JimW
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I thought the brief was to impart their worldly wisdom to those about to launch into it, as they aren't the ones who know the studes. Ours was something staid, can't even recall who it was but mum liked the music performances.
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Well quite. And if their worldly wisdom basically comprises some insults about a political hate figure, that’s thin gruel indeed. If I were one of those students, I’d have been well pissed off, and I agree with him.
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I've been to more graduation ceremonies than most, five for myself and two for other people, and there have been passionate speeches about the importance of higher education and the shitness of the current government policy - that seems the speech you're most likely to hear at a graduation ceremony. Never heard anything about how excellent the free market is tho.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
I knew this would be the counter argument.
Hmm. Free speech argument territory.
The uni obv thought it was a reasonable idea. The students didn't seem to mind. Granny will get over it.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Yes fair enough. I've only been to one which was my own and I didn't really listen to that. But no rousing speeches encouraging them to get out into society and work in the economy, make best use of their education to get a good job and succeed in life?
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Oh yeh get a good job and be happy. But that's the sort of fairy tale icing sprinkled on a speech about how shit the government are
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Ditto. Either of mine, nor other people's I've been to.
Whereas those who heard MT are probably gonna remember
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Don't know, neither of mine survived till I graduated
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
We had John Simpson, and it was quite spicy, but not on the Mark Thomas scale.
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
I think MT would have been expected to say what he said and the organisers would have been disappointed if he had held back. I do remember my partner's graduation had a slightly lefty person who gave an essentially pro-Corbyn speech at the time. Her Tory dad just thought it was funny.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Isn't it a bit naff to attend your graduation ceremony anyway? I didn't attend any of mine. I didn't need to dress up in a silly hat and sit through all the performance of institutional paraphernalia to know what I'd completed. And you'd be at risk of having to sit through someone as blandly boring as Mark Thomas mouthing off along entirely predictable lines.
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
I’m going to Google University of Chicago Economics graduation ceremony speeches. It’s not going to pleasant. Wish me luck (dons Hazmat suit).
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
I didn’t attend either of mine for the same reasons (except Mark Thomas who I’ve liked for decades).
Fun fact. Stewart Lee did a routine about comics stealing each other’s material (particularly one about Joe Pasquale stealing a Michael Redmond joke). On Lee’s comedy product show he did a riff about rich people writing off the value of antiques and art works against tax if the public can view them for a short period each year. A joke he stole from Mark Thomas who did a whole episode on it. I love Lee BTW (seen him live and I’ve got all his stuff) but that is taking the piss a bit.
what a fuckin big 'ed. Why can't you be content with a single degree like most people who have been through the FE grind?
Aye, i also doubt they are from the university of ard nox.
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oh and i'm an alumnus of two fe colleges.
Aye, i think thirds are awarded if you showed up occasionally and submitted something completely plagiarised.Well, 5 thirds, you have to admire his perseverance
Pieces of Paper to hang on the wall.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
The article is rather unequivocal...
He's gonna try, the bastard.
He said Mr Johnson had told him he was "enjoying following" the peer's petition, adding: "There was no ambiguity in Boris’s views. He definitely does not want to resign. He wants to carry on and he believes that, with the membership behind him, he can."
Over lunch, Lord Cruddas said: "Boris thanked me for my 'Boris on the ballot' campaign. He said he was enjoying following it and he wished me well.
"He said he could understand the membership's anger at what had happened. He said that he wished that he could carry on as Prime Minister. He said he does not want to resign."
Asked by the peer if he would "wipe away" his resignation immediately with "a magic wand", Mr Johnson reportedly replied: "I would wipe away everything that stops me being PM in a second."
He's gonna try, the bastard.
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He said Mr Johnson had told him he was "enjoying following" the peer's petition, adding: "There was no ambiguity in Boris’s views. He definitely does not want to resign. He wants to carry on and he believes that, with the membership behind him, he can."
Over lunch, Lord Cruddas said: "Boris thanked me for my 'Boris on the ballot' campaign. He said he was enjoying following it and he wished me well.
"He said he could understand the membership's anger at what had happened. He said that he wished that he could carry on as Prime Minister. He said he does not want to resign."
Asked by the peer if he would "wipe away" his resignation immediately with "a magic wand", Mr Johnson reportedly replied: "I would wipe away everything that stops me being PM in a second."
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
law, constitution, democracy...
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Might be worth spunking a tenner to join, except they've made sure I haven't got a tenner to spare and it's against the rules.
Also because fuck them.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Maybe Trump could lend him the guy with the horns to storm parliament?
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