Tea?

[Bobby Mhor]

Good whatever it is at your place

Chippy visit an essential journey then. Any opticians nearby?

I'd to check that one, and there's as many saying yes as there are no. And a variety of ways it could be done. Wouldn't surprise me though.

The shoes have gone from leather, with pin heads(small nails) taking up toe and heels, to fiberglass(metal plates) on heel and toes, to carbon fibre with plates.

What's tha doing overnight that you need decent weather.

Chippy visit was allowed...
knowing the ego of the fella I'm more than sure it was true...
he'd more flatly deny it
As bad as all those poncy coloured football boots today..
what was wrong with black boots with white laces, Brylcreem, knee length shorts and woollen goalie jumpers with obligatory flat cap and nicknames like 'Fatty'..
you'd be drawn over the coals for calling him that now.

Funny thing about Brylcreem was the fact that the company who brought it on to the market was a chemical company...
next thing we'll be using cattle udder cream on our underneath bits

 

[classic33]

Good whatever it is at your place


Chippy visit was allowed...
knowing the ego of the fella I'm more than sure it was true...
he'd more flatly deny it
As bad as all those poncy coloured football boots today..
what was wrong with black boots with white laces, Brylcreem, knee length shorts and woollen goalie jumpers with obligatory flat cap and nicknames like 'Fatty'..
you'd be drawn over the coals for calling him that now.

Funny thing about Brylcreem was the fact that the company who brought it on to the market was a chemical company...
next thing we'll be using cattle udder cream on our underneath bits

Owdo

Hope you ate them there and not when you got back home. T'was food shopping after all.

T'wouldn't surprise me one bit if he did deny doing it.
Nowt wrong with the old boots and kit. "Things move on as they say. Wonder how they'd manage if they'd to wear the same now. Would their delicate frames be up to it.
Can't be drawn over coals, coal was banned for fires.

A little side fact on brylcream, a cake company had global rights to the sale of it up to 2012.
What if they got it mixed up on the production line.

Morning??

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Owdo

Hope you ate them there and not when you got back home. T'was food shopping after all.

T'wouldn't surprise me one bit if he did deny doing it.
Nowt wrong with the old boots and kit. "Things move on as they say. Wonder how they'd manage if they'd to wear the same now. Would their delicate frames be up to it.
Can't be drawn over coals, coal was banned for fires.

A little side fact on brylcream, a cake company had global rights to the sale of it up to 2012.
What if they got it mixed up on the production line.

Morning??

Evening
My dad used brylcreem and as a young 'un (with hair!!),
I tried but hated it, greasy yuck

Footwear from my formative young years..
Woollies' plastic sandals baseball shoes and boots Dunlop Green and also Red Flash white tennis sandshoes ..Red was my choice although I wonder if there was a difference, Grip ?
I wore red flash with my full school uniform and got pulled in first year for sannies BUT no footwear specified in the uniform codes, cue all through secondary, sannies....

Boo!

 

[classic33]

Evening
My dad used brylcreem and as a young 'un (with hair!!),
I tried but hated it, greasy yuck

Footwear from my formative young years..
Woollies' plastic sandals baseball shoes and boots Dunlop Green and also Red Flash white tennis sandshoes ..Red was my choice although I wonder if there was a difference, Grip ?
I wore red flash with my full school uniform and got pulled in first year for sannies BUT no footwear specified in the uniform codes, cue all through secondary, sannies....

Boo!

Never used it for what it was intended for myself.

We'd shoes to be worn to school, black pumps for at school. Senior school was shoes whilst in school. Would often have to resort to trainers, black Dunlop, when there were "problems", even Jesus Boots once. For which I'd to carry a note from the headmaster, saying why I wasn't wearing shoes. Broken toes and an infection, which had to be open to the air as much as possible.

Which did you try sliding across the floor whilst wearing them?

 

[Andy in Germany]

I remember school uniforms: lumpy polyester jumpers and trousers you could get a shock off. Also ugly ties.

