Surely there are more important things that hair colour ?

[amateur51]

I learned it was wise to defer to women a long time ago, scotty (or rather more accurately give the impression of deference :winkeye:) ...

If you recall I only mentioned male members, if you excuse the impression, it was you who asked what women members might think.

The short answer is that I'm not a woman member so cannot possibly know. However, I do feel sure that, just like men, opinion on the matter will almost certainly vary very widely indeed.

As far as goalposts are concerned I don't know much about them either but I understand the wooden ones have long since been replaced by plastic?

Maybe we can have a separate thread about goalposts as this fascinating subject does seem to crop up occasionally?

Still not answered and you've moved a further distance from the OT than before - bravo!

Are you going for a Personal Best?

[ahinton]

What a weak, lily-livered coward your headmaster was, ahinton.

Far from it. He wasn't the happiest of people in his position, however, preferring as he had earlier done to head the French department.

You deserved a thoroughly good tawsing for your impudence, if you ask me, and that may have set you on the straight and narrow for the remainder of your life?

No and no. As long ago as it was, no such device was in use in that school and, had it been, I'd have used it back on whoever administered it, just as I did in a Scottish primary school once on the only occasion when a strap was used on me. Anyway, you were in no position to determine what I might or might not have deserved, as you were not present and you were not the headmaster.

I used to get beaten regularly, not by my headmaster, but a teacher who used to spend 'playtime' doing nothing else but tawsing boys who were sent there by other teachers after class with a note for the written number of strokes to be administered..

In my case it didn't make a a blind bit of difference, I regret to say, though it did damn well hurt if I recall correctly.

Disgraceful!

[teamsaint]

You are Jimmy Pursey and I claim my £5!! Here we go!

maybe...but a forum is surely all about Questions and Answers.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo4AdoZAjec

Here is another , and appropriate gem from Jim's catalogue...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wmk086KYZA

[vinteuil]

You deserved a thoroughly good tawsing for your impudence, if you ask me, and that may have set you on the straight and narrow for the remainder of your life?

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... but -

I used to get beaten regularly... In my case it didn't make a a blind bit of difference...

[P. G. Tipps]

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... but -

The clue is 'in my case' ... I feel certain ahinton may have responded rather more positively to a jolly good belting than I ever did. I was quite beyond redemption.

What a missed opportunity for him, declining such an offer so early in primary school, imv!

[ahinton]

The clue is 'in my case' ... I feel certain ahinton may have responded rather more positively to a jolly good belting than I ever did.
What a missed opportunity for him, declining such an offer so early in primary school, imv!

Your certainty here is entirely unfounded. I did not receive what anyone could reasonably term "a jolly good belting", since there was nothing either jolly or good about it; what occurred on that single occasion was hardly an "opportunity" other, perhaps, than to focus my thoughts on how wrong corporal "punishment" was. That aside, it didn't make a blind bit of difference to me either before or after I returned the "favour"; whether or to what extent it might have done so had there been a human rights lawyer on hand at the time I cannot say because, as you may imagine, seven year olds in Scottish schools tended not to have recourse to them in those far-off days.

I was quite beyond redemption.

So was I. I have little doubt that I still am.

[visualnickmos]

In my case it didn't make a blind bit of difference, I regret to say, though it did damn well hurt if I recall correctly.

Are you sure?

Have you had this confirmed by an "expert?"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

School uniform may be philosophically indefensible, but it works. Give teenagers something relatively trivial to rebel against and they will oblige willingly, diverting them from rebelling against bigger things. Look after the small things and the bigger things generally look aftet themselves.

[MrGongGong]

Look after the small things and the bigger things generally look aftet themselves.

Like spelling ?

[Richard Barrett]

School uniform may be philosophically indefensible, but it works.

In what way does it "work"?

Another thing - my daughter started school in London and went to school there for two years before we moved back to Germany (where putting children in uniforms is considered somewhat distasteful these days) and I could really not believe how f*****g expensive it was to buy the whole outfit.

[ahinton]

In what way does it "work"?

Another thing - my daughter started school in London and went to school there for two years before we moved back to Germany (where putting children in uniforms is considered somewhat distasteful these days) and I could really not believe how f*****g expensive it was to buy the whole outfit.

Indeed! This brings back memories for me because, apart from my in principle attitude to school uniform as already expressed, I couldn't goddam' well afford it either when I was a kid!

[P. G. Tipps]

Indeed! This brings back memories for me because, apart from my in principle attitude to school uniform as already expressed, I couldn't goddam' well afford it either when I was a kid!

If you had saved your pocket-money instead of blowing it on American Cream Soda you might well have been able to afford it, ahinton!

[Beef Oven!]

Indeed! This brings back memories for me because, apart from my in principle attitude to school uniform as already expressed, I couldn't goddam' well afford it either when I was a kid!

What you on about? A blazer, 2 pairs of trousers, 2 white shirts, 2 grey ones and 1 light blue. A pair of Tuf black shoes and a tie - done for the whole year.

You go and try and buy ordinary clobber - it would cost double.

Unless you went to a poncey school and had to have higher quality stuff.

[ahinton]

If you had saved your pocket-money instead of blowing it on American Cream Soda you might well have been able to afford it, ahinton!

What pocket money? What "Amercian Cream Soda"?

[ahinton]

What you on about? A blazer, 2 pairs of trousers, 2 white shirts, 2 grey ones and 1 light blue. A pair of Tuf black shoes and a tie - done for the whole year.

You go and try and buy ordinary clobber - it would cost double.

Unless you went to a poncey school and had to have higher quality stuff.

I didn't attend a "poncey" school - but enough said, methinks.