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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2008 9:03:29 GMT
Impregnated by a ball of feathers? That's even more daft than the Holy Spirit story.
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2008 9:07:47 GMT
Well the kid was 8 not a teenager for a start and the school did let her in, they just said she couldn't wear the earrings during breaktime running around in the playground. Mini-Trubs has a friend with a lip piercing and tongue and belly button and eyebrow, couple of ear piercings and I might have forgotten others...the friend's teacher is my cousin and god daughter). I hear the intimate details of the debate from both sides, the kids, the mother and the teacher. The school has a rule limiting piercings and multiple ones are forbidden as are tongue ones and the teen knew that when she got them done (much to mum's chagrin). Part of the reason is 'health and safety' at school and part of the reason is standards that the school wish to maintain that include uniforms, behaviour when going home from school, a certain degree of decorum, all the usuals... I say, rules is rules. I say, the purpose of schools is to educate children, not groom them for respectability and conformity. Schools groom you for something anyway, why not respectability? As for conformity, that's not what was taught to me, unless you include the bullying and pack mentality inherent in the kids in the playgrounds. Maybe I had a different education than others, I suppose two out of the three schools I went to were liberal and non-conformist enough, the third was just old fashioned and only hired teachers who had no proper qualifications and wore mortar boards and cloaks...but I can't say it taught me not to question things. My daughter's school is so busy teaching them to question everything and rebel that they have forgotten to give them the rules first so I find the kids there seem quite confused. They know they should be angry but they're not 100% sure about what. Piercings don't count as rebelling against the establishment and freedom of expression when you're only 4 or 8, I reckon. |
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Post by Patrick on Dec 9, 2008 10:32:20 GMT
Impregnated by a ball of feathers? That's even more daft than the Holy Spirit story. Feathery Balls? No! I always walk like this! |
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2008 11:08:03 GMT
Patrick...do the feathers tickle when you walk like that?
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Post by Patrick on Dec 9, 2008 11:10:52 GMT
That information is strictly between me and my Tailor!
or it would be if I had one
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2008 11:18:06 GMT
A tailor probably can't help. It sounds as if you'd be better off with a handler of some sort. Do you have problems with twitching?
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2008 11:19:40 GMT
(Presuming you're into watching birds, that is).
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Post by Patrick on Dec 9, 2008 11:22:55 GMT
Simply Hundreds!! Bank Holidays are the worst! Little Bunting Station is standing room only, then!
They have to run extra shuttles from Great Bunting and Middle Grebeling! They've been known to have to commandeer the Number eight to provide extra journeys y'know!
There's nothing these twitchers like than a good ramble in the Trossacks at this time of year.
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2008 11:27:39 GMT
(So that's where it's been all this time.  ) Just take care, Patrick, I hear they can be quite intrusive with their zoom lenses. |
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Post by Patrick on Dec 9, 2008 11:40:04 GMT
That's all right - I have a word with Samantha, who takes a leaf out of Small Clanger's book* and pulls them off one by one.
*Assumes everyone is paying attention this morning
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2008 15:57:55 GMT
Oh they'll be angry. I bet they give her quite a mouthful, don't they...?
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Post by everso on Dec 9, 2008 16:10:59 GMT
OK, I confess. Uberteen (age 16) has her ears pierced 4 or 5 times and her belly button pierced. Queen of Troubled Teens (aged 15) has ears pierced once and her tongue pierced. My permission and presence were there for the first ear-piercing and for nothing after that. If they get their ears pierced they have to keep the earrings in for 6 weeks. If this period crosses into school term time, they should cover up the sleepers with elastoplasts for gym. Once the ear piercing (I have no idea how the other piercings work) has 'healed' after 6 weeks they can remove their earrings for gym. I can't quite understand why a school wouldn't let them in with ear piercings at all. That seems a bit judgemental. How times change. I remember when I was at primary school, lots of little girls had their ears pierced and wore sleepers to school. Nobody said a word and I never ever saw a girl's ears get "ripped" I let my daughter have her ears pierced at age 8 - loads of little girls had them done - and even I (at the fairly advanced age of 35) had a second lot of holes pierced because it was the fashion in the 80s. Health and Safety gets more and more ridiculous. Whatever sort of gymnasticss would a girll have to be doing to rip the earrings from her ears. So long as she's wearing studs I can't see what the problem is. Tsk!! |
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Post by Patrick on Dec 9, 2008 17:49:44 GMT
Look folks! A true professional in action! See how the lovely Everso swiftly moved this thread back on topic! No sniping or un-fluffiness! Just straight in there and back on the - er - ball!  Now look what you've made me do, I wasn't going to mention balls again!  Sorreee!  |
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2008 18:00:50 GMT
How ashamed you must be. Everso should be a mod. She really should. Someone should be in the house without a dirty mind.
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Post by Patrick on Dec 9, 2008 18:04:14 GMT
Ah! The old one's are the best;
"The Deity of God. The Deity of the Holy Spirit, and the Deity of Jesus Christ
You've just got a Deity mind!"
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Post by everso on Dec 10, 2008 13:13:13 GMT
How ashamed you must be. Everso should be a mod. She really should. Someone should be in the house without a dirty mind. >preen< "preen" - geddit? Preen - feathers. Oh I'm so with it today!! |
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Post by trubble on Dec 10, 2008 13:16:23 GMT
I'm sorry, the mental image you have uploaded of preening the feathers in question violates the terms and conditions of my brain. Never do that again.  |
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Post by Patrick on Dec 10, 2008 13:37:43 GMT
I can't think of a "Ball of Feathers" though without thinking of Pigwidgeon. From Harry Potter - so my angelic mind was elsewhere..........
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