Leaving Cert Nostalgia (1 Viewer)

[7 - No tomorrow]

Our teachers were, in retrospect, embarrassingly overqualified.

The stagnation of the 70s and 80s meant that there were fuck all other pensionable jobs around for smart lads and lassies.

I think there was still a sense that if you were a smart girl, your options were in the caring professions.

But the upshot was our English teacher had a Phd and our Art teacher came with a masters in fine arts.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

She lets us play Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome To The Pleasuredome while we were painting.
We thought we were all subversive, stuff on there about orgasms and whatnot. She just blithely ignored all that gear.
Then their cover of Do You Know The Way To San Jose comes on and she's all "Lads, lads, lads. Do you listen to Andy Williams too?" all disappointed in us like.
First time I'd felt conned by popular culture.

 

[nooleen]

You're young!

Wait til I get my glasses...

youngish
big brother started in 2000

 

[therealjohnny]

Then their cover of Do You Know The Way To San Jose comes on and she's all "Lads, lads, lads. Do you listen to Andy Williams too?" all disappointed in us like.
.

That IS disappointing. Everyone knows Dionne Warwick did the definitive version of that song.

 

[therealjohnny]

On a side note, when we were kids we couldn't figure out why she was singing "san hosay" when it clearly said "san jose" on the record sleeve.

 

[pete]

Work for money / rock for sanity.

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[therealjohnny]

ah.."context".