In TFA it does specifically state that "It uses the analogy of the human race being at a time that is a "few minutes to midnight," They have, at best, sixty minutes to work with, butin common parlance you tend to say "past" instead of "to" before half past the hour and so it could probably be argued that half past eleven would mean "no chance whatsoever," though they would most likely use eleven o'clock because they could symbolically move the hour hand.
It looks to me as if what is significant is not what the time is (unless of course it is midnight), but instead how much the hand moves by. When a significant leap is made towards nuclear disarmament, it moves back significantly, vice versa when a situation appears to be escalating.
No... but the citizens can shoot eachother. Toss up really. Also, most people here like the repression - they're idiots and wrong, but that's democracy for you.
That's not what a teacher's job is though. Yes, what the kids have learnt is tested by an exam, but the teacher's job is to make sure the kid knows enough to get them through life - whether they like it or not. Most kids don't see the value of education until their older, it's not going to do any good letting them leave if they don't want to stay.
Even ditch-diggers need to know how to read and write. And how may ditch-diggers do we really need?
"They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." -Socrates (420 BC)
Yeah... so much worse than the used to be.
In all honesty, you're looking at the past through rose-coloured glasses. Kids are kids. There will always be a minority that act up. Physical pain may work on some, but it won't work on all, and has the two disadvantages of teaching some of them that violence is the way to respond to things you don't like whilst simultaniously making them immune to anything less than violence.
As for chav culture - that didn't exist until the media said it did. Most of these kids are not murderers, rapists or burglers, and those that are are largely ostracised from the majority of their peers. Don't believe everything the media tells you - it's easy to believe that because two more incidents were reported in a given year, two more actually happened. Usually all it really means is two fewer were reported the previous year.
Borat was part of the Ali G show and was Baron-Cohen's first character. Arguably he has been around since 1993 and certainly since around 1998. He is in no way new.
Grew up in the 90s. This has the advantage of being able to tell my kids: "when I was your age we had a 56kbps modem that we were only allowed to use after 6pm on the Family Computer uphill both ways in our bare feet and we were happy."
It always amazes me that anyone can see Borat as anything other than a commentary on western culture. That is all it was ever intended to be. The joke in Borat is that people in the west are so ignorant of eastern cultures that they actually believe he is genuine!
You write that now, but you'll be laughing out of the other side of your face when he is assassinated and you're being asked questions in that... uh... cuban holiday camp...
Actually, the legality of S&M in the UK is dubious. R v Brown (1993) makes it clear that consent to violence is not a defense (goodbye to volenti non fit injuria...)
Childbirth is not something anyone should go through if they don't want to. The man isn't going to have to go through it, he doesn't get to force the woman to.
Yeah, that's fair enough. Of course, if they can't actually afford to buy your work, does your answer change, or should they just be deprived of it?
Personally, I'm a very broke student, I really can't afford to buy music. Either I get it free, or I do without.
(Oh, and I can't help but notice Green Day seem not to have gone bankrupt due to kids sharing tracks... are they drug dealing on the side do you think?)
Interesting... I think that's about the 9th time I've heard a variation of that anecdote. Either there are a lot of stupid people out there or you're stealing someone else's material...
Wouldn't the problem with that be that you get a friend at home to watch the one by the spot you want to jump at? Or just check it yourself before you jump and find one without anyone watching?
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In TFA it does specifically state that "It uses the analogy of the human race being at a time that is a "few minutes to midnight," They have, at best, sixty minutes to work with, butin common parlance you tend to say "past" instead of "to" before half past the hour and so it could probably be argued that half past eleven would mean "no chance whatsoever," though they would most likely use eleven o'clock because they could symbolically move the hour hand.
It looks to me as if what is significant is not what the time is (unless of course it is midnight), but instead how much the hand moves by. When a significant leap is made towards nuclear disarmament, it moves back significantly, vice versa when a situation appears to be escalating.
Depends... if you're in Milton Keynes it's entirely possible to drive more than 800 miles.
No... but the citizens can shoot eachother. Toss up really. Also, most people here like the repression - they're idiots and wrong, but that's democracy for you.
That's not what a teacher's job is though. Yes, what the kids have learnt is tested by an exam, but the teacher's job is to make sure the kid knows enough to get them through life - whether they like it or not. Most kids don't see the value of education until their older, it's not going to do any good letting them leave if they don't want to stay. Even ditch-diggers need to know how to read and write. And how may ditch-diggers do we really need?
Kids today huh?
"They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." -Socrates (420 BC)
Yeah... so much worse than the used to be.
In all honesty, you're looking at the past through rose-coloured glasses. Kids are kids. There will always be a minority that act up. Physical pain may work on some, but it won't work on all, and has the two disadvantages of teaching some of them that violence is the way to respond to things you don't like whilst simultaniously making them immune to anything less than violence.
As for chav culture - that didn't exist until the media said it did. Most of these kids are not murderers, rapists or burglers, and those that are are largely ostracised from the majority of their peers. Don't believe everything the media tells you - it's easy to believe that because two more incidents were reported in a given year, two more actually happened. Usually all it really means is two fewer were reported the previous year.
Borat was part of the Ali G show and was Baron-Cohen's first character. Arguably he has been around since 1993 and certainly since around 1998. He is in no way new.
Grew up in the 90s. This has the advantage of being able to tell my kids: "when I was your age we had a 56kbps modem that we were only allowed to use after 6pm on the Family Computer uphill both ways in our bare feet and we were happy."
... serious yes, gadgetless yes, unbelievable turns - did you sleep through the opening half? The women - there were two...
... Homosexual sex between 16 year olds was legalised in 2003.
We have one screen and it came to us...
It always amazes me that anyone can see Borat as anything other than a commentary on western culture. That is all it was ever intended to be. The joke in Borat is that people in the west are so ignorant of eastern cultures that they actually believe he is genuine!
Godless Communism is dead...
Godless Capitalism is also dead.
The problem is that Godly Capitalism is rather inefficient when compared to what it could be without worrying about other people.
The solution seems to have been to change what constitutes Godly.
You write that now, but you'll be laughing out of the other side of your face when he is assassinated and you're being asked questions in that... uh... cuban holiday camp...
Actually, the legality of S&M in the UK is dubious. R v Brown (1993) makes it clear that consent to violence is not a defense (goodbye to volenti non fit injuria...)
Ordinary people are remarkably unqualified to make descisions on a national subject. Do you really want Sun readers running the country?
Childbirth is not something anyone should go through if they don't want to. The man isn't going to have to go through it, he doesn't get to force the woman to.
If that's actually how you find out about music, you really need to get out more.
Yeah, that's fair enough. Of course, if they can't actually afford to buy your work, does your answer change, or should they just be deprived of it? Personally, I'm a very broke student, I really can't afford to buy music. Either I get it free, or I do without. (Oh, and I can't help but notice Green Day seem not to have gone bankrupt due to kids sharing tracks... are they drug dealing on the side do you think?)
"Life costs more than death"
It costs more to execute someone than it does to imprison them for life
Interesting... I think that's about the 9th time I've heard a variation of that anecdote. Either there are a lot of stupid people out there or you're stealing someone else's material...
Wouldn't the problem with that be that you get a friend at home to watch the one by the spot you want to jump at? Or just check it yourself before you jump and find one without anyone watching?
As far as I'm aware, jaywalking isn't a crime in the UK.
Nor, it seems to other laws. What laws, incidently, do apply to enemy combatants? Does it work both ways?
Sorry, the US censors your e-mails?!