Good Lord whatever has the world come to?
We'll be 'graduating' from fucking primary school next....

*harrumphs into Daily Telegraph*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:02, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

They make me angry,
Everyone pays a fortune to get their hair and makeup done to make them look like hookers and buy tacky dresses and hires those stupid stretch limos and hummer things. It's like they're designed specifically to piss me off.
Some primary schools have them as well. When I left primary school, we all went bowling, and then had fish and chips, and we were grateful for it, damnit!
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:08, Reply)

I don't think we did anything when I left primary school.
When I left secondary school we had a leavers do. My friend got drunk and vomited all over the floor and some girl we didn't like walked through it in stocking feet. She stopped and said to us "oh ew, is this soup?" and because we hated her we said yes.

They played stupid kissing games and it was just generally shit.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:12, Reply)

^nobody wanted to kiss Kitty?
Awwwwww....
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:18, Reply)

I didn't involve myself in the games
but yeah that probably would have been what happened.

*sobs*
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:31, Reply)

Awww.... Kitty, any of the guys here would happily snog you
Aren't you glad you found a place in the world where all the blokes have significantly lower standards?
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:37, Reply)

We had a leavers' do as well.
It involved meeting at 7am in a park near the school and drinking solidly for an hour and a half. Not a 'Hummer' or a fucking 'corsage' in sight.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:19, Reply)

You didn't get a hummer?
Poor guy
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:20, Reply)

capital H, old boy, capital H.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:21, Reply)

I know, I know
I have seen a stretch Hummer get stuck down a narrow road. Stupid cunts.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:22, Reply)

Haha I see them in Shoreditch quite a lot.
Cunts on stag do's or outside Asian Weddings...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:26, Reply)

damn you Narnia
I read that as Aslan's weddings
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:34, Reply)

euphemism for erection, Dave

( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:22, Reply)

No it isn't.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:23, Reply)

Well I'm making it one, and you can't do anything about it

( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:26, Reply)

Best of luck with that.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:26, Reply)

I've got a hummer right now
for you
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:21, Reply)

When I left primary school
everyone just went home. That seemed sufficient at the time.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:12, Reply)

We had a BOUNCY CASTLE at mine
you were a deprived child
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:18, Reply)

We had a real castle. I lived in it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:19, Reply)

You couldn't do backflips off the walls though, could you?
Neither could I mind, but if I'd had the athletic ability, I might have
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:21, Reply)

i a
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:32, Reply)

I had a prom in secondary school 12 years ago
get with the times, old man.

You are right though, there's an american monopoly on the word 'prom', and I'd have been happier if it had been called the school disco
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:08, Reply)

When I was at university
the cunts already had 'semesters' instead of terms.

Ghastly.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:11, Reply)

My ex went to an American school
and therefore decided that if anything wasn't going her way, it 'sucked'

..well, at least she certainly did
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:12, Reply)

I know
Don't they know the English academic year is broken into three terms, so the correct word is actually trimester? Fuckwits.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:25, Reply)

Yes, but
the three term (trimester) system has been Americanised into a 2-semester system.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:39, Reply)

*facepalms*
WHY? What was wrong with the system we had?

IN MY DAY...(long letter of indignation to the Torygraph with multiple uses of the phrases "'twas ever thus" and "political correctness gone mad.")
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:41, Reply)

Nothing was wrong with it
Bugger all. Nada.

But some daft bastards decided to change the system, to bring it in line with the American system. Which, for some unknown reason, was perceived as being superior.

Which it clearly isn't.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:44, Reply)

As a PhD Student*
I'm fucking glad I'm doing it through the British system rather than the American one.

*_{Unwashed, tax-dodging layabout}
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:45, Reply)

They have semesters at the University of St Andrews now as well

( djtrialprice, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:09, Reply)

Ours are semesters too :(

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:10, Reply)

Same here, :/

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:14, Reply)

Semesters are pish
We have them too, but the old 3x10 week terms fitted in much better with Christmas and Easter holidays. Now we have to split both semesters to accommodate holidays. What a crap idea.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:23, Reply)

ours are still terms
with silly names
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:28, Reply)

Like Tasmin?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:29, Reply)

Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity
on Americanisms though we call our holidays vacation time
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:31, Reply)

Hilary?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:33, Reply)

yup
spelt that way as well
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:34, Reply)

weird

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:35, Reply)

we're a weird bunch
we live inside a big quiet bubble
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:36, Reply)

A friend of mine emigrated to Canada a number of years back.
His daughter's graduation photos were on FB the other day.

She's 9.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:21, Reply)

*shakes head sadly*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:28, Reply)

What's the world coming to?
In my day I had to hide in a wheelie bin outside a school for that sort of material, now it's all over the internet...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:32, Reply)

I don't know what's worse
The thought of you in the wheelie bin, or the fact that 9 year olds' graduation photos are on the net.

Or indeed the fact that 9 year olds are graduating at all.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:38, Reply)

It's pretty dire, whichever way you choose to look at it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:42, Reply)

I'm going to go with the fact that 9 year olds are 'graduating' at all
Graduating? All they've done is finished their fucking primary education! I would hardly consider this an achievement. All this will do is give the precocious little shits an entirely undue sense of accomplishment.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:44, Reply)

Especially
since I was 12 until I finished my primary education, then went to high school (without any sort of ceremony), then left aged 18 (without any sort of ceremony) to go to university, where I spent 8 years gaining 3 degrees (during which time I had earned the right to 3 ceremonies).

And that's as it should be. Although I'm not big on ceremonies and couldn't really be bothered with university graduations either.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:51, Reply)

The last ceremony I recall
was matriculation at university. And that was merely to congratulate us on not being utter mongs and managing to get in
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:54, Reply)

Matriculation for me
involved standing in a queue for hours, having my photo taken and leaving with a little plastic card. With no ceremony.

My life has been relatively devoid of ceremony.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:57, Reply)

haha
we put on sub fusc (uni gowns over black/white clothing), sat in a massive building and had Latin read at us. Then got pissed on champage at eleven in the morning and ate bagels
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 14:00, Reply)