I'm hoping your joking
but I'll pretend you're being serious for a second and ask if you really think the current state of society i.e. that a large proportion of the people living in the country are unable to read and write and that many of them feel that education isn't worth having and people with an education are to be mocked, is a good one?
(Bazongaloid, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:01, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

is it a large proportion?
genuine question
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:04, Reply)

I lifted this form Wikipedia, so it may be bollocks but:
"In the UK, according to the Daily Telegraph (14 June 2006) "one in six British adults lacks the literacy skills of an 11-year-old". The UK government's Department for Education reported in 2006 that 47 percent of school children left school at age 16 without having achieved a basic level in functional mathematics, and 42 percent fail to achieve a basic level of functional English. Every year 100,000 pupils leave school functionally illiterate in the UK.

That's a worrying statistic.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:07, Reply)

if that's true
it's a much bigger problem than I thought.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:11, Reply)

Considering most young girls want to be Jordan and most boys want to be a premiership footballer.
It doesn't surprise me.
( girlinthehole, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:13, Reply)

The UK is better than the US
where something like 25% of adults are functionally illiterate.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:13, Reply)

you could've just left that with the subject line really

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:26, Reply)

but
why
limit
myself
?
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)

I meant just say the UK is better than the US

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:38, Reply)

You're right in many ways
(but we have chili-dogs, Bud-light, deep fried everything, and all of the other highlights of our far superior culture; and we spell color right).
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:42, Reply)

you spell colour wrong
you can get deep fried everything in scotland

bud light is a gay beer

the only culture you have is bacterial
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 15:47, Reply)

They invented Blues and Rock'nRoll
....so they're alright with me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Drug resistant macho killer bacteria that will kick your socialized medicine butt.


Edit: Bud light doesn't even deserve the name "beer"
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 16:06, Reply)