Bomb scare at La Mare de Carteret
Friday 20th May 2011, 11:11AM BST.
LA MARE de Carteret school was evacuated this morning after a bomb threat.
Chief Inspector Nigel Taylor said that just before 9.30am the school received a call about a threat of a device.
Pupils were evacuated to the playing fields as a precaution.
‘Police are assisting with a search of the school and will try to ensure a return to normality as soon as possible,’ he said.
‘The children and staff are safe and well – enjoying a slightly longer playtime – in the sunshine.’
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I’m right here in the middle of it. And I don’t know any more than you do
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Surprise surprise.
Just as someone else predicted on the other thread.
This will be the instant justification for the Police’s expensive new ARVs!!!!!
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Probably manufactured by the police so they justify the cost of the armoured vehicles.
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Exam day is it?
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It seems somewhat fishy to me, too.
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Didn’t this happen last year too? Although they can hardly ignore it I suppose…
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LOL! Joshua, I just mentioned to someone that it could be some kid trying to avoid taking an exam.
Either that or someone misunderstood when the teacher said “Bring in something you made in your spare time”…
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Let’s hope the caller can be identified … and suitably dealt with. (Who said ‘Bring back the birch!’?)
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Oh please …. deliberately creating a bombscare to justify the purchase of a car ?
Firstly, and this coming from a deeply cynical person, I don’t believe even the police, or the Home department, are capable of stooping that low.
Secondly, I doubt they’d be capable of organising it anyway!!!!
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After the long run of bank holidays, the Royal Wedding, Liberation Day et al, it is astounding the lengths these kids will now go to to avoid a full five day week!
I presume that modern technology allows for the phone threat to be traced, so the perpetrator can be brought to justice?!
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ARMED RESPONSE VEHICLE. not ARMOURED!!!
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Suprising how this is right in the middle of the exam period :)
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Mr G. I was about to say the same thing but you beat me to it. Very suspicious.
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I have it on good authority (fat bloke down the pub) that this is a revenge mission by the chap who didn’t want CBT training at the school.
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As a parent of a child who goes La Mare, I would like to point out that although it is exam period, there were no exams planned today,infact it was suppose to be sports day and Year 11 were going home at half 10 anyway. But I would also like to thank the staff with the way they handled the children. They were all tired, hungry and thirsty and did very well considering they were sat in the sun for hours with nothing to do.
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Turns out it’s a stink bomb – I bet the teachers are feeling a little embarrassed.
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well we think it was the police trying out there new cars and the responce time my grandaughter said it was a nice day to have off and thanks for the day in the sun. men with new toys they had to test them out properly so if anything did happen there prepared, as if this is the most boaring place on earth .
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? “sat in the sun for hours with nothing to do”
I thought it was sports day – seems to me like they probably could have got through a sack race and egg toss while the police were sweeping the building?!
Can anyone confirm whether these sorts of events are still a part of sports days? I always took great amusement from the mother’s run – none of the mums would want to seem at all keen or competitive, but as soon as the starter’s gun sounded all rules went out of the window, and hoards of female fury would bound down the track in their best summer frocks, those who opted for a heeled shoe always left tottering at the back of the pack.
The egg and spoon race always seemed to bring forth everyone’s propensity to cheat. despite the teacher’s cries to “stop holding the egg” we would sprint as fast as our legs would take us with little regard to the notion of balancing the egg. Why balance the egg when I could just as easily hold it in place with this spare hand of mine?! One kid would always play by the rules, come in last, storm off and sulk for the rest of the day. Good memories (if a little influenced by re-runs of “You’ve Been Framed”).
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@ Ponderous – I’m afraid you’re sadly out of date. My little darlings are at LMDC primary and dangerous concepts such as racing, with its controversial ‘winning’ and ‘losing’, have been banned in case they damage the children’s psyche. Instead everyone participates in safe group activities such as throwing bean bags into hoops. At the end house points are counted up and the winning house cheered. And the losing house. All the houses in fact. So touching. So dull for all concerned. My children usually start weeping and beg to leave about 10 minutes in. I feel their pain.
