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Pretty good idea really. Do you think schools should teach more life skills? It was discussed a bit yesterday about schools teaching money management, I think this is an excellent idera.
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I'm currently sitting with a coffee at some random services on the M74
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It's only 8:15 and I've learned something already
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Last time was due to a red wine overload - combined with the curry I'd eaten it made for some interesting shade/texture motifs.
Schools should teach life skills. However it should also be acknowledged that despite the best teaching, the finest guidance and the most loving nurture some people are and always will be :-
1/Dumbasses
2/Feckless idiots
3/Lowlifes
4/Scumbags
or
5/A permutation of any or all of the above.
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Last year, don't think I'm pregnant either.
I believe that children are the future. Get 'em up them chimneys!
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The weird thing with that was that I tended to throw up when I'd been drinking heavily, and although it seemed the two were connected, they weren't. Long story short I got fixed.
Alt: YM
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It is normally due to gag reflex when brushing my teeth. Still it does mean I would make a rubbish gayer.
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(the teeth gagging, not the rubbish gayer)
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(again the teeth thing not the rubbish gayer) it always kicks in just as I have finished so I need to give them a quick brush again after and vicious circle ensues
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I gag but just manage to avoid puking.
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works for me.
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I feel like being sick quite alot due to eating copious amounts of MEATZA.
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or is it cockroaches?
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But they often turn the stomach inside out rather than puke in the conventional way, they can have their whole guts hanging out of their mouths. which they then clean with their feet
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With having thick kids and smart kids, some who have parents that can help at home, and some that can't.
I think trying to push life skills in a class room environment would be difficult if these things were not present in the home.
Imagine telling a kid who eats shit food daily and never has new clothes that his dad should not have a big TV, and his mum shouldn't use her credit card for her new shoes. It could cause difficulties.
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teachers should butt out.
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But it's not something you can just slot in to a curriculum.
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There has to be some sort of authority figure explaining that there is a sensible, non-ruinous way to conduct your finances.
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But it is going to cause friction if a kid goes home with his basic economics home work, which clearly states parent is an idiot for their financial choices, thick people are going to kick up a fuss like every time someone tries to help them.
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Let's try and give a new generation of mouth breathers a fighting chance.
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I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOU BEING SICK MATE
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I woke up at 7am (even though I didn't have to) in a good mood. Now I have french toast and blueberries and the feeling isn't dispersing. Fucked up it what it is
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I puked for about 12 hours straight when I was in cyprus, in the end it was like fluroescent yellow goo
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after giving blood. I'm banned from the welsh blood service
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I was "a bit unwell" after an almost back-street appendectomy (Bradford Royal Infirmary back in the early 90s). They'd stapled me up badly and didn't put a drain on the wound, so a week later the blood clots squeezed my intestine closed and everything went backwards.
Very messy.
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And I was so drunk I tried to vomit in to my own hands and it sort of ricocheted out if my hands on to the back of the head of the girl in the front seat.
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I once tried to puke out my mate's car window, thinking it was open. It wasn't. He wasn't best pleased.
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I once got up in the middle of the night to go for a piss to find my brother, his girlfriend and his mate all trying to be sick into the same toilet. It was very amusing. Much vomiting on each other. i thought about trying to piss through a gap, but decided best not to.
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without spilling a drop. then put it down and carry on drinking. I've yet to see this bettered.
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national pass time, he will regale us with tales of his burgeoning smack habit soon
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but he's not actually Scottish. I don't know why he's been allowed to get away with this for so long.
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Imagine a world where you obtained a nationality that might not be your own...
PC gone mad
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I will be wearing it in That London at the start of december if that makes you feel any better?
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and the chap concerned was from Leeds.
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I nearly did this morning. I'm not pregnant either, I'd just had a dream in which OG was sexting ginger DJ Chris Evans. Evans had forwarded me one to make me jelly. What a prick, eh, readers?
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iTunes, which didn't work because the flatmate fucked my laptop to the extent that it wouldn't accept any new installs at all. I had to entirely rebuild the bloody laptop just to install iTunes. Angry at Apple, annoyed at my flatmate. I'm going to have to rebuild the fucker a second time just to get rid of Apple's bloatware. Bah.
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I can't think of any other phone users that refer to their phone by its model Hang on, I'll be right with you, i've got a call coming in on my Galaxy.
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That way people know I'm a success. A success with an ASTRA.
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and what girls might think of it
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Which, when I lived in Slough, wasn't so far off the truth.
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*obviously you definitely shouldn't as it is shit
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If you're talking about two phones, you can't just call them both "my phone", it's confusing. I learned that at university, you know.
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referring to them as 'Kodaks'
Fascinating I'm sure you'll agree
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because I'm not some kind of fucking pansy.
Actually, I've not been sick for years, full stop.
I am sure the presence of a small child now in nursery will rectify this toot sweet.
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I haven't puked for years either, although I've come close to a tactical chunder on occasion.
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Just not really needed one for years. probably, I'm not drinking enough.
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to the point that the "vomit" point has moved out past the "pass out" point.
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Got up jada brew.....SPEW! Feel muchbetter now though. Considering toast.
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I then misbehaved with someone extremely inappropriate (not the barman), and woke up in the morning being sick.
from illness - I am sick if I eat too much fat late at night, so a few weeks ago after pizza.
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And probably PJM's as well.
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I though you daytime kids were all about new threads and craziness and discussing such in depth things as your lunch.
I might have soup in an hour or so
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They should teach oats. So we would know them.
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