Maybe they’d moan less if it had not effectively become a prison officer role without the clubs, guns, riot shields and legal protection so that if you have any problems a bunch of nutters in riot gear storm in and kick the crap out of everyone. Instead we now have violence and abuse aimed at teachers and they often feel powerless to protect themselves, would you have the guts to restrain a kid knowing what the consequences could be if the parents decided to take action against you?

LOL, pics or it didn’t happen.

Oh and whatever you do, don’t get a military looking rifle unless your actually ex/currently serving. You’ll get laughed at.

Simple….clapped out 1950’s-esque city bikes are very ‘Oxbridge’

My daughter would disagree with these statements as it is her job to teach a bunch of 5yr olds from an area full of “disadvantaged” people. This week she not only has to prep lessons and teach but the school is preparing for their Offstead inspection and she has to attend 4 after school staff meetings! At the start of term all teachers were asked(demanded) by the head teacher what they were going to do extra for the school/local community after hours in their own time!!! Getting home to look after their own families/children is not considered important…….
When dealing with parents there is always another member or two hovering in the near vicinity, police patrol to roadways at school start and finish times and have been called in during breaks! She has been threatened by parents, spat at, sworn at and had toys and furniture thrown at her. She is only in her 2nd yr of teaching but spends more time working with social work, special needs and health specialist than teaching and will probably be burnt out within a couple of years if she does not give up beforehand for the sake of her own health…She loves the job btw and shares the view that the duff teachers should be binned asap.
Having got into teaching via doing an arts degree to MA level she was disgusted at the quality of lecturing at the teaching Uni, the poor/lack of mentoring and some of the practices she encountered during her placements. There may be lots of poor teachers(young and old) coming out of the teaching Unis but that is probably down to the quality of lecturing as much as the quality of the student.

Someone I know with 15 years experience of working in an EBD school would disagree with you.

Good post trekster, so many people have ‘opinions’ that really aren’t theirs, just cliche induced reactions.

Thinking back to my school days(long ago)- i was a naughty boy, but the teachers that i remember are the ones who engaged with you, the others were just dismissive, distant, just doing a job, — not their fault, many people ‘find’ themselves in jobs they are not suited to–

Oh yeah that’s right, let’s leave personal responsibility aside. It’s not that you were a delinquent….poor old you wasn’t given enough attention by the teachers.

but for some of them school really is a place of calm in their existence.

Definately, this is why some EBD schools are now finding it much harder to educate their pupils as many of them are having to reduce the amount of bording students they take on. This means instead of just regressing after the summer holidays after spending 6 weeks with moronic parents, they regress every time they go back home.

On the topic of middle class parents – again they always have the attitude of it’s the teachers fault….nothing to do with me that Johnny won’t listen in class and spends the day shouting abuse at the teacher…no poor little Johnny just has a high IQ and ADHD….it’s obviously not our fault that he’s never had boundries set in his life and has no respect for his elders. How can you expect children to behave and be receptive to education if society has no respect for teachers? It’s got nothing to do with bad teaching, society has just become paranoid and protective – there were plenty of bad teachers in the 60’s….for every personal experience with bad modern teachers I’m sure many of us can produce examples of bad teacher 20-50 years ago….. My old man once had a teacher that would just read newspapers and drink tea in class, at a good grammar. It’s nothing new, what is new is the childlike total lack of respect for teachers from parents.

Kenny when you put it like that….if Nasa/Russia/China/the EU space agency turned round and asked me if I wanted to go on a one way trip with a handful of other people to colonize mars…I think I would take it.

I’d rather live fast and die young doing something important, mad and dangerous with my life, rather than wait to die in a death box (ones house).

That’s the problem….. as fight Fight Club put it…. we’re the middle children of history….. we have nothing to do….. no great frontiers to conquer (with the exception of killing the locals in Afghanistan)….besides sitting on our arses in 9-5’s staring at the ceiling saving up for a two week retirement cruise before we die.

What organdonor said.

davidtaylforth…..

i hope that was satire

it worked a treat on my new GP

LMAO

**** this, me and my missus will stick to Springer Spaniels.

When you’re to old to enjoy it.

I’m only going to have one child and one car and my wife will damn well work as well. Hope that makes it easier.

Maybe check your expenses?

The problem with the education system is the parents. It’s that simple, you can try to teach kids but when you send them back home to a bunch of retarded shit slinging monkeys then they regress. You can’t teach children with no boundaries or discipline set at home.

IIRC the Allison engines on my steed operate at 40,000 RPM. The prop operates off a 20:1 reduction gearbox.

Allison engine? You a multi-millionaire that own’s a P-38, P-40 or early model P-51A before they went to merlins?

When I was a youngster I was a huge vintage aircraft nerd.

All I know is that my brother who has worked in a fair few michelin star places and still does uses Japanese knives and nothing else.

