Weird school talks.

Ghost Buster

I read this the other day and was reminded of a similarish event back in my school days back in the late 80's.
A Nordy (relevant cos they are usually waaaaaaaay more fire n brimstoney than us freestaters) ex rock musician was allowed access to my class, with no teacher present.
He started off calmly enough telling us of his past playing with Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher and battles with drink, drug and infidelity and the usual hedonistic 'life on the road' stuff.
Then he got onto the presence of SATAN in rock music ranted about Heavy Metal gigs with teenagers making the DANGEROUS horns of Horus sign, played some records backwards for us so that , as he insisted,we could hear the subliminal messages in them asking us to worship Satan and commit suicide.
He produced a Motley Crue teddy
with the DEVIL hand sign and he proceeded to rub the pile in the teddys fur which again as he insisted, if viewed in the correct light showed the numbers 666.
Then he finished in a frothy mouthed spittle spattered frenzy in warning us of the evil homosexuals prevalent in rock music name checking Culture Club but reserving his ire for Queen who attempted to hide their 'queerness' by playing manly rock music!!!!!!!!!
I reckon if this happened now it would cause a social media storm.
Any other 'auld stock' have similar stories?

anncoates

wtf

Ghost Buster

anncoates wrote: »

wtf

Yeah. My school was kinda progressive and into letting people in to talk to the classes. Often had harmless yet interesting stuff like an Aboriginie woman who came in and spoke of her culture and play didgeridoo for us and The Reduced Shakespere Company came in and rapped the entire works of Shakespere for us.....that sort of sthick but they didnt practice much vetting...obviously!

whitewave

And here I thought getting shown a load of pictures of STI-ridden genitals was a weird school talk...

We had a woman come in to speak to us about grooming (all girls school), no warning she was coming at all. She started off inoffensively enough, talking about polishing shoes and makeup and other crap, and then - BAM! - she hit her stride with tampons. By god, that woman had a problem with tampons.

Tampons are the work of the devil, robbing your virginity and getting you used to inserting 'stuff'. They're part of a liberal agenda that makes innocent young girls think that inserting objects other than your husbands willy on your wedding night is ok. Well, it's most definitely NOT ok. Once you've used a tampon, you're not a virgin anymore and you can never have that hymen back you know. And what happens if you forget to remove it? Well you die, basically. And you'd deserve to. Tampons also stretch your vagina, reduce sensation, and cause mood swings. This went on, without repetition, for about ten minutes, until she was frothing at the mouth like a Westboro preacher in an abortion clinic.

If you'd panned a camera across the classroom you'd have seen a sea of 17 year old faces with their jaws on the floor. The teacher didn't believe us when she came back in. One girl started crying.

This wasn't in Holy Catholic Ireland either. Weirdest school day of my life.

OldNotWIse

We had a pro-life talk where they showed us a video of a late term abortion and afterwards gave us all little pins in the shape of a pair of babies feet, the size they would be at 4 months gestation. Scarred me for life I would put my staunch pro-life stance down to this early indoctrination...but then I saw a girl from my class on the box a while ago with a megaphone shouting about being pro-choice Very disturbing altogether. We also had a weirdy video called "I want to be your Friend" whose catchphrase was "No Touching Under Clothes"

Ghost Buster

Candie wrote: »

We had a woman come in to speak to us about grooming (all girls school), no warning she was coming at all. She started off inoffensively enough, talking about polishing shoes and makeup and other crap, and then - BAM! - she hit her stride with tampons. By god, that woman had a problem with tampons.

Tampons are the work of the devil, robbing your virginity and getting you used to inserting 'stuff'. They're part of a liberal agenda that makes innocent young girls think that inserting objects other than your husbands willy on your wedding night is ok. Well, it's most definitely NOT ok. Once you've used a tampon, you're not a virgin anymore and you can never have that hymen back you know. And what happens if you forget to remove it? Well you die, basically. And you'd deserve to. Tampons also stretch your vagina, reduce sensation, and cause mood swings. This went on, without repetition, for about ten minutes, until she was frothing at the mouth like a Westboro preacher in an abortion clinic.

If you'd panned a camera across the classroom you'd have seen a sea of 17 year old faces with their jaws on the floor. The teacher didn't believe us when she came back in. One girl started crying.

This wasn't in Holy Catholic Ireland either. Weirdest school day of my life.

Jaysas!!!!!!!

