08-14-2020, 08:14 AM
(08-14-2020, 07:27 AM)Ted Maul Wrote:(08-13-2020, 06:10 PM)Protheroe Wrote: I'm not defending anything. I think it's vaguely ridiculous that they've been able to come up with any system whatsoever. My teachers had great hopes for me, then I discovered girls and house music. If I'd have got the grades they predicted I'd have gone to University a year earlier and missed out one the best years of my life bumming round the Midlands doing mobile discos.
It's a little sad to define yourself by academic achievement so young. Yes I do feel sorry for those who haven't got what they feel they deserved, some of them haven't - some of them have. Like I say - character is born out of adversity and most of the succesful people I know have dealt with adversity well and often turned it to their advantage.
"Can all the poor people stop complaining, you're making the place look untidy"
But French quarantine and people in dinghies!