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ssuellid 27 Apr 2005 19:18:56 19,142 posts
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From The BBC.

"Teenagers are taking part in a group sex activity known as "daisy-chaining", nurses have claimed. "

"As we understand it, it involves groups of older teenagers going round to each other's homes and having sex in a similar way as swinging. It is very new and is only just starting to be talked about."

"They said the problem showed how school nurses' work had changed from checking for "nits" or giving immunisations.

Concerns about binge drinking and drug abuse had also changed their role, school nurses said. "

terminalterror 27 Apr 2005 20:12:07 18,932 posts
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I never got any of that!

/feels deprived

The-Old-Bill 27 Apr 2005 20:17:16 5,101 posts
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Wait a sec, how come I'm never invited?

WoodenSpoon 27 Apr 2005 20:30:00 12,360 posts
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/Swings

gnomelover 27 Apr 2005 20:37:07 65 posts
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Hrm. I was too busy drinking to orgnaize that sort of thing as a teenager. I wonder who sets up the calendars?

Freek 27 Apr 2005 20:38:20 7,682 posts
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gnomelover wrote:
I wonder who sets up the calendars?

Or how they find enough chicks named Daisy

Derblington 27 Apr 2005 20:40:00 35,161 posts
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Freek wrote:

gnomelover wrote:
I wonder who sets up the calendars?

Or how they find enough chicks named Daisy

I knew a girl named daisy at art college. Hot.as.fuck.

gnomelover 27 Apr 2005 20:45:08 65 posts
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Derblington wrote:

Freek wrote:

gnomelover wrote:
I wonder who sets up the calendars?

Or how they find enough chicks named Daisy

I knew a girl named daisy at art college. Hot.as.fuck.

Did you 'get to know her'?

Derblington 27 Apr 2005 20:47:07 35,161 posts
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No, I was a really fat bastard and she was proper hot. Slim, beautiful, blonde, good fashion sense, etc, etc.

I didn't do well at school.

edit: I don't do much better now!

Edited by Derblington at 20:48:12 27-04-2005

MikeD 27 Apr 2005 20:48:13 10,063 posts
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Hearing these kinds of messages I am always concerned about kids these days and their fucked up morals and intelligence (taking those risks).

But that only thinly masks my jealousy that such things never happened when I was in school. Did I go to too classy a school, too high a level or did I just miss a new sexual revolution by a few years?

terminalterror 27 Apr 2005 21:04:22 18,932 posts
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MikeD wrote:
Hearing these kinds of messages I am always concerned about kids these days and their fucked up morals and intelligence (taking those risks).

But that only thinly masks my jealousy that such things never happened when I was in school. Did I go to too classy a school, too high a level or did I just miss a new sexual revolution by a few years?

Do you think the press are going to report about all the students who just go to school and lead fairly boring, non-exciting lives?

MikeD 27 Apr 2005 21:05:43 10,063 posts
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terminalterror wrote:
Do you think the press are going to report about all the students who just go to school and lead fairly boring, non-exciting lives?

Hmm, you're quite right.

Still am jealous. :-)

terminalterror 27 Apr 2005 21:09:01 18,932 posts
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MikeD wrote:

terminalterror wrote:
Do you think the press are going to report about all the students who just go to school and lead fairly boring, non-exciting lives?

Hmm, you're quite right.

Still am jealous.

I know, and I am too respectively.

Whizzo 27 Apr 2005 21:13:18 44,810 posts
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Stop spreading diseases would be a better idea, the article mentions a boy with HIV at 14 who didn't realise you could get it at that age.

What are schools teaching kids these days?

MikeD 27 Apr 2005 22:16:44 10,063 posts
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- (n) A hardware configuration in which devices are connected one to another in a series. The SCSI interface , for example, supports a daisy chain of up to 7 devices.

-(v) To connect devices in a daisy chain pattern.

-daisy chaining
The illegal practice by brokers of creating artificial transactions to give the appearance of activity and interest in a particular security.

hmmm

-Euphemisms for Male Masturbation
...
Daisy-chaining

Shivoa 28 Apr 2005 09:14:17 6,314 posts
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>But that only thinly masks my jealousy that such things never happened when I was in school. Did I go to too classy a school, too high a level or did I just miss a new sexual revolution by a few years?

I went to a single sex public school. Hence I a damn glad this kind of this didn't happen at my school.

Blerk Moderator 28 Apr 2005 09:17:27 48,222 posts
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I went to a single sex public school. Hence I a damn glad this kind of this didn't happen at my school.

That'd have been a more traditional meaning of 'daisy chain' though, wouldn't it? :-)

pjmaybe 28 Apr 2005 09:19:34 70,666 posts
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So kids today still think they invented sex then?

Christ, a 2 litre bottle of Woodpecker Cider and a couple of Nik Kershaw albums at my school and you were Hugh Hefner

Peej

pistol 28 Apr 2005 09:19:45 13,018 posts
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ssuellid wrote:
From The BBC.

"Teenagers are taking part in a group sex activity known as "daisy-chaining", nurses have claimed. "

"As we understand it, it involves groups of older teenagers going round to each other's homes and having sex in a similar way as swinging. It is very new and is only just starting to be talked about."

"They said the problem showed how school nurses' work had changed from checking for "nits" or giving immunisations.

