Thought for to-day........
#91
Posted 25 October 2008 - 02:20 PM
as you are now,so once was i
as i am now, so you shall be
prepare youself to come with me
#96
Posted 25 October 2008 - 05:32 PM
Some learn by reading,some ask questions,others observe...but there's always one who has to pee on an electric fence for himself.
#97
Posted 25 October 2008 - 11:20 PM
just for the young or the southern members who never knew the joy of the tawse, which was a strip of "the finest lochgelly leather" as one teacher described it, about 18-24 inches in length, split into two tongues at one end, depending on the teacher they could be between 5mm and 12mm thick about an inch or so wide, some say certain teachers treated their belt to make them especially stiff like a bar of iron, one teacher used to hold it out in front of him and there would be not even the hint of a bend in the belt, in my opinion theres a lot of todays youth could benefit from six of the best, tho some teachers in my day seemed to get too much pleasure out of administering the belt, they were easily spotted as they were men who would belt girls, most would if forced into having to belt a female send the culprit to a female teacher, the ones who didn't and who put all their weight into each blow were the same teachers who never seem to accept invitations to class reunions. i was on the board of my kids primary school for eight years, four with an ex teacher of mine, we had an incident where a youth had been caught breaking classroom windows, a good dose of the belt is needed i suggested, to which this retired teacher replied that no, the poor misunderstood boy needed support and a social worker, i couldn't resist reminding him that he had no problem giving me 12 strokes of his belt for not getting up off my backside quick enough to choose a partner while we were being taught Scottish country dancing, he will be instantly recognised to all from this neck of the woods by his nickname "BA HEID"
#98
Posted 26 October 2008 - 01:22 AM
Dugald's nickname up here was "twoie-twoie"(2ee-2ee), asked Robert Ross and he said it was his mother who called him that, don't know if he was a 2nd child or no.
#99
Posted 26 October 2008 - 11:35 AM
Some learn by reading,some ask questions,others observe...but there's always one who has to pee on an electric fence for himself.
#100
Posted 27 October 2008 - 02:34 PM
Dougal was the only teacher that ever taught me that never belted me, i used to enjoy being the class clown, all my report cards highlighted my sarcastic attitude in class, i enjoyed the battle of wits with a few, after all my work was done of course so they couldn't fault me for that, i made my history teachers life a misery for two years and when he came to a class reunion we had when we turned forty he spent an hour telling me what a great pupil i'd been!!! left me speechless, usually impossible as a few will agree, he used to try and embarress me by producing pictures his brother had taken of myself and my brothers in the band we had, fancied himself as a photographer and a musical svengali, a forerunner of simon cowell, if i got lippy in class, the teacher would open his drawer and produce the pics, asking the class if they wanted to see pics of the class rockstar, didn't bother me, it was a bit different in those days, we were the first new young band in town in twenty years, today every second kid is in a band in our school, or in the pipeband or brass band, winning titles all over the place, gives them the discipline that most their age lack, easy to spot the vandals and mischief makers here, the ones that aren't in one of the bands, the threat of expulsion keeps the members in check, tho on a trip to france last year a few hired a cabin on the return ferry and got blitzed, they all got thrown out the band and publically shamed at school, don't think many will follow their example. bring back the belt for the troublemakers, tho it never worked on their parents and grandparents, its easy to spot the third and fourth generation thugs here, i did advocate sterilisation in an article i wrote for a magazine my brother used to publish back in the nineties, didn't go down too well, but then there are farmers who still don't speak to me after one i wrote about them "to beef, or not to beef?" the word subsidy is a sore point with some of them, they still glower at me in the street, i didn't know they could read!!!!!
#106
Posted 30 October 2008 - 12:31 PM
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#112
Posted 09 December 2008 - 09:47 AM
#114
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#116
Posted 09 December 2008 - 01:47 PM
Sure its a grand oul team ti play for
#117
Posted 09 December 2008 - 02:07 PM