HelperElfMissy 42 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Hey guys, JA is 60 today - that's a big one!! Congrats JA! Have a great day. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted April 23, 2008 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted April 23, 2008 Happy Birthday! Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Yeah, now eligible for discounted fares?? Have a discount for the January accom at Nozawa on the basis of age (me 'n' me mate are both 60, just, the +1s are a bit behind.) :woohoo: Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 Are ya gonna get a teardrop for your car now? My Dad turned 60 last month, and he is so PROUD of his Seniors Card - that is so funny! Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Happy Bday!!! Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Congrats JA. I'm eligible for seniors discount on lift tickets. Mama, for some of us it's a real achievement to have made it thus far. Link to post Share on other sites
ProbablyaCrazyPerson 2 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 happy birthday Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 My old man turned 60 this month and I think with 59 the marbles have gone.. Hope you are doing better JA! Link to post Share on other sites
Ewok 2 1 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Omedeto gozaimasu JA 六十而耳順. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Marbles, What are they?? What do you need them for? I gave up playing marbles in High School. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 domo arrigato gozaimasu, Ewok2 san. Domo arrigato gozaimasu, everyone. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Originally Posted By: JA Marbles, What are they?? What do you need them for? I gave up playing marbles in High School. back when you wrote on chalk boards, teacher's wore mortar boards and being Gay didn't invlove other men in public toilets!! Happy B'day JA Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Actually, chalk boards are reasonably new, PCness required them to be other than black. I first taught with chalk on a blackboard, then tghey painted them all green and renamed them chalkboards. And, thanks TB - nice dinner, a bottle of good Oz red and a relaxing evening - What more could one want? Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 Originally Posted By: JA .....- What more could one want? Snow? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Originally Posted By: JA Actually, chalk boards are reasonably new, PCness required them to be other than black. I first taught with chalk on a blackboard, then tghey painted them all green and renamed them chalkboards. And, thanks TB - nice dinner, a bottle of good Oz red and a relaxing evening - What more could one want? I wasn't meaning the blackboard that the teacher writes on, I meant the chalk boards that the students used instead of paper!! Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Oh, as we did our lessons while we waited for the dinosaur to roast! I get it! Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 I betcha were of the era that you got MILK given out at school though JA. My mother still can not drink milk on it's own - this British tradition was not so wonderful in hot old Perth where the milk had spoiled by the time it was handed out to the kids!!!! BLECK! Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Not when I was at school as a kid! (talking country NSW in 50s and 60s) When I taught in the Riverina, the primary kids got free milk, and the milko chucked in a couple of extra bags of white fot the staff morning tea. That was easy until the kids got banana - Have you ever tried banana milk in a cup of coffee?? BLECK is absolutely right! We used to have a spot in the fridge for the kids milk, so they never got hot milk. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 WOW! Different on your side of the great sunburnt land. My parents are your age. Dad grew up in the UK, but Mum got Milk in bottles in primary school here. I was at school in the early 70's - 80's, and we NEVER got Milk!! We could do lunch orders and buy milk, but it was no longer part of the governments plan for healthy children and provided free of charge...I reckon that stopped in WA in the 60's. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Started teaching 1972, so that places the free milk time. I was in a central school for 2 years, primary and secondary on the same site and more or less integrated run by the same principal. After that, I moved to secondary schools, so cannot comoment on later. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Milk used to come in 1/3 pint bottles. It was the State intervention to ensure that children had some nourishment. It abolished rickets. Then tetrapaks came. Beating children with a cane was standard practice. I was regularly thrashed by authority from 5 until the age when I could look the headmaster in the eye. It didn't help. Anyone want to take me on? Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Milk in triangular cartons. Was I dreaming that?? Link to post Share on other sites
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