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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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 agree with the article.
When I was a kid I had asthma that prevented me from running for any semi-long period of time. After a couple of rounds around the track I had to start walking. The only other kid in my gym class who was walking at the point was the really super obese guy. In any case both of us were ostracized on that basis by the other kids, and had our marks go to crap for it. The ironic thing was that the gym teacher had a mammoth beer/"I never ever exercise" belly yet even so he would still contribute to the ostracization.
Not everyone is cut out for being told told to jump like monkies through long-lasting physical hoops as part of a standard curriculum.
They should expand the definition of physical abuse to making kids run around the track for over 10 minutes in a row and make that a universal human right.
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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)
We all learn from experience. Unfortunately we don't all learn as much as we should.
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I hear you, Duke of Gloucester, and you may well be right, and this is nothing more than a light-hearted thingie. However, others may see it differently, and may interpret it differently - in a more imperative manner.
The problem is that this impetus to make our kids do less for fear of hurting their fragile egos or what not already exists, and things like this, as light-hearted as they may be, find too much resonance in the hearts/minds of the proponents of such movements.
Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper.
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Hell in a handbasket, I tells ya, hell in a handbasket!
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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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As is the ownership of a Kestrel.
Cowardice is to run from the fear;
Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
But to hold the line anyway.
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The Yorkshire accent is due to a famous sketch by Monty Python's Flying Circus, called The Four Yorkshiremen, based on the premise of four now-affluent Yorkshiremen telling tall tales about how poor and deprived they were before they made a fortune through hard work...
...transcript here.
http://www.phespirit.info/montypytho...rkshiremen.htm
Some kind of physical exercise, or encouragement to take part in it, ought to exist, but a return to the 1950s 'PT and verbal abuse' regimen in schools is probably not a good thing.
Mind you, it was instrumental in inspiring Sir Edmund Hillary to achieve all that he did...
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