Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[randombs]

Wait, if there's a speed limit sign on a woman's back, can't you just ignore it?

[Spatial]

I'm all for this new speed limit on foxes... wait, what are we talking about again?

[Brad]

Is the speed limit relative to the speed at which she's traveling?

[endo]

I'm not denying that foxes can be a pest to farmers or people that live in the countryside but the media is blowing this incident out of proportion.

No experience of urban chickens, but years ago, whe they bought a new house, my aunt and uncle got a pet duckling. For some reason. When it had grown to full duck size, my uncle built it hutch-type thing in the back and put an old baby bath in there for it to float around on and do its duckular business. It was killed by fox one night. Pulled its beak off through the bars of its hutch.

They also had a guinea pig once that ran away and then reappeared in the garden 6 months later. Bizarre.

[Decider-VT]

The guinea pig was clearly colluding with the foxes to remove the new object of your aunt and uncle's affections- disappearing for six months to bargain and draw up the plan, then swooping back in to regain their love after the duck got whacked. Unless these incidents were years apart, of course.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Should have taken the duck to the vets.








The fox would have picked up the bill..................

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Such a load of balls Tommy, sorry. The complaints you are laying are at the legal system, not the schools.

You are talking about penknives? These are 4 and 5 year old children Tommy, not secondary school children. They are in the schools care, by law we have to release our children to them for an education and it is their legal responsibility to ensure my children are properly looked after. If you take his glasses off, he's bound to hurt himself as he can't see!!

I totally agree that your son should be wearing his glasses & I didnt say anything against that, but your aggressive phrase of 'going in & giving them a bollocking' for a situation that they dont know what to with anymore due to idiot greedy wankers taking the piss isnt going to help the matter. If a parent came up to me & tried to 'give me a bollocking' be it in the playground around everyone else or in my office then they'd better be ready to receive it back. Speak in a tidy manner while firmly getting your point over. No need to go mental over it.
And I said 'penknives' for a reason because they are small yes? Kids pick all kinds of stuff up & bring them to school if they are from ****ty families who's parents dont give a ****. 1 kid brought matches in his bag, & another brought his pet rabbit in his rucksack, when then died from suffocation. Then when an accident happens the parents wash all responsibility & go for the compo option. Belive it or not (& I guess you dont believe it) IT HAPPENS, AND IT HAPPENS AROUND HERE OK.

I've complained a ridiculous amount of times about my child getting bruises, to a silly degree. The DINNER LADIES are the ones who "care" for them at playtime.

Kids get bruised. They take knocks & scrapes. Thats the way it is. My bro's little un comes home nearly every day with a cut, a bruise, a scratch, a bite mark etc. My bro went to speak to the head about the bite mark but didnt go & give him a bollocking. When I was a kid I used to come home the same, & covered in dirt with holes in my clothes. And even now I still come home from work covered in cuts, scrapes & bruises!!

A doctor has told us (and by proxy, them) that my son NEEDS his glasses all day, to see. If I take mine off, I can't see, I can't do my job. If my son can't see, his school work suffers, his reading suffers. It's common bloody sense to think that a glasses-wearer NEEDS them, as I can tell you I don't wear mine for fun. If he does wear them, it might prevent future surgery, so duty of care dicates they carry out our requests, as the parents (and thus legal custodians) on our boy. Curiously, my youngest sons pre-school (governed by just as many rules and regulations) have absolutely no problem with his glasses OR patch.

Maybe I read your 1st post wrong but I thought they said to take them off when he's playing outside? Its wrong either way & like I've mentioned I agree with you on the whole glasses thing, but there needs to be an in-depth discussion between teachers & school chiefs to ensure that teachers are covered & will be fully backed by them in these stupid situations.

They may put up a front of wanting them not to get hurt, but it's just bull****, they don't really care or they'd take my complaints more seriously, so don't tell me that "teachers just want to teach" when half of them shrug their shoulders when my son comes home COVERED in bruises.

Maybe teachers who wanted to teach have had their moral & passion for the job crushed by all this crap going on? I would think you know how it feels considering you work at RM & all the **** you've had to deal with over the last few yrs.
I'm not having a go here but if it really is that bad tho then maybe you need to change schools or make a complaint higher up the ladder?

