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Jul 2013
7:04pm, 30 Jul 2013
306 posts
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cackleberry
Following on from that ^^^
Americanisation. Last week my facebook feed was full of my friends kids in their prom dresses as they 'graduate' from PRIMARY school.
What?
I can't even understand graduating from secondary school, when we finished we just wanted to get the hell out of there, not prat about with prom dresses and year books.
Also, English people and English pubs celebrating the 4th of July. Erm, history lessons anyone?
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Jul 2013
9:35pm, 30 Jul 2013
822 posts
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Carpathius
Yes - the whole 'prom' thing winds me up. Friend recently bought her daughter a £300 dress for prom and that was considered normal  My *wedding* dress cost less than that!! As for 'graduating' from primary school, pffft.
My daughter has started speaking American. She came out with this gem the other day "I'm thinking about what to do for my sweet sixteen". She also confused the hell out of me when she started talking about getting "a new wardrobe" and I wondered when she'd become so interested in furniture.
Son and his friends made me laugh out loud yesterday when I overheard them all talking in the garden trying to sound like they were from Sarf Lahndun. Er no, you're from Suffolk boys, not Southwark.
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Jul 2013
9:42pm, 30 Jul 2013
2,931 posts
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Doctor K
People who whinge about kids competing in exams but are quite prepared to compete through their kids buying "prom" materials. It's a kind of "arms" race and unsavoury american twaddle
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Jul 2013
10:01pm, 30 Jul 2013
11,342 posts
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runner duck
i think the prom for leaving senior school is quite nice (although why it can't be called a leaver's do, i don't know). but the primary school one is daft. why not a tea party? my daughter's school had one and she refused point blank to wear a frock. so she went as her best friend's 'partner' in a 'tux' (we didn't buy a dj!).
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Jul 2013
9:29am, 31 Jul 2013
2,441 posts
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Wobbling
Friends of ours were telling us about their son's graduation the other day. Graduating from nursery, WTF?
We had a prom when we left senior school, way back in 1991!
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Jul 2013
9:31am, 31 Jul 2013
7,252 posts
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Oysterboy
The Cloud. No I don't want to connect to the internet with the Cloud, bugger off.
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Jul 2013
9:38am, 31 Jul 2013
17,430 posts
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sheri3004
Full-on "graduations" from primary school do my head in. Not sure what daughter's school does, but the school where my friend teaches had a "prom" (organised by parents) - limos, all dressed up to the nines, most of the boys in full kilt outfits and many - not all -of the girls dressed up like... well. One hesitates to choose a word. "Age-inappropriate" might cover it.
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Jul 2013
9:57am, 31 Jul 2013
4,727 posts
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Wriggling Snake
The people of East SUssex moaning about Fracking, it was ok if it was going to be in the "desolate" North East, they could make their money rubbing their grubby tory hands toegther, ut now it is their backyard
ha ha ha ha HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Ha ha ha ha ha ha h HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
MWah ha ha ha ha ha HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Fuck you tory wankers.
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Jul 2013
10:03am, 31 Jul 2013
917 posts
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Zorba
A trifle churlish , W S
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Jul 2013
10:41am, 31 Jul 2013
7,753 posts
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TRO Saracen
Yes, the prom thing winds me up. It's the falseness of it.
Our leaving do was the traditional disco. It was the heyday of punk, green and red hairspray was liberally applied and we pogoed to every song. Took it in turns to go up the ask the teacher who was DJ for the evening to play 'Frigging in the Rigging' by the Sex Pistols. It ended in a virtual riot, with a lot of destruction of school property, fights, Police being called and even a story in the local papers about the carnage. I especially remember the huge Iron trolley that was normally used to transport 6 pigbins of school dinner waste about being used as a battering ram to knock walls down.
We were 12, and bloody loved it. Much better than poncing around pretending to be rich.
*although we may have gone slightly OTT in hindsight, and future years got no leaving event and a handful of police hanging about outside the school to ensure no repeat...*
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