I’m with the ‘ARV’ theory on this one. I don’t like cynicism parading as wisdom, but it seems a tad convenient that in the days after everyone questioned the necessity of them, lo! a reason appeared. The rumour I heard was a written note saying a bomb was hidden in the senior school. What next? The Taliban hijacking a trislander and flying it into Beaucamps?
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you must be joking about the pupils enjoying a slightly longer break, we were stuck outside in the hottest part of the day with nothing to drink for 3 hours and nowhere to go to the toilet. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What a namby pamby lot the kids of today are. Nowhere to go to the toilet? Just pee in the bushes for goodness sake. Nothing to do? Use some initiative. Try playing. Not on playstations or wiis but real playing.
It used to be ‘Germans and British’ in my day but why not ‘Navy Seals and al quaeda’ to bring these playground games bang up to date? You could even try ‘Guernsey police SWAT team v North Plantation louts and phone hoaxers’ as a brand new take. Or if you want something without violence why not try hopscotch and skipping and tig and kiss chase? Really, in that situation and with a little imagination there are tons of things to do. I really do fear for the current young generation.
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My son attends LM and my first thought when I heard via the Guernsey Grapevine was – Sports Day – no one wants to do it – its got to be a hoax! and yet…. and yet…. I started to consider how no one ever thinks it could actually happen; what about those poor kids at Dunblane – just another boring day at school but some didn’t ever get home….. what about 7/7 which cost about £10k to finance, hardly a fortune really to cause so much heartache…. however I was one of the parents who did not rush to the school to pick up my child. I reckoned like everyone else it was just another hoax. Thank God this was the case. i trust that the person responsible will be dealt with very strongly; my first thoughts would be to look at Facebook to try and ascertain who is boasting about this?!
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It seems inconceivable that the police would set up something like this themselves to show off their toys and tactics. It also beggars belief that firefighters would commit arson in order to act the hero or whatever … yet there are many, many cases where this has been proven, particularly with terrible bushfires. Who knows, these things tend not to stay secret for long in Guernsey.
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Oh you poor little thing Chloe, nobody has taught you yet how to pee behind a bush or sit in the shade of a tree. Oh well, perhaps you should ask your teachers to show you how in case you ever have to do it in future and believe me you will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
If I planted a bomb then I would now know where to plant it or them, it would be in the playing fields where everyone evacuated to, who would think of looking there? I bet the police didn`t even with their all terrain new vehicles.
The playing fields at LMDC stretch right down to the beach at Cobo so why couldn`t the parents pick their darlings up and take them home from there?
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Nocon, you are a genius. How did the rest of us not realise that when an anonymous call says there’s a bomb ‘in the school’, we should not be evacuating students to a predetermined safe spot, but instead take all 500+ pupils (presumably with the 17 or so island coachways buses that are to hand) to a secret location. This way we could get on with immediately checking its playing fields for mines with our ‘all terrain new vehicles’. Good thinking, you obviously have much more idea than Guernsey’s police force. Have you perhaps considered applying for a job with them?
Also, despite the fact you have considered the ideal place to plant a bomb in order to harm school pupils, it is obvious to me you understand young people. Chloe complained that there was ‘nowhere to go to the toilet’, and you suggested peeing behind a bush. However, this may not always be a suitable solution to roughly 250 teenage girls. You may wish to search for ‘menstrual cycle’ using Google if you would like to educate yourself further.
Anyway, I just think you should perhaps have a little more sympathy towards the both the parents and their ‘darlings’. They were threatened by a bomb attack after all.
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Seems very suspect to me, new Armored vehicles order needed ? False Flag ?
Need some outside intervention here I think.
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“They were threatened by a bomb attack after all.”
No they weren’t. They were threatened by an obvious hoaxer. There was no bomb anywhere to be found and nor was there ever likely to be. No excuse either for not using the bushes.
