School days. are they really the best of your life?

Vicar in a tutu · 06-06-2012 03:09AM #1

Personally I dont agree too much. I think some people just remember the best parts. They conveniently forget the long boring days, the homework, detentions, or even bullying.

So what do ye think?

Jesus Wept · 06-06-2012 03:11AM

No.

Any other questions?

Vicar in a tutu · 06-06-2012 03:12AM

Andy Carroll wrote: »

No.

Any other questions?

Why is the sky blue?

And how come when I close my eyes and open them in the dark I see these mad squiggles?

Jesus Wept · 06-06-2012 03:14AM

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

And how come when I close my eyes and open them in the dark I see these mad squiggles?

This is a great question, worthy of it's own thread.

Vicar in a tutu · 06-06-2012 03:16AM

Andy Carroll wrote: »

This is a great question, worthy of it's own thread.

Its worse when you squeeze your eyes shut then open them:pac:

some random drunk · 06-06-2012 03:16AM

Yeah I agree, I think people definitely put on the rose tinted specs when thinking back about their schooldays. I remember many an evening coming home from school and being tired and having practically no free time because I'd been saddled with so much homework. Couldn't even enjoy your weekends properly, knowing you had to get stuff done before sunday night.
As for the long summer holidays, yeah they were great. So much free time to do anything you liked. Except that you couldn't because you'd no money for anything.

Doc · 06-06-2012 03:17AM

No.:mad:

University days now that's a horse of a different colour!

grindle · 06-06-2012 03:18AM

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

Why is the sky blue?

And how come when I close my eyes and open them in the dark I see these mad squiggles?

NEXT QUESTIONS.

Vicar in a tutu · 06-06-2012 03:18AM

some random drunk wrote: »

Yeah I agree, I think people definitely put on the rose tinted specs when thinking back about their schooldays. I remember many an evening coming home from school and being tired and having practically no free time because I'd been saddled with so much homework. Couldn't even enjoy your weekends properly, knowing you had to get stuff done before sunday night.
As for the long summer holidays, yeah they were great. So much free time to do anything you liked. Except that you couldn't because you'd no money for anything.

Definitely. Not forgetting you could do sweet feck all because you were still only about 16.

eth0 · 06-06-2012 03:18AM

No. Still traumatised from them

Father Damo · 06-06-2012 03:21AM

In national school if we didnt bother doing our homework once your parents would be called in. In secondary only half the teachers checked to even see if we had done our homework, so I pretty much did none between 13 and 17- they would ask me to read out an answer and I would stare at a blank page and pretend to be reading it out aloud- freestyle homework rapping :pac:

School itself, not really, its the young equivalent of being in work. The social life back then though, I suppose it was a good time. First beers, first rides, drug experimentation, it was all a gloriously new time

I remember the decent summers with fondness more than actually attending school tbh.

06-06-2012 03:27AM

Being bullied, having the sh*t kicked out of me while I was on crutches. Nope, don't think so.

Vicar in a tutu · 06-06-2012 03:28AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Being bullied, having the sh*t kicked out of me while I was on crutches. Nope, don't think so.

Kids can be absolutely heartless!:eek:

grindle · 06-06-2012 03:29AM

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

Kids can be absolutely heartless!:eek:

She was severely constipated.

Vicar in a tutu · 06-06-2012 03:31AM

grindle wrote: »

She was severely constipated.

I've actually always wondered how that saying came about in fairness. I do wonder if anybody ever has literally had the sh!t kicked outta them.

And is it a regular occurrence.

KKkitty · 06-06-2012 03:31AM

No they're not. Growing up you have enough insecurities without getting tonnes more shoved in your face. Trying to fit in and watching the popular crowd sneer you for being different. It's worse if you have a brainy sibling who's a few years ahead of you too with the unrealistic expectations made of you. Back crippling schoolbags that nearly rip the shoulders off you, the pressure of exams, that teacher who has it in for you for no good reason, teachers boring you to tears reading from a book for the whole class, teachers who go on endless power trips, being sent to the principals' office for the dumbest of reasons. In my secondary school Friday assembly was excruciating. The principal would call out your name and say in front of the whole school how your progress was for the week. Even if you did badly that was called out too.

af_thefragile · 06-06-2012 03:38AM

School days were the best time of my life when i was around 10. I had lots of friends and they were all really amazing kids and we had **** loads of fun together.

