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These learned gentlemen would be contemporaries of Pink Floyd? That sort of education?
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FYI, "Learned gentlemen" are barristers or solicitors (lawyers to you USians). These are Peers of The Realm.
Lord Ashton of Hyde was born in 1958, Lord Geddes was born in 1937, and Pink Floyd was founded in 1965. This makes Pink Floyd too early for one, and too late for the other.
Until comprehensive education was largely replaced in the UK with Comprehensive education, it was possible to get an education well-grounded both in Classics and in Science. The idea of getting a comprehensive education has sadly been relegated to the dustpan of History.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The idea of getting a comprehensive education has sadly been relegated to the dustpan of History.
FTFY 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The idea of getting an comprehensive education has sadly been relegated to the dustpan of History.
FTFFY
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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My point, I believe! 
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I was referring to Pink Floyd as a child, as in the movie.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Until comprehensive education was largely replaced in the UK with Comprehensive education, ...
The italics are mine.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
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In brief, there used to be two types of secondary education in Britain. Pupils took an exam known popularly as the "eleven plus" (no prizes for the age at which it was given). Those who passed it went to an academic school, possibly on to University. Those who failed were sent to trade schools.
This separation was mostly abandoned in the 1960's, and replaced by Comprehensive schools. As everyone went to the same type of school, academic standards necessarily dropped.
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I remember taking the "eleven plus" exam in 1969. I was 10 at the time.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Slate wrote: One could possibly quibble that this doesn’t quite capture the term’s contemporary popular usage as a stand-in for software programs that issue rankings, recommendations, or decisions, as in “the YouTube algorithm.”
One could, just as one can use the word without knowing the meaning. Doesn't mean you're right.
You can quibble all you want, but it still is exactly what it was ages ago.
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Unlike our House of Commons, the House of Lords is largely composed of the sort of person to whom accuracy, preciseness and succinctness are valued attributes. One of, indeed their primary, functions is to review and critique legislation proposed by the Commons. In doing so they will frequently identify ambiguities, assumptions and non-sequiturs that the law-makers have overlooked. Like judges, I suspect they frequently ask questions to which they very well know the answer, but do so to highlight the illogicality or disconnect of a certain phrase. They may be much maligned but they serve a vital purpose.
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Very good. It's like the word "bandwidth."
It's taken on a new meaning that has nothing to do with its real engineering meaning.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Indeed, when you have a full brass section, THAT is bandwidth!
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Algorithms? Such a comparatively petty example.
The current most evil culprit is "issues" (I feel dirtied just typing in by way of example).
Every ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing thing is an issue. Weather Issues. Traffic Issues.
At first, I thought they were just trying to sound clever. I was in error.
The reality is, as smut-phone zombies, which malady has overtaken an entire generation, they simply lack the actual vocabulary necessary to describe an event so they use the catch-all and then they can all nod their somewhat empty heads in agreement.
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Yeah, like I have like so many like issues, I think maybe like I should like ... blah blah blah ad nauseam
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woteva
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I would follow that with "impact." That word has been so skewed from its original meaning as to have become nearly meaningless.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Than man (sorry, lord) said it all! 
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...it made me laugh, anyway.[^]
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You know some weird people (or cats).
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All cats are weird, it's in the design specs.
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Don't forget the local Chinese takeaway, either!
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And our cat-hating neighbour who put up barb-wire on the fence! 
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and utube, cant lick their own ass without worrying about who's filming it.
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