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Post by DI Alex Drake on Apr 24, 2020 9:54:12 GMT
Oh well that does surprise me. I couldn't find another school in Plymouth where the girls were wearing ties, but it didn't seem odd to us because we had always done it! I have mine, too. Well, I think they were actually my brother's but he left the month before I started. I also have one with the school logo on which weren't standard uniform but were used when people forgot theirs. However, I thought they were amazing (can't tell you how much I loved my school) and asked the headteacher if I could have one . I think he was a bit bemused but humoured me. I'm glad you too enjoyed school, Sam and that you weren't one of those animals who cut up the ties! I think some of our year actually set fire to them at the end
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Apr 24, 2020 10:01:32 GMT
Two words: morning people! They do seem to be the majority and I get that for many people it’s not a choice - they have kids or they have a long commute or whatever but those people who get up really early when they do not have to! My colleagues are all morning people and all enjoy taking the mick because I’m really not. I think I was meant to be nocturnal. Not your fault you're part badger! Badger!? Ordinarily I'd go for bat, but it's not a good time to be a bat!
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 24, 2020 10:07:47 GMT
Not your fault you're part badger! Badger!? Ordinarily I'd go for bat, but it's not a good time to be a bat! God no! Not badger either now I think of it, too many flat ones on the roads round here. How about an owl? Since you are a bird, in 70's lingo!
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 24, 2020 10:07:50 GMT
Sorry to horrify you Alex but I had a ceremonial burn of my uniform - as little as it was before I took my GCSE's in 1990 wasn't sad to see it go I'm afraid too. School aside it just felt like a good rite of passage too the end of an era and all that.
We were meant to wear ties along with shoes, jackets etc. when I started secondary school but it was fudged in my first year and quietly it didn't get really enforced to the point by about 3 months in no one really mentioned or cared we had no ties, wore trainers, chinos/dark jeans etc. which sums up how poor my school was and the posher more disciplined schools in the area certainly knew we were not part of them and vice versa. I liked and got a hell of a lot more out of FE College both educational and self knowledge which made me grow up and enabled me to do things school would never have allowed me to do.
Even though not being a part of it myself I'd certainly prefer children to wear a proper uniform at school more for the pride and discipline it brings. It also removes the fashion show arms race when someone is either dressed in £1,000's of designer gear or the cheapest clothes possible... with ultimate results.
Funny how you see things differently from your youth and all that.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Apr 24, 2020 12:23:17 GMT
Sorry to read of the news 3L regarding the gentleman in question, just horribly unfair and not a good time at the moment.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 24, 2020 16:36:23 GMT
I have never been able to make a decent tie knot. I actually had to wear one every day from year 7 to 11. I didn't think it was weird then but since then I haven't found another school where the girls wore ties. Yes I am a girl, I swear. We wore Bottle Green / White striped ties from Yr 7 onwards - though around Year 9, they changed the ties to clip on ones. I could never do a Tie Knot.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 26, 2020 22:17:30 GMT
Thanks Gene. You just don't expect it in someone who is younger and fitter. Not logical I know. Very sorry to hear of your friend's diagnosis 3L, I hope he's able to make the most of his time that he has left with his loved ones. Sadly the bug is indiscriminate such that age and fitness doesn't seem to count for much. In recent years I have lost two very good friends to it, both younger and fitter than me, so it can be difficult to comprehend. All you can do is to keep him and his family in your thoughts, offer assistance, keep in regular contact and visit periodically to assure them that they are not alone. Sam. Wise words there Sam.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 26, 2020 22:18:58 GMT
Unbelievable that the weather is so good during the only lockdown the country has ever had!
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Apr 26, 2020 22:50:37 GMT
It keeps saying it’s going to rain and then doesn’t ... much like for the last two summers.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 28, 2020 22:54:18 GMT
This thread has been quiet for a while!
Another thing I don't get is why people buy a 4x4 SUV and then pussy-foot around at the slightest obstacle.
Today I stopped in as I was driving by the local retail park to drop into the pet shop for dog food. As I drove in I found myself behind a fairly new model Land Rover Defender, one of the new sanitised versions not the old style 'real' Defender in the series 1,2, 3 or whatever style.
Now, the roadway through the centre of the car park has speed humps of probably three or four inches high with low angled leading and tail edges that hardly affects anyone other than those with a 'slammed' Golf or suchlike.
The Land Rover Defender driver approached each and every hump as if he were driving over eggshells! A bloody off-road 4x4 creeping over each speed hump, it was pathetic. Christ knows what he'd do if he ever had to get the poor vehicle up a kerb!
Sam.
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