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The teachers pay strike across England and Wales this thursday could “damage pupils exam revision” reckons the head of the school employers organisation. I’m currently sitting here trying to work out whether they’re dumb, stupid or quite possibly both.

In all honesty, do they think a day off college/school is going to hinder your exam revision so badly that you’re going to fail everything? If your college timetable is anything like mine I’m only due to be within college grounds for 3 hours on a thursday, and 1 1/2 of those hours is a cancelled lesson considering my lecturer is too busy swanning off elsewhere. If you’re that deadly serious about your revision and passing the exams, the absense of a teacher for ONE DAY should have absolutely no effect on your revision process what so ever.

And of course, the Labour Party has sat on it’s fat arse criticising the decision to go on a strike. The Schools Minister Jim Knight stated – “We believe that all teachers should be teaching and talking – and not walking out next week,” Well it seems a little late for talking considering you gave the entire Civil Services a nice pay rise to tie in with the 3.8% Retail Prices Index inflation measure… and yet you DEDUCTED the pay for teachers… do the maths huh?

Both teachers and lecturers do some of the most stressful jobs in Britain’s society today and yet they are part of a profession where unless you’re employed privately it’s hard to earn anything over 22k a year… Politican’s, MPs, Doctors, Nurses, Binmen! even earn more money then the people who plow over 90+ hours a week into educating Britain’s next generations… 22k for 4680 hours of work a year… hardly seems fair? And they wonder why the ammount of people training to teach in England is on such a deep decline?

But the bottom line is if they don’t get this rise then the teaching standards are going to decline further, and the “Almighty” labour party will put us deeper in the shit then they have already. If I’m gonna get my QTS in a little over 4 years, I’d kinda hope I’d have more then a 22k salary waiting for me…

Edward Lorenz, the man who showed the world how the tiniest things can have devastating effects died of cancer on Wednesday at the age of 90. He gave the world so much both mathematically and theoretically and brought about one of the most dramatic changes of thinking since Sir Isaac Newton – it is sadly, a great loss.

The question “Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” has always been something I’ve pondered over for hours, but it holds quite a bit of significance since the first conversation Chombie and I ever had was about the Chaos Theory and quantum mechanics… but don’t mistake me for being clevering, I still only know the basic foundations of them XD haha.

I do hope Edward rests in peace, his work and his memory will live on in every scientist and deep-thinker, be they alive in 1000 years time or even today.

Edward Norton Lorenz
(May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008)

Gah! Ever had one of those days where you’ve got so much to say going on in your head that you can’t wait to get it all down, but by the time you’ve gotten to the keyboard it’s all just fell out of your ears? :/

I’ve been absent for some time and I should probably make excuses, but things are going much better now… so you needn’t worry lol! I seem to be the queen of bouncing back from tragic situations haha.

Guess what I found out! It’s been proven that if you believe in global warming, you are infact stupid. It’s been found that no such thing exists, everything we’re being told about Land Rovers & Plastic bags is all bollocks, apart from the fuel & oil problems… they might ring true… but the weather rubbish is all pants, the weathers gone back to how it was back in the 80s & 90s… I do wish the warm weather would hurry up though ¬¬.

The government is still managing to prove how rediculess and out of hand it’s policies has gotten… today it was reported that 16,710 of our teachers in the British education system aren’t even qualified to teach in this country!! Best of all, two thirds of them where from overseas! I honestly, hand on heart have no problem with people from overseas teaching in our schools, infact I think they have alot of offer our educational system… but when they are poorly speaking, poorly educated and just there to fill in the gaps because so many Brits have shunned the system, it’s kinda hard to let it pass on under your nose.

In a few years I’m probably gonna face this problem myself, because my QTS will actually be Dutch, not English but it’s more then easy to get it all swapped over and sorted! What I don’t understand is how 10,970 of those 16 odd thousand teachers failed to get their teacher status converted to an English one within 4 years of teaching here!! That to me screams that the government and schools aren’t keeping an eye on who’s actually teaching the kids these days… they make enough fuss over criminal background checks, but why not to check if the person is actually a state-certified teacher?!

There’s a whole lax in the system that needs to be checked out, because it’s more then easy to forge having University degrees… You can buy them over the internet for a tenner, or just blag it if your stupid enough lol. And they wonder why Britain is so “broken”.

I just can’t handle this anymore, why the fuck has it happened again?!

WordPress, why did you have to go and ruin a good thing by changing your dashboard and turning yourself from an ugly duckling to the sunny side of a Baboon’s arse? Honestly! Haha… I’m still trying to get used to the chaos that is the new dashboard, but a lovely “spam” comment arrived…

“Milly is truly a fantastic source of tangible and fascinating information. – some random blog for old people.“

I was fairly speechless to be honest! Fantastic? haha… oh if only they knew, *strokes beard* I apologize for the randomness this morning, I really do… I haven’t slept yet. Well, I say I haven’t slept yet, I got awoken by the mother of all nightmares a few hours after I put my head down… so I’ve been sat fiddling with this blog since 5am! Lmao! *Sigh* I just wish my body clock would sort itself out, because not only am I going to sleep at bizarre times, but I’m starting to eat like a house lol. On top of allllllllll that, I’m having a ‘problem’ of sorts.

