![]() It means quite ordinary and even lower than the ordinary standard for the schools used for surveys. The phrase ‘bog standard’ is used in the very first paragraph. One trainee expressed the desire to teach in a technology college, and two wanted to teach at a school with good academic results, but there were also some who wanted ‘a challenge’, or who want to teach in a ‘mixed comprehensive. Recruiting and Retaining Teachers: Understanding Why Teachers Teach by Anne Cockburn, Terry HaydnĬonsidering the fairly high profile of the debate about moves away from ‘bog-standard’ comprehensive schools at the time that the survey was conducted, perhaps surprisingly few respondents commented on the ‘type’ of school that they wished to work in, in terms of it being a ‘specialist’, ‘beacon’ or ‘training’ school. However, the meanings become clear that it means ordinary. From a simple slang term to a popular phrase, he traces its use in British and German engineering, adding that there is no record of its use in those meanings. Toy Cooper has tried to trace the background coinage of this phrase that seems an interesting discovery. ![]() ![]() Alas, since there is no recorded use of the expression before the 1960s, it seems that this is the least likely of all possibilities. I am however taken with the idea that the origin of bog-standard was as a late nineteenth-century acronym for ‘British or German’ standards of engineering, which at the time were far from ordinary, indeed of world class standard. The word bog, being schoolboy slang for toilet, completes the connection to bog-standard. His meteoric rise from a poor boy to the top plumber of London shows that irony lies in the title – a literary device having contrary meanings than what is stated in the phrase. However, the interesting thing is that they are the plumbers of not ordinary people – but of movie stars and heroes. This book by Charlie Mullins discusses his plumbing business, which he raised in London, turning into more than GBP 20 million per year business empire. Example #2īog-Standard Business: How I Took the Plunge and Became the Millionaire Plumber by Charlie Mullins Sometimes very special dishes such as applique, Grecian cuisines, and even lemon cakes seem just apple pies, and they seem true. However, they are just “bog standard” and ordinary as our regular dishes are. They are unrecognizable due to the new exotic colors. It is my new favourite photograph of us.In a highly ironic poem “bog standard” is about culinary items. My husband and I stopped and I captured a kiss from him and until I looked at the photo, I did not know all that was going on around us. ![]() The refection, distorted and fun, of the city in the background and all the people, including yourself in the foreground makes for the best fun pictures. I capture what is around us and what I see, but rarely am I in them. As a photographer by trade, I am not in the photos ever. In our current culture of "self" photos and the crazy popularity of taking pictures everywhere we go, this reflective bean gives you the chance to take the coolest pop culture photo. I think art history classes and anthropology classes would would have a great time annualizing why this is so popular. I am so happy we took the few minutes it took to walk into the park and discover this very fun giant silver bean. My husband and I were walking in the area on our last few hours in the city and we realized we were so close to the bean. Lallapalooza was on over this weekend and the crowds were insane. The pictures you can take of your own reflection in the bean and of the city sky line in the bean is amazing. ![]()
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