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[Varche]

six o'clock BBC news.

Interview with a mother talking about the school being closed." so the children can build Snowmans"!

I can see the problem. Get those schools reopened quickly. 

I do not remember schools being closed when we were children. In fact as a countryside dweller our journey was often tough. I remember one occasion walking 2.5 miles through drifting snow, catching the service bus and then walking the 30 minutes to school from the depot. An eagle eyed teacher spotted me arriving at about ten a.m. and I had to report to the head for a caning for being late. ( It was raining at the school ) 

[TheBoy]

And we wonder why society is turning out like it is.

We never had "teacher training days" either.  Seems to be the slightest excuse now....

[BazaJT]

Didn't matter what the weather was you went to school simple as that.Quite a few times in winter you'd get there and the teachers would say "The heating boiler has broken down,you can keep your coats on".

[TheBoy]

Didn't matter what the weather was you went to school simple as that.Quite a few times in winter you'd get there and the teachers would say "The heating boiler has broken down,you can keep your coats on".

You softie, we couldn't even do that on the frequent times our school boiler didn't work...   ...it appeared it wasn't able to function if it was cold.

[Bigron]

Is that why they are known as "The Snowflake Generation"?

Ron.

[STEMO]

When it snowed, we had to set off at half four in the morning and walk 27 miles to school. Our mam gave us a cold spud to eat on the way. When we got there we got a good hiding for being two minutes late and the PE teachers would take turns to bum us. We never got home till about two in the morning and we were locked out cos mam and dad had got pissed up and gone to bed. We had to sleep in the out side lavvy and eat bits of the Liverpool Echo that was there to wipe your arse on.
Them were the days.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

You got a cold spud ? Lucky bastard, don't know your born. All I had to eat was my own toenails, and I had to bite them off myself.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Didn't matter what the weather was you went to school simple as that.Quite a few times in winter you'd get there and the teachers would say "The heating boiler has broken down,you can keep your coats on".

Ah....happy days.

Yep......fair few sadistic bastards pretending to be teachers back then though. I took more than my share of beatings from the headmaster who seemed to get off on such things.

I can remember my 9 year old sister and a 7 year old Opti walking through deep snow to get to school. No adults required to 'wrap us in cotton wool'

 If it didn't kill you they called it 'character building' way back then.

[STEMO]

You got a cold spud ? Lucky bastard, don't know your born. All I had to eat was my own toenails, and I had to bite them off myself.

I think I’d have starved to death first. 

[Andy B]

I remember walking to school in the snow on my very first day at school 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

You got a cold spud ? Lucky bastard, don't know your born. All I had to eat was my own toenails, and I had to bite them off myself.

I think I’d have starved to death first. 

Not as bad as you might think. Quite a cheesy flavour. Like eating coarsely ground Parmesan. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

You got a cold spud ? Lucky bastard, don't know your born. All I had to eat was my own toenails, and I had to bite them off myself.

I think I’d have starved to death first. 

Nah.....if you were properly hungry you'd eat Albs toenails and enjoy every crunchy bite.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I well remember a really heavy bout of snow when I was at Primary school. On the way home there was a really long downhill section.
My mates and I sat at the kerbside waiting for cars to come past at about 10mph. Just as they passed we would hop out behind them and grab the rear bumper, and get a superb downhill slide for 200 yards or so.
One bloke saw us, stopped the car and got out and chased us. His yelling sounded something like "comereyeweebastisdsIllkickthefickinshiteoutayous"
Laugh ? we nearly shat. 

[STEMO]

I well remember a really heavy bout of snow when I was at Primary school. On the way home there was a really long downhill section.
My mates and I sat at the kerbside waiting for cars to come past at about 10mph. Just as they passed we would hop out behind them and grab the rear bumper, and get a superb downhill slide for 200 yards or so.
One bloke saw us, stopped the car and got out and chased us. His yelling sounded something like "comereyeweebastisdsIllkickthefickinshiteoutayous"
Laugh ? we nearly shat. 

Yes. It’s a wonder any of us made it to adulthood, the things we used to do for ‘fun’. I jumped off the back of a bus between stops cause I saw my mate and smacked straight into a lamppost. I jumped off the bay window cause my dad had grounded me and hit the ground running with no adverse effects (till I got home). I nearly set fire to the house with matches, candles and various other inflammables quite a few times.
Proper growing up stuff. 

