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IRiSHMaFIA Admin
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:39 am Post subject: Camilla: British students just want to get drunk |
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THE Duchess of Cornwall has taken a swipe at undergraduates, implying they are lazy and spend too much time partying.
Comparing them with ?hardworking? Pakistani students, she said: ?English students don?t spend as much time on their studies.
?They?re more interested in partying and having fun.?
Camilla?s outspoken comments provoked an angry response last night from the National Union of Students, which accused her of peddling outdated stereotypes.
NUS official Veronica King said: ?While we do not dispute that Pakistani students work incredibly hard, it is unhelpful to suggest that UK students spend all of their time drinking and partying.
?Such comments reinforce an outdated stereotype of students as serial drinkers, when in fact many of today?s students are just as likely to be working behind a bar as drinking at it.?
She added: ?Recent figures released by the NUS and TUC show that one in five students works more than 20 hours a week to fund their degree.
?That comes on top of the time they need to put in at university, which can be up to 35 hours a week for some courses.
?While a lucky few students may have time and money to spare, for many students a lifestyle of drinking and partying is neither an attractive nor a realistic option.?
The row came after the Duchess and Prince Charles were forced to rearrange their tour of Pakistan because of security fears over a planned visit to Peshawar.
Instead, they visited Fatima Jinnah Women University, in Rawalpindi, where they chatted with students.
Some of the young women seemed puzzled about Camilla. Asked if she knew who the Prince?s wife was, Zill Esuma, 21, said: ?Lady Diana, we only know about Lady Diana.?
Mobina Sohail, 20, was hoping for a different kind of VIP visitor. She said: ?We want to see Britney Spears. I would like her to come and perform at our university.
?I like her songs and I like the way she dances.?
In the student cafeteria, Camilla met 22-year-old masters student Madiha Mumtaz, who told her how she went to lectures between 8am and 8pm and then went home to do chores.
She asked what the main differences were between British and Pakistani students.
Madiha recalled: ?She said she found Pakistani students more hardworking. She said English students don?t spend as much time on their studies. They?re more interested in partying and having fun.?
Later, during a visit to a Buddhist archaeological site at Islamabad, Camilla was attacked by wasps and got disorientated in the narrow passageways.
?Am I going in the right direction?? she asked.
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This horsefaced slag needs to shut her hole. She hasn't a clue about the real world and only knows what stats tell her, which in this case are wrong.
The best part of this article was :
Some of the young women seemed puzzled about Camilla. Asked if she knew who the Prince?s wife was, Zill Esuma, 21, said: ?Lady Diana, we only know about Lady Diana.?
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Later, during a visit to a Buddhist archaeological site at Islamabad, Camilla was attacked by wasps and got disorientated in the narrow passageways.
?Am I going in the right direction?? she asked.
It was the gods way of getting back at her for being such a dickhead |
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Kezza Gone To The Dogs!
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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My fave part was the preference for Britney Spears vs. Camilla! Too funny! |
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eefanincan Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:16 am Post subject: |
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Open mouth, insert foot...... that's the future Queen of England! |
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faceless admin
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:37 am Post subject: |
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eefanincan wrote: | Open mouth, insert foot...... that's the future Queen of England! |
she must be getting lessons from Prince Philip...
* British women can't cook. (1966)
* The bastards murdered half my family. (1967)
o When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union
* What do you gargle with - pebbles? (1969)
o Said to Tom Jones after the The Royal Variety Performance
* Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. (1981)
o Said during the 1981 recession
* You are a woman, aren't you? (1984)
o Said in Kenya to a native woman who had presented him with a small gift.
* If you stay here much longer, you'll all get slitty-eyed. (1986)
o Said to British students in China
* If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. (1986)
o Said at a World Wildlife Fund meeting
* You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly. (1993)
o Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary
* Aren't most of you descended from pirates? (1994)
o Said to an islander in the Cayman Islands
* How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test? (1995)
o Said to a driving instructor in Scotland
* If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats? (1996)
o Said amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting
* You managed not to get eaten, then? (1998)
o Said to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea
the daft old bigot. |
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eefanincan Admin
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:38 am Post subject: |
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LOL ----- he's been known to put his foot in it for sure! |
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