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How easy it is for a person without the burden of responsibility and with 20-20 hindsight to say ‘They were threatened by an obvious hoaxer’
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Oh, you’ve become all high and mighty and politically correct all of a sudden Ray. FYI when I first heard news of this breaking on the radio, I and the two other people who were listening with me were dismissing it as an obvious hoax. We were proved right so no hindsight about it at all but 20/20 vision yes.
Incidentally, I also predicted that the May 21 rapture wouldn’t happen. That was almost (but not quite) as outlandish a prediction as the ‘bomb’ at La Mare being real.
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Martino
So did I,but we have the luxury of not having our ar*es on the line if anything had gone terribly wrong
May I also now be one of the first on this forum to predict that the Mayan calendar thingy won’t happen in 2012
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I’m with you there on the Mayan nonsense Ray and I predict you’ll agree with me on the further prediction I’m about to make that we’ll witness a few ‘Titanic’ moments in 2012 – in particular for some of our sitting States members.
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MARTINO
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You sound pathetic !!! cant believe the things you have written on this site , JUST A GUY wrote about the reason girls would not want to go to the toilet in front of hundreds , you sound like a very uneducated man !!!!!!! please don’t write back i am uninterested in your pathetic comments ,
thanks.
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same goes for you NOCON, don’t comment on things you know nothing about you were not even there!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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thanks tilly u r so right, and also u were not allowed to walk off in the bushes and could’nt run around playing it was a serious matter, just a guy you are right at the time i was havin those girl problems u get once a month so i could not pee in a bush, thanks a lot u men who dont understand !!!!!
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you men have it so easy u dont know how lucky you r !!!!!
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Boo Hoo, It`s a hard life girl, get used to it, it won`t be long before you`ll be worrying about more than you have to now. That`s life.
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Oh, the wrath of two teenage sisters with emerging menstrual issues who cannot take a little adult advice and banter without screaming!!!!!!!!!!!!
(you can tell a scream by all the exclamation marks – it’s part of the written ‘yoof’ code of today that passes for English grammar).
Anyway, back to the subject. Still no excuse for not slipping off into the bushes for a quiet pee. Next time there’s a hoax just do it when the teachers aren’t looking and you’ll be fine.
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How come whenever the regular posters on this forum incur the fury of those currently within our education system it makes me fear for the future of the English language?
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Blimey – it must be a laugh riot in the @tilly / @chloe smith household at the moment…..
I do enjoy how these opinion forums can drag a simple subject like a bomb threat / hoax, and turn it into a biology lesson mixed with a war of the sexes.
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Eggy
I dont think sitting at home watching Jeremy Kyle with your 4 kids demand too many language skills.
Oh yes I did !!! ;-)
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Get with the program, Martino – you know full well that the peak of human knowledge and intellectual capacity comes at 15….it’s all downhill from there my friend.
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I would just like to say that I had two primary school children at school on Friday, and when I heard what was going on after calling the police to confirm the facts were correct, I went to school to collect my children. I would like to say that the teaching staff did a great job in looking after all the children. Its all ok to say its only a hoax, we all know that now and probably all knew it at the time, but it was a scary time. These things do happen just look at the very quite village in scotland some 16/17 years ago, they probably never thought some man was going to walk into a school and take the lives of those poor children.
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Martino/nocon.
Your posts have added nothing to the thread and are just trolling.
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None of the children were bored on La Mare Primary Sport’s day. Every child thoroughly enjoyed it because it had the right amount of competitiveness to provide inclusion for all and not just those that can run fast. Their sport’s day was fantastic which was easy to see from all the children smiling and encouraging everyone in their team. Sports is not all about running – there are many skills to be learned and the games on sport’s day provided for a multitude of these. Obviously the parent who wrote her inaccurate e mail knows nothing about team spirit, skill building
and enjoyment. Some so called adults are never happy unless they are moaning about something.
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Adam West,
I take it by trolling you mean winding people up?
With the idiots who post on here it`s so easy.
They wouldn`t know what irony or satire is so extracting the urine is as easy going through the menstrual period on a unicycle.
