More "middle-class" bollocks

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:53 am

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"I remember when a bit of charlie was for pop stars and celebrities, demonised by Daily Mail readers getting drunk in naff wine bars. Nowadays, they're my best customers!"

From the book/film, Layer Cake.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:21 pm

Anyone without a daughter to bail them out can get stuffed.

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Could someone explain to me why some people 'turn to drugs' when they are under stress...or even need some fun ? The social, health and financial consequencesof getting hooked onto drugs must be obvious to everyone. There's been more than enough publicity in the media for many years. It beats me. Are some people just very stupid or what ?
- Jimmy Thomas, Nottingham England, 31/3/2011 8:09

The fact that Mail's shit and costs more than the BBC would seem to be obvious, but doesn't stop some people.

SewerUrchin · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:17 pm

It must be wonderful for Jimmy to have no vices whatsoever. I bet he's a laugh a minute on a night out.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:22 pm

Jimmy's opinion is widely shared. Why on earth would people do drugs?

Because they FECKIN' ENJOY IT! and because MOST PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH IT! and because EVERYBODY ELSE DOES IT!

Look at the odds of suffering harm because of ecstacy - then think of the fun - hardly rocket science, is it?

hel · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:30 pm

IanC wrote:

"The more inquisition"

Wtf? :lol:

Nobody expects the more inquisition! :mrgreen:

glasgowgril · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:51 pm **Posts:** 1439

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... pathy.html

Not AGAIN................

Picklechu2 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:01 pm **Posts:** 640

What the fuck is this on about?

"Latin expressions correction: QUID PRO QUO does not exist it's QUI PRO QUO and it means that there has been a misunderstanding (someone understood qui instead of quo) - the way anglo-saxons use it should be DO UT DES (I get something in return for something I do). Sounds pedantic, I know, but that's just worng. Thanks.

- bonnie, temporarily in italy, 21/4/2011 7:24"

Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

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Christina and Simon Reynolds have done just this. Their priority is to send Oscar to a £4,000-a term private secondary school. The quid pro quo is they have pared down other spending to the minimum.

Boo-fucketty-hoo. They spend more on a fancy school than lots of people earn in a year, and they spend half an aslyum seekers entire allowance on fuel alone.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:28 am

Why do these people put themselves forward for these stories? It's basically just a two-minute hate for the readers and makes the family look like a bunch of twats (which they kind of are, but still).

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:29 am

Picklechu2 wrote:

What the fuck is this on about?

"Latin expressions correction: QUID PRO QUO does not exist it's QUI PRO QUO and it means that there has been a misunderstanding (someone understood qui instead of quo) - the way anglo-saxons use it should be DO UT DES (I get something in return for something I do). Sounds pedantic, I know, but that's just worng. Thanks.

- bonnie, temporarily in italy, 21/4/2011 7:24"

Yes, in Italian or French you pedantic tosser, but not in English, or more pertinently, Latin. 'Qui' is a feckin' French/Italian word! Quid pro quo means 'this for that' not 'who' you numbnuts. Quiproquo is something else entirely... in fact it is this phrase which is probably the mistake, by some medieval transcriber.

GillsMan · **Joined:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:59 am **Posts:** 57

Sounds pedantic, I know, but that's just worng.

glasgowgril · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:51 pm **Posts:** 1439

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ishop.html

I see the Mail unquestioningly equates 'Anglican' with 'middle-class'. Now I don't know much about the Church of England, I admit, but is this strictly accurate?

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7344

glasgowgril wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379390/Open-Church-England-schools-faiths-says-bishop.html

I see the Mail unquestioningly equates 'Anglican' with 'middle-class'. Now I don't know much about the Church of England, I admit, but is this strictly accurate?

In my (outdated) experience, I'd say no.

C of E certainly has a big crop of schools strategically placed just outside the bigger cities.
There's a smaller number standing where they were founded in what are now inner city locations where many a bishop would fear to tread.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7344

But then the Church of England is a strange beast like that.

History has tied it to some severely depressed regions (if only by dint of parish boundaries and property ownership).
The bulk of the church appears uncomfortable with ministering to the diocese of Peckham or whatever,
preferring the idea of a village fete and jam with the W.I.

The evangelical wing (Not noted for their social progressiveness) are often found doing preaching and charity on this turf.

Worldwide the Episcopalians (That's the international name for the C of E) is also fraught with contradictions.
Pillar of establishment in some parts of the Commonwealth, but at the heart of radical change at others (e.g. Arch Desmond Tutu in S.A.)

I like to think of the Peace and Reconciliation Commisssion as the real live manifestation of "Cake or Death"

Timbo · **Posted:** Wed May 18, 2011 12:23 pm

Families at 'breaking point' as bills jump £54 a week in just six months and inflation hits 4.5% to spark mortgage rise fears
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... onths.html

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So, the people who've done by far the best out of the last decade are complaining because they're expected to (finally) pick up the bill for their own extravagence? How about we stop moaning and expecting our children and grandchildren to pick up the bill for us?
- Eunice, Cheshire, 18/5/2011 12:20

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