Haha, I’ve decided Mother nature was ever so slightly prejudice when she decided women can have all the fun and games with ovaries and guys can just enjoy the gift of a billion little friends. Let’s face it, they have it remarkably easier :P

And, I’m growing sick of BBC news. Right now it’s droning on about China… and yet there’s been 109 Muslims who have just been spectacularly blown to bits, and there’s been 30 seconds of coverage on it in the last 2 hours! Who cares about the credit crunch and bollocks in England?! Honestly, where is the humanity and compassion in this world? Fucking disgusting world we live in.

Anyways, no more rantings, good morning world!

I’m sure most of you couch potato’s have seen the “Visit England” advertising campaigns that are currently plaguing our TV screens at the moment – I’m actually amazed there’s parts of Britain left that hasn’t been scathed by Gordon Browns filthy hands lol! I wonder if you’d ever open up a travel brochure and see the facts painted out as colourfully as this…

Located in Western Europe, The United Kingdom is home to an increasingly large number of obese and poor-health ridden citizenry who are lured by the lack of employment prospects, the relatively affordable cost of living at the taxpayer’s expense, the highest standards of teenage pregnancy in Europe and its truly unmissable happy slapping*, foul-mouthed teen culture.

On the positive side of things, Britain has absolutely nothing going for it, which is probably why 8.3% of its population is made up of ‘international*’ citizens. For one thing, the cost of living in this diabolical country couldn’t be cheaper if your name is “Kezza” or “Kade”, you drink 6 pints of cider a day, smoke like a chimney and your knuckles scrape across the floor for fear of removing your precious “bling*”. Also, the cost of dining out, public transport, clothing and entertainment will leave your bank account so full of moths that even their pockets are filled with moths themselves! All adding up to make living in Britain a whole barrel of fun!!

On the negative side of the affordability in England today, the real question is how will you afford such a lavish home if you’re all too busy spending all your hard-claimed cash down the local doghole*? But you hadn’t need worry for long, the council are always one application form away from a 6-bedroom house in some of the most deprived areas on offer, and despite the local property market being on the brink of an extremely catastrophic crash, there is always housing available to squat out in whilst it’s owners are away on their holidays.

A big plus of such luxurious living is the standard and availability of Britain’s educational and medical facilities. There are segregated schools catering for even the most stubborn of faiths, ranging from Catholic, Christian and Muslim, and even Scientology. Not only to they have the poorest leaving grades in Europe, but a majority of their female attendees tend to drop out before the age of 13 to raise a family, what prospects! On the healthcare front, Britain’s hospitals leap at the chance to greet you with MRSA and C.Diff before you even reach its doors! As well as such generosity, its doctors will diagnose you in barely 3 words of it’s native language, English, and it’s nurses will be more worried about how they’re going to afford to feed their fledging young families then your due course of treatments. Of course there is a downside as there is with everything, it’s all absolutely free!

If you’re thinking of moving to British shores, be sure you don’t mention health insurance for the entire family or benefits towards education for your children, you’ll have plenty of chances to sponge off the national state when the due time arrives! Make sure you be kind to any taxpayer’s you may greet upon arriving, they might be slightly bitter that you get better freebies from their homeland then they do!!

If you’re looking for the dullest place on earth live in, then England is most certainly perfect for you! Its cities have everything as humanly far away from the city centres as possible! If you fancy the short journey, you can visit a host of burnt out factories, graffiti-strewn bus shelters, company employees having fits of passion behind their workplaces, not-so-leisurable centres, dogging exhibitions, teenagers recording their next Youtube extraordinaire, dug up parks and closed down shopping centres. It’s merely impossible to run out of things to do in Britain! But if you really get stuck for ideas, the local prisons are said to be as good as the Hilton chain of hotels, so lap up the luxury!!

The final advantage of living in Britain is definitely its climate – it can be incredibly wet and miserable making for perfect beachside holidays and there’s always snow available for snow-man making escapades in the springtime. As one of the laziest countries attached to Europe, British citizens also tend to have an incredibly tolerant attitude towards both Politics and the issues of Global Warming, often opting to stay at home and abuse their pets and children. Britain also has an incredibly high volume of youth gangs who often dominate the local tabloids, which can become quite pride-filling after sometime. We recommend buying these papers as often as possible and decorating your newly acquired council homes with them!

If you’re still considering living in Britain, why not visit the country for a few weeks; get to know the suburbs in numerous unlawful ways, then perhaps spend some time with our local Police Forces to get a real feel for life outside of employment! You won’t forget a wasted second of your life here in Britain!

” Just coz you’re raising the bet and call the shots now -
It really doesn’t phase me how you spend your time,”

- Girls Aloud

It’s been a really difficult week, so please forgive me for not posting here. Right now I’m not feeling upto scratch… no news from the hospital, home life is pretty messy and I don’t feel like things with Chombie are going much better… just wish someone could pull all the bad stuff out of my head cause I’m really not happy deep down.

Three words sum up today, really pissed off.

and it’s staying that way.