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ex equals minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squaredYeah, that was drilled into us AAW
minus four ay cee ALL over too ay
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals
minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay
cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it on
Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,
caneing girls was creepy.
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
I have never heard this, maybe finished by the time I went to school.
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals
minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay
cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it on
Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,
caneing girls was creepy.
but some ended up liking it I bet
In article <10aejv6$h5tn$2@solani.org>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> on
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 at 15:26:30 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
I have never heard this, maybe finished by the time I went to school.
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals
minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay
cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
You did not do 'O' level maffs? I could and did use the formula,
sometimes for real life problems but I could never really get my head
around a negative length of a triangle side or am I getting confused
with a different formula. Well it is more than 50+ (hang on that should
be 60+) ago.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:26:30 -0000 (UTC), Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid>
wrote:
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
I have never heard this, maybe finished by the time I went to school.
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals
minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay
cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it onbut some ended up liking it I bet
Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,
caneing girls was creepy.
Outwith the Headmaster's study, it was ad hoc, and with an instrument commensurate with the teachers portfolio. So the PE teacher used one
of his size 13 pumps, Woodwork length of 2 X 1.
Only the Headmaster entered his beatings into a Punishment Book and
used a trasitional leather tawse (this wasn't Scotland).
Graham. wrote:
ex equals minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squaredYeah, that was drilled into us AAW
minus four ay cee ALL over too ay
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:26:30 -0000 (UTC), Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid>
wrote:
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
I have never heard this, maybe finished by the time I went to school.
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex
equals minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus
four ay cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite itbut some ended up liking it I bet
on Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,
caneing girls was creepy.
Outwith the Headmaster's study, it was ad hoc, and with an instrument
commensurate with the teachers portfolio. So the PE teacher used one
of his size 13 pumps, Woodwork length of 2 X 1.
Only the Headmaster entered his beatings into a Punishment Book and
used a trasitional leather tawse (this wasn't Scotland).
Our teachers passed us straight to the headmaster, I have no idea if
these were logged in a book, I was never caught being naughty so only
heard what happened. My older sister had first hand knowledge but I
never trusted anything she said.
:-)
Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote in news:10ag4na$hkfo$1@solani.org:
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:26:30 -0000 (UTC), Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid>Our teachers passed us straight to the headmaster, I have no idea if
wrote:
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
I have never heard this, maybe finished by the time I went to school.
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals >>>>> minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay >>>>> cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it on >>>>> Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,but some ended up liking it I bet
caneing girls was creepy.
Outwith the Headmaster's study, it was ad hoc, and with an instrument
commensurate with the teachers portfolio. So the PE teacher used one
of his size 13 pumps, Woodwork length of 2 X 1.
Only the Headmaster entered his beatings into a Punishment Book and
used a trasitional leather tawse (this wasn't Scotland).
these were logged in a book, I was never caught being naughty so only
heard what happened. My older sister had first hand knowledge but I
never trusted anything she said.
:-)
Our German teacher used to throw hard board dusters at us from across
the room if we were foolish enough to talk in class. Quite painful,
that. My Dad was HM of a junior school. He had a leather tawse ("the
strap") even though his pupils were young. But then, this was Moss Side, Manchester and the strap was more use as a deterrent to bullying parents
than the children.
Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote in news:10ag4na$hkfo$1@solani.org:
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:26:30 -0000 (UTC), Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid>Our teachers passed us straight to the headmaster, I have no idea if
wrote:
On 2025-09-17, Graham wrote:
I have never heard this, maybe finished by the time I went to school.
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals >>>>> minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay >>>>> cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it on >>>>> Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,but some ended up liking it I bet
caneing girls was creepy.
Outwith the Headmaster's study, it was ad hoc, and with an instrument
commensurate with the teachers portfolio. So the PE teacher used one
of his size 13 pumps, Woodwork length of 2 X 1.
Only the Headmaster entered his beatings into a Punishment Book and
used a trasitional leather tawse (this wasn't Scotland).
these were logged in a book, I was never caught being naughty so only
heard what happened. My older sister had first hand knowledge but I
never trusted anything she said.
