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[Albion] Deluded Leeds (an EFL club) fans
- Thread starter vagabond
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Quite.
One of the 5Live pundits on the final weekend of the season remarked how they'd become everyone's second team. Really?
I managed to end up with a copy of De Bello Gallico, also stamped with Property of Varndean Grammar School for Boys - that went to the charity shop.
All those years with Winker Watson paid off, I can still read a fair bit of Latin
- Aug 7, 2003
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Think I had Charlie Law in the first form.
Completely O/T ....
My Dad got a scholarship to Whitgift School in the 1930s. After his first Latin class he was set homework (20 questions) which he completed, handed in, it was marked and handed back. At the next lesson the Latin Master said: "Stand up all the boys who got 20 out of 20." A few boys stood up. "Well done" said the Master, "Sit down. Now stand up the boys who got 19 out of 20." A few more stood up. "Come here" instructed the Master, and then drew a huge cane from his desk. Thwack! Each of the '19 out of 20' boys got a single stroke of the cane. "Go and sit down. Now stand up the boys who got 18 out of 20 and come up here." Thwack! Thwack! They each got two strokes of the cane. This continued with the 17's getting three strokes, the 16's 4 and so on. That first time my Dad had got 12 out of 20! After getting 8 strokes that first time he never got less that 18 in future.
Different times of course, but his hard-won knowledge did mean he he could speak and read Latin for the rest of his life.
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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And probably a tonne of unresolved issues if you don't mind me saying!!
nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
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This was trundled out almost every match when Bielsa was manager- a bit like the city v utd cup fnal that EVERYONE wanted. Leeds were never everyones second team, and the only people who wanted an all Manchester final was the TV companies and Manchester fans-and probably utd fans didnt as they knew they would probably l lose
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Not true, in most cases you just accepted it as “it is what it is”. The same rules were applied to all. Yes of course some were f***ed up by it, but not many in my experience.
Or are you suggesting that I have some unresolved issues that I am unaware of
I don’t remember ever thinking “this is not fair, I need to do something about it” with the fairly harsh regime at my school.
Different times
I remember a new parents meeting at my son’s school in Hove in the early 80s when a parent asked what the situation was if he did not agree to his son being caned. The headmaster said “you would need to put him in a different school”.
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Seeing as it seems you need to learn Latin, a great book is Familia Romana by Hans H. Orberg.
It's written 100% in Latin, without a single word in English, but somehow step by step, occasionally with the help of pictures, it takes you from simple sentences such as "Roma est in Italia", to things like "Nemo solus eum vincere potest."
It's weird when you first pick it up and flick through the pages. You look at chapter one and think "Hmm, I can understand this," then look ahead a few chapters and can't understand a thing, but after a couple of weeks it all starts to make sense, without the need for any dictionaries or translating.
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- Apr 5, 2014
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My Mum used to tell me that if you got a whack at school and went home and told your parents you'd then get another one on behalf of the previous whack.Had a similar Latin teacher, he was nicknamed Bod and was a big bugger. If you fecked up a translation of Ovid badly he was not averse to hanging you out of a first floor window and holding you under the armpits as he suggested you do better next time.
Others just threw wooden blackboard dusters at you.
Never crossed our minds to complain about it either, you’d just get a caning for your troubles as they closed ranks.
Seriously f***ed up times they were. I'm sure some teachers took dark delight in it all.
I was never hit, save by one teacher who seemed to take their middle age neurotic madness out on me in the form of face slapping. One judicial basis for this was my inability to do joined up writing. I still can't, and won't, do it now.
Screaming J
He'll put a spell on you
Killer Jones??
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
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That's Little Old Brighton now, according to many pundits...
Not sure what I think about that, TBH.
It's just as much nonsense when they say it about Brighton as any other club.
Correct
It's not getting any better for them...
That is a hilariously crap contractual arrangement. I hope Luton buy him.
Mexican Seagull
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Following on from the Latin discussion I also had Charlie Law as my first form teacher at Varndean, as well as Latin, which I suffered dreadfully the following 5 years - though did (deservedly) get a 9 at O'level, but other slightly better grades did squeeze me into the 6th form.....
Super Steve Earle
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Me too. Scored a Grade 3 at the end of the year.
Super Steve Earle
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I'm sure Winker had an A in it when I was at Varndean...
- Aug 7, 2003
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He was always Piggy Watson to us
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