[STEMO]

Oh....and I ruined me mams best pan melting Lego bricks in it. 

[TheBoy]

and the PE teachers would take turns to bum us

I never knew we went to the same school

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Oh....and I ruined me mams best pan melting Lego bricks in it. 

I hope she gave you a bloody good hiding.

[STEMO]

Oh....and I ruined me mams best pan melting Lego bricks in it. 

I hope she gave you a bloody good hiding.

No. She never hit me at all. She would say she was going to tell my dad..and he would give me a bloody good hiding. But he used to go straight to the pub after work and roll home about 11 o’clock when I was in bed. Usually all forgotten by morning.

[Varche]

Oh....and I ruined me mams best pan melting Lego bricks in it. 

I know your avatar has no hair but are you one of the hairy Bikers?  Dave?

[STEMO]

Oh....and I ruined me mams best pan melting Lego bricks in it. 

I know your avatar has no hair but are you one of the hairy Bikers?  Dave?

It was a perfectly good idea. Melt the bricks and fashion something different from them. Only, due to a lack of forward planning, I didn’t realise I’d need a pair of asbestos gloves or something, so the project ended up looking like plastic dog sick 

[Lizzie Zoom]

It can all be answered in one sentence:  Concerns about Health & Safety Risk Assessments and what happens about insurance claims, along with litigation, when something goes wrong.  Simples.

That is the (western) World we now live in.

[Varche]

That doesn't explain the poor English spoken by the mother. Plural of snowman is not snowmans.

[Viral_Jim]

That doesn't explain the poor English spoken by the mother. Plural of snowman is not snowmans.

Quite right. It’s Snowsman. 

[Kevin Wood]

and the PE teachers would take turns to bum us

I never knew we went to the same school

I do still have very naughty memories of Miss Ellis in her leotard, though.   

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Before I was 6, I drunk a bottle of Harpic - a mixture of potash and caustic soda, used for cleaning toilets. Also drunk a bottle of Windolene - it was pink so it should have tasted nice. So had my stomach pumped twice. Ate worms from the garden and freshly laid tarmac from the road outside our house.
Looking back, I think I was either malnourished or seriously backward. 

[Rods2]

Before I was 6, I drunk a bottle of Harpic - a mixture of potash and caustic soda, used for cleaning toilets. Also drunk a bottle of Windolene - it was pink so it should have tasted nice. So had my stomach pumped twice. Ate worms from the garden and freshly laid tarmac from the road outside our house.
Looking back, I think I was either malnourished or seriously backward. 

Probably, neither, just a brighter than average kid, working out how the world works and the do/don't boundaries with less fear than more cautious kids. My older brother did similar things, alcohol (fortunately not mercury) from a thermometer, black mouth from road being re-tarmacked etc, etc. I was the more sensible one, mostly. But obviously not when we were both playing with matches, setting long dried grass on fire in our back garden and then stamping out the flames, daring each other each time to let the fire get bigger before we stamped it out. As you can guess the inevitable happened with my dad coming home to all of the bottom of the garden burn't to a frazzle, along with a row of trees and much of our neighbours garden and the crops in his vegetable plot, but fortunately not his wooden greenhouse. Needless to say that was a beating we both deserved. My dad was not impressed with the kids finger pointer and each saying he lit more matches and let it burn more until it got out of control.

[Marks DTM Calib]

The most I recall is the heating packing up and an army of Superser's being rolled out!

[TD]

I'm surprised in this mad world, the PC brigade hasn't insisted that its 'Snowperson'   

[Sir Tigger KC]

The most I recall is the heating packing up and an army of Superser's being rolled out!

Ah the Superser! 

We had one and it used to fog up the kitchen in no time! 

[Varche]

I'm surprised in this mad world, the PC brigade hasn't insisted that its 'Snowpeoples'   

Corrected that for you

[Rods2]

I'm surprised in this mad world, the PC brigade hasn't insisted that its 'Snowperson'   

The rug-muncher that runs our local primary school would insist snowman alternated every other day with snow-woman!

[Kevin Wood]

I'm surprised in this mad world, the PC brigade hasn't insisted that its 'Snowperson'   

The rug-muncher that runs our local primary school would insist snowman alternated every other day with snow-woman!

