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Beebo

Guru
His Wiki page is interesting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Reeve_(British_TV_presenter)

I was expecting a bit of an upper middle class background, like Dan Snow. But he seems a bit more grounded in real life.
 

matticus

Guru
I've been to a recent talk by him. I won't bother to tell you what he's like, it's generally a waste of time with the prejudices that I see fly around here :biggrin:
 

Ian H

Squire
I've been to a recent talk by him. I won't bother to tell you what he's like, it's generally a waste of time with the prejudices that I see fly around here :biggrin:

Says the man who seems to believe in moderation in all things (except moderation).
 
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briantrumpet

Über Member
Haha, me idiot.

I was doing some stuff sorting out the various bits of my journey to France at the end of July (the journey has seven different bits to book & pay for - bus, plane, shuttle, hotel, shuttle, train, train), and discovered that somewhere along the line I'd booked two different outward Easyjet flights, one on the Sunday, one on the Monday. Absolutely no idea how I did that, but hey ho.

I was going to change the Monday one to next Easter, but as it's a £41 flight, and it would cost £49 to change the booking, I'll just not use it, which is daft. I might look at the booking a day or two before, and see if they want my seat enough to offer a free modification, but otherwise it'll just be an empty seat. Seems a bit nuts.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

Über Member
One for @First Aspect and @rickchasey to argue over...

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Pblakeney

Well-Known Member
One for @First Aspect and @rickchasey to argue over...

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Possibly a reading comprehension failing on my part but that reads as "emerging graduates are pretty thick" to me.
 

First Aspect

Senior Member
The "thinking coherently" thing is a dig for sure. People aren't stupider, they are just being assessed under different criteria. It is fair to say that the skills still being sought by employers doesn't seem to match what graduates are emerging with. At least in some sectors.

A lot of this will also be forgetting how crap we all were when we graduated all those years ago.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

Über Member
The "thinking coherently" thing is a dig for sure. People aren't stupider, they are just being assessed under different criteria. It is fair to say that the skills still being sought by employers doesn't seem to match what graduates are emerging with. At least in some sectors.

A lot of this will also be forgetting how crap we all were when we graduated all those years ago.

Maybe every course should have a 'think coherently & write well' module, given that even the barmiest science professor will need to write funding applications.
 

Psamathe

Über Member
What is the forum view on Simon Reeve?, does he pass muster as a reliable source, with the forum experts?
I used to enjoy his travel programs but then saw one program about a less mainstream country I'd visited around the same time so knew the geography and how things worked. I travelled there independently and for somewhat longer than his visit and when I travel I don't adhere to the "don't discuss politics" as you often learn a lot about a country talking their politics (though I don't express my views, just ask their's sometimes too directly).

And knowing the country I was decidedly unimpressed with his coverage how superficial his "report". Some of the stuff is presented as really dramatic but for anybody independently visiting is routine and just part of travelling.

Seeing documentaries about something you know nothing about and they can be interesting but when you watch something you know about and have experience of and are "not impressed" you then question all the reporter's output.

Same happened for one reporter on C4 News who did similar "exclusive reports" that if you know the area were hardly comparable to eg the war reporters of pre-digital ages.

Ian
 

Ian H

Squire
A left-wing Geoffrey Boycott that never was.

Hill became a leading of the Communist Party Historians Group, leaving in 1956 and the author of numbers of important works, informed by Marxism, on the English Revolutionary period from the 1640s to the 1660s. He was also Master of Balliol College Oxford
Perhaps Hill made a bigger longer term impact in this context than if he had become a left-wing version of Yorkshire batsman Geoffrey Boycott
On the improvised cricket pitch, however, he was energy itself. He confided that his youthful ambition was to play for his natal county of Yorkshire. To us kids, imbued with stalwart Yorkshirism from our mother, Christopher’s first aim in life seemed entirely laudable and natural. ‘I practised and practised’, he then explained, ‘but I wasn’t any good’.

https://kmflett.wordpress.com/2025/...opher-hill-was-to-play-cricket-for-yorkshire/
 
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