Off Topic BREXIT

If you voted leave, you are seriously taking the piss asking this now.
You clearly didn't give a **** about them before, why should you now?

 

were you born after margaret thatcher left office?

 

i voted l

i was.

 

Still can't get my head round a commie going to SA in the 60's. And for a giant company. Now settled in one of the most racist countries in the world?

Always to the far left of the political spectrum? I bet you've spent a lot of time in jail then.

 

You're conflating education with intelligence.

A common error.

 

I dont think you are understanding the process of winning scholarships and getting a degree from a top university. I think you will find both Johnson and Gove have high IQs.

 

I hope some of the young 'uns on here take a few minutes from reading their "philosophy" books to try and understand what you've stated so eloquently here. It's so true, as those with any real-life experience know well. But no doubt we'll get another load of girly squeals and quotations from no-life foreign experts. Strangely, none of them quotes the philosopher Bertrand Russell, who was also a rather good mathematician. But apparently, that doesn't seem to count. Anarchy Rules, ok?

 

Excellent post.

I was more upset by Obadiahs implied response that this result was just one big test for the youth, to see if they can fight like the old generation could.
Which would be an appalling reason to vote leave.


I hope you are right. But right now, the youth is upset. They won't see it as an opportunity gifted by the saviours that are the Brexiteers. In fairness no generation can usually see clearly in the present (apart from the war days). Hindsight usually plays a huge part when it comes to recognition of the previous generation but nevertheless, right now it feels like the older generation finally got their moment to shove it up the establishment and the younger generation will have to deal with whatever is to come all for the sake of rather petty reasoning.

Was this really the only way to go about it? this is certainly no tianamen square moment.
I can understand shaking things up but I'm incredibly upset by how little reversibility this decision has.

I've gained greatly from the EU, so I'm really not an objective representative of the remain camp but I can tell you it has really upset me. More than any remain result would have ever upset any Brexiteers or their lives.

I don't expect many to care though, this was a very selfish referendum.

 

No, you are, again. Most dumb-****s who attempt higher education drop out, before they are thrown out. That's probably just as true in 'Ull as everywhere else.

 

I understand that process very well.

Those IQ's measured no doubt by tests devised and administered by other recipients of privileged education who I am sure would (coincidentally?) themselves have scored equally highly.

 

Have you taken an IQ test?

 

Thank God there's at least two of us left, but I fear it's too late. I'm glad I had the sense, and courage, to leave the sinking ship 30 years ago. It's now sunk, with no lifeboats. Oh well.

 

Why do you ask?

Is it because if it were not up to your standard it would allow you to easily dismiss my opinion as worthless without any resort to reason?

I don't feel any need or inclination to produce any credentials to you.

 

Only about 2 hours or so in Brixton Jail in 1965 after I had met up with an old classmate from Hull who having been to university joined the prison service in London. Showed me round and the lunch there was excellent.

 

I see.

 

Oh, dear! My own IQ (by two different measures) was established in the early 1960s as WELL above average. You wouldn't believe the number if I told you, and I won't. My father was a painter and decorator. His education was denied by the advent of WWII. Fortunately, I was in the right place at the right time, and had a wonderful (free) education (in Hull) in the short-lived selective grammar-school system. (See some of my earlier posts on this topic in the last couple of days.)
You really seem to have a very large chip on your shoulder about something, but I can't quite figure out what it's about. Did you miss out on a proper education because you were born after 1952?

 

Keep your clothes on then! (Again, I think. Don't you ever learn?)

 

Very interesting response.
We were discussing IQ tests so I was wondering if you had taken a genuine IQ test to see if you knew how they were constructed.
Instead you seemed scared to answer my question and gave the impression that you had taken an IQ test and was ashamed of your score.
You shouldnt be ashamed of your score. Many people have a low IQ and go on to have a fulfilling life.

 

I was born in 1952 and I was lucky to have been educated at Hull Grammar School before comprehensive education took hold. Grammar school education allowed people from working class backgrounds to reach their potential. Now people go from school to university and still end up in dead end jobs.

 

Cannot argue with that.