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Burn wrote: can't understand why everyone hates/hated their school uniform or dress code...i was quite happy i think

If you'd ever encountered the bottle green hordes in Sauchiehall Street at 4 o'clock on a Friday afternoon, you'd see why.

Back me up on this one Blast...

Burn wrote:can't understand why everyone hates/hated their school uniform or dress code...i was quite happy i think

Alright, you've asked for it. I've got a few pictures from the school's website to proove how crappy our uniform (namely the horrific blazer) is:

The year above us gets taught German. Though this picture was taken about 2 or 3 years ago with the old German teacher, the effect is full enough.

And of course, at the end of the day, we get out of that bloody place as quick as we can.

Dark wrote:

Burn wrote:can't understand why everyone hates/hated their school uniform or dress code...i was quite happy i think

Alright, you've asked for it. I've got a few pictures from the school's website to proove how crappy our uniform (namely the horrific blazer) is:

The year above us gets taught German. Though this picture was taken about 2 or 3 years ago with the old German teacher, the effect is full enough.

And of course, at the end of the day, we get out of that bloody place as quick as we can.

Tee hee.

My school blazer was classic black.

Dark wrote:

Burn wrote:can't understand why everyone hates/hated their school uniform or dress code...i was quite happy i think

Alright, you've asked for it. I've got a few pictures from the school's website to proove how crappy our uniform (namely the horrific blazer) is:

The year above us gets taught German. Though this picture was taken about 2 or 3 years ago with the old German teacher, the effect is full enough.

And of course, at the end of the day, we get out of that bloody place as quick as we can.

You don't have to worry 'bout that though, when

SCHOOL'S OUT!

Burn wrote:can't understand why everyone hates/hated their school uniform or dress code...i was quite happy i think

I quite liked the 'uniform' at our school too... The only rule was you had to be dressed in dark blue (with white or blue shirt), was very handy when being in a rush in the morning

(only thing is: ever since, I refuse to wear anything distantly looking like that )

boudicca wrote:If you'd ever encountered the bottle green hordes in Sauchiehall Street at 4 o'clock on a Friday afternoon, you'd see why.

Back me up on this one Blast...

er NO

seeing as my accent isn't westcoast...i'm more a posh Trainspotter ...and my school and i parted company some 24 odd years ago...i doubt very much on seeing the Green Hordes...but i do remember while at Polytechnic seeing the Blue Hordes from Heriots swaning around in the Grass Market while i was having a couple of drinks on a Friday afternoon...er...i mean studying...

Burn wrote:[the Blue Hordes from Heriots

Ahh, I played them at hockey...

I'm sure Blast will have something to say about that...

THEY MADE ME DO IT HONEST GUV'NOR!

well, this topic is so derailed I thought I'd just leave you all to it

I got the award for "most original school uniform" when I left school

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:I got the award for "most original school uniform" when I left school

Is that not a contradiction in terms?
Do elaborate Libby...

boudicca wrote:

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:I got the award for "most original school uniform" when I left school

Is that not a contradiction in terms?
Do elaborate Libby...

yes...please do elaborate...

Burn wrote:

boudicca wrote:

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:I got the award for "most original school uniform" when I left school

Is that not a contradiction in terms?
Do elaborate Libby...

yes...please do elaborate...

well I think the point was that I never actually wore it *to the rules* and managed to get away with it throughout high school. I remember my report when I left saying "her appearance is 'technically' correct"

ETA - these awards were all devised by some people in my year to be given out at the end of exam's party (smoker of the year, slag of the year etc). My name was called out,everyone clapped and cheered (even the bitch brigade who always hated me) and for one instant I was cool - funny, they never thought I was cool before!

James Blast wrote:well Burn actually

Oor guid friend frae doon south is paying a vist to oor capital and is popping through tae Glesga on Wednesday 10th August between the hours of 2pm and 9pm.

Sorry I can't make it. I'll be out the country

I was told at the beginning of Sixth Year that my dyed black hair (which is almost black anyway) would not make me a suitable "ambassador for the school".

I said screw you (not in so many words) and left.

Now do I get the award for "Gothest Gothly Goth on the Board" or what?

one of the deputy-heads at my school sent me home for wearing black sabbath and ac/dc "highway to hell" patches on my denim jacket,saying that i was "being insulting to god and jesus".

my biker/grebo mum (who bought me the jacket and sewed the patches on) sent me and the jacket back with a letter saying that we were satanists and that "a multi-cultural school,should tolerate the religious practices of minorities".

that was the last we heard of that.

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:one of the deputy-heads at my school sent me home for wearing black sabbath and ac/dc "highway to hell" patches on my denim jacket,saying that i was "being insulting to god and jesus".

my biker/grebo mum (who bought me the jacket and sewed the patches on) sent me and the jacket back with a letter saying that we were satanists and that "a multi-cultural school,should tolerate the religious practices of minorities".

that was the last we heard of that.

times several million.

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:one of the deputy-heads at my school sent me home for wearing black sabbath and ac/dc "highway to hell" patches on my denim jacket,saying that i was "being insulting to god and jesus".

my biker/grebo mum (who bought me the jacket and sewed the patches on) sent me and the jacket back with a letter saying that we were satanists and that "a multi-cultural school,should tolerate the religious practices of minorities".

that was the last we heard of that.

Ah see, you can't pull that sort of trick at a Jesuit school...

...more's the pity.

time to resurrect this one as it's only a week away:
looks like today's birthday boy, Smiscandlon is going to make it, still to hear from Bawheid (Big Si), Andrew S will be on the mainland and we all know about boudicca
A venue has still to be settled upon and since I don't get around much anymore, I'm looking for suggestions from you hipsters, flipsters and finger popping daddies.

James Blast wrote:we all know about boudicca

10th Sept James.

You will eat your words before you get the drinks in....

so 10 August is off then?

Quelle surprise!

James Blast wrote:so 10 August is off then?

Quelle surprise!

Sorry did I get this wrong?

I thought our southern brothers were coming up...?

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James Blast wrote:read post #1

Yeah but James you wrote that in some funny language...

That's not how we talk up here!

i'm glad my life isn't this complicated.