Coming Out

[davieG]

Ok I admit it, it's shameful I know.

But I've suffered all my life with brickbats, innuendos and laughing and sneering behind my back.

When I first started my career as an Engineering Apprentice I was told by the foreman that they'd never known someone with my affliction becoming a successful engineer.

I've tried to hide it and on internet forums you can be who you like, but eventually the guilt gets to you so here goes........

Yes I'm Left handed

[Katy]

Ok I admit it, it's shameful I know.

But I've suffered all my life with brickbats, innuendos and laughing and sneering behind my back.

When I first started my career as an Engineering Apprentice I was told by the foreman that they'd never known someone with my affliction becoming a successful engineer.

I've tried to hide it and on internet forums you can be who you like, but eventually the guilt gets to you so here goes.......

Yes I'm Left handed

I think you've just gone up in Lisa's expectations

[Hullfox]

Yes I'm Left handed

Freak

[Webbo]

The shame you must have brought on your parents. Why couldn't you just have been born gay?

[AoWW]

Yes I'm Left handed

Oh my. What with you and Lisoh doesn't that mean a scarily high proportion of the admin team are indeed freaks of nature, abnormal, peculiar, lefties?

Still, it explains alot, I suppose...

[SuperSwede]

I'm lefthanded aswell, but my parents have accepted it.

[Zingari]

sinister

[the beange]

Reading that i was expecting...

I have to tell you all..... i'm gay

What an anti-climax haha left handed pftt

[Katy]

Yes, let's applaud the freakishly contorted twisty handed way southpaws write. It's pure entertainment.

[davieG]

Yes, let's applaud the freakishly contorted twisty handed way southpaws write. It's pure entertainment.

Now that's hurtful, Katie!

[Cobbo]

Now that's hurtful, Katie!

touché!

[Mark]

Oh my. What with you and Lisoh doesn't that mean a scarily high proportion of the admin team are indeed freaks of nature, abnormal, peculiar, lefties?

But only for writing

[Katy]

Now that's hurtful, Katie!

touché!

Haha sorry DG, I'll stop being harsh about lefties if you ever spell my name right.

That's twice I've seen it spelt wrong today, it's not hard, it's my user name for pities sake

[Guest]

Yes, let's applaud the freakishly contorted twisty handed way southpaws write. It's pure entertainment.

I find it much easier to turn the paper around. It also wound my teachers up

[Katy]

I find it much easier to turn the paper around. It also wound my teachers up

There was this lad at school who used the freakishly contorted twisty handed technique and I often thought it would be easier to just turn the paper around.

[Guest]

There was this lad at school who used the freakishly contorted twisty handed technique and I often thought it would be easier to just turn the paper around.

I wasn't a fan of it either, but many teachers tried to force us down this route. Obviously it didn't work with me, but some of the kids were too scared of the ruler to argue.

[Katy]

I wasn't a fan of it either, but many teachers tried to force us down this route. Obviously it didn't work with me, but some of the kids were too scared of the ruler to argue.

It was the chalkboard wooden rubber at my school

[Guest]

It was the chalkboard wooden rubber at my school

Our teachers only had cloths to clean the blackboards at my infant school. They never had the same effect. I wonder what today's preferred weapon of choice is - it's not like you can throw a projector at the unruly lot at the back of the classroom, is it.

[davieG]

Our teachers only had cloths to clean the blackboards at my infant school. They never had the same effect. I wonder what today's preferred weapon of choice is - it's not like you can throw a projector at the unruly lot at the back of the classroom, is it.

We had one sadist who used to grab you by your side burns, not that we had much at that age and drag you out of the classroom, he taught Religious Knowledge

[AoWW]

But only for writing

:eek: Not you as well?! Blimey, no wonder this forum is the way it is.

Thank fook Lookydo's normal (well, in a 'writes with the right hand' kinda way!) I wouldn't like to venture an opinion in other respects.

So, that just leaves Ric Flair to speculate about... left or right, me wonders?

[Katy]

:eek: Not you as well?! Blimey, no wonder this forum is the way it is.

Thank fook Lookydo's normal (well, in a 'writes with the right hand' kinda way!) I wouldn't like to venture an opinion in other respects.

So, that just leaves Ric Flair to speculate about... left or right, me wonders?

You can rule the Flarey one out as well, he has a pink shirt.

[Corky]

Nothing shameful about being left-handed Davie, I can tell you

In a previous post on another topic, I said I wrote right-handed. I said it to avioid confrontation. I really write left-handed.

[StroudFox]

Our teachers only had cloths to clean the blackboards at my infant school. They never had the same effect. I wonder what today's preferred weapon of choice is - it's not like you can throw a projector at the unruly lot at the back of the classroom, is it.

Unfortunately you can't throw anything, but if I could it would be ..... do you know, I cannot think what I could throw! Not that I advocate violence but it does irratate me that they can walk all over teachers and teachers can only say: Stop that, be quiet. Can't do anything that would really shock them, unless you want to get the sack!!!

[Guest]

Unfortunately you can't throw anything, but if I could it would be ..... do you know, I cannot think what I could throw! Not that I advocate violence but it does irratate me that they can walk all over teachers and teachers can only say: Stop that, be quiet. Can't do anything that would really shock them, unless you want to get the sack!!!

The lack of respect shown by pupils, and quite often the parents, is one of the reasons that I would consider a career in teaching as a last resort. My sis-in-law teaches yrs 3 & 4, and has said that many of her class lack the basic skills you would expect to find with children of those ages (you know, being able to dress for PE, or toilet and hygiene stuff). Whenever she has broached the subject with the parents, they basically abdicate any responsibility for them.

On a slightly different note, the mother-in-law was a governor at a secondary school, and sat on the disciplinary committee. One boy was suspended, and given a final warning, however the mother sat there and sobbed "I've done everything for him, I've given him a cd player, a dvd player, a tv, a laptop, an Xbox, I don't know what else to do to make him behave". "Take the fecking things off him, stupid mare" would have been my answer.

[Corky]

The lack of respect shown by pupils, and quite often the parents, is one of the reasons that I would consider a career in teaching as a last resort. My sis-in-law teaches yrs 3 & 4, and has said that many of her class lack the basic skills you would expect to find with children of those ages (you know, being able to dress for PE, or toilet and hygiene stuff). Whenever she has broached the subject with the parents, they basically abdicate any responsibility for them.

On a slightly different note, the mother-in-law was a governor at a secondary school, and sat on the disciplinary committee. One boy was suspended, and given a final warning, however the mother sat there and sobbed "I've done everything for him, I've given him a cd player, a dvd player, a tv, a laptop, an Xbox, I don't know what else to do to make him behave". "Take the fecking things off him, stupid mare" would have been my answer.

Exactly, bribery just makes things worse. The boy will feel he can walk all over his mother, do anything he wants, get what he wants, and that is all down to the parents. Spoiling them will turn them into monsters, because they know no different.

I wouldn't say my parents are strict, but they have instilled a discipline into me whereby I know what's right and what's wrong.