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Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

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Georgewhitt said:
Right.
I'm from Hetton. Dad was down the pit. Mam was a cleaner. I joined the Royal Navy. Did 10 years. Came out and made a life for myself and my family.
My son and eldest daughter went to Public School on the back of the f***ing hard work me and my wife did.
He is now a Commander in the Royal Navy, having started as an ordinary rating, and my Daughter is successful in her chosen career.
The inverted f***ing snobbery around this is f***ing deplorable.
Get your head out of your arse, and stop repeating the ignorant shite you've been f***ing spoonfed, and at least make an educated assessment before you show your entrenched, 19th century, bigotted views.
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Guess who?

Are you Stanley Johnson??
Beery said:
Your kids wen to Eton?
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tiptoad said:
You haven't explained how he's benefitted from the fortune his education cost. Like I said, he sounds a bright lad who would have got where he is with a free education.
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He was exposed to a world that he would never have experienced at a state school. He mixed with people he would never have met in the state system. He has had experiences funded by the school that I could never have dreamed of as a kid.
And he had the qualifications to join the Royal Navy as an Officer candidate, but chose to join as a Rating, to experience the whole gambit, making him a more experienced officer.
 
Georgewhitt said:
He was exposed to a world that he would never have experienced at a state school. He mixed with people he would never have met in the state system. He has had experiences funded by the school that I could never have dreamed of as a kid.
And he had the qualifications to join the Royal Navy as an Officer candidate, but chose to join as a Rating, to experience the whole gambit, making him a more experienced officer.
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cool - no-ones bothered now. Can we get back to the war?
 
Georgewhitt said:
He was exposed to a world that he would never have experienced at a state school. He mixed with people he would never have met in the state system. He has had experiences funded by the school that I could never have dreamed of as a kid.
And he had the qualifications to join the Royal Navy as an Officer candidate, but chose to join as a Rating, to experience the whole gambit, making him a more experienced officer.
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Guess who?

Are you nelson?

Funded by the school ?
By you unless rn paid
 
Georgewhitt said:
Yes. They are funded by parents who send them there. They are not a drain on the exchequer, and the parents that send the kids there, still pay taxes etc, to fund the state school system. Where is the issue?
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Except the Russian oligarchs are non-U.K. resident so don’t pay any tax on their money from here.

Private schools are registered as charities so pay no tax either. Nor do they pay VAT.
 
Apparently the reason why the Russians are so keen on controlling the nuclear power plants is that they are using them as ad hoc military bases because the Ukrainians are not insane enough to attack them there.
 
Georgewhitt said:
He was exposed to a world that he would never have experienced at a state school. He mixed with people he would never have met in the state system. He has had experiences funded by the school that I could never have dreamed of as a kid.
And he had the qualifications to join the Royal Navy as an Officer candidate, but chose to join as a Rating, to experience the whole gambit, making him a more experienced officer.
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Sounds a nice,bright kid.Probably would've done just as good at a state school.
 
beverly macca said:
Link? Source?
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Can you not find it yourself?
tiptoad said:
If your son worked his way up from an ordinary rating to a Commander in the Royal Navy, it sounds like he's bright enough to have done this with a state education.

What point are you making?
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I find it hard to believe someone went from ordinary rating to commander like. I've got lots of friends in the RN so it wouldn't be hard to check out.
 
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