Re: bloody SNP

But you got that from the govt for free.

It was only later you had to pay someone to apply it.

Mmmmm leather...kinky

you tawser ron

Made in Lochgelly. After the ban on hitting kids they diversified into a more adult and consenting punishment market.

While at primary school I was belted a LOT by a belt-happy headmaster, mostly for things that I was innocent of but he didn't care. It instilled a deep suspicion of petty people in power.

Andy

Often wondered what six of the worst would be like?

I got 6 for being in the toilets when a fight broke out outside the toilet and migrated inside. I got 6 on the other hand for denying that I was involved.

I was scheduled for a further six the following week for commenting that it was unfair to be belted when I did nothing. I was then asked if I wanted belting every week until I admitted that I was involved so I buckled and admitted that I was involved (even though I was not) and was scheduled for an extra 6 the following week for lying. He said that either I was lying about being involved or lying about not being involved. Either was I was lying and deserved another six.

Nasty spiteful little tyrant of a man.

Andy

I got the strap in secondary school for pulling someone's hair out - although I hadn't.

I and a friend did the normal pulling someone's hair on their birthday (this was expected and the teacher used to read out birthdays when taking the morning register). Someone else then yanked clumps out and managed to lay the blame on myself and my friend - although the victim was clear that we were not involved in the excessive hair pulling.

In Juniors, we had 100 homework questions every week, as part of preparation for the 11-plus. If you scored less than the previous week, you were whacked that many times, on the backside, with a table-tennis bat (girls got a ruler to the hand).

When was this, 2000 years BC? ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Now my first head master would have given me 6 just for being there, and getting caught, guilty or not, and explained with a smile that 'it's for all the other times I didn't catch you, then'.

I also got the ruler on the hand. I am a left-hander and my teacher used to say "there is no such thing as a left handed child, only an awkward child" I got the flat of the ruler off my knuckles for using my left hand and then, for repeat offended I got the edge. If my hand writing was bad I got a punishment.

I use my right hand and get punished and use my left hand and also get punished. I hated school.

Andy

My father got that, with the result that he became truly ambidextrous - able to function easily in a world designed around right-handed people (indeed you would think that he was naturally right-handed), but also very handy when doing DIY and I needed someone to work in an awkward position that was only really accessible by a left-hander.

My middle son is left-handed and although there was none of the forcing him to use his right hand, he did keep getting told off and marked down for untidy writing and not cutting things out well - and at every parents' evening, we had to point out that it was awkward for him writing left-handed, when they were teaching pen positions and movements for right-handers and that right-handed scissors made it difficult for him to cut accurately.

Quite right!

And, it clearly never did you any harm.

no wonder we are damaged with issues....

Rough and ready justice of the kindly sort is OK. Bullying victimisation and verbal character assassination is far far worse.

And worst of all is confusing pre pubescent teenagers about their sex.

That would motivate the Rambos of this world to upgrade their licence.

Says the man who took out an M3 to get on HF.

Maybe you're confusing me with Brian Reay ,whoever he is.The word is he's a top guy .

I used to enjoy watching naughty kids being corrected by other teachers. Serves em right.