http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 18:11:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126796 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:45:36 +0000 RickH 126796@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yup, get on with it, or you'll be getting the toasting fork where the crumpets usually go... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126795 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:37:54 +0000 Duff 126795@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Agree with the lad 4fun. Let's have this stitched together into a complete sub. </p> <p>And if it's not done by later on this evening Nick then report to my study before lights out. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126787 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:58:29 +0000 dvo4fun 126787@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Right, come on Nick, you lazy *7stard, pull your finger out &amp; assemble these into one all-encompassing sub. Here's the stars I've been holding in reserve </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126783 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:31:28 +0000 nickb 126783@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rick Say that and I'll knock your block off, unless you're a big bloke </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126782 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:21:24 +0000 RickH 126782@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The irony is that most Bullies are now in the State schools!</p> <p>"fighting bullying"?? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126775 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:05:26 +0000 nickb 126775@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>By the way it is richly ironic that we have Public Schools with charitable status as well as charities that fight bullying. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126774 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:02:56 +0000 nickb 126774@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think this is an example of the collaborative, non competitive "sharing" ethos that has, along with the Labour-backed banking crisis, Shakespeare in modern dress and BBC 4 brought this country to its knees. We need the NB leadership to take a firm grip, and bring this to a natural FP fruition. preferably incorporating the yougove joke. </p> <p>I have enjoyed pretending to be Mr Gove these past two hours but it has taken its toll emotionally. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126770 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:16:26 +0000 RickH 126770@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The things Bullies get their fags to do, from <em>Tomkinsons Schooldays</em>:</p> <p>"So it was that, four hours later, carrying 200 cigarettes, completely drunk, and with a half-naked, unmarried Filipino lady, I emerged behind the writing desk in the Headmaster's Study; thus simultaneously breaking 257 School Rules"</p> <p>Can you not work something like this in? Classic! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126764 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:53:37 +0000 Scronnyglonkle 126764@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like this a lot and have starred acordingly, how about adding the ministers own helpline for Bullies "Yougove" or talking about new technology ie cyber bullying or lunch money being taken via direct debt? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126763 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:40:50 +0000 grottymonty 126763@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nick, in a Simon Cowell voice, I love what you have done here you've taken it and made it your own. I thought of adding that centrally appointed bullies will be controlled by a new quango called SchooBy, that bullies and assistant bullies would be an unpaid role, would replace ASBO's and count towards Community Payback.</p> <p>But please, go ahead and repost as your own </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126753 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:04:18 +0000 nickb 126753@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Asked whether his plans involve a return to the traditions of wet towel flicking, fagging, and using first year oiks' buttock-cleavage as bicycle racks Gove responded: "Of course we aspire to the standards set by our great Public Schools, with their physical firmness, and great traditions of ritual cruelty. But some of us only managed entry into the ranks of minor public schools, and let us not forget the great Australians who rose so majestically to positions of enormous power, giving humble scots like me a part to play in the free press."</p> <p>" So yes, our examinations at 'O' level will feature questions on traditional power-wielding, but first we need to establish the dress code for those invigilators, many of whom will have come from the ranks of the military. And gowns for teachers, and heavy blackboard rubbers...Oh God I love this job... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126749 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:41:14 +0000 dvo4fun 126749@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Right, just letting the first coat dry. </p> <p>lovely work nick</p> <p>Is there perchance room for reintroduction of some old bully favourites from the 50s? Bog Washing? Wet Towel Flicking. Acting as a crumpet toast-rack for the senior prefects?<br /> Shame we couldn't fit one of those in for London 2012 </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126744 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:23:11 +0000 nickb 126744@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>...."Bullying gained a poor reputation during the Blair years," Gove told a conference of educators. "We take the view that it is the natural outcome of a free society. In the real world, powerful figures rise to the top, and we who write humble columns in their newspapers enjoy a relationship in which we quiver and go a bit red and weak kneed sometimes, faced with the sheer magnificence and power of their throbbing sphere of influence. Inspired by great bullies I have personally encountered, I am now experimenting with bullying myself. What I have learned, and what reminds me of my own schooldays is that this kind of assertiveness has to be focused. A woolly bully is no good to anyone. If it isn't demanding physically and mentally, you're not doing it right. </p> <p>Our new Citizenship O level will encompass humility and responsible victimhood. These will be examined in a brightly lit gymnasium and efficiently invigilated by smartly dressed highly fit young men in suits and ties and shiny shoes. We are currently thrashing out details. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126739 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:06:42 +0000 grottymonty 126739@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thank you both, I was inspired by ripping yarns, and agree it needs expanding. thought of including the school nurse as well. Happy to use anyones ideas as I have to work, and would love to be painting walls instead! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126726 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:00:06 +0000 Skylarking 126726@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well begun is half done. Don't let this go to waste. Reminds me of 'School Bully' in Ripping Yarns: Tomkinson's Schooldays. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126722 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:48:54 +0000 dvo4fun 126722@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lovely idea and headline - must be expandable. Not by me though as I have some walls to paint. Have reserved a couple of stars for any additions </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44286#post-126710 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:57:20 +0000 grottymonty 126710@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In a further attempt to force his own personal experiences on all children, hot on the heels of compulsory humanities and O levels, we now look forward to our children being terrorised by centrally appointed bullies. </p>