Giving kids food full with fat and sugar is abuse. Cross-country running being tough for some children is a consequence and not the problem that needs to be dealt with.
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Giving kids food full with fat and sugar is abuse. Cross-country running being tough for some children is a consequence and not the problem that needs to be dealt with.
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I don't see how living in a completely protected environment helps the kids at all. If anything, that renders them utterly useless for adult life.
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That's nothing. When I were a lad we had to run from the Isle of Wight to the Orkneys, naked, while our teaches flayed the skin from our backs with cat-o'-nines.Aye when I were a lad we has to do X-country every bloody Monday afternoon if it was raining. I agree it is abuse of the worse kind.
When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondsmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bound, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty. - John Ball
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Naked? You were lucky. WE had to do it covered in chili powder and sulphuric acid while our teachers strewed thumbtacks on t'road etc. etc.
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Sulphuric acid? Luxury. We had to run upside down on our knuckles chewing depleted uranium, and wearing underpants made from razor wire. We had to circumnavigate the Earth in an afternoon, Monday afternoon anyroad. Then when you tell the softie kids of today.......
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Well don't worry it's still tough here. We have to do it only in the worst weather while dodging rabid wolves and cruise missiles (and people wonder why the US military budget is so high...) as well as having all of the indignities mentioned earlier visited upon us, and that's only when they're feeling charitable!
Still it's definately not abuse in any way shape or form.
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Cross country is brutal. I did it from age 14-17 and it was quite terrible. Nothing like running a 10 miles after a hard day of school in 95 degree heat or hellish thunderstorms.
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I've noticed that it's customary to adopt a Yorkie accent when relating tales like these.Originally Posted by matteus the inbred
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Tha's nowt loike parklin grumpit....
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Don't get too excited. Firstly it's a revision guide, not a text book proper. The publishers have a house style which is jokey and light heartedly subversive, so, whilst I haven't read this particular guide, I suspect that when a representative of the publisher says:
"It is used as an aid for starting discussions. It seems the part about cross-country has been taken as a serious suggestion, but it is simply a way of getting students involved."
she is almost certainly correct in claiming that the inclusion of cross-country was not intended to be serious. (Not nearly so good as a story though)
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An important step in your education, my friend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
We used to dream of wire-frame pants! We used to 'av to run from t'sun to uranus carrying 15 tonnes of 50,000 degree elephant dung, while being shot at by Martian space ships. And that were every 5 minutes where I went ta school.
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Important:
When attempting a 'Tyke' accent you must never under any circumstances pronounce the 't'. IE: I'm goin' pub...not I'm goin' t'pub.
Wearing of flat caps and clogs is optional, but the whippet on a string is mandatory.
A little look at Yorkshire!
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Joeokar the great lurker
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While I agree that PE shouldn't be the same for everybody (I also had/have (?) asthma), my feeling is too that the today's general trend is towards excessive PC (as in all fields), which simply leads to pampering of the kids.
"Ooooh, you can't make my kid run!" "Ooooh, my kid can't make 25 push-ups, this is inhuman!" "Oooooh, I don't want my kid to come up last in <insert physical test here>, it will ruin his self-esteem and ...."
blech.
Where the hell DOES all this PC come from ??
Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper.
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Running for me has always just been concentrated spacing out, then again I am ADHD. You're tired and hot? I'm thinking about the best way to fix my airsoft gun and I'm not even paying attention to where I am. An hour in, and my body's flooding endorphins into me. Win-win economics.
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Well at this rate, 15 years from now Social Services will be able to take away your kid if you make him stop playing video games and go clean his room. There are things in life that you might not want to do, but you have to do it anyway. What better stage in life to teach that lesson? Reading centuries-old English literature was painful sometimes, and I would consider it abusive, are they going to stop teaching that?
I guess the whole "Just do it, it builds character" isn't a good enough reason these days, and we will just have to live with a generation with no character.
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