The Royal Family: 43%

19 Mar 2012

Makes you proud to be British, Our green and pleasant land: Countryside is voted thing that makes us most proud to be British lol

PRIDE OF BRITAIN: TOP TEN
1. The Countryside: 51 per cent
2. British sense of humour: 44
3. The Royal Family: 43
4. Armed Forces: 33
5. The BBC: 31
6. Musical legacy (like the Beatles): 29
7. Architecture: 29
8. The Pound: 28
9. Art and Culture: 28
10. British Empire: 20
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19 Mar 2012

Why dont the percentages add up to 100?

19 Mar 2012

Quote by Ben_Minx
Why dont the percentages add up to 100?

It's the Mail - what did you expect.

19 Mar 2012

Quote by northwest-cpl
It's the Mail - what did you expect.

:sleeping::sleeping:
why not make a contructive comment dunno

19 Mar 2012

Quote by northwest-cpl
Why dont the percentages add up to 100?

It's the Mail - what did you expect.
lol

:lol: :lol:

Quote by starlightcouple

It's the Mail - what did you expect.

:sleeping::sleeping:
why not make a contructive comment dunno

Why not spell 'constructive' correctly? :dunno:

19 Mar 2012

easily confused as to how these new fangled poll things work are some

:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:
the clues in top ten things that make you proud to be British blink

19 Mar 2012

Quote by starlightcouple

It's the Mail - what did you expect.

:sleeping::sleeping:
why not make a contructive comment dunno

Yes, sorry sir.
Although what you could say consructively about this I can't think. What is it percentages of? It seems a typical piece of non-news for which that paper is justifiably famous. Help me out here if you know different. :dunno:

19 Mar 2012

Quote by Freckledbird
Why not spell 'constructive' correctly?

obviously you are in the wrong profession to understand and to offer any sympathy. i thought teachers now were taught to understand? not in all cases it would seem. :doh:
would you treat a pupil in the same disrespectful manner :dunno:

19 Mar 2012

not to worry star you always get the same debate from a one trick pony
:sleeping::sleeping:

19 Mar 2012

Quote by starlightcouple

Why not spell 'constructive' correctly?

obviously you are in the wrong profession to understand and to offer any sympathy. i thought teachers now were taught to understand? not in all cases it would seem. :doh:
would you treat a pupil in the same disrespectful manner :dunno:
Oh yeah, I forgot you're 'dyslexic' rolleyes

19 Mar 2012

Quote by starlightcouple

Why not spell 'constructive' correctly?

obviously you are in the wrong profession to understand and to offer any sympathy. i thought teachers now were taught to understand? not in all cases it would seem. :doh:
would you treat a pupil in the same disrespectful manner :dunno:
I could not speak for Freckledbird, but many of the teachers in the school I went to, were very unsympathetic.

19 Mar 2012

Quote by Lizaleanrob
not to worry star you always get the same debate from a one trick pony
:sleeping::sleeping:

Yep, and always the same debate from others as a result.

19 Mar 2012

was that a nay

:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:

19 Mar 2012

Quote by Bluefish2009

Why not spell 'constructive' correctly?

obviously you are in the wrong profession to understand and to offer any sympathy. i thought teachers now were taught to understand? not in all cases it would seem. :doh:
would you treat a pupil in the same disrespectful manner :dunno:
I could not speak for Freckledbird, but many of the teachers in the school I went to, were very unsympathetic.
I don't think sympathy is required, actually. For diagnosed dyslexics, support is given. Years ago, dyslexia was not always diagnosed. And then there is the issue of people who just label themselves dyslexic, without proper diagnosis.

19 Mar 2012

I'll bugger off now and leave you to your Mail mathematics.

19 Mar 2012

Quote by Freckledbird

Why not spell 'constructive' correctly?

obviously you are in the wrong profession to understand and to offer any sympathy. i thought teachers now were taught to understand? not in all cases it would seem. :doh:
would you treat a pupil in the same disrespectful manner :dunno:
I could not speak for Freckledbird, but many of the teachers in the school I went to, were very unsympathetic.
I don't think sympathy is required, actually. For diagnosed dyslexics, support is given. Years ago, dyslexia was not always diagnosed. And then there is the issue of people who just label themselves dyslexic, without proper diagnosis.
Perhaps not, but then is rudeness about ones short comings required either?

19 Mar 2012

Quote by Freckledbird
Oh yeah, I forgot you're 'dyslexic'

i think you should be ordered to do 1000 lines.
I SHALL TRY AND NOT BE SO BLOODY RUDE IN THE FUTURE.
funny as i think 1000 lines is somehow just not enough. sympathy not part of your degree obviously. flipa

19 Mar 2012

It's a shame the musical legacy was limited by the reference to the Beatles - a modern band. What about Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Talis, JC Bach (the 'English' Bach) and so man others. I suppose these geniuses were lumped in with 'art & culture' for some reason.

