Quote: Nat Wicks @ May 9 2011, 11:50 PM BSTf**king child genius. Which is true now, except for the genius bit.
So just "f**king child" then?
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My brother has a first class honours degree in maths and economics. He has a five bedroom house and a seriously massive conservatory. Not only that he has a little tractor thing to do his lawn. He goes on several international holidays a year as well as many of the big sporting events such as the Olympics in China and the US, the World Cup Final in Germany, the Melbourne Cup in Australia etc etc.
My mum said to me, "You could've achieved more than he did if you only put the effort in".
To be fair I was still living at home at the time but I've always had that sense of never quite 'getting there'. Times have been tough but I am more optimistic now - I do believe that better times are ahead and though I'm now in my 40s I do still feel that my best years are still to come.
Quote: Tuumble @ May 10 2011, 12:52 AM BSTMy mum said to me, "You could've achieved more than he did if you only put the effort in".
Judging from that though, seems like your mum thinks you're cleverer than he is.
So you win on that one!
Quote: Tuumble @ May 10 2011, 12:52 AM BSTMy brother has a first class honours degree in maths and economics. He has a five bedroom house and a seriously massive conservatory. Not only that he has a little tractor thing to do his lawn. He goes on several international holidays a year as well as many of the big sporting events such as the Olympics in China and the US, the World Cup Final in Germany, the Melbourne Cup in Australia etc etc.
My mum said to me, "You could've achieved more than he did if you only put the effort in".
And, to be fair, him winning the lottery was a help.
Quote: zooo @ May 10 2011, 12:57 AM BSTJudging from that though, seems like your mum thinks you're cleverer than he is.
So you win on that one!
Well, I KNNOOOWWW that! haha
I'm a misunderstood genius - you can tell that by the feedback I get in Critique. 
Quote: Oldrocker @ May 10 2011, 1:00 AM BSTAnd, to be fair, him winning the lottery was a help.
Actually, something he did as a kid should've been a warning. When I was about six he was 12 and he used to have a 5p collecting box and he was always telling me, "Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves". He even used to write that in his school books. He's also the only person I know to regularly come out of an amusement arcade having made a profit on the 2p machines. He was simply great at playing the percentage game.
Probably of no surprise that he works in insurance as an actuary setting all our premiums. Sounds dull but it clearly pays well.
I was a bit of a nightmare at school. Rebel without a clue. In fifth year seniors I just outright refused to attend any classes that bored me like Maths or PE or German, and in the end those teachers would just let me go to the music room to play piano or draw quietly in an art class - it was either that or I'd just bunk off. I suppose they were just thankful I was in school at all. I'm not proud of my schooldays.
I wish I could go back and tell my younger self "Lee, you might think you're being an individual by wearing lemon-yellow tiger-stripe jeans and a skull and crossbones ear ring to school, you might think it's funny to draw a huge photo-realistic cock on your desk, ejaculating on to Mrs Duckett the French teacher's face and almost getting expelled for it, you might think it's acceptable to almost drown a boy in the duckpond for calling you "spotty", but in fact, you are being a twat, and when you get older you will have no qualifications to speak of and will end up a struggling comedy writer instead of the incredibly-cool pop star you are currently so certain you'll become."
I did shite at school too. What a f**k up that was.
How different our school days could have been if we'd only had the benefit of hindsight!
Quote: Tuumble @ May 10 2011, 1:04 AM BSTActually, something he did as a kid should've been a warning. When I was about six he was 12 and he used to have a 5p collecting box and he was always telling me, "Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves".
It always strikes me that the truth is "Look after the pounds and the pennies will look after themselves".
My story is very much like Lee's except I substituted music for art. Also, no ear ring.
Quote: Nogget @ May 10 2011, 9:09 AM BSTIt always strikes me that the truth is "Look after the pounds and the pennies will look after themselves".
Well, it's more about spending wisely and saving money here and there - like 8p for this, 12p for that, 9p for the other ie not spending unnecessarily - you'll find that you will accumulate enough for the pounds without having to think about it.
Quote: TopBanana @ May 9 2011, 10:34 PM BSTThe main thrust of most of my reports was 'too easily led'.
Is that so? I may have a job for you as the T.H. Huxley to my Charles Darwin.
My secondary school used to put our attendance percentage on the front page. There was one report where my attendance record was 41%, which led my RE teacher to fill his allocated page with just the words
Never here.
Quote: Lee Henman @ May 10 2011, 1:42 AM BSTI was a bit of a nightmare at school. Rebel without a clue. In fifth year seniors I just outright