Well, this site is dedicated to them - and no doubt also to nostalgic memories of bygone days!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Grey Shorts
Well I certainly wore them - pretty much non-stop, in fact, at school and as a Cub, for four solid years. (And it did me no lasting phychological damage whatsoever. Woof!) Thanks to the SA's second round of mindless cultural vandalism uniform reforms in the 1980s I don't think even the Cubs wear them now.
Well, this site is dedicated to them - and no doubt also to nostalgic memories of bygone days!
Well, this site is dedicated to them - and no doubt also to nostalgic memories of bygone days!
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I had to wear them too - with grey knee high socks and black shiny shoes. It be so embarrassing, especially on a cold morning when you reach the age of eleven and twelve. Yet, it won't stop me from inflicting the same misery on my children.
Again, I don't remember being remotely embarrassed by such things. Quite the reverse!
I found trousers deeply irritating when I did eventually have to start wearing them.
Your wife may find that your lads' knees repair themselves when they get damaged - unlike the knees of long trousers.
"Your wife may find that your lads' knees repair themselves when they get damaged - unlike the knees of long trousers."
I often find that is the women who are the most keen on "proper" uniforms for their children - tradition, order, conformity, excellence, and as it "looks so beautiful".
Ever considered that "being embarrassed" is not in women's vocabulary when it comes to their own children. I admit embarrassed is the wrong word - more just like "a bit daft". I mean didn't you think (not even once) that wearing shorts and grey knee high socks, was more for five-year-olds than twelve-year-olds.
Nope! Not once! But then I had to give up wearing shorts when I was eleven.
When I was five I wore long trousers - or possibly red miniature dungarees.
Dealing with children of a necessity requires a certain surrender of personal dignity, and interestingly that's something that women are ofter more prepared to suffer than men are. Do women have more dignity to give up, one wonders?
"Do women have more dignity to give up, one wonders?"
I wouldn't have thought so - I think they lose most of their dignity during the pregnancy, the child birth and the first few months.
"When I was five I wore long trousers - or possibly red miniature dungarees." That's interesting. I wore something similar at the age of three. I think it was the year of The Silver Jubilee. How old were you in 1977?
I meant natural dignity. Don't women have natural grace and bearing and so on that men lack?
In 1977 I was minus-two.
Oh, I see.
You were not even created.
"Don't women have natural grace and bearing and so on that men lack?"
That is what women tell me too!
For I long ago concluded that it's the women who wear the shorts in every relationship.
Yes, along with sock-sniffing, women wearing shorts is not really my bag.
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