Getting to know you

[david_carnell]

I'm afraid I can merely replicate everyone else's school reports:

"Could try harder"

"Shows flashes of good work but fails to maintain high standards"

"Could go far if he applied himself"

I like who I am but part of me can't help but feel that they were right. Smart but lazy seems an apt description of many forumites. We like to think of ourselves as too good for our unfulfilling jobs and relieve the boredom online. Never have I met such a wonderful bunch of underachievers!! B)

[KalamityKel]

I don't know what you're talking about DC I was a straight A student! *lies* :p

[buggie]

Seeing this has made me dig out my "National Record of Achievement" to find the following quote from my form teacher, written as I was completing my GCSE's

"She is quaintly void of many teenage anxieties and refreshingly naive"

think he meant no lad would look at me twice so no chance of me getting pregnant or having any close shaves!!

[annaj]

Oh buggie that's ace.

Mine were mostly about me being great verbally, but not so good at written work (the words messy and unfinished appeared repeatedly). Oh and apparently they could tell I did my homework in five minutes on the bus.

The worst were my games and PE reports. We got separate grades for ability, effort, achievement and attendance. I always got E for ability, B for effort and E for achievement. In other words, so little natural talent that even trying really quite hard I acheived nothing.

Edited because my written work and spelling are still a bit sloppy :-$

[wee quinnie]

Azul Wrote:

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> I'd never eaten a parsnip before I came over to

> the UK.

I had never eaten pumpkin, sweet potato or celeriac before I went to Australia in 1993. I like sweet potato a lot, but the thought of straight celeriac on a plate makes me want to boke rings round me.

[Moos]

hmm, that was weird

[Moos]

BB, blowing you a kiss! Bang on about feeling that horrible frustrated but.. but.. but.. anger when up against immovable illogic.

Buggie, that's the best report comment I've ever heard... I am now envisaging you floating elegantly but chastely around your school in Victorian attire... :) I was never in danger of boys looking at me at school but not because I was quaintly naive, more red-faced and spotty.

Anna, I'm going to call you on that one; you're a doctor you must have been dead clever at school!

And finally DC how dare you, underachiever indeed! Speak for yourself, young man.

[KalamityKel]

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[bignumber5]

I'm afraid I can merely replicate everyone else's school reports:

Likewise. Headmaster was kind enough to tell me during one of many hours of detention (which often needed a 4 hour catch up on a Saturday morning) that I would never amount to anything, and that I might as well give up because people like me never amount to anything and often die young, poor and alone. I thought this sounded very rock'n'roll!

He would then go on to explain how my older brother had been a model student etc etc.

Interesting, I thought, from a man who (years after I left) was subsequently sacked for scamming a shed-load of cash from the school. http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/search/display.var.312676.0.suspended_head_will_face_hearing.php Word was he wasn't even who he said he was, but an identity thief who was not even qualified to teach, though I have no idea if that is true or not.

Mores et Studia...

[annaj]

Moos, are you suggesting that I made my bad reports up to fit in with the cool kids on here?

That would be a little needy don't you think?

No, it's all true. I mean I'm not going to claim I was a real thickie, that would be silly, but my teachers all felt I could've done better if I'd applied myself.

*looks a bit sheepish*

And as it happens they were right. I didn't get into medical school the first time around only after a couple of resits and a bit of applying myself.

[SeanMacGabhann]

all this more likely means that most of us recognized, albeit subconsciously in many cases, that the education system is geared to factory-produce "workers" and not to... ummmm.. educate

But to be fair most of us don't want educating - given the largest access to information ever, and beyond the wildest dreams of only a few generations ago, most people seem happy to use the internet for porn and slebri'ies

so yes that's me down as yet another "he's alright but could do better"

[SteveT]

SeanMacG wrote:- given the largest access to information ever, people seem happy to use the internet for porn

That covers all our forumista's Sean, as were all posting local stuff rather than bettering our selves gathering internet goodies for the next degree.

I do not gather porn personally, as I have always considered sex as a participation sport;-)

[Bellenden Belle]

SteveT Wrote:

We're all posting local stuff rather than bettering our

> selves gathering internet goodies for the next

> degree.

Ah but SteveT if you read the 'Has this forum changed your behaviour thread' you will see lots of instances not of people necessarily "bettering" themselves - but certainly people thinking about different issues, trying new things, gently challenging themselves - to be more sociable, to be greener, to debate issues in different ways, to be more community focused...to name but a few.

And above all what we do on here is engage with each other - and actually how many of us can we were engaged or participated at school.

