Sheikah

Legend.

I know that you're an arrogant person who has just got through this argument on sheer denial and ignorance. Your entire argument rested on my supposed 'ignorance', which fell flat when your own ignorance shone through by saying that I was some rich kid who doesn't share my money. But yeh, you'll probably go through life thinking that everyone owes you something because you've got such a hard life, arguing until blue if anyone dares challenge any system that may be benefiting you. What do I know though, I'm obviously a rich boy funded heavily by my parents, which logically explains why I am under employment by Tesco and didn't go to a private school, rather a government funded secondary school. Fool to me.

Why can't knuckle dusters be what they sound? You know, little feather dusters for dirty knuckles. Life would be so much more pleasant.

So where did you list it then? By the sounds of things you haven't tried to sell it at all, rather you're just saying you did now so you don't sound like a bit of a wally for spending £200 on a comprehensive book and never using it again. :p What was the name and author of the book? XD I'm 20 and in my final year of uni, do you think I am suffering right now? I am just very unimpressed by this system of favouritism and generally a waste of taxpayers money. Note generally, not entirely. Who cares what you're feeling... you can't yell ignorance when that's all you use to get by.

You carry a knife...bloody hell. I'm sure glad I live far away from some of the people on this forum. =/

Oh come on. You really think I have been saying "Oh that Lazyboy is a right #@?! I have been quite blatantly saying "EMA doesn't cover the low-middle range", "EMA is too much for most", "EMA encourages people for the wrong reasons" etc. Of course I have been saying the same points as him. I have also been questioning your use of the EMA money, because I don't think you need it. But that's just my opinion. Blind ignorance will get you nowhere in life. =/ Just fire up the website, it will explain to you your parents are still eligible. No more on this matter; if you're just going to keep denying hard facts then there's no point in discussing this. No one offered...maybe because you didn't list it on a website? It's not like normally people just say completely out of the blue "Hey do you have Roman History by Joe Bloggs 2nd Edition?" - "Why yes I do! What a coincidence!". You would get a lot more than £10 for it, people can easily find out the RRP. Obviously you wouldn't get full price but certainly a decent amount. Rokhed had no money! I'm not being funny here, but for a person to attend a 6th form, buy the occasional A4 pad, travel to and from with passes and buy some lunch (not from Marks and Spencer), it shouldn't cost £30 a week, for most people at least. It doesn't sound like it costs you £30 a week for sure. I'll repeat what you said again to reveal how much of a hypocrite you are. Ill-informed and ignorant view right back at you: Sheer ignorance. You honestly think the EMA is a great system. Well, it would be odd for you to think otherwise since you are being paid by it. I don't think we could ever expect you to see anything wrong with being paid money. Everyone likes money! Yes, some people are in difficult circumstances, yet I don't believe paying £30 to everyone under a threshold is fair, not just because of the amount but how it excludes several people who you seem to think are rich boys. The tables here turn really, and the person who thinks anyone slightly better off than themselves deserves nothing is you. Shame.

Which given that most people aren't A grade students, probably equates to the majority of people. A system that doesn't work for most people is flawed. I respect the fact that people like Haggis are in difficult circumstances, but the system overall is wrong in too many ways. I don't aim to lump people who try and people who don't together, just that the system is unfair. =O

Unfortunately EMA does lump everyone together simply by thresholds. This makes for a flawed system. Even if you need some of it, the system gives money to far more people who probably need little of it. And it doesn't give money to some people who don't also need it, but probably just as much as people who are getting it. That is why I dislike the system as a whole. You realise he has basically criticised the EMA system for the things I have been saying. That being that it does not include everyone, and assumes that a slightly better off family = child is funded in every single way. Also that it encourages people to stay on even if they had no intention beforehand. Then clearly the things you stated you need money for weren't requiring a whole £30. What? You did realise I quoted the freaking HM Revenue and Customs website? Oh OK, if you think I'm lying about your parent(s) being able to claim child benefit after you're 16 despite the site saying it, keep believing it! I'm not a rich kid though. I'm that low-middle range who doesn't get anything thus no additional motivation. =D Bull****. You just said that you'd have sold the books but it wasn't profitable. Also you never had the books beforehand and just got it for the coursework. I really think if someone came up to you and said "I'll buy that £200 book for £150 which you probably have no real use for anymore" I defy any teenager to keep onto it. I think you just hadn't the effort or care to see how to sell it online. =/ It cost nothing for me or my family for me to go to sixth form. I guess you just got unlucky. I don't need the money, bloody Rokhed didn't need the money (and had no chance to get it in 'his day'), why the hell would you need it? After shredding your statement to bits about me 'not sharing my money' - my money being non-existant and stating I work at Tesco, that is your best comeback? And still, you provide nothing to say you need £30 a week.

XD no I'm saying what a bollocks system EMA is, which quite a few people have agreed. Paying people £30 a week to go to sixth form... I'm not saying that some people don't need it, just not all of that, and some people do need it but don't get it. Haggis, I'm not saying it won't help you on your course. Just that £30 a month is too much for most people, that it does get blown on non-academic things and that families just above the threshold = children miss out.

