[reece(:]

Originally Posted by CynicalHermit

Where?

Livia?

[Winkie Expand]

Daley: Could be facing whatever falls below irrelevance and needed to suck one last drop of attention from his BB tenure.

[Daffodil]

He acted aggressively and as such shouldn't go scot free... however Hazel didn't get so much as a teeny scratch. It is ironic that all this fuss is being made when out there in the big wide world, women are cowering in corners or semi conscious due to the aggressiveness of their men and the police who turn a blind eye because it's 'just a domestic'.

[sassysocks]

Originally Posted by Daffodil

He acted aggressively and as such shouldn't go scot free... however Hazel didn't get so much as a teeny scratch. It is ironic that all this fuss is being made when out there in the big wide world, women are cowering in corners or semi conscious due to the aggressiveness of their men and the police who turn a blind eye because it's 'just a domestic'.

Exactly - and I wonder how many times it has happened to a partner of Daley's behind closed doors.

Don't you see that the fact he acted like that on public TV makes you wonder what he gets up to behind closed doors. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he has previous 'just a domestic' black marks against him.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Daffodil

He acted aggressively and as such shouldn't go scot free... however Hazel didn't get so much as a teeny scratch. It is ironic that all this fuss is being made when out there in the big wide world, women are cowering in corners or semi conscious due to the aggressiveness of their men and the police who turn a blind eye because it's 'just a domestic'.

And what he did speaks directly to that culture of violence.

Domestic violence is a progressive thing. It rarely turns into a nightmare over night.

Someone mentioned the thing with the make up. That was very telling. An attempt to engage in controlling behaviour, and specifically controlling what she displayed of herself. This is one of the classic signs that women (and men, but mainly women) are warned to look out for in a new relationship. And one of the signs to look out for if you are worried about someone else in a potentially abusive relationship.

[DanaC]

Interestingly, in an article in the Metro (taken i think from the Daily Hatemail) Daley claimed that he would never be violent towards a woman because he himself had been sexually and physically abused as a youngster.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/21/big-br...nyone-3891640/

He told The Daily Star: ‘I’ve been through abuse. It was sexual stuff when I was young. And it still affects me now.

‘It’s awful that people would think I’d be violent towards someone. I would never be abusive because I know what it’s like.’

Yet the profiles of abusers commonly include personal experience of abuse as children.

Daley said the abuse, which happened while he was living in foster care, has left him with emotional scars and unable to trust women or make new friends.

So, he is unable to trust women, and has anger problems (for which he is apparently receiving counselling) borne of childhood abuse.

The pieces are all there.

[pcro]

Would be nonsense. Unless Hazel is pressing for it, which would be her right, the matter should be dropped.

[Northern Monkey]

Well....I thought we'd all be friends after BB finished,Seems not.lol

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

Well....I thought we'd all be friends after BB finished,Seems not.lol

Wait until CBB starts!

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Wait until CBB starts!

Yeah,I bet it's gonna be heated in here!

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

Yeah,I bet it's gonna be heated in here!

Especially if Chris goes in!

[DanaC]

Bet they know the rules and regulations though. And I bet their knowledge of procedure is bang up to date.

[CaudleHalbard]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Bet they know the rules and regulations though. And I bet their knowledge of procedure is bang up to date.

That's where the term 'barrack room lawyer' came from.

An army rookie who knows all the rules and regulations, but bugger all about the real world application of them!

[DanaC]

Aye, I'm familiar with the term


Since we're flinging around our credentials, I'm a military historian *grins*

[DanaC]

True dat.

[DanaC]

Dunno about that CaudleHalberd. I study and teach at a Russell Group university and the kids there are pushed hard. Nothing easy about it. And nothing whatsoever like an a-level. It;s an entirely different learning structure.




[eta] Also, since you were responding in relation to someone who's studied law at Cambridge, I;d say it's pretty irrelevant what 'some' unis are like. Oxbridge is tough. Very tough. A 2:1 from oxford or cambridge is considered the equivalent of a first from most other good universities.

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Dunno about that CaudleHalberd. I study and teach at a Russell Group university and the kids there are pushed hard. Nothing easy about it. And nothing whatsoever like an a-level. It;s an entirely different learning structure.




[eta] Also, since you were responding in relation to someone who's studied law at Cambridge, I;d say it's pretty irrelevant what 'some' unis are like. Oxbridge is tough. Very tough. A 2:1 from oxbridge is considered the equivalent of a first from most other good universities.

I think it's insulting to say that we have it easy nowadays, even at A level the standard is really high and boundaries are raising year after year.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by reece(:

I think it's insulting to say that we have it easy nowadays, even at A level the standard is really high and boundaries are raising year after year.

I agree.

To be fair to CaudleHalberd, there are some courses and some institutions that muddy the water. But they aren't representative of the entire university sector.

A-levels have changed in many ways, and you'll often find academics in higher education bemoaning the fact that they don't prepare students for degree level study. But that's not because the a-levels have become easier. It's just because the structure of them has altered to mean that the jump from gcse (o level as was) to a-level is less than it once was in terms of learning style.

The difference between o-level and a-level used to be the big leap. Then the a-levels prepared for degree level study. Now the gcse works as preparation for a-level, and the big leap is in the move to degree. None of that means that A-levels have got easier.

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by reece(:

I think it's insulting to say that we have it easy nowadays, even at A level the standard is really high and boundaries are raising year after year.

It's so frustrating

I get my GCSE results tomorrow and I worked so hard for months in advance of taking the exams, yet the reports keep flying in that everything is far too easy and the grades people achieve mean nothing. If they keep putting us down then no one will put any effort in at all.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by RichardG

It's so frustrating

I get my GCSE results tomorrow and I worked so hard for months in advance of taking the exams, yet the reports keep flying in that everything is far too easy and the grades people achieve mean nothing. If they keep putting us down then no one will put any effort in at all.

I'm only 31,But i've been hearing that for years since i left school.I would'nt worry about it.You know you worked hard for them.

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Well said Richard.

But ya know, they've been saying this stuff for years m'dear. They used to come out with these reports when i was doing my olevels/gcses waaaay back in the Jurassic period


Don't listen to it. Ignore it. It's just a news story and an excuse for us oldies to get on our collective high horse about how much better our generation was. All bollocks.

Originally Posted by CynicalHermit

Best of luck Richard. Hope you do well, mate.

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

I'm only 31,But i've been hearing that for years since i left school.I would'nt worry about it.You know you worked hard for them.

thank you

[sassysocks]

And how many of the 'celebs' will be real celebs? A real 'celeb' wouldn't be seen dead doing BB. It will be a selection of failed soap actors, aspring glamour models (always the cheap versions, not the real deal) and maybe the odd x-factor reject.

[DanaC]

Well said Richard.

But ya know, they've been saying this stuff for years m'dear. They used to come out with these reports when i was doing my olevels/gcses waaaay back in the Jurassic period


Don't listen to it. Ignore it. It's just a news story and an excuse for us oldies to get on our collective high horse about how much better our generation was. All bollocks.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Well said Richard.

But ya know, they've been saying this stuff for years m'dear. They used to come out with these reports when i was doing my olevels/gcses waaaay back in the Jurassic period

Beat me to it lol they used to say the same when I was in school going on for 20 years ago.

[Verbal]

Best of luck Richard. Hope you do well, mate.