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(11-13-2020, 09:44 AM)JOK Wrote: “According to the last report from the Lecturers and Teachers Association, the average age at which children are toilet trained has increased to three-and-a-half years old. Fifty years ago the average was just 15 months.”
You mean I’ll be paying for it or for you, more like, as I didn’t avail myself of the offer.
That's the average age at which kids are toilet trained, not the incidence of kids pissing themselves at school. Let me have that number and I'll concede you may have a point.
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(11-13-2020, 09:36 AM)Protheroe Wrote: (11-12-2020, 09:33 PM)JOK Wrote: The words ‘significant’ , ‘More and more’ and ‘Marked increase’ are irrelevant then?
Without any figures to compare with the 1970s, yes.
(11-12-2020, 11:17 PM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: (11-11-2020, 01:46 PM)Protheroe Wrote: Right, so we're agreed that the state shouldn't have to teach kids how to use a knife and fork, but apparently it is the state's responsibility to feed kids during school holidays.
Am I the only one thinking those two positions are inconsistent?
You wasn't whinging about the state feeding you back in August.
Like any rational consumer I was taking full advantage of (half) a free lunch. By Christ we'll all be paying for it for the next ten years.
Rational hypocrite more like.
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(11-13-2020, 12:20 PM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: (11-13-2020, 09:36 AM)Protheroe Wrote: Like any rational consumer I was taking full advantage of (half) a free lunch. By Christ we'll all be paying for it for the next ten years.
Rational hypocrite more like.
It would be hypocritical to look a gift horse in the mouth.
My my, we are all puritanical on here today.
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(11-13-2020, 07:05 PM)Protheroe Wrote: (11-13-2020, 12:20 PM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: (11-13-2020, 09:36 AM)Protheroe Wrote: Like any rational consumer I was taking full advantage of (half) a free lunch. By Christ we'll all be paying for it for the next ten years.
Rational hypocrite more like.
It would be hypocritical to look a gift horse in the mouth.
My my, we are all puritanical on here today. Certainly hypocritical for a freeloader.
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