Most people are advised to do 4 subjects, and often drop one in A2. If you're doing too much then that's out of choice (or necessity since you need that Biology). Also, you do a subject without a teacher then complain about the difficulty? Talk about biting off more than you can chew. Your circumstances are somewhat of an exception since you only found out that you needed the subject late on. A pretty rare circumstance that I don't think would apply to practically nearly all people on EMA. As a tip, when you get to University there will be much more work yet people find the time to do jobs. There's less teaching time but a hell of a lot more study time. I don't give a damn if you'd like a social life, the government shouldn't pay you to have that. Libraries are there, there's no excuse why you can't bring your own food. Even then a Gregg's pasty is under a quid...not suggesting you should eat that every day. Transport - while it may be more to some people, IMO the amount people are being paid is excess. If you want to go out and get pissed then bloody well get a job. You have to write back to them, which you musn't have done. While people not being paid £30 a week will do absolute ****, failing and dropping out at the earliest stages? Surely the greatest loss would be to keep the books thus make absolute 0 pence profit? What opportunities? When you get to University you get a loan, and family income probably puts you into a better light regarding grants etc, despite the fact that slightly better off people will still probably be paying back loans by themselves through their own money when they get a job. I shall reiterate as you seem to be quite ignorant regarding this. My parents do not earn that much money, just enough so I got no EMA money. Them being together reduced the chance of me getting any EMA. Also, my parents do not give me money (in the sense that I am funded throughout life). That is why I have a job. Therefore I have no money to share with people. Isn't using bold very fun. Either way the person assuming here is you. You think I'm some rich boy who wants to take from the poor. Bollocks to that, I work at bloody Tesco. That says enough.

Maybe because you didn't reply back to them. They should give it to you if you continue on with A levels or other kind of full-time education. Especially given your situation. What the hell is that course, how to survive in hell? Also if you study after getting home during the week (like hell most 6th form pupils do) then I really don't see how you can't work one day a week...

Well you've not shown anything that makes me think you need it. I didn't get it, I'm still alive, so I didn't need it. Neither did Rokhed by the sounds of it. Our society is too soft. You're a young person, as specified in the HM Revenue quote, therefore wrong. The money still goes to your parents. Only EMA gives the money to the young person. You could easily have photocopied/scanned necessary pages or used just that one book in probably one loan for your coursework. It's A-level coursework, not a bloody thesis! Of course you could sell it, just because it's not Harry Potter there's no reason why it wouldn't sell. If you hadn't bought it long ago it's bound to be a fairly recent edition and so I'm sure someone would buy it. Seeing as you'd be selling it cheaper than RRP I'm sure people would be more inclined to buy it.

Heh...although I couldn't even claim EMA because my parents earn enough, since I didn't get any money besides travel and food I have to agree. People don't need EMA, because people got by without it before it was introduced. I'm not saying it won't help people in more difficult circumstances. But the reality is that it's just pocket money for so many. As another note, my parents don't actually earn all the much. They don't even have to earn that much for you not to be able to get EMA. In fact, since they are together that actually makes things worse.

Brass knuckles...are you insane? They'd pull a knife out quicker than you can say Flash Gordon and you'd be pretty *******.

Oh, get over yourself. Anyone needs £30. I could well have done with that money during my school years, the fact is that such an amount (or less) each week seems more than necessary. The fact is, people do end up spending it on stuff they want. I know my girlfriend used it to buy games. Some people may need some of it, but it's favouritism and I'm sure a lot of people just blow it on stuff. Here's what HM Revenue and customs has to say: I don't see it saying anything about having to give the money to the child/young person. Why would they? They're sheltering you and you're not in full time work so can't pay them back. It cost more than £200 to join/enter a library? How many members do they have, 1? Also there is no reason why you couldn't sell the book afterwards for maybe 75% of what you bought it, giving you the money back, meaning you wouldn't need as much of the EMA as you're saying.

I think the only immature person here is you, by instantly stating I am childish because I am challenging the EMA scheme. I think, quite rightly, it pays people too much just to go to keep going through education for another 2 years. Some people may well need the money, like Haggis seemed to, but for a lot of people £30 a week (or less if their parents earn more) is excessive and gets blown on non-academic related things. Obviously it's not as clear cut as that. If it was a simple replacement then there would be no change at all, as both rich and poor families would be receiving the same amount. I don't actually know about EMA replacing child benefit since I never had to even know much about it, what with not receiving any money from it. Also, child benefit - isn't that mostly for the parent, since they are sheltering you? I'm not 100% sure on this, but I didn't know it was a 'law' that your parents had to give you this money. So you're telling me you couldn't have got a train to the city, costing maybe £20, but instead you bought the book for £200?

