Thank goodness for Prince Charles

[briansnail]

The only major complaint is. I have oft thought of doing the Princes Trust bike ride. Trouble is you have to ride from A to B then take a train back. Unless they have changed the route. They should consider a circular route that skips the expensive rail. If anyone reading moves in those circles please mention.
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I ride Brompton and a 100% Vintage bike

[francovendee]

My biggest problem with teachers is that in my experience (with possibly two exceptions) they were all crap. (And university lecturers were worse).
That's why the old addage "Those than can, do; those that can't, teach" makes me laugh and gives me a slightly sick feeling in my stomach...
Hopefully things are a lot different these days.

Same as anything theres good and bad,IME when I reflect on my school days there were more bad than good,but the good ones were incredible people who's influence is still with me.
The bad ones caused me some terrible problems with authority figures.

In my days the truly bad teachers got protected by the other teachers like a dodgy mafia.. in my son's days they get jailed for quite some time. How times have changed. Kids get listened to and protected from teachers without corporal punishment and worse. If your school was like that you'd not trust teachers and teaching unions too. I saw them as the enemy throughout school apart from a few good ones. One good one scared the shoot out of a one of the two class bullies by putting them on stools at the front of the class so he could shout and ball them out without having to stoop so low to them. They were only 10! Full on shouty spit in the face aggression. He was one of the good ones too. The 70s and early 80s were a dodgy time to be a primary school kid when the school was full of protectionist mafia. Still i did well despite them.

Having suffered junior school teachers in the late 40's I'm glad my grandchildren get a better deal. Having just come through a war many of the teachers had post traumatic stress. Punishment was always physical, usually with a wooden ruler. One teacher who'd lost an arm laid it on harder than anyone.
When I told my mum she said I must've deserved it. Likely true!

[thirdcrank]

Unlike my dear old dad (see above) I don't think my late mother met any royalty although with dementia she had delusions about being the queen.

My mother left school in 1934 just before her fourteenth birthday to get a job. I still have her school report showing she was top of the class. Among other punishments inflicted on her she recounted being beaten so severely with a snooker cue type blackboard pointer that it broke across her head.

[al_yrpal]

I think he's too old.By the time all the necessary changes have been made and all the £££Billions spent on doing so he could be dead.
He should step aside and let one of the next generation step up.

Too old, how is that a poor qualification, ageist rubbish! Its how he is that actually matters and thats clearly a problem with the US's head of state. But Charles is actually pretty powerless by virtue of his position so it wouldn't really matter so much anyway.

Al

[PedallingSquares]

I think he's too old.By the time all the necessary changes have been made and all the £££Billions spent on doing so he could be dead.
He should step aside and let one of the next generation step up.

Too old, how is that a poor qualification, ageist rubbish! Its how he is that actually matters and thats clearly a problem with the US's head of state. But Charles is actually pretty powerless by virtue of his position so it wouldn't really matter so much anyway.

Al

Not ageist rubbish at all.It's just basic common sense.
It actually makes financial sense for him so step aside.Why waste £££billions changing everything if he pegs it in 10 years?He could actually peg it before everything is sorted!The cost being banded about is £6,000,000,000+.All things considered it's too much money for us to spend on a 74 year old.

[simonineaston]

They can afford it - unless of course the cost passes to the tax payer, perish the thought...

[Cugel]

That Royalty PR stuff seems to cover a lot of rot & blight eh? On the other hand, perhaps the scuttlebutt about the royal rot & blight is just someone else's PR? As Al knows, there are Leftist plots everywhere so surely at least three of them must involve a doing away with the royals by means of reddening their reputations! I feel that a batch of Under-The-Royal-Beds-Checkers ought to be employed. (I might apply - but I'd lie about what I found there).

Myself, I found the most revealing view of Charlie to be the portraits painted by Lucien Freud, once hanging on the stairwells of The National Portrait Gallery. Many years ago I visited that institution and found myself barking out involuntary guffaws of mirth at the gargoyle-like portrayals. Most revealing. Yes.

Cugel

PS How many pheasants, grousers and deer has Charlie himself despatched with his guns? Shirly there's an official counterater of these important rituals and the body count?

PPS If Charlie accidently shot himself with a bad aim at a pheasant, would that Andrew then become king?

[Tao]

Myself, I found the most revealing view of Charlie to be the portraits painted by Lucien Freud, once hanging on the stairwells of The National Portrait Gallery. Many years ago I visited that institution and found myself barking out involuntary guffaws of mirth at the gargoyle-like portrayals. Most revealing. Yes.

Hello Cugel

That's interesting. I wasn't aware that Lucian Freud had ever painted his portrait.

[al_yrpal]

That Royalty PR stuff seems to cover a lot of rot & blight eh? On the other hand, perhaps the scuttlebutt about the royal rot & blight is just someone else's PR? As Al knows, there are Leftist plots everywhere so surely at least three of them must involve a doing away with the royals by means of reddening their reputations! I feel that a batch of Under-The-Royal-Beds-Checkers ought to be employed. (I might apply - but I'd lie about what I found there).

