Group of teenage boys & girls near East Dulwich station & up towards Dog Kennel Hill (Lounged)

[TillieTrotter]

I was caned once or twice, only across the hand though.

[mockney piers]

I've regularly been caned. Mostly in that year I lived in Amsterdam though...

[KalamityKel]

:| for some reason me fellow conspirator (work colleague) is giggling his wee head off at that... :s

[Rolo Tomasi]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I've regularly been caned. Mostly in that year I

> lived in Amsterdam though...

That wasnt in the Rookerj by any chance MP?;-)

[Asset]

We got the belt in Scotland, a thick leather strap with frondy bits at the end for maximum pain, thwacked at full force across the palm.

Thankfully I never got the belt as I never got caught!

[Brendan]

I got regularly caned in both senses of the word at school. The one was normally a direct result of the other.

We got hit with all sorts of stuff. A proper cane across the arse if you were being formally disciplined (anything up to 6 times. They weren?t allowed to hit you more than that in one go) but there were various other ad hoc beatings dished out. The standard was a ruler across the palm but the industrial arts teacher regularly made liberal with the old 2 by 4 and we had a particularly nasty PT teacher who favoured a cricket bat.

[KalamityKel]

Asset Wrote:

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> We got the belt in Scotland, a thick leather strap

> with frondy bits at the end for maximum pain,

> thwacked at full force across the palm.

> Thankfully I never got the belt as I never got

> caught!

I read that as "fondly" bits :-$

[mockney piers]

De Rookerij on Lange Leidsedwarsstraat? Might have been. :)

I lived on the Keizersgracht a mere stoned throw away.

[Brendan]

"The Smokery". Good name for an Amsterdam coffee shop.

[mockney piers]

He he, indeed. It's a chain of 'posher' coffee shops mostly outside the red light district.

Fell for one of the girls there a week before I had to return to the UK having been depressingly single the whole blimmin year. Sod's law!!!

[Brendan]

Well you seemed to be spending all your time in drug dens. No wonder you were single. Red eyes and pizza down your jumper is never a good look.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Thats the one, I go to the one off the Neuwdynk?!? (incorrect spelling no doubt) whenever i'm over or the one just off Leidsplein. Pretty good arent they MP(tu)

[mockney piers]

Ha ha, you don't know how close you are to the truth Brendan.

I've still got scars on my legs from all the bicycles I fell over, and I was so bleary after 6 months that my boss suggested I go on holiday ... immediately!!

That's the one Rolo happy haze days

 

[KalamityKel]

Looks like something out of Harry Potter :|

[Rolo Tomasi]

If Harry likes Orangebud and White Widow....

[KalamityKel]

It wouldnt b all that surprising...

[Rolo Tomasi]

I knew that wizard was off his head, Just look at his last outing...all those hallucinations

[mockney piers]

Is there a white widow in Harry potter then?

ANd brings a whole new meaning to the Northern Lights trilogy too.

[Keef]

I've been there.

Amsterdam was much more fun last time I went, and avoided everything touristy, and went clubbing with all the locals (my cousin lived there) it was awesome!

[Rolo Tomasi]

Same here Keef. I went Monday to Friday the last time and had a much better break.

[KalamityKel]

MP it's too scary to go there - the book stuff not the place I mean, altho I don't know about the place so I can't really say... shutting up now :))

[mockney piers]

I don't know if you noticed, but those photos (not mine) are in the right order and what you'd see if you looked left to right standing on the raised bit.

[Rolo Tomasi]

If i remember rightly, the toliets are up those stairs and to the left of the first picture you have the raised area facing the bar with a huge ornate, Indian wedding seat. But thats only if I remember rightly of course:))

[mockney piers]

Spot on.

I remember sitting on those seats just to the left with an aussie friend who'd been travelling around the world for 6 months with the usual drug related pitfalls and fears that possession might entail, and she was finding the whole openness htere very hard to get her head around.

By the time we were really battered a couple of officers wandered in to chat to the staff and check all was well, and had the conversation right in front of us. This was all too much for Lisa, who stood up (just), offered her wrists together to be handcuffed and said too loudly in that classic aussie drawl:

"Arrest me officer, I've been a baaaaaaaad girl"

I know things are funnier when you're stoned, but I honestly didn't stop crying for about an hour!!