[BNM] [OT] Brighton's nuclear power station?

[Tom Dussek (Hotmail)]

Er... that's why I was asking if you went to public school. Although to 
extend your pedantry further, where exactly are the questions you refer 
to? The only one I can see on in the thread (note the singular) is one I 
asked you, which you didn't answer. Does that make you an oik?

Tom Dussek


paul perrin wrote:
> Tom - it appears that you are confused by the fact that there are two
> threads here - I have said nothing about my past, only my kids eduation;
> whereas Nick has mentioned his past, but not said anything about the
> present/future.
> 
> I suggest you read the questions properly before formulating answers (that
> kind of mistake could fail you your 11 plus).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Paul /)/+)
> 
> 
> On 24/05/07, Tom Dussek (Hotmail) <tomdussek at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I wasn't going to mention this, but your intellectual gifts were clearly
>> not matched by your social ones. I was also one of the brightest, but
>> had the wit to get on with all the other kids, no matter where they were
>> on the oik scale. Good for you that you are developing your own self
>> imposed exclusion into something wonderfully and expensively formalised,
>> though. They'll have a great time together. All kids the same. No nasty
>> new ideas, difficult problems or things that you maybe don't understand
>> to have to grapple with. Just the rarefied atmosphere of private,
>> superior exclusion. That'll get them ready for The World.
>>
>> Out of interest, did you or anyone you know go to private/public school?
>>
>> Tom Dussek
>>
>> paul perrin wrote:
>>> Well due to the changes my youngest is going private (as are most of his
>>> bright friends), so the oiks wont have the benefit of their 'highly
>>> motivated' company anyway. But at least it is going to cost me a
>> fortune, so
>>> the oiks parents can gloat about that to make themselves feel better.
>>>
>>> Paul /)/+)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24/05/07, Barry Bloye <bbloye at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 24/05/07, Nick Wilsdon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Having actually been the 'brighter' one in a classroom full of idiots,
>>>> you
>>>>> don't nobly educate the rest. Usually you keep very quiet as the peer
>>>>> consensus does not look too favourably on the 'clever/geeky' ones. The
>>>>> teachers also have to work at the lowest common denominator. I was
>> bored
>>>> out
>>>>> of my head most of the time with no one to stretch me academically.
>>>> Ditto. At Primary School I was considered 'gifted' and got moved up a
>>>> year, and even then I was still top of the class. The headteacher
>>>> recommended I consider going to Brighton College, but naturally I
>>>> wanted to go where my friends were going.
>>>>
>>>> I went to the 'local' comprehensive, and ended up with very mediocre
>>>> GCSE grades. I (well, the two or three 'higher' pupils in my class)
>>>> was lucky if I got 10 minutes attention in the average GCSE maths
>>>> class. When I took the exam I didn't understand a good chunk of the
>>>> questions because it was stuff I'd simply never been taught.
>>>>
>>>> But then if I'd gone to a different school, I wouldn't be where I am
>>>> now, so it can't be all that bad. :)
>>>>
>>>> Baz
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