So that's how I justify whiling the hours away on here. That said I wouldn't rule out me developing a penchant for porn in the future... perhaps that could be a new thread, Favourite Porn Sites ...now that's what I call education.

[Azul]

SteveT Wrote:

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> SeanMacG wrote:- given the largest access to

> information ever, people seem happy to use the

> internet for porn

>

>

what would you use it for ?

to find how you can backup an oracle database using rman commands ?

how boring is that ?

free googled porn is much more fun

[Brendan]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> But to be fair most of us don't want educating -

> given the largest access to information ever, and

> beyond the wildest dreams of only a few

> generations ago, most people seem happy to use the

> internet for porn and slebri'ies

Not so this very morning I used to learn 12 bar blues on the mouth organ.

There?s something about me. I now know how to play 12 bar blues on the mouth organ. I also have a very bad beer and JD induced headache this morning. I can tell you that for free.

[Cortez Garvey]

I went to Peckham Manor and so did my brother, who for year's told me Bob Marley and Johnny Nash came to the school to perform - i did not believe him until he provided me with pictures of Bob and Jhonny playing football at the Technical wing with my Brother 'Aston' in one of the pictures!! the pictures were kept in the glass cabinet on the 1st floor of tech. wing. I went to Peckham Manor between 1974 to 1979 the deadly years!! oh the stories to tell...if i remember rightly, a Mr Thomas (PE) teacher went on to become a champion runner for britain. Oh the battles we had with William Penn...and Samuel Pepys!!

Doe's anyone remember 'Mr Rawlings?'

[bigbadwolf]

I was born on my mum's birthday.

I'm a direct descendent of Fletcher Christian of mutiny on the bounty fame.

My dream is to write for Private Eye. I think I'd fit in.

I usually haven't got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.

I've been to the top of Nelsons column (contract with Georgian Scaffolding).

I've legally vandalised millions of pounds worth of property.

I'm on a Home Office list concerning citizens who're incredibly resistant to most standard forms of medical anisthetic.

I'm physically quite fit. Something that's becoming rarer amongst my age group.

I've got a tattoo.

I still can't post threads in the lounge section of the east Dulwich forum.

[daizie]

Cortez Garvey, what an interesting post.. Haha @ the 'deadly years', I am always fascinated by those older than me :)

[HAL9000]

Ant Wrote:

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> I once featured very briefly in an HSBC ad.

If my memory isn't playing tricks, I photographed one of their annual calendars back when it was called Midland Bank: the theme was 'purses through the ages'. We had to set up a temporary studio at the V&A Museum.

[bigbadwolf]

Sorry. I've had a look through the thread and it looks like I haven't done this properly.

A) Four jobs I've had in my life.

Motorbike courier, Construction industry.

I'm not putting a letter because an emoticon pops up instead) Movies I repeatedly watch.

There aren't any, sorry.

C) Four places I've lived.

Born in east London (Forest Gate), Sydenham, lived all over the country on contracts, Forest Hill.

D) Four television shows I watch.

BBC news at 10, Newsnight, The Unit, CSI New York.

E) Four places I've been on holiday.

Portugal, Turkey, Switzerland, America.

F) Websites I visit daily.

EDF, The Gumtree, BBC News, Holymoly.

G) Four of my favourite foods.

Rib eye steak, Lasagne, Cajun cooking, chips.

H) Four places I'd rather be right now.

That's for me to know, and for you to wish you could find out.

[iaineasy]

I can do something deeply weird with a certain part of my anatomy.

Unfortunately it's so weird that I can't tell you what it is.

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what and you actually ever leave the house?

[EDKiwi]

Posted by: *Bob* 16 January, 2008 13:20

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> I can do something deeply weird with a certain

> part of my anatomy.

>

> Unfortunately it's so weird that I can't tell you

> what it is.

de ju vu?

[HAL9000]

Contagious?

[iaineasy]

I have a real phobia about freezer frost honestly, opening the freezer door gives me palpatations and nausea, Its totally irrational but true.

[Ladymuck]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> I just can't.

> Honestly.. it was pointless me even mentioning it

> really. A simple description won't suffice. I've

> been there before. There'd be questions.. then

> more questions. And then no-one would believe me

> anyway - not without seeing it. And only a very

> select few have had the, er, pleasure of a

> viewing.

oh, no...now you're being tantalising...go on, tell us...please...pretty please...(fluttering eyelashes now);-)

EDITED TO SAY:

OH GAWD, done it again - impulsively posted immediately without reading further (all the other pages)...sorry if this looks out of place