Saintandy666

That's incredible! Well done

Well, that's good to hear. I don't know if I made the wisest choices with my universities last year. I ended up opting for UCL, Sussex, Bristol and Southampton. I think Southampton was a mistake, too many applicants and not even an interview process. And you shouldn't be so harsh on yourself, BCC in the subjects you took is quite good. And on Psychology, I have to say the A2 year does sound a nightmare!

It's basically a dissertation and a presentation. I did mine on tissue engineering for example. It's meant to be worth half an A level, but in reality it probably isn't. But you get cajoled into doing it by colleges. Unis do like it though as it shows an extra interest in a subject area and personal motivation etc I enjoyed it though.

Thanks for the kind words

Ha, that's not the plan... gonna be in education for a few more years yet! I will have to reapply to university next year though, was rejected flat out for medicine this year. I'm having a year of voluntary work and shop work in between though.

Any fellow Saintswebbers get theirs today? I got mine, A's across the board in Biology, Chemistry and Politics And an A in my EPQ. Hopefully everyone else got what they wanted and good luck to anyone getting GCSE's next week!

I do think a lot of prisoners should be put to work while in prison. Some sort of manual job, and not just a token job; something that contributes.

Ha. This is a one off!

I think I just agreed with you.

It is massive inconsistency. It would do much better for a lot of the people who are being sent to jail for months(i.e the guy who stole £3.50 worth of water jailed for 6 months) were just put on community service in the areas they destroyed. As for cutting benefits to these people, that will be a massive fail. Here's a post a wrote on it the other day. Knee Jerk reactions help nothing; especially in a situation as complex as this. The riots that engulfed the UK have been the lead topic of conversation for many around this country and even the world for a week or so now. As such I have been able to eavesdrop in or read many an opinion as to what caused the unrest and what should be done about it. The opinions have ranged: ‘What these kids need a bit of discipline. Give them a hit and reinstate National Service!’ ‘The problems clearly relate to a lack of education on the affected estates. Getting in the communities to bring them back into society post-riot is a must’ My opinion leans much more towards the latter than the former. While what happened can not be condoned, we must as a nation get the bottom of explaining why? Why did we produce so many who will quite willingly given the opportunity burn and trash their communities? For me the people that took part in the unrest have no stake in society, in fact I would say they have almost dropped out of common society in its entirety. They are brought up on estates where few positive influences exist and opportunities are often rare. As such, they inevitably fall into crime as a way of life and this has been going on for generations. I’m not going to party politicise this, it has been a failure by both Labour and Tories to get to grips with the growing underclass in the UK. However, intervention is now a must or the scenes that shocked us all in the last week will be repeated again and again. Of course the short term solutions involve sending those who are guilty of crimes to prison or community service programmes.(I favour the latter, make them rebuild what they destroyed.) They must repay their debt to society. However, in a few years when the dust has settled and those who were serving sentences are out, we must help these people re-integrate into society or once again they will end up on the streets and nothing will have been solved. And now I can come to the actual point of what I wanted to get across. Among the ‘solutions’ proposed to solve the issues that have occurred is stripping rioters of their benefits. This has been mooted at by the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, as well as other senior members of the government. In fact, as I write a petition on the governments petition website has amassed over 200,000 signatures. So why do I take issue with this proposal? Surely, opponents to me would say, these people deserve that punishment for the way in which they disregarded society. I say, of course they deserve punishment, but normal justice will do. Taking away their benefits might sound good and tough, but then what? You leave a whole bunch of people and their dependants homeless and penniless and once again on the streets. This will no doubt lead to a rise in crime and rioting will no doubt return. What is needed is a full scale review of the underlying causes of why so many people rioted and then a discussion of how to address this issues. What we do not need, is politicians clambering over themselves to sound tough. Knee-jerk reactions are never good in the long term, because they are formulated in the short term and rarely consider the far-reaching consequences.

Great goals!

Would it be easier on the server if we just had 'General Chat' and 'The Saints' as forums?

Yes!!!! :D :D

I have to concur. No way are we a world power anymore. I'd go regional power most, that region being Europe. Though we share that with France and Germany, and to be honest we could be more powerful in the region if we weren't so anti-EU all the time. World Powers I would say are: US China (Perhaps somewhere like Saudi Arabia because of the oil???) But to be honest, beyond US and China it is stretching it to see a country that can exert influence anywhere it wishes.

When is Barnard back?!

I just watched the last 10 minutes... bloody tense!

We can do better than him. Good luck to him though.

I used to use Firefox, but then it went slow and started using up ridiculously amounts of memory. Firefox is still good though. One thing is for sure though, IE is a crock of ****e.

Boooooooo! All about Chrome!

I hope he does get on for a few minutes. Will be interesting to see how he copes.

In fairness, Theo has had a lot of games.

No, the quote facility is really good. Keep it!

It's still worth the 5iver.

****. Kelvin down. No subs.

Chaplow off.