Then i grew up and had the worst possible time in school when i was around 14-15. There was this big class bully and everyone but me used to suck upto him. So i was left with very few friends because i wouldn't give into his gang. I'm pretty sure now that kid is in some gang doing drugs n ****, he was pretty **** at studies so he wouldnt have got into any decent course at uni... Anyway things never really revovered since. I made lots of friends during leaving cert but then as we all went to universities, i lost contact with most of them. Then i never really found my self fitting into the whole college life of booze n parting...

So yeah looking back the best time of my life was when i was in junior school...

lennyloulou · 06-06-2012 03:44AM

school.....i have forgot alot about it and i never kept in touvh with any of my class mates... they were ok but i never felt i fitted in.was from the country -travelled miles in so i never really kept up contact after school, went away to college and that was it. i remember one girl ( girls are always the worse to bully)who took the laugh about me being from the country and did harass me, I bumped into her the night of my hen recently- wow ! what a hard nosed rough b**** she had become! Being ugly on the inside had eventually emerged onto her face!
So overall , school days for me were not the best days for me however as a secondary school teacher I see manipulative/isolating incidents on a constant basis.....i do pity kids nowadays... roll on finishing the l.cert for them apologies for spelling mistakes, an up feeding baby

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 06-06-2012 06:35AM

For some it probably was. I remember my last day of primary school there was a guy from my class in tears because he didn't want to leave all his friends. I couldn't wait to get out of the place... but then I didn't have runners expensive enough to make me popular, at least not until 6th class when I got a pair of Reeboks, at which point I was suddenly cool. Children are idiots and other children shouldn't be subjected to them.

smash · 06-06-2012 06:44AM

School days... M'eh

Weekends at that age... Awesome!

Lollers · 06-06-2012 07:37AM

Saying it was the best days of your life is strange to me, sure I had some happy times but it certainly wasn't the happest time In my life. It's reminds me of people who marry young with an extravagent costly wedding and then post a million pics on facebook to reinforce in their minds what a fantastic day it was. It's as if to say, there I made it, that's the pinnacle of my life, thats as good as it gets. Life is an evolving process and every stage of your life what ever way you choose to live it, can be some of the best days of your life.

06-06-2012 08:16AM

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

Personally I dont agree too much. I think some people just remember the best parts. They conveniently forget the long boring days, the homework, detentions, or even bullying.

So what do ye think?

School definitely not. College maybe.

Mr Benevolent · 06-06-2012 08:41AM

Fuck no, school was horrible and I'm very glad it's over. Adulthood is much better than childhood imo. Each have their advantages, but adults can do what they want. No homework, very few exams, far less peer pressure, better food, lots more sex & drugs, friends who don't talk behind your back, I could go on and on and on.

Fussy Eater · 06-06-2012 08:50AM

Small boys in the park. Jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea.

Happy days if not the happiest...

Mickey Dazzler · 06-06-2012 08:51AM

If you are one of the lucky ones, the best days of your life will be those first weeks after you realise you can perform autofellatio.

mauzo · 06-06-2012 09:05AM

Father Damo wrote: »

In national school if we didnt bother doing our homework once your parents would be called in. In secondary only half the teachers checked to even see if we had done our homework, so I pretty much did none between 13 and 17- they would ask me to read out an answer and I would stare at a blank page and pretend to be reading it out aloud- freestyle homework rapping :pac:

School itself, not really, its the young equivalent of being in work. The social life back then though, I suppose it was a good time. First beers, first rides, drug experimentation, it was all a gloriously new time I remember the decent summers with fondness more than actually attending school tbh.

You just saved me typing all that:)

Stiffler2 · 06-06-2012 09:34AM

School days. are they really the best of your life?

of course they're the best days of your life :

you expierience this for the first time, never to happen again :

smoke a joint
get drunk
bully someone
irritate the teachers
and let's not forget the ripening ladies

fryup · 06-06-2012 09:54AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Being bullied, having the sh*t kicked out of me while I was on crutches. Nope, don't think so.

^ the school principal

aujopimur · 06-06-2012 10:07AM

I hated every day in school, I spent my days dreaming about life without school.
One of my favourite pastimes was trying to make out what was happening on the street outside by studying the the images on the opaque window glass.
After school and holidays were fantastic, me and my friends new every street and nook and cranny in Cork city and surrounding countryside.

flutterflye · 06-06-2012 10:08AM

Yeah, I do think they were the best days so far for me, even considering all the sh1t that was going on for me personally at the time.
Plus, I never really went in to school much anyway, only when I felt like it.

FizzleSticks · 06-06-2012 10:33AM

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School days. are they really the best of your life?

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