I remember one kid always tried not to wear a tie and was told off regularly about three times a day and had to put it on. I once forgot my tie and realised as I walked through the school gate. I was a mile or two from home so getting the tie wasn't a possibility; I left my jumper on and my shirt buttoned up so there was a dark shadow under the collar and none of the teachers noticed.

Thankfully we don't mess about with uniforms here, so my kids have been spared that silliness.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Good morning

Off to feed my plants (and myself)..
Enjoy your day

Never used it for what it was intended for myself.

We'd shoes to be worn to school, black pumps for at school. Senior school was shoes whilst in school. Would often have to resort to trainers, black Dunlop, when there were "problems", even Jesus Boots once. For which I'd to carry a note from the headmaster, saying why I wasn't wearing shoes. Broken toes and an infection, which had to be open to the air as much as possible.

Which did you try sliding across the floor whilst wearing them?

Red Flash made a squeaking noise....
Jesus boots led to mass ridicule as did Woolies plastic sandals, 2/6 a par if I remember.
The only good thing about school was the dinners, superb food except sago, semolina and the other stuff like frog spawn.
Beef Olives once a week, fish on a Friday and the puddings? sublime (apart from those mentioned)

I remember school uniforms: lumpy polyester jumpers and trousers you could get a shock off. Also ugly ties.

I remember one kid always tried not to wear a tie and was told of regularly about three times a day to put it on. I once forgot my tie and realised as I walked through the school gate. I was a mile or two from home so getting the tie wasn't a possibility; I left my jumper on and my shirt buttoned up so there was a dark shadow under the collar and none of the teachers noticed.

Thankfully we don't mess about with uniforms here, so my kids have been spared that silliness.

Aye, the uniform police, one either side of the main entrance watching you all troop in to classes in your class line..
Scanning up and down for uniform infractions..
Bit eastern bloc like..
then off to 'Tottie' the headie if you infringed, a religious man, a lay preacher..
more an evil entity..
he enjoyed that belt(tawse or local variation)..
the feeling of not liking each other was mutual.
I hated secondary school..

 

[Andy in Germany]

Good morning

Off to feed my plants (and myself)..
Enjoy your day


Red Flash made a squeaking noise....
Jesus boots led to mass ridicule as did Woolies plastic sandals, 2/6 a par if I remember.
The only good thing about school was the dinners, superb food except sago, semolina and the other stuff like frog spawn.
Beef Olives once a week, fish on a Friday and the puddings? sublime (apart from those mentioned)

Aye, the uniform police, one either side of the main entrance watching you all troop in to classes in your class line..
Scanning up and down for uniform infractions..
Bit eastern bloc like..
then off to 'Tottie' the headie if you infringed, a religious man, a lay preacher..
more an evil entity..
he enjoyed that belt(tawse or local variation)..
the feeling of not liking each other was mutual.
I hated secondary school..

I wass fortunate enough to go to school after physical assault was banned as a form of discipline. Still was a pile of poo though. Uniforms became a way of telling who was in which tribe and therefore an excuse to beat some people up.

Locally we still have a three tier syystem of schools but they're often on one campus with kids being mixed up all the time, so a lack of uniforms means no-one knows which of the three campus schools people come from.

And I still refuse to wear a tie.

 

[classic33]

I remember school uniforms: lumpy polyester jumpers and trousers you could get a shock off. Also ugly ties.

I remember one kid always tried not to wear a tie and was told off regularly about three times a day and had to put it on. I once forgot my tie and realised as I walked through the school gate. I was a mile or two from home so getting the tie wasn't a possibility; I left my jumper on and my shirt buttoned up so there was a dark shadow under the collar and none of the teachers noticed.

Thankfully we don't mess about with uniforms here, so my kids have been spared that silliness.

Ayup
Didn't they have some at the school you could have worm?

Did they lock the gates once everyone was in. Opening them just before it was time to let you go home?
Or, did you sneak out and back via the teachers car park.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Ayup
Didn't they have some at the school you could have worm?

