The Banter Thread / Banter Topic / Sean Bean

[Spatial]

Will be cool if you're on the map now as someone pointing a camera at the screen!

Much better than those people who've been caught drug dealing or that one guy who's taking a piss at the side of the freeway.

[Kieran76]

I wasn't looking too cool at the time, I have spent the last week slobbing around the house and have rarely ventured into the real world. I expect I look rather pale and scruffy, a shadow of my usual film star good looks.

[Kieran76]

Is A-level results day really as newsworthy as the media would have us believe? I am sick and tired of the same old lame news stories and radio phone in debates that I have to endure every year.

Are they getting any easier? YAWN
Lets cut live to some student opening their results? YAWN
What happens to those people who didn't get the results they expected? YAWN

A lot of this isn't news and is at best lazy journalism and at worst further dumbing down of television journalism.

This is meant in no disrespect for those people picking up their results, I am sure you worked very hard - but what am I supposed to feel/think when I see a complete stranger open a piece of paper telling him he 2 B's and a C so he is free to study Business Studies at some poly turned university.

[prinnysquad]

Lets cut live to some student opening their results? YAWN

It's always some hoity ****bag getting 4 A*s too, making everyone else feel ****.

[bangaio]

This is meant in no disrespect for those people picking up their results, I am sure you worked very hard - but what am I supposed to feel/think when I see a complete stranger open a piece of paper telling him he 2 B's and a C so he is free to study Business Studies at some poly turned university.

Too true! waiting for this years results - easier.... nope. Some of the students more "special" than last years.... yes. High hopes for my AS computing guys though. Watch this space!

[Kieran76]

It's always some hoity ****bag getting 4 A*s too, making everyone else feel ****.

Aye, you would have to laugh if the opened their results and found out they had 2 E's and a D.

[Big Seany]

Exams are a load of old bollocks anyway. I did alright in exams but reckon I would have still got by in life if I hadn't have taken them. I was always in trouble at school, used to bunk off all the time, scraped by on the bare minimum of work - yet I bet I have more savvy and life experience than most of the other arseholes that went to my school.

[112]

I hated school.......... but needed to suffer through it to get where i am today..........

stepping stones i guess.........

Gotta admit though i can't stand the news about a-level and GCSE results................you always see some gimp on teh news screaming cos he got 10 A* and it jus makes you feel like crap cos you never had a perfect score, or if someone flunked you feel like crap cos you feel bad for him. The news jus makes yah feel like pish no matter what, so why watch it?

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[VR46]

I hated school..........

Same here, best years of your life. Bo**ocks. No way I could face going on to college and the like, was out the door at the soonest opportunity. Did quite well but like Sean virtually said, once you hit say 21 it's previous work history/experience employers are more interested in. And I'm way past 21.

[Kieran76]

I hated secondary school and did really badly. Ended up having to go back and redo a lot of stuff later in life. All turned out for the best in the end though.

[kernow]

Some of your responses surprise me, I'd have thought totally the opposite.

I was always classed as 'lethargic' and 'could do better' at school but never really a bad boy. "Are you taking any drugs" was always another one because I was so damn lazy. Still went on to college and university after though, although I did BTEC's and not A Levels, I would have flunked them hardcore.

[Big Seany]

I went to a private school (got a scholarship). Hated it. Was picked on because of my working class family (most of the kids were from rich families, from Winchester and Romsey and posho places). Used to get in a lot of fights as a result. Got suspended for knocking someone out in a lesson, threw a board rubber at a French teacher's head, had to see anger management special needs lady, did my mock GSCEs at home, was a nightmare.

I only choose to keep in touch with two people I went to school with because most of them were total posh rugger bugger knobcheeses. It was mixed girls and boys in the sixth form, but we ended up with the most uggo group of girls in the history of the school. One of them was this spotty nerd who had braided hair, looked like Predator. I did knob some lass from sixth form in the middle of a park in Saaaarfhaaampton town centre, I remember it because I messed up a really nice Lacoste shirt, she ripped it whilst I was seeing to her.

Anyway, school was crap. I have learnt far more from living, working, and going in pubs than I ever learned at that place.

[Kongster]

I thought the school kids back in my day were badly behaved, but they have got nothing on today's kids!

[funkydan]

School was terrible. The first secondary school I went to was a bad comprehensive place despite the fact that it was a catholic school. I was a relatively bright kid and put into the 1-alpha form with all the wankers - if I'd been in 1-A, I'd have been fine, but no, I was in the class with all the mean kids and they made my life hell - I hated it. So imagine my surprise and absolute joy when towards the end of the second year, my parents told me we were moving to Chicago!!!! I was over the fecking moon! So, to cut a long story short, my dad was working for Reuters at the time and they'd bought a company in Chicago and they wanted him to oversee the takeover. We were supposed to be there for 3-4 years but ended up coming back after one after things went very tits up for my dad. The company that had been bought took it all out on my dad, gave him no work and treated him like dirt so after a year we had to come back. Interestingly, I knew nothing of this until a couple of years ago! I just thought, well, I was 14-15, and didn't give it a great deal of thought. I'd done Freshman year in high school, met some cool people and had an amazing experience - but it wasn't so great for the rest of my family. I hadn't told my parents about the trouble I'd had in the catholic school but had to tell them so they didn't send me back there and I ended up going to the Grammar school that my 2 brothers had gone to previously and that was much better. Although, I wasn't particularly interested in the Academic side of things, except music class, especially after I'd picked up a bass for the first time (still play to this day) but I thought exams were pointless too. I did the bare minimum and that was reflected in my grades - 4 C's (for Eng Lit, Eng Lang, Maths and French) 3 D's and an E! I probably could have done better but I didn't care - I wanted to get out of there, play in my band and work so I could buy cool stuff!

[EDIT] I just remembered that I did get 20/20 for improvisation in my music GCSE practical though

[kernow]

haha rugger buggers, I hate that type too, what oh! old chap lets play some rugby

I only got 3 c's in my GCSE's .. awesome

I got two X's for DT too.