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ivan burit
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 Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: School 1960`s vs. School 2007 |
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School 1960 vs. School 2007
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1960 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates.
2007 - Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken out and both are suspended even though Johnny started it. Diversionary conferences and parent meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't sit still in class, disrupts other students.
1960 - Jeffrey is sent to the principal's office and given 6 of the best. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Counselled to death. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra funding because Jeffrey has a disability. Drops out of school.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbour's car and his Dad gives him the slipper.
1960 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. Psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a promotion.
Scenario: Mark, a college student, brings cigarettes to school .
1960 - Mark shares a smoke with the school principal out on the smoking area.
2007 - Police are called and Mark is expelled from School for drug possession. His car is searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Mohammed fails high school English.
1960 - Mohammed retakes his exam, passes and goes to college.
2007 - Mohammed's cause is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. Civil Liberties Association files class action lawsuit against state school system and his English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Mohammed is given his qualification anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers, puts them in a model plane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.
1960 - Ants die.
2007 - MI5 and police are called and Johnny is charged with perpertrating acts of terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.
1960 - Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy. Becomes gay.
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Lin
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Location: Gt Clacton
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We had a teacher at one of the Clacton secondary schools in the early 70's called 'Slasher' ,he frightened the life out of me as he was so unpredictable .You thought you had got away with a minor misdemeanor ,when suddenly he would belt you round the back of the head ,you'd see stars for days  ....
Wonder how todays teenagers would cope with him.
Still at least I got a good English grade  .It was the only lesson I sat still in. |
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pepsi
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| The sad part is that it is funny but true in today's world. |
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Nikadi
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Funny, but yeah, shows how ott everything is now hm?
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amenity
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Location: Dovercourt
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Not sure if this is the right place to post this but there is a connection.
Did you see the Lord Snowdon life story tonight?
I was disappointed to find out he was not squeaky clean and during his happy wandering fathered two illegitimate children one in 1960 and the other when he was 68 years old.
We really cannot complain when our young have children without responsibility when the mighty rich have just the same experience, can we? |
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Vicar
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I think our "ruling classes" and certainly our royal family have always lived by a completely different (and far lower) set of moral values than ordinary people.
It's only in recent years that the press have dared to publish the truth about them or even to criticise them so we know the sort of people they really are.
For example: ex-nazi-uniform-wearing Prince Harry, hero, veteran, hunk, soldier prince, babe magnet, was mobbed by teenage girls at the Norfolk Show yesterday. Good to know that the British bimbo is alive and well. "OOOOooo 'es 'andsome and that, like, you know, but I wouldn't go out wiv 'im." Too true darling too true
Next week he'll fall out of another night club and eff and blind at the papparazzi and he'll be a disgrace again until they invent some more heroics for him to show us how noble he really is.
I admire him as much as I admire his father. I'll say no more.
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amenity2
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| Vicar wrote: | I think our "ruling classes" and certainly our royal family have always lived by a completely different (and far lower) set of moral values than ordinary people.
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Certainly wealth on the scale that our royals have is wrong, when one thinks of the origins of kings, how they were chosen for being the strongest and most able to protect the rest of us, how they used to sleep in the same communal hall as everyone else, how the invention of the upstairs room changed all that leading to the Age of Kings, something is clearly wrong.
The notion that we need a leader appears to be behind it all, if it is true the question remains why do sheep follow a lunatic? |
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Vicar
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I fully accept that we need a leader. My objection is that the job is hereditary.
Why is Charles the most suitable person to be King? It's because his mum was the Queen. That's all right then. So long as I have a valid reason to keep him and his in luxury I'll gladly pay to support one of the richest menin the country.
Imagine the scenario: "Well vicar it's time for your heart transplant. The surgeon hasn't done one of these before but he has got a degree in media studies from the University of Walton and had a crash course in speaking Welsh. The reason we've called him in is that his dad was a cracking heart surgeon back in the fifties so you're in good hands. It's in the blood you know.
On a more serious note, when I was very young, I was caught playing doctors with the girl next door. Her mother went ballistic. I had successfully performed an appendectomy and was moving on to remove her spleen before the rude interruption.............................
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amenity2
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:33 am Post subject: |
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| Vicar wrote: | It's in the blood you know.
On a more serious note, when I was very young, I was caught playing doctors with the girl next door. Her mother went ballistic. I had successfully performed an appendectomy and was moving on to remove her spleen before the rude interruption............................. |
Lets face it this blood notion is whats behind it all, when you are in the Blue team your ok.
Are you sure it was an appendectomy Vicar? |
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amenity2
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Did you hear the Cherie Blair interview the other night World Radio (BBC)?
Cherie admitted that it was because she had intentionally left her condoms behind, so as not to embarrass the queens staff, that she ultimately gave birth to Leo.
One weekend without contraceptives and even the mighty Blair's could not cope, Leo was an accident.
Better we don't criticise the youngsters for their lapses after that admission. |
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