creeping americanisation

Kids having some fun and enjoying themselves!!! Whatever next? They should all go out and get jobs and get their hair cut

[tigersaw]

I bet we had much more fun at the end of year disco than all this prom nonesence.
Smoking was cool, beer was cheap and girls all wore short skirts in the 70's.

I knew I was leaving school after 5th form, but by some minor miracle, I had passed 9 GCSE's, I walked in, got my wee slip and our year teacher, who was the most egotistical wee git ever to walk the earth says "It pains me to say this, but I have to offer you a place in 6th form"

I told him to shove his school up his @r$e and walked out, that was my leaving do!

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by timwilky

We are definitely becoming americanized.

Corrected for you

Americanisation is a very iffy subject for us. Being so damned close to eachother, we keep struggling to keep out own national identity, but keep being bombarded by the american's.

I wish we could pick up the country and move someplace other than neer them.....

Originally Posted by tweakedtay

Americanisation is a very iffy subject for us. Being so damned close to eachother, we keep struggling to keep out own national identity, but keep being bombarded by the american's.

I wish we could pick up the country and move someplace other than neer them.....

Aren't a great many of you practically French?

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by Bedhead

Aren't a great many of you practically French?

Love them or hate them, at least the French have the Academie Francaise to keep their language French.

It is funny being in a conversation that includes French, English and French Canadians. The French do not understand French Canadian words. I guess just like we do not understand the language the americans call English.

Was called a prom for us in 2000, and irrc that caused some stink amoungst the students that thought of it as anything more than a pi55 up.
Surely though tim its down to the parernts to decide if the kids get a new outfit or if they go in limo instead of dads taxi. Cant blame the kids for costing all the cash when the parents have the magic power of saying "no".

ours was 'The leaver's do' in 2004 maybe, but everyone just called it prom as it was shorter. For me the dress was from a charity shop and a taxi with a couple of friends as no parents could take us, including the ticket and drinks was less than £100, some of the girls spent twice that just on the dress.

None of us cared about how much it was costing, just an excuse to have a party
Although the dress kept being used until i got fat

In 5th and 6th yr we had Ceilidh's. Were before Christmas but that was the only do we got at school. But yeh we spent a fortune getting hair, make up and dresses sorted. And we had 2 of them to attend!