MartinC wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:

MartinC wrote:Haha that's shit. Here is what I got four years ago:

R.E. - A*
Music - A
History - A
Art - A
English lit. - A
English lang. - A
Maths - C
Graphics tech - C
Science - D
French - D
I.C.T. - E

Sod that!

I got straight 1s in my Standard Grades* and I missed 10 months of school before that.

* A 1 in a Standard Grade is sort of equivalent to an A in a GCSE

Stop throwing your made up Scottish results at me.

You included RE and didn't amalgamate English. And did you do mongo Science rather than specialising in Biology, Chemistry or Physics?

Dian Wei wrote:Scottish tests, that's the caber toss isn't it?

Nah, you're thinking of the jellied-eel handkerchief and hotpot tests you did but can't remember.

I have a friend (well, he's a bit of a tosser so maybe that should be 'acquiantance') who got 10 A*s, and he recently got 6 As at A level.

I can beat him at Age of Empires though so I don't care.

See all this talk about GCSEs becoming too easy and them having to bring in A*s...

It might just be but that seems a bit Spinal Tap-ish:

- We need to differentiate between those who get really good As and those who just scrape an A.
- Why don't you just make an A harder to get/worth more?

...

But these ones go to A*...

MartinC wrote:My favourite musical word from school was always 'rimshot'.

I've never even noticed that. Bloody funny. I try my hardest to do as many rimshots I can at band practice.


HA

I think I got 3 A's, 4 B's and 3 C's at GCSE, and ABB at A-Level so... I am English.

I'm that old, they never had GCSE's when i was at school!!!!!!!!

Off down t'mines at 15?

Ive heard that from my great grandad a few times. Apart from he ended up in the cotton facories.

Metal Iain wrote:Off down t'mines at 15?

no lol, but i did grow up on a farm so i did start working earlier than that. You damn young uns today you have no idea..... mumble .......lazy bastards........mutter............dont know you're born.....grumble

Let me guess: you had to walk seven mile from house t'top field in t'mornin'?

Metal Iain wrote:Let me guess: you had to walk seven mile from house t'top field in t'mornin'?

Aye, wi't mud up past me wellie tops whilst carryin 3 cows and't spare tyre f't massy ferguson.

...good times

i want a farm....

Bangover wrote:i want a farm....

Thats what I've been thinking recently for some reason.