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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37591

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
    five live weather reporter informed yesterday AM us that the night time /early morning mist on the night of 5/6 november had been "exasperated" by the particulates from fireworks an bonfires.

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    • mangerton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 3346

      Reading about Gove's inanities reminds me....

      When did "pupils" become "students"?

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by mangerton View Post
        When did "pupils" become "students"?
        Around the same time that "Heads of Departments" became "Line Managers"? Late '80s/early '90s Birtspeak.

        (I don't mind youngsters who study being called "students" nearly as much! Why "pupils" in the first place? Because teachers have to keep their eyes on them all the time?)
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26523

          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          Around the same time that "Heads of Departments" became "Line Managers"?

          And patients became 'clients'
          And passengers 'customers'
          (Or similar)...
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Anna

            And Personnel Department became Human Resources ..... and ceased caring about humans and merely ticked boxes for a living.

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            • 3rd Viennese School

              Quote. "When did "pupils" become "students"? "

              When Schools became Colleges!

              3VS

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25193

                back the the OP


                "Sales meeting ".

                or worse
                "two day sales meeting".
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • Mary Chambers
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 1963

                  Originally posted by 3rd Viennese School View Post
                  Quote. "When did "pupils" become "students"? "

                  When Schools became Colleges!

                  3VS
                  Eton and Winchester have always been Colleges!

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                  • EdgeleyRob
                    Guest
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12180

                    We need to grab the low hanging fruit before we shake the tree.(ex boss of mine,no joke that's what he used to say).

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                    • Ferretfancy
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 3487

                      I do a voluntary job once a week at a quite well known institution, and rather enjoy teasing the Human Resources Manager by asking him " How are things in Personnel ? "

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                      • Flosshilde
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7988

                        Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                        We need to grab the low hanging fruit before we shake the tree.(ex boss of mine,no joke that's what he used to say).
                        Just the sort of thing that makes you want to grab their low-hanging fruit, isn't it.

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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25193

                          Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                          Just the sort of thing that makes you want to grab their low-hanging fruit, isn't it.
                          The ROFLcopter just took a spin round the block!
                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • mangerton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 3346

                            Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
                            Eton and Winchester have always been Colleges!
                            As is my alma mater, but we were still pupils. (From the Latin, ferneyhg)

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                            • teamsaint
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 25193

                              lots of the posh ones are schools though...westminster..charterhouse...Harrow (?)
                              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by mangerton View Post
                                (From the Latin, ferneyhg)
                                Oh! I thought that was discipuli? (As in Discipuli pictoram spectatae.)


                                ... as I have said before, I could have been a High Court Judge, but ....
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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