Erm sorry, I really screwed up there with the format. I'm still trying to get used to all the buttons.

Where are you going with this?

I haven't seen the movie, I haven't read the book!

It's just that you mentioned that you post / used to post on the grauniad talkborad, I thought you'd get the reference.

Apparently not.

Do you have something to add on the I-P question?

Now I get it...no not quo vadis

I-P ?

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You really will have to write more because I'm not a mind reader. I haven't been to the Guardian board for a few months, if it's something to do with that?

Hang on - has everyone missed the obvious builders arse jokes?

Err, no, I don't think you do.

Perhaps dbd33 wil be in a mood to explain in the morning.

Well thank f**k for that!!! You cannot possibly begin to comprehend how much I'd hate to be the sort of person who you'd regard highly, based on the grossly repellent impression that you've succeeded in making in your time on the forum thus far...

What JonboyE said ^^^

I really cannot top that sentiment, so simply:

um, but didnt you say on another thread that if people bore you etc or if "friends" are of no use you antagonise or ignore them -something along those line- I forget all of it -I got bored after your first few posts.

Kate, read the quotes above, paying attention to the highlighted areas, and then give it a rest.

As for my comment on you trying to be something you're not. By that I mean you obviously strive to be an witty intellect but on reading your posts, you're just mediocrity at it's finest, as am I. And y'know, that's ok. Be content with all you have at that given moment, financially, physically, mentally, and intellectually. Who knows, you may even enjoy it. Yes strive for more but don't let your life pass you by while you're looking for it.

Finally, it's ok to lose. It really is.

Now i do hope you stick around because you're entertaining.

Now i need to go for a fry up to sort this hangover out.


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So are you going to answer the following simple questions:

a) Are you a graduate?
b) If the answer to a) is yes, in which subject and when did you graduate?

For example, I graduated in 2000. I hold a LL.B. (Hons). How about you?

Damn. Once again a weekend of gardening and entertaining small people has kept me from an amusing thread.

Kate, do stick around - if only because it's been fun to watch you tie yourself in knots with self-contradictory arguments and lashings of psychobabble. I can't remember now if it was in this thread or one of your others that you failed to appreciate either that the title of Colin Wilson's piece of crapola was a reference to Albert Camus' novel, or that the Cure's "Killing an Arab" was a reference to the same work - and yet you try and come across as some sort of psychology geek. Not terribly impressive, but amusing nonetheless.

For myself: I have a bachelor's degree; read a number of English newspapers and the BBC online; have been a subscriber to Private Eye since my early 20s; listen to a number of Radio4 shows on the BBC iPlayer - in short, would generally consider myself moderately well educated and intelligent, by your criteria. Despite this, I am happy with my life in Canada and see no cause to pack my bags and run back to the UK.

I didn't move to Canada for financial reasons, although I would be less likely to have pursued the opportunity if it had left me significantly worse off. Like Alan, I do pretty much the same job here for the same company that I did in the UK. Impetus for the move came from the fact that both my wife and I have relatives in Canada; I had no particular ties to Britain as a place (I had no strong roots in any one location, having moved around throughout my childhood and youth), and ties to family are easily kept intact through the wonders of modern communication and occasional trips back and forth. Sure, we were able to buy a bigger property here than we had in London; but we could have achieved more or less the same by moving to Basingstoke.

Ooh, you youngster, you. I had you pegged for an early 90s graduation, at latest

On edit: or were you a mature student, doing the legal stuff post-Forces?

I'm afraid not. Quo marches on though, he's soon found under his nick du jour.

I think we may very possibly be the same person. Or long lost twins.

I graduated from a Poly (remember them?) in 1990. I will graduate all over again next year all being well from a provincial Canadian university with a Masters.