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Anya
So, reading betwen the lines, was this an elaborate hoax to make the children perfomr better on sports day??
“RUN THE SCHOOLS GOING TO BLOW UP…………..Wow, 14 year old Johnny has just run the 100 metres in 11 seconds!!”
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i whole heartedly agree with chloe and tilly !!!!
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@ Anya – yes dear. Now go back to writing your Mystic Meg column. I’m sure there must be a few people who believe you are all seeing, all knowing. Meanwhile I’ll trust my children’s opinions over yours.
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a person,
You are such a nice person to agree with Chloe and Tilly, is it your time of the month as well?
The toiletry dispensing machines must be making a fortune in your school. I suppose The Education department has to make up their budget somewhere.
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Adam West.
Pot…
Kettle…
Black
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Martino – what I find interesting is that which ever thread you post on you are always right. I can only begin to imagine what your posts would have been if this had been a real threat. Suffice it to say, you would have been right.
Makes me wonder why you are not running the place!
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So, Martino and nocon are attempting to incite a flame war and still trolling the thread.
Oh the joys of the internet.
nocon:
‘In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.’
So yes. Trolling.
Please enlighten me to where i’ve trolled the board? I think you’ll find no instance, perhaps just a flip comment here and there but no deliberate attempts to incite as you are quite clearly trying to here.
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Nick Le P
As someone who is right whichever thread you post on, you have something in common with me – but not quite! If you’d been following the airport runway debate elsewhere on this forum you might have noticed, for instance, that I’d changed my stance on that issue in the face of reasoned argument. I’ve never seen you do that. I also notice (but I’m not very interested in the fact) that you have a rather pompous air of semi detached self importance on whichever subject you post but we’d better let that one go because it’s not going to change.
As for Adam West (any relation to batman?), as soon as someone posts something you don’t like you yell ‘troll’ in the same way that an immature left wing student yells ‘fascist’ the moment he/she hears something he/she doesn’t like. But you’re defeated by your own definition there. Both nocon and I were RESPONDING to someone else on this thread. We didn’t start the argument over our pampered, precious and over protected school pupils so stuff that one in your trollseeker’s pipe and try smoking it!
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What I tend to get from the majority of Martino’s posts is that as a self employed person he objects very strongly to the fact that his tax, and his higher than an employed persons Social Security contributions, are often frittered away on what might be described as the undeserving
I sympathise.I also sympathise with the person in today’s Press letters who, having just received his parish rates bill, is bemoaning the fact that his one black sack per month that he can’t recycle is charged just as much as the two black sacks a week which his neighbour puts out
There does seem to be a certain unfairness whereby the not so rich are forced to subsidise those who don’t make the effort
Sorry,a minor off topic rant,if the subject is still little girls peeing in the bushes
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no im a man !
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nocon wrong again we dont even have sanitary dispensing machines in our school !!
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That’s one of my gripes Ray, you’re right, but by no means the only one. I’d reiterate I have been known to eat humble pie on occasion (ironically unlike Nick) and if the bomb had been real i’d have looked a fool – a bit like the pastor wotisname in the US who predicted the 21 May rapture. On that note did you hear he’s revised his prediction now? It’s all going to happen on October 21 so we have just under 4 months to carry on posting!
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On the contrary Martino, it would appear that your first post was a full on condescending commentary that the ‘namby pamby’ kids had nothing to do and that imagination was scarce. Further posts indicate that further mentality.
It must be a beautiful thing to hide in the anonymity of your avatar to almost bully obviously younger posters in the thread.
The fact remains that there was a bomb scare/threat and the children were taken to the designated safety point. I would envisage that they were (more than likely) told to remain calm and orderly.
I suspect that having a game of ‘navy seals and al quaeda’ would more than likely add a further headache for the teaching staff to manage and keep a full tally.
It was good common sense to have evacuated the building whilst the investigation (however unlikely) was conducted.
