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steve1984 17 Jan 19 10.44pm
Oxbridge here we come! School sees 41 pupils offered top university places. Good to see that London isn't all knife crime and gang violence. As I understand it one of the kids is even white! Doubtless there'll be the usual bitterness, including reference to the wickedness of positive discrimination. Good luck to these kids, they're tomorrow's elite. Can't do worse than the Old Etonians that people here seem so keen on. [Link]
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steve1984 17 Jan 19 10.44pm

Oxbridge here we come! School sees 41 pupils offered top university places.

Good to see that London isn't all knife crime and gang violence.

As I understand it one of the kids is even white!

Doubtless there'll be the usual bitterness, including reference to the wickedness of positive discrimination.

Good luck to these kids, they're tomorrow's elite. Can't do worse than the Old Etonians that people here seem so keen on.

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croydon proud Any european country i fancy! 17 Jan 19 11.02pm
Originally posted by steve1984 Oxbridge here we come! School sees 41 pupils offered top university places. Good to see that London isn't all knife crime and gang violence. As I understand it one of the kids is even white! Doubtless there'll be the usual bitterness, including reference to the wickedness of positive discrimination. Good luck to these kids, they're tomorrow's elite. Can't do worse than the Old Etonians that people here seem so keen on. [Link] This country was lost on the playing fields of Eton,,,,,good luck to the east london kids!
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Any european country i fancy! 17 Jan 19 11.02pm

Originally posted by steve1984

Oxbridge here we come! School sees 41 pupils offered top university places.

Good to see that London isn't all knife crime and gang violence.

As I understand it one of the kids is even white!

Doubtless there'll be the usual bitterness, including reference to the wickedness of positive discrimination.

Good luck to these kids, they're tomorrow's elite. Can't do worse than the Old Etonians that people here seem so keen on.

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This country was lost on the playing fields of Eton,,,,,good luck to the east london kids!

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Penge Eagle Beckenham 18 Jan 19 1.22am
Originally posted by steve1984 Oxbridge here we come! School sees 41 pupils offered top university places. Good to see that London isn't all knife crime and gang violence. As I understand it one of the kids is even white! Doubtless there'll be the usual bitterness, including reference to the wickedness of positive discrimination. Good luck to these kids, they're tomorrow's elite. Can't do worse than the Old Etonians that people here seem so keen on. [Link] Left winger alert! Refusing to have the flag of your location on your profile. Ashamed to be English due to some weird guilt you have invented?
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Beckenham 18 Jan 19 1.22am

Originally posted by steve1984

Oxbridge here we come! School sees 41 pupils offered top university places.

Good to see that London isn't all knife crime and gang violence.

As I understand it one of the kids is even white!

Doubtless there'll be the usual bitterness, including reference to the wickedness of positive discrimination.

Good luck to these kids, they're tomorrow's elite. Can't do worse than the Old Etonians that people here seem so keen on.

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Left winger alert! Refusing to have the flag of your location on your profile. Ashamed to be English due to some weird guilt you have invented?

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cryrst The garden of England 18 Jan 19 6.29am
It is positive discrimination though. Considering that the uk has about a 20% non white population what else could it be. This is 40 not 4.
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The garden of England 18 Jan 19 6.29am

It is positive discrimination though.
Considering that the uk has about a 20% non white population what else could it be.
This is 40 not 4.

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Badger11 Beckenham 18 Jan 19 8.09am
Originally posted by steve1984 Oxbridge here we come! School sees 41 pupils offered top university places. Good to see that London isn't all knife crime and gang violence. As I understand it one of the kids is even white! Doubtless there'll be the usual bitterness, including reference to the wickedness of positive discrimination. Good luck to these kids, they're tomorrow's elite. Can't do worse than the Old Etonians that people here seem so keen on. [Link] Well good luck to them but I would have liked the report to clarify how they were offered places. Back in the 1970's I applied to Cambridge University, as well as having to get good grades at A level I had to sit an entrance exam. My school had never done this and I failed it because they didn't prepare me and I wasn't bright enough. However schools that took that route spent a year preparing for the entrance exam whilst I had a couple of weeks. Anyway no excuses I wasn't good enough my point is if they passed entrance exams then it doesn't matter what colour they were or what their background they got their by merit and well done them. There were other routes into Cambridge which were not as equitable "my father knows your father" etc. I have no idea if that still goes on today. Anyway if they got their by merit I wish them luck and just wished the journalist had spelled that out. Edited by Badger11 (18 Jan 2019 8.10am) Edited by Badger11 (18 Jan 2019 8.12am) One more point
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Beckenham 18 Jan 19 8.09am

Originally posted by steve1984

Oxbridge here we come! School sees 41 pupils offered top university places.

