Holy crap we've hit 100 users! Yay!

Today is now officially declared a Bank Holiday, leave your jobs - run home and frolic in the meadows!

Congrats to "Dan Ra" for becoming member no 100.. no prizes but well done all the same! :D

Next bank holiday declaration when we hit 1000!

Couldn't you have declared the bank holiday before I got home from work? Or maybe arranged the frolicking in the meadows for a day with better weather? :D
Ah well, I'll skive off tomorrow instead. B)

As the bank holiday didn't start till 3.52pm it'll go on till 3.52pm tomorrow giving ample frolicking time to all how need it.. the weather might be nicer tomorrow too i (i hope) :D

happy frolicking people!

Can we have a bank holiday for 1000 posts?

I dunno.. i only declare bank holidays if there are special circumstances and i'm very bored at work.. so yeah probably! :D

Any excuse for some frolicking.. just make sure not to bother any badgers or otters. <_<

I must have known. I was busy enough at work not to check the message board, but I realised I needed to use my holiday up - so I have now booked the entire week before the gig off work too! So from Saturday to the Tuesday after the gig, that makes 11 days in all. Top. And I get Christmas off, and have another two and a half days to use even then. This is what happens when your salary is only enough to afford the festivals and not a proper holiday on top. I'm working on this for next year (almost) as we speak...

:D :D

Can we just have a Bank Holiday when we were all pissed off?

That would mean no one would work on a Monday ever again!

Never mind Mondays, were that the case I'd never work at my current place again!

I hate Tuesdays more than Mondays. At least on Monday you can remember the weekend...

i had the last hour of school, i think it was too clean up before prospective parents evening, but i think the headteacher was saying how it was secretly cos we'd reached a hundred members. :D

Parents Evenings at school eh!

Maybe we should start getting a register for our 100 members!

Roll Call!

Not a roll call!

Detension!! & boy did I get enough, though only ever went to a few.

Once I got another detension in a detension! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I once lived in America for 18 months, and they had the most stupid detention system at my school. For doing nothing at all, you might suddenly see your name on the board. If they felt you still weren't behaving, up went a tick, then two, then three, then four. One tick was 15 minutes after school, two was 30 minutes, three was 30 minutes and letter to parents, four was letter to parents and visit to headmaster. In all my time there, I got one 15 minute detention so I guess I must have been OK.

I also remember every day that they made sure we all knew what 'democracy' meant and what 'dictatorship' meant, and we had to pledge allegiance to the flag too. Then some teacher had the bright idea that every day, a different pupil would start the pledge (all four lines of it) and everyone else would join in. One day it was my turn. I refused and nobody in my class spoke to me for a week. I was eight years old.

Just thought I'd share that with you...

I lived in Arizona for 5 months in 1989 (I was 9) and went to a local school there. I was told I didn't have to say the Pledge of Allegiance if I didn't want to - the principal said it over the tannoy system every morning. I can't remember if I did or not - I probably did though, conformist little creep that I am!

the dictator at my school is called jesse elms. he use to teach R.E and be some sort of sub-headteacher or something. he taught me God probably doesn't exist.





school is hard.

Which school? I was in Arizona too! I went to Cholla School in Phoenix, but because they're a year behind I briefly swapped back to infant school first, which was very annoying. They had to give me work for pupils three years older than me - not because I was Einstein but because they were so far behind! When I got there, they were asking things like 'what is 9 divided by 3' and in Britain I had already done long division and remainders.

No exemptions from the allegiance pledge, as far as I can recall. I always mimed it. The only time we heard the headmaster (sorry, principal) was on Friday. Because Friday we got the anthem too.

Kyrene de los Ninos in Tempe, Phoenix. I went into 4th grade of elementary school, and my brother into the 2nd grade. I also had to be given harder work... :rolleyes:

Interesting how schools in the USA are named after presidents & in the UK named after saints

'Kyrene' is the name of the school district in Tempe, AZ, and 'de los Ninos' means 'of the children' or 'for the children' or something like that.

Neither of the UK schools I went to were named after saints though, although it's an interesting point. I guess it's probably a legacy of the days when education was linked to churches. And in the US, the state is separated from the church by law - e.g. school prayers aren't allowed in the public (i.e. state) school system.

But can it be too long before British schools get renamed because of commercial sponsorship - McDonald's Primary School anyone?

They wouldn't dare be that brazen... well, they would if they thought they could get away with it. Expect more subtle insidious methods - I believe they sponsor various coursebooks at the minute...

I recently heard an amazing story about the McDonalds in Tiverton, Devon (where a lot of my friends live) but I daren't repeat it... try a Google search and see if anything comes up.

And now we have exceeded 150!

I thought of the BBC Big Read when I first saw this topic, so I may as well mention being proud of reading 17 of them. Admittedly a lot were in my youth, Roald Dahl and the likes...

There were quite a lot of children's books in the Big Read 100, weren't there? What does that say about the average British book-worm?

I think I'd read about 35 of them, but then I'm a morose loner type, so it shouldn't be encouraged.

Speak for yourself..... :P

woo! the big 2000th post! how much quicker was the second thousand? *sigh* it feels good that 231 of those are mine....

That's over 10%! :blink:

ok. when you put it like that it's kinda scary.