Only a few years ago I went to a talk on organic food and diet etc in the local library (de missus is into it:o). Again it was all quite calm until the woman suddenly shifted gear and went into the dangers of microwaved food and how, amongst other things it MIGHT be responsible for this current trend with men thinking their women and homosexuals and cross dressers. A few of us, myself included walked out.

ivytwine

I think we had that group that's mentioned that Journal article- the sellotape rings a bell.

Anyway, we had two of those chastity groups, one in first year and another in fifth or sixth year. Our school was VERY religious. I remember the one in LC had a girl who claimed she was a born again virgin (!) and a guy who had never had sex but became addicted to porn. Everyone sat there thinking "Loser!" I'm sure.

They definitely went on about sellotape, and I think the woman put the sellotape on herself but not us. They played the Armin van Helden song 'Another Love' saying it was about how empty life is with meaningless sex (empty- and AWESOME! )

Anyway, it was totally useless as one of the girls in the class already had a baby and none of the rest of us gave a ****.

In fifth year we got a talk from the local sexual health clinic who basically got in under false pretences. The woman made our teacher leave the room, locked the door, covered up the panel window and showed us how to put on a condom on a model penis- what a legend

Our religions teacher (a nun) was fuming afterwards!

Ihatecuddles

Candie wrote: »

We had a woman come in to speak to us about grooming (all girls school), no warning she was coming at all. She started off inoffensively enough, talking about polishing shoes and makeup and other crap, and then - BAM! - she hit her stride with tampons. By god, that woman had a problem with tampons.

Tampons are the work of the devil, robbing your virginity and getting you used to inserting 'stuff'. They're part of a liberal agenda that makes innocent young girls think that inserting objects other than your husbands willy on your wedding night is ok. Well, it's most definitely NOT ok. Once you've used a tampon, you're not a virgin anymore and you can never have that hymen back you know. And what happens if you forget to remove it? Well you die, basically. And you'd deserve to. Tampons also stretch your vagina, reduce sensation, and cause mood swings. This went on, without repetition, for about ten minutes, until she was frothing at the mouth like a Westboro preacher in an abortion clinic.

If you'd panned a camera across the classroom you'd have seen a sea of 17 year old faces with their jaws on the floor. The teacher didn't believe us when she came back in. One girl started crying.

This wasn't in Holy Catholic Ireland either. Weirdest school day of my life.

You should write a book that was brilliant!!!

We had the opposite, our home ec teacher told us to never use pads. You're basically spreading it around your vagina and bum and sitting in it all day! The blokes went an awful shade of white.

Ghost Buster

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Jaysas!!!!!!!

Only a few years ago I went to a talk on organic food and diet etc in the local library (de missus is into it:o). Again it was all quite calm until the woman suddenly shifted gear and went into the dangers of microwaved food and how, amongst other things it MIGHT be responsible for this current trend with men thinking their women and homosexuals and cross dressers. A few of us, myself included walked out.

It was only ten years ago too

Your talk sounds familiar. I've a friend who won't even eat a chinese meal because only chinese digestive systems have evolved to eat chinese food, and westerners should only eat Western food. She was confused when I broke the news to her about potatoes. She won't microwave either, because it's radiation and all radiation is bad. She's not very clever.

Wait until I tell her there's a gay connection, it'll blow her mind because she'll probably believe it!

D1stant

Ghost Buster wrote: »

I read this the other day and was reminded of a similarish event back in my school days back in the late 80's.
A Nordy (relevant cos they are usually waaaaaaaay more fire n brimstoney than us freestaters) ex rock musician was allowed access to my class, with no teacher present.
He started off calmly enough telling us of his past playing with Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher and battles with drink, drug and infidelity and the usual hedonistic 'life on the road' stuff.
Then he got onto the presence of SATAN in rock music ranted about Heavy Metal gigs with teenagers making the DANGEROUS horns of Horus sign, played some records backwards for us so that , as he insisted,we could hear the subliminal messages in them asking us to worship Satan and commit suicide.
He produced a Motley Crue teddy
with the DEVIL hand sign and he proceeded to rub the pile in the teddys fur which again as he insisted, if viewed in the correct light showed the numbers 666.
Then he finished in a frothy mouthed spittle spattered frenzy in warning us of the evil homosexuals prevalent in rock music name checking Culture Club but reserving his ire for Queen who attempted to hide their 'queerness' by playing manly rock music!!!!!!!!!
I reckon if this happened now it would cause a social media storm.
Any other 'auld stock' have similar stories?

