I wanted to avoid a "Life of Brian" quote-fest
but if you insist..."What have the Greek ever done for us?...OH THE MEEK, aw isn't that nice, they've had a hell of a time"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 9:55, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

i have to admit i do love that film
the bit where the centurions are correcting his latin grammar... it is so exactly how my latin a-level was. "so you must use the... LOCATIVE, LOCATIVE, argh don't put me in detention again, ffs"

*shudder*
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:01, Reply)

Latin A-level?
I think we went to very different schools
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:04, Reply)

i wanted to do english, history, classics
an easy 3 A's.

my parents/school wanted english, french, latin. 1 easy A, 2 years of hard work. no thanks.

we compromised on english, history, latin - 2 easy A's and a fucking nightmare for 2 years to scrape a B because it was so bloody boring. i hate that B. it ruins my cv! it means i end up having to put down an A in general studies as well, which looks impressive until interviewers ask me what the subjects were...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:10, Reply)

English, C15th-16th History and Classical Civilisation
were the very 'A' Levels I chose!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:13, Reply)

bugger
and i bet if your parents/deputy head (who clearly had a vested interest as she taught latin and they only had 1 pupil do it for a-level the year before) had tried to tell you what to study, you'd have told them to sod off as well!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:21, Reply)

My parents were of the 'study what you are interested in' school of thought.
I am now a financial train-wreck in a job I hate.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:23, Reply)

mine were a nightmare about exams and homework
but to be fair they raised a headmaster, a lawyer and an accountant, horrendously middle-class. i never even saw the law thing coming, one minute i was in the car with my dad and he was saying "don't you fancy this law conversion that evie is doing" and i was thinking about the guy i was shagging at the time, and the next thing i knew, i was back in london at the college of law.

you could change your job?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:29, Reply)

Not easily I couldn't, sadly.
If I wasn't tied to London by my daughter and didn't mind relocating to somewhere where I know no-one (this would also have to be somewhere where being a non-driver wouldn't be an issue), then it might be a little easier, but only an idiot would run my kind of business out of London when warehousing and staff are so much cheaper everywhere else.

/dull, sorry
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:40, Reply)

i suppose on paper training as something else sounds easy
in practice, it's just not going to happen for most people, and quite understandably.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:49, Reply)

Detention at 'A' Level? Really?
I don't think my 6th form college had such things.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:06, Reply)

christ i was forever in detention
mostly for wearing makeup and skiving latin lessons.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:10, Reply)

My 6th form never had a detention system either - let alone issue with students wearing makeup
And there's at least 110 years or so between Monty and I doing our respective 'A' levels - was yours just an odd blip on the map, or were other people's colleges as draconian as yours?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:17, Reply)

mine was a private school
you got expelled if you were caught off the premises during school hours, we had a full on uniform, etc.

i was lucky, i absolutely loved school, as i had lots of friends, and we enjoyed breaking the rules. but some people really really hated it.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:23, Reply)

breaking the rules masturbating with bread
(Bazongaloid, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:26, Reply)

Ah, so it was a French school as well?

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:28, Reply)

Ah, I see.
And I can imagine why a lot of people would have hated it. I was overjoyed to be shot of uniform-wearing by the time I was 15 (which seems to have lasted to this day as I also take real umbrage with being stuffed into a suit...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:26, Reply)

the explanation at our school
was that lots of the kids came from very rich backgrounds and there would have been a real disparity in some people wearing designer gear.

we didn't really mind - if you roll your skirt up/wear your gym skirt, you get a LOT of attention in school uniform. and as 17 year old little tartlets, we bloody loved that!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:31, Reply)

At least you've put all that behind you eh?

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:35, Reply)

sometimes in front of me, to be fair

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:47, Reply)

People called Romanes, they go, the house?

( Peej, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:08, Reply)