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The audience prize for anyone who could name three went ungifted.

Most fundamental was the observation that laughter usually comes in response not to uproarious humor, but rather to dialogue that he compared to an “interminable television situation comedy scripted by an extremely ungifted writer.”

Males, I thought, always have a chance to live no matter how short their lives, but females, ordinary, ungifted ones, just get soft and die.

“For those children who are tested, it does them no favours to call them 'gifted' or 'ungifted'. Either way, it can really undermine a child's motivation to learn.”

But if one of the ungifted kids at Hardcastle happened to get a sip, he’d go straight out and rob a bank.