I hate

I tried a pickled egg for the first time a while back. It just tasted of a very vinegary egg. Horrible.

It just tasted of a very vinegary egg

um. isn't that the point?

I once had an egg and bacon martini at one of the early meat liquor places. It was a normal martini with a pickled egg rolled in bacon bits. foul. I don't know what I was expecting though.

Went to visit my parents recently. I knew they read the mail and the telegraph as a "counterbalance" to the guardian (which I've never seen them read) but I was surprised that they were watching GBNews when I arrived. We had a rational conversation about how it was just British Fox News so should be ignored totally and then they told me they also watched Talk TV as they like Piers Morgan and I gave up (to be fair, when I explained why I find him so odious, they realised he should be locked in a room and ignored until the sun goes out).

This is carbon-copy of me and my in-laws. The last proper conversation I had with him ended with him shouting "I just get the feeling you don't like capitalism"

That was Christmas Day.

The success of generally quite stupid people.

"I just get the feeling you don't like capitalism"

You needed a shouting match to get to that?

That's very close to my morning mantra shouted into the mirror.

I am not at all interested in my colleague's kid's GCSE results. He has taken the whole week off because she has been so stressed about it. I feel like I sat the fucking exams, everyone in the dept has just had individual messages with her results.

I DO NOT fucking care about them.

What did she get?

I hope she did well.

Stop it

an N, an O, two Bs, an E, and an R

Jesus. Imagine what it'd be like for her kids.

These Nike Air Force 1 ugly as shit clod hoppers

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The kid's kids?

way back when, my GCSE results were:
F, U, C, C, C, C, C, E, D

U in English?

nah fam, I got maffs this afternoon.

I get your point. My daughter got her results today. Speaking to some other parents - their children have been very stressed this week. I do not think it is ok for children to be so stressed - my daughter was also stressed about the results. Too much pressure - to quote a Ska group. The parents were nowhere near as stressed as the children.

I do wonder why this is. Might be selection bias or just cultural, but having done similarly life-changing tests overseas, teens and parents in the UK stress out noticeably more.

Ha ha!

Why are they so stressed? Beyond Maths and English at good pass do the results matter for their next steps or future steps? Do FE/colleges give conditional places?

Do FE/colleges give conditional places?

Yes. One 16 year old I know has not met his offer this morning and is having to grovel or rethink.

It is because if the grades are not high enough, they have to leave the school and do A Levels elsewhere. The school also puts tremendous pressure of pupils to do well - because of school league tables.

Fully agree. They're always scabby and filthy as well.

Fucking scruffs.