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Niamh. · 17-12-2015, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Vicky.

Lads walk into jobs/apprenticeships after school which girls find it hard to do. From my experience and people I know anyway. Males are much more likely to go into plumbing, bricklaying and the likes which do not require education as such but manual labour and learning on the job.

I fail to see the link between suicides and university attendance no matter how much I try

My son is 11 years old and already he's convinced he want to join the Police, I'm constantly saying to him, well you have to put the work in incase you change your mind and want to go to University but he's adamant that's what he wants to do. My daughter on the otherhand is 100% sure she wants to go to University, she's really into her studies, I actually have to tell her to take breaks she's that into it, she's not sure what she even wants to do career wise yet but she's sure she's going to University anyway. They've both been raised in the same house by the same parents and been encouraged in the same way

Saying that, my son is still only 11 so he might change his mind on the Police thing, I think it's because he's obsessed with guns lol eventhough the Irish Police don't even carry guns

Marsh. · 17-12-2015, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve

My son is 11 years old and already he's convinced he want to join the Police, I'm constantly saying to him, well you have to put the work in incase you change your mind and want to go to University but he's adamant that's what he wants to do. My daughter on the otherhand is 100% sure she wants to go to University, she's really into her studies, I actually have to tell her to take breaks she's that into it, she's not sure what she even wants to do career wise yet but she's sure she's going to University anyway. They've both been raised in the same house by the same parents and been encouraged in the same way

Saying that, my son is still only 11 so he might change his mind on the Police thing, I think it's because he's obsessed with guns lol eventhough the Irish Police don't even carry guns

Tell him there's a global recruitment agency that are taking people on. They carry guns. I forget the name of the organisation.

Niamh. · 17-12-2015, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Marsh.

Tell him there's a global recruitment agency that are taking people on. They carry guns. I forget the name of the organisation.

Tom4784 · 17-12-2015, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Marsh.

Tell him there's a global recruitment agency that are taking people on. They carry guns. I forget the name of the organisation.

Interpol?

Marsh. · 17-12-2015, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Dezzy

Interpol?

YES!

God knows what Niamh was thinking of.

user104658 · 17-12-2015, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Vicky.

I fail to see the link between suicides and university attendance no matter how much I try

I don't think it's that simple but I can see where the link can be made based on what I was saying above.

Underachievement / failure to reach perceived potential can be a major suicide trigger.

Marsh. · 17-12-2015, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Toy Santa

I don't think it's that simple but I can see where the link can be made based on what I was saying above.

Underachievement / failure to reach perceived potential can be a major suicide trigger.

But how does not attending uni equate to underachieving.

There are many things in life that could make someone an underachiever that have nothing to do with uni.

Uni isn't the be-all and end-all of life.

Tom4784 · 17-12-2015, 10:42 AM

You don't get as many boys going to Uni as girls because the trade industry is generally male dominated so it's a better option for a lot of boys that aren't academically minded. If you're a girl that doesn't want to go to Uni then there's not a lot of options when it comes to careers, the only trades I can think of that women are prevalent in are Health and Beauty and Hairdressing which isn't exactly enticing for a lot of girls.

I think the lack of male teachers in Primary Schools is down to the issue that a lot of male teachers don't want to work with kids and prefer to work with older students. I never had a male teacher until I was in year 6 and then my Secondary School had more male teachers than female and the same applied to the college I went to.

MB. · 17-12-2015, 10:56 AM

Tomorrow: more women have boobs than men - is mother nature conspiring against us?

Mokka · 17-12-2015, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by MaryMary'sBoyChild

Tomorrow: more women have boobs than men - is mother nature conspiring against us?

Well, you do have Simon Cowell as a counter argument... But yes, this whole world is geared against men, history be damned.

Jay. · 17-12-2015, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MaryMary'sBoyChild

Tomorrow: more women have boobs than men - is mother nature conspiring against us?

well more are men getting into drugs and committing suicide (possibly before puberty/ before they develop boobs)

Kyle · 17-12-2015, 01:12 PM

Not really bothered if more females go to uni than males. In landscape gardening it's virtually all men and that doesn't bother me either. The female apprentices they did have on needed constant help shifting tools off the van, changing heads on strimmers and handling petrol Hedgecutters.

I don't subscribe to the 'every environment has to have complete split down the middle representation' rule of thumb. if women do better than men in schololarly (if that's a word) fields then crack on I say.

Vicky. · 17-12-2015, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyle

Not really bothered if more females go to uni than males. In landscape gardening it's virtually all men and that doesn't bother me either. The female apprentices they did have on needed constant help shifting tools off the van, changing heads on strimmers and handling petrol Hedgecutters.

I don't subscribe to the 'every environment has to have complete split down the middle representation' rule of thumb. if women do better than men in schololarly (if that's a word) fields then crack on I say.

Gotta say I do agree with this. Some jobs are just better for men (generally) than women. And vice versa. And no amount of 'sexism' cries will ever change my opinion tbh.

Crimson Dynamo · 17-12-2015, 01:27 PM

As long as they dont let women become policemen or doctors then I am with Kyle. Let them do the stuff that suits them and let airplanes, combine harvesters and trains be 100% mans jobs like they are at the moment

Lets not fix what is broken

Mokka · 17-12-2015, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Joseph the Carpenter

As long as they dont let women become policemen or doctors then I am with Kyle. Let them do the stuff that suits them and let airplanes, combine harvesters and trains be 100% mans jobs like they are at the moment

Lets not fix what is broken

I've driven a Combine Harvester....

and so has my mother, and my sisters

I think we should leave the antiquing to the women though... clearly not a man's job

Ashley. · 17-12-2015, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Joseph the Carpenter

As long as they dont let women become policemen

Well that would be impossible

Kyle · 17-12-2015, 01:35 PM

Oi Leathertrumpet, that's not what I'm saying at all.

If you can do the job I don't care if you're a man, woman or an alien from planet Kirklancaster.

I'm just saying I don't really care if more women are going to uni than men if it suits em better same as more men being in trades that require a lot of grafting/heavy lifting/muscle.

JoshBB · 17-12-2015, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Joseph the Carpenter

As long as they dont let women become policemen or doctors then I am with Kyle. Let them do the stuff that suits them and let airplanes, combine harvesters and trains be 100% mans jobs like they are at the moment

Lets not fix what is broken

on a scale of one to john mccririck how uncomfortable does this picture make you feel:

(also do you know how many sexualised pictures I came across while searching 'policeman'?? same thing doesn't come up with 'policeman'.. another example of women being seen as sexual objects rather than human beings who have careers)

Ashley. · 17-12-2015, 01:31 PM

Men are more likely to take on vocational skills when they're 16 which leads them directly into employment without the needs of a degree.

Ashley. · 17-12-2015, 01:38 PM

Some of the best police officers and Doctors I know are women. You hold a very unpopular and old-fashioned view, LT. Nobody really cares about genders anymore and that's how it should always be.

Northern Monkey · 17-12-2015, 02:57 PM

Female teachers can be a distraction for boys.I remember calling the hot blonde teacher with the low cut top over constantly so i could see her tits.Boys do learn better from male teachers for this reason.

Mokka · 17-12-2015, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Female teachers can be a distraction for boys.I remember calling the hot blonde teacher with the low cut top over constantly so i could see her tits.Boys do learn better from male teachers for this reason.

Idk... I have a sneaking suspicion that a number of the guys on this forum were calling the male teach over to get a better angle view at his bulge