School Squabbles - What you should have learned in school.

[Oldschool]

It depends on which school you went to.
An empty vessel makes the most noise.
.............(Insert school) is ....
.......(insert mocking comment)

[JWG]

In my book there are three categories of person, anyone younger than 20 years old, schoolchildren or a parent of a school child who can justly hold an unhealthy fixation "schools and related topics."

BUT

There is a malodorous bang of antiquarian pederasty from those who maintain their fixation upon departing any of the categories.

PilotRower1to8 I suspect falls into none of the three categories.

[ronk]

So we sould respond to too many posts focusing on particular schools by posting about posting about particular schools!?

Either way discourse suffers.

[backrower8]

I didn’t want to post until after the Connacht game, but this pathetic thread Has grown out of misrepresentation and an overreaction of what I actually said.

I didn’t post about schools-based matters post the Munster game - yet i got several bitter schools-based responses to 1 of the 4 points I had made and we now have this pathetic thread.

Ironically, I would qualify for 1 of newbie JWG’s categories and I guess P123 would be very close to the sub-20 mark. Not that anyone really gets to approve, define or judge anyone else’s allegiances. Especially the thin-skinned, chippy types.

That LRIP thinks I am P123 is just funny to me. I don’t know P123 but would guess there are well over 30 years between us. Whatever about differing viewpoints from a common allegiance.

It’s clear that without trying to, we have put screws in some of your heads. A few pinches of salt would do wonders for some here.

As a New Year’s resolution I will not post about any school or where players went to school on this forum again. My views (both pro & against rugby-schools) won’t change, but too many here can’t handle those topics when they arise. Anyone who posts in response to my posts or about me in that schools context will get the response - “Happy New Year!”

Now maybe we could all take a chill pill with our New Year’s Day dinner.

Happy New Year to all, including those I have crossed swords with!

[Oldschoolsocks]

I didn’t want to post until after the Connacht game, but this pathetic thread Has grown out of misrepresentation and an overreaction of what I actually said.

I didn’t post about schools-based matters post the Munster game - yet i got several bitter schools-based responses to 1 of the 4 points I had made and we now have this pathetic thread.

Ironically, I would qualify for 1 of newbie JWG’s categories and I guess P123 would be very close to the sub-20 mark. Not that anyone really gets to approve, define or judge anyone else’s allegiances. Especially the thin-skinned, chippy types.

That LRIP thinks I am P123 is just funny to me. I don’t know P123 but would guess there are well over 30 years between us. Whatever about differing viewpoints from a common allegiance.

It’s clear that without trying to, we have put screws in some of your heads. A few pinches of salt would do wonders for some here.

As a New Year’s resolution I will not post about any school or where players went to school on this forum again. My views (both pro & against rugby-schools) won’t change, but too many here can’t handle those topics when they arise. Anyone who posts in response to my posts or about me in that schools context will get the response - “Happy New Year!”

Now maybe we could all take a chill pill with our New Year’s Day dinner.

Happy New Year to all, including those I have crossed swords with!

Jaysis, I would have expected a real rugby goi to have thicker skin

[backrower8]

What can I say? I am totally overcome with the emotion of the season. Too much Cognac and Cubans (cigars) at a fee-paying reunion in a private members (cue humorous responses) club can do that a man of privilege. Take my word for it peasant.

[Oldschoolsocks]

Sigh... they don’t make spoilt c**ts like they used to. At least Franno would have owned it

[backrower8]

Ah Franno, my old teammate.

Fair play to you staying true to your form of the past decade. Blessings.

[FLIP]

I'm not Sparticus and neither is my wife