She makes me think I could also have a career as a stand-up comedienne
CarsmileSteve likes her
This isn't a good defence, is it? Still, best I can do under the circumstances.
(I got sent to one of those summer camps for gifted children things when I was about 12. This is one of the reasons why I decided I'd rather concentrate on social skills than academia. It cocked up the balance of my life so much that I ended up spending the rest of my time at school attempting to look completely stupid, rather than be associated with the sort of people who get made to go to summer camps for gifted children)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
In the same way that you can compare US and British teeth.
ZING.
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
...albeit a shit one, obviously.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I learnt to blend social skills and academia, by ditching 'uncool' subjects like Science, and concentrating upon the 'arty' and the articulate. It helped that quite a few people on the summer camp were pretty cool on anyone's scale. Josie Long included, of course. ;-)
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
But hey, you're the one with the social *and* the academic skills.
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― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, Ailsa, didn't we promise not to have any more arguments about education? :(
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dedicated to Jaggers Who Do Drive-Bys (noodle vague), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
(I didn't promise anything. And this isn't an argument. Or about education.)
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― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
no, more... 'fast' than that. less old skool public school.rah-rah we've-got-more-cocaine-than-you exclusivism.
st john's cambridge ox equiv = st john's oxford.
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link