You can’t shoot .22lr in your garden or on friends land without peering down the bangy end of a police Heckler & Koch though (unless the land has been deemed suitable).

More accurate as well and you don’t screw up your body position (by operating the break barrel) using a bolt action if your using them to train for competition shooting with proper rifles.

Of course there was! But the round would have never even got there with a .22, with the scope I was using I would have had to have aimed so far up that I wouldn’t have been able to see the target! That’s my point! .177’s are better everyday tools. Granted I guess .22’s can be a bit more affected by wind.

TBH Airarms S410’s were pretty damn accurate though compared to a break barrel – so there was less variation at range than one might assume – and there was no wind at all.

Well, the kill was about 130 long paces and I was 6 foot when I was 15.

I was a teen and open to idiocy so you can all kindly get bent.

Yes it was a headshot and yes I had won an arseload of cadet shooting competitions before hand. And yes, If I had been bothered I could have probably shot at an international level. So there.

I had two great uncles that were Snipers on the Somme and grandfather who was a RAF marksman. It runs in the family.

Conversely I can’t shoot shotguns for shit.

All of this is besides the point I would have never done that with a .22, unless you are shooting an FAC rifle .177 are generally more accurate over longer ranges and that’s what you want. A .177 or a .22 to the body of a rat isn’t going to kill it outright and either a .177 or .22 to the head of a rat will kill them cold.

Drinking various beers with seven others last night, what is wrong with my saliva/mouth that makes my beer go flat, whilst everyone else’s keeps it’s head. Am I some kind of freak?

You had an old glass, it’s that simples…..because there’s some thingymajig at the bottom of the glass that stops them from going flat….they eventually wear out.

.177 all the way, the trajectories flatter and they keep their power over longer ranges. I somehow killed a pigeon at about 100 yards with one on my mates farm.

My real problem with religion is that the followers quite often don’t seem to understand one of my favourite film quotes. I don’t know…lots of people seem to me to be religious to try to avoid suffering or go to a better place. To me this is very selfish, anyway here’s the quote.

“Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your sufferings will be less because you loved goodness? Truth?” – The Thin Red Line

Thanks for the kind words guys, cheered me up.

Here’s the silly bugger aged 12 1/2. She had a good life, working stock, note how clear her eyes were…. a little cloudiness but really….not much at all…… she had some good genes I reckon.

I think I would be very hard to find a dog that was as intelligent, hilariously daft and aged as well as she did but fingers crossed when the time comes I will. What does break my heart a little over the past few months is she had been following me everywhere, up and down the stairs etc (where she’s not allowed) and would get moody if she wasn’t allowed to. She had started tip toeing up the stairs to find people if doors were left open. Maybe a sign of something but that’s all done now.

right at the very top of a differential list. Yes middle ear disease can show similar signs but rarely is it that acute in onset and usually there are other signs – pain/swelling round the ear, discharge, temperature, general signs of illness etc

Thanks. She’d had nystagmus the night before apparently and was a little slow and disorientated on a walk and then it happened. I had an inner ear infection at 19 and had no prior warning, discharge or pain in the middle ear. I was all nice and normal drinking a coke outside the pub then boom, violent vertigo with strange visual disturbances and I was on the floor thinking I had a brain tumour – then spent the next few years dealing with reactive anxiety after that – especially in elevators. I guess it’s probably different in dogs though. Thanks for the reasoned post, I’ve calmed down a little more now – I can be a bit hot headed. Having the BmedSci has also made me unable to tolerate reasoned guesses based on clinical experience as opposed to evidence based practice or getting the right tests – to me….. everything always has to have hard evidence and if there isn’t any I’ll usually go overboard looking for it. I guess I’m just not used to that kind of decision. Sorry about the jokes aimed at your profession.

Any vets on here care to weigh in?

To me this highlights the old adage that vets are all a bunch of failed quacks. To think I ended up on a BmedSci instead of a vet/full doctors course when I was 20 because I didn’t have the confidence to really bother trying hard to excel during my A-levels. The medical worlds full of total **** mincers. The amount of times I’ve heard shit like “it’s not a seizure if you are still concious” come out the mouths of medics beggars belief and now it appears the veterinary world is full of the same tosspots.

Public school, that’s it, it allows retarded monkeys to become doctors or vets because one on one tuition at Harrow, Eton, Uppingham etc allows any idiot to get three A’s at A-level.

I don’t believe he’s crashed any planes into towers though.

Because Richard Dawkins (about the closest you can get to an atheist version of Bin Laden) is blatantly a terrorist…..

I just can’t believe it was put down so fast when I’d had the dog since I was 10, I was only a couple of hours away – that’s what massive doses of sedatives are for.

Nahh I asked nicely lol, it’s not their fault really. They had the best intentions in mind.

