Originally Posted by
Alan K
We are making the new generations softer… when my children were in grade school, teachers wouldn’t allow them to come inside the building during recess unless the temperature was minus 40F or the windchill was 50 below zero F. Their school play ground also had merry-go-round, seesaw and monkey bars etc. The current school boards consider all these things to be dangerous or lethal devices.
Commuting on bicycle was very interesting on such a day. Eyes water which gets caught into eyelashes and turns into solid little icicles very quickly. Once you experience this, your next purchase is a good quality ski goggles!
Sorry -40 F is insane. We used to do all kinds of stuff that was very badly thought through and people died, that’s why safety standards have improved.
ref “bugger” - yeah it means that sometimes in the UK but mostly means “knacker” or “screw up”. So can you screw up a screw?
And try mixing in “screw” being UK slang for a prison officer.