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9 sets of twins start 9 different schools in the same local authority!

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GreatestShowUnicorn · 12/08/2020 22:01

Is it a slow news day? My local school have four sets in two p1 classes, I don’t think this is that unusual and this uniforms OMG! Is that really needed for p1
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/teachers-seeing-double-nine-sets-22505623?fbclid=IwAR23unB4adTpnNrwFhdmERoa79Ku-lkyI8A_AY3TSO_8DcmGV8VGOp7aCok

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Blackbear19 · 13/08/2020 13:57

10:09PaundryLouder

I'm putting you on an windy Island somewhere in the North sea Grin I've seen primary uniforms from Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Tayside, Aberdeenshire and Highland no joggers in sight!

BacklashStarts · 13/08/2020 14:02

Aw the two little lads in the back row holding hands! Adorable! Yabu - I need silly season news right now!!

foxtiger · 13/08/2020 14:06

I used to work in a class that had 2 pairs of actual twins (both non-identical) and two other pairs of children who shared birthdays.

SengaStrawberry · 13/08/2020 14:09

I think some of the uniforms are OTT, braided blazers and tartan skirts. Cost a bloody fortune no doubt. Other than looking cute they’re pointless.

OP you might live quite near me, it was on our council website yesterday that there were 4 sets of twins starting in p1 at a local school.

What I really don’t get is why they are all in hula hoops as primary school kids in Scotland don’t need to physically distance.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 14:11

Aw the two little lads in the back row holding hands!

We have quite a lot of twins in my family, DH finds them a bit creepy in general and was desperate to find out if we were going to have any when I was pregnant, so as to prepare himself.

The worst was when my identical nephews were about 4 ish and would often walk about holding hands and would say "we" all the time. Such as walking up to my mum hand in hand and saying"Granny, we'd like our snack now please" DH found this so creepy!

PowerslidePanda · 13/08/2020 14:38

@WaxOnFeckOff

Aw the two little lads in the back row holding hands!

We have quite a lot of twins in my family, DH finds them a bit creepy in general and was desperate to find out if we were going to have any when I was pregnant, so as to prepare himself.

The worst was when my identical nephews were about 4 ish and would often walk about holding hands and would say "we" all the time. Such as walking up to my mum hand in hand and saying"Granny, we'd like our snack now please" DH found this so creepy!

Your DH is a prejudiced twat. Re-read your post with "twins" swapped for "black people" or "gay people"...
WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 14:41

Oh fuck off Panda are you really that fucking thick?

GameSetMatch · 13/08/2020 14:44

Slow news day I think, there’s four sets of twins in my sons class, one set of identical girls, one set of identical boys, one set of boy/girl twin and one set of non identical girls. With IVF there are more twins about.

thehumblediamond · 13/08/2020 14:46

@SengaStrawberry

I think some of the uniforms are OTT, braided blazers and tartan skirts. Cost a bloody fortune no doubt. Other than looking cute they’re pointless.

OP you might live quite near me, it was on our council website yesterday that there were 4 sets of twins starting in p1 at a local school.

What I really don’t get is why they are all in hula hoops as primary school kids in Scotland don’t need to physically distance.

I thought the hula hoop were most likely to get them standing where the photographer wanted them.
TheRosariojewels · 13/08/2020 15:21

When I was at primary school we had 3 sets of twins in our year of about 50. There’s far more twins around now.

PowerslidePanda · 13/08/2020 15:56

@WaxOnFeckOff

Oh fuck off Panda are you really that fucking thick?
Well aren't you delightful! You and your husband sound like a right pair.

If you're implying that I've missed the point, please do spell it out, because it's not as obvious as you seem to think it is. And don't bother trying to claim that your original post was tongue in cheek - if it was, you would have reacted to my "mistake" with amusement, rather than aggression.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 16:07

Well you are the one that called someone a prejudiced twat for finding something creepy and now you've decided to insult me as well.

Prejudice is not about what you feel, it's very hard to control what you feel, for example some people find clowns or cats creepy.

Prejudice is about what you do with your feelings, so your actual actions not your feelings. So for example if my DH had said that he found twins creepy so therefore they couldn't have sweets like the other kids or couldn't come to a party or said to them that they were creepy even, that would be wrong and would be prejudice and you can add in any word you want instead of twin and it's still wrong. He's also not attributed any negative associations with being twins, i'e, that they aren't as clever or smell or anything.

We don't however quite have the thought police yet that dictate what you are allowed to feel and think.

And no, i'm not going to say it's tongue in cheek because there is absolutely nothing wrong with what I posted.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 16:08

Well aren't you delightful! You and your husband sound like a right pair.

Back atcha....

PowerslidePanda · 13/08/2020 16:37

@WaxOnFeckOff - We're not talking about a phobia of spiders here! No matter how you try to dress it up, it's a dislike of a group of people based purely on a characteristic that's beyond their control.

If said that I didn't treat black people differently to anyone else, but I found black people creepy, that would still make me a racist.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 16:42

No PowerPanda you are wrong. Completely wrong. I don't need to dress it up in any way shape or form.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 16:59

Also being a twin is not a protected characteristic. Would I be a prejudiced twat if I said that I find men with big feet creepy? I'd only be prejudiced if I said that because of their big feet they had x negative characteristic or that I wouldn't offer them a job.

