• United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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[QUOTE=codenamecueball;52047959]facepunch bringing the world together since 2005[/QUOTE] Reminds me of the time I got a job at Maplin and started at the same time as another guy who turned out to be a Facepuncher - latirCole mad
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52048408]yep, that is him alright he often jumped from some other school (we didnt know which) to ours, and he was quite a character here too. generally he was just a huge wanker[/QUOTE] Oh man, the stories I could tell you about him... They range from simple things (my best friend put a small packet of (unused) ketchup onto his lunch tray - which made him go absolutely nuts) to brushing past someone with Eczema and shouting "Excuse me! I don't want to get his [I][B]disease[/B][/I]!" to the teacher before skipping (!) away much to everyone's shock. He was then pulled up for it (for the first time in his life it seems..) which made him go even more bananas to the point he ran around the school playground grunting to himself and refused to come in. He also banged his knee during a French exam prelim and kept shouting (!) about it. He didn't stop and the teachers didn't remove him either. He was just shouting to himself in the corner of the room. Makes me wonder where he is now to be honest. He flunked his highers and I doubt any college/university would want him because he's so unpredictable.
[QUOTE=Bengley;52049035]Reminds me of the time I got a job at Maplin and started at the same time as another guy who turned out to be a Facepuncher - latirCole mad[/QUOTE] fucking hell. me and another FPer started at the same uni earlier this year. don't know if he wants his identity revealed but he's in this thread heehee xo
yeah there's a dude posting on this thread (instantmix) who works with me
[QUOTE=Bengley;52049035]Reminds me of the time I got a job at Maplin and started at the same time as another guy who turned out to be a Facepuncher - latirCole mad[/QUOTE] oh shit, what happened to latirCole? He used to post in the photography thread a lot.
[QUOTE=Zenamez;52049484]Oh man, the stories I could tell you about him... They range from simple things (my best friend put a small packet of (unused) ketchup onto his lunch tray - which made him go absolutely nuts) to brushing past someone with Eczema and shouting "Excuse me! I don't want to get his [I][B]disease[/B][/I]!" to the teacher before skipping (!) away much to everyone's shock. He was then pulled up for it (for the first time in his life it seems..) which made him go even more bananas to the point he ran around the school playground grunting to himself and refused to come in. He also banged his knee during a French exam prelim and kept shouting (!) about it. He didn't stop and the teachers didn't remove him either. He was just shouting to himself in the corner of the room. Makes me wonder where he is now to be honest. He flunked his highers and I doubt any college/university would want him because he's so unpredictable.[/QUOTE] I used to know someone similar at the first school I went to after I moved back from Hong Kong, except that he was a teacher's son, so he never got into any trouble, he whipped me with a wet towel once, and we used to have those desks that you could open and put your stuff in, while I was looking for something he smashed the lid on my face, he also attacked me with a stick, I've still got a (faint) scar of the left side of my face. I was there for two years but kept in touch with some people from there, apparently the teacher quit after her son was threatened with expulsion.
Cr and I are in universities at the same city and one of you other fucks is also lurking somewhere in Southampton last i checked :v:
[QUOTE=Bengley;52049035]Reminds me of the time I got a job at Maplin and started at the same time as another guy who turned out to be a Facepuncher - latirCole mad[/QUOTE] Couple of guys I used to play games with back in 2010ish weren't too far from each other, they both coincidentally applied to the same place and were given desks sitting next to each other without realizing it for a while. [QUOTE=Zenamez;52049484]Oh man, the stories I could tell you about him... They range from simple things (my best friend put a small packet of (unused) ketchup onto his lunch tray - which made him go absolutely nuts) to brushing past someone with Eczema and shouting "Excuse me! I don't want to get his [I][B]disease[/B][/I]!" to the teacher before skipping (!) away much to everyone's shock. He was then pulled up for it (for the first time in his life it seems..) which made him go even more bananas to the point he ran around the school playground grunting to himself and refused to come in. He also banged his knee during a French exam prelim and kept shouting (!) about it. He didn't stop and the teachers didn't remove him either. He was just shouting to himself in the corner of the room. Makes me wonder where he is now to be honest. He flunked his highers and I doubt any college/university would want him because he's so unpredictable.[/QUOTE] Sounds like he needs help tbh. Mental health support in schools here is kinda awful overall from what I have experienced and heard (Someone in close proximity to me works in a high school with a section for kids with autism and other similar disorders), most of the people in charge and working for places like that don't keep up to date with current practices so they are basing all of their decisions off outdated stuff they learned 10-20 years ago and a lot of the mentality around kids with serious mental health issues in learning is rather than try to find ways to help them learn, cope and integrate, just put them all in a room somewhere and try to forget about them because they are too difficult to deal with.
