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 .I mean, the scores are level and they only have three second-innings wickets left, but it's something. e: haha whoops this is not the cricket thread Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Aug 12, 2014 |
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quote:Glad you all read the rest of the sentence, in which I point out that I'm not complaining about having to share healthcare with plebs but rather saying that people who can afford to pay a basic amount for healthcare (like me) don't deserve to get it for free, and there should be a second tier to relieve the strain on the lower tier for the people who actually need it. Thing is, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Just because it's introduced with the idea of making richer people pay to subsidise others, doesn't mean that having free treatment won't become a stigma, or be bled dry whenever the next bunch of Tories roll in. Maybe it works in Australia because there's less snobbery, but in the UK it would quickly become a class issue. More to the point, the middle classes already pay (or should pay) more to use the NHS: through taxes.
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I got a tuition gig on the back of an A* in GCSE English Literature that I left on my CV even though I went on to specialise in maths and science at A-Level and beyond. My careers advisor pretty much went "my son and his friend need help with their Eng Lit, what should I do, oh wait didn't Paul mention on his CV that..." Perhaps fortunately*, when they found out that maths was my real specialism, the kids asked if I could tutor them in that too since they enjoyed maths more and wanted to do the Intermediate Maths Challenge and GCSE Additional Maths. * since I understand you shouldn't really tutor a course unless you've been educated to the level above it, and I didn't take A-Level Eng Lit. And yeah, I was a rather more mixed Eng Lit tutor than I was a maths one. Still, hope I was still helpful with Eng Lit  .
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