All that's happened is fearmongering has won, the schools are afraid of people sueing them, and they cave in to that fear yet when a decent person such as myself complains about the langauge in the playground, the bruises all over my son just to name a few complaints, absolutely nothing is done.

Exactly what I was saying in my 1st reply.

As for not being able to console a crying child, franky, I don't know what your friend is on about, but that's utter bollocks. Unless of course their way of consoling a child is to hug it and sexually abuse it, in which case they aren't very good at their job, you don't have to make physical contact to console someone.

NO ITS NOT BOLLOCKS. When a child is upset & wants someone to hold their hand, or the child holds its arms out for a hug (which, lets face it, kids do) they can CONSOLE them verbally but cant even touch them, which also upsets the teachers because they have to keep this invisible wall up.
And NO they're not paedo's but again because of the fear that the media mixed with idiot greedy parents has instilled in people schools are taking no chances. There's 6 primary schools in my town, & 5 of them are situated next to the rough chav areas, & lets be honest they dont want to travel too far to get their feral little rat boy to school, so 5 out of 6 prmiary's are chav based. The other primary is a catholic school, so yeah theres probably a few paedo's working there!! And with the Pope's blessing too!!

[randombs]

They also had a guinea pig once that ran away and then reappeared in the garden 6 months later. Bizarre.

Those damn foxes!

[Colin]

Taking the day off work to take delivery of a canvas, that was supposedly coming in the morning by 10. Almost 4 o'clock and i'm still sat here waiting, getting angry................

[Dirty Sanchez]

Real irk - crap plumbing.

We've had half a dozen incidents with leaks in our house (it's 10yrs old - problems ober the last 7).

Latest one is a toilet cistern overflow pipe. Amazingly the plumbers managed to fit this one pointing below the horizontal (anothe problem we had was an overflow that was fitted up hill, yes so when it leaked the water had no chance to escape other than over the top of the tank and through the ceiling). No problem you may think, but does the overflow extend to the OUTSIDE of the house or just into the void above the hall?

Idiots, literally 2 feet short from the eave they decided to chop the overflow so when it did come into use the leak was just transferred 2 feet further up the hall than if they hadn't fitted an overflow pipe at all.

[Jebus]

I totally agree that your son should be wearing his glasses & I didnt say anything against that, but your aggressive phrase of 'going in & giving them a bollocking' for a situation that they dont know what to with anymore due to idiot greedy wankers taking the piss isnt going to help the matter. If a parent came up to me & tried to 'give me a bollocking' be it in the playground around everyone else or in my office then they'd better be ready to receive it back. Speak in a tidy manner while firmly getting your point over. No need to go mental over it.

Nice assumption. I've been in and spoken to both teachers involved a ridiculous amount of times now (4 times about abusive language, 4 times about bruises just to name a few), and I'm sick of nothing being done. Moreover, you assume I'd "dress them down" in the playground, I'm not an animal, I'd speak to them in private, in a civilised manner.

You have a problem with our society, I get it, but I'm not an aggressive man and I don't shout at people without a damn fine reason, so don't assume otherwise mate!

Kids get bruised. They take knocks & scrapes. Thats the way it is. My bro's little un comes home nearly every day with a cut, a bruise, a scratch, a bite mark etc. My bro went to speak to the head about the bite mark but didnt go & give him a bollocking. When I was a kid I used to come home the same, & covered in dirt with holes in my clothes. And even now I still come home from work covered in cuts, scrapes & bruises!!

So if your son got a pulled muscle in his knee during school hours, and a doctor started asking you why your son had so many bruises, you'd be fine with that? Again, you are assuming far too much. I'm not a moron and I understand that kids (I was one myself funny enough) get bumps, bruises and knocks. Two head injuries in two days and legs that are more bruised that not-bruised is NOT "boys being boys". I've spoken to them about this on numerous occasions, and again, nothing is being done, and (as you suggest in a moment) I'm going to take it higher if it continues. "Kids get bruises" is something the teachers like to trot out every time it's raised, but I know my son, and I know that the teachers aren't looking after them at playtimes, instead the dinner ladies do it. Yeah, kids get bruises, but not to this bloody extent! He's covered in them and gets head injuries, pulled muscles...come on!