Ah we had the same Parish Priest then

mauzo!

mauzo! wrote: »

We had the opposite, our home ec teacher told us to never use pads. You're basically spreading it around your vagina and bum and sitting in it all day! The blokes went an awful shade of white.

Me too just reading that

What a choice, spreading it around or killing yourself!

sadie06

We had Father Michael Cleary breeze in, leather coat tails blowing behind him, to give us fifth years a talk, also with no teachers present. I remember him trying his best to shock us, telling us to look around, that 'at least 10 people here are gay, 4 will be pregnant before they leave school, 15 will become drug addicts', etc.

He was on such an ego trip, and spent most of the time basking in his own 'coolness'. It makes me shudder to think about it.

geeky

And here's me ready to talk about our 'sex education', which basically involved a doctor telling us we'd end up having an orgy if we watched pornos.

Mariasofia

We had Grandparents day......some weird fcukers at that!

wazky

geeky wrote: »

And here's me ready to talk about our 'sex education', which basically involved a doctor telling us we'd end up having an orgy if we watched pornos.

Is there was ever more of a reason to watch porn.

greenbicycle

We had the holy grail of sex education speakers in 6th class. Angela McNamara, who was brought in to tell us all about how sex worked as our convent school clearly weren't up to the task.

I think she was a bit of a holy Joe too though. She wrote that book "Ready Steady Grow" that parents (who also weren't up to the task of "the talk" but loved a bit of mass) bought for their children to read when the questions about where babies came from started!

Turtyturd

I think I blocked all those talks out....or just y'know, went to a normal school.

MarkR

Don't get me started on the guy who came in to measure us for pants. Looking back, it was kinda weird. We didn't even have school uniforms? :eek:

For Forks Sake

geeky wrote: »

And here's me ready to talk about our 'sex education', which basically involved a doctor telling us we'd end up having an orgy if we watched pornos.

Giggidy.

Knasher

We had a couple of visits from the chastity crowd. The didn't have the sellotape thing back then, but they made the same point with a piece of paper in the shape of a heart, which they had a girl from the class tear into half and hand to a guy each time, representing her diminishing capacity to love. I'd say this crowd visited us every too years and the entire school was herded into this really nice old library room in groups. By comparison we were given an actual sex-ed talk only once, when I was in 2nd year and it was held in a dark and run down AV room as far away from the main school building as possible.

Picture the scene - sex "education" (a word I use loosely!) circa 1987. Not exactly the stone age now, but the AIDS crisis is in full swing remember and HIV treatments are still something of a distant dream.

So sex ed in an all boys school falls under the remit guess who? The science/biology teacher? The phys ed teacher? No, of course not. Don't be ridiculous. It can only be the religion teacher, right? She's a youngish woman, recently qualified, maybe 23 or 24, but in the eyes of kids aged 13 and 14 one adult is much the same as the next.

The entire sex ed program consists of this - we enter a classroom with single desks so as to sit alone. We then watch an animated slide show about changes to the human body between childhood and adulthood. A book of some description, I imagine it was to explain all this in more detail, is placed on everyone's desk. We are NOT allowed to open this book (lest it distract us from the show) and are NOT allowed to take it home overnight lest we jizzed all over the cartoons or something.

"Any questions?" she asks. "Not today though, write them down on a piece of paper and I'll deal with them next class. Bye now."

Five minutes before the next class one guy says to the rest of us, "lads, I'll bet you all she's gonna do ANYTHING to get out of this and finish the class as soon as she can. She'll say as soon as she hears one 'juvenile snigger' that none of us can be trusted, and then get back to some gospel or whatever".

And sure enough that's exactly how it played out. The first words out of her mouth were that if anyone so much as smiles the lesson is over on the spot. Everyone looks at each other rolling their eyes, shrugging their shoulders, and going "I knew it, told you so, any BS excuse" and so on.

True to her word, she sees the reaction and "here endeth the lesson", never ever to return to it. Not just with her, not with any teacher in any class for the remainder of our time in school. She may as well have closed the lesson with the words "go forth into a life of herpes, chlamydia, and teenage pregnancy" for all the good this so called education was for anyone.

Turtyturd

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Picture the scene - sex "education" (a word I use loosely!) circa 1987. Not exactly the stone age now, but the AIDS crisis is in full swing remember and HIV treatments are still something of a distant dream.

