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I don't get the distinction between "just skip through" and "just ignore" versus using the ignore function?

Same end result but one has less wasted time checking to see if you should ignore?

And what's this about Jim being gone? I thought he said he was still going to be around, just less.

yes gone, there was a influx of trolls who chased him thro cyberspace and facebook

I didnt realise that. 

Shame i didnt know as getting rid of Trolls is one of my talents.

Wasnt there some undercity in Tour Of Duty ?

It was named after Al Gore except it was outside the perimeter of MC1 IRC but as it was named after Al Gore then the fact it was buried/covered over seemed appropriate.

Now Peter, as we told you before, tasting lots of different 'cheeses' in Soho, isn't what polite gentlemen do!  

Some of it was overripe and smelly with a high fat content .

I was home by 7pm as i was K-nackered and worse than that i only drank 3 pints.It was also someones birthday party that i could have gone to afterwards had i not been knackered and generally bored shitless with parties.

[The Young Ones]

TV-wise, personally I adored The Young Ones and Bottom (which my dad recorded for us!) as a kid despite not getting a lot of the jokes - not sure how they'd play with kids today.

I was introduced to The Young Ones by my Mum who was talking it up and said that i should watch it which i did and then my Dad watched it and liked it and he still watches it as he bought the DVDs.

75 yrs old and watching The Young Ones  

I dont know how it would sit with kids these days as they wouldnt understand about Thatcher and Bombs etc as it is quite dated in that respect.I used to watch the Comic Strip as well which was a bit hit and miss.I wouldnt recommend either for under 11s as its more teenage fare especially the Comic Strip.

Storm is the name of a strip in Tornado comic which is partly drawn by Cam Kennedy just so you know.

I had a chat with Cam during a fagbreak at last years HI-EX plus a couple of questions answered at a Q+A session at the same event.I copy panels to improve my brushwork and Cam explained this is the right way to learn whereas previously i felt like i was some kind of plaigarist because all i do at present is copy panels.

I know I've just watched the first two episodes of Walking Dead back to back, AND I'm a bit sleep-deprived- but I really REALLY honestly just read that as:

This forum is a magnet for really sound people as i havent met anyone i havent killed yet.

SBT

I didnt read your comment and just read the quote and i thought that i actually typed that 

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As for walking to Victoria, we all know how you hurt poor SBT with your forced route march Peter. We took a more civilised approach and at least 1/3 of us managed to catch our train in time!



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Bunch of goddam wimps  

Actually i always walk around zone 1and i especially like the walk from Victoria to the West End and there are about 4 different routes and all are interesting in their own way.



This forum is a magnet for really sound people as i havent met anyone i havent liked yet.

No more snaps though as i dont enjoy it and i always end up looking 10 times more shit than i actually look.

Its hardly worth bothering with the tube since Victoria is only a 20 minute walk from the pub.

I was surprised how good that pub was that we ate in as it had 10 different ales and cider rather than just substandard piss like Kronenburg etc.

I hate being snapped and its easy to see why.

I could presume that taxpayer revenue is involved but your comment about the Lender of the loan wanting to not risk non-repayment of the loan doesnt quite add up because they have already given students the option of non-repayment.  

Unless of course its offset by the higher rates of interest payable by high earners but there wouldnt be enough high earners for this to happen.

It cannot be taxpayers money that is being lent out to a private business as that would be totally unnacceptable [although it has already happened] so what you are saying is that the loaning of tuition fees has been privatised ?

To be honest, I found your query quite hard to follow. As I understood things, the Student Loans Company didn't have any money of its own to lend out. I thought it was administering loans on behalf of the government, and the government had contracted out the collection of repayment to the Student Loans Company. That way the Student Loans Company loses nothing when students get their loans written off by going most of their working lives without earning more than 80% of the national average (mean) income. As far as I know, the Student Loans Company makes its money out of keeping a percentage of the interest built up on any proportion of loans that are paid off; the government gets back the rest. Therefore there's an incentive for the company to be efficient about collecting as much repayment as possible from students who are earning enough to pay or don't get their deferral forms submitted in time, and that happens a lot. Incidentally, there is now more than one company administering student loans. Thesis Servicing Limited is one.

