A van for the 80s

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Re: A van for the 80s

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TBH I couldn't give a fuck if it did or not, it was the only way I ever knew her & I wish I hadn't.
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Re: A van for the 80s

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No. School is shit for many people. The system and teachers (not all of them) stamp out any independent thought and spirit. They do their best to fit a square peg in a round hole. I remember some teachers fondly and others with hatred. But I was robbed of years of my life to compulsorily study shit I had zero interest in, at some place I didn't enjoy. There is no need for school above primary level, you've learned all you need to know by then, anything else you can study properly as an adult.
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Hooli wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 7:46 pm
chadders wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 7:31 pm
Hooli wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 6:33 pm I have fond memories of 'school trips' in the evenings from boarding school (where I got sent as it was the only place took me after I was expelled from primary aged 7 1/2) that just involved winter trips down snow covered lanes sideways with Mr Sladden seeing how long he could keep one of these sideways without crashing it.

The number of kids in the back was handy for getting it back out of hedges & ditches on occasion.
I've got to ask how did you manage to get expelled from a Primary school?
I had an evil bitch of a headmistress ruin things for me. Aged 7 I was a year up, top of the class & due to do exams at 14. The headmaster retired & this crazy, evil bitch appeared. I was moved back down as it was 'too much paperwork for her' and then told I was a trouble maker as I was bored. Oh & to top it off I wasn't allowed to be left handed, she was that mental. I rebelled a bit*.

Yet people wonder why I've got no respect for teachers, with those experiences.
Very reminiscent of my experience at primary school; I was a good reader (I had read works of Elias Canetti before I was 11) the silly cunts at the school kept me from progressing further. When it came to doing the 11plus they never informed any of the kids or parents; I think it was a given that no kids from that primary school ever went to grammar school and were to be factory fodder. They were some of my first experiences of Socialists in action.
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I did OK until I got to secondary school. That's where any desire to learn and get on in life was completely and utterly destroyed. Squire's right - those fuckers taught me nothing I didn't already know. Once I had learned to read, 75 percent of which was accomplished before I even went to Infants, I could do the rest myself. About the only thing I did gain from the 5 years in comprehensive was how to deal with all the wanker managers I would later encounter in the real world.
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Somebody completely missed the fact there was a large blue van parked at the side of the road back in February and broke my corner bumper.
Tracked down a NOS one and finally got around to fitting it today.
I need to fit the new lower quarters I have as well at some point as they are returning to nature.
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That's one less thing to worry about when I go passed the VOSA check point on the A23...
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Mk2 transit?
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Mk2 Phase 2 so I have the plastic grill and indicator surrounds.
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Back when I was in secondary school circa 2001 my dad had an A plated transit same as this but his had windows in the back,hatchback style rear door and the one side door opened like a massive car door outwards but hinged to the back. The bench seat in the middle took 4 people but the handle to open the door was where the back rest was so had to squeeze hand down the gap to get out. His was a 2.0 petrol painted in fluorescent yellow/green with purple rostyle wheels,black nudgebar and some sort of shitty airbrushed dragon on the side. He picked me up from school in it and it still haunts me to this day.
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High drama today, decided to run like crap on the way to work and temperature edging up, opened bonnet and it's tiddling water out of the over flow on idle.
Fearing head gasket failure I squeezed the top hose and it was soft but even more water came out the over flow.
A replacement radiator cap and 4 litres of water seems to have improved things.
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Well this is a lesson on checking all the way round a tyre for wear not just glancing at the bit you can see and thinking it'll be right.

Massively out of round and with a huge bulge, good job is a twin wheeler.

Just had the 3 new ones I had put on. Got quite a few to get rid of now :(
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