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[Steve Sensible]

I learned I don't know much about the UK, by taking Channel 4's Citizenship Test.

[brucegray666]

I learned I don't know much about the UK, by taking Channel 4's Citizenship Test.

Ha! Same here. I did it last week and got something like 11 / 24.

[Steve Sensible]

I got 10. I would have got 11, but I think the bank holiday question is misleading.

[njerry]

I learned that my long-ish hair makes me look like Peter Lupus.

I love the old Mission: Impossible series.

[stephanie familiar]

I learned that my long-ish hair makes me look like Peter Lupus.

get a haircut, you hippy.





i learned that snakes look like pretzels when they mate.

[garjones]

I got 10. I would have got 11, but I think the bank holiday question is misleading.

Yeah I've done that and failed before. It's one of those things you have to swot for, I don't feel that ignorant for not knowing the exact percentage of ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland.

[David Meadows]

Ha! Same here. I did it last week and got something like 11 / 24.

12 / 24, but a lot were educated guesses. If not for the multiple choice, I would probably have got about 6.

I am completely opposed to the idea of a citizen test. The UK managed for 400 years without one and did pretty well.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Ha! Same here. I did it last week and got something like 11 / 24.

I got 12!

I'm more eligible to be a UK citizen than you and Steve. I don't know if that is a positive thing for me though.

[Steve Sensible]

I'm more eligible to be a UK citizen than you and Steve.

I'll pack my bags. Just promise me you'll water my plants.

[garjones]

12 / 24, but a lot were educated guesses. If not for the multiple choice, I would probably have got about 6.

I am completely opposed to the idea of a citizen test. The UK managed for 400 years without one and did pretty well.

I'm not completely opposed but as it stands now it seems pretty pointless. It's just regurtitating facts taken from a text book. It's like the stopping distances on driving tests, once you've passed nobody remembers them.

I think the English proficiency test is a lot more useful, although they should allow Patagonians that only speak Welsh in too, it's been a British language for longer. (I'm half joking there as I met a couple of Patagonians in 1999 that could speak Spanish and Welsh but not a word of English).

[David Meadows]

Think positive, Steve. You'll get more drugs and prostitutes and Arjan will get more queueing and bad food

(Huh? What sterotypes???)

I think the English proficiency test is a lot more useful,

That would be massively useful. Not only would would a grasp of English really help immigrants to integrate, it would save the government millions in printing multiple-langauge documents.

[Steve Sensible]

Not only would would a grasp of English really help immigrants to integrate, it would save the government millions in printing multiple-langauge documents.

It would would, wouldn't it.

[garjones]

That would be massively useful. Not only would would a grasp of English really help immigrants to integrate, it would save the government millions in printing multiple-langauge documents.

It's been in place since 2010, was signed into law at the end of Gordon Brown's tenure.

[David Meadows]

It would would, wouldn't it.

Double positive for emphasis

It's been in place since 2010, was signed into law at the end of Gordon Brown's tenure.

There's something I've learned today

[garjones]

There's something I've learned today

I knew because I've looked at the requirements if me and the wife ever moved back for her to get resident status. She'd have to sit the exam, which would just be ticking a box as she has a masters degree from an Australian university and a batchelors from a US one (where she lived for 2 years) so would be better than many locals, but I had to know it is there to be done.

The main target is men from the Indian subcontinent, primarily Pakistan and Bangladesh, that have arranged marriages and can often choose not to educate their spouses in English because it makes them more reliant on the husband and unaware of their own rights - not to tarnish all men from that area but a significant number do that.

It doesn't apply to Eastern European labourers from within the EU as it's illegal to stop them working in the UK unless they pose some security risk.

[Henry Blanco]

I love the old Mission: Impossible series.

That's a very Barney thing for you to say.

Awesome guest stars in the DVD I saw with my dad yesterday: John Vernon and Donnelly Rhodes.

get a haircut, you hippy.
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YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

And stop watching snake porn, you freak.

[steveuk]

One thing I haven't learned today is how long to soak saltfish for, before using?

From the packet to the internet the time recommended ranges from 2 hours to 3 days!!!

[stephanie familiar]

One thing I haven't learned today is how long to soak saltfish for, before using?

i learned that i never, ever want to eat something called saltfish.

[steveuk]

i learned that i never, ever want to eat something called saltfish.

Its just fish that was preserved with a lot of salt. I'd heard it smelled bad; it doesn't. I'd heard it was as hard as a plank of wood; its not.

I've also heard it tastes good so I'm testing that one out.

The last time I used saltfish it was tinned, which is cheating (and therefore good sometimes) but this time it's been soaked over night, had a change of water, and will be part of a hot breakfast shortly.

[Martin Smith]

Today I learnt that the key to enjoying chili and lime pistachios is to remember to remove the shell first.