OS Forums newsfeed http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:07:24 +0000 5 Scottish tennis player knocked out of US Open http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6176 ]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:42:18 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6176 Head jailed for 21 years. http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6175
Derek Slade, 61, of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was convicted of the offences against 12 boys aged between eight and 13.

Ipswich Crown Court heard the abuse took place between 1978 and 1983 at private schools in Wicklewood, Norfolk, and Great Finborough in Suffolk.

Slade hit boys with a slipper, a table tennis bat and his hand, jurors heard.

Police were first contacted in June 2000 with allegations of assault by a former pupil but detectives could not trace Slade.

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Slade must never leave prison as long as he lives”

Simon Wilshire, former pupil
In 2008 and 2009 more former pupils came forward to police in Norfolk and Suffolk claiming Slade had abused them.

Oxford-educated Slade, who had no teaching qualifications, was arrested in Derbyshire earlier this year.

He had admitted assault, indecent assault and child pornography offences.

He denied other allegations of assault and indecent assault but was found guilty after a month-long trial.

Former pupil Simon Wilshire was not sexually abused by Slade but described the former head teacher as "experienced in the art of beating".

Mr Wilshire, now 45, recalled the first time Slade hit him on his second day of school when he was 13 after being caught smoking.

He said: "We were called into his bedroom one at a time to be whacked on the bare backside.

"He always let us wait - he was a master at letting the fear kick in."


The court heard Oxford-educated Slade had no teaching qualifications
Mr Wilshire added: "We would be beaten at least every week, pretty much at Slade's whim, it was relentless.

"The school was an incarceration facility where boys were beaten - and now it turns out they were molested there as well.

"Slade must never leave prison as long as he lives."
]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:17:21 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6175 Arrest and trials http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6174 Does anyone know if one can access the above from the old board anywhere,anyhow? Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:01:13 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6174 Happy Birthday Fat Freddy! http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6173 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:47:24 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6173 Something to Cheer You Up http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6172 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpdbEK3E4U8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug6daGgRyRY...feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTYDxyvBXBI...feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv5t6rC6yvg...feature=related]]> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:50:31 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6172 Money back http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6171 The sum - enough to fund the UK's primary schools for a year - represents a dramatic turnaround from predictions at the height of the crisis that propping up the banks could cost taxpayers as much as £850 billion."

Ho ho!!!!]]> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:00:49 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6171 <![CDATA[Polly's Pecker]]> http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6170 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:27:44 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6170 Getting wet http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6169
He can't aford to get any wetter.]]> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:59:39 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6169 Forum Glitch http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6168
I obviously don't want to post in it asking if anyone has seen it because well, then you will be seeing it because I have just posted in it.

It's so weird!!! Nico, any thoughts?]]> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:59:29 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6168 Quantum http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6167

Did Eve have a subject for her new unbegun book yet?

No.

Why was the very thought of starting a new book, which would bring in relative money and fame, enough to make her spend all day lying on her back on the floor of the mock summerhouse unable to do anything?

Good question. See if you can answer it from the answers already given. She had watched a woodlouse climb out of a crack in the floor and then back down into it again. She had wanted with all her heart at that moment to be a woodlouse with a woodlouse's responsibilities, a woodlouse's talents.

Call that working?

Eve took a deep breath. It is very very hard work indeed, she answered, to be a woman and alive in this hemisphere in this day and age. It asks a lot, to be able to do all the things we're supposed to do the way we're expected to do them. Talent. Sex. Money. Family. The correct modest intelligence. The correct thinness. The correct presence.

Isn't that a bit feeble?

Any more questions like this and Eve would terminate the interview.

Well, what kinds of questions are acceptable?

Good questions. Conceptual questions. Not the personal kind. What did it matter what colour Eve's eyes were? Or what gender she happened to be? Or what was happening in her private life or her family?

What was happening in her family?

Well, Astrid, for one, was acting very adolescently.

And Magnus?

Eve didn't know what to do about Magnus. The way he was acting was very worrying.

And her husband?

Michael was fine. Really, he was fine. But these are personal questions. They're the wrong kind of question. The point was: Eve was an artist, and something was blocking her.

Okay, so what did Eve believe in?

?

It's a straightforward enough question; what did Eve believe?

What do you mean exactly, what did Eve believe?

What did Eve believe?

What credo did she live by?

Well?

What made her think?

What made her write?

What kept her motivated?

Eve was motivated by Quantum.

As in physics? Theory? Mechanics? Leap?

Quantum was the name of the make of running machine she used.

Running machine?

Yes.

She 'believed' in her Quantum running machine?

Yes.

Like other people believe in God, or chaos theory, or reincarnation, or unicorns?

The Quantum running machine definitely existed.












