he is in his dream job and happy with his lot. It will, we hope, get much better and he will enjoy the rewards of his hard work but I don't see that happening any time soon.
My youngest son started in September. We are no longer in a position to help out. He has £20 a week to live on - that's for books, equipment, food, clothes, booze, everything.
Unfortunately he is unwell and may have to come home, but I don't think he could have managed much longer as he was anyway. He is enormously proud of his brother but can also see what life is like post uni and it isn't exactly inspiring!
I am not complaining, I don't know what the solution is. I like some of Sooty's suggestions. I would like to say means testing with realistic support is the answer but that sounds as if I am expecting everything on a plate. I'm not, for me personally it's as simple as this - they have the intelligence and determination and will hopefully have meaningful careers and make a worthwhile contribution to society, but if they can't afford to do that because neither they or their parents have the means due to circumstance, it seems a dreadful shame that they can't have that opportunity and a waste of the education they have had so far.
Quote: sootyj @ November 12 2010, 5:39 PM GMTThat book was dreadful
No it's not. Helen Fielding understands how to write comedy.
Ive seen your copy you've highlighted every occurence of the word knickers
Quote: Loopey @ November 12 2010, 5:40 PM GMTMy eldest son graduated this year with a PhD and thousands of pounds of debt. We supported him as much as we could and he worked while doing his PhD. He finished it in record time so that he could get into full time work asap and start paying off his debts. He cannot get a mortgage and has a heap of junk car. Not that he ever ever complains and he is in his dream job and happy with his lot. It will, we hope, get much better and he will enjoy the rewards of his hard work but I don't see that happening any time soon.
My youngest son started in September. We are no longer in a position to help out. He has £20 a week to live on - that's for books, equipment, food, clothes, booze, everything.
Unfortunately he is unwell and may have to come home, but I don't think he could have managed much longer as he was anyway. He is enormously proud of his brother but can also see what life is like post uni and it isn't exactly inspiring!
I am not complaining, I don't know what the solution is. I like some of Sooty's suggestions. I would like to say means testing with realistic support is the answer but that sounds as if I am expecting everything on a plate. I'm not, for me personally it's as simple as this - they have the intelligence and determination and will hopefully have meaningful careers and make a worthwhile contribution to society, but if they can't afford to do that because neither they or their parents have the means due to circumstance, it seems a dreadful shame that they can't have that opportunity and a waste of the education they have had so far.
Is open university an answer for him?
Quote: sootyj @ November 12 2010, 5:39 PM GMTThat book was dreadful
it did inspire a good Kate Bush song thogh
I like Wuthering Heights; had to do it in sixth form, very enjoyable.
It's true that vocational stuff also sucks. My brother would be starting university in 2012/2013 as he wants to be a paramedic, so has to take a gap year to have had his driving license long enough. He can't learn on the job thanks to a lack of vocational places on the force to do so, and so will incur a huge amount of debt just for having to apply later to fulfil the criteria.