Additional carrot required, then, and probably some broccoli, seeing as I don't believe Brazillian snowmenpersons are a thing.

[Varche]

Hang on we could be getting into difficult territory. The LBGT community will need to be fairly represented. No carrots or broc and clothed so as not to offend. Might be better to build igloos.

https://news.sky.com/story/worcestershire-makes-igloo-with-washing-up-bowl-and-snow-11167800

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Gender non specific snow feature is the new phrase. We may laugh, but unless something changes, our grandchildren will speak like that all the time. 

[STEMO]

Gender non specific snow feature is the new phrase. We may laugh, but unless something changes, our grandchildren will speak like that all the time. 

Scary, isn’t it? When I get old(er), I’m gonna make it my business to act a little deranged while spouting all kinds of racist and sexist language. Alf Garnet will be resurrected!

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

So you've just been practising for the last 10 years or so ? 

[STEMO]

So you've just been practising for the last 10 years or so ? 

Fick off, Paddy. 

[Bigron]

Wen they lernt me at skool, they taught me about the "assumptive male", where you said "he" to stand for "he and/or she". It saved unnecessary tiresome repetition and was not intended to exclude women, just to make life easier and not get into the ridiculous phraseology that you just indicated, Albs.
Can we have our sanity back, please?

Ron.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Gender non specific snow feature is the new phrase. We may laugh, but unless something changes, our grandchildren will speak like that all the time. 

Scary, isn’t it? When I get old(er), I’m gonna make it my business to act a little deranged while spouting all kinds of racist and sexist language. Alf Garnet will be resurrected!

Scouse git.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

So you've just been practising for the last 10 years or so ? 

Fick off, Paddy. 

The prosecution rests m,lud.

[TheBoy]

Didn't matter what the weather was you went to school simple as that.Quite a few times in winter you'd get there and the teachers would say "The heating boiler has broken down,you can keep your coats on".

You softie, we couldn't even do that on the frequent times our school boiler didn't work...   ...it appeared it wasn't able to function if it was cold.

The secondary school I went to had a shit load of those temporary Terrapin buildings for classrooms. Those that had to suffer them will recall the parafin heater in the corner were a bugger to get going in cold weather, and had to be turned off after about 30mins because of the fumes.

And still no coats allowed

[Kevin Wood]

One of ours mysteriously burnt down one night. 

I saw this great glow in the sky and was rejoicing that the place had gone up. It was only one hut. Not surprising, really, the rest of the school was either concrete or metal. Nothing to burn. Of course, not even any insulation in those days as tree huggers weren't a thing.

[TheBoy]

One of ours mysteriously burnt down one night. 

I saw this great glow in the sky and was rejoicing that the place had gone up. It was only one hut. Not surprising, really, the rest of the school was either concrete or metal. Nothing to burn. Of course, not even any insulation in those days as tree huggers weren't a thing.

One of ours collapsed one day. Just fell like a deck of cards

Fortunately no class was in it, but did cause minor injuries to a couple of lads who were near it.

[Doctor Gollum]

One of ours mysteriously burnt down one night. 

I saw this great glow in the sky and was rejoicing that the place had gone up. It was only one hut. Not surprising, really, the rest of the school was either concrete or metal. Nothing to burn. Of course, not even any insulation in those days as tree huggers weren't a thing.

One of ours collapsed one day. Just fell like a deck of cards

Fortunately no class was in it, but did cause minor injuries to a couple of lads who were pushing it.

That'll learn you

[TheBoy]

One of ours mysteriously burnt down one night. 

I saw this great glow in the sky and was rejoicing that the place had gone up. It was only one hut. Not surprising, really, the rest of the school was either concrete or metal. Nothing to burn. Of course, not even any insulation in those days as tree huggers weren't a thing.

One of ours collapsed one day. Just fell like a deck of cards

Fortunately no class was in it, but did cause minor injuries to a couple of lads who were pushing it.

That'll learn you

At that school, it wouldn't surprise me if some of the lads had caused its demise.  But not me, I was on the 3rd floor of the proper, brick building next door overlooking it, with a fantastic view, and saw all but the very start of it (or the end, as it was just a cloud of dust and shite).

As said, fortunately no class in there at the time, as I'm sure it would have resulted in multiple serious injuries.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I wouldn't say my school was rough, but they used to threaten the boys in the local borstal with being sent there if they didn't behave.