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We had a mixed bag. The best were good at building self-confidence and belief, and took as much time to encourage the less physical kids as heap praise on the stars. They taught us about nutrition and general wellness as much as "games".

The worst were bullies who loved picking on the fat kids.

The stories I could tell about PE teachers...

Perhaps inevitably, the bollocks printed on the front of the Mail this morning (That's it! No deaths! Open everything up now!) has backfired with the news that twelve have died in today's numbers.

Blatant rabble rousing. The numbers have ALWAYS been effected by weekends and Bank Holidays and yesterday was the first day after both. It's basically like saying because nobody was catapulted through a windscreen today, we shouldn't bother with seat belts.

Let's have 20 or so consecutive days with no deaths before we get the bunting out, shall we?

On a lighter note, Astrazeneca II for this lad tomorrow. Hopefully this time without the side effects...

What amazes me is the juvenile attitude of the media. I can tolerate "beer, tits, football" from the Sun or Star, but they seem to have been joined by everyone else.

It's depressing.
I go to a Facebook page for French second-homers, and it was there today as well - no deaths, what are they waiting for?

As I say, depressing...

12 reported today, 3 up on last week...

Cases up by more than 1100.

My mate Keef reckons that the biggest problem in this country is that people are largely innumerate, especially when dealing with big numbers or statistics.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:42 pm We had a mixed bag. The best were good at building self-confidence and belief, and took as much time to encourage the less physical kids as heap praise on the stars. They taught us about nutrition and general wellness as much as "games".

The worst were bullies who loved picking on the fat kids.

My experience exactly; however, the girls teachers were all nasty bitches to a woman.

The sadistic male teacher's favourite thing was to set you 500 or a 1000 lines (any other teacher was 200 at most) by next week, and the second you handed it to him he ripped it up in front of you.

There was once a PE teacher - and this isn't his only crime - who completely fucked up a school phobic kid. My partner (we were housemasters) and I spent six months getting him back in to school.

First day, he had games. It was cold and drizzly and he needed to pee, so he asked the teacher if he could go into the changing rooms - denied. The teacher made him stand by the goal, and in the end the boy pissed himself. We never saw him in school again, but the teacher thought it was a good laugh...

Same teacher once threw a boy into my office so hard that he fell, skidded across the floor and got his head stuck under a chair. Said the boy deserved it (for not bringing kit and being cheeky).

Later made the national news when he received death threats.

davidjay wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:03 am

Cyclist wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:07 am Another Magna Cunta gets his wallet felt by the Beak

An ex-footballer who claimed the Magna Carta allowed him to keep his soft play centre open during Covid restrictions has been fined more than £4,500.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-57322352

Reinforcing the stereotype of the not-very-bright footballer.

I'm struggling to get into this sort of mentality. If you think what you're doing is legal, fine. Have your day in court. But if it's been proven time and again that you're in the wrong, who in their right mind would think that this time would be different?

Footle arguments aren't made by or for those with critical thinking skills.

Anyone who thinks the law has cheat codes in it deserves everything they get.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:42 pm We had a mixed bag. The best were good at building self-confidence and belief, and took as much time to encourage the less physical kids as heap praise on the stars. They taught us about nutrition and general wellness as much as "games".

The worst were bullies who loved picking on the fat kids.

My senior school had two male PE teachers. One was an outright bully, the other was more subtle about it. Neither did any real teaching other than to tell us at the start of the lesson that today we were playing football, or five a side indoors, or running round the park or whatever they felt like, leave us to get on with it, then emerge from their office to blow a whistle. In the five years I was there the sum total of any sporting prowess by school leavers was one lad who later spent a couple of years as a county cricketer and one who had a few pro boxing bouts.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:40 pm There was once a PE teacher - and this isn't his only crime - who completely fucked up a school phobic kid. My partner (we were housemasters) and I spent six months getting him back in to school.

First day, he had games. It was cold and drizzly and he needed to pee, so he asked the teacher if he could go into the changing rooms - denied. The teacher made him stand by the goal, and in the end the boy pissed himself. We never saw him in school again, but the teacher thought it was a good laugh...

Same teacher once threw a boy into my office so hard that he fell, skidded across the floor and got his head stuck under a chair. Said the boy deserved it (for not bringing kit and being cheeky).

Later made the national news when he received death threats.

Da fuq....?

I must have went to the only school in the UK whose two PE teachers (one male, one female) weren't sadistic bastards.

Seems I got lucky with PE at my school. Whilst none of my teachers would be splitting the atom, we at least got a varied programme of different sports that were seasonally appropriate (though in Winter they were guilty of just chucking us onto a football field with a ball and leaving us to it).

All were decently approachable except (unsurprisingly) the doppelganger for Jeremy Paxman. She led one of our sex education classes when I was in year 7 and I'm certain it repressed my oncoming puberty by a good few years after that

And apologies for double posting but back on topic, Portugal is to be taken off the green list: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-57340860

Signs are pointing to June 21st being knocked back. Or they would if we were a sensible nation of sensible people being led by a sensible adult.

Rothermere, Murdoch and Barclay won't let them.

I think it's nailed on for things to be released on June 21, no matter what the figures say. He's again backed himself into a corner, but I fear there would be an increasing proportion of the public who won't follow it this time.

The Euros will be in full swing by that point, so the pubs will be heaving if all restrictions are lifted. The 21st is also only a week before Wimbledon and about three weeks before Silverstone hosts the F1 - all potential super spreader events.

Mid August lockdown here we come.

Unfortunately Kev, I fear you may be right. They'll tell us the numbers aren't bad so we'll open everything up. BUT, we (the plebs) will have to use our common sense. Then, when the lockdown comes, it'll be *our*fault for not using common sense.

That's one thing the Tories have always excelled at - inflicting misery and then telling the victims they were the engineers of their own situation. Personal responsibility, and all that

MisterMuncher wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:07 pm

davidjay wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:03 am

Cyclist wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:07 am Another Magna Cunta gets his wallet felt by the Beak






Reinforcing the stereotype of the not-very-bright footballer.

I'm struggling to get into this sort of mentality. If you think what you're doing is legal, fine. Have your day in court. But if it's been proven time and again that you're in the wrong, who in their right mind would think that this time would be different?

Footle arguments aren't made by or for those with critical thinking skills.

Anyone who thinks the law has cheat codes in it deserves everything they get.

But we watch enquiry abter enquiry into government begaviour, and we know the law has cheat codes.
They just aren't cheat codes for people like us.

How accurate will this be, I wonder? From a BBC SYB.

If the death stats in August are at January levels it would mean a new variant. One of the NHS bosses said earlier this week that only a minority of hospital admissions now have had two jabs, so the vaccine does appear to be successful in reducing cases of serious illness with current variants. We just have to wait and see. But as said above, if it goes pear shaped the Tories will blame the public for sure.