Cost of sons school uniform

Captain · 3 Sep 2016 at 13:14

amigafan2003 said:
You should be busy learning the difference between spelling and grammar..

Thats another whole can of worms

arctine · 3 Sep 2016 at 13:16

High school? People call it high school?

Freeman · 3 Sep 2016 at 13:31

Lucky kid. My parents were never rich enough to afford x2 of any item of clothing for me.

dowie · 3 Sep 2016 at 13:45

Clov!s said:
The increasing number of people who don't get the '11' reference need to live a bit more and watch the TV more too!

I don't even watch TV... just a few things via on demand services, but that was probably one of the best shows recently so among one of the few things I've watched

wordy · 3 Sep 2016 at 13:52

If it's too expensive can't you just nick it?

SexyGreyFox · 3 Sep 2016 at 15:27

asim18 said:
I don't see the issue with calling your son 11. Names are irrelevant, if I ever have children they will be assigned Borg designations.

Stanger Things have happened.

Did you see what I did there?

SexyGreyFox · 3 Sep 2016 at 15:28

arctine said:
High school? People call it high school?

Why what is it?
Always been High School to me.
I went to Hanley High School in 1969, my kids went to Blurton High School in the 2000s and so on.

Malevolence · 3 Sep 2016 at 18:22

SexyGreyFox said:
Why what is it?
Always been High School to me.
I went to Hanley High School in 1969, my kids went to Blurton High School in the 2000s and so on.

Same here, it's always been High School to me too. I went to Oakhill High School which then merged with Thistley Hough High School to become Trent Valley High School.

Lokai · 3 Sep 2016 at 18:25

I went to Woodkirk High School, its an academy now though.

Arazi · 3 Sep 2016 at 18:33

asim18 said:
I don't see the issue with calling your son 11. Names are irrelevant, if I ever have children they will be assigned Borg designations.

I suggested something similar 16 years ago, i didn't get my way.

Brizzles · 3 Sep 2016 at 19:42

arctine said:
High school? People call it high school?

I went to a primary school, junior school till '77, then a comprehensive secondary school till '84, then work.

This was back in the day of O and A levels, where the grey haired teachers would carve your exam results on stone runes.

Can't really see where i could have squeezed 'High School' in.

Sounds suspiciously American to me

413x · 3 Sep 2016 at 19:56

Can we clear up if this guys son is called eleven? Add this seems to be the main interest here!

Destination · 3 Sep 2016 at 20:02

413x said:
Can we clear up if this guys son is called eleven? Add this seems to be the main interest here!

OH SERIOUSLY!

It isn't a guy.
It was about her daughter.
and she wasn't able to afford a school uniform as they were too expensive.
Now she has taken out a paypal loan and there is no stock left of uniforms.
She's going to complain through the appropriate letterbox.
Also she is getting a deed poll application to change her daughter sex to fluid, or eleven.

Akagi · 3 Sep 2016 at 20:12

So whats this '11' reference? I don't watch any TV, in-fact I don't own a TV.
And I barely watch films.

Brizzles · 3 Sep 2016 at 20:16

Freeman said:
Lucky kid. My parents were never rich enough to afford x2 of any item of clothing for me.

Hopping to school, you had it rough

joey1211 · 3 Sep 2016 at 20:53

I went to big school.

SexyGreyFox · 3 Sep 2016 at 21:03

Brizzles said:
Can't really see where i could have squeezed 'High School' in.

You obviously didn't go to High School

Brizzles · 3 Sep 2016 at 21:18

SexyGreyFox said:
You obviously didn't go to High School

Doh, stand in corner, hands on head

Either way i still see 'High School' as a modernism/Americanism for secondary school.

Same way as these school leaving dress up 'Ball' things are just the same thing renamed as the 'get drunk we are out of here parties/lame discos' we had in the eighties

SexyGreyFox · 3 Sep 2016 at 21:37

Brizzles said:
Doh, stand in corner, hands on head

Either way i still see 'High School' as a modernism/Americanism for secondary school.

Same way as these school leaving dress up 'Ball' things are just the same thing renamed as the 'get drunk we are out of here parties/lame discos' we had in the eighties

My High School was formed around 1888 before Americanisms were thought of.

Brizzles · 3 Sep 2016 at 21:40

SexyGreyFox said:
My High School was formed around 1888 before Americanisms were thought of.

I'm not going to argue the validity, just my opinion.

Primary>Junior>Secondary/Comp>Grammar/Uni was the old days

So 'high school' is which - Secondary/comp or Grammar /uni ?