Re: Huf Haus on last night's Grand Designs

Actually, though it was a secondary modern, I think the English teacher most probably did teach those examples which you quote. But I was already a techie by this time in my educational calendar and English was boring, boring, boring. So I didn't take a whole lot of notice.

I think I got CSE grade 2 for English - it certainly wasn't O level or CSE grade 1.

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I am NOT waving my willy about. I always keep a firm hand on it.

MM

Natuurlijk!

MM

Yeah, that one across the Mersey is enough of a challenge for most.

MM

Not if you've already been there and found that it ain't as bad as people think.

(Sorry, that was the "Huge" use of "you've" there.)

MM

That's a bit of an admission........ ;-) .andy

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It is when using the nominative. Thus: "My wife and I went to the station to see the engines shunt." But note: "A lump of coal flew out of the boiler and hit my wife and me in the face."

MM

Well, I left school at fifteen. However, it was in 1961. That is the difference. I was taught clause analysis by a semi-drunk Irish legend until my ears almost bled - which would have hardly been surprising given the frequency of his little loveable cuffs about the head.

MM

You'll go blind, you know.

Must make driving and so on a bit difficult.

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Ah, those were the days. Back in the 60's we had teachers who threw board rubbers across the classroom at anyone not paying attention, and those were serious blocks of wood! It was also the done thing to have a plimsol whacked across your backside in front of the class if you did something wrong.

My parents told me often enough that if I did wrong they'd march me in front of the headmaster to make sure I got due punishment. Worked for me.

Obviously in this day and age teachers aren't allowed to even breathe heavy on a student. I sometimes wonder whether this change of situation might have a relationship with increased crime levels, but I expect there must be another explanation.

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As in ...

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I never did like Gerry and the pacemakers

In message , Mike Mitchell writes

I think if you live in Germany long enough, you find that, under the veneer, they're just as crap as us. (5 years living in Germany)

In message , Neil Jones writes

Unfortunately not AFAIK

(they did have" 'allo 'allo" on satellite though which they all thought was great ... not quite the same though)

In message , derek writes

You were lucky !

We used to have to go downstairs to the lobby where they had 3 massive beer vending machines.

Friday - return from lunch ...

"Geoff, it's almost the weekend, go and get the beer in"

... unless, of course, it was someone's birthday / child's christening / engagement / joining / leaving / any other excuse, in which case, it was obligatory to have a barrel of beer and some food.

And this was on a site doing defence work

In message , Mike Mitchell writes

In one company which I worked in, there was a general walk out because there was a rumour that there was going to be a discussion about stopping production workers drinking at their place of work. By this I mean while operating presses, milling machine and lathes.

Bier ist wie brot

Is that still going? They have rail and road tunnels now.

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