Things you never see anymore

[Torquay Gunner]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

The cane was used freely in my school, I got it on my first day along with half the school as they shut the gate for the afternoon session and half the school were still on the park. I got caned plenty of times and I was one of the least troublesome kid in the class.

 

But the PE was the worst as we used to have to run around Victoria Park and the last one back was usually me, well apart from the single fat guy got the slipper. It was the very thick sole of a plimsole an I can tell you it hurt was more than the cane.

I can identify with that.  We had a vicious geography teacher called Mr Morgan, who used to love skippering kids.  He was obviously a Trekkie, because he used to rate his “efforts” warp factor xxx depending on how hard he hit you. Think I got an 7 once.  The 70’s was such fun! 

[Izzy]

2 minutes ago, Torquay Gunner said:

I can identify with that.  We had a vicious geography teacher called Mr Morgan, who used to love skippering kids.  He was obviously a Trekkie, because he used to rate his “efforts” warp factor xxx depending on how hard he hit you. Think I got an 7 once.  The 70’s was such fun! 

Our bastard teacher was Mr Greatorex for metalwork. If you messed around he'd sneak up behind you and smash his metal ruler over the back of your hands on the desk.

 

Happy memories 

[davieG]

17 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Our bastard teacher was Mr Greatorex for metalwork. If you messed around he'd sneak up behind you and smash his metal ruler over the back of your hands on the desk.

 

Happy memories 

Ouch, I remember the ruler across your knuckles.

 

We had an RE teacher who used to grab you by your sideburns or ears and drag you out of the room, to be fair we did piss him about a lot. His favourite saying was Get out, get out of my room which we all used to shout out together.

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, boots60 said:

Don't believe what you cut & paste.

Baileys was still alive & well in 1979

 

Well, I found that on the LM website so it must be correct, no?

[MPH]

[davieG]

18 minutes ago, MPH said:

They hurt if they hit you.

[MPH]

36 minutes ago, davieG said:

They hurt if they hit you.

 

They really did.

 

 

Drones in the classroom are not a new thing!

[SystonFox]

On 05/06/2024 at 19:02, Parafox said:

she's golden

[Daggers]

16 hours ago, MPH said:

That was always the nuclear option - only used when the high velocity chalk had failed to have the desired effect.

[Daggers]

Some clever teachers would keep a fully primed board duster spare. One for use, one for abuse.

[MPH]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

Some clever teachers would keep a fully primed board duster spare. One for use, one for abuse.

 

 

I went to Lancaster Boys School and if you were in PE and you were not listening or talking when they were talking, you'd get a basketball thrown at speed at your head. Troy Thacker and Mr Sandford were the main culprits . Both played for the Tigers at various times.

[davieG]

Register time in the morning come rain or shine.

[Parafox]

18 minutes ago, davieG said:

Register time in the morning come rain or shine.

 

The kids look so eager and happy to be there. Hardly surprising when  teach is bone dry.

 

Also, I remember the stumps painted on walls in my school playground.

[Free Falling Foxes]

14 hours ago, davieG said:

Register time in the morning come rain or shine.

We also used to say the Lords prayer each morning in our class at junior school and had an assembly each morning when at secondary school.

[Bellend Sebastian]

Headphone sockets on mobile phones.

 

Makes me LIVID

[UniFox21]

25 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Headphone sockets on mobile phones.

 

Makes me LIVID

Saw a picture the other day of the Macbook through the last 20 years and the gradual drop in the number of ports to make you buy additional cables etc 

[davieG]

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Kilroy Was Here.

WHO WAS KILROY?

He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC- back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known-but everybody seemed to get into it. So who was Kilroy?

In 1946, the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts, had evidence of his identity.

'Kilroy' was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. His job was to go around & check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework & got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets & put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark. Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through & count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.

One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, & asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can & brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added 'KILROY WAS HERE' in king-sized letters next to the check,& eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence & that became part of the Kilroy message.

Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets & chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced. His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up & spread it all over Europe & the South Pacific.

Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, & every where on the long hauls to Berlin & Tokyo. To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first."

As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arc de Triomphe, & even scrawled in the dust on the moon).

As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (& thus, presumably, were the first GI's there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!

In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, & Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its first occupant was Stalin, who emerged & asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?"

To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard & some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift & set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy yard in Halifax, Massachusetts.

and the tradition continues ...

[NAKC20]

Hot air ballons. Used to see quite a few in my area every summer, even remember one came over our house so low we could make out everyone in the basket and we waved to each other. I suppose Covid put a stop to them and they just dont seem to have returned.

[Silebyfox_89]

Kfc box meals for under £10.

[ozleicester]

17 hours ago, NAKC20 said:

Hot air ballons. Used to see quite a few in my area every summer, even remember one came over our house so low we could make out everyone in the basket and we waved to each other. I suppose Covid put a stop to them and they just dont seem to have returned.

All come over here

This was earlier this year...


and this was last month on my ride to work

 

Edited 27 June 2024 by ozleicester

[Parafox]

12 hours ago, NAKC20 said:

Hot air ballons. Used to see quite a few in my area every summer, even remember one came over our house so low we could make out everyone in the basket and we waved to each other. I suppose Covid put a stop to them and they just dont seem to have returned.

Years ago when I was a porter at the LGH, one crash landed in the grounds and even though it was a hospital we had to phone an ambulance to take the one injured guy to... hospital.

[Wymsey]

20 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Years ago when I was a porter at the LGH, one crash landed in the grounds and even though it was a hospital we had to phone an ambulance to take the one injured guy to... hospital.

The seemingly hundreds of empty nursing houses on Hospital Close next to the hospital is absolutely disgraceful.

[Bellend Sebastian]

People going on about not seeing white dog shit anymore should check out the fine example on Hinckley Road that was there earlier. 

 

A reminder of simpler, better times

[NAKC20]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

Years ago when I was a porter at the LGH, one crash landed in the grounds and even though it was a hospital we had to phone an ambulance to take the one injured guy to... hospital.

You wont catch me in one. My wife and my Dad went in one around 20 years ago and they both said was one of the best experiences of their lives, even though the basket did topple over on landing