It’s a different world now.

[neil_merseyside]

Being earthed through the tongue on the Van Degraf generator seems a relatively minor bit of abuse to mention.🤪⚡

 

[ColinJ]

Being earthed through the tongue on the Van Degraf generator seems a relatively minor bit of abuse to mention.🤪⚡

That is really shocking treatment!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Our Woodwork teacher was a crack shot with the board rubber.

Our woodwork teacher liked to tweak your ears if you misbehaved

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Metalwork teacher was deadly with anything, piece of steel or chalk. If he intended it to hit, it hit. No near misses.

Woodwork teacher stayed on past his retirement date to allow us to finish with the same teacher. Much appreciated by all in his final class. 24lb of Quality Street was found in his office on the day after the written exam was done.

Not 24lb of Semtex ?

 

[classic33]

Not 24lb of Semtex ?

His weak spot was Quality Street. We clubbed together to get them, as a "thank you" for what he did for us.

 

[Beebo]

Do school science labs still have unlocked gas taps on ever desk? How we didn’t blow the school up remains a mystery.

 

[ColinJ]

Do school science labs still have unlocked gas taps on ever desk? How we didn’t blow the school up remains a mystery.

Good point!

I've just had a flashback to the boys in the row in front of me connecting their Bunsen burners to water taps instead of the gas supply, then turning them all on simultaneously to spray the row in front of them!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Walking to the school playing fields

That would never happen these days

 

[neil_merseyside]

Gas taps used to be isolated except when needed in my school, might have been stable door response though.

 

[classic33]

Walking to the school playing fields

That would never happen these days

Ours were just outside the school grounds, shared with another three schools.
No other way to get to them other than on foot.

 

[ColinJ]

Walking to the school playing fields

That would never happen these days

Nearly all children going to my school cycled there, walked there, or went by bus. I don't remember ever seeing a child arriving by car.

40 years later, I went to visit my sister and walked past the school just as the afternoon school run started... Absolute traffic chaos! There were jams for hundreds of metres in both directions. Parents were parking on the pavements, some on double yellow lines, and some just abandoned their 4x4s in the middle of the road and walked in the school gates to pick up their helpless darlings.

If we carry on like this then legs will become as useless to many humans as wings are to ostriches!

 

[jay clock]

wow, some nasty memories.

I went to a catholic boys boarding school run by monks.

Surprisingly the monks weren't too bad. Although the one in charge of training the novice monks did get banished for being a pervert with them. My mid 1970s memory is been taken on a geography field trip to West Wales where we were all taken to the pub age 16 and told two rules: 1) don't call us Sir, and 2) maximum 2 pints each! The local policeman was in the bar in uniform and didn't seem bothered at all!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Maybe I was too subtle.

Just being at the school playing fields, regardless of how you got there.

That would never happen these days.

Maybe still too subtle. That is because the majority of them were sold off in the 1980s and 90s.

 

[classic33]

Do school science labs still have unlocked gas taps on ever desk? How we didn’t blow the school up remains a mystery.

Walking into a chemistry room, heated by Bunsen Burners, and smelling gas. Or not seeing the only one without a visible flame.

 

[ColinJ]

Walking into a chemistry room, heated by Bunsen Burners, and smelling gas. Or not seeing the only one without a visible flame.

Some of my schoolmates used to light their Bunsen burners at the air hole rather than at the top. That not only messed up the burners, it also made a very characteristic sound.

The question I have is this...Why can't I remember having my second Covid jab 6 months ago, when I can clearly remember my chemistry teacher over half a century ago shouting "Who's got the roaring Bunsen!!!!"?