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Totally that too, Honey. And with relatives' children...

I used my teacher voice on a 70 year old man yesterday.

Piggy!

I teacher voiced kids in a supermarket to wear their masks properly

If we're out with friends they're always "herc you round up the kids with your voice".

I teacher voiced some children at an open garden last summer... they were climbing a tree with some very clear "do not climb the trees signs".
Dad and stepmum were shocked. Possibly not as shocked as the parents who were standing idly by watching their kids climb the bloody tree.
It still amuses me that I can go from my voice to teacher voice and back again in the blink of an eye.
I did it on a busy train once - teen boys in the uniform of the grammar school causing havoc. People were visibly uncomfortable but no one was doing anything. So I stood up, teacher voiced them, and sat down again. It's like magic 😂

I used to own a flat on a nice street but backed by quite a rough area behind me where the coop was based. I would be amazed at the adults squeamishly trying to pick their way through teenage lads clustered around the door and just automatically be like, 'lads you're blocking the door, look, this lady is trying to get through with her pushchair and you're blocking her!' and they would move and generally even apologise. I think that's another teacher thing whereby where others see malintent and are scared we're prone to see total self absorption and needing the obvious to be pointed out to them.

Another one was when I'd get buses after school and there'd be an old man or a pregnant lady stuck standing whilst kids sat down and I'd auto teacher voice 'there's a pregnant lady there needing to sit down! and several would suddenly see her and be like oh right yeah and get up.

They literally don't see beyond the end of their nose sometimes.

It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine that people want to complain about kids behaviour but don't want to take any part in being the 'village it takes' to train them. They don't need shouting at or a clip round the ear but at least speak to them ffs - they're not all gangsters.

DD (9) also has a teacher voice. I’m so proud 😃

That could be part of our get out of teaching plan d - filming teacher voice experiments in public. How many subscribers do we need for decent ad revenue?

Back to our language conversation. What would you call these? Here we call them ‘cobs’.

It annoys me too Honey. Most teens are good natured and incredibly helpful when asked. They're just a bit selfish and need things pointing out.

I also pull teens up on their language/attitude in front of parents. Once a friends child made a comment about "a cleaner will pick it up" when they'd dropped something. I was polite but explained that was an obnoxious attitude to have. My friend was that I'd called him out on it. More so than her kids crappy attitude.

mother Crusty ones a cob, soft ones a roll.

My first answer is 'rolls' but within my extended family you could get cobs or baps also.

@herc is correct. Any other answer wrong 😆

A roll or crusty roll to me, unless you are putting a burger in it and then it becomes a bun

I once teacher voiced a bunch of hooded youths mucking about at the ticket barriers on the Underground. They leapt about five feet into the air and apologised.

I was about 25 and 5’1’’. My poor country mouse DP looked terrified. A passer by laughed and said ‘ah you’re a teacher then’.

Sorry @Chloe, buns can only be soft unless we’re talking about Cillian Murphy’s 😉

This will defo show my age but my English lessons at primary were courtesy of ‘Geordie Racer’ on the Big TV. I was obsessed with ‘stotties’. Still don’t really know what one is 😆

They're baps. Nice plump baps.

A potato cake?

Ha! I just googled - not surprised it's a geordie thing - amazed me how ex and his brother would put virtually anything between two slices of bread rather than just eat it off a plate.

@MrsHamlet

They're baps. Nice plump baps.

You said it like that deliberately.

I did, yes. And with a perfectly straight face like I would in class.

I amuse myself, even if no one else is amused.

I’ve seen threads totally disintegrate once the various names given to lumps of yeast based baked products start being discussed. They literally turn into a bun fight. Beware.

They're rolls.

Incidentally I went to school in a part of the US where a baguette sandwich was called a wedge. I don't know if I've heard anything that weird since.