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Old 15th October 2020, 09:58
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Originally Posted by Engine Serang View Post
14 years of compulsory education and this is what we're reduced to. Jennings and Derbyshire knew that when Billy Bunter over indulged. Cripes.
I think pH was an A level topic so without the compulsory bracket (anyway I am an eminent example of why an excellent education offered can easily fail to reach its intended destination). I might add that Eric Lousada would not have been impressed with your reading list. I did once report to him on some nappywrapped Five Make Dutch Ovens or some such I had chosen to read. I got my 'plus' but the look and expression of disappointment was enough for me to return to Agatha Christie, Forester and Baroness Orczy and never even look at the lower shelves ever again. A clever man, we didn't realise he was teaching us.
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