we got smacked if we misbehaved. i think it happened to me twice in my whole life.
but my younger brother was so fucking naughty, it was the only thing that worked. i once got called into the headmistress' office, where she asked me nervously if mummy and daddy ever smacked him. turned out his teacher had lost the plot with him and belted him across the legs. that's how naughty he was. she must have shat herself afterwards.

apparently i frowned thoughtfully and said.... "hmm, not every day" ....

so i'm not sure i could ever smack a child, but then i remember what my brother was like, and yeah. i wouldn't judge anyone who did, so long as it was a single smack on the bottom that embarrassed far more than it hurt.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:11, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Your teacher assaulted your brother?
Poor guy.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:13, Reply)

believe me, that child was a demon
he and his 3 best mates had a "ring of terror". in a terribly middle-class 6 year old kind of way, they were horrific. my sympathy is with the teacher. his kid is now 5 months old, and i'm praying she is just like him, so he can SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:15, Reply)

Yeah imagine having to touch Swipe's brother

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:17, Reply)

Oh.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:17, Reply)

probably worse now
he's an accountant
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:17, Reply)

Those family gatherings must be like Christmas at the Weasleys'

( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:18, Reply)

lol

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:19, Reply)

fuck off, he's bald
and my dad is silver and my other brother is blue-black. like me.

did you see in the paper last night that gingers will be extinct in the next 100 years? my friend who's married to a ginger dude wrote: "i feel like i married a unicorn"
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:20, Reply)

So are some of the weasleys in the book
so I hear, I haven't read them honest.
( Peej, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:21, Reply)

I didn't see that. That's actually a real shame. I quite like redheads.

( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:22, Reply)

science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/redhead-extinction.htm
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:27, Reply)

YEAH FIREBOXES YOU CANNOT EXTINGUISH THE FLAME

( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:29, Reply)

Also
All these stories about gingers/blondes becoming extinct are bollocks. you carry the GInger gene and even if you found someone desperate enough to dust off the cobwebs and if by some miracle your ancient barren womb could carry a child to full term if would still carry the ginger gene even if it had a full head of blue black hair. and could randomly pop out again somewhere along the line. The only way gingers are going extinct is if we heard them and any carriers up and gas them. My sister is blonde and her husband dark but the kid is ginger, her fault for marrying a jock really, those fuckers are riddled with ranga genes
( Peej, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:24, Reply)

I'd rather my kid come out chinese than ginger
Fuck that noise.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:26, Reply)

at least it won't have 6 fingers and an insatiable desire to fuck its own siblings like his offspring

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:28, Reply)

I was trying to work out how green eyes get passed on, because they're always recessive.
There was this huge chart that showed the various combinations that proved that 7 times out of ten you'd get brown eyes, three times out of ten you'd get blue eyes and that green eyes basically shouldn't exist.

Then there was a note at the bottom that essentially said "and sometimes brown, blue and green eyes will spontaneously occur with no reason that we can currently find lol"
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:28, Reply)

i think they have changed their minds about how eye colour is passed on quite recently
i used to hate having green eyes, as i really wanted blue eyes, but i'm vain enough that the number of comments i get on them has changed my mind. of course they're not a patch on your legs/arse.

also what about grey eyes and violet eyes? how do they exist? it makes my head hurt.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:33, Reply)

They're just shades of blue.
Green eyes are rare. As are hazel, though hazel eyes just look like the bottom of a duck pond.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:34, Reply)

Chinese girls do not come with green eyes!

( Peej, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:38, Reply)

I knew an Indian girl with green eyes, once.
It can happen, if there's a European somewhere in her genetic history.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:39, Reply)

( Peej, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:42, Reply)

I'd get right up in her genetic history, if you knowe what I mean

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:42, Reply)

i think that quite a few iranians and people from that part of the middle east have green eyes
there's that really famous photo of the afghan girl, for example
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:48, Reply)

less than 2% of the planet has green eyes apparently
i would say "woo! yay!" but as it's due to the irish heritage that also comes with stupid pasty transparent skin and sliiiiiiiightly auburn dark hair, NO. brown eyes and lots of healthy melanin are the way to go.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:50, Reply)

eh...I have green eyes but neither pasty skin or ginger hair
Ginger sliiiiiiiightly auburn dark hair
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 10:53, Reply)

I also have green eyes, non pasty skin and dark hair

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 11:03, Reply)

you two are doing it wrong
i bet your eyes are hazel really
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 11:06, Reply)