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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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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, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
if that's true
it's a much bigger problem than I thought.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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

(I helped save b3ta! 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

(I helped save b3ta! 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
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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)

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