Mika -life in cartoon motion.

I think my cat is gifted.

I agree it is quite odd behaviour with the money - it kinda suggesting that you expect something in return for the investment in the meal. Poor you. You should have asked her for 25% on top to cover time/expenses. I'd send her an invoice.

pgf team - can we have a bunch of flowers or a box of roses for Athina?

Lovely to hear from you Athina. x

I agree the mother of the gifted family was extremely odd. She kept doing over emphatic nodding and simpering smiling. She gave me the creeps. All that "we're developing doctors and world leaders" business. No pressure on the kids then !

I was never labeled as gifted by could read aged 3 and got stuck into some quite advanced books and used to read the newspaper with my Dad. I was placed 2 years ahead of my peer group at primary and then sent to a boarding school aged 9 ( which lasted all of about 6 months & my parents still feel hideous guilty about it). I did some GCSE's at 13, & 14 and started A-level at 15 but dropped out, when I discovered boys, & the fashion industry. Paradoxically I was placed in the bottom set for math ( but got an A) and was diagnosed as dyslexic during my masters aged 27!

Jojo it sounds as if you mean it kindly & I often send V-cards and do silly things for mates on the 14th as well, so it becomes about love, rather than lurve of the Barry White kind. So I understand where you are coming from.

However, in this situ I think it would be kinder/safer not to get this guy a gift as when a person likes someone they will read something into nothing if it helps to believe the feeling is mutual. He will make an analysis, and think the gift is more meaningful than it actually is unless you buy absolutely everyone you know a book.

Did anyone in the UK see that doc on C4 last night which is going to follow gifted kids over a 10 year period? I thought the young lad who is going for philosophical chit-chats at Oxford was especially interesting, and the one who can do A-level math aged 6 was soooo sweet.

Do we have any wee ones on the forum I wonder or were any of you labeled as gifted at school?

Sorry I meant to say " think the collections should be inclusive"
typing a bit fast

As for the public who view the Kylie exhibit not being a thinking public, I have to disagree. It’s the same problem I have with Adorno & Horkhiemer’s view of the culture industry, accusing the masses of all being cultural dupes . I believe quite strongly in the idea of human agency & that audiences are critical in their consumption. Makes me think of that horrid phrase, “dumbing down”. I don’t think that by going to a Kylie exhibition at the V&A the audience/consumer is dumbing down at all or the V&A for that matter – its all about values & taste and one class imposing its cultural capital on another.

Otto seemingly quite a large number of the British public care about Kylies’ hot pants, which is why the exhibition will be a huge success.

I think it is quite dangerous to correlate popular culture with lowbrow culture. The idea that something appeals to the masses and is popular shouldn’t be dismissed as being rubbish simply because it is of the masses. I think that is quite an elitist view.
With regards to museums I always thought that they were supposed to record and preserve objects and artefacts, which represent aspect of life and culture (in the broadest sense of the word culture), and not just highbrow collections or the cultures of the intellectually elite?
I think the collections should be exclusive, and representative of the people for the people (sorry I am going a bit citizen smith here, ) and it could be argued that Ms Minogue as a mediated / constructed artefact is representative of our times.

Now Danni is filth. And she has had so much surgery and botox, Sylvester you wouldn't want her honestly.

OK gotcha. You might have the same problems in pp as you would in word, with the size of the thing if you have over 60 imputs. Look for something called Edraw -you might even be able to download it for free, but if not it is quite cheap - about £20.

Yup I guess so, but that prompts the question for me "what is the role of museums?", or perhaps "who are they for?" which is why I'd be interested in your view on this.

Well done Jojo. Its good you feel confident. Remember at the end of the day it is 'your' work, 'your' PhD not theirs & supervisors are there in an advisory capicity not a God-like capacity.

do you mean like a flow chart or spider map? Depends how big and complex it is but you can
produce those sorts of charts through word.