Concerns about binge drinking and drug abuse had also changed their role, school nurses said. "

Yeah, I saw this on the Beeb site yesterday. This world is really changing for the worse. Kids aren't kids anymore.

pjmaybe 28 Apr 2005 09:21:32 70,666 posts
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pistol wrote:
Yeah, I saw this on the Beeb site yesterday. This world is really changing for the worse. Kids aren't kids anymore.

Yet, ironically, more adults are behaving like kids when they get into their thirties than ever before.

I think that says a lot. I know for a fact the reason I go so nuts for gadgets, games and toys is because I spent way too much of my teenage years trying to get pissed up on booze and get a bunk up.

Peej

pistol 28 Apr 2005 09:28:42 13,018 posts
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Yeah, me too, although the booz thing was only occasionally coz I was sport mad, and still am I guess. I had my fair share of girlfriends at school but things have definately moved on a lot. There were always the odd 14/15 year old who got knocked up at school but they were the exception.

Edited by pistol at 09:29:30 28-04-2005

Blerk Moderator 28 Apr 2005 09:31:19 48,222 posts
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But they're not really talking about kids, are they - they say 'older teenagers'. To me that says "15, 16, 17 year olds". There weren't many cherries left at our school by the time you reached 16.

pistol 28 Apr 2005 09:40:45 13,018 posts
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Blerk wrote:
But they're not really talking about kids, are they - they say 'older teenagers'. To me that says "15, 16, 17 year olds". There weren't many cherries left at our school by the time you reached 16.

Yeah, I appreciate that but still, teenagers have moved on so much since I was at school. Two of my mates are married to teachers and both say they wish they hadn't chosen the profession. And it's coz of the kids.

pjmaybe 28 Apr 2005 09:46:19 70,666 posts
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pistol wrote:

Blerk wrote:
But they're not really talking about kids, are they - they say 'older teenagers'. To me that says "15, 16, 17 year olds". There weren't many cherries left at our school by the time you reached 16.

Yeah, I appreciate that but still, teenagers have moved on so much since I was at school. Two of my mates are married to teachers and both say they wish they hadn't chosen the profession. And it's coz of the kids.

Did you see that proggy on ch5 last night at 8? A teacher who'd been out of the profession for 20 years went back into it, and couldn't believe what had happened. They secretly filmed disruption in class.

Christ, they don't need better pay - they need better pay and riot armour!

Little bastods. That's finally put the kybosh on me wanting to teach kids. I'll stick to Higher Educational teaching ta.

Peej

Shivoa 28 Apr 2005 09:49:57 6,314 posts
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They're not that bad. At least not in the state secondary I work in. Then again Oxford isn't exactly known for the rough edge and so it isn't that suprising.

I could tell you a few stories about the school I did some teacher training in during Uni. Birmingham council estate type afair, an office on site for the police officers who were so often on site they worked from there, teachers glad to be there only because their last school was US 'hood and so at least the UK didn't have teacher shooting fatalities.

pistol 28 Apr 2005 10:10:22 13,018 posts
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pjmaybe wrote:

pistol wrote:

Blerk wrote:
But they're not really talking about kids, are they - they say 'older teenagers'. To me that says "15, 16, 17 year olds". There weren't many cherries left at our school by the time you reached 16.

Yeah, I appreciate that but still, teenagers have moved on so much since I was at school. Two of my mates are married to teachers and both say they wish they hadn't chosen the profession. And it's coz of the kids.

Did you see that proggy on ch5 last night at 8? A teacher who'd been out of the profession for 20 years went back into it, and couldn't believe what had happened. They secretly filmed disruption in class.

Christ, they don't need better pay - they need better pay and riot armour!

Little bastods. That's finally put the kybosh on me wanting to teach kids. I'll stick to Higher Educational teaching ta.

Peej

I taped it..probably watch it over the weekend.

pjmaybe 28 Apr 2005 11:42:06 70,666 posts
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It doesn't make for very nice viewing but with that and the proggy on Beeb 1 about the woman taking over the headmistress position at a real bastard tough inner city school, it wasn't a good night for the government trying to recruit anyone into teaching...

Peej

lost_soul 28 Apr 2005 11:46:43 9,372 posts
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The woman on the C5 documentary was a supply teacher though, wasn't she?

I remember how badly our class behaved whenever a supply teacher came in, fighting, throwing things, trying to set each other on fire in the science labs. With our regular teachers our behaviour was completely different.

silver-jon 28 Apr 2005 11:54:56 1,518 posts
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Well to balance that, I've a friend who was a marketing manager and then re-trained as a teacher. Admittedly this is still his first year of teaching, but he says the kids are great. You get some trouble-makers, but on the whole they're fun and interested. He's really happy that he made the move, and wants to be an even better teacher.

But then, he's fairly young himself (early 30s). As I remember school, there were teachers you liked and you'd respect and therefore work for. There were others who had the reputation of beings tough basts and you feared, and therefore you'd work hard for. And there there were the ones who arrived, appeared to put in minimal effort and had no personality that you just trampled underfoot and made no effort for.

And then there were the young, female sexy stand-ins who wore low, scoop-necked tops and short skirts.

/runs mental slideshow
/sighs

Deleted user 28 April 2005 11:58:47

silver jon wrote:
And then there were the young, female sexy stand-ins who wore low, scoop-necked tops and short skirts.

They usually taught history too...*sigh*

I consider this story to be blown out of proportion, I'd be quite surprised if this was anything other than an isolated incident. Underage sex/pregnancy are fairly common, sadly the kids need education but tehy don't seem to get any at all.