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dancers lance

dancers lance

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Growing up I hated Morrissey (and the Smiths by association) however, I now consider him probably the greatest lyricist our country has ever produced (in the face of very stiff competition) and the Smiths are one of the greatest bands of all time.
 
Gazolba

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bringbackrattles said:
Vic Webb the maths teacher at Cally would punch you in the head, throw a board rubber at you,and strangely twist your ear. He was an ex army major and a scary bastard. But after duffing you up he'd say see you for your next lesson. A psycho teacher !
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We had one teacher who would be writing on the blackboard and if he heard chit-chatting behind him, without turning around, he would launch the blackboard eraser over his shoulder in the general direction of the noise. Never hit the intended target, but sure scared the blazes out of us. For the things that went on at Caludon back then, the teachers would be sacked and prosecuted today.
 
bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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Gazolba said:
We had one teacher who would be writing on the blackboard and if he heard chit-chatting behind him, without turning around, he would launch the blackboard eraser over his shoulder in the general direction of the noise. Never hit the intended target, but sure scared the blazes out of us. For the things that went on at Caludon back then, the teachers would be sacked and prosecuted today.
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That's all we knew back then though, if you complained to your parents they'd say that you must have deserved it. But it taught that violence was okay then, because some teachers were violent, I thought that was how you sorted things out. No wonder I got in to so much trouble, if someone upset me they'd get a smack, which led to more aggro. Discipline is good, but surely a punch in the head isn't the way forward ?
 
Sky Blue Pete

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Grendel said:
In keeping with the other threads -and like may be a bit strong.

However, politics in seems has for many years been a grey world with politicians wearing a party badge but all essentially droning out the same weak liberal messages.

Really since conviction politicians like thatcher, foot and Benn we’ve had the dreadful major (surely an afterbirth left in Brussels steps) the repugnant Blair, the heir to Blair and his ghastly sidekick

Now as Andrew Neil refers to her we have Maybot.

May would be a nice next door neighbour - she’d keep her garden tidy, smile awkwardly and say good morning and remind you if you’ve forgotten to put the wheelie bin out.

Her biggest sin apparently was running through a corn field.

So a lot less edgy than someone whose been honoured by mass murderers, bunged the Mace across parliament and who wished he’d murdered Margeret Thatcher.

However, I was rather taken by the fact that when the ridiculous third runway was announced the said politician was protesting with the public (like a human being) and actually looked interested and passionate. This was followed in parliament by an equally emotional and passionate argument with the Zombie Chris Greyling.

Old style politics based on beliefs and conviction.

I suspect his time is up. The bright young things don’t like socialism any more and I believe he and his bearded chum are reaching the end - he will achieve a dream of leaving the EU but the support he’ll give will be at personal cost.

Which is what he’s about. Principal above politics.

So when he’s gone parliament will be a lot duller.

I find myself warming to John McDonnell- strange times indeed.
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Maxime Biamou ???
 
Sky Blue Pete

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bringbackrattles said:
I went to Cally too when it was strict all boys school. I loved football and rugby, and played for the school and Cov Boys. My house master Mister Siddle was also my rugger coach, and we got on well. But he once called me into his office for missing detention. I thought I'd get a ticking off,but no he gave me the cane,two hard whacks on each hand, drawing blood. I pretended it didn't hurt but my bottom lip was wobbling ! I was only 14, but he went at me as if I was a bloke. At the end he said " don't forget you've got rugby practice later." I hated him for that, as I looked at the blood on my hands.. But I met him years later and he seemed a decent bloke, he said back then discipline was paramount, and they had to keep us in order. Could you imagine that today !
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Utterly shameful
 
Sick Boy

Sick Boy

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Gazolba said:
We had one teacher who would be writing on the blackboard and if he heard chit-chatting behind him, without turning around, he would launch the blackboard eraser over his shoulder in the general direction of the noise. Never hit the intended target, but sure scared the blazes out of us. For the things that went on at Caludon back then, the teachers would be sacked and prosecuted today.
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I used to get that back in primary school in the early 90s haha
 
bezzer

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Gazolba said:
My old school teachers at Caludon Castle.
I hated several of them at the time, but now I realize they were just trying to educate a bunch of idiots.
And some of them probably went into teaching because that was the only career open to them.
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What years were you there? I was there 76 - 81
 
bringbackrattles

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bezzer said:
Berkeley and Seagrave. Innes was Head.