So sex ed in an all boys school falls under the remit guess who? The science/biology teacher? The phys ed teacher? No, of course not. Don't be ridiculous. It can only be the religion teacher, right? She's a youngish woman, recently qualified, maybe 23 or 24, but in the eyes of kids aged 13 and 14 one adult is much the same as the next.

The entire sex ed program consists of this - we enter a classroom with single desks so as to sit alone. We then watch an animated slide show about changes to the human body between childhood and adulthood. A book of some description, I imagine it was to explain all this in more detail, is placed on everyone's desk. We are NOT allowed to open this book (lest it distract us from the show) and are NOT allowed to take it home overnight lest we jizzed all over the cartoons or something.

"Any questions?" she asks. "Not today, write them down on a piece of paper and I'll deal with them next class. Bye now."

Five minutes before the next class one guy says to the rest of us, "lads, I'll bet you all she's gonna do ANYTHING to get out of this and finish the class as soon as she can. She'll say as soon as she hears one 'juvenile snigger' that none of us can be trusted, and then get back to some gospel or whatever".

And sure enough that's exactly how it played out. The first words out of her mouth were that if anyone so much as smiles the lesson is over on the spot. Everyone looks at each other rolling their eyes, shrugging their shoulders, and going "I knew it, told you so, any BS excuse" and so on.

True to her word, she sees the reaction and "here endeth the lesson", never ever to return to it. Not just with her, not with any teacher in any class for the remainder of our time in school. She may as well have closed the lesson with the words "go forth into a life of herpes, chlamydia, and teenage pregnancy" for all the good this so called education was for anyone.

I think the misinformation Irish school boys developed as a result of 80's/90's sex education is a thread in itself.

Mr Freeze

In the 90s, in secondary school.

We were all brought in for a full day for a talk, we had no idea what it was about.

We were left with a Christian brother and a man and a woman.

He gave a brief waffly intro, introducing them, wasn't really paying attention, noone was, then woman began speaking, and after about 5 mins of her telling us about how she is ok now and what she does now, she then told us, "But I was possessed by the Divil".

Now we were all paying attention, and thus went a day of listening to these 3 talk about exorcisms and possessions.

They were probably all insane, but it was an entertaining day for us back then.

Mr Freeze

Turtyturd wrote: »

I think the misinformation Irish school boys developed as a result of 80's/90's sex education is a thread in itself.

In our school it was the biology teacher (middle aged woman, all boys school), and of course we got to ask questions too.

And of course those questions were just trying to get a reaction outta the teacher.

Someone asked about masturbation, and the teacher was totally un -phased by it the question, she said something like "oh thats commonly referred to as a ****". Queue the class erupting in laughter for the remainder of the class.

The Princess Bride

sadie06 wrote: »

We had Father Michael Cleary breeze in, leather coat tails blowing behind him, to give us fifth years a talk, also with no teachers present. I remember him trying his best to shock us, telling us to look around, that 'at least 10 people here are gay, 4 will be pregnant before they leave school, 15 will become drug addicts', etc.

He was on such an ego trip, and spent most of the time basking in his own 'coolness'. It makes me shudder to think about it.

He visited our school twice in the early 80s.
This was a Brigidine run school,Principal was a nun.

I have to say,he was quite honest and left us shocked- we were incredibly innocent and naive.
He spoke openly about the drugs he took under medical supervision to see the effects each had on him,all except LSD.
He had us laughing( & the nuns blushing) when he told us if he'd a hot blonde in the room,it wouldn't be the rosary he'd be doing with her.

Yes,he quoted statistics for drug addiction,abortion,divorce,teen pregnancy etc...among our group of 200+ students.
All I can say is 30 years later,he was spot on.
Definitely one of the more positive talks we had throughout my education.

ivytwine

Mr Freeze wrote: »

In the 90s, in secondary school.

We were all brought in for a full day for a talk, we had no idea what it was about.

We were left with a Christian brother and a man and a woman.

He gave a brief waffly intro, introducing them, wasn't really paying attention, noone was, then woman began speaking, and after about 5 mins of her telling us about how she is ok now and what she does now, she then told us, "But I was possessed by the Divil".

Now we were all paying attention, and thus went a day of listening to these 3 talk about exorcisms and possessions.

They were probably all insane, but it was an entertaining day for us back then.

