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@taniwharugby said in Aging:
@JC yeah I didnt mind the cane, especially as an alternative to after-school detention.
Assume you mean WBHS? Didnt change greatly when I arrived, but did change alot between when I started and left in '92.
Did you know the Harveys?
Tony? I think he was in my little brother's year.
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@taniwharugby said in Aging:
all the 'sanctioned' canings at WBHS were in the corridor on the 1st floor outside the entrance to the staff room, my Economics class was straight above, when you knew someone was going in for it, everyone was silent to hear it...
We had a couple of teachers who were not allowed to cane kids (one was an A-Grade Squash player) and 90% of the 'sanctioned' canings were administered by 1 teacher
In my day they (sanctioned ones) were in the 'quiet workroom" which was on the bridge between the staffroom and the hall. We used to be able to look down into it from one of my classes in the 4th form, so if someone from our class was getting it we ere all crowded around the windows. We had one teacher (nicknamed Cattle Tick) who used to cane boys with their heads under the chalk ledge so they bashed their head if they reacted. Another (Bushwhacker) used to cane boys with their arses in the corridor but heads sticking through the doorway for the entertainment of the other students. They always had to be witnessed but he just used to grab a prefect and that would do.
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Yep, she won a trophy. So did a couple of her friends who are talented.
And the other little fuckwits just bobbed around like demented squirrels on speed.
The only highlights were a couple of her instructors - in their early 20s - doing a bit of wiggling themselves.
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the conversation between @Snowy and @booboo in the cricket thread reminded me.
I travelled with a work colleague yesterday. A good few years younger than me. Arranged to meet at the lounge.
He was unaware that you didn't need to print your boarding pass, amazed that the Air NZ app would recognise you were at the airport ad ask if you wanted your normal coffee, couldn't get his hot spot to work and didn't know you didn't have to go into the settings menu to change things, wished he had brought his kindle with him and didn't realise you can read kindle e-books on other devices, was complaining that he couldn't work out how to play his CD's on his new car and all he could find for music was spotify "WTF is that" and when I tried to explain and show him how connected the world is nowadays by letting him switch on my home lights camera's etc he didn't believe it was happening "you're shitting me!!"
How do these people survive? He has a senior executive position and is clearly no dummy but it seems his ability to process technological change has atrophied.
More worryingly how long before I find myself unable to understand the most mundane tech improvements. Seriously I think this guy would have been less surprised if we had caught a pterodactyl to palmie than he was at your phone knowing your coffee preferences.
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@MajorRage Totally get where you are coming from. In my defence I have responsibility for nine locations in NZ and have successfully avoided Palmie for almost a decade. We are in a serious contract dispute so I took my punishment like a man.
I was there less than 12 hours so shouldn't have contracted anything?
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Standing in a bar queue to get drinks now fucks me off.
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@mariner4life said in Dying:
Standing in a bar queue to get drinks now fucks me off.
Having to queue to spend my money anywhere fucks me off. The pricks wanting my money should be ones in the queue, not me.
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Not sure where to post this but I have just seen in action how old people kill toddlers in car parks.
Done my blood test (see Lockdown check in thread), called into office and pulled up to supermarket car park.
In the aisle across from me older lady (obviously nurse of some kind, had branded nursing home uniform and one of those upside down pin on watches so she allowed in to the early hour, so still working age but only just) pulls into space one over from me to my left.
Obviously misses the brake so scoots forward so slams harder on the accelerator. Right through the park, up and over the kerb, and raised concrete and into the luckily empty space next to me.
Sheesh.
