A mate once confessed that his ultimate threesome would be Victoria Coren Emily Maitless and Susie Dent.
I think in recent years Hannah Fry has made a guest appearance.
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Perhaps Victoria could give him some maths lessons after
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Yeah, "a mateā.
Presumably if said mate acutally participated it would technically be a fantasy foursome.
Arenāt golfists known for foursomes?
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They are also known for fourballs but letās not go there.
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The road named is literally outside my front door.
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They would be better off targeting poor people driving their kids to the local comps in polluting old bangers.
Tell me you didnāt read the article without etc.
At my sonās school, a mother picks her kid up in a Land Rover, and they live a five minute walk away. The car barely fits on the road. It would almost be faster to walk to the school than drive in traffic and find somewhere to park.
Yebbut ā¦ sheās paid for a Land Rover. Not using it would be tantamount to admitting that sheād made an inappropriate decision. And what if a drop of rain were to fall on little Jeromeās head ? And then thereās being noticed. A Land Rover gets you noticed (letās face it, even youāve noticed 
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If she left it at home to walk the kids to school it would be stolen, the only way to keep a LR safe is to drive it 24/7
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God invented cars for a reason.
All the above are right.
I meant to add itās surely not worth the mental stress - if I lived close to the school Iād absolutely walk rather than drive. Forget environmental reasons, getting stuck in school run traffic and parking is hateful and headache inducing.
But again, see above replies.
I wonder if some of this is due to people feeling unsafe on the streets and public transport.
I remember after 7/7 buses were a lot less busy than normal for a few weeks. And nobody wanted to go upstairs.
Maybe we just werenāt as precious in our day?
I had to walk a 3 mile round trip from the age of 12.
Worldās becoming too soft.
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itās just that cars never started very well in the 70ās
I had a 1 mile walk to the train station, a 30min train journey and then a 2 mile walk to school from the age of 12 on my own.
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Actually they did 'cos they were relatively new. Itās just that our parents couldnāt be arsed.
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I have everything short of my testicles crossed that my son is being allocated a place in the secondary school behind my house. The idea of not having to go near my car around school entry and egress times is AMAZING.
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Not in our case, my parents could only afford one car and in the 70ās it was a secondhand Fiat 124
When I actually worked in an office one of my possible routes took me past Danes Hill Preparatory School in Oxshott (private).
Oxshott is a posh part of Surrey, Andy Murray lives there etc.
There is often dreadful traffic caused by a queue of trophy wives in their Range Rovers and other top brand SUVs with one child, all trying to get off the A224 on to the āSchool roadā.
I was in the office bemoaning the time it took to āget past that school for disabled childrenā.
One of the women at work corrected me and said " Danes Hill is not a school for disabled children"
āWell I have never seen one of them walkā
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As most families in the 60s/70s we were also a 1 car outfit and had a 2nd hand 64 plate Volvo amazon , but my old man was out the door at 0630hrs so no chance of a lift.
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