I find Delia smiths hands creepy, am I allowed or does that make me a racist?

Behave.

PowerslidePanda · 13/08/2020 20:02

You're confusing legal and moral (quite deliberately, no doubt). Protected characteristics aren't an exhaustive list, they just provide a legal defence for the things people are most commonly discriminated for. Hair colour isn't a protected characteristic either, but that doesn't mean that anti-redhead bias is acceptable.

And the reason your feet/hands examples aren't comparable is that prejudice is about people who are members of a particular social group. I.e. society regularly refers to "women", "black people", "gay people", "twins", "Spaniards", "redheads" - there's no equivalent group or term for men with big feet or individuals like Delia Smith Hmm

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 20:19

oh for goodness sake, Either report my post or away and boil yer head, you are being totally ridiculous. You've dug yourself a hole and are still digging.

You are either being deliberately obtuse for a reason or that's just how you are. Either way I don't care, it's some kind of twisted mind that can turn my post into what you are attempting to. Of course everyone can belong to a group. Twins are no more a specific group than celebrity chefs or youngest children or aunties called Susan.

Please tell me exactly where my husband or I have been prejudice against twins? Bear in mind what prejudice is. Bear in mind you have tried to compare this to racism or being anti gay, you said it was a dislike - at what point has anyone said that they dislike twins - even if that was a thing?

And here is news to you, you can actually find anyone or any group of people creepy - that is a response that you may have no control over. What would be prejudice is discriminating against them because of those views.

You have basically invented this whole thing.

So, I repeat, either report my post or don't.

HoneysuckIejasmine · 13/08/2020 21:28

(I'm a twin.) Maybe he watched The Shining too many times? Grin Horror films do like to use twins speaking in unison or using some sort of telepathy for effect.

A lot of people ask me if I can sense when my twin is upset or hurt or the like. No, for the record and some twins do say they do which raises a sort of mysticism around twins.

HoneysuckIejasmine · 13/08/2020 21:29

Mangled that last sentence but hopefully you understand. Blush

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 22:16

Maybe @HoneysuckIejasmine, :o the youngest twins in our family are now in their 30s, my DH has managed to have a normal friendly relationship with them all :)

I don't think any of them have had any of those connections although by DB and SIL used to take theirs out separately to choose clothes and get a hair cut and they'd invariably come back with pretty much the same. I think that is just teenage conformity in general rather than telepathy.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 22:22

My cousins twins hated each other from a very young age and have nothing to do with each other as adults. My nephews get on but live in different countries. My cousins are in their 50s but still meet up for a pint every week (well covid excepted). My grandmother and her twin are long deceased, Grandmothers twin died as a young woman so who knows if they'd have got on or not.

No twins yet in the generation below but we have a stretched out generation above that with 26 years between oldest and youngest cousin, so whilst some are still teenagers (including my DC), their older cousins have teenage children of their own.

It's hopefully a while before my prejudiced twat of a husband has to worry about twin grandchildren...

PowerslidePanda · 13/08/2020 22:40

@WaxOnFeckOff

oh for goodness sake, Either report my post or away and boil yer head, you are being totally ridiculous. You've dug yourself a hole and are still digging.

You are either being deliberately obtuse for a reason or that's just how you are. Either way I don't care, it's some kind of twisted mind that can turn my post into what you are attempting to. Of course everyone can belong to a group. Twins are no more a specific group than celebrity chefs or youngest children or aunties called Susan.

Please tell me exactly where my husband or I have been prejudice against twins? Bear in mind what prejudice is. Bear in mind you have tried to compare this to racism or being anti gay, you said it was a dislike - at what point has anyone said that they dislike twins - even if that was a thing?

And here is news to you, you can actually find anyone or any group of people creepy - that is a response that you may have no control over. What would be prejudice is discriminating against them because of those views.

You have basically invented this whole thing.

So, I repeat, either report my post or don't.

I'm not twisting anything. You, who knows nothing about my children, have labelled them creepy based just on the fact they happened to be born together - which I take issue with and am defending.

I don't think you know what prejudice is yourself, so here's a definition:

Prejudice is an unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual's membership of a social group.

And DH finds them a bit creepy in general is exactly that.

I'm actually laughing at you thinking I've dug a hole. I've responded to everything you've thrown at me with rationale, backed up by the field of psychology (so if you don't like the definition of "group", take it up with that profession) - while you've done little other than resort to insults and show yourself up. So yes - let's leave it there.

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/08/2020 23:01

I haven't called your children anything. I don't know you or your children, you've taken a story and forced yourself to get offended without previously contributing anything to the thread. I think you need to calm down and stop attributing things against your children that aren't there.

You don't know anything about me and yet you come on slagging me off and comparing finding something creepy with being racist or anti gay. that's pretty fucking offensive in itself.

There are no thought police, we are allowed to think or feel whatever we like, what we are not allowed to do, once again, is actually discriminate against someone. So again, what specifically has anyone done to discriminate or be prejudiced? Finding something creepy is not a negative attribution to the person or circumstance, it's a feeling that the person has.

And that quote you've used is actually creepy "incorrect attitude" ? For Fucks sake. Talk about 1984.

Christmastree43 · 13/08/2020 23:31

There's no such thing as prejudice against twins 🤣🤣 I can't believe you've got yourself so worked up about this Panda.

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