We had someone who was 'possessed' too! This was in 2006...

Mr Freeze

ivytwine wrote: »

We had someone who was 'possessed' too! This was in 2006...

Would have been mid 90s for us.

I remember her saying something like, she couldn't go into the church cause there were dark evil figures that wouldn't let her, and her loved ones had to drag her in.

ivytwine

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Would have been mid 90s for us.

I remember her saying something like, she couldn't go into the church cause there were dark evil figures that wouldn't let her, and her loved ones had to drag her in.

I remember very little about ours, clearly they were the type of person who made satanic possession sound boring. I do remember her warning us off psychics though.

We had tons of talks in senior cycle-we had 2 hrs of religion every wed so they often had speakers. We had someone who had been in a cult too, that was actually very interesting.

Mariasofia

Anyone remember the crowd that used to come and you would have to strip and they would weigh and measure you and check your ears and eyes and stuff???? :O
Anyone??

ivytwine

Mariasofia wrote: »

Anyone remember the crowd that used to come and you would have to strip and they would weigh and measure you and check your ears and eyes and stuff???? :O
Anyone??

I think there are redress boards for that type of thing... :O

The Princess Bride

Mariasofia wrote: »

Anyone remember the crowd that used to come and you would have to strip and they would weigh and measure you and check your ears and eyes and stuff???? :O
Anyone??

That was primary school.Public Health Nurses.

Richard tea

The usual - talks on drugs and alcohol. But a strange one happened in Transition year. A bloke came in to talk to us about cot deaths. I cant remember bow if he was head of some cot death group or just doing it off his own steam. He lost a child himself to cot death. Very odd

dilallio

Did anyone else have the anti-abortion crowd visit with a foetus in a jar. Gave me nightmares for months. Bastards :mad:

The Pheasant2

ivytwine wrote: »

a guy who had never had sex but became addicted to porn. Everyone sat there thinking "Loser!" I'm sure.

I think I had that guy too! Lanky weird fella he was - haha one of the lads asked him about masturbation and he got really angry, said it killed your relationship with God. And then he started crying! That was really weird...
He did the talk with this little Scottish fella who told us condoms only worked 1time in 6 and he made us come up and roll a big dice - if you rolled a 6 it meant you'd have become a father. Awful load of ****e they were talking

Haha there was an upside though; the teachers found out yer man started crying and our year weren't allowed get talks anymore

Mr Freeze

dilallio wrote: »

Did anyone else have the anti-abortion crowd visit with a foetus in a jar. Gave me nightmares for months. Bastards :mad:

That shouldn't be allowed. Bloody hell.

Mr Freeze

Mariasofia wrote: »

Anyone remember the crowd that used to come and you would have to strip and they would weigh and measure you and check your ears and eyes and stuff???? :O
Anyone??

Oh ya, that was weird. Definitely happened. You had no idea what was happening, and you would hear stories of lads that fainted, and see them being carried out in their under wear.

And the dentists that would give ya sh1tty fillings when ya didn't need them.

ivytwine

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

I think I had that guy too! Lanky weird fella he was - haha one of the lads asked him about masturbation and he got really angry, said it killed your relationship with God. And then he started crying! That was really weird...
He did the talk with this little Scottish fella who told us condoms only worked 1time in 6 and he made us come up and roll a big dice - if you rolled a 6 it meant you'd have become a father. Awful load of ****e they were talking

Haha there was an upside though; the teachers found out yer man started crying and our year weren't allowed get talks anymore

Yeah that was definitely him! He was very strange... Didn't cry at us but was shaking and visibly upset/angry the whole way through!

Myself and my friend asked him loads of stupid questions and I think he was on the verge of tears at points, for no discernible reason.

Our theory was the porn-addict part of himself couldn't handle being in a room full of schoolgirls, but clearly it was a general issue!

danniemcq

we had the canadian group that talked about abstenance and the whole wait till you are married thing.

Didn't really work.

But in fairness we did spend most of the time listening for "about"

Ice Storm

We had a doctor talk to us about smoking when we were in 5th year (all girls school). At that age it was a bit late for that particular talk as there were already plenty of smokers in the class.

Then at the end of the talk he asked if we had any questions. There were none so he decided that we were too shy so he would address the question he thought we would like to ask: "when should I have a smear?" Who in their right mind would have asked him that after a smoking lecture???

He proceeded to talk about smears for the next while. I have still no idea what the point of it all was!

