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Post by loyalgull on Mar 25, 2013 23:44:41 GMT
yep tis true,are we becoming a country of nutters or what?apparently a deadly weapon now banned in a school,jeez,meanwhile loads of teenagers are still being stabbed to death with knives.The better times seem long long gone now,life has definitely got too serious with garbage like this,the kids must be laughing too themselves over this latest looney tunes idea
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Post by petef on Mar 26, 2013 16:01:48 GMT
Without doubt one of the most feared weapons of the modern school era and has taken over from the less effective "cluster bomb" cornflake tart which used to disintegrate on contact.  Health and safety would have a fit now if we could just go back in time to my school years when the teachers would launch at you at full pelt anything at hand including sticks of chalk or the dreaded blackboard rubber. If you miss behaved in the gym you would generally be assaulted with climbing rope across your backside or a whack around the ear. My right ear is still ringing now! This country has lost it! |
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Post by Ditmar van Nostrilboy on Mar 26, 2013 16:12:07 GMT
Flapjack is probably more dangerous from sugar overload!!!!
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Post by loyalgull on Mar 27, 2013 9:42:23 GMT
the name was don mayberry a teacher at highweek,speciality whacking your arse 3 times on the trot with a t-square,absolute bloody agony,would of been less painful with a triangular flapjack for sure lol
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Post by petef on Mar 27, 2013 17:47:25 GMT
the name was don mayberry a teacher at highweek,speciality whacking your arse 3 times on the trot with a t-square,absolute bloody agony,would of been less painful with a triangular flapjack for sure lol Those were the days loyal. Yes I remember dear old Don Mayberry pretty well, Maths teacher I believe though he never taught me. Long gone now no doubt. One or two of them had a breaking point which we generally tested on a daily basis and if they showed any sign of weakness they had a hard time teaching anything and spent their time just trying to control the unruly mob. Some you never dare test to their limit as you just knew you would come off worse. Some you just respected as I did dear old Ken Longman who was my form teacher for a while. So to was Victor Coombes who used to give us golf lessons and how to play a bunker shot in the long jump sand pit. Now he really could throw blackboard rubber with accuracy. John Guest would jump off a chair as he came down and struck you with his cane. Legendary. A PE teacher called Ralston was the one who made my ear ring for a day or two mind you I guess I deserved it at the time as I was taking the piss out of him to the class when his back was turned.  How would those teachers of old cope these days I wonder. |
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Post by loyalgull on Mar 27, 2013 18:10:14 GMT
longman was my geography teacher,decent bloke,victor i have a nervous twitch coombes was ok,john guest was my english teacher,very serious chap and ginger nut rawstron was my pe teacher,took us out for a pint down the seven stars the day we left school with john morgan,another decent chap who if i remember was a rugby player for torquay,not sure who though.But the finest of them all was johnny griffiths,music teacher of excellence,gambling man of some notoriety,but the nicest bloke you could ever wish to meet.The worst my form teacher and science teacher mr king or peanut as we called him,miserable old sod he was,even though we got hidings they WERE better times
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Post by Dave on Mar 29, 2013 9:45:31 GMT
Some great memories of schools days at Highweek School For Boys. Other post can be found on this thread torquayfansforum.com/thread/3101/highweek-school-boys-thread-snobsOn this thread a good piece about Johnny Griffiths. torquayfansforum.com/thread/5885/johnny-griffiths-stageAll this came about after a food fight in the canteen where one boy got hit in the eye by a flying triangular flapjack, the daft thing is that flapjacks have not been banned, in future then can only be cut into square or rectangular shapes. So that means they will have four corners instead of three as such, while the angle will be greater on a triangle, there will be four points that could hit anyone’s eye on a square one. Utter madness that just shows how mad the world has become and how in the name of health and safety, so many things are now banned. |
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Post by rjdgull on Jan 10, 2019 21:52:55 GMT
link - this article made me chuckle - I know people don’t like health and safety and being told what to do by the nanny state but “don’t lie down on a bomb!” is probably advice we can all agree with 
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