Stuff from the 70s. An all that.

[awkwardbydesign]

A favourite quip at my School, which was guaranteed to wind up the long suffering Dinner Ladies, was ‘Can I have another slice of your delicious custard please?’

My wife has made sliceable custard for so long, that the stuff you can pour is just wrong!

 

[Jamie]

 

[Tony Lockhart]

White dog poo



High calcium content in dog food then?

 

[Andy Stephenson]

Jeez, school dinners? Green boiled dry potatoes and deep sea fish! Grim beyond belief, admittedly that was the 60s not the 70s

Rissoles, I used to like them, haven't seen one in years

One regular offering was Dry mash, beetroot, Fish - three things that don't really go together and this was the 70s!
So the new decade didn't bring any better menu choices.

Andy

 

[Tony Lockhart]

My wife has made sliceable custard for so long, that the stuff you can pour is just wrong!

I ALWAYS asked for the skin off the tray of custard.

Oh my.

 

[Andy Stephenson]

White dog poo



High calcium content in dog food then?

Who would have thought that you wouldn't see that anymore because people were picking it up!

If you'd said that in the 70s they would have locked you up, straight jacket and all!

Andy

 

[Andy Stephenson]

I ALWAYS asked for the skin off the tray of custard.

Oh my.

Only bettered by the skin off a Rice Pudding

Andy

 

[Guinnless]

And bullying was acceptable in schools. Ah, the good old days.

At primary school a teacher used his fist on my mate and I. We were 10 years old.
We had to bend down in front of the class and he hit me with his fist on my arse so hard that I slammed into the desks in front of me. And then he hit me again.

 

[Craig B]

Who would have thought that you wouldn't see that anymore because people were picking it up!

If you'd said that in the 70s they would have locked you up, straight jacket and all!

Andy

 

[James]

If the 80s was about the shrimp cocktail, then the 70s was about the banana split - replete with the boat dish.

 

[Craig B]

That was '60s for me.

1970s was finding a girl who could tie a knot in a cheery stem with her tongue.

 

[Andy Stephenson]

At primary school a teacher used his fist on my mate and I. We were 10 years old.
We had to bend down in front of the class and he hit me with his fist on my arse so hard that I slammed into the desks in front of me. And then he hit me again.

It was this kind of thing that led to the banning of corporal punishment and the inevitable slide into discipline problems that schools have now.
They moved from too much to not enough!
Andy
Edit: The teacher in 'The Wall' film is nearer the reality than most kids today realise.
I remember getting walloped off a teacher because my written commas were too big!
She was a nun as I went to a convent school at the time. Lovely people. You hear the stories now of girls in Ireland working in Convent run laundries. Boy have I some memories of that school!

 

[Bob McC]

Utter rubbish

 

[gintonic]

the best thing about the 1970s was Mary Millington

 

[Andy Stephenson]

Utter rubbish

Do you think there is no link between the lack of discipline in schools and students misbehaving and lack of respect for authority?

Andy

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Do you think there is no link between the lack of discipline in schools and students misbehaving and lack of respect for authority?

Andy

I don’t have data for discipline in schools or lack of respect for authority. What I will say is that many people in positions of authority over the years that I’ve been on this planet have been total bastards who don’t deserve any respect at all. It has to be earned, not given.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

On a happier note:



Not for my family though, we couldn’t afford it.

 

[Andy Stephenson]

I don’t have data for discipline in schools or lack of respect for authority. What I will say is that many people in positions of authority over the years that I’ve been on this planet have been total bastards who don’t deserve any respect at all. It has to be earned, not given.

Agreed. However I think they went too far when the only sanction teachers have to disruptive pupils is exclusion from school.
Misbehave and we'll give you a holiday!
I don't know the answer but someway should be found so that students who want to learn can and those that don't are put elsewhere.

Andy

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Misbehave and we'll give you a holiday!
I don't know the answer but someway should be found so that students who want to learn can and those that don't are put elsewhere.

Andy

Well, you said they do go elsewhere! On a holiday…

 

[Andy Stephenson]

Well, you said they do go elsewhere! On a holiday…

Ok, I did say elsewhere but meant still kept in school.
There should be no reward for bad behaviour.

Andy