The indicators don't work on me because I'm Foreign

Their yellow sticker reductions are really good

Isn't there like a special quiz to work it out comprised entirely of what type of products you will or won't buy at Waitrose?

*MFL was called LOTE in Australia

Honestly, the abdication of responsibility winds me up so much! I had a horrible time doing languages at school and spent years saying "I can't learn languages" "I hate MFL*" etc and bloody look at me now

Unlike teaching staff, they're hourly paid so you can't just pile on more work without also paying them for the time it takes!

Yes definitely. But there's clearly something amiss with the workload and commensurate pay scale of exams officers if they are refusing to take on even a small extra number of private candidates

We have a few ex students every year who do their exams at school privately. But I imagine a family who left on bad terms wouldn't be welcome!

See also: Reading. This post is in a thread about sport, but it's only about sport because it's written by people who liked reading and disliked PE.

You think people who were bad at reading don't feel exactly the same?!

I just figured he was a Time Lord regenerating into a new actor for each movie franchise. Whatevs, I'll still watch and enjoy it!

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Turns out the elder millennial muscle memory for numeric keypad texting comes back quickly

Spent the whole night texting back and forth with the kid's parents and colleagues at school who were trying to sort out how to get two foot passengers across the English Channel at 2am in the morning - on a numeric key pad

There was a school trip abroad where I had to be left behind with a student to go to A&E, my personal smart phone had no roaming and no international calling on my plan and the school trip mobile they gave me to use was a brick that looked straight out of 2003 (it did have a USB charger at least)

I have a funny story about that