Do remember BEB Brown, French Teacher?
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Yes I do recall him. Strange bloke. Hated his classes. And do you recall Mo Matthews music teacher ? He was dead soft and the pupils bullied him, the only teacher there who got shit, the rest bullied us !
 
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wingy

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bringbackrattles said:
Yes I do recall him. Strange bloke. Hated his classes. And do you recall Mo Matthews music teacher ? He was dead soft and the pupils bullied him, the only teacher there who got shit, the rest bullied us !
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We had one like that at Heart of England
RE teacher though, Mr Metcalfe, he had some great tales of when he was allegedly a Vicar in an African Mission
He also ran the Photography Labso we signed up to that and he'd let us smoke in the dark room.
Also had a bit of a Moody Biography/Physical teacher,name escape me but he could be decent too.
Used to let us smoke in the technical/ adjioning/Interconnecting room between the Labs.
He occassionally asked for a volunteer to clean the glass storage units for hazardous Materials/ Substance .
I like a twat would put my hand up in an instant regardless of all the harmful and radioactive Material in there with no protection.
 
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bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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wingy said:
We had one like that at Heart of England
RE teacher though, Mr Metcalfe, he had some great tales of when he was allegedly a Vicar in an African Mission
He also ran the Photography Labso we signed up to that and he'd let us smoke in the dark room.
Also had a bit of a Moody Biography/Physical teacher,name escape me but he could be decent too.
Used to let us smoke in the technical/ adjioning/Interconnecting room between the Lads.
He occassionally asked for a volunteer to clean the glass storage units for hazardous Materials/ Substance .
I like a twat would put my hand up in an instant regardless of all the harmful and radioactive Material in there with no protection.
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I wonder what the old teachers would say/think about teaching these days ? Some would say " where's the cane gone ? And " why do you let pupils talk to you like that ? " They'd be mortified ! Like the "hard" footballers of the past, many teachers would be sacked on the spot now, they wouldn't be allowed to deal with things their way.A Good or bad thing ?
 
Gazolba

Gazolba

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bezzer said:
Berkeley and Seagrave. Innes was Head.

Do remember BEB Brown, French Teacher?
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Caludon Teachers I remember:
Vickery - Maths (absolutely horrible man!)
Rickard - Geography
Titt - Science
Jackson - Art
That's all I can remember. Can picture several others but their names escape me.

I still have my Caludon report book but most teachers just initialled their comments and even the few who signed their complete names are illegible.
Most of the comments are written by fountain pen.
Some of the comments left, in hindsight, are unbelievably insulting and would never be allowed today.
I have little good to say about Caludon as a school.
 
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bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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Gazolba said:
Caludon Teachers I remember:
Vickery - Maths (absolutely horrible man!)
Rickard - Geography
Titt - Science
Jackson - Art
That's all I can remember. Can picture several others but their names escape me.

I still have my Caludon report book but most teachers just initialled their comments and even the few who signed their complete names are illegible.
Most of the comments are written by fountain pen.
Some of the comments left, in hindsight, are unbelievably insulting and would never be allowed today.
I have little good to say about Caludon as a school.
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As I loved sport especially football and rugby Cally was great for that, and we had great teams. I actually enjoyed my time there,and I still talk to some of the lads today who I knew back then. Yes some teachers were hard and were nasty bastards, but as I've said before I thought that was normal, so accepted it.
I began in set 2 at the start so I must have been fairly academic, but as I was playing so much sport I ended up in set 4. But me and 4 others played for Cov Boys so the school loved that, and let us get on with playing football.
 
olderskyblue

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bringbackrattles said:
As I loved sport especially football and rugby Cally was great for that, and we had great teams. I actually enjoyed my time there,and I still talk to some of the lads today who I knew back then. Yes some teachers were hard and were nasty bastards, but as I've said before I thought that was normal, so accepted it.
I began in set 2 at the start so I must have been fairly academic, but as I was playing so much sport I ended up in set 4. But me and 4 others played for Cov Boys so the school loved that, and let us get on with playing football.
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Who else was in the school football team with you?
 
