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this must be the parpiest of parpiest article

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cod · 25/04/2006 12:27

int h paper its acconmpanies byt two girls in boaters ffs

THIS is why i want to kill most peopel hwo go to private shcools

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cod · 26/04/2006 11:43

er yes on most fines we do there ar e a few excpetions that are too complicated
a ll court fiens shoudl be means tested

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thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 26/04/2006 11:43

you seem to have a tablecloth on your person? you really ought to try clothes you know, so much more convenient.

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cod · 26/04/2006 11:43

they "Have" to tell us their inceom
but think alto is crap
i think we shoduld be mroe rigorous in asking for pay s lips

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Caligula · 26/04/2006 11:44

D'you remember when the introduced fines proportionate to income? And there was an outcry because someone was fined £800 for the same misdemeanour as someone else who was fined £40 or something for the same offence. There was no outcry about the fact that it was about 0.00001% of the former's weekly income, but 10% of the latter's.

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 26/04/2006 11:46

Blush at my ignorance...thinking about it I think I did know

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cod · 26/04/2006 11:47

no am not that old c

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Caligula · 26/04/2006 11:47

I'm anshunt

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cod · 26/04/2006 11:48

sorry?

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Caligula · 26/04/2006 11:48

You haven't been reading your Richmal Compton. That's ancient spelt the William way

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cod · 26/04/2006 11:55

oh of course
i loved htose books

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bloss · 26/04/2006 12:12

cod, 'aht the shcools are there out of th kindness of their hearts!'... I'm sure there are many motivations that drive the people who establish private schools. But profit is rarely one of them, as they are almost invariably not-for-profit.

DaddyCool · 26/04/2006 12:13

i'm not against private schools but this article was ridiculous. what a bunch of wimps.

suedonim · 26/04/2006 13:00

Sl-a-a-a-p to that woman! Grin The article says a lot more about her and her dd than state v private schools.

Two months ago 9yo dd2 went from a state school of 28 children in Scotland to a private one of 300 mainly Nigerian children in Lagos. She hasn't whinged at all, received a certificate for settling well into her new class and school, had a drawing chosen as the front cover for the school's Funday programme and won a speech competition. Oh, and she's done mental maths in both schools! It's how you present these things that counts, imo.

Right, I'm away to admire my newly-cleaned floor, though I admit that dd mopped half of it (she wanted to, honest!! Wink) and ponder the fact that I shall be rising at 5am tomorrow, not for more mopping but to catch the red eye back to No-Internet-Land. Sad

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 26/04/2006 13:07

do you know what I think the individual who needs the biggest slap is the bloody editor who decided to put it in. Ultimately it's the editor's judgment that is most seriously exposed here. ooo if I were a publisher I'd be on the phone about that one.

DaddyCool · 26/04/2006 13:10

just read cod's post...

'no spanish for her then. she'll have to watch dora like the rest of us'

PMSL

Harpsichordcarrier · 26/04/2006 13:11

hatstandylady - most criminal penalties impact on children a great deal more than fines
and you don't get very far in a plea in mitigation trying to argue that someone shouldn't be sent to prison because it will impact on their children
(Iknow, I tried Blush)

beckybrastraps · 26/04/2006 13:14

times 2 did excel itself yesterday. On the next page to this story was a piece by a 15 year old boy called "Darcy" saying how much he'd like a walk-in closet, spent £35 on a t-shirt, went window shopping twice or three times a week, and how the people he looked up to were "James Bond/Pierce Brosnan/Brad Pitt" and (of course for a middle class boy) Kanye West. Please tell me this is NOT normal for a 15 year old boy!

frogs · 26/04/2006 13:27

suedonim, you mean you don't got internet in Lagos?! How so? Dh emails his work colleagues in Timbuctu (yes, really).

Caligula · 26/04/2006 13:42

I wish my floor were clean. I can't think why it's so dirty. I've been sitting here on Mumsnet all morning (in between making DD and playdate's lunch) and when I went back to my kitchen, it was still dirty. I mean, how does that happen? I knew it was a mistake to get rid of the au-pair.

suedonim · 26/04/2006 14:02

Frogs, there is internet in Lagos but we don't have it at home - we haven't even got a land line phone yet! Shock The wheels have been set in motion to fix us up with some sort of rudimentary radio b-band but we're not holding our breath.

I use the internet at the British Council each week but MN won't usually download as it's so slow. Dh brings home some emails from his i/net at work. Otherwise, it is possible to live without email - I'm now hooked on the games on my mobile phone instead! Grin

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cod · 26/04/2006 16:19

agree becky bra straps re theat boy

wot a NOB he will cringe hwnehe is older

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cod · 26/04/2006 16:23

and daddycool i aaim to pelase

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ocd · 04/08/2006 11:42

oh lovely

ks · 04/08/2006 11:42

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ocd · 04/08/2006 11:42

ooh look becky you are a chief protagonist ont his thread