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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2016 21:17:07 GMT 7
Do not remember the name of the school, but true.Also as Tony has remarked, she too was a trainee teacher in Birmingham, in his neck of the woods. I dropped out from Birmingham University; fashionable thing to do at the time. I went to UEA, my wife was qualified and then taught in Gorleston. We lived in Reedham. Her name, Mrs Buhi. Ex Mrs Buhi now.
dropped out from Birmingham University
So were you a Varsity Tavern or a Bournebrook (The Brook) man?
And how many times have you woken up from a drunken stupor in the bath tub in the Students Guild Bar toilets (or was that just my party trick)?
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Post by smokie36 on Jul 10, 2016 21:32:12 GMT 7
Do not remember the name of the school, but true.Also as Tony has remarked, she too was a trainee teacher in Birmingham, in his neck of the woods. I dropped out from Birmingham University; fashionable thing to do at the time. I went to UEA, my wife was qualified and then taught in Gorleston. We lived in Reedham. Her name, Mrs Buhi. Ex Mrs Buhi now.
dropped out from Birmingham University
So were you a Varsity Tavern or a Bournebrook (The Brook) man?
And how many times have you woken up from a drunken stupor in the bath tub in the Students Guild Bar toilets (or was that just my party trick)?
I can't imagine you there...which one of the Young Ones did you most resemble and why? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 5:41:25 GMT 7
1986 Diego Maradonas hands, still haunts me to this day
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 6:21:51 GMT 7
That had nothing to do with "God". That was payback for England taking back the Falklands !  |
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Post by Mosha on Jul 11, 2016 6:22:21 GMT 7
It's not the people doing art or drama or photography degrees that bothers me...it's those on vocational courses being paid grants that expire the day they hit a certain age and are no longer counted on youth unemployment figures. Straight on the scrapheap for most of them..21 with no qualifications or marketable skills....just shocking. I was unemployed myself at 17 for a short while... £15 a week and sheer boredom with no end in sight....there is no way I could spend a lifetime like that...I really don't know how people manage it. I am on a disability support pension now, hate it, worked from the age of 17 to 58 with hardly a break and now bored stiff doing bloody phyisio and exercising all day. Would love to go back to the grind, miss getting up at 5.00am and going to work not knowing what would happen that day and what coal mine I would end up at, fixing someone's breakdown. I know people in Australia who made a career of being on the dole, waiting for someone to die and leave them a house because they were never going to be able to buy one. Don't know how they can live like that, lazy leeches. I hurt my back on the end of a scaffold pole at 18. Never a day off thanks to the site having access to physios. A lot of pain in the 30 odd years I worked, some short periods on light duties. A neighbour was a professional scrounger, poor sod had a "bad back". He could never understand my anger at him. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 6:41:02 GMT 7
^ I can't believe the number of people who have tried to get me to feel sorry for them because of their ailments. People who can walk, drive cars, ride motorcycles etc. Sometimes I respond by saying - "You forgot to mention the fact that you are also blind, because if you weren't you would see I am sitting in a wheelchair you effing idiot" !
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 7:18:31 GMT 7
^ (Was not referring to your situation Mosha, I was referring to people I have spoken to in Australia since I was released from hospital. )  |
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Post by Mosha on Jul 11, 2016 11:10:56 GMT 7
^ (Was not referring to your situation Mosha, I was referring to people I have spoken to in Australia since I was released from hospital. ) No worries. One occurrence of pain at work. I'm pulling a small cable in, and I'm stood on some small platform steps. I'm in an office building, with people almost always about. I reach up with both hands to just above my head. Bang pain, and my lungs empty. I can't talk, I can only turn round. No one about  . Eventually a cleaner who knew me came by, and I was able to ask her to call my gaffer in. As soon as I was on my back, the pain went, and I was back working. Also happened at home with a 2 gallon bucket of water, I couldn't get to the sink. Just stood there until my dad walked in. As soon as he took it, I was able to pick it up no problem. Hated been off work, even though we got full pay for up to 6 months. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 16:11:15 GMT 7
dropped out from Birmingham University
So were you a Varsity Tavern or a Bournebrook (The Brook) man?
And how many times have you woken up from a drunken stupor in the bath tub in the Students Guild Bar toilets (or was that just my party trick)?
I can't imagine you there...which one of the Young Ones did you most resemble and why? Mike. Why, because he is a blagger, one who blags his way through life and still comes up smelling of roses. |
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Post by buhi on Jul 25, 2016 20:23:55 GMT 7
^^^
Indeed, that would have been my reply.
Always on the edge and slippery as an eel.
Eels are razor sharp too.
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Post by buhi on Jul 25, 2016 20:32:05 GMT 7
Seriously I made a mistake taking a place at Birmingham University, was not the place for me, the university that is. I enjoyed much of my time in Brum in retrospect; a massive learning curve.
I continued my studies at UEA, a near perfect fit. I was more mature then and knew why I wanted to learn .At that time some incredible minds there and it was a time to be inspired by them. Left and right wing. Some truly great seminars.
Yes ,Mike, well it is my name.
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Post by bowie on Jul 25, 2016 20:46:00 GMT 7
Drifting down memory lane ; my personal tutor was a closet homosexual and very right wing, but of the true academic kind, with a very open mind. His partner (everyone knew) was a radical liberal, libertine, guess that is how he could get my point of view.
I was truly privileged.
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. Eventually a cleaner who knew me came by, and I was able to ask her to call my gaffer in. As soon as I was on my back, the pain went, and I was back working. Also happened at home with a 2 gallon bucket of water, I couldn't get to the sink. Just stood there until my dad walked in. As soon as he took it, I was able to pick it up no problem. Hated been off work, even though we got full pay for up to 6 months.
