tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post7414471519971532940..comments2023-06-11T13:12:20.435+01:00Comments on The Anger of a Quiet Man: It will end in tearsQuiet_Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-7330482766114591482012-09-11T20:07:49.545+01:002012-09-11T20:07:49.545+01:00At a Stone Roses gig saw a bloke with a really coo...At a Stone Roses gig saw a bloke with a really cool t shirt che guevara on it the slogan "communism a billion dead and all i got was this lousy t shirt" class really made me smileAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-83270166494936165232012-09-11T07:35:13.544+01:002012-09-11T07:35:13.544+01:00When I was at Oxford in the mid-1980s, there was a...When I was at Oxford in the mid-1980s, there was a chap in my year who was in there on a special scheme organised by ILEA. <br /><br />Getting into Oxford in those days required passing entrance exams. This chap was good at physics but not at exams, and ILEA set up this scheme so people like that could get in. <br /><br />One of the most basic rules of Oxford is that you have to pass a set of internal University exams in your first year. End of first term for History, second term for many subjects, third term for the rest. If you don't pass, there are retakes about a month later. Fail those, and you leave. <br /><br />Guess what? This guy failed those exams- cos he wasn't good at exams, remember- and out he went. He went to a place where the emphasis was on coursework. <br /><br />No-one could quite work out what the point of the exercise was- it certainly wasn't good for this guy to spend a year knowing that he was going to be thrown out after failing the first-year exams.CJ Nerdnoreply@blogger.com