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I would have ****ed around more at school as I now realis how little it actually mattered if I got a detention or they called my mummy n daddy.

 

I wish I had behaved better!! Something always happened whenever I was in a detention, like the day a lad nutted someone and broke their nose. All my mates saw it. I was in detention. :(

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Go back to when I was 11, and to have taken my eleven-plus exam, which would have got me to Grammar School, where my ambitions were aimed.

 

I didn't take the exam because I had influenza, and when I returned to school, my teacher told me it was too late. What he didn't say was that if my parents paid, I could do my own re-sit. I was at the top of my form, and all my friends and peers got to Grammar School, and I didn't. I remember my Mum & Dad saying, never mind dear, and they hadn't a clue what the lack of passing over £2 10s made, and what course they'ed set me on. I did badly at Secondary School because I felt utterly betrayed by them, and it wasn't until I was in my early 30's that I eventually got to University, where I did OK.

 

My parents didn't know, and I have forgiven their ignorance of those years, despite the limits they immediately put on me. But if I had a chance to change one moment in time, that might be it.

 

BTW, good thread. A bit too good for TMS, IMO.

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Go back to when I was 11, and to have taken my eleven-plus exam, which would have got me to Grammar School, where my ambitions were aimed.

 

I didn't take the exam because I had influenza, and when I returned to school, my teacher told me it was too late. What he didn't say was that if my parents paid, I could do my own re-sit. I was at the top of my form, and all my friends and peers got to Grammar School, and I didn't. I remember my Mum & Dad saying, never mind dear, and they hadn't a clue what the lack of passing over £2 10s made, and what course they'ed set me on. I did badly at Secondary School because I felt utterly betrayed by them, and it wasn't until I was in my early 30's that I eventually got to University, where I did OK.

 

My parents didn't know, and I have forgiven their ignorance of those years, despite the limits they immediately put on me. But if I had a chance to change one moment in time, that might be it.

 

BTW, good thread. A bit too good for TMS, IMO.

everything happens for a reason, you cannot guarantee that you would've done well at grammar school, in fact the hardships you faced at secondary school would've only served to make you a stronger person. trust in fate, it knows what we need better than we do.

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everything happens for a reason, you cannot guarantee that you would've done well at grammar school, in fact the hardships you faced at secondary school would've only served to make you a stronger person. trust in fate, it knows what we need better than we do.

 

I'm not a believer in fate, although there is definitely elements in life that are out of one's control, and you could call that fate, I suppose. It all works through, and in a sense, I'm happier now than I've ever been, but I've always managed to find the positive side of things. I probably wouldn't have met the people I treasure nowadays, if things had gone differently, and that would have been a major disappointment.

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No, I did, and they said something along the lines of, never mind, perhaps next time. Neither of them were sufficiently knowledgable to realise that there wouldn't be room in the system for a next time.

 

I had something like the opposite of your situation. My parents thought about sending me to Portsmouth Grammar School, but I didn't fancy it as I didn't want to leave my friends. I wonder what would have happened if they'd pushed me into it.

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Great thread.

 

It so happened I moved to Winchester at the age of 12, it was pretty horrible being uprooted from Devon. Having said that I would've been a full time criminal, though well educated had I stayed there.

 

My advice to cynical 12 year olds is: don't be cynical, don't be sarcastic; don't be judgemental; don't think you are better than people you don't know about.

 

Do:

 

Find out about other kids your age; ask questions; try anything; feel no fear; reinvent yourself every 3 months; put your toes in danger, know what danger is; learn to love; learn to be heartbroken; get it all out of the way - at the age of 12 your personality is in place - build it how you want it!

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feel free to move to the lounge st l..... I also would not have answered stevegrants text about filling in for ifc and thus snapping my acl after 10mins.... I would have joined the team top of the top tyro league when they wanted me (drew surmans dad btw) instead of staying where i was, could b playing a decent level now.....

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feel free to move to the lounge st l..... I also would not have answered stevegrants text about filling in for ifc and thus snapping my acl after 10mins.... I would have joined the team top of the top tyro league when they wanted me (drew surmans dad btw) instead of staying where i was, could b playing a decent level now.....

 

Top team in tyro....you have only be squinnying about your injury for 18 months....what is this top team you talk of

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I would probably take myself less seriously, I was totally deadpan and humourless when younger and it really didn't help anything.

 

I would also play more sport, left it far too late to start playing football. Also I would have asked out a certain girl when I got to 6th form, still kicking myself at that one that got away.

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Firstly I'd **** more girls, now realising how easy it was to get laid at school. I was a frigid scared noob back then. I'd also not have the pointless 5 and a half year relationship i had throughout my teens.

I'd have gone to college and uni. I wouldnt have bought so many cars and got into unecessary debt! Thats the lot.

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I would probably take myself less seriously, I was totally deadpan and humourless when younger and it really didn't help anything.

 

I would also play more sport, left it far too late to start playing football. Also I would have asked out a certain girl when I got to 6th form, still kicking myself at that one that got away.

 

I can confirm this to be true.

 

Surely you would also have chosen a better team to support than the sewage outlet that is Margate Tarn FC

 

btw Colin, I met Mark who you worked with on Tuesday, he's doing really well and has grown about 6 inches and filled out a bit, quite 'hunky' some might say.

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