Danke Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 You had a bed? We used to lie awake in our cold gravel dreaming of a bed! You forgot the other kind of hard school, the kind I went to. The teachers and prefects dislocate your limbs or rape you (sometimes both) if you miss a class. Where you wore shorts until the end of your GCSE equivalents even if there was three feet of snow. If you forgot to make your bed one morning, the next you would be up at 5 running up the mountain next to the school. Brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites
Punkypink Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 whoa. what was it? a boy's home? or military school Link to post Share on other sites
The Badger Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 You had a bed? We used to lie awake in our cold gravel dreaming of a bed! Luxury. The Badger had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, a half an hour before he went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty nine hours a day down mill, and pay his boss for permission to come to work. and when he got home his dad would kill him and dance around on his grave singing hallelujah. Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Singing? You were lucky. http://xkcd.com/16/ Yes it was a boarding school, which explains a lot. My fear of bad grammar, my fear of showers, my bizzare west country/canadian accent (school was in Scotland, go figure), my dislike of proles etc. I shouldn't moan though, I like who I am now and all my past experiences, good and bad, combine to make my personality. So, it's all good. Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 ...I like who I am now... You're the only one, mate! Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Yup. I am totally happy with myself, even though the only thing that can get me off is tracking down people who slag me off on the internet and nailing their feet to the floor. ( ) Link to post Share on other sites
Spedz Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Threads in the wrong section. Link to post Share on other sites
L4byr1nth Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 My school was Catholic, which made it all the worse for me, not being Catholic. Ben. Link to post Share on other sites
Tom Andrews Posted July 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 My school was Catholic, which made it all the worse for me, not being Catholic. Ben. You're lucky it wasn't a Jewish school, you might have lost something other than your religion.................... Link to post Share on other sites
Punkypink Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 My school was communist. Or at least it had a communist history. In the 60s, most of the students who rioted in Singapore in support of communism were from my school lol. Isn't communist anymore today thank goodness Link to post Share on other sites
Gliderrider Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 Work, I hate It, Cant they just give me say £300 a week and leave me alone? And why dont they understand that I want weekends off to go and runn round woods spraying my mates with white stuff? Link to post Share on other sites
triggerhappy16 Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 Being told to take a week off, then 3 weeks later later finding out from my sister (who also works there) that they don't plan to give me any more hours until I have physiotherapy, which I told them won't happen until my wrist heals enough to be beneficial. I lose 3 weeks work at the busiest time of the year and aren't told about it... WTF! Went to Human Resources and complained... Upshot is that they don't want me back in case I injure myself and sue them!! Told them this wasn't on and they have agreed to move me. I'm now a receptionist... Hooray(!) What really got my hackles up is that it was all sorted and then I get a call from the Ops Manager whilst at a family BBQ saying "We've offered you hours, when can you not work? Right, well, you can't turn around and complain we aren't offering you hours when you don't take them" I'm not going to work on the day I have to go to hospital to have more sodding X-rays or the day I get my results that decide if I get into university! I swear to something, if i didn't have morals (and need the job) I would slap her one. She is such an interfering *badgeress*! Link to post Share on other sites
AirsoftAddict Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 Work, I hate It, Cant they just give me say £300 a week and leave me alone? And why dont they understand that I want weekends off to go and runn round woods spraying my mates with white stuff? I hope you are refering to airsoft here and not something else. Link to post Share on other sites
my_plague_666 Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Hayy im getting EMA :'( Meh, ya know part time work income doesn't count... it sucks, my parents earn just a fraction too much for me to qualify for EMA. Link to post Share on other sites
Skarclaw Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Was offered a free laptop cause of my learning difficulties (spezheul neds), turned it down. Man of principle Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Was offered a free laptop cause of my learning difficulties (spezheul neds), turned it down. Idiot Fixed. ALWAYS take free stuff! Link to post Share on other sites
Skarclaw Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Its ok, I restored the karma by robbing oxfam. Link to post Share on other sites
Punkypink Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Fixed. ALWAYS take free stuff! Airsoft Armory told me to help myself to some free single pistol mag pouches. I did. They're so nice there. Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 That's not my experience. I wouldn't touch them with a sh**ty stick. Link to post Share on other sites
Pablo Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Weird phrase that, don't you think? I can't think of anything I wouldn't be prepared to touch with a shi**y stick of sufficient length, should the circumstances demand it - so long as I didn't have to eat it (or do anything equally unhygenic with it) afterwards Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Funny story - although could be a rumour.... Some army recruit was generally having a bad time of it, and on parade looked like a bag of rags tied in the middle. RSM is doing the inspection, with his pace stick in hand, as they do. Comes up to this recruit, looks him up and down and takes his stick out from under his his arm and pokes the recruit with it (must have been a few years ago, I don't think they're allowed to do things like that any more) going "There's sh*t on the end of this stick, recruit" And the recruit, being clueless, gives the stick a good hard look and goes, "Not on this end, Sir." Link to post Share on other sites
Cannonfodder80 Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Went to Human Resources and complained... Upshot is that they don't want me back in case I injure myself and sue them!! Not sure that's entirely legal, might want to look into a law suit, unfair dismissal and all that. Also it would cause more problems than slapping management Link to post Share on other sites
Punkypink Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 takes his stick out from under his his arm and pokes the recruit with it (must have been a few years ago, I don't think they're allowed to do things like that any more) A sgt major flung a pacestick like a javelin at someone marching badly during the rehersal for our passing out parade from basic training. Deadly lol. Link to post Share on other sites
Hedganian Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Ouch... Link to post Share on other sites
triggerhappy16 Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Not sure that's entirely legal, might want to look into a law suit, unfair dismissal and all that. Also it would cause more problems than slapping management Don't think so because they didn't dismiss me and are now offering me reception and some bar work. I wouldn't bother anyway. The company is owned by a successful solicitor/lawyer and if I start to take them on, chances are I will loose the fight, money and my job. I've seen people try to take them on before, they backed down and weren't seen again. Link to post Share on other sites
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