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Modern life is Rubbish, suggested Damian Allbran of Pulp
He might have had a point. What was better about the good old days, or conversely do you believe the modern world to be the zenith of civilisation?

(, Fri 17 Jul 2015, 10:46)
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The youth we employ are as bright as they've ever been
Maybe don't hang out with thick kids?
(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 17:11, 1 reply)
Perhaps the photocopier business is not as intellectually demanding as I had thought.

(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 17:28, closed)
Seriously, Basingstoke.
We employ graduates and summer placement students and they're easily as bright as they were twenty years ago. You're hanging out with thick kids.

I assume because they're easier to get into your paedo bed.
(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 17:49, closed)
The kids haven't got thicker,
But the standards of education, and the grading of exams, have been shifted.
So, a grade A from 30 years ago is worth more than a grade A from today.

Of course, that guy from 30 years ago has probably forgotten everything by now, so he can fuck off.
(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 18:05, closed)
Really?
Because ... as I might have mentioned ... the kids we're recruiting now are at least as good as the ones we recruited 20 years ago.

It's a common claim that education has got shitter but nobody seems able to do more than repeat it as a bald assertion. Which is a pretty damning indictment of their own education.
(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 18:18, closed)
30 years ago there was no A* grade.
There currently is one.

So, assuming an approximately even level of intelligence, and that the smartest kids get the top grades, then the A from back in the day is equivalent to the A* of today. Therefore today's A isn't as good.
(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 18:30, closed)
Yeah. You're not even going to scrape a 'B' with logic like that.

(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 18:37, closed)
I like to claim that my D grade A-level, attained whilst at grammar school, must be equivalent to a B attained at a comprehensive school.
Doesn't make it true, though.
(, Fri 24 Jul 2015, 9:48, closed)
You've been in the same job for 20 years?
lol
(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 19:26, closed)
No.

(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 19:32, closed)
maybe you just have really low standards?

(, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 20:14, closed)
This isn't going to end well.

(, Fri 24 Jul 2015, 9:49, closed)
Depends on what floats your boat really

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