Today I'm happy about......

[Beefheart]

Just handed my notice in! The 3 month count down starts now.

Good stuff. I think. I really hope you like teaching, kids are a good laugh, politics depressing. Good luck.

Thanks. I've still got a while to think about it. Going to travel or possibly do TEFL in somewhere like Japan or S Korea, and hopefully get some experience in schools here. Keeping my options open basically.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Discovered "The very best of Black Bob, the Dandy Wonder Dog". Bought it, £9.99p. Am about to settle down and not go to bed until I've finished it...

Ten quid? From U.S. $ 1.55 here. U.S $10.40 in the UK.

Although I occasionally read the Dandy (more of a Beano reader back then) I had never heard of Black Bob. Seemingly I missed something. I'll have to check around.

He was a wonder sheepdog, almost human. A sort of canine version of Skippy the bush kangaroo.

Mine is a brand new unused copy, hence the ten quidness. He had an adventure in Canada too... (which I can't find any internet pictures of, but here he is about to rescue a lamb)

[Bruce Rioja]

Thanks. I've still got a while to think about it. Going to travel or possibly do TEFL in somewhere like Japan or S Korea, and hopefully get some experience in schools here. Keeping my options open basically.

I've never understood how this works. Maybe I'm being a bit of a thickie here but how does someone teach English to kids whose language they don't speak?

Anyway, whatever you do do, Beefy, I wish you luck with it.

[Gary the Enfield]

Thanks. I've still got a while to think about it. Going to travel or possibly do TEFL in somewhere like Japan or S Korea, and hopefully get some experience in schools here. Keeping my options open basically.

I've never understood how this works. Maybe I'm being a bit of a thickie here but how does someone teach English to kids whose language they don't speak?

Anyway, whatever you do do, Beefy, I wish you luck with it.

Lots of shouting and gesticulating.

[Bruce Rioja]

Thanks. I've still got a while to think about it. Going to travel or possibly do TEFL in somewhere like Japan or S Korea, and hopefully get some experience in schools here. Keeping my options open basically.

I've never understood how this works. Maybe I'm being a bit of a thickie here but how does someone teach English to kids whose language they don't speak?

Anyway, whatever you do do, Beefy, I wish you luck with it.

Lots of shouting and gesticulating.

[Beefheart]

Thanks. I've still got a while to think about it. Going to travel or possibly do TEFL in somewhere like Japan or S Korea, and hopefully get some experience in schools here. Keeping my options open basically.

I've never understood how this works. Maybe I'm being a bit of a thickie here but how does someone teach English to kids whose language they don't speak?

Anyway, whatever you do do, Beefy, I wish you luck with it.

I imagine pictures have something to do with it. Whatever it is can apparently be taught for a couple of hundred quid on an online course.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I TEFLed for a year in Japan... hardest bloody work I ever did do. most rewarding too, in all manner of rewards.
I was completely unqualified, but the English school in Kure was desperate for native English speakers. I mainly used books and the immersive principle, and strangely enough it worked... the kids I was teaching were also being taught in school, I was just doing juku extras, but some of my adults couldn't speak a word to start with and were having proper (although rather basic) Ingurish convarsayshuns by the end of three months.

[Harry Genshaw]

Root canal treatment. Didn't hurt a bit and only cost £50. They did leave the door open when they ran for safety during the x-ray (what's that all about?) & left me lying there. It must have appeared to the incoming patients that they were doing an autopsy on Roy Orbison!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Root canal treatment. Didn't hurt a bit and only cost £50. They did leave the door open when they ran for safety during the x-ray (what's that all about?) & left me lying there. It must have appeared to the incoming patients that they were doing an autopsy on Roy Orbison!

A couple of check-ups ago one of an ever changing cast of dentists at my practice shipped in from Ruritania with a degree in animal veterinary magic, popped one of those X-ray device holder thingymajigs in my gob with the words 'not done one of these for a while' in an evil slavic accent worthy of Dr Strangelove. He then rushed for cover as he irradiated me, and then after checking his botched work re-inserted the device and fecked off again at the speed of light. When he examined his second attempt and started shaking his head and started reapplying another little film into the holder ready to stuff against my molars I told him that I wasn't having three x-rays on the trot thank you very much and exited as fast as he had. The cheeky feckers tried to bill me £18 for the session too, even though all they'd done was rent out a chair for five minutes to give me a radiation count similar to visiting the outskirts of Chernobyl.

[BWFC_Insane]

Root canal treatment. Didn't hurt a bit and only cost £50. They did leave the door open when they ran for safety during the x-ray (what's that all about?) & left me lying there. It must have appeared to the incoming patients that they were doing an autopsy on Roy Orbison!

Because a single x-ray isn't harmful. But a dentist who might x-ray a number of patients a day is best not to be exposed continuously.

[Harry Genshaw]

Root canal treatment. Didn't hurt a bit and only cost £50. They did leave the door open when they ran for safety during the x-ray (what's that all about?) & left me lying there. It must have appeared to the incoming patients that they were doing an autopsy on Roy Orbison!

Because a single x-ray isn't harmful. But a dentist who might x-ray a number of patients a day is best not to be exposed continuously.

I seem to remember some time ago, they used to pop a thick (lead lined?) sheet, coat thingy over you? NHS cuts I imagine

[Montreal Wanderer]

Root canal treatment. Didn't hurt a bit and only cost £50. They did leave the door open when they ran for safety during the x-ray (what's that all about?) & left me lying there. It must have appeared to the incoming patients that they were doing an autopsy on Roy Orbison!

Because a single x-ray isn't harmful. But a dentist who might x-ray a number of patients a day is best not to be exposed continuously.

I seem to remember some time ago, they used to pop a thick (lead lined?) sheet, coat thingy over you? NHS cuts I imagine

We still get the lead treatment here. I've had several root canals and a number of crowns. These procedures don't tend to hurt these days. Getting extremely cold liquid when I'm not frozen on a certain spot can sometimes hurt a bit though...

[bobo the clown]

tou-bloody-ché. I bet he doesn't come back on this reply ...

[bwfcdan94]

18 miles I walked today, on top of a full working day as well.

[Dujon]

That sounds like she must be a fine lass, Dan. It does though limit your study time.

[Prufrock]

The football season back.

Yay.

[bwfcdan94]

That sounds like she must be a fine lass, Dan. It does though limit your study time.

Not the case Dujon, I walk 8 miles everyday anyhow, but then decided to got back to Wokingham to watch the football(there isn't any pub within 3 miles of me with Sky Sports), then went back home via a 2 mile detour to Tesco.

[Bijou Bob]

Prisoners who were denied the vote have been grievously wronged, according to the ECHR. Not to the point of giving the scrotes compensation however.

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Even better, the judges refused a claim for legal fees, sending the ambulance chasers back home empty handed.

[Bruce Rioja]

Even better, the judges refused a claim for legal fees, sending the ambulance chasers back home empty handed.

[TANGODANCER]

Prisoners who were denied the vote have been grievously wronged, according to the ECHR. Not to the point of giving the scrotes compensation however.

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Even better, the judges refused a claim for legal fees, sending the ambulance chasers back home empty handed.

So does taking them out of circulation actually mean apart from when they're in circulation in spirit, like at elections? Crime has more benefits than honesty, it seems.