From: Ben Shimmin on
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net>:

[...]

> Anyway, I'm sure you remember your teacher telling you "you're only
> cheating yourself". I tried to give honest answers as I was interested
> in what the test thought those honest answers meant.

My teachers never told me I was only cheating myself, because I never
needed to cheat.

b.

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From: Woody on
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> Anyway, I'm sure you remember your teacher telling you "you're only
> cheating yourself". I tried to give honest answers as I was interested
> in what the test thought those honest answers meant.

I remember that. They were wrong.

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From: James Jolley on
On 2010-06-29 16:17:30 +0100, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> said:

> zoara <me18(a)privacy.net>:
>
> [...]
>
>> Anyway, I'm sure you remember your teacher telling you "you're only
>> cheating yourself". I tried to give honest answers as I was interested
>> in what the test thought those honest answers meant.
>
> My teachers never told me I was only cheating myself, because I never
> needed to cheat.
>
> b.

Yes, well, teachers always called me a cheat even though I didn't. Mind
you, special schools have there favourites you know, very 80s.

From: Rowland McDonnell on
TOG(a)Toil <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

> Not necessarily. They may *feel* insulted, but they may not have
> actually *been* insulted.
>
> Very simple.

....minded people might indeed think that this mis-statement of fact had
any truth to it.

Tell me, TOG, why do you waste so much of your life making posts here
with the intention of making the resident loony howl in pain?

Rowland.

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From: John DoH on
In article
<1jku3i9.r3sn9lw2gz8jN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>,
real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

> Simon Puddingham <spudd(a)booger.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > No he isn't any more reasonable in real life. An old mate of his, Sarah J.
> > Balfour, said he was a billion times worse in real life, and she was not
> > one to exaggerate.
>
> Sarah Balfour has been sectioned more times than some people have had
> hot dinners.

You had been helping her for about 10 years hadn't you?
>
> She lies about everything.

Ah, are you saying she was lying when she told us about the blow-jobs
she gave you? Or about the futon games you two got upto on the Wirral?
>
> Rowland.

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