You would appear to be the type of person that would sneer at the authority figures if something tragic would have happened? After all something like two jumbo jets flying into two really big buildings would never happen ever – right?
I’ve no problem with people disagreeing with me and actually will acknowledge a different viewpoint and agree to disagree. I think that your comments simply added nothing from the outset to the topic at hand and even by nocon’s admission that he was ‘winding people up’.
As for my own political viewpoints, (if they really are that transparent) – if I really was a relation of Batman you’d know that i would certainly not be a left winger!
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Adam West,
I hold my hand up and plead guilty as charged and I refer you to my previous post:-
“With the idiots who post on here it`s so easy.
They wouldn`t know what irony or satire is so extracting the urine is as easy as going through the menstrual period on a unicycle.”
You fall into that catagory Adam so keep biting the bait while I carry on fishing, sorry, trolling.
Oh, and I don`t remember accusing you of trolling and personally I couldn`t give a damn if you did or do, although if you get as many laughs at the idiot replies I get then go ahead and enjoy.
Poor Chloe,
Perhaps you and Tilly should start a campaign to get them installed, heaven forbid you should have to use paper handtowels or your school tie. still I suppose Mummy has a handy supply in the glovebox of her 4 by 4.
How can The Education department be so inconsiderate?
Shame on you Deputy Steer.
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You don’t read the posts of other people very well do you Adam West?
I never said you were a left winger – just compared your mentality to that of a ‘right on’ lefty student, but let’s let that one pass.
You’re also fond of making assumptions about others (“You would appear to be the type of person…”) so let’s make one or two about you.
You would appear to be the type of person who is a PC thinker, probably a teacher, who does not do black humour or irony very well. In fact you do not do any sort of humour very well unless it ticks all the correct boxes and does not offend anyone.
Clearly you take a very dim view of nasty adult bullies who say horrible things about your pupils and you will go out of your way to defend these poor young people. However, you go all quiet when confronted by the despicable behaviour of teenage bullies – like the ones who beat a Guernsey householder unconscious after invading the privacy of his home. Just a case of hi jinks on the part of those little dears, I suppose?
As a footnote can I just say that condescension can be quite an effective debating tool. Especially when dealing with precious young things who come on to forums such as this to mix it with the adults and expect to get nothing back. I think I’ve done them a favour actually, which is far more than you are doing with your own pointless posts. Time to go back to Gotham City Batman. Try telling it to the Riddler and the Joker. I think you’ll have more success there.
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Thanks nocon, took the bait, hook line and sinker. I was actually referring to Martino in regards to the trolling accusation. So apologies for the lack of clarity.
Martino. Thank you for the response.
I’ll clarify that my definition was actually sound. It doesn’t state about responding to a post, just posting to provoke. Which is exactly what you have done.
I’ll clear up your assumption (as you couldn’t resist) that I’m borderline PC and not a teacher. It’s not I’m not afraid to upset people, much the same you are Martino. The difference is the method. I’m not interested in upsetting people needlessly to get a kick out of it behind a PC monitor/avatar. The message can be better explained and discussed.
I will elaborate that yes, i do take the stated view of nasty adult bullies, much the same as i do on teenage bullies or bullies of any age. I’ve not responded in the other thread as I had not had the opportunity to read the GEP and obtain the relevant information to contribute.
It does indeed sound dispicable, but I feel that as usual the GEP will do the usual tabloid trickery of scaremongering the populace whilst the factual information is swept away in hyperbole.
I’ll agree to disagree on whether being condescending is conducive to a decent debate. I agree talking to the Riddler and Joker will produce more sense than trying to obtain a balanced viewpoint here. Pity really.
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It is not humor when you’re poking fun at someone and the other person is obviously not ‘getting’ it. That is bullying. This isn’t exactly the correct forum for that sort of irony and humor as it can’t translate very well. Also a bunch of teenage girls from 11-16 playing Navy Seals and Al Quaeda?…I can tell from having little and older sisters that would never happen. Nor would the teachers have allowed it and nor is it very appropriate. The last time I played cops and robbers I think I was 8. I had absolutley no interest in playing make believe games into my teenage years. Urine kills plants and grass. A few hundred students going for a whizz would have devestating effects. Again, I doubt it would have been condoned by the teachers. Plus if you have that many people in one area it’s going to be difficult to find some privacy which I’m sure Martino you can appreciate that girls need. Tad easier for us guys.