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wingy

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bringbackrattles said:
As I loved sport especially football and rugby Cally was great for that, and we had great teams. I actually enjoyed my ti
me there,and I still talk to some of the lads today who I knew back then. Yes some teachers were hard and were nasty bastards, but as I've said before I thought that was normal, so accepted it.
I began in set 2 at the start so I must have been fairly academic, but as I was playing so much sport I ended up in set 4. But me and 4 others played for Cov Boys so the school loved that, and let us get on with playing football.
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I was so good and so proud when I got picked for the school team H of E Balsall
It was a one and only selecting/opportunity
Trouble was it was the Easter Holidays which is why there was a gap in the team I guess .
Anyhow we drove over to Campion High in Leamington .
When it was realised there was a Balls up and it was the wrong date (not sure how we gained entry to the changing room) some of us were already getting changed and got left behind ,having to walk most of the way back to Balsall Common /Berkswell .
My life is full of false starts like that !!:-? :p
 
bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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olderskyblue said:
Who else was in the school football team with you?
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There was Brian Kibble, Les Balance, Jimmy Clarke, Johnny Calcott, Bry Nutt, we all were in Cov Boys from under 13 to under 16. We won a fair amount of trophies at Cally, used to love playing against Whitley Abbey,Wiseman,Ullathorne, Woodlands, and Binley. I scored direct from a corner at Binley, it was a fluke but I said I meant it. Their keeper that day was a lad called Wallace, his dad ran the cafe inside Cov Market, and he took it over. I went in there in my twenties and knew straight away it was him as he was tall and skinny, and he remembered it !
 
olderskyblue

olderskyblue

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bringbackrattles said:
There was Brian Kibble, Les Balance, Jimmy Clarke, Johnny Calcott, Bry Nutt, we all were in Cov Boys from under 13 to under 16. We won a fair amount of trophies at Cally, used to love playing against Whitley Abbey,Wiseman,Ullathorne, Woodlands, and Binley. I scored direct from a corner at Binley, it was a fluke but I said I meant it. Their keeper that day was a lad called Wallace, his dad ran the cafe inside Cov Market, and he took it over. I went in there in my twenties and knew straight away it was him as he was tall and skinny, and he remembered it !
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You sure you started in 1963? Those guys were in my year..lol I started in 65... :emoji_smiley: Les lived up the road from me
 
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I used to think Ed Balls was a right knob, but then I saw him purposefully make a right knob of himself on strictly and the first episode of his Trump show was great, so now I like him.
 
Gazolba

Gazolba

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bringbackrattles said:
As I loved sport especially football and rugby Cally was great for that, and we had great teams. I actually enjoyed my time there,and I still talk to some of the lads today who I knew back then. Yes some teachers were hard and were nasty bastards, but as I've said before I thought that was normal, so accepted it.
I began in set 2 at the start so I must have been fairly academic, but as I was playing so much sport I ended up in set 4. But me and 4 others played for Cov Boys so the school loved that, and let us get on with playing football.
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I was pretty good at sports (hated Rugby, but was brilliant at football and pretty good at cricket, a spin bowler) but never got picked for any team because I wasn't a popular kid. That was the thing about Caludon (and probably every other school as well). It didn't matter how good you were, only the popular kids got on the teams.
 
eastwoodsdustman

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bringbackrattles said:
There was Brian Kibble, Les Balance, Jimmy Clarke, Johnny Calcott, Bry Nutt, we all were in Cov Boys from under 13 to under 16. We won a fair amount of trophies at Cally, used to love playing against Whitley Abbey,Wiseman,Ullathorne, Woodlands, and Binley. I scored direct from a corner at Binley, it was a fluke but I said I meant it. Their keeper that day was a lad called Wallace, his dad ran the cafe inside Cov Market, and he took it over. I went in there in my twenties and knew straight away it was him as he was tall and skinny, and he remembered it !
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One of those Cally players is related to me! You must remember mr Pollitt the Physicsteacher. He used to go to the Caludon every lunch and come back half cut.
 
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