Maybe I read your 1st post wrong but I thought they said to take them off when he's playing outside? Its wrong either way & like I've mentioned I agree with you on the whole glasses thing, but there needs to be an in-depth discussion between teachers & school chiefs to ensure that teachers are covered & will be fully backed by them in these stupid situations.

Quite correct, they make him take his glasses off during playtime, when he keeps having these "falls". Common sense needs to prevail.

Maybe teachers who wanted to teach have had their moral & passion for the job crushed by all this crap going on? I would think you know how it feels considering you work at RM & all the **** you've had to deal with over the last few yrs.
I'm not having a go here but if it really is that bad tho then maybe you need to change schools or make a complaint higher up the ladder?

I do know how it feels, and I have a choice about staying on and trying to improve things, or going elsewhere. It's not as simple as "changing schools" either mate, not around here anyway.

The rest of your post regarding consoling children, I can't comment on your area, but I know for a fact that they will touch their shoulders, calm them down in other ways, but yeah, they can't "hug" them.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Nice assumption.

Well to be fair you assumed a lot from my posts so dont go on the defensive mate.

I never mentioned you'd bollock them in the playground it was just what I've seen & heard from real teachers in the past & me putting myself in that situation. I also mentioned the office place too in my post.
If you were being of the top with your bollocking just to exhagerate how you would deal with it, when in fact you would talk to them in a 'civilised manner' then it didnt come across mate.

You mentioned I was a little aggressive in 1 of my posts lately, but you seem to be about 20 times worse & on the verge of knocking someone out.

You have a problem with our society.

And where the hell did you get this assumption from? I mearly mentioned what is going on in my area, & I only said that due to the tabloids over the top scare mongering its left those who believe it constantly worrying about stupid scenarios.

A lot of teachers have left the proffession. Head teachers just cant deal with being bollocked in the school yard ALL THE TIME around my way & have quit.

As for the state of your kids school, well, if it impossible to get into another school then you need to take it higher mate. You've got enough proof so all the best with it.

[Jebus]

You mentioned I was a little aggressive in 1 of my posts lately, but you seem to be about 20 times worse & on the verge of knocking someone out.

That just shows how little you know me and yet how much you've assumed, but of course, it is your right to do so. For the record though, I don't feel I've been "20 times worse" and to say I'm on the "verge of knocking someone out" is to me, more than a little hysterical. I have mentioned (in this very thread) prior occasions I've complanied to the school, so didn't feel the need to reiterate how polite I was about it to someone I don't know know on the internet in a thread created to moan in!

I don't think I was going on the defensive either, nor was I assuming things from your post. You gave specific examples and I reacted to them.

The bottom line for me is simple, I have to put my child into their care and I don't feel the care they are providing is acceptable. You can shift the blame onto society by saying it's the people's fault for sueing all the time (I won't disgree that we've become far too quick to sue), but ultimately, "society" is not whom I place my trust in to care for my pride and joy every weekday. The blame for that lack of care does not lie with society simply because it doesn't live up to the ideology that we should all be better people.

And where the hell did you get this assumption from? I mearly mentioned what is going on in my area, & I only said that due to the tabloids over the top scare mongering its left those who believe it constantly worrying about stupid scenarios.

I got that assumption from your other posts and how often your "irks" are about other people's behaviour (including our current discussion), rather than situations. If I've got you all wrong or mixed you up with another forum user, then I apologise.

As for the state of your kids school, well, if it impossible to get into another school then you need to take it higher mate. You've got enough proof so all the best with it.

Thanks for your wishes.

[hudson]

It irks me that there's no glowing alert icon on this forum indicating where there is a thread fight in progress

[Jebus]

It irks me that there's no glowing alert icon on this forum indicating where there is a thread fight in progress

...or where someone is trolling!

No fight here dude, sorry to disappoint.