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

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10-07-2016, 11:21 AM
redgunamo

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

Just him and his hellion crew larking about, no doubt, so naturally, as an honest, caring father I requested video evidence. You know, to properly gauge the facts of the incident. They said there wasn't any.

What's the point of Youtube and iPhones and Instagram and whatnot if they're all going miss important things like this :-(
10-07-2016, 11:23 AM
TheCurly

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

Just him and his hellion crew larking about, no doubt, so naturally, as an honest, caring father I requested video evidence. You know, to properly gauge the facts of the incident. They said there wasn't any.

What's the point of Youtube and iPhones and Instagram and whatnot if they're all going miss important things like this :-(

What sort of father sends his child to a school with a lake? Fúcking blue bloods :-(
10-07-2016, 11:24 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

Just him and his hellion crew larking about, no doubt, so naturally, as an honest, caring father I requested video evidence. You know, to properly gauge the facts of the incident. They said there wasn't any.

What's the point of Youtube and iPhones and Instagram and whatnot if they're all going miss important things like this :-(

I suppose it would have been quite a chilly sort of lake. Even so, there's no need to send him home, surely? I and a chum once fell into the fishpond in the quad whilst wrestling. We just got hauled before the beak, given a savage böllocking, a Saturday morning detention and were left to drip dry for the rest of the day.
10-07-2016, 11:25 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by TheCurly

What sort of father sends his child to a school with a lake? Fúcking blue bloods :-(

My school had a glider, an armoury and a rifle range, c.
10-07-2016, 11:28 AM
TheCurly

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Originally Posted by Burney

My school had a glider, an armoury and a rifle range, c.

Well tbf we had 2 handball courts,3 full size Gaelic pitches and an all-weather pitch for the soccer boys :-)
10-07-2016, 11:30 AM
Pat Vegas

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Originally Posted by TheCurly

What sort of father sends his child to a school with a lake? Fúcking blue bloods :-(

We had a pond but wasn't allowed to go near it.

And this is in the middle of London.
10-07-2016, 11:33 AM
redgunamo

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Originally Posted by Burney

I suppose it would have been quite a chilly sort of lake. Even so, there's no need to send him home, surely? I and a chum once fell into the fishpond in the quad whilst wrestling. We just got hauled before the beak, given a savage böllocking, a Saturday morning detention and were left to drip dry for the rest of the day.

Everyone's Milchbubis nowadays, I'm afraid.

Still, they break up today so the two or three members of staff charged with escorting him to the train were no doubt anxious to get to the pub and have done with it. Under the circs, any old excuse would do, I guess.
10-07-2016, 11:35 AM
PSRB

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Originally Posted by Burney

My school had a glider, an armoury and a rifle range, c.

I rather liked our pool
10-07-2016, 11:36 AM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by TheCurly

Well tbf we had 2 handball courts,3 full size Gaelic pitches and an all-weather pitch for the soccer boys :-)

I ran around most of them at a fúcking cross country event the once. You cannot begin to guess how fúcking grim that was.
10-07-2016, 11:36 AM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Burney

I suppose it would have been quite a chilly sort of lake. Even so, there's no need to send him home, surely? I and a chum once fell into the fishpond in the quad whilst wrestling. We just got hauled before the beak, given a savage böllocking, a Saturday morning detention and were left to drip dry for the rest of the day.

Naked wresting I assume, as a prelude to full on sodomy. It was that type of school wasn't it, we have established this before.
10-07-2016, 11:38 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by TheCurly

Well tbf we had 2 handball courts,3 full size Gaelic pitches and an all-weather pitch for the soccer boys :-)

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. :hehe:
10-07-2016, 11:39 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by SWv2

Naked wresting I assume, as a prelude to full on sodomy. It was that type of school wasn't it, we have established this before.

Any school I was in was 'that type of school', sw. Know what I mean? ;-)
10-07-2016, 11:42 AM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Burney

Any school I was in was 'that type of school', sw. Know what I mean? ;-)

Each to their own, we are very open minded in Ireland these days.
10-07-2016, 11:44 AM
TheCurly

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Originally Posted by Burney

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. :hehe:

We had a swimming pool that me auld fella tiled #proud
10-07-2016, 11:47 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by TheCurly

We had a swimming pool that me auld fella tiled #proud

Ours was run by Derren Brown's dad, who as far as I can tell wore swimming trunks all year round. Don't think I ever saw him in trousers.
10-07-2016, 11:49 AM
TheCurly

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Originally Posted by Burney

Ours was run by Derren Brown's dad, who as far as I can tell wore swimming trunks all year round. Don't think I ever saw him in trousers.

:nod: PE teachers.Weirdos to a man
10-07-2016, 11:50 AM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Burney

Ours was run by Derren Brown's dad, who as far as I can tell wore swimming trunks all year round. Don't think I ever saw him in trousers.

The last sentence B.

:-\

"That type of school"
10-07-2016, 11:53 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by SWv2

The last sentence B.

:-\

"That type of school"

I'm sure he must have worn trousers occasionally, but I have no memory of him other than in speedos. He was a burly, hairy sort of chap. Smoked cigars pretty much constantly and had a gold chain round his neck. It was very much the 1980s :hehe:
10-07-2016, 11:56 AM
Lar d'Arse

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Originally Posted by Burney

I'm sure he must have worn trousers occasionally, but I have no memory of him other than in speedos. He was a burly, hairy sort of chap. Smoked cigars pretty much constantly and had a gold chain round his neck. It was very much the 1980s :hehe:

Cousin by the name of Savile by any chance?
10-07-2016, 11:57 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Burney

My school had a glider, an armoury and a rifle range, c.

No assualt course?
10-07-2016, 11:58 AM
Lar d'Arse

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Originally Posted by Ash

No assualt course?

That was the swimming pool area a - do keep up.
10-07-2016, 12:02 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Ash

No assualt course?

Oh, yes! Well remembered, a. Had a particularly nasty concrete tunnel full of water. That wasn't fun. :-(
10-07-2016, 12:19 PM
redgunamo

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.

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Originally Posted by Burney

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. :hehe:
10-07-2016, 12:20 PM
IUFG

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

gotta love a comprehensive.
10-07-2016, 12:32 PM
Ash

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

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.
10-07-2016, 01:09 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Ash

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.
10-07-2016, 03:34 PM
World's End Stella

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Originally Posted by TheCurly

What sort of father sends his child to a school with a lake? Fúcking blue bloods :-(

How about a golf course?
10-07-2016, 03:36 PM
TheCurly

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Originally Posted by World's End Stella

How about a golf course?

That's just ridicules WEE
10-07-2016, 03:36 PM
World's End Stella

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Originally Posted by SWv2

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. :-|
10-07-2016, 03:38 PM
World's End Stella

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Originally Posted by TheCurly

That's just ridicules WEE

Young master WES's school has a golf course. Only 9 holes, though.
10-07-2016, 03:43 PM
redgunamo

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Originally Posted by Ash

Those Kraftwerk tribute videos won't make themselves, you know.

One of them gave a talk at this school recently, as it happens. Not his school precisely, a neighbouring one and his lot just edged their way in.

Apparently the chap and/or the group hails from those parts.

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