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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Englishtart
(Post 10505738)
That's an awful lot of imagining!!:lol:
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Have they stopped talking about bums yet?
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 10505748)
Have they stopped talking about bums yet?
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 10505751)
We're British. We never stop talking about our bums.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 10505752)
The sun never sets on the British bum.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 10505751)
We're British. We never stop talking about our bums.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 10505753)
How can the sun set on something from which it shines?
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by zargof
(Post 10505763)
Unlike certain Americans who never stop talking out of theirs.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Englishtart
(Post 10505738)
That's an awful lot of imagining!!:lol:
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Yeah, I've seen a few of those British women. They don't have dress sizes, they have area codes.
Regards, JEff
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 10505752)
The sun never sets on the British bum.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 10505785)
A friend of mine was told by the headmaster that the school didn't want him after 16, but he and his parents insisted on him staying. Two years later his A level results were a disaster .... an E, an O (his performance was sufficient to have got at least a C in an O level in the same subject), and an F (fail! :ohmy: ). Eight years later, after a circuitous route through the higher education system, he received a PhD, ..... from Cambridge! :thumbsup:
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 10505785)
A friend of mine was told by the headmaster that the school didn't want him after 16, but he and his parents insisted on him staying. Two years later his A level results were a disaster .... an E, an O (his performance was sufficient to have got at least a C in an O level in the same subject), and an F (fail! :ohmy: ). Eight years later, after a circuitous route through the higher education system, he received a PhD, ..... from Cambridge! :thumbsup:
I was the opposite, I had BBCD (I don't count the D - it was in biology :sneaky:) in my A-levels, then got to uni and threw it all away :( |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 10505785)
A friend of mine was told by the headmaster that the school didn't want him after 16, but he and his parents insisted on him staying. Two years later his A level results were a disaster .... an E, an O (his performance was sufficient to have got at least a C in an O level in the same subject), and an F (fail! :ohmy: ). Eight years later, after a circuitous route through the higher education system, he received a PhD, ..... from Cambridge! :thumbsup:
He went on to work in Dixons and then a bank so not really an analogous story. |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 10505808)
My brother stayed in the sixth form and managed to get A-Level results which were worse than those he'd already got at O-Level.
He went on to work in Dixons and then a bank so not really an analogous story. |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 10505796)
Nicely done!
I was the opposite, I had BBCD (I don't count the D - it was in biology :sneaky:) in my A-levels, then got to uni and threw it all away :( |
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