You shouldn't be allowed at Glastonbury if you don't know any Beatles songs (discuss)

[Trebor]

Luckily my daughter passes that test. Phew.

[neilloggie]

I think it would be more benificial to test people on the important bands of the future, rather than the past. Get a passionate, vibrant crowd at Glastonbury rather than the dusty, miserable sods currently stuck in the past.

[Anarion]

Bands of the future? There's not exactly a wealth of great bands out there these days, that's why festivals are partly relying on reformed bands to headline. Or do you mean bands that don't even exist yet?

Edited March 11, 2013 by Anarion

[russycarps]

I bet people said the same 30-40 years ago

[Trebor]

I very much doubt it

[Guest]

Their music or songs is in quite a few films,Yellow Submarine,A Hard Days Night,Help etc,Magical Mystery Tour etc.

[LondonTom]

Bands of the future? There's not exactly a wealth of great bands out there these days, that's why festivals are partly relying on reformed bands to headline. Or do you mean bands that don't even exist yet?

[Trebor]

It's all Cowell's fault. Well, a lot of it

[Ed209]

Its not Cowell's fault. Its our (collective our) fault for buying the shite he sells us.

[Trebor]

Let's face it, the nation in general is turning into a nation of idiots.

[russycarps]

a nation of Mike99s

[eFestivals]

a nation of Mike99s

I saw some girls on TV the other day saying it was against Justin Beiber's human rights to give him any bad press.

What sort of generation are we breeding?

[Trebor]

We're doomed

[russycarps]

I saw some girls on TV the other day saying it was against Justin Beiber's human rights to give him any bad press.

What sort of generation are we breeding?

[mrtourette]

Given the number of shitstains that schools of fully trained teachers are turning out I'd say that percentage of unqualified teachers is way too low.

[russycarps]

Given the number of shitstains that schools of fully trained teachers are turning out I'd say that percentage of unqualified teachers is way too low.

[whisty]

It's ok, Michael Gove's new free schools where 10% of the teachers dont have any teaching qualifications will save the day

Edited March 11, 2013 by whisty

[Anarion]

This thread is weird. Some of you really believe teenage girls obsessed with The Beatles were any different or smarter than girls today obsessing over Justin Bieber? ^^

[Ed209]

This thread is weird. Some of you really believe teenage girls obsessed with The Beatles were any different or smarter than girls today obsessing over Justin Bieber? ^^

[russycarps]

My Sister has been teaching for 16 years and well regarded by the head teachers she has worked for. Now she's at one of these new funded schools (Think it's to Co Op or running it) all of a sudden she's being marked down so that she can be replaced by non qualified teachers at a reduced rate of pay. She's disgusted by the whole thing.

Off topic but what the hell.

[russycarps]

This thread is weird. Some of you really believe teenage girls obsessed with The Beatles were any different or smarter than girls today obsessing over Justin Bieber? ^^

[mrtourette]

That's exactly Gove's plan. He means to discredit teachers as much as possible so he can take apart the state education system and remake it in the Tory image.

The fact that people like mrtourette above has swallowed this plan so completely and actually believes that our teachers are useless, highlights the genius of michael gove. He is a very very dangerous man.

The Ofsted inspection category "Satisfactory" has now been changed to "requires improvement". This of course makes previously acceptable schools, and therefore the teachers, appear to be failing.

[Ed209]

At least the outstanding qualities of our higher education system are accessible for all ... oh, hang on

shit

[Anarion]

the weirdest thing is you comparing the beatles to justin bieber. Incredible stuff.

[russycarps]

No, I wrote about their fans.

But if you want me to compare the beatles and bieber, I can say that bieber is probably the biggest pop artist today whilst the beatles were the biggest pop group when they were active.

Meh. Early on in their careers the beatles sang "she loves you yea yea yea". Who knows how biebers music will develop during the next decade.