19 Mar 2012

Quote by foxylady2209
It's a shame the musical legacy was limited by the reference to the Beatles - a modern band. What about Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Talis, JC Bach (the 'English' Bach) and so man others. I suppose these geniuses were lumped in with 'art & culture' for some reason.

A travesty no less, I cant stand the Beatles personally

19 Mar 2012

Why dont they add up to 100?

20 Mar 2012

Quote by Ben_Minx
Why dont they add up to 100?

Perhaps they used the incorrect terminology and printed 'percent' (per 100) when they actually meant 'percentile' (a percentage of a percentage or ranking) dunno

See link.

20 Mar 2012

Quote by Ben_Minx
Why dont the percentages add up to 100?

Depends upon the question(s) asked in the poll. If they were just asked to name one thing then the figures should add up to 100 but if they were given a list of things and asked which of those made them proud to be British, the results could be as per Blue's post.

20 Mar 2012

I guessing it means only 336 people bothered to reply !!! and resilts are as shown. Problem with most of these things is limited answers to choose from. I would go for the British manners and politeness, myself. Its just a slow news day, and so they dig up tosh like this to fill a few lines with.

20 Mar 2012

Quote by Bluefish2009

Why not spell 'constructive' correctly?

obviously you are in the wrong profession to understand and to offer any sympathy. i thought teachers now were taught to understand? not in all cases it would seem. :doh:
would you treat a pupil in the same disrespectful manner :dunno:
I could not speak for Freckledbird, but many of the teachers in the school I went to, were very unsympathetic.
I don't think sympathy is required, actually. For diagnosed dyslexics, support is given. Years ago, dyslexia was not always diagnosed. And then there is the issue of people who just label themselves dyslexic, without proper diagnosis.
Perhaps not, but then is rudeness about ones short comings required either?
its such a shame that even though the original comment was understood a comment was made by someone who is paid to help people with their spelling and grammar
its even more sad that someone who is so well educated in grammar and spelling resorts to such a poor methods of communicating with others by means of a snipe
maybe they should drop English in favour of communication skills as English and grammar seems to mean nothing when used in conjunction with poor manners :dry:

20 Mar 2012

One of the oldest forms of communication in recorded history.

No mistaking their intent. If you white man, you gonna die.

21 Mar 2012

Or there is this....

Bottom right when writing your post
Just a thought innocent

21 Mar 2012

Quote by Staggerlee_BB

Or there is this....http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/assets/spell/images/spellcheck.png
Bottom right when writing your post
Just a thought

i often do but then why should people be forced to hide the fact they cannot spell or are dyslexic its a little like asking people to photoshop thier pic because they are too fat or to thin or to short or to tall dunno

21 Mar 2012

Quote by Lizaleanrob

Or there is this....http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/assets/spell/images/spellcheck.png
Bottom right when writing your post
Just a thought

i often do but then why should people be forced to hide the fact they cannot spell or are dyslexic its a little like asking people to photoshop thier pic because they are too fat or to thin or to short or to tall dunno

I haven't suggested that anyone change or hide anything Rob,I have in the past defended those of us who are less capable with their spelling and/or grammar .... I would suggest however that,to play the wounded soldier when a simple solution is at your fingertips is tiresome to say the 's a thought .... get over it and get on with it.

21 Mar 2012

Quote by Staggerlee_BB

Or there is this....http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/assets/spell/images/spellcheck.png
Bottom right when writing your post
Just a thought

i often do but then why should people be forced to hide the fact they cannot spell or are dyslexic its a little like asking people to photoshop thier pic because they are too fat or to thin or to short or to tall dunno

I haven't suggested that anyone change or hide anything Rob,I have in the past defended those of us who are less capable with their spelling and/or grammar .... I would suggest however that,to play the wounded soldier when a simple solution is at your fingertips is tiresome to say the 's a thought .... get over it and get on with it.
its something i have got over staggs but it seems unacceptable by the same people (not you)
over and over in fact, it's about all some post! to the point that i think they should now learn not open that second bottle of wine or stay way from the computer when they do open the second one
whilst some should try a little harder agreed I'm sure it would pass onto punctuation or use of verbs and nouns ect

21 Mar 2012

I fully agree with our need to be rescued from the modern trend of grammar fascism .... however the constant repeated misspelling of certain certain words does sometimes begin to grate .... I give you our Ken and 'ammount' as the exemplar,it begins to look like stubborn bloody mindedness rather than a genuine mistake after a while