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Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:52 pm
by Admin
Do you guys have calf club days at school in the boonies?

It's still a thing here - kids train a calf or lamb and take them to school for a day. Great fun.

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:31 am
by Di Wundrin
Admin wrote: Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:52 pm Do you guys have calf club days at school in the boonies?

It's still a thing here - kids train a calf or lamb and take them to school for a day. Great fun.
Haven't heard anything about it in Oz but i haven't heard a cow in a long time either.

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:49 pm
by stanky
That reminds me,
Whatever happened to genital crabs?
Haven't seen them in ages.

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:57 pm
by Admin
Di Wundrin wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:31 am Haven't heard anything about it in Oz but i haven't heard a cow in a long time either.
It was always the best day of the year at primary schools in farming areas. Girls would bring lambs, boys calves, and the oldest boys would bring a heifer. Kind of school meets agricultural show for a day.

As well as the prizes for animals, there were also handcraft prizes and fairground stuff like who can throw a gumboot the furthest, who can hit a nail into wood the deepest, etc. I always got prizes in the girly handcrafts - flower arranging & the likes - which made me very popular with the farm boys from the area.

The school I attended in my tween years was deep in the countryside of the central North Island, and calf club was always scheduled on Melbourne Cup day and it was basically a party for anyone within 20 km radius.

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:58 pm
by Admin
stanky wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:49 pm That reminds me,
Whatever happened to genital crabs?
Haven't seen them in ages.
Very simple answer to that - Brazilians.

No, not the people, the near-universal trend of removing pubic hair. No pubes = no crabs.

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:17 pm
by Di Wundrin
Sounds more fun than we had. I was city schooled, had rels in the bush though so got to see both sides of life.

I vaguely recall those 'skills'/crafts days but they didn't go on past primary school.

The silliest thing we did at school was learning the Maypole dance. Is there a more useless naff wast of energy than that?

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:04 pm
by stanky
Admin wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:58 pm
stanky wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:49 pm That reminds me,
Whatever happened to genital crabs?
Haven't seen them in ages.
Very simple answer to that - Brazilians.

No, not the people, the near-universal trend of removing pubic hair. No pubes = no crabs.
There's growing evidence that suggests the poor buggers are facing extinction.

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:55 am
by sparks
Poor buggars? No. They're parasites.

Fuck em.


Wait.

What?

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 9:03 am
by Admin
Yeah, I don't think I'll shed any tears for the demise of genital crabs.

Not that they'll disappear, anyway. I'm sure they're as rife as ever in the 3rd world.

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:08 am
by Di Wundrin
Real Estate Sale. Olive grove going cheap in Turkey.
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