I just have a major problem with the vet.

The bodies already been cremated!

Yeah she had a good life, she was 14….years old….but she was almost as hyper and playful as a puppy. I’d be less wound up and accepting if I felt people had done their jobs properly.

Outwitting fully trained medics and pointing out misdiagnosis seems to be a recurrent theme in my life when it comes to friends illnesses etc.

Angry with the vet and angry that no one thought to sedate her for a while until I was back that day before they decided to pull the plug.

Last time I swore at a policeman I got hit over the head and bundled into a riot van.

Why didn’t they do the same to our Tory friend?

Thats shite news. Chin up though fella. Its Friday. You’re 24. Shouldn’t you be in the pub with your mates? Go and grab a beer and toast the little bugger laying great big dog eggs for the mountain bikers in doggy heaven

I always made sure it didn’t litter trails 😛

They’re all in Oxford – currently in Rutland – we stay here every summer to work and save money. I’m surrounded by farmers and pitch fork wielding Daily Mail readers.

The horror, the horror.

Also this thread exemplifies the reason why I always laugh when someone talks about sexism, racism, ageism etc. It’s all about me, me me. At the end of the day everyone accepts lookism – for business (not hiring certain races might be profitable) or finding a mate etc (based on their own often wrong instinct, have you ever dated someone who turned out to be a psychopath or later on developed a disease? Well your genetic discrimination didn’t work). My point being is that as a species we have apparently started evolving towards ending racism within society. However lookism would suggest we are as discriminatory and prone to incorrect assumptions as we have ever been. Therefore I would consider sexism or racism to be a problem because collective individuals with some identity stamp their feet when they feel they are being wronged – basically it’s all about me. Those who are just ugly cannot speak out and people don’t care because it’s not ussually happening to them, they discriminate towards others based on looks anyway.

Well, enough of my insane rambling.

As someone with a Medical Science BmedSci and a particular interest in Genetics….

Its self reinforcing too, people with good genes tend to do better because they come from families with good genes who tend to have done well. Hence they have the expectations and advantages from the start, plus the ability / assets. Plus successful men / women tend to have good look partners, hence good looking children, and so it goes on.

HAHAHAHAH

wait..wait let me get composure..

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Educational and financial success is much more strongly dependent on environmental factors, I bet even epigenetics factors into it more strongly. Not to mention a lot of Oxbridge guys are ugly. Read this and let it blow your **** mind.

Bakermans-Kranenburg and van Ijzendoorn wanted to see whether kids with a risk allele for ADHD and externalizing behaviors (a variant of a dopamine-processing gene known as DRD4) would respond as much to positive environments as to negative. A third of the kids in the study had this risk allele; the other two-thirds had a version considered a “protective allele,” meaning it made them less vulnerable to bad environments. The control group, who did not receive the intervention, had a similar distribution.

Both the vulnerability hypothesis and the orchid hypothesis predict that in the control group the kids with a risk allele should do worse than those with a protective one. And so they did—though only slightly. Over the course of 18 months, the genetically “protected” kids reduced their externalizing scores by 11 percent, while the “at-risk” kids cut theirs by 7 percent. Both gains were modest ones that the researchers expected would come with increasing age. Although statistically significant, the difference between the two groups was probably unnoticeable otherwise.

The real test, of course, came in the group that got the intervention. How would the kids with the risk allele respond? According to the vulnerability model, they should improve less than their counterparts with the protective allele; the modest upgrade that the video intervention created in their environment wouldn’t offset their general vulnerability.

As it turned out, the toddlers with the risk allele blew right by their counterparts. They cut their externalizing scores by almost 27 percent, while the protective-allele kids cut theirs by just 12 percent (improving only slightly on the 11 percent managed by the protective-allele population in the control group). The upside effect in the intervention group, in other words, was far larger than the downside effect in the control group. Risk alleles, the Leiden team concluded, really can create not just risk but possibility.

Moral of the story, environment plays a more important role. There’s a lot of smug idiots in this thread.

It’s not about height or prettiness. It’s about hair.

Going bald? You’re going to struggle I’m afraid.

BTW, my boss who sits on the board of a FTSE100 company is about 4’10”. She’s got plenty of hair though.

Of course, our CEO is about 6’2″. Full head of hair.

Wrong. There is no statistically significant evidence for your theory.

http://irssh.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/23_IRSSH-140-V2N1.51200231.pdf

Unfortunately I think within the next decade all officers will have to carry a sidearm.

My brother seriously pissed off one of his good mates once by riding his mates 250cc scooter off a BMX dirtjump and snapping it in half….

Take Citalopram?

Mboy, did you go to university? If not, I think you should whilst you can – you’ll stand a better changes of getting a full time job after and you could potentially date girls a decade younger than you.

Then your married friends would be jealous.