National Service for UK

[Kuciwalker]

So this is just government-mandated summer camp?

[Hauldren Collider]

If so, I have to agree: that's a pretty ****ing stupid idea.

[Al B. Sure!]

So this is just government-mandated summer camp?

I'm not David Cameron but that is what it sounds like...

Participants will spend a minimum of 10 days and nights away from home, and activities are expected to include an outdoor challenge, a set of structured tasks involving visiting and helping the local community and, in consultation with local communities, designing a social action task.

10 days and nights away from home, doing outdoor activities and community service work... sounds like summer camp but with less sports and crafts and more graffiti cleanup or something.

It's not pretty ****ing stupid, HC. It has an admirable goal... bringing together kids from different parts of Britain and different backgrounds... that could do more good than anything an army of kids can do community service-wise. Might not be the best idea but it's hardly ****ing stupid. Too bad something like this would never work in the US.

[Kuciwalker]

It sounds like it'd be way more efficient to just hire them to perform menial labor. Same "blah blah people from different backgrounds", you get hopefully a nonzero amount of value out of them, and you develop actually useful basic skills.

[Al B. Sure!]

It sounds like it'd be way more efficient to just hire them to perform menial labor. Same "blah blah people from different backgrounds", you get hopefully a nonzero amount of value out of them, and you develop actually useful basic skills.

Like Americorps?

[Asher]

hopefully a nonzero amount of value out of them

This phrasing makes me cringe.

[Al B. Sure!]

This phrasing makes me cringe.

You should've seen in the other thread when HC said something about intelligence and Kuci replied:

Oh, and then explain why we care about that more than "ability to generate wealth in a service economy".

[Hauldren Collider]

This phrasing makes me cringe.

A little kidney harvesting never did anyone any harm...

[Kuciwalker]

This phrasing makes me cringe.

Bad habits die hard.

[Kuciwalker]

AS, every time you try to pull this "he's so completely disconnected from reality" line it shows how little you understand the things actually being discussed.

[Al B. Sure!]

AS, every time you try to pull this "he's so completely disconnected from reality" line it shows how little you understand the things actually being discussed.

Kuci, you reduce everything to measurable values with economic implications.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Why does BFB get so upset about the fact that some people's parents have more money than his?

I don't.

It's when they breed, and spawn arrogant little piglets, with little life experience outside the gilded cage, who then presume some sense of innate superiority that bothers me. Welcome to the class system.

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't.

It's when they breed, and spawn arrogant little piglets, with little life experience outside the gilded cage, who then presume some sense of innate superiority that bothers me. Welcome to the class system.

I know the type. They're on Apolyton.

[MikeH]

I think it's pretty ridiculous to assume that the Prime Minister of the UK doesn't know anything about it, or that he hasn't at least TALKED to some people who have experienced these things firsthand

You're my favourite poster at the moment.

[Kuciwalker]

I don't.

It's when they breed, and spawn arrogant little piglets, with little life experience outside the gilded cage, who then presume some sense of innate superiority that bothers me. Welcome to the class system.

Oh, the irony.