Back in the early days of FP when we used to chill in IRC, I got chatting to Dav0r and we realised that we knew a few people in common and he lived about 9 miles away from me. Crazy stuff. Also in my third year of University, I moved in with a bunch of FPers
I'm in my final year of University now, and i moved in with someone I met on FP Bit of a cunt
It's a much smaller world than I thought, again when you're in huge cities the probability of other FPers being there is much larger than in a smaller place. There's at least 3 of us in the Burgh (codenamecueball, sobotnik and myself), and pretty sure there's others here that don't even look in GD / UK Chat
[QUOTE=Cushie;52052817]Couple of guys I used to play games with back in 2010ish weren't too far from each other, they both coincidentally applied to the same place and were given desks sitting next to each other without realizing it for a while. Sounds like he needs help tbh. Mental health support in schools here is kinda awful overall from what I have experienced and heard (Someone in close proximity to me works in a high school with a section for kids with autism and other similar disorders), most of the people in charge and working for places like that don't keep up to date with current practices so they are basing all of their decisions off outdated stuff they learned 10-20 years ago and a lot of the mentality around kids with serious mental health issues in learning is rather than try to find ways to help them learn, cope and integrate, just put them all in a room somewhere and try to forget about them because they are too difficult to deal with.[/QUOTE] To be honest, in his case I think what little was done was just too late. If they had sorted out his behaviour earlier on - it wouldn't have gotten so bad, but here we are. The parents didn't look like they could cope to be honest. His mother looked like she was in her late 50s last time I saw her (~10 years ago now. He was ~15 at the time) so they just offloaded him onto school after school instead of actually sorting the issue out, or even home schooling him because if he's having to be moved schools almost yearly - something's up. In saying that - St. Serfs sheltered him like there was no tomorrow. Whenever he would do something stupid, which would get anyone else into trouble, he was just told to calm down and that was it. There was no right or wrong when dealing with him so he probably never had a frame of reference on how to behave because he was never told "don't do that" etc. This same teacher who sheltered him, hated my best friend an I and used to call us liars (hell, she even called my best friend's parents liars during a fucking parents evening!) so she used to single us out or give us lines to write whenever possible (an absolute cunt. Not even that word describes her to be honest). When St. Serfs merged with Clifton hall, he just got worse (according to my best friend as I had left to another school). He'd fly off the handle at the slightest thing (he would run to lunch and others would race him. He'd inevitably lose and throw a fit and a half). The sheltering didn't stop and actually got worse. They did what you mentioned - just shoved him into a room by himself for hours on end when he went nuts. They never actually sat him down and said "right, here's why you're in here". It was just "offload him to the "special room" when you need to".
special schools in general are pretty depressing places i went to one and after a few years it became kind of obvious i wasn't meant to be there (so they quietly transferred me to the school next door) and the way people were there was depressing at times. if somebody caused trouble (regardless of what they did) it was common for the adults to throw them into a softplay room and lock the door until they calmed down. the door would be typically covered in scratches from fingernails i remember that when i was much younger school was so boring that i would cause a bit of trouble, get chucked into the softplay room, and then i'll pull out a book or two i'd snuck along and read it while occasionally shouting or kicking the door to make them think i wasn't calm yet (until one of the teachers realised what i was doing and got me to stop in return for teaching me a little latin) a lot of the time you didn't learn anything at all, and were shuffled from room to room to do some token exercises with minimal supervision. there was a time where the old maths teacher decided to start chatting on her phone in the middle of the lesson, and when one of the students complained and interrupted her phonecall she screamed at her until she cried and had a minor breakdown
anyone in/around swansea? or alternatively, when im not at uni, worcestershire
[QUOTE=Pickwickian-;52050199]oh shit, what happened to latirCole? He used to post in the photography thread a lot.[/QUOTE] I have no idea. I still have him as a friend on Facebook from when we worked in Maplin but he's not that active on there either.
[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;52053888]anyone in/around swansea? or alternatively, when im not at uni, worcestershire[/QUOTE] Bridgend here, sometimes go to Swansea shopping but usually stick more towards Cardiff cause its closer and (imo) nicer.
hate it when some tescos have narrow coins slots, meaning you can't just lash all your pennies in the slot, and one-by-one you have to insert them (plus reinsert them when they come straight through the change slot wtf) fuck you pay you [editline]3rd April 2017[/editline] this british problem©️ is on the same tier as finding a quality meal deal, or when your intercity commuter train runs with less carriages, or is a pacer, meaning a shite journey
I live in the same area a FP mod did. There's no plaque or anything, only one for some Tudor lady.
