The Best Years Of Your Life!

PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject:

DINGALINGALINGALINGALING!!!!

[[ That goddamn schoolbell again *strolls into class 10 minutes late with many greyed dog hairs clinging for dear life to his dirty, worn school blazer. Tie stretched battered with cigarette burns still smoking...* >cough< Sorry I'm late, miss.. slept in *yawn*... *collapses at desk, resting head on table as other students look on in curiously, disgusted and in disbelief as he comes in late again with no repracussions... Patiently waiting his name in the roll call, he shouts "Yeah.." as this word signifies another long, gruelling day at school...]]

OKAY! So this was pretty much my childhood at school.. They say they were (are) the best times of your life. Of course I mean secondary school (or whatever form of schooling you enter as a teenager) because primary school was spent either being bullied/doing nothing/bullying.
In all honesty, looking back now, secondary school (the later years) was the best years of my life (and so I'd imagine for a few more years to come). I had fun fun fun in cookery class, throwing a spare egg across the class when the half-blind teacher left the room for a moment.. Also for making flour bombs for on the school bus to launch them at passing bikers/cars on the way home. Design Tech with Mr. (I forgot his name) who we suspected had pedophilic tendancies and of whom I accidentaly and very mistakely called 'Dad' one time Sad

...English with Mr. Pearson who looked/sounded/acted so very much like Alan Partridge it was hilariously uncanny.. Mr. Badger, (with an exceedingly large nose) our year head who also taught Art who also went to school there as a kid.. Some awesomely fond memories of that school and some not so great.. though.. the good outweighs the bad by very far...

So my question to all is Did you enjoy your time at school? If so(or not), which characters made it memorable and which would you love to see brutally tortured. Limbs being torn off one by one etc..

They say they were the best years of your life.. what do they know!? Rolling eyes

Pyrodragon125 · Forum Stalker Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 1257

I find this phrase rather bothersome. If the best years of your life are before you even turn 25, what is the rest of your life? That would really suck if you had already lived out the best years of your life before it ever really even began.

I, myself, don't care for high school. Too much stress and raging hormones. Not to mention an uncanny ability to be a loser. Granted lately I've been upbeat and made a friend or two, but it wont change who I am. Moreso, I just don't care if I am anymore. Very Happy

Anyway, point is, I don't think anyone should have the mindset that high school/college (or secondary school, for Gray here..) should be the best years of your life. Have fun, but it should never amount to a greater good later in life.

eDIt: Gray, c'est faux. Je n'aime pas l'ecole. Tu parles francais?

PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject:

Some wise words from El Pyrage here.. And yeah I notice you're much happier than your FAC Chat days Razz

Good for u, mate.

Pyrodragon125 · Forum Stalker Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 1257

Pip pip and all that. Laughing

My dad says that if I pass French 4 next year he'll take me to France. If so, Gray, you must come to France because it might be the closest we are to ever doing the hanging out unless you come to see some skyscrapers with Lasher since she lives in the northern part of MY STATE. :mellow:

eDIt: To make this relavant to the topic, something like this is considered to be a better part and experience of life. Seeing another country in person and learning how their way of life is. You would have to have been to a collection of different countries by the age of 22 or your life shouldn't be at it's peak already! Surprised

PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject:

You know if I had the money and the time (and courage) I'd be over there in a flash... Those things are against me (for now) so I'll just have to see what the future has in stall for us all ^_^

fallenangel · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject:

Man, if I'm finishing up the best years... fuck, life sucks. Surprised

But I don't buy it. It's all in what you make of it. Sure, if you get wrapped up in your job and paying rent and putting food on the table and [i]never[/i] have any fun, high school sounds pretty good. But things are always better in your memory than they actually were at the time. You make your life good or bad.

Anyway, topic at hand, I'm not all too hot on high school. For all the things that should have made me a loser, I've avoided it marvelously. Very Happy

Can't say I've had [i]quite[/i] the experiences you have, Gray, since I have better memories of time spent out of school. It was just 7 wasted hours of the day until I could leave.
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PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject:

I went to school with about a thousand assholes. The rest of the kids just wanted to learn lol.. Maybe I mixed with the wrong crowd? Maybe that's why I'm so dumb? But I don't regret it.. much.. I had a freakin' good time so I am happy for that Very Happy

Thirteen_Black_Roses · Has No Life Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 510

I actually miss high school. They can be the best years of your life if you make them...I mean, think about it. You have a lot less to worry about in HS than college. Especially once you get your own place and have to worry about bills and such. I wish I had still the luxury of coming home every day and curling up on the couch with a book. I wish I had a couch. Or at least a more comfortable chair. But I digress. It's the year as a [i]whole[/i] not the peophiliac gym teacher, the lazy english teacher, or that art instructor who was stoned out of her mind. It's the stuff [i]around[/i] that.

I think it's the relative lack of stress. Other than social crap. I mean, in highschool my biggest concern was passing the calc test and crap like that. Now I'm wondering where I'm gonna live senior year once my guaranteed housing is up, and if I'll be able to get a job in my field. Argh, it's not really coming out the way I want it too, but you get my drift, right? ...Right? :huh:

fallenangel · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject:

And yet you're still living under someone else's roof, by someone else's standards, are underage for most everything until (maybe) your senior year. I think most who miss high school after living on their own would have a hard time adjusting to being told what to do again.
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Rebus · Very bored Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 224

I wasn't keen on high school because I'm stupidly shy, and it just isn't the place for quiet people.

So for me, getting away and getting some independence made the following couple of years the best of my life, and although I don't leap out of bed in the morning happy that I'm going to work, I do enjoy working much more than I did studying.

Though I still fancy signing up for a degree and doing the student things for a few years... if I ever do, I'll get back to you about whether those years are better.

Elbreth · Still very bored Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 334

If these are the best years of my life, then the future is bleak indeed...

Ambush347 · Has No Life Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 412

High School = s**t

Life in general = s**t

cherry-chi-hiwatari · Forum Stalker Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1143

arent we all happy little souls ?!? ..cheer up people , you all sound like the world ended the day you left high school !!!!!

as much as i like school, i cant wait to wave bye bye to my dark and depressing high school (only 4 years left !!) and then im free FREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you should all be happy !!!!! you dont have teachers lurking round corners ready to throw you in detention for having your shoelaces untied !!!!

Elbreth · Still very bored Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 334

Instead they have countless bills to pay, a fraction of the holidays and if they just don't do something, they don't get detention, they lose their jobs and homes.

Life may be pretty brutal just now, but...I can't imagine it getting any better any time soon.

Now, after that post, I'm sufficiently depressed. Time to go and have a little cry.

Thirteen_Black_Roses · Has No Life Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 510

You know...

...I have to agree with Ambush on this one.

Life sucks.

ariel · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 298

i have no life at all im 16 no school no job no car no friends nothing cant get a job or drive or id they say i never exsited damn dmv shakes fist shrugs ohwell lol ^_^
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Elbreth · Still very bored Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 334

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Maybe if you stop dressing like that, you'll get some friends.

ariel · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 298

well actaully i did have some but they stabed me in the back me ever sence i dont care i dont want friends im better off alone i dident always dress like a freak i do it cause pple will stay the hell away from me internet pple i could care less i talk to some of them in real life i like being alone
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Elbreth · Still very bored Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 334

People that truely want to be left alone dress normally and keep to themselves, by dressing provocatively you're drawing even more focus on yourself, but with this focus, it's not friendship and good times you'll see, it's bullying and mocking. And going on that picture, quite rightly so.

ariel · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 298

not once has one bullyed me cause i wear swords on my back ^_^
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