:-)
Our German teacher used to throw hard board dusters at us from across
the room if we were foolish enough to talk in class. Quite painful,
that. My Dad was HM of a junior school. He had a leather tawse ("the
strap") even though his pupils were young. But then, this was Moss Side, Manchester and the strap was more use as a deterrent to bullying parents
than the children.
Our German teacher used to throw hard board dusters at us from across the >room if we were foolish enough to talk in class. Quite painful, that. My
Dad was HM of a junior school. He had a leather tawse ("the strap") even >though his pupils were young. But then, this was Moss Side, Manchester and >the strap was more use as a deterrent to bullying parents than the
children.
Our German teacher used to throw hard board dusters at us from across the >>room if we were foolish enough to talk in class. Quite painful, that. My >>Dad was HM of a junior school. He had a leather tawse ("the strap") even >>though his pupils were young. But then, this was Moss Side, Manchester and >>the strap was more use as a deterrent to bullying parents than the >>children.
With us it was the geography teacher who did that, and worse.
Pleasant enough chap, but he had a short fuse.
He was tolerated because he was an Auschwitz survivor.
Our German teacher used to throw hard board dusters at us from across
the room if we were foolish enough to talk in class. Quite painful,
that. My Dad was HM of a junior school. He had a leather tawse ("the >>strap") even though his pupils were young. But then, this was Moss Side, >>Manchester and the strap was more use as a deterrent to bullying parents >>than the children.
With us it was the geography teacher who did that, and worse.
Pleasant enough chap, but he had a short fuse.
He was tolerated because he was an Auschwitz survivor.
In article <94cock9id3d43cc93biv6ppi4mc2k318qs@4ax.com>, Graham. <usenet@yopmail.com> on Thu, 18 Sep 2025 at 17:21:43 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
Our Geography teacher was German and could use the board rubber for its 'intended' (writer rubs bonks). Whether he was a survivor, I have no
Our German teacher used to throw hard board dusters at us from across
the room if we were foolish enough to talk in class. Quite painful,
that. My Dad was HM of a junior school. He had a leather tawse ("the >>>strap") even though his pupils were young. But then, this was Moss
Side, Manchester and the strap was more use as a deterrent to bullying >>>parents than the children.
With us it was the geography teacher who did that, and worse.
Pleasant enough chap, but he had a short fuse.
He was tolerated because he was an Auschwitz survivor.
idea. We used to call him 'Creeper' because he wore crepe soled shoes
and you could not hear him coming.
His wife was an Alsatian (the human sort) who taught conversational
French. They were really quite nice people, who my brother and I did
baby sit for. Fun listening to their children who swapped languages, as appropriate, with hardly a pause. One summer her nephew stayed with us
to improve his conversational English.
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in news:10aeh4p$395uo$1 @andyburns.eternal-september.org:
Graham. wrote:
ex equals minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squaredYeah, that was drilled into us AAW
minus four ay cee ALL over too ay
Me too. Used it from time to time TAAAW, before personal Babbage engines
made it unnecessary.
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals
minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay
cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it on
Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,
caneing girls was creepy.
On 17/09/2025 14:40, Graham. wrote:
Probably more so now!
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals
minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay
cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it on
Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,
caneing girls was creepy.
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals
minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay
cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it on--
Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,
caneing girls was creepy.
We had a history teacher who wore a wig, hence we called him wiggy. He
was a creep to the girls, much more obvious now looking back on it.
Our 6th-form English teacher was a creep to boys. He would use his
slipper on us for the slightest excuse, and he always spent some time checking that we didn't have any exercise books or other padding down
our pants before gently paddling us. We found it funny and openly
laughed at him but I guess he tried it on some younger lads whose
parents weren't amused, because he didn't last at the school for very
long.
On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:40:53 -0000 (UTC), Peter wrote:
Our 6th-form English teacher was a creep to boys. He would use his
slipper on us for the slightest excuse, and he always spent some time
checking that we didn't have any exercise books or other padding down
our pants before gently paddling us. We found it funny and openly
laughed at him but I guess he tried it on some younger lads whose
parents weren't amused, because he didn't last at the school for very
long.
