Own up, who’s upset the Protestants?

16 October 2005

Someone came to Dreamdust having done the following search: the Protestants were upset. What upset them in Henry VIII time. This isn’t just a horrific abuse of a search engine that makes me want to break that person’s fingers, so that they can’t sully my internet with their words, it also reminded me of that dark time that was A Level history.

When I was ill in the last two years of school, somehow the abscess glowing malevolently inside my head affected my academic abilities – but only in history. The subject no longer made sense and I couldn’t understand why nobody else in the class was having the same problems as me. The subject seemed so different from the course I’d taken for GCSE, but since it wasn’t, nobody – neither teachers nor friends – knew how to help. Even throwing my book at the wall with contempt one night failed to clear the fug in my head, although it did make me feel better for a while.

Then in spring 2000, Chris Chandler removed the abscess (and, I hope, threw it at the wall with contempt). I went back to school after Easter, much to everyone’s surprise, and suddenly history made more sense. I didn’t become David Starkey overnight (just as well really, that would be horrid), but history was no longer the bane of my life. I’d missed two years worth of full understanding, but I still managed to get a grade C in it. And that, I think, deserves some kind of fanfare. Or at least a KT Tunstall-style “woohoo”.

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One Response to “Own up, who’s upset the Protestants?”

isiah
22nd August 2006 @ 1:02 pm

Ok stop. please listen to yourselfs guys. if fluoride was really this deadly we would all be dead a very long time ago. Also, just because a substance is deadly in large doses doesnt tell you that small doses will have the same effect. Asprin can kill in large quantities and i am sure people who manfacture it wear plenty of protection equipment. However, asprin is mostly harmless in small portions. Besides this we allready add substances into our water supply, such as cholrine (sound familar?) Cholrine can be made into a toxic gas, and will cause vomiting and partially blindness in large doses, but we still add it to your water supply. there are many good arguments/studies to not put flouride into our water supply; sadly no one here has mentioned one.