National Service for UK

[Kuciwalker]

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

Is that inappropriate in a thread discussing the merits of a psychometric test?

[MikeH]

answer: no, but it's only one measure.

[a.kitman]

they should allow these sorts of programs to compete whit regular business or else they end up doing useless crap. yes your going to have the teary eyed story about the local hardworking guy going out of business because of it. but if else its pointless.

[Snotty]

We already have 16-18 year old program called young enterprise, which helps groups of late teens organize small businesses. This gives the students experience of being an entrepreneur (one group had a prolific two week advertising campaign on school noticeboards asking ''how big was yours?'' Some weeks later, and after extensive discussion it turned out they were promoting an appropriately titled ''Ego'' club night)

The young enterprise experience also provides the participants with a standard business model, Which may not have been previously known. The students learn to follow an accepted formula with regards to running a successful business with differing level of responsibility and consequence. Students take the role of chairman, treasurer, etc and all that comes with it.

I sincerely hope young enterprise wasnt a tory idea, as Im biased like that

[MikeH]

It's something good, so of course a government didn't come up with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Enterprise#Early_history

[Hauldren Collider]

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.

You could have just said yes. It's shorter and makes you sound like less of a twat.

[Hauldren Collider]

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

How many more times are you going to accuse him of being an actuary before you realize that your only joke is old?

[MikeH]

I'm not sure that's actuary what he meant.

[Hauldren Collider]

that was awful.

[Snotty]

well it made me so job done i guess

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

You could have just said yes. It's shorter and makes you sound like less of a twat.

And it would have been wrong.

I realise "I don't" was stretching it out to two words, but surely if you go back and read those two words again, really carefully, you'll understand I was disagreeing, right?

The rest was just supplementary explanation. If "I don't" confused you, you'll forgive me for not attempting to explain further.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Kuci? Was he deprived of oxygen during birth?

[Al B. Sure!]

Kuci? Was he deprived of oxygen during birth?

Let's be fair, Bugs. You would've said the same about me years ago (you might today as well).

[OzzyKP]

Like Americorps?

Yea, it sounds a lot like Americorps to me, which seems to be a fairly well liked and useful program here in the US. As long as it isn't mandatory national service, it sounds like a good idea to me.

[Kuciwalker]

And it would have been wrong.

I realise "I don't" was stretching it out to two words, but surely if you go back and read those two words again, really carefully, you'll understand I was disagreeing, right?

The rest was just supplementary explanation. If "I don't" confused you, you'll forgive me for not attempting to explain further.

Sorry lil bro, but he's correct on the narrow point.