OT: Bonfires

[The Natural Philosopher]

Indeed. save it all up for November 5th. No one will notice another fire then..

[Rick Hughes]

As a kid each Nov 5th was preceded by at least a week of getting hold of every tyre we could for the bonfire ... 100+ tyres on a bonfire was not unusual. Mattresses, old tins of paint , railway sleepers.... on it went.

[Rick Hughes]

where did they go when they cooled ?

[The Natural Philosopher]

I don't even remember writing that, you have left so little I have forgotten the context. Let me guess: Norway? Khazakstan?

[geoff]

Pissed again ?

[Jules]

Oh heck, yes. Memories. :-)

I'm not quite sure how a site was chosen - but one day there'd just be a few sticks of wood in the middle of a green space, then it'd just grow as the days went by and more and more folk just added whatever they had to hand and which they thought stood a chance of burning. I don't remember them ever getting shut down back then.

cheers

Jules

[Bill Wright]

That was in the days before our lives were micromanaged by those above us who know better than us. We ahve been reduced to the status of children.

Bill

[PeterC]

You didn't, NP - I did. As you say, there's so much cut that even I had trouble in recognising it!

As that particular fire was over half a kilofortnight ago, I can't unforget which way the wind wasn't blowing.

[Derek Geldard]

Yes kids have stopped maturing and learning after about the age of 8 (by 1960's standards).

It's perfectly natural for kids not to want to do homework, or to study for exams. It's less trouble for teachers to go along with that and tell parents (like a teacher told me about my son) "Your not worried about him are you ? He likes to come to school and that's the most important thing. don't you think it's important for kids to enjoy themselves at school, I do ?

Result was he got good at playing schoolyard football, but now, at 34 earns just about 1/3 rd of the salary of his elder brother who had exactly the same resources devoted to him - but a different teacher.

And you can't do SFA about it.

Derek

[The Natural Philosopher]

Children can be guaranteed to vote for a nany state, that gives them sweets and indulges them to the point they are spoilt completely rotten.

[george (dicegeorge)]

people who'd lived through world war II had wiser personal risk assessments than today's health and safety rulifiers.

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