Strict parents.

[woofmarkthedog]

Did you see on BBC1, I'm with the Alabama family ( barring the wide eyed american church vibe ) well handled, it's the British parents who needed a kick up the 'arris.

That said I think I am very a different parent than mine were to me.

The quote that struck me " Good kids thrown to the wind of adulthood "

W**F

[Moos]

Does anyone know why it's called the 'arris? Is it rhyming slang or because it sounds a bit like arse?

Also, why is the sky different shades of blue in different parts? I know it's to do with how light diffuses, but that somehow is not satisfying.

[????]

it's the old orantang ain't it Moos darlin'...but a slang on a slang

Arris is short for Arristotle which is a ryme for bottle and in Ryhming slang bottle=arse (bottle and glass)

Sky, not a clue..just give me the trivial stuff

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

The sky reflects the depths and shallows of your heart, dear Moos.

[Moos]

Doubly clever, then! Thanks, M. le Quids, appreciate it.

[Moos]

PGC, oh blimey.

That would at least explain why on holiday it has that wonderful luminous deep blue.

[????]

Moos Wrote:

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> PGC, oh blimey.

>

> That would at least explain why on holiday it has

> that wonderful luminous deep blue.

You've never been to Norfolk on holiday I take it?

[Moos]

Er, no. Have been there, though, 'snice. Very flat.

[Brendan]

And to think I always assumed it was a contraction of Harris Trunk.

[bigbadwolf]

"British parents who needed a kick up the 'arris."

Not mine. Dad caned my littlebadbum when I got seriously out of line. Never did me any harm, well, except for the sore bum or hands.

[bigbadwolf]

You never feel the first two strikes either. The rush of seething pain comes along just after the third "thwack". You usually start screaming after that as well. Still, nothing like a bit of pain to clear the mind.

[SteveT]

Hmmmmm explains a lot wolf cub.

[Huguenot]

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our Mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

[Brendan]

You were lucky you were.

[Huguenot]

You were lucky to have a ROOM! We used to have to live in a corridor!

[Jeremy]

Corridor? We dreamed of having a corridor!

[Brendan]

Corridor. Corridor! We had to live with the whole family in a puddle.

[????]

*awaits parrot sketch*

[Huguenot]

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down the mill for fourteen hours a day week in week out, for sixpence a week. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

[mockney piers]

If i waxed my arse would I have a neater 'arris?

Ought I get my coat while I was at it?

[Brendan]

Not to disappoint quids

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/how-to-draw-animals-94.jpg

[Muley]

One for the drawing room, surely?

[woofmarkthedog]

So strict is definitely in then............maybe ?

I am strict with my kids ( though they laugh mostly )

Hmm..

W**F

[mockney piers]

Curiosity got the better of me and here was the bizarre result

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/07/06/anita-harris-is-homeless-and-in-debt-115875-21498062/

[????]

V.Good Brendan