Myself, I found the most revealing view of Charlie to be the portraits painted by Lucien Freud, once hanging on the stairwells of The National Portrait Gallery. Many years ago I visited that institution and found myself barking out involuntary guffaws of mirth at the gargoyle-like portrayals. Most revealing. Yes.

Cugel

PS How many pheasants, grousers and deer has Charlie himself despatched with his guns? Shirly there's an official counterater of these important rituals and the body count?

PPS If Charlie accidently shot himself with a bad aim at a pheasant, would that Andrew then become king?

Why do you keep quoting me. If you hate me please spell it out. You dont know me, you are just a know nothing bully who joins in the pack.

Just shut your mouth you idiot

Al

[al_yrpal]

I think he's too old.By the time all the necessary changes have been made and all the £££Billions spent on doing so he could be dead.
He should step aside and let one of the next generation step up.

Too old, how is that a poor qualification, ageist rubbish! Its how he is that actually matters and thats clearly a problem with the US's head of state. But Charles is actually pretty powerless by virtue of his position so it wouldn't really matter so much anyway.

Al

Not ageist rubbish at all.It's just basic common sense.
It actually makes financial sense for him so step aside.Why waste £££billions changing everything if he pegs it in 10 years?He could actually peg it before everything is sorted!The cost being banded about is £6,000,000,000+.All things considered it's too much money for us to spend on a 74 year old.

Another agesist twerp.

Al

[PedallingSquares]

That Royalty PR stuff seems to cover a lot of rot & blight eh? On the other hand, perhaps the scuttlebutt about the royal rot & blight is just someone else's PR? As Al knows, there are Leftist plots everywhere so surely at least three of them must involve a doing away with the royals by means of reddening their reputations! I feel that a batch of Under-The-Royal-Beds-Checkers ought to be employed. (I might apply - but I'd lie about what I found there).

Myself, I found the most revealing view of Charlie to be the portraits painted by Lucien Freud, once hanging on the stairwells of The National Portrait Gallery. Many years ago I visited that institution and found myself barking out involuntary guffaws of mirth at the gargoyle-like portrayals. Most revealing. Yes.

Cugel

PS How many pheasants, grousers and deer has Charlie himself despatched with his guns? Shirly there's an official counterater of these important rituals and the body count?

PPS If Charlie accidently shot himself with a bad aim at a pheasant, would that Andrew then become king?

Why do you keep quoting me. If you hate me please spell it out. You dont know me, you are just a know nothing bully who joins in the pack.

Just shut your mouth you idiot

Al

Too old, how is that a poor qualification, ageist rubbish! Its how he is that actually matters and thats clearly a problem with the US's head of state. But Charles is actually pretty powerless by virtue of his position so it wouldn't really matter so much anyway.

Al

Not ageist rubbish at all.It's just basic common sense.
It actually makes financial sense for him so step aside.Why waste £££billions changing everything if he pegs it in 10 years?He could actually peg it before everything is sorted!The cost being banded about is £6,000,000,000+.All things considered it's too much money for us to spend on a 74 year old.

Another agesist twerp.

Al

Two post insulting two separate posters.
Wow,it appears Al_isn't our_pal after all

[DaveReading]

That's interesting. I wasn't aware that Lucian Freud had ever painted his portrait.

I'm pretty sure he didn't.

[al_yrpal]

Yes, but who issed the insults first? You and Cugel. Neither of you know me or practically anything about me. And whatever you do know you have got it wrong so just shut it

Al

[reohn2]

That Royalty PR stuff seems to cover a lot of rot & blight eh? On the other hand, perhaps the scuttlebutt about the royal rot & blight is just someone else's PR? As Al knows, there are Leftist plots everywhere so surely at least three of them must involve a doing away with the royals by means of reddening their reputations! I feel that a batch of Under-The-Royal-Beds-Checkers ought to be employed. (I might apply - but I'd lie about what I found there).

Myself, I found the most revealing view of Charlie to be the portraits painted by Lucien Freud, once hanging on the stairwells of The National Portrait Gallery. Many years ago I visited that institution and found myself barking out involuntary guffaws of mirth at the gargoyle-like portrayals. Most revealing. Yes.

Cugel

PS How many pheasants, grousers and deer has Charlie himself despatched with his guns? Shirly there's an official counterater of these important rituals and the body count?

PPS If Charlie accidently shot himself with a bad aim at a pheasant, would that Andrew then become king?

Why do you keep quoting me. If you hate me please spell it out. You dont know me, you are just a know nothing bully who joins in the pack.

Just shut your mouth you idiot

Al

WOT, Another one!!!!

[Nearholmer]

Please don’t lock this thread or censure the posters, it’s too much fun for that.