Re: Alice's exams

Steve Brooks wrote:

Gumrat wrote:

Steve Brooks wrote:

Kim Andrews wrote:


"Steve Brooks" wrote:


Kim Andrews wrote:


badriya wrote:



Calculus was included in the GCE syllabus I did.

Do you mean GCE O or A? It certainly wasn't in the O that I did in
the mid-70s.

Whereas it was in the O Level exam I sat in 1977. Though only at
its most basic. I think, in those days, a lot depended which exam
board's syllabus you were following.

And how far behind it you were? ;o)


I went to a grammer school which paired with the neighbouring girls
school when I was 14. Because of this we studied different syllbuses
in some subjects, including maths. I was quite surprised when I got
to university and found that matrices, which were in the SMP maths
the girls did and not in the JMB course I studied, were actually
quite important. Who would have guessed that Physicists also used
'girly' maths?

As we speak, I'm listening to a prog whose name I no not on R4, which
has been discussing militant feminism.



Heresy. Sometimes amusing IMO. But not as good as either 'Genius' or 'The SomethingOrOther Truth' IMO.


Erme, that's it - I would still describe myself as a feminist, though
I am not and never was, militant.


Quite right too. I can remember, as a kid, looking at job ads in the paper where different salaries were quoted for men and women doing the same job. I knew it was wrong as a 10 year old and I haven't seen any reason to change my mind since.


But the gals these days, they've no
idea of what feminism is, militant or not. And I think that's not
nececelery a good thing for us grils.


Maybe not.

Especially if some of the articles which appear in certain magazines are to be believed. The first half will describe how the lady in question (usually over 30) believes that her Mr Right should have (something like) Brad Pitt's looks, Will Self's mind and Bill Gates' bank balance. The second will bemoan the difficulty she's having meeting a "suitable" mate.

Could I just say that I think Will Self is a total prat(t), with no appeal whatsoever. I'm not convinced by Brad Pitt's SA, either, but I wouldn't mind Mr Gates' bank balance, tis true. On the whole, though, Dustin Hoffman's The Man For Me..

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Tout de bonbon,
Anne, Seriously, Traditionally Built Gumrat
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