thank christ

[Scarface]

incase little Johnny gets tired on the way home

Probably because he is such a bloater because his mum drives him everywhere!

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Probably because he is such a bloater because his mum drives him everywhere!

Bloody school drivers. Unable to understand the etiquette of the roads, like actually using a turn-based system on roundabouts when it is busy because that is the only way anyone will get to move. Allowing people to pull out - it will cost you 15 seconds, it will not stop you getting home in time for Jerry Springer. The three point turns outside schools because they can't work out how to drive down the road and turn right three times to get back to the same place. Parking on zigzags so Johnny can step out right into the school gates - then having a ten minute conversation with him. Parking in the middle of the road and having another ten minute conversation with another mum. Braking for no reason, indicating at random, flashing headlights to say "hello" to ten cars in a fifteen metre space of road. Having conversations whilst on the move with their offspring/teacher/friend/now redundant lollipop lady. Being unable to park in a space that you could get an Armoured Personnel Carrier into. In fact, an Aircraft Carrier.

Shit 'em, not one of them has even heard of trip-sharing, walking buses, or putting the little darlings through road proficiency on cycles so they can work out that their legs are for more than folding underneath their arses when playing on the Playstation2.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Bloody school drivers. Unable to understand the etiquette of the roads, like actually using a turn-based system on roundabouts when it is busy because that is the only way anyone will get to move. Allowing people to pull out - it will cost you 15 seconds, it will not stop you getting home in time for Jerry Springer. The three point turns outside schools because they can't work out how to drive down the road and turn right three times to get back to the same place. Parking on zigzags so Johnny can step out right into the school gates - then having a ten minute conversation with him. Parking in the middle of the road and having another ten minute conversation with another mum. Braking for no reason, indicating at random, flashing headlights to say "hello" to ten cars in a fifteen metre space of road. Having conversations whilst on the move with their offspring/teacher/friend/now redundant lollipop lady. Being unable to park in a space that you could get an Armoured Personnel Carrier into. In fact, an Aircraft Carrier.

Shit 'em, not one of them has even heard of trip-sharing, walking buses, or putting the little darlings through road proficiency on cycles so they can work out that their legs are for more than folding underneath their arses when playing on the Playstation2.

Though,having passed their test ,paid for car,tax and insurance,they have the right to drive wherever they want.If it upsets you ,tough.Its a real Bu**er driving when all those depressed wallies drift out of their offices at 5/5.30 and clag up the roads with their clapped out Cortinas and stunningly bad driving.

Walk to work,you idlers.You know it makes sense.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Though,having passed their test ,paid for car,tax and insurance,they have the right to drive wherever they want.If it upsets you ,tough.Its a real Bu**er driving when all those depressed wallies drift out of their offices at 5/5.30 and clag up the roads with their clapped out Cortinas and stunningly bad driving.

Walk to work,you idlers.You know it makes sense.

Oh shit. I work and have kids. I don't know where I stand in this argument and now I am all confused

 

[Napper]

yeah damn people who drop there kids to school, no wonder the next generation are all bloaters

Get off the road and make your kids walk / cycle

and give them proper food , not chicken nuggets + chips every night

lard arses

rant over

 

[Scarface]

Bloody school drivers. Unable to understand the etiquette of the roads, like actually using a turn-based system on roundabouts when it is busy because that is the only way anyone will get to move. Allowing people to pull out - it will cost you 15 seconds, it will not stop you getting home in time for Jerry Springer. The three point turns outside schools because they can't work out how to drive down the road and turn right three times to get back to the same place. Parking on zigzags so Johnny can step out right into the school gates - then having a ten minute conversation with him. Parking in the middle of the road and having another ten minute conversation with another mum. Braking for no reason, indicating at random, flashing headlights to say "hello" to ten cars in a fifteen metre space of road. Having conversations whilst on the move with their offspring/teacher/friend/now redundant lollipop lady. Being unable to park in a space that you could get an Armoured Personnel Carrier into. In fact, an Aircraft Carrier.