That is awful and I am glad he was let go, I wonder if it is like the US >police though, they just move to another area and start all over again.
In article <10am4lq$13c2d$1@dont-email.me>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid>
on Sat, 20 Sep 2025 at 11:54:34 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:40:53 -0000 (UTC), Peter wrote:Not only the US police but it has occurred in the British police forces,
Our 6th-form English teacher was a creep to boys. He would use his
slipper on us for the slightest excuse, and he always spent some time
checking that we didn't have any exercise books or other padding down
our pants before gently paddling us. We found it funny and openly
laughed at him but I guess he tried it on some younger lads whose
parents weren't amused, because he didn't last at the school for very
long.
That is awful and I am glad he was let go, I wonder if it is like the US
police though, they just move to another area and start all over again.
too many times to list. Odious characters have moved between forces as complaints mounted, been re-employed even after dismissal and gone on to
kill and or rape. I believe the Americans call this the Blue Code and
in Britain it is call Canteen Culture. Wayne Cousins was known, to his colleagues as "The Rapist". The IOPCC is seen by many in the public as
an armoured fig leaf whose job is to protect the police from the public.
In article <10am4lq$13c2d$1@dont-email.me>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> on
Sat, 20 Sep 2025 at 11:54:34 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:40:53 -0000 (UTC), Peter wrote:Not only the US police but it has occurred in the British police forces,
Our 6th-form English teacher was a creep to boys. He would use his
slipper on us for the slightest excuse, and he always spent some time
checking that we didn't have any exercise books or other padding down
our pants before gently paddling us. We found it funny and openly
laughed at him but I guess he tried it on some younger lads whose
parents weren't amused, because he didn't last at the school for very
long.
That is awful and I am glad he was let go, I wonder if it is like the US >>police though, they just move to another area and start all over again.
too many times to list. Odious characters have moved between forces as complaints mounted, been re-employed even after dismissal and gone on to
kill and or rape. I believe the Americans call this the Blue Code and
in Britain it is call Canteen Culture. Wayne Cousins was known, to his colleagues as "The Rapist". The IOPCC is seen by many in the public as
an armoured fig leaf whose job is to protect the police from the public.
On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:38:28 +0100, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
In article <10am4lq$13c2d$1@dont-email.me>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> on
Sat, 20 Sep 2025 at 11:54:34 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote >>>On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:40:53 -0000 (UTC), Peter wrote:
Not only the US police but it has occurred in the British police forces,
Our 6th-form English teacher was a creep to boys. He would use his
slipper on us for the slightest excuse, and he always spent some time
checking that we didn't have any exercise books or other padding down
our pants before gently paddling us. We found it funny and openly
laughed at him but I guess he tried it on some younger lads whose
parents weren't amused, because he didn't last at the school for very
long.
That is awful and I am glad he was let go, I wonder if it is like the US >>>police though, they just move to another area and start all over again.
too many times to list. Odious characters have moved between forces as
complaints mounted, been re-employed even after dismissal and gone on to
kill and or rape. I believe the Americans call this the Blue Code and
in Britain it is call Canteen Culture. Wayne Cousins was known, to his
colleagues as "The Rapist". The IOPCC is seen by many in the public as
an armoured fig leaf whose job is to protect the police from the public.
Wow, I did not know that, I wrongly assumed the UK had one police force, I >knew they had regions but they are independent of each other also.
There are regional police forces whip report to their Chief Constables
who have a relationship with an elected Commissioner. Their relationship seems somewhat difficult to understand.
On 20/09/2025 20:53, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
There are regional police forces whip report to their Chief Constables
who have a relationship with an elected Commissioner. Their relationship
seems somewhat difficult to understand.
As does the role of the Commissioner, whose full title is the Police and Crime Commissioner. I'd like to know about Chinese walls there, because
if they are commissioning crime, it would be very simple to tell the
police where to go to catch the perpetrators. Conversely, they could use their knowledge of the police to guide the criminals when the commission
the crimes.