Good to see that London isn't all knife crime and gang violence.

As I understand it one of the kids is even white!

Doubtless there'll be the usual bitterness, including reference to the wickedness of positive discrimination.

Good luck to these kids, they're tomorrow's elite. Can't do worse than the Old Etonians that people here seem so keen on.

[Link]

Well good luck to them but I would have liked the report to clarify how they were offered places.

Back in the 1970's I applied to Cambridge University, as well as having to get good grades at A level I had to sit an entrance exam. My school had never done this and I failed it because they didn't prepare me and I wasn't bright enough. However schools that took that route spent a year preparing for the entrance exam whilst I had a couple of weeks.

Anyway no excuses I wasn't good enough my point is if they passed entrance exams then it doesn't matter what colour they were or what their background they got their by merit and well done them.

There were other routes into Cambridge which were not as equitable "my father knows your father" etc. I have no idea if that still goes on today.

Anyway if they got their by merit I wish them luck and just wished the journalist had spelled that out.

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Stirlingsays 18 Jan 19 8.18am
Affirmative action is real racism. Anything that accepts a lower standard to address some kind of social justice is the beginning of the end of true meritocracy. This cancer infects the STEM field now. Far left politics is dominant in both the IT tech field and in the world of physics. It isn't about being the best.....It's about being the best from what is politically correct. The East Asians are laughing at us.....and in respect of affirmative action they are also suing....and I back them. Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Jan 2019 8.24am) 'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)
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18 Jan 19 8.18am

Affirmative action is real racism.

Anything that accepts a lower standard to address some kind of social justice is the beginning of the end of true meritocracy.

This cancer infects the STEM field now. Far left politics is dominant in both the IT tech field and in the world of physics.

It isn't about being the best.....It's about being the best from what is politically correct.

The East Asians are laughing at us.....and in respect of affirmative action they are also suing....and I back them.

Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Jan 2019 8.24am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

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PalazioVecchio south pole 18 Jan 19 10.09am
Affirmative action. Why do BBC and sky have so many female football experts talking on the prem ? Do you have blokes advising on changing nappies on the childcare programmes ? Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford
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Affirmative action.

Why do BBC and sky have so many female football experts talking on the prem ?

Do you have blokes advising on changing nappies on the childcare programmes ?

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

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Midlands Eagle 18 Jan 19 10.13am
Originally posted by PalazioVecchio Why do BBC and sky have so many female football experts talking on the prem? I thought that was fairly obvious as most footie viewers are male and it combines men's love of footie and t1ts into one programme
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18 Jan 19 10.13am

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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

Why do BBC and sky have so many female football experts talking on the prem?

I thought that was fairly obvious as most footie viewers are male and it combines men's love of footie and t1ts into one programme

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Stirlingsays 18 Jan 19 11.59am
Originally posted by Midlands Eagle I thought that was fairly obvious as most footie viewers are male and it combines men's love of footie and t1ts into one programme You know it's not being done for t1ts Eagle. If it is.....that's one fecking bad return we are getting. 'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)
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18 Jan 19 11.59am

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

I thought that was fairly obvious as most footie viewers are male and it combines men's love of footie and t1ts into one programme

You know it's not being done for t1ts Eagle.

If it is.....that's one fecking bad return we are getting.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

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silvertop Portishead 18 Jan 19 12.33pm
Originally posted by PalazioVecchio Affirmative action. Why do BBC and sky have so many female football experts talking on the prem ? Do you have blokes advising on changing nappies on the childcare programmes ? Its the law. Public Sector Equality Duty to which the Corp are expressly subject. Another hoop the Beeb have to jump through to get their Charter. Why there are endless female sports presenters, a black lesbian companion to Dr Who and incessant chip-wrap on equal pay. And why much of BBC's prime time output is now unwatchable.
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Portishead 18 Jan 19 12.33pm

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

Affirmative action.

Why do BBC and sky have so many female football experts talking on the prem ?

Do you have blokes advising on changing nappies on the childcare programmes ?

Its the law. Public Sector Equality Duty to which the Corp are expressly subject. Another hoop the Beeb have to jump through to get their Charter. Why there are endless female sports presenters, a black lesbian companion to Dr Who and incessant chip-wrap on equal pay. And why much of BBC's prime time output is now unwatchable.

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silvertop Portishead 18 Jan 19 12.35pm
Originally posted by Midlands Eagle I thought that was fairly obvious as most footie viewers are male and it combines men's love of footie and t1ts into one programme Yes, if it was presented in the way the weather used to be...
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Portishead 18 Jan 19 12.35pm

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

I thought that was fairly obvious as most footie viewers are male and it combines men's love of footie and t1ts into one programme

Yes, if it was presented in the way the weather used to be...

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