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Thread: School just called to inform us my boy fell in the lake so they're sending him home.

  1. #21
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    No assualt course?
    That was the swimming pool area a - do keep up.

  2. #22
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    No assualt course?
    Oh, yes! Well remembered, a. Had a particularly nasty concrete tunnel full of water. That wasn't fun.

  3. #23

    Yes, this is what is so terribly sad; we'll never win the World Cup with

    all this school sport going on, poisoning our youngsters during their most important formative years.

    For example, the only sport German kids seem to do at school is some sort of calisthenics. Genius really.

    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    I see that and raise you a swimming pool, two sports halls, squash courts, 4 fives courts, an all-weather hockey pitch, tennis courts, six cricket pitches (converted to however many rugger pitches in winter) including one that is used for county matches - all of course with a full-time groundstaff.

    One took it for granted at the time, but looking back it does seem faintly ridicules.

    They have a zoo there now. It was opened by the Queen.
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  4. #24
    All my school had was a sense of foreboding and undercurrent of impending violence.

    gotta love a comprehensive.
    “Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”

  5. #25
    Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
    all this school sport going on, poisoning our youngsters during their most important formative years.

    For example, the only sport German kids seem to do at school is some sort of calisthenics. Genius really.
    Those Kraftwerk tribute videos won't make themselves, you know.

  6. #26
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Those Kraftwerk tribute videos won't make themselves, you know.
    ...and a climbing wall and fencing salles.

    Sorry, all this stuff has just been coming back to me at lunchtime.

  7. #27
    Quote Originally Posted by TheCurly View Post
    What sort of father sends his child to a school with a lake? Fúcking blue bloods
    How about a golf course?

  8. #28
    Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
    How about a golf course?
    That's just ridicules WEE

  9. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    Each to their own, we are very open minded in Ireland these days.
    Burney has only recently fully defended this type of noncery.

    Although he did assure me my son wouldn't get 'bummed', as such.

  10. #30
    Quote Originally Posted by TheCurly View Post
    That's just ridicules WEE
    Young master WES's school has a golf course. Only 9 holes, though.

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