In article <10amc37$153ue$3@dont-email.me>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> on
Sat, 20 Sep 2025 at 14:01:11 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:38:28 +0100, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:There are regional police forces whip report to their Chief Constables
In article <10am4lq$13c2d$1@dont-email.me>, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid>
on Sat, 20 Sep 2025 at 11:54:34 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:40:53 -0000 (UTC), Peter wrote:Not only the US police but it has occurred in the British police
Our 6th-form English teacher was a creep to boys. He would use his
slipper on us for the slightest excuse, and he always spent some
time checking that we didn't have any exercise books or other
padding down our pants before gently paddling us. We found it funny
and openly laughed at him but I guess he tried it on some younger
lads whose parents weren't amused, because he didn't last at the
school for very long.
That is awful and I am glad he was let go, I wonder if it is like the >>>>US police though, they just move to another area and start all over >>>>again.
forces,
too many times to list. Odious characters have moved between forces
as complaints mounted, been re-employed even after dismissal and gone
on to kill and or rape. I believe the Americans call this the Blue
Code and in Britain it is call Canteen Culture. Wayne Cousins was
known, to his colleagues as "The Rapist". The IOPCC is seen by many
in the public as an armoured fig leaf whose job is to protect the
police from the public.
Wow, I did not know that, I wrongly assumed the UK had one police force,
I knew they had regions but they are independent of each other also.
who have a relationship with an elected Commissioner. Their relationship seems somewhat difficult to understand. The Metropolitan Police have a relationship with the elected Mayor of London. There is also the City
of London Police who report to ???? Constables (lowest to highest rank)
are constables where ever they are and can act as such outside their
force area.
Ultimate control rests with the Home Secretary, but not day to day, this rests with the Chief Constable of the regional force.
There are also Transport, Ministry of Defence (who are civilian
constables responsible for the security of Ministry of Defence property) Police. The Advocate General also has a military police force who deal
with military personnel and as far as I know have no powers over
civilians.
On 20/09/2025 20:53, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
There are regional police forces whip report to their Chief Constables
who have a relationship with an elected Commissioner. Their
relationship seems somewhat difficult to understand.
As does the role of the Commissioner, whose full title is the Police and Crime Commissioner. I'd like to know about Chinese walls there, because
if they are commissioning crime, it would be very simple to tell the
police where to go to catch the perpetrators. Conversely, they could use their knowledge of the police to guide the criminals when the commission
the crimes.
As does the role of the Commissioner, whose full title is the Police and Crime Commissioner
Mike Fleming said:
On 20/09/2025 20:53, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
There are regional police forces whip report to their Chief Constables
who have a relationship with an elected Commissioner. Their relationship >>> seems somewhat difficult to understand.
As does the role of the Commissioner, whose full title is the Police and
Crime Commissioner. I'd like to know about Chinese walls there, because
if they are commissioning crime, it would be very simple to tell the
police where to go to catch the perpetrators. Conversely, they could use
their knowledge of the police to guide the criminals when the commission
the crimes.
Or, how much commission does crime pay ?
It's Learning the Quadratic Equation day.
If ay ex squared plus bee ex plus cee equals nought, then, ex equals
minus bee plus or minus the square root of bee squared minus four ay
cee ALL over too ay....Sir.
I've no idea what that means, only that anyone couldn't recite it on
Monday morning would be caned. If you were a boy. This was 1968,
caneing girls was creepy.
On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:40:53 -0000 (UTC), Peter wrote:
Our 6th-form English teacher was a creep to boys. He would use his
slipper on us for the slightest excuse, and he always spent some time
checking that we didn't have any exercise books or other padding down
our pants before gently paddling us. We found it funny and openly
laughed at him but I guess he tried it on some younger lads whose
parents weren't amused, because he didn't last at the school for very
long.
That is awful and I am glad he was let go, I wonder if it is like the US police though, they just move to another area and start all over again.