Nocon you are winding these girls up, it may be fun for you but for the rest of us you’re just looking like an idiot. Carry on if you must but I hardly see what it brings to the table.
Why is everyone getting so up in arms over this? There was a bomb threat and the kids were evacuated. Why has it suddently turned into an attack on these girls posting above about menstrual cycles?!
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I quite like Adam West …. but I also like Martino…. now which is best?
There’s only one way to find out …. FIIIIIIGHT!
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Ray – perhaps we could revive an age old custom – pistols at dawn, Cambridge Park? As an under-card we could have:
Gary Blatchford v Lyndon Trott
Phil v Dave Jones
Margaret Le Page v Kevin Delaney
We could sell tickets and use them to fund the skate park.
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Not a bad idea Paul and Ray but even though it’s been fun sparring with Adam West I don’t fancy taking on as formidable an opponent as Batman in a hand to hand duel so can I fight Nick instead?
Also, would one of you two gents care to be my second? Don’t fight over it now.
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Martino – why is it that on this thread the girls should remember what it was like in your day and make do etc etc, yet on other threads you are all for Guernsey getting up with the times?
Oh and for reference I can eat humble pie in the face of reasoned argument, I just haven’t seen any in any of your posts. Apparantly though we have something in common as you also
have a rather pompous air of semi detached self importance.
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You don’t get it do you Nick Le P?
When faced with a comment that is a touch ironic or a tad tongue in cheek you take it oh so literally. I think your humour gene was lost in favour of an extra pomposity gene at birth so do let me explain in unequivocal terms that you might understand.
Yes, unlike you I do want Guernsey to be ‘up with the times’ when it comes to embracing progressive measures such as freedom to trade on Sundays, which is your bete noir.
But do I really want to see kids going back to playing hopscotch or Germans and British? Duh, no, but what I do want to see is the kids of today (and their parents) getting a bit of perspective and appreciating that being turfed out of their classrooms for a few hours on a fine spring day in a warm temperate climate while the search is on for a hoaxer’s bomb is hardly akin to being abandoned in the middle of a desert days from civilisation. Is that clear enough now?
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Martino – the irony of your last post is that you haven’t considered that my posts are in the same vein as yours. Sometimes a tad tongue in cheek but you take them so seriously.
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Firstly i’d like to state i’m neither PC, sexist or God…although i am opinionated and i intend to express one opinion now.
Martino – i have no problem with your arguement but i do believe you to be a rather “dumb” individual. No you did not predict May 21st would not happen…May 21st was never EVER going to happen, the same for October 21st. I was raised catholic but this is just some money-grabbing scheme by some redneck god obsessed idiot who probably believes he’s some kind of prophet…I think everyone believed that it was a hoax, we don’t even have gun crime over here so what’s the odds of somebody bombing a school…this isn’t exactly a die hard 3 situation.
Nocon – wiping yourself up with the school tie??? really?? perhaps some hygeine classes are in order for you. I do believe public urination is also illegal (now before you jump the gun i am referring to instances where no toilet is available..yes i know there are things as public toilets)
As mentioned before everyone is entitled to their opinion even though some abuse that liberty.
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Just have to shove my oar in here, call it flippant if you like.
What’s the betting that this happens again this time next year? It has become a pattern.
LMDC could circumvent this possibilty by;
The whole school departing over the road to the beach, there they could hold Sports Day, albeit with a different slant.
Plenty of places for a pee at the cafes who would I think, be happy to provide this convenience if the PTA got together and arranged for them to have publicity, which will be much needed, Cobo has once again failed water safety testing, and the way things are going, will again be in this deplorable state.
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