Housemate Claire and I, having known each other since we were eight, were discussing shit from our childhood.
Something that has come out now but was never discussed at the time was how thick we perceived certain people to be.
How in some classes we were practically used as Teaching Assistants by the ‘Teachers’.
My first week of school was spent listening to classmates struggle through the ‘one word a page’ books while they tried to find something ‘harder’ for me.
I was four.
Then we laughed about the occasion I was arrested for breaking in to our local library!
I wasn’t alone but the others had gone in with the idea that fines money would be enough for some smokes.
I went in with one objective and one objective only.
The books the officious fucking woman wouldn’t let me take out.
The reference books.
I left with copies of encyclopaedias and a load of books on forensic medicine she wouldn’t even let me read while I was in there legitimately.
Fucking bitch!
This article is the reason for our discussions.
Sadly, we watch University Challenge for that very thing, the challenge.
We piss all over the other so called Quizzes.
I’d love to get a Pub Quiz side together and enter as “The University of Life”.
Sleepy Mansions loves Gail Trimble.
You’re alright by us mate.
Have you ever had the moment late at night when you are checking and locking the backdoor and you suddenly think,
“What if ‘they’ are already in?”
Shit myself right up with that one last night.
Being Human just gets better!
I'd love to say more but I know Schnee will get it on BBC Canada at some point and I really don't want to spoil it for her.
It's making Sunday feel less like a 'Homework' night and more like a "Denny Crane" night!
8 comments:
Go Gail!
Ho, I can so imagine you breaking IN to the library.
I HATE pub quizzes though, I really do. Pisses me right off to have to shut up while some tosser asks questions. Of course, when I was a teacher, it pissed me right off when I was asking questions and someone wouldn't shut up. SO, what goes around comes around.
I've always wanted to steal maps from a library! I would have joined you.
You'd be in the team straight away as our Linguistics and Classic Literature specialist!
SWC.. Hehehe! Maps, excellent!
In my 'little' school I was about 18 months ahead of all the other readers, which really pissed the teachers off - I was forced to sit for days with a book I had read at least 3 times whilst the other kids were dragged, word by word, through their Janet and John books. I was never encouraged - and generally told I couldn't be reading them properly because I was too quick. I gave up in the end and spent years of school just staring out of the window. I vividly remember the teacher telling my mum that my failure to 'connect' with the other children suggested some phsycological issues - whereas I knew it was because they were just too thick to talk to.
I spent my pocket money a partwork encyclopedia called 'The Tree Of Knowledge" - but my mum took it away when she found it had a biology section - she had no idea I kept the porn stolen from the scout hut in a different place - silly cow.
Being Human is sublime. It's amazing to think that the BBC were really reluctant top commission a full series for almost a year.
Richard.. Oh! I'd almost forgotten the 'adult' response to Biology back then.
Hahaha!
The day my sister found an encyclopaedia under my three year old niece's pillow was brilliant.
When asked why she had it there her reply was,
"It's where I get my information."
Said in such a way that her Mother had no doubt her daughter thought her stupid!
The horrible inevitability of the spiteful comments made about GT is what gets me - as well as the comments themselves. Just don't be clever in this society, for god's stake don't be clever. It's interesting how self deprecating she is and this is likely a defence mechanism (and a sign of her good manners).
Another thing...chances are she worked her derriere off to be this clever. So why isn't she being held up as a role model rather than as an object of vilification. Bimbo culture just about sums it up.
Sassy.. Spot on!
GAVIN Trimble wouldn't be getting this shite either.
HE'd be offered jobs and Christ knows what!
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