Why children should not chew pencils
- 10 January 2013 00:45209274Lead may lead to crime! Read this:
http://news.sky.com/story/1035550/violent-crime-linked-to-levels-of-lead-in-airChanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 10 January 2013 01:21209276I may pop back and read this tomorrow, but in the meantime may I reassure all doubters that there is not a trace of lead in pencils.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Jan Higgins
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10 January 2013 07:31209284I always thought it was graphite but decided to check I was right and found the following.
http://www.pencils.com/blog/lead-in-pencils/-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Roger - Keith Sansum1
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10 January 2013 09:29209303Not a good habit
but didn't we all do it?ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 10 January 2013 09:38209312No, Keith, we would get a clip round the ear if caught doing it. So I've never done it, not even when poring over the toughest crossword clue.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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10 January 2013 09:42209317sorry peter
must have just been me
i recall getting the chalk and blackboard rubber thrown a few times lolALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 10 January 2013 09:43209318I don't think the discipline did us any harm, Keith. At least it taught us some respect for authority. And the eleventh commandment.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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10 January 2013 09:52209321Peter;
I only got the cane once in all my school years, never went back there
the teachers being able to disipline helped many, but on the other side of the coin teachers abusing kids
in a physical way was a minority but was wrong so why it had to change but not to how it happens today.
peter you may/will recall the police were also respected and able to clip you round the ear for doing wrong and telling your parents then you get a second dose lol(that also went)
I suppose in my life iv survived, from a poor background(had no money) but didnt steal, break the law ect, and used to occupy ourselves, out most of the day.
I was taught right from wrong, and luckily never found myself(often) lol on the wrong side of the law
it didnt do me any harm, but today society has changed, and unless we allow teachers to teach and the police to do the job there paid to do, plus all the others like doctors etc, and not have to worry about compensation claims etc
then we are going backwards
blimey sound like a tory dont i lol
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 10 January 2013 10:35209326Why do you think respect for the law makes you sound like a Tory, Keith?I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 10 January 2013 11:06209327"• George Monbiot's first thought - "it seemed preposterous" that lead could cause the rise and fall in violence - was worth holding on to. If lead did cause violence by affecting mental capacity, we have to presume its affect is over the life course of those afflicted. In fact, few people are persistently violent. Sampling delinquents for toxicity is all very well, but the correlation with violence is not so neat. The wide variance in the homicide rates between Russia, US, and Japan in 1998 is a good example. Even the Wilkinson and Pickett inequality argument, or Levitt's legalisation of abortion, have more logic. Historically violence has always been heavily overrepresented among socially disadvantaged groups. And there was more violence in the past - a Europe-wide drop of 10:1 to 50:1 from the 15th to the 20th century. The fact this pseudo-science has not received critical comment is probably because academics who study violence have held on to the belief that it is preposterous to reduce the complexity of violence to this simplistic causal mechanism.
Dr Andrew Wilson
Senior lecturer in criminology, Nottingham Trent University"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/09/evidence-lead-poisoning-violenceIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 10 January 2013 11:11209328And nowadays you can't even think about investigating differences between ethnicities because you won't get funding for it, and the PC brigade will turn you into a pariah.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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10 January 2013 13:22209342thats the thing peter
people like baz pigeon hole me as a pc brigade
earlier postings show otherwiseALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 10 January 2013 13:26209345if corporal punishment worked why was it always the same names in the punishment book?
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10 January 2013 13:28209347Bigger question was teachers could teach
police could do there job
doctors to
now all of them are looking over there shoulder all the timeALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS