School Reunions

Wasn't that the one before/after DJ's last BBKew?

I'm still mates with quite a few people I went to school with. I missed a reunion as I was over here.

You missed nothing.

I think you are bang on.

Anyone who reckons that school was the best days of their lives doesn't deserve to be alive.

An institution that grinds kids into a shape that will fit society, and you fucking enjoyed it? Hormones raging, spots everywhere, a voice like Scooby fucking Doo until it broke properly, merciless kids and sadistic teachers?

And you want to have a get together to celebrate this shit?

I bemused why there aren't more massacres at these morbid events.

This should be on the curriculum.

I couldn't wait to leave the place - hated it. I fucked off my exams and sat and drew bricks on the plain paper you get given. I wanted to work. I left my home town when I left school - I've kept in touch with a couple of close friends that I had, but we recognise that our lives have changed considerably, and we're not the same people we were growing up - but that's ok - there is enough of a bond of old to make it not entirely awkward

However, I would never actively try and meet up with the rest of the choads

A large proportion of the people that I went to school with are under the impression that I died in the mid-90s.

I have done nothing to correct that impression.

My dad started going to school reunions about 10 years ago, they get together about once a year, people travel from all over the world to eat, drink, take the mick out of each other and sing old songs. funny thing is, he was a real geek/loner/dreamer at school, didn't know hardly any of them back then, but now he is happy to meet up. I can understand that, nostalgia big time. Besides, they all know his siblings. They've been through a lot too, some of them were kids in the war, the ages within school years were pretty variable immediately post-war, a lot of them ended up in labour camps in the '70s and generally had a hard time of it. He's had it relatively easy. The contrasts are amazing, between those who made it and those who suffered (not so much thinking of my dad here, as those who stayed and were successful within/despite the political system).

I neither hated nor loved school,some of my friends really hated secondary school but I just saw it as a thing, it wasn't my life it was just what I did for some of the day. Plus I was a grade-A goody-two-shoes who was happy to get decent grades and do loads of extra-curricular. Who gives a shit if you aren't part of the cool set, keep busy inside the gates and make friends somewhere else, it's just school.

Did really love 'college' though. Over a thousand 16-18 year olds in once place... wasn't too hard to find a few I got on with. I do feel a bit sad when I think how distant from them I am now, which is entirely my fault for being anti-social. I miss them.

Wasn't that the one before/after DJ's last BBKew?

yup, I had a sort of mini-reunion at a friends wedding the other day. I was the only single one, but on the upside the all seemed to have got worse looking with age. A girl I knew at school, who was born on the same day as me, has two kids and is on her second marriage at age 25. Grim.

Jesus.

When I head out to the United States of Essex to visit the parentals I occasionally bump into people from school.

90% of the time I tend to ignore them, but there are a couple of people who get 10 minutes of my time. Apart from them, the rest can go and piss up a rope.

ahh you're from essex no wonder you don't want anything to do with them
you've been spoiled since you moved to london and met all of us cultured types !

spits out chai latté

Another email earlier on:

Random hate-figure from the past - "How about a festive get-together?"

Me - "Not unless you can arrange a festive nosh from Sue Jackson - I always rather liked her and she had lovely legs and an arse like two eggs in a hanky."

That's guaranteed to get me removed from the mail-out.

crosses fingers

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/soced/our-staff/sue_jackson give her a ring

That's not her.

Yours has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp.

clearly....

The one I was at school with had a bottom lip like a drip tray.

school = shit
school reunion = reminded of shit

why bother

My school was in Essex. 'Nuff said.

Other than the fact that there are more cunts there now than ever before. Which isn't difficult because I left...

My mate went to his school reunion last year, they were about to demolish his old school so, in a fit of nostalgia, he took some tiles from an art display. So did his friends. Later that evening they decided to go clubbing. The bouncer confiscated various pieces of masonry from 10 pissed-up 35 year olds.

cSomebodyelsessb

My school was in Essex. 'Nuff said.

Other than the fact that there are more cunts there now than ever before. Which isn't difficult because I left...

Clearly they didn't teach sums very well. Your departure would not have increased the number, just the proportion.

Sums?

Even my school referred to that particular subject as "Mathematics".

I agree. Hated school, hated schoolmates, nothing in common then,very unlikely that will have changed.

From Farcebook:

"Ah, you live in Dubai! So do I. There's a pub in the Marina that shows football - I go there to watch old Liverpool matches from the glory days..."

No fuckin' way...

Joy of joys :)

From Farcebook:

"Ah, you live in Dubai! So do I. There's a pub in the Marina that shows football - I go there to watch old Liverpool matches from the glory days..."

No fuckin' way...

Agree to meet, tip off local police to westner with some weed. Turn up just after the police, order a drink and pretend you don't know him.