Possiblöy, but let's be honest, if you had a problem would you trust a teacher enough to tell them?

 

[classic33]

I wass fortunate enough to go to school after physical assault was banned as a form of discipline. Still was a pile of poo though. Uniforms became a way of telling who was in which tribe and therefore an excuse to beat some people up.

Locally we still have a three tier syystem of schools but they're often on one campus with kids being mixed up all the time, so a lack of uniforms means no-one knows which of the three campus schools people come from.

And I still refuse to wear a tie.

Methinks you have keys "sticking" or your spelling is poor.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Methinks you have keys "sticking" or your spelling is poor.

German spellchecker, so I can't always see the mistaykes.

 

[classic33]

Possiblöy, but let's be honest, if you had a problem would you trust a teacher enough to tell them?

Depends on what the problem might be. Three at secondary, that I wouldn't have trusted with a fake £1 note, much less a real one.
Admitting they'd found it.

Ties, the same school seemed to have a ready supply of them. You were expected to return it washed and ironed.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Depends on what the problem might be. Three at secondary, that I wouldn't have trusted with a fake £1 note, much less a real one.
Admitting they'd found it.

Ties, the same school seemed to have a ready supply of them. You were expected to return it washed and ironed.

Nah, they didn't think that far. I'd have been more likely to get a ticking off and/or detention.

On the other hand I was known for being generally law-abiding and "no trouble" so I reckoned no-one would look too hard and I was right...

 

[Bobby Mhor]

I wass fortunate enough to go to school after physical assault was banned as a form of discipline. Still was a pile of poo though. Uniforms became a way of telling who was in which tribe and therefore an excuse to beat some people up.

Locally we still have a three tier syystem of schools but they're often on one campus with kids being mixed up all the time, so a lack of uniforms means no-one knows which of the three campus schools people come from.

And I still refuse to wear a tie.

we had the age old, 'Qualie', (Qualifying exam)
a system whereby you sat exams, English and Maths in your final Primary school which determined your next school.
I 'passed' and got allocated a place in the High School..
didn't do me much good..
My English grammar is shockingly bad and this was never picked up
and later in life, I saw an ex-classmate thanking the English teacher for all her extra work pushing him on to be an author (he also mentioned another well-known (late) author she helped)..
I came across a few instances of 'what part of town' you came from...
plus I'll admit I annoyed the life out of the staff..

even as a parent,
similar stuff happened along the line but Mrs M didn't let any go..
one of my kids was being encouraged not to sit higher computing...
result ended up, he did at another school..
and now lectures in the subject at uni..
there are other instances I could mention..
the school system is result driven now.....
how many kids are they throwing to achieve league table places?

 

[classic33]

Good morning

Off to feed my plants (and myself)..
Enjoy your day


Red Flash made a squeaking noise....
Jesus boots led to mass ridicule as did Woolies plastic sandals, 2/6 a par if I remember.
The only good thing about school was the dinners, superb food except sago, semolina and the other stuff like frog spawn.
Beef Olives once a week, fish on a Friday and the puddings? sublime (apart from those mentioned)

Aye, the uniform police, one either side of the main entrance watching you all troop in to classes in your class line..
Scanning up and down for uniform infractions..
Bit eastern bloc like..
then off to 'Tottie' the headie if you infringed, a religious man, a lay preacher..
more an evil entity..
he enjoyed that belt(tawse or local variation)..
the feeling of not liking each other was mutual.
I hated secondary school..

Owdo
You got yer priorities wrong, feed yourself the feed your plants.
I'll try, no promises though.

Can't say I were a fan of red. Or any other bright colours for that matter.

You never just closed yer eyes and ate any of them.

Got on with most of the teachers. Some refused to trust me, one even prevented me from doing chemistry past the 3rd year. He said he didn't feel safe when I was in the class. Another, "Mad Jack" found a stash of fake £1 notes in one of my books and thought he'd hit the jackpot.

I even made the lofty heights of class prefect for a while.

Morning??