]]> Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:35:52 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6167 Mad Bat Commits Treason http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6166 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/1...en-last-monarch]]> Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:06:31 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6166 You Too Can Be Like Gerald... http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6165 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/17/ukulele]]> Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:05:18 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6165 Up North Again http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6164
The weather is nicer than I remember it though. I wonder if all their sunshine happens in the school holidays? It's the only explanation that reconciles my College memories with the stubborn failure of the locals to expire of a mixture of hypothermia and a lack of Vitamin D.]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:00:15 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6164 <![CDATA[Catholic Church struggles to raise funds for Pope's visit]]> http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6163
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With just over a month to go before the Pope arrives in Britain, the Catholic Church is facing a £2.6m shortfall in donations needed to pay for the visit.

The Church officially needs to raise £7m to pay for the pastoral elements of Pope Benedict's state visit, although sources involved in organising the trip have told The Independent that the final bill will be closer to £8m.

So far the Catholic Church in England, Wales and Scotland has raised just £5.1m with the vast majority – £4m – coming from wealthy private and corporate donors. Just £1.1m has been given through individual collections at Mass – the equivalent of £1.27 for each regular mass-going Catholic.


Article from The Indy: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-...it-2052311.html]]> Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:15:32 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6163 Apparently college life was eveb worse for our health than we realized http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6162
http://www.economist.com/node/16789152]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:57:21 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6162 Posh living http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6161
http://www.luxist.com/2010/08/11/220-milli...-most-expensive]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:21:12 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6161 Around the world in Sound and Vision on the Magic Carpet of Movietone http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6160
Upstairs costs more money. Downstairs shouts at the screen in American accents. Upstairs and downstairs shout together at the British films with people in evening dress saying strangled-sounding things to each other. Cartoon, short, newsreel, forthcoming attractions, B movie, big picture, God Save the King. People bring their sandwiches. Around the world in Sound and Vision on the Magic Carpet of Movietone. 4d to get in to see The Good Earth, same price as a loaf. The World Changes. I Am A Thief. Lady from Nowhere. Woman against Woman. Let's Get Married, showing with A Dangerous Adventure. March of Time. International Settlement. All six cinemas close for a fortnight in case of the invasion. They re-open a week later. All six black out their neons. The Great Dictator. Boy Meets Girl. The manager of the Alhambra, Mr O.H. Campbell, walks onstage in the middle of a Frank Sinatra film. Victory in Europe. Everybody cheers. Victory over Japan. Great Expectations. Gone With the Wind. Crying children are carried out of Bambi in the middle of the forest fire. People buy their own tvs and watch their own coronations. The screen gets three times bigger. Cinerama. Cinemascope. Widescreen. NaturalVision. A lion leaps out at the audience. The Greatest Show On Earth. Ben Hur, again. The Ten Commandments, again.















]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:43:17 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6160 Advice to Visitors to the London Olympics 2012 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6159
* It is customary to stand for a few seconds on reaching the top of escalators on the underground, to get your balance back
* Never attempt to tip a taxi driver
* Try the famous echo in the strangers' gallery at the House of Commons, or in the Reading Room at the British Museum
* Any passer-by is welcome to intervene in a game of cricket
* London barbers are delighted to shave patrons' armpits
* Bus conductors like to be paid in 5 and 10 pound notes as they hate carrying heavy coins
* It is customary when using the gents lavatory in any pub, to greet visitors with a friendly pat on the bottom
* If you're visiting Glastonbury, the last weekend in June is quite quiet
* The fields around Longleat House are ideal for camping
* If you're invited for a game of croquet, it's traditional to give your host a gift of a dozen moles
* Millwall fans are known as 'Fairies'
* Wales is nice
* In London it is customary for Homosexuals around Whitehall to dress up in funny Uniforms (involving pale blue shirts) every Wednesday.
* Never pay the price demanded for a newspaper; good-natured haggling is customary
* On first entering an underground train, it is customary to shake hands with every passenger
* Visitors in London hotels are expected by the management to hang the bedlinen out of the windows to air
* Parking is permitted in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on payment of a small fee to the sentry
* Beer is free in London Pubs once the Bell has been rung
* You can identify brothels because they have a blue lamp outside
* In London, you are encouraged to try a piece of fruit, free of charge from any open air stall
* Women are not allowed upstairs on buses; if you see a woman there please ask her to descend
]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:13:21 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6159 Woody FW: A WARNING FOR ALL BB USERS http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6158
On NO ACCOUNT should regulars attempt to converse with himl.
When crossed he immediately lapses into aggressive and abusive behaviour (Pace poor old MM).

DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY

In the interest of all BB regulars,I have done some research on his background: he had a difficult birth, his mother did not like him, his father...well let's leave him out for now... he, naturally, was bullied at school... he had to leave Uni early... in fact he has had to leave nearly everything early before everything left him early.... he is unfulfilled in his vocation...no body likes him....he's a very sad character.

So it's difficult for him. We can quite understand. We can even sympathise.We cannot condone such behaviour.

ON NO ACOUNT ATTEMPT TO CONVERSE WITH THE TROLL.]]> Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:25:30 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6158 The Volcker Rule http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6157
Good news for Prop traders ?]]> Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:37:11 +0000 http://www.osforums.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=6157