Read this. First of all, I am not a kid. Do not patronise, as it just makes you look a tool (edit you're actually younger than me, so even more of a tool XD). Secondly, any money that you think my parents have to give me (I presume you are talking about child benefit money, although not entirely sure, since I know they don't have to give me any of the rest of their money) poorer parents also get. Now, if you are stating that because my parents earn more money they have to give me money, you are wrong. I'm at a good university too. And seriously, you don't need that book to get an A grade at A-level. Loads of people are getting A grades at A-level these days. If you really needed a £200 book just to do one piece of work you could surely have rented it from your city library. Saying that, a £200 book sounds very in-depth, so I haven't really a clue why you'd buy the whole thing when it sounds as if you'd be using just a fraction of it. Also, were there no other people doing the same coursework in your class? Grouping together maybe? Or better yet, using journals? (In Uni they pretty much replace books in Biology work at least). So many options really. The same as it was, since I barely got any additional money from them? If you really need that much to travel then you probably are one of the few worthy people. The fact is that a lot of people; probably most, get a lot more from EMA than require for basic needs like travel to and from sixth form and occasional stationary. Also - no time for a job? I work on Sunday only. There is no excuse why people couldn't work on the day that I work. Unless, maybe, they're Christian.

Exactly. I'm happy my parents didn't just give me money as it means I valued what money I earned myself. Also - dinners. Am I under the impression that people are incapable of bringing some food with them? Maybe packed lunches are an instant no-no once you reach sixth form. And buses...when they were 50p a day, on any wage I think a parent could afford to give that to child. Or get a pass that probably reduces the cost even further. Yeh...there's no doubt the money should be rethought as I'm sure people get too much and end up buying stuff they want with it.

Sorry, but, I don't know any parent who does not provide food for their children. I apologise if you are an exception but I seriously don't think people at that age were buying their own food. And school trips? How often are they? Like once every 4-5 months? Bus fare? I remember it being no more than 40p as a student at school then 6th form. I know that a lot of poorer people had that sort of free anyway. Saying that though, I used to walk it and get the metro. A few pens don't cost much, and it's not much for a pad of A4. All this definitely does not require weekly £30s. This is the reason why people did fine when EMA wasn't in effect. In fact, given that I was only ever given some money for food, I did perfectly well with no other money. It's a ridiculous waste of taxpayers money, as people should want to be educated to better themselves, not to get by easily while pocketing money. Lmao, are you off your rocker? My parents have to give me money? If you're talking about child benefits then poorer people get that too. So why do my parents have to pay me additional money for doing absolute **** all? You don't have talk a lot of nonsense. Then you're a fool for not knowing how to use the library, or for getting hold of such expensive books for something as frivolous as an A-level. Or, for needing a £200 book to get you an A grade A-level. I understand, I've got my A levels. I understand that I wasn't getting paid £30 - I went into my sixth form, learned, went home, food was in house, went to sleep. Woke up next day, went back (via metro). If you minus food costs in my house since I think most parents would pay for that, my living costs can't have been much more than a fiver a week at that stage. But I had a job, which I used to spend on things I wanted, not to maintain myself at sixth form. Then don't go using taxpayer's money to get you through something which quite blatantly you weren't requiring or gaining throughout school. A lot of people go straight from school to sixth form, often in their same school. The change is negligible, bar getting hold of a suit.

Good buy. Just the 3-in-1 yeh? I got mine from totalGBA, fantastic since it's a GBA game player, rumble pak and opera RAM expansion pack in 1.

QFT. Those idiots think no one in the world exists except them. A similar gripe of mine is those walking in the direction against you that make no effort to avoid you, thus you have to put in all the effort of moving aside. That happens in Manchester City Center a lot. EMA is a classic example of favouritism. My parents earn enough so I don't get any yet my parents don't give me money besides dinner money, definitely nothing like £30 a week. When you consider GCSE and A-level books you are provided with most of them, if you do need to buy them they certainly won't come anywhere near to the amount that adds up from all those £30s. A lot of people getting EMA waste it on absolute trash and they shouldn't have to be paid to be educated. If they don't want to get a better job then **** them, they shouldn't have to be encouraged to better themselves.

Which was no bad thing, what a load of crap that game was looking back.

I just bought it last night. I have no idea if I'll like it, so maybe it was a bit of a silly gamble buying a few boosters and a starter pack. You can get it for £35 inc. delivery. Go to gameplay, put Eye of Judgement into your basket, go to the checkout and enter dt7aquwhf to get £5 off. Then I went to Play.com where they are selling the booster packs for 1.99 and the starter packs for quite cheap at 3.99 (normally 7-8 quid?). It's all free delivery so meh... I did like games like Tetra Master with FFIX (and FFXI), which this reminds me of with the 3x3 grid. But as for card games I don't mind them too much, so maybe I'll like it. I'll get the PS Eye anyway.

I think everyone knows that Luffy's Japanese voice can never be beaten or even come close to.

BT for me seemed to be lacking the magic of the first...hard to explain. The music and everything in BK, as well as the freshness (and let's not forget the amazing levels) all put it a notch above the rest for me. BT also seemed to be filled out with less than fun minigames and lengthy plot cutscenes. It was still really good but I think the levels just weren't as memorable and fun to play as the first. Also Banjo's balls seemed to have dropped in BT when he jumps... a dire shame from the high pitched guy we loved in BK!