Originally Posted by
Barney
For me it was a Golf Club ...yes just imagine a total psycho headmaster running around with a golf club
which i believe was much worse than the belt because it brought you to your knees instantly and it hurt like fcuk for days and days
i still have the scars and trouble walking properly to this day which is over 30 years ago now
i did get the belt and cane also so i know exactly what that feels like too make no mistake
just getting caught with 1 puff of a cigarette earned me 10 of the best or 5 really hard strikes with the golf club whichever the teacher felt was most degrading and painfull at that particular time and would set an extreme example to others , skipping school or 'scheming' was always rewarded with the belt and it was'nt pretty at all !!
so i would never want things to go back to those very depressing old days: )
And sure kids are cheeky nowadays and sure its gone too far the other way but there simply needs to be a happy medium and not the violence which was all too common in my day ..i left school for pure fear i would never walk again at 13 years old not something that any youngster should ever have to sacrifice
found myself on a deck of a boat working my a$$ off @ 13years old but making 7 or 8 hundred every month for zero education but ability to learn very fast something you need to know how to do real well or you do not eat and you try find a job with no qualifications or papers or education equals no hope whatsoever .
spent 8 years on a couple of different fishing boats i got lucky the skipper i worked for was retiring and knew the boss of a local fish factory
i had picked up enuff knife skills while at sea to fillet fish very quickly and got a job on land in that factory and spent the next 10 years
working my a$$ off for that Boss who was the most straight and honest man i will ever meet , and learning how to drive forklifts , learning how to drive a lorry having loads of fun along the way making a decent weekly wage .
it was a very sad and depressing time when he passed away i pretty much gave up working after that for others i tried it but today's greedy and ruthless Bosses are too much for me but i'll survive i always have found a way even without any education or paperwork : ))
thats the story of my life right there i have nothing to hide , i have lived life to the max got drunk many times , did drugs had fun with hookers , wrecked several cars broke many bones , fell from the top of a a three story house , went overboard while painting a boat at the pier which is not something to brag about but you name it i done it and its a miracle i'm here and able to talk about it .
Today's kids i just do'nt see being as lucky in life as i have been which is why education is vital but excessive violence needs to stay in the past ,
@ mrdude i thank you for opening this topic to discuss this issues and sorry if i have went into far too much detail
but i can relate to everything you have written about and my father even got much worse horrific beatings than i ever did
which is why the past needs to remain behind us and its horrific brutality and the ignorant people behind those attacks who are pretty much all now dead or were already dead inside .
Some type of working punishment would be more fitting these days like recycling or cleaning nothing very sinister but enuff to make them not require a second helping of that punishment .
Today i saw two very young kids trying to play some music with a couple of small drums they found
they were just messing around having harmless fun outside a supermarket
they were not expecting it at all but i gave them a fiver each you'd swear they won the lotto they could hardly even contain their excitement....i so remember well when i was young like that but was never lucky enuff to be given anything in life ..... not all kids are bad !!!
cheers !
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