Also I read his stupid brainwashing books and listened to his Heartsell™ culty sermons on tape/CD. Clearly I was starved for any kind of comedy or more lighthearted look at the abusive cult I was raised and brainwashed in.
You gotta love those throwback bangers.
Keep in mind this is at a boarding high school with communal living, no Covid testing, and at least three dozen known positive cases in the last week.
I was naïve. I didn't know that dropping out was an option until we had a big assembly to convince us to stay in school.
I also wouldn't have known about all the different drugs were out there. Drugs are bad. Okay?
After the "say no to drugs" assembly - The smoking patio is outside the cafeteria, but don't let them install those sugary soda vending machines.
I was 11 or 12. They called it over the intercom- "all students please report to the auditorium immediately."
No idea what was going on, we thought something bad had happened. The principal took to the stage and said he just wanted to wish us all happy and safe holidays. He concluded his little speech by saying we should all sing the BC Clark jingle. Kids started cheering. I was confused! Sure enough, everybody in that whole auditorium started singing the whole thing word for word, in unison... except me.
I had never heard it before and thought this was the strangest thing I had ever seen in my life. Apparently everybody living here knows it by heart.
I don't know what to think about that. On one hand, it might make the other kids more accepting of me while on the other hand, it might just make them even madder meaning they will hurt me more. I just really hope that they make this assembly good so they learn about how wrong they were coming off their suspensions.
So for the purpose of better dialogue writing we're having a play at school and I just found out from my friend (who's participating in the play) that it's going to be about menstruation. Now I'm completely fine with, it'll help normalize talking about this especially in this country but its the fact that they're going to just limit it to females and use feminine terms which just makes it worse for me. And all the boys will probably be awkward (which is weird smh) and they'll see me as "one of the girls". Like I'll be a girl in everyone's eyes which bothers me so much. I its probably going to be so bad like all the girls will come to me to talk about it and laugh or smth like that and I don't want that. Am I in the wrong for this? Please do tell me if I am because I don't want to offend anyone.
I remember in DARE we’d all ask the cop crazy questions like what if the drug dealer chases you down and makes you take drugs.
I asked about the guy wearing a bandana I saw near my house which told my white suburban self he must be in a gang.
The cop asked where I live and when I told him he said there had been activity there.
Years later I realized the activity was my POS father selling meth.
It all started a year ago, it was a normal assembly, and it was a sensitivity week or friendship week kinda bullcrap. Anyway, in the middle of it we were shown some "inspiring stories" which were just some shitty 3D animated short films, we watched 2 films, one of them about a stupid ass talking fridge, he's the only one who can do that I guess. The second film (which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_nJJHaNmnY) talked about a dog (trapped in a closed box (wtf)) being given to an epic cod gaymer who spends time in dark rooms playing his Xpr0n 360, then the boy discovers that the dog is 3 legged instead of 4, then he fucking throws him, then the dog plays around and the gaymer interested, so we discover that he has one leg, and that's when I laughed, I LAUGHED SO FUCKING HARD I FELT LIKE I WAS GONNA EXPLODE, everyone in the theatre (it was probably like 200 people) heard me loud and clear, even the head of secondary heard me and said that some people are being offensive.
I'm not ashamed, it was just super freakin epic.
I'd like to nominate Cauliflowers Fluffy.
So who all remembers having to sing hymns in primary school assemblies from this book?
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/156007574568748398/
Almost certain there was a green version too, possibly a sequel?
As I had two parents who weren't religious at all, God and Christianity were never really a part of my life and I only ever encountered the concept of either at school, either with this book/hymns at assembly or when we had to visit the local church on the last day before the Christmas holidays. As such, I just enjoyed these bangers just for the tunes;
• Morning Has Broken (Cat Stevens actually did a good version if this)
• Give Me Joy in My Heart
• All Things Bright and Beautiful
• He's Got the Whole World in his Hands
• Lord of the Dance
• Give Me Oil in my Lamp
• One More Step
• Kum Ba Yah
And the undisputed MVP (for me at least).. Trees Of the Field.
Assuming you had this book in your primary school and were "encouraged" to sing from it, what was your favourites or at least the most memorable? I've probably forgotten or missed heaps but somehow remember all of the above from childhood 😅
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Like a month ago I emailed my principal and sent a clean version to her and they played it yesterday and nobody liked it because I go to a private school with a bunch of really rich kids who wear golden gooses and who's parents are conservative and are lawyers and who listen to ed sheeran thinking the lyrics are deep and other ass music.
Just had a massive trip back to my 8 year old self and Willenhall woods primary school assembly hall. I was sat crossed legged on the cold hardwood flooring enthusiastically shouting "Good morning Mrs Maddox". Boring stuff boring stuff. All stand up, immediately start bellting out 🎼🎵🎤SING HOSANNAH, SING HOSANNAH, SIIINNNGGG HOSANNAH TO THE KING OF KINGS🎼🎵🎤. Absolutely out sang the entire school. Feel like an absolute legend for the rest of the day 👍🙏 Which song was your favourite? Which did you absolutely hate?
I'm in 8th grade. We are going to have a fairly large grade-wide school presentation this upcoming week about owning a business/working in a business, something along those lines. I figured out that one of the sponsors of this presentation is a local branch of an MLM (Mary Kay IIRC). Is there anything I can do to bring awareness to this fact?
This was a song we often used to sing in Primary school assembly when I was growing up (1990 to 1997) and it was at both the schools I attended but can never remember exactly how it went or what it was called! We did use to sing some Christian songs (even though not a CoE or other faith school) but don't believe this was the topic of this one, I think it was about nature or things growing. Seem to recall a lyric 'the grass is green' or something like that and think it referred to some insects and maybe vegetables.
Here's the chorus from memory: https://voca.ro/1h4fCEYFLjtS
Have searched Google and listened to a bunch of YouTube videos, been one hell of a nostalgia trip, but no joy!
If it helps I went to two primary schools, one in Huddersfield, the other in Manchester, definitely remember it from both. Also for non-UK folk 'Primary school' is for kids aged 5-11