[QUOTE=Rudevinny;52054439]I hate one and two penny coins so much. I don't think anyone likes them, but it's kind of a minor culture shock for me since I've lived my whole life in a country that had enough sense to say "yeah no fuck that" to the idea of €0.01 and €0.02 coins. I feel like cashiers would just put me on their shitlist for paying with a handful of pennies. I want to get rid of these fuck-you™ tokens but I don't want to throw away money, so my only real option is to purge my wallet of coins every few weeks by going Tesco, grabbing whatever custard cummies I can find in the bakery and pouring all of the coins into the self-checkout machine.[/QUOTE] Most people I know who have worked in retail say its really not much of a problem if you pay them with lots of change, I mean its a little more fiddly but at the end of the day its not like its that difficult a job to count some change. I usually empty whatever pennies I have on me at self checkouts. Pennies are pointless though, we really should be just getting rid of them. With how much money has inflated in the last 30-40 years there's no need for such a small denomination. [QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;52054622]hate it when some tescos have narrow coins slots, meaning you can't just lash all your pennies in the slot, and one-by-one you have to insert them (plus reinsert them when they come straight through the change slot wtf) fuck you pay you [editline]3rd April 2017[/editline] this british problem©️ is on the same tier as finding a quality meal deal, or when your intercity commuter train runs with less carriages, or is a pacer, meaning a shite journey[/QUOTE] Supermarket meal deals seem like a total rip to me for what you actually get. I much preferred spending the 2 minutes in the morning making sandwiches and filling my own drink bottle. You can buy a big multipack of crisps and some sandwich fillers and basically have 1-2 weeks worth of meal deals for a few quid. Idk if this was just confirmation bias but every time I had to get the train in central Birmingham during rush hour in a weekday, the platform would be full and for some reason on the busiest trains of the day there would only be 2-3 carriages, then every other Friday I'd get the train to Wales just after rush hour and there would be like 10 carriages with legit like 20 people on the whole thing, I'd usually have an entire carriage to myself.
[QUOTE=Cushie;52054280]Bridgend here, sometimes go to Swansea shopping but usually stick more towards Cardiff cause its closer and (imo) nicer.[/QUOTE] Yeah I don't blame you. It's a meme to hate Cardiff here, but it is much much nicer. Mumbles is alright though.
[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;52054850]Yeah I don't blame you. It's a meme to hate Cardiff here, but it is much much nicer. Mumbles is alright though.[/QUOTE] Never been to the mumbles, only lived here around a year and a big chunk of that was in the valleys just above Cardiff. The few times I have been to Swansea though it just felt ehhh, the streets with shops just looked like some small town shopping street compared to Cardiff's huge pedestrianized streets with nice looking buildings which reminds me of home (Newcastle), and St Davids shopping center. parking seemed far easier as well. Swansea is closer to an hour from here whereas Cardiff is 25ish mins so there is rarely a reason to go up that way.
[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;52054622]hate it when some tescos have narrow coins slots, meaning you can't just lash all your pennies in the slot, and one-by-one you have to insert them (plus reinsert them when they come straight through the change slot wtf) fuck you pay you [editline]3rd April 2017[/editline] this british problem©️ is on the same tier as finding a quality meal deal, or when your intercity commuter train runs with less carriages, or is a pacer, meaning a shite journey[/QUOTE] So [I][B]you're [/B][/I]the reason I keep getting coppers as change from self service machines...
[QUOTE=icemaz;52053138]I'm in my final year of University now, and i moved in with someone I met on FP Bit of a cunt[/QUOTE] excuse me
[QUOTE=frankie penis;52057081]excuse me[/QUOTE] quick eat all of his perishables in retaliation
[QUOTE=Rudevinny;52054439]I feel like cashiers would just put me on their shitlist for paying with a handful of pennies. I want to get rid of these fuck-you™ tokens but I don't want to throw away money, so my only real option is to purge my wallet of coins every few weeks by going Tesco, grabbing whatever custard cummies I can find in the bakery and pouring all of the coins into the self-checkout machine.[/QUOTE] As someone who works in retail I can assure you there is no issue with paying in coppers(unless there's a queue a mile long).
Is anyone going to comic con? We could do alittle meetup or something.
[url]https://discord.gg/T3mPzMA[/url] Elections soon for the new priminister
[QUOTE=windows098;52057830]Is anyone going to comic con? We could do alittle meetup or something.[/QUOTE] Anyone notable attending this year?
[QUOTE=Lord Xenoyia;52058479]Anyone notable attending this year?[/QUOTE] Me
I'm also going, if I can find some sort of wig that makes it look like I have a buzz-cut I'll be going as Central Officer Bradford.
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