Don't Get Me Started

year 10 pupils have recently been planning their first Controlled Assessment of the year, a discussiuon about something which gets on their nerves. What do you think of thier openings?

Don’t Get Me Started On... C Sheerin
Don’t get me started on school and in particularly the ridiculous, torturous time that the horrific place, which is indicative of prison, commences. It feels like you’re raising yourself out of your warm, comforting bed merely to undertake an under paid job which is so mind-numbing you feel that eating your own lips would be more fun. If we truly look at why we are forced to undergo this rigorous routine of roaming corridors to face periods of perilous boredom, it is only because our parents force us to so that they can have 6 hours of peace, quiet and tranquillity without moaning, tedious and temperamental teenagers roaming around. If you’re late once for registration, another pointless waste of valuable education time, you get dinner time detention even if you have a respectable excuse such as ‘I got up late due to a power cut’ or ‘the bus was late due to a toxic explosion in another city!’

Don't get me started on poverty Jaques Kphgomou

More than 1.4 billion people around the world are considered to be ‘poor’ and this label is given to them because of a range of factors: lack of education, poor health, lack of access to food and water as well as their environment not being habitable. You see, this upsets me; it makes me feel angry and agitated as I sit in the warmth of my home with every possible need catered for.

I thought everyone was supposed to be equal, but we’re not; were like carnivores trying to survive in a world of fear and happiness, where there are clearly the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. It like the game ‘finders keepers’; we are a race who is filled with selfish thoughts; we are lacking emotion and do not feeling compassion for others.

Clarice Lynch Don’t get me started on... bullies!

Bullying is a gigantic problem that affects lots of children. Three-quarters of all youngsters in the UK say they have been bullied or teased to an extent that has caused great concern, consternation and worry. Over 60% of school children have either been bullied or are currently being intimidated, persecute or harassed on a regular basis; either way that is despicable. School children are meant to be happy and enjoying life, not feeling insecure, apprehensive and depressed all because one culpable child feels the need to cause then immeasurable pain with words ringing in their ears such as: ‘fat’, ‘smelly’ or ‘ugly’. I have had this problem myself and it isn’t a fair thing when vicious, words violate your mind leading to torrential stream of tears and unhappiness.

Don't get me started on chavs... MOLLY GROUNDS

What is this world coming to? People these days, dressed in anarray of disgusting fashionable mistakes walk around the streets of England thinking they’re something special, well let me tell you they’re NOT! They’re violently agitated, turbulent and loud and when I say loud I mean loud and could scream from the highest block of flats to expose my frustrations with them. Many 'normal' people like you and me may come across to them as being posh, suave and elegant, in other words normal, and this group of nuisances are labeled be us as ‘chavs’, the most despicable group existing on the planet.

Mitchell Hutchinson
Don’t get me started on ‘chavs’ on benefits
All able bodied claimants should be employed on public works as a condition of claiming benefits. It is not fair that they drink our country dry and live off the fat of the land for free. We work hard whilst they lie on their backs on think of England doing all this for them.

Why do we let them?

These blood sucking leeches are wiping our government clean of any financial advantages they have over other countries and as a result we are seen as a minnow in the world economy. Our parents pay plenty of tax out of their hard EARNT wages to let these lazy feeble-minded people stay at home (an abode which is more than likely provided by our government) and sit in front of the television transfixed by like-minded heroes on Jeremy Kyle.

Do these people have any use in this modern age? Their daily routine most likely involves a range of abhorrent pastimes: taking drugs, committing criminal offences and drinking alcohol. We see these people hanging around on corners of shops and alleyways and live in fear when we should be feeling a sense of fear when we realize where our taxes are going.


Don’t get me started on celebrities
Callum Hill

The media’s a drug for celebrities; they provide a fix for them to get hooked on which then makes us addicted too. However, the main failure is that the media then cast out what’s really happening in the world and we become fixed on a world of madness through programmes like ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ gazing at idiotic ‘B’ list celebrities who have nothing to offer the world. I don’t know about you but that makes me livid. Does it annoy you too? It must!

In my eyes, many celebrities are nothing more than puppets being manipulated by others: they’re overpaid, selfish, self-loving plastic robots who have no mind of their own. Just because they have lots of cash to splash; they think they can neglect their responsibility of setting an example to millions of people throughout the world and act in the most vulgar of ways to gain more publicity. But what is this doing to the children who watch them? To the future generations who need to be set an example?