WTF moments from childhood

[Lyannaa]

I vividly remember sitting in a circle at primary school and playing a game (facilitated by teachers). It was a variation on ‘spin the bottle’ and this boy named the girl he wanted to kiss. The feeling was not mutual from her end and she began running around and around the circle, trying to evade both the boy and the disgraceful teachers trying to hold her down. Vile. How was this a thing? All I remember was sitting there thinking ‘thank goodness this isn’t me’.

This was 1989…

I abhor Johnson, he's a criminal and a moron, but we're not the one calling the Uk odd. PP is

And Trump makes Boris look like a boyscout.

Ahh come on now, uk is fucking odd. No dispute

I'm not disputing it. I live here... I know, and I dislike it.

But nobody here suggested drinking bleach to cure covid.

It’s a false dichotomy, deflect from uk fuckery by saying yeah but no but look at USA

Last year of junior school, in the early 90s:

One of my classmates had a nasty note left in their desk. It had been scribbled in green crayon.

The teacher was livid and was determined to find out who was behind the note. She handed out a bunch of green crayons and some bits of paper to all 20-odd of us, and demanded that we all quickly scribble down the words that were on the note while she read it out to us.

She then made a big scene of collecting up all the pieces of paper, told us to stand up and remain silent while she sat at her desk and compared everyone’s writing to the original note, so she could decide who had been behind it.

From this, she then decided she had found the culprit - my friend who I was sat next to. Teacher marched over and absolutely screamed at her, leaving her in tears. I have no reason to think that it would’ve ever been my lovely friend, and no idea who wrote the original note.

Makes me cringe when I think about how much my parents were paying each term for me to experience things like that!

I assume you mean false equivalence or tu quoque fallacy. A false dichotomy means assuming there are only 2 options. Are you perchance a butthurt American?

I'm not deflecting from UK fuckery I'm just pointing out that Americans are the pot calling the kettle black. Why are you so triggered by that?

Also, Marmamia is the one who invited the debate. It's not whataboutism if it's hypocrisy first

whitabootery isn’t the issue. It’s this notion of presumed UK superiority. Oh let’s laugh at the USA, so gauche.UK really cannot credibly claim a superiority

This whole thread is about wtf moments from the UK. Where did you get superiority? Are you having some sort of episode? I think you need to calm down if you're getting upset by a passing comment about your disgusting president. And use a spellchecker.

Spellchecker? You’ve read my post and your only pushback is misplaced generalised attack.
I don’t have a disgusting president, whom are you addressing
but by Christ uk has had some posh dullards as PM
Episode? No. are you being pejorative about mental health to make a point .

Nope not American.I know I know I do the z instead of s all the time. No idea why!

Fecking hell!

That's a breach of data protection.

I’m sure I remember everyone’s GCSE results printed in the local paper 🤔
Like this :

Smith, L: Eng A, Ma B, Sci B, B, Fr C
Jones, T: Eng C, Ma D

and so on. Anyone else remember that?

My friend once told my teacher that I had a crush on him. It was true, and I was mortified! I was 12 at the time, and he massively flirted with me daily after that. He'd wink at me from across the classroom, tell me I look extra cute that day and once tucked my hair behind my ear when I'd gone back into his classroom after class because I'd left something behind.

It was years later that I realised just how bad all that was. I'd been loving the attention at the time.

Yes but you had to agree to it and fill n a form.

Are you my sister?
My mother did the exact same thing, Brownies Old Time Music Show!

Not my only pushback

My last of several questions

Try to read the full post?

You're arguing with yourself, I'm afraid. It's such a non point, and you haven't actually responded to what's been said.

I think you might just want to have a hissy fit, so please go ahead and get it out of your system.

Nobody's claiming superiority 🤣 and I was talking to marmamia, not your dear self.

When I was in infant school my dad was a window cleaner. I remember him taking me to a house to collect money. We went inside and it turned out to be a child from my class' house. The adults left us to play and my dad and my friends mum went upstairs for a while! It was only when I got older it registered as dodgy. Still sometimes think about it many years later. I never mentioned it to either of my parents.

This thread is literally called “WTF Moments…”; loads of people have posted telling us their WTF moments; and loads of people have responded, also saying “WTF?!”

… and then you steam in telling us ‘this is all very weird, can’t you see it’s weird, don’t you see how the rest of the world finds you weird?’

I mean come on, do you think you’ve spotted something no-one else has here? It’s the entire point of the thread.

To be fair- naked saunas are a thing in Scandinavia so we aren’t the only weird ones.

Japan is the same.

That is truly, truly awful.
I can remember being in Year 7 and we had end of year exams which were basically tests set by each teacher.
Very religious school, some nuns, very strict.
We all got repeated warnings about cheating.
During one exam one of the nuns was sitting in and spotted a girl had a tiny printed prayer on her desk. Tiny, laminated little thing.
This was then labelled as contraband, against the rules. She had the girl in tears, and why she would pick on someone for having a prayer I have no idea.
All of her exam results were cancelled and she got 0 per cent for each exam. Our reports were also kept in a book that we had for 7 years and that’s what was recorded in it.
I should imagine that traumatised her beyond belief.
We were 11/12. Mind-boggling.

So many of these are horrifyingly familiar…

At secondary school in the late 80s/early 90s, our (single, male) form teacher used to invite us round to his house and ply us with alcohol from age 13. On one occasion took us swimming (we were swimming, he was watching) as part of the outing.

Same teacher used to take us on nights out from age 15ish, would let those who had turned 17 (but not yet passed their driving test) drive his car home (with the rest of us in it) when he had been drinking.

Once aged 14, I’d stayed behind to wait for a concert/play rehearsal - there were a few of us hanging around and I ended up chatting in the teachers’ study with two boys (aged 15 and 16) that was friends with. It got silly, they started trying to tickle me and when I tried to leave there was a tussle which ended in 16 holding me down while 15 started to take off my clothes (!). I yelled out, teacher walked in, took one look at the situation, said “now now boys, play nicely”, walked out and shut the door - basically gave them the green light.

To this day I believe the only reason it didn’t go any further is because when I screamed again another boy from my year came in to see what was happening - everyone froze and suddenly I was being helped to put my clothes back on while the other two laughed it off as “only joking, no harm done”!

We aren't "good" with it, that's the very point of the thread. No knickers does not mean underpants it means knickers, boys wear underpants. If you post on a UK site then you surely must expect UK words for things.

So at 4 years old you would have refused to do what the rest of the class were doing - yes of course you would.