Ice Storm

Ice Storm wrote: »

He proceeded to talk about smears for the next while. I have still no idea what the point of it all was!

All doctors are obsessed with smears
Hello doctor I'm here for this annoying chest infection
Okay but are your smears up to date

Tombo2001

sadie06 wrote: »

We had Father Michael Cleary breeze in, leather coat tails blowing behind him, to give us fifth years a talk, also with no teachers present. I remember him trying his best to shock us, telling us to look around, that 'at least 10 people here are gay, 4 will be pregnant before they leave school, 15 will become drug addicts', etc.

He was on such an ego trip, and spent most of the time basking in his own 'coolness'. It makes me shudder to think about it.

We had that guy in as well, to talk about vocations.....

I still remember the line (and this is quote unquote).

"people think priests dont have sex. but its not true. we have sex with god".

All that was missing was the music out of Psycho......

Mr Freeze

Tombo2001 wrote: »

We had that guy in as well, to talk about vocations.....

I still remember the line (and this is quote unquote).

"people think priests dont have sex. but its not true. we have sex with god".

All that was missing was the music out of Psycho......

Someone should have told him, thats just a wet dream.

CrazyRabbit

Mr Freeze wrote: »

That shouldn't be allowed. Bloody hell.

My Christian Brothers school went one better. They showed us a video of an abortion. You could see the fetus trying to move away from the invading suction tubes, and then being torn apart piece by piece.

I think everyone left that day as a pro-lifer.

The Diabolical Monocle

In biology class we started getting the whole reproductive talk.
Of course if you were to laugh in such a class it would be a sure sign of immaturity among your peers, only a naive unsophisticated halfwit would giggle.

I was falsely accused of laughing at the vagina, in a vindictive calculated and totally unjustified move by a cnut who thought he was something special, ( a cnut with byed blonde hair too) I know I'd kick his ass if I saw him these days. Resulting in ME being accused of immaturity while the real perpetrator that was that little weasel cnut got away with it.

Still bitter about it to this day.

OldNotWIse

dilallio wrote: »

Did anyone else have the anti-abortion crowd visit with a foetus in a jar. Gave me nightmares for months. Bastards :mad:

I thought I had it bad with a video of a late term abortion.

OldNotWIse

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I thought I had it bad with a video of a late term abortion.

One popular one doing the rounds was later admitted to be a fake for propaganda
"silent scream" or something

OldNotWIse

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

My Christian Brothers school went one better. They showed us a video of an abortion. You could see the fetus trying to move away from the invading suction tubes, and then being torn apart piece by piece.

I think everyone left that day as a pro-lifer.

Ours showed the pieces laid out afterwards - bits of body all over the place that had to be accounted for . Like a disturbing version of mr Potato Head. I'm pro life but if I found out someone had shown that sh1t to my child I'd go fuucking mental and they'd be outta that school straight away. Weirdly, it wasnt that long ago..I left in 2002 so this would have been maybe 2000?

We had the chastity crowd once in secondary school, shower of idiots.

We used to have a man visit us in primary school every so often, John the barber. He loved animals and nature, he'd come in and talk to our class about some aspect of nature or animals for an hour or so, often with a falcon or hawk or some other random animal he was nursing back to health with him. Then he'd ask us questions and if you got one right he'd pull out a lollipop from a seemingly never ending array of pockets and reward you with it. He must have walked around with about 20 lollipops on him at all times. It was a great day in class to see him arrive, good doss, and he was really informative. He died last year, nice man, terrible barber though.

kylith

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

My Christian Brothers school went one better. They showed us a video of an abortion. You could see the fetus trying to move away from the invading suction tubes, and then being torn apart piece by piece.

I think everyone left that day as a pro-lifer.

Was it Silent Scream? We were made watch that in 4th year. I think everyone walked out of the room pro-life, but I'm definitely pro-choice these days.

I still can't believe that they showed us a video of what they considered a murder without parental permission.

sabat

Had this really camp guy from Cork who had a real 80's gay look to him (leather waistcoat, paisley shirt, ratty 'tache) talking to us about his life with HIV. For a room full of 16/17 year old lads, the atmosphere was surprisingly respectful, mainly because he was very funny and self-deprecating, but I'll always remember the face of the religion teacher turning a particular shade of puce as he talked about lying naked in bed with one boyfriend tyring to figure out which previous instance of casual gay sex gave him HIV.