I still think its a racket simply because what used to be govt expenditure paid for by tax revenue has now been magically transformed into a loan which means ££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££.The govt pays the universities on your behalf and collects interest.

I dont like this at all and i will not accept it.I can just about begrudgingly accept students paying tuition fees but i cant accept the interest because its unjustified.I dont pay much tax at present but in principle i resent taxes being used to generate revenue through Usury.

What i think is unless students take advantage of the non-repayment option the cycle of debt will put off a great many school leavers going into university so this in effect will result in fewer students which amounts to cutting back on universities across the board which means less expenditure.

I see it as a Trojan horse and the proof of this will be the reduced numbers of school leavers going into further education in the next 4 years.

Why go to university only to earn 21000 or less to escape the repayment of a loan ?

This is a massive dis-incentive to achieve anything at all upon graduation which makes going to university in the first place completely pointless and a waste of cash.

I wasnt betrayed by the coalition govt as i didnt vote for them and i didnt invest or place any trust in them at all and its misplaced trust on the part of the electorate which is responsible for the problems we are talking about.Another elected govt breaks just about every one its election promises.


See you in 4 years time  

That was very enjoyable.Good to meet various names.

I thought i left early but it seems like i didnt miss much.I got what i wanted from FP so mission accomplished.One high point unrelated to the rest of the day was going into the Neals Yard dairy shop where i tried about 10 different artisan cheeses.

lets do it all over again as they are all such nice boys 

That's probably because it is a spoof article.

And I am a dunce-breed.
<Shakes head despairingly.> What's that rattling sound?

I wouldnt say that as it gets more difficult to discern what is and isnt spoof/satire by the day.I dont know the website at all as i tend to click on specific mainstream media websites for spoofs and satire and that type of thing.

Where does the revenue generated by the SLC go to ?

To the Student Loans Company, I suppose. It's not their own money they're lending, is it? Considering repayment of the loans is contingent upon earnings and can be written off after a certain time, no private bank could afford the risk of non-repayment. The SLC exists just to administer the scheme for the government, and was set up in the first place because a) the Conservatives love the myth that the private sector can deliver everything better and cheaper than the public sector, and b) they like to set up public services to generate profit for the private sector wherever possible. Compare rail privatization with British Rail. What's the difference? The difference is that a large chunk of revenues, including public subsidy, goes to rail franchise shareholders rather than being spent on improving services.

Tesco are offering loans @7.9 percent or thereabouts at present.


Whos money is it that they are lending ?

Who exactly is lending students loans ?

I was and still am working under the ass-umption that its taxpayers cash that is being loaned but perhaps it is a PFI instead as you say ?

What private financiers would allow those on a low income to escape paying anything at all apart from the welfare sector of UK private limited Company ?

Where else does this happen ?

So i could presume that taxpayer revenue is involved but your comment about the Lender of the loan wanting to not risk non-repayment of the loan doesnt quite add up because they have already given students the option of non-repayment. 

Unless of course its offset by the higher rates of interest payable by high earners but there wouldnt be enough high earners for this to happen.

This is what i want to know as we have at present a private company with connections to BP lending cash to students and profiting from it.It cannot be taxpayers money that is being lent out to a private business as that would be totally unnacceptable [although it has already happened] so what you are saying is that the loaning of tuition fees has been privatised ?

Thats certainly possible but i dont recall any formal announcement of this but its what you expect in a corrupt and morally bankrupt political system and country.

There are always plenty of opportunities and cash to be made out of bankrupt countries through Private Finance Initiatives.

Why dont students study for degrees in how to be fucked over by the system ??

They are going to need it.

That's probably because it is a spoof article.

Well that explains it perfectly then.

Thanks.

It looks like a spoof article.