Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:36 pm
Errmm, think I'd need to practice for about a year first......hound of the baskervilles wrote:Thats the plan. Making an appearance on the Trombone, RR???
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:36 am
£8 for a drink? How big are the glasses?Great Plum wrote:No, 4 drinks in jamie's Wine Bar!Richard Ruck wrote:6 drinks in Jamie's Wine Bar......
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:29 am
I once asked for a large glass of wine in Cafe Rouge and it held 75 cl. That is a whole bottle!!!!
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:03 am
The prices have to be seen to be believed!!cj wrote:£8 for a drink? How big are the glasses?Great Plum wrote:No, 4 drinks in jamie's Wine Bar!Richard Ruck wrote:6 drinks in Jamie's Wine Bar......
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:29 pm
I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:19 am
the new fees are much better, means you can spend your loan on more important things like eating and paying rent...
although i don't actually pay fees
although i don't actually pay fees
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:26 am
I don't think the point of it is to have driving lessons though!99yorkpj wrote:I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:30 am
What IS the real point of it ? Does anyone know?Great Plum wrote:I don't think the point of it is to have driving lessons though!99yorkpj wrote:I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
(my 500 th post I see ... reminder, must get a life...))
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:33 am
YOU need to get a life?Mrs C. wrote:What IS the real point of it ? Does anyone know?Great Plum wrote:I don't think the point of it is to have driving lessons though!99yorkpj wrote:I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
(my 500 th post I see ... reminder, must get a life...))
Where does that put me...Isn't the point to buy books and things?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:32 am
NO comment, Matt !!Great Plum wrote:YOU need to get a life?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:36 am
Well you would have thought so, but as schoools provide most of the necessary books, libraries are also available, as is that recent invention , the internet!Great Plum wrote:Isn't the point to buy books and things?
And I really don`t think anyone needs £30 a week to buy stationery, as a large amount of work is done on the computer anyway!
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:56 am
Maybe it's to pay for the PC!Mrs C. wrote:Well you would have thought so, but as schoools provide most of the necessary books, libraries are also available, as is that recent invention , the internet!Great Plum wrote:Isn't the point to buy books and things?
And I really don`t think anyone needs £30 a week to buy stationery, as a large amount of work is done on the computer anyway!
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:00 am
It is to pay an allowance for things which parents can't afford.
Driving lessons, clothes, mobile phone etc. To keep the kids at school rather than going out to earn the money.
Parents who can afford such things give their children an allowance, or buy them anyway.
Driving lessons, clothes, mobile phone etc. To keep the kids at school rather than going out to earn the money.
Parents who can afford such things give their children an allowance, or buy them anyway.
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:21 am
And those in-between get nothing.englishangel wrote:It is to pay an allowance for things which parents can't afford.
Driving lessons, clothes, mobile phone etc. To keep the kids at school rather than going out to earn the money.
Parents who can afford such things give their children an allowance, or buy them anyway.
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:10 pm
It appears to me that, as a taxpayer, I am funding the existance, maintenance, staffing etc. of schools to which youths from 5 to 18 might care to go if they have nothing else to do.99yorkpj wrote:I recieve £30 a week ema, and find/found it very useful in paying for driving lessons (which I otherwise could not have/have had). And if the government are going to give it to us then why not? Just a shame we end up paying it back several times over with the new uni top-up fees.... which many of us will be paying back for most of our lives.... where's the logic in that?!
Fine, if they are not at school then I consider it only fair to assume that they are in meaningful employ and that, from their income elsewhere, they should pay for the services offered to them and not taken up. ie fine them £30 per week that they don't attend (time in hospital for injuries incurred whilst sober excluded).
Of course I can't suggest that in public because it would be read that I am trying to influence Saint Tony, alias HM Government, and any attempt to influence HM Government by any peaceful and reasonable (or violent for that matter) means whatsoever is an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000 resulting in incarceration at Saint Tony's pleasure,