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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Now that they are charging £9K a year, I'll bet most lower their entry grades anyway as less people can afford to go.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 9:36, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 9:54, Reply)

I think a lot of the problem is down to parents expecting schools to do all the work and taking no responsibility for their kids not being thick cunts. My mum taught me to read and write before I started school, and I think that helped considerably.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 9:58, Reply)

Your mum taught me a thing or two as well.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:00, Reply)

( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:03, Reply)

"less" can replace "fewer" but "fewer" can not replace "less". It's a modern, but acceptable usage.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:00, Reply)

Fewer is discrete, less is continuous.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:01, Reply)

Kroney will start speaking in Old English soon.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:03, Reply)

If you have one person and cut their leg off, there's less person. That is how it works, no exceptions, fuck Kroney and his retard ways.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:05, Reply)

But this has been debated at great length on these pages several times.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:08, Reply)

What I'm not okay with is changing it to accommodate the stupid.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:08, Reply)

Using your example, it's something to do with a group of people being a crowd and so if you remove part of that crowd, there's less crowd left. Language drift, rather than lack of education.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:11, Reply)

Less crowd, fewer people composing said crowd. The crowd is a single thing, the people are not.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:13, Reply)

I'm just saying that the rules aren't as rigid as that anymore.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:16, Reply)

Grammar's a lost hope.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:18, Reply)

Well, not the proper Unis anyway. We've just put ours up 2 years in a row and we're still at least 4 times oversubscribed.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:21, Reply)

only a handful of unis across all interviewees: oxbridge, manchester, warwick, bristol, edinburgh, durham and london. that was it. and we had over 100 applicants per place. employers get snobby when too much choice.
( , Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:23, Reply)
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