Dont you know that all of that is ok if they have their hazard lights on!

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Though,having passed their test ,paid for car,tax and insurance,they have the right to drive wherever they want.If it upsets you ,tough.Its a real Bu**er driving when all those depressed wallies drift out of their offices at 5/5.30 and clag up the roads with their clapped out Cortinas and stunningly bad driving.

Walk to work,you idlers.You know it makes sense.

Great logic. Having passed their test, paid car tax and insurance, then they have the right to drive whilst pissed out of their heads as well? Some of these people (not all women) are simply dangerous drivers, and I am assuming they are still sober at that time of the morning, although some of them could be an outside bet for being legless!

I haven't seen a clapped out Cortina for ages - but I have seen lots of poxy 4x4s, and the furthest they get off road is mounting the pavement because they can't corner properly! And almost none of them know how to engage the four wheel drive, even if they had to. Tossers, the lot of them.

 

[Father Jack]

Iv always walked too school and now college - much better for the environment!

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

Iv always walked too school and now college - much better for the environment!

Yep same here, although I'll be going by train to college

 

[Yorkie]

What annoys me is the lazy parents who have to drop their poor son or daughter right at the school gates when there are perfectly good places to drop off five minutes away from the school which would cause much less conjestion.

That 5 minutes away made all the difference to poor Rory Blackhall.

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

I go back next monday

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

That 5 minutes away made all the difference to poor Rory Blackhall.

It does make the difference, and unfortunately the percentages prove that there is a minute chance that a child may be abducted. However, the main offenders against children are family members or those that are known to the family. Do you stop your children seeing uncles/aunts, etc? Of course not. Do you stop flying on holiday because you might get hijacked/blown up? Do you stop children from playing outside - ever - because of the same potential risk? You have to make a decision based on percentages, and weigh up your choice against the other damage you could be doing - such as encouraging children into a sedentary lifestyle, increasing pollution, and adding to the risk of you running over someone else's child, also making your children scared of everything - I know children at my youngest's school who still have comfort blankets at the age of 10, children who have no concept of going to the shop at the end of the road, and children who are too frightened to play in the garden because of the case a little while back where a child was lifted over a fence. A friend of my eldest has massive scars because he was run over by a parent who was more concerned about negotiating their 4x4 through a mass of children to the closest point possible to the school gates. And the parent still tried to blame it on the child - the other parent got a slapping because they tried to grab this boy and "teach him to cross the road properly"! The police prosecuted for dangerous driving, but the boy could have died - he was dragged for 12 feet by this vehicle, and the parent had no concept of what was going on!

The best defence is to explain things honestly to your child, and prepare them the best way possible in case things go wrong. Mobile phones may be a pain, but having the ability to hold down the 9 key to call the police if they are in danger is priceless. Knowing where to run to, who to run to, and having the ability to run is important, and as a final resort, both of mine are high grade karate practitioners who have had additional training in other skills to enable them to disable almost any adult they have a problem with. Get your children into swimming classes for stamina, get them into an organised martial art for defence purposes, discipline and self-respect, and focus on what you can let them do, not what you can't.

I can't deny that 5 minutes made a difference to that poor boy's life, and the parents will have to live with not delivering him to the school gates for the rest of their lives, thinking they could have protected him, but you can't live your lives, or your childrens, by wrapping them in cotton wool for ever.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Brilliant post HampshireSeagulls. I completely agree with you

 

[Scotty Mac]

It does make the difference, and unfortunately the percentages prove that there is a minute chance that a child may be abducted. However, the main offenders against children are family members or those that are known to the family. Do you stop your children seeing uncles/aunts, etc? Of course not. Do you stop flying on holiday because you might get hijacked/blown up? Do you stop children from playing outside - ever - because of the same potential risk? You have to make a decision based on percentages, and weigh up your choice against the other damage you could be doing - such as encouraging children into a sedentary lifestyle, increasing pollution, and adding to the risk of you running over someone else's child, also making your children scared of everything - I know children at my youngest's school who still have comfort blankets at the age of 10, children who have no concept of going to the shop at the end of the road, and children who are too frightened to play in the garden because of the case a little while back where a child was lifted over a fence. A friend of my eldest has massive scars because he was run over by a parent who was more concerned about negotiating their 4x4 through a mass of children to the closest point possible to the school gates. And the parent still tried to blame it on the child - the other parent got a slapping because they tried to grab this boy and "teach him to cross the road properly"! The police prosecuted for dangerous driving, but the boy could have died - he was dragged for 12 feet by this vehicle, and the parent had no concept of what was going on!

The best defence is to explain things honestly to your child, and prepare them the best way possible in case things go wrong. Mobile phones may be a pain, but having the ability to hold down the 9 key to call the police if they are in danger is priceless. Knowing where to run to, who to run to, and having the ability to run is important, and as a final resort, both of mine are high grade karate practitioners who have had additional training in other skills to enable them to disable almost any adult they have a problem with. Get your children into swimming classes for stamina, get them into an organised martial art for defence purposes, discipline and self-respect, and focus on what you can let them do, not what you can't.

I can't deny that 5 minutes made a difference to that poor boy's life, and the parents will have to live with not delivering him to the school gates for the rest of their lives, thinking they could have protected him, but you can't live your lives, or your childrens, by wrapping them in cotton wool for ever.

well said that man

 

[Le Premier Cru]

Re: Re: Re: thank christ

Just paid my £170 road tax which allows me to drive les enfants to school tomorrow.

Course,I could have paid £140 for their school bus,but I'd have been doing that again next half term.And the one after that.And the next....etc.

So my highly parkable Peugeot 205 will be back on the school run,as it has every right to be.

And bad cess on those drivers who cannot hack the roads,and who constantly whinge at those doing their best for their kids.

Get a night job.

Ooooooh! Get her.

 

[Chicken Run]

The other problem noone has mentioned is the performance tables have created a drive across town to the better schools

 

[withdeanwombat]

The other problem noone has mentioned is the performance tables have created a drive across town to the better schools

Sadly,not in Somerset.

Strict adherence to the criteria for entry meant that both my children had to go to the "local" school which is further away than the school their primary traditionally fed into.

All connections with friends for 6 years lost,forced to go to a school well down the league table,and told that even that place could be lost if we appealed.

Fume,fume.

But the kids said "Don't worry",and though I did, they're OK.

But I still have to use the 205 to get them to school.I'd make 'em bike it,but the trip is horrendous;country lanes used as ratruns ,blind bends etc etc.And the school bus would cost £840 for the year.

Anyway,do not be mislead into thinking that school league tables lead to choice.

Down here you have to move house to get into the "right" catchment area.

Big bucks for estate agents and solicitors,though

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

one of my kids goes to school 3 miles away, the other three 10 miles in the opposite direction, my wife and i drive them in our cars one a 4x4, one a mondeo (sad i know). we do actually own a farm. we also own a pub. taking this into account i drive a 4x4, am still obviously pissed from the night before and i drive my kids to school, perhaps i should be locked up for being a pain to society.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Sadly,not in Somerset.

Strict adherence to the criteria for entry meant that both my children had to go to the "local" school which is further away than the school their primary traditionally fed into.

All connections with friends for 6 years lost,forced to go to a school well down the league table,and told that even that place could be lost if we appealed.

Fume,fume.

But the kids said "Don't worry",and though I did, they're OK.

But I still have to use the 205 to get them to school.I'd make 'em bike it,but the trip is horrendous;country lanes used as ratruns ,blind bends etc etc.And the school bus would cost £840 for the year.

Anyway,do not be mislead into thinking that school league tables lead to choice.

Down here you have to move house to get into the "right" catchment area.

Big bucks for estate agents and solicitors,though

we nearly moved to somerset a few years ago but didn't because we couldn't get our kids into any of the schools

 

[Father Jack]

Yep same here, although I'll be going by train to college

I get the train too but walk 25 mins to the station in the morning. Public transport is better for the environment than everyone taking their own car.