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  5. Is It Me?

    in Chat Central

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    Yes, much to my chagrin I see it can be spelt either way. (I had checked my OED first and they just spell it with an e.) It makes me wonder why i bothered going to skool!!!

    How old is your OED Keith? I've got one in my collection printed 1977 and both forms are given.The vocabulary of a language, unlike the grammar, is constantly changing so it's a good idea to invest in a new dictionary every 10 years or so.

  6. Neil Armstrong - A Tribute From A Bedlington Lad

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    To me the sixties and seventies were golden years and I wish I had a time-machine to take me back to those days. It was a marvelous, ground-breaking time and the moon missions added to that time of wonder.

    You're right there Keith. The 60s and 70s were groundbreaking years. I can't think of any other period in history where so many innovative ideas became reality. I too watched the first moon-landing and remember being amazed at the shere immensity of the whole thing. It must have taken real guts to be strapped into a rocket and shot away into the unknown.

  9. Bedlington Pubs

    in History Hollow

    Posted · Edited by Canny lass

    willicks! (sounds almost obscene doesn't it. It'll probably get censored).

    I used to love them. There was a period in my childhood when I refused to eat the tail end. Then I discovered that it tasted better then the head and refused to eat the head. Today I couldn't eat a willick to save my life!! Same thing with mussels. I can remember going to pick willicks at the beach but I can't remember just where and I can just about remember the smell as they were cooking. Then, I thought it was a lovely smell. I remember my brother and I had a secret club - all the two of us! - The winkler's club. After a session of picking and eating willicks we each kept a shell . I've long since forgotten the rules but we had to be able to produce the shell if we were asked to by the other 'club members'. Then there was a system of forfeits if the shell wasn't produced. He always won because boys' trousers always had pockets and he carried his shell about with him. Girls' dresses didn't often have pockets so my shell was always somewhere in the house when I was challenged. Ah well! Beats burning picnic tables.

  16. Jobs For Everyone?

    in Chat Central

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    Is this clever or cynical?

    http://www.thelocal.se/42518/20120809/

    Can't wait to see how this is going to work! 50 beggars on Drottninggatan all at the same time - and on only a part of it. They'll be falling over each other - and the police will be falling all over them! I'm also wondering how much the charity will get out of this. They'll need to take 100 crowns an hour just to cover the hourly rate. Say they manage double, which I think is highly unlikely, then they can keep 200 crowns leaving 200 crowns over for their employer who has to pay 32% in national insurance per person (they are not doing this voluntarily if they are getting an hourly wage), cover their own costs and presumably earn something themselves. Not much left over för charity.

  23. Picnic Tables At Furnace Bank

    in Talk of the Town

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    I don't know about putting them in stocks but I'm all for the idea of keeping them, and their parents if need be, occupied on Friday- and Saturday nights. Keith mentioned earlier on another thread that tthere are courses given to traffic offenders as a form of 'punishment' and they seem to do some good in making offenders aware of the consequences of bad driving. Why not parenting courses at the weekends for young offenders and their parents with the emphasis on communication and responsibilities?

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  24. Picnic Tables At Furnace Bank

    in Talk of the Town

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    we've got no way of controlling kids, its all been taken away, you cannot chastise, speak to or punish children in any way.

    this opinion does not appliy to all

    There must be some way of maintaining control of children as the majority turn out just fine. I haven't lived in England for many years so I'd like to know what it is that's changed there. Who has taken away the right to raise children to be respectful, law-abiding adults? I know there are laws against the use of corporal punishment - and rightly so - but who on this earth has taken away the right to speak to a child? Punishment is a rather harsh sounding word which tends to be associated with physical abuse, but it needn't necessarily be so. Is there some new law that say's a parent can't stop a child's pocket money (there's no law which say's you have to give it to them as far as I know)? Is there some new law that say's a 13-14 year old cannot be given a set, early bed time by his own parents? Is there some new law that say's a parent can't curtail the use of a child's favourite 'toy' (read computer, i-phone etc.) for a period of time? Of course all of these "punishments" are dependent for their effect on being able to speak to the child and explain that it's the consequence of a certain behaviour so I cannot understand why it should be forbidden to speak to a child.

    What's wrong with teaching a child from an early age that human behaviour is always coupled to consequences - sometimes good and sometimes bad. Children are not born with a complete code of conduct stamped on their forehead. It's something they have to learn with the help of the adults in their lives. Getting through life is about making wise choices. Wise choice = good consequences. Bad choice = bad consequences. That needs to be learned as a child.

    Unfortunately I think there's a lot of truth in what Brettly say's. For some parents it's a case of 'anything for a quiet life'.

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