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Good, bars and clubs are able to get away with far too much crap in this country.
My friend hurt his knee in a club last week, they gave him free drinks and paid for his taxi home. They had let too many people in, so clearly they were just trying to make him not complain.
Last edited by Imaginary Threats: 10-27-2012 at 05:38 AM.
I can only speak from my experience, but the level of intelligence at my school and college was shocking.
As someone already said, there's a difference between being smart and being a straight A student. A girl in one of my college classes was a straight A student in high school and didn't know what poverty meant. I also had to explain the "first past the post" voting system to this one girl at least 5 times and she still didn't understand it, and ended up getting a better grade than me
Education system doesn't reward people with actual intelligence anymore.
Common sense and general knowledge isn't the same as intelligence.
And seriously what is your issue with bashing anything UK related? If you hate it that much surely you should emigrate?
Good, bars and clubs are able to get away with far too much crap in this country.
My friend hurt his knee in a club last week, they gave him free drinks and paid for his taxi home. They had let too many people in, so clearly they were just trying to make him not complain.
If I owned a bar, I'd do the same exact thing as they did... It puts him in a good mood, hopefully, and maybe he forgets about it and makes it less likely for him to sue. Not only that, but the actual cost for most bars to purchase their liquor is absolutely pennies... so giving one dude drinks for the night at an established place isn't going to hurt them at all. Can't imagine a taxi was overly expensive either.
this has nothing to do with being a straight A student. If the bar was serving the beverage it's assumed that its safe to drink doesn't matter what the name of the drink is
Common sense and general knowledge isn't the same as intelligence.
And seriously what is your issue with bashing anything UK related? If you hate it that much surely you should emigrate?
But they are both large components that form intelligence.
I'm not bashing the UK, I'm bashing my school and college. I did say I only speak from experience. Now I'm in university my opinion has changed massively, since I am surrounded by so many people with similar intellectual capacity.
But they are both large components that form intelligence.
I'm not bashing the UK, I'm bashing my school and college. I did say I only speak from experience. Now I'm in university my opinion has changed massively, since I am surrounded by so many people with similar intellectual capacity.
Lucky you. I've went in the opposite direction.
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No doubt if I had ended up in the University of Coventry (which I almost did, thanks exams that don't reward actual intelligence anymore) I'd be in the same predicament as you
I inferred from the article that 1) the girl was drinking alcohol in a bar 2) slammed two drinks down in short order.
A question of whether this preparation is safe if executed properly remained for me, although it sounded as if they were saying it is only unsafe if poorly executed and hastily consumed. So are the tenders who prepare it and servers who serve it trained well or is it just a slipshod/slapdash "bars busy get the drinks to the drunks" kind of night?
And I saw Terminator 2 - I'll pass on the liquid nitrogen cocktail - no thank you.
Just makes me wonder if there's a *cough* chef somewhere trying to perfect a salad dressing of vinegar & boiling oil and a pinhead willing to try it.
Anyway, more problems in the world can be traced to teenagers and alcohol.
Last edited by yotesreign: 10-27-2012 at 11:07 AM.
Reason: clarity
Obviously people missed the first time I said it so I'll say it again.
It doesn't say anywhere in the article she is a straight A student.
It says she is an "A level student" - these are the name of exams you take in the UK after high school. To make it clear, you take GCSE's at the end of high school when you are 16, then you can choose to take A levels or do vocational subjects like car mechanics and stuff like that.
Obviously people missed the first time I said it so I'll say it again.
It doesn't say anywhere in the article she is a straight A student.
It says she is an "A level student" - these are the name of exams you take in the UK after high school. To make it clear, you take GCSE's at the end of high school when you are 16, then you can choose to take A levels or do vocational subjects like car mechanics and stuff like that.
I guess I should have said "A level student or no A level student" to avoid your complaint. Sorry!
I edited it. Now it just says, "Anyway, more problems in the world can be traced to teenagers and alcohol."
Who would actually expect there to be REAL liquid nitrogen in the drink from a bar? You don't order an Irish Car Bomb and expect the drink to blow up in your face.
