Borderlands is superb!

Hello, everyone! Have you had a good time in the last half decade or so?

Hello vegetables!

All good, ta. Yourself?

It's been highly positive! I think when I was last on here I was miserable and gloomy about my future, but it all ended up turning out surprisingly well.

In September 2013 the school restructured the tutor groups, altering the way provision of pastoral care was organised. This involved a move away from the traditional horizontal (same age) structure of forms to a more progressive vertical one. The former structure saw each student belonging to a form group of around 30 pupils from their own year-group, with a teacher acting as a tutor. The new structure maintains a teacher acting each year as a tutor to the group, but the group is mixed-age with students from all years included. They are known as 'Vertical Mentor Groups' ("VMGs"). Each group therefore evolves annually, as older students leave and are replaced by new Year 7 student entering the school.

Each VMG is given the name of a country, and the countries are arranged into five continents. The continents are in different parts of the school: Africa, Asia, The Americas, Europe and Oceania.

Vertical structuring has been implemented in other secondary schools, the main advantages being seen as the mixing of ages leading to an increased sense of community, allowing for pupils to share experiences, foster understanding and reduce bullying.[8] The system also complements the school curriculum, where in many cases, students in Years 9 and 10 and 11 are in the same subject mixed-age option groups.

Just found out that my old school no longer has form classes as such, but rather has a 'VMG' structure



What the actual F? Is this common?

Fucking dishwashers. Just spent £300 to get rid of the cheap piece of crap that came with the flat, as it seemed to consider that washing dishes actually meant baking crap onto them that is impossible to remove.

Fucking dishwashers. Just spent £300 to get rid of the cheap piece of crap that came with the flat, as it seemed to consider that washing dishes actually meant baking crap onto them that is impossible to remove.

Mine occasionally has an optional final sequence which involves spraying the contents of the filter all over the top shelf where the glasses go.

Has anyone else tried Hello Fresh?

http://www.hellofresh.co.uk

Mrs T and I signed up to it last week and got the first box through today, I shall report back.
If you like the look of it and want to give it a go, if you use my code "ZJAV7L" you get £20 off the first box and I get £12 off my next box

We just did shopping.

Remind me again in a couple of weeks and I'll give it a shot (unless it's rubbish).

Do you get the meat and everything?

Do you mean all religions?

I'd go to the pub with the nice beer garden in Saltaire this evening if they had one. Stupid person that built a village by a mill with no pubs.

is Saltaire bewery notninnsaltaire? No outlet shop? No grassy knoll outside?

My friends and family get quickly irritated if I point out their mistakes, and I have tried to accept that people make errors in speech, as they often just blurt things out with little thought

Jesus.



I think there's a superfluous 's' in there.
Someone buy him an xbox and a hooker.

Alan:

...when did you first realise that Simon was abnormal?

John:

Uh, gifted, you mean

Alan:

Abnormally gifted

John:

Well, it's when Simon was about 14 months old, um, I remember looking at him there in his cot, and, um, I said to him, uh, "Who does Daddy love, Simon? Who? Who?", and guess what Simon said?

Alan:

What?

Simon:

"Whom does Daddy love? Whom? Whom?"

John:

He picked up on my grammatical error with his very first words, and, er, that's when I knew that he was going to be something special.

Alan:

Yeah, my, my son Fernando wasn't quite as original as that. He said, er, he said "Daddy", which somehow I prefer.

That's a poor Guardian article. He's not blaming it on the evil neo-liberal elite or Michael Gove. Must try harder.

However, I really feel it doesn't sent out a very good message when multinational companies such as Tesco...

We might argue that the over-adoption of childish net-neologisms, a desperation to conspire in our own infantilisation, is like an act of Sartrean bad-faith, a refusal to view ourselves as the people who bear responsibility for shaping the world and its future. But it is still true. No amount of winking smileys can make up for, say, a refusal to fight injustice, or face up to climate change.

I don't know why people get stressed about stuff like this. She'll learn as she gets older.

also HA

One day I'll manage to not attempt to let myself into the office with my oyster card. One day.

We use a really pointless and shitty system here where the canteen and all the vending machines don't accept cash, they only accept credit from your pass. So you have to top up your pass constantly in order to get a can out of the vending machine.

Pretty much everyday without fail I notice my pass is missing as I try to leave the building at home time. And every day, security have to tell me to stop leaving it in the damn vending machine.