Mundane facts about your day...

[John Marwood]

We shit on junior doctors

From a tremendous height

 

[Gramaisc]

If you have to PAY to go to Uni and it's costing £27,000 then most people will work their socks off to get that degree.

I have to say that when I went to the Poly with students who got grants, there was much more actual work than I saw this side of 2000, when I was involved with paying students whose accommodation I administered.

 

[Noah]

... If you are being paid to go ( in the form of a grant) then one can mess around as much as one likes. You just don't get a degree. It's 3 years of messing around thanks to the tax payers.

If you have to PAY to go to Uni and it's costing £27,000 then most people will work their socks off to get that degree.

I go back to the grant days and everyone I knew was terrified of not getting a degree. In those days those days it was based on exam results and mostly you had a Part 1 at the end of the first year which you had to pass to continue your course, people worked their guts out acclimatising to university life and to prepare for that exam. At the end of the third year were the Finals, on which your degree depended entirely, you spent the whole year flogging your guts out preparing for it. Only in the second year did you have some time to relax and do some messing around. Having watched daughter & son go through university in recent years I have seen much more messing around and lack of concern about degrees amongst some of their friends than I ever did when I was at university.

There was far more emphasis then on receiving an education and learning to think rather than just learning facts. You applied to universities, were told what grades you had to get then went for interviews to see if you were suitable for a university education, going for a science degree my interview at my preferred university covered such things as the plays of Thornton Wilder, Middle-Eastern archaeology and the merits of various brands of gin, A level passes told them if you were at the right academic level, the interview if you were likely to benifit from a university education.

 

[joshua]

Last chance to see the legend: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3810792/My-touring-days-says-70s-heart-throb-David-Essex-Pop-star-announces-upcoming-21-date-run-last.html


My touring days are over says 70s heart throb David Essex: Pop star announces his upcoming 21-date run will be his last

• After more than 40 years on the road David Essex is retiring at age 69
• He announced that his upcoming 21-date tour will be his last
• Essex topped the charts with self-penned hits such as Rock On, Gonna Make You A Star and Hold Me Close

By Tammy Hughes Showbusiness Reporter For The Daily Mail

Published: 00:35, 28 September 2016 | Updated: 02:01, 28 September 2016

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  The show is over: David Essex now
  
  He has been playing to hordes of adoring female fans since finding fame in the early Seventies.
  
  Then his twinkly blue eyes, cheeky grin and tousled black hair made David Essex the perfect pop pin-up adorning thousands of teenagers' bedroom walls.
  
  But now, after more than 40 years on the road, the singer has revealed that at the age of 69 he is to retire from touring. In news that will leave his loyal fans distraught, he says his upcoming 21-date tour will be his last.
  
  Essex, who topped the charts with self-penned hits such as Rock On, Gonna Make You A Star and Hold Me Close, made the announcement yesterday at the Henley Literary Festival.
  
  Speaking at the event, which is sponsored by the Daily Mail, he said: 'This will be my last tour. I think I've done it. There's only so many times you can sing Rock On and Hold Me Close, and the reason I'm doing it is to say 'thank you' really more than personal gain.
  
  'To say thank you for people being interested in me and my music over the years. It will be fun and it will be emotional.'
  
  
  
  
  
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  Pin up: David Essex, who topped the charts with self-penned hits such as Rock On, Gonna Make You A Star and Hold Me Close, in his 1975 pop star heyday
  
  Essex was born David Cook, son of an East End docker and an Irish traveller. After an unsuccessful stint in a pop band and minor acting parts, in 1971 he landed the lead role in the London production of the musical Godspell.
  
  In 1973 he starred in the film That'll Be The Day and had his first hit with Rock On.
  
  GIPSY ROOTS OF THE POP STAR POET
  • Essex deliberately failed his 11-plus so he could go to a football-playing secondary school.
  • He became a patron of the Gipsy Council to counter prejudice against travellers, saying: 'My grandfather was a travelling tinker man from Cork.'
  • He has had 19 top 40 UK singles, including two No 1s, and 16 top 40 albums. At the height of his fame, he owned 12 houses and 100 motorbikes.
  • After appearing in Evita, he went to Argentina for Amnesty International to speak to families of those who disappeared under the military junta.
  • Last year Essex released a book of 75 poems, Travelling Tinker Man And Other Rhymes.
  Over the next two years he had two No 1 singles and appeared in a sequel film, Stardust. In 1978 he was back in a West End stage role, as Che in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's hit musical Evita.
  
  His last smash hit was A Winter's Tale, in 1982, but Essex has also appeared on TV, in the Eighties sitcom The River and in 2011 as Eddie Moon in EastEnders.
  
  A father of five, he is married to his third wife, actress Susan Hallam-Wright, who is 26 years his junior. She gave birth to their son Sonny in June 2014.
  
  Essex was at Henley to promote his first novel, Faded Glory. About a washed-up boxer, it draws on his experiences growing up in the East End. He said: 'The book is a homage to where I came from and my parents and that kind of reality and truth that coming from a working-class, lower working-class background can give you.
  
  'When I became David Essex, I still held on to the fact that what I do is not more important than what anybody else does – and there was a certain amount of luck to my life.'

 

[Carole]

I have to say that when I went to the Poly with students who got grants, there was much more actual work than I saw this side of 2000, when I was involved with paying students whose accommodation I administered.

I go back to the grant days and everyone I knew was terrified of not getting a degree. In those days those days it was based on exam results and mostly you had a Part 1 at the end of the first year which you had to pass to continue your course, people worked their guts out acclimatising to university life and to prepare for that exam. At the end of the third year were the Finals, on which your degree depended entirely, you spent the whole year flogging your guts out preparing for it. Only in the second year did you have some time to relax and do some messing around. Having watched daughter & son go through university in recent years I have seen much more messing around and lack of concern about degrees amongst some of their friends than I ever did when I was at university.

There was far more emphasis then on receiving an education and learning to think rather than just learning facts. You applied to universities, were told what grades you had to get then went for interviews to see if you were suitable for a university education, going for a science degree my interview at my preferred university covered such things as the plays of Thornton Wilder, Middle-Eastern archaeology and the merits of various brands of gin, A level passes told them if you were at the right academic level, the interview if you were likely to benifit from a university education.

I stand corrected.

 

[PeterD]

What a week. Went on holiday, Rhodes, lovely, thanks for asking. Left my dog, the epileptic one at a kennels. Pictured left. My dog that is. We were alerted to the fact he was ill, kidney failure and had to be rushed to the vets. So we cut short our holiday and rushed back. Sadly George died. Obviously very upsetting. He had such a terrible start to his life I am glad that he brightened up mine so much and hope that he felt his life was better for the latter half of his life.

 

[Lucy]

Sorry to hear

 

[littleme]

What a week. Went on holiday, Rhodes, lovely, thanks for asking. Left my dog, the epileptic one at a kennels. Pictured left. My dog that is. We were alerted to the fact he was ill, kidney failure and had to be rushed to the vets. So we cut short our holiday and rushed back. Sadly George died. Obviously very upsetting. He had such a terrible start to his life I am glad that he brightened up mine so much and hope that he felt his life was better for the latter half of his life.

So sorry to hear that @PeterD

 

[PeterD]

Obviously i am in bits over this but it may not come across on an internet forum. I love that little fella.

 

[basil]

Obviously i am in bits over this but it may not come across on an internet forum. I love that little fella.

Cool....

 

[Gramaisc]

 

[age'd parent]

 

[proactive]

What a week. Went on holiday, Rhodes, lovely, thanks for asking. Left my dog, the epileptic one at a kennels. Pictured left. My dog that is. We were alerted to the fact he was ill, kidney failure and had to be rushed to the vets. So we cut short our holiday and rushed back. Sadly George died. Obviously very upsetting. He had such a terrible start to his life I am glad that he brightened up mine so much and hope that he felt his life was better for the latter half of his life.

Very sorry to hear that

 

[Glam]

What a week. Went on holiday, Rhodes, lovely, thanks for asking. Left my dog, the epileptic one at a kennels. Pictured left. My dog that is. We were alerted to the fact he was ill, kidney failure and had to be rushed to the vets. So we cut short our holiday and rushed back. Sadly George died. Obviously very upsetting. He had such a terrible start to his life I am glad that he brightened up mine so much and hope that he felt his life was better for the latter half of his life.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss @PeterD
At least he was well loved and happy with you xx

 

[Floss]

What a week. Went on holiday, Rhodes, lovely, thanks for asking. Left my dog, the epileptic one at a kennels. Pictured left. My dog that is. We were alerted to the fact he was ill, kidney failure and had to be rushed to the vets. So we cut short our holiday and rushed back. Sadly George died. Obviously very upsetting. He had such a terrible start to his life I am glad that he brightened up mine so much and hope that he felt his life was better for the latter half of his life.

So sorry at least you can be comforted to know his quality of life was so much better for having you in it.

 

[PeterD]

Thanks all, and you are right, we take comfort that he was warm and well fed every night. Our Shihtzu is a little lost without him at the moment but she will get there.

In more mundane matters, a bloody wasp stung me yesterday and it still hurts.

 

[Floss]

Thanks all, and you are right, we take comfort that he was warm and well fed every night. Our Shihtzu is a little lost without him at the moment but she will get there.

In more mundane matters, a bloody wasp stung me yesterday and it still hurts.

They are a menace, I've been charged at twice they're in gangs, there appears to be a nest not far from my back door, the last couple of mornings they've been outside the door ready to pounce soon as I open it, they can buzz off before the jam jar comes out!

 

[tek-monkey]

Tried to eat whilst playing a computer game, misjudged, need a new keyboard.

 

[Glam]

Today I have mostly been - kicked, scratched, thumped, spat on, walloped between the legs,kicked on the side of my head, and twatted hard in my boobs.All in the space of 2 hrs and all by 1 person.
I love my job.
I'd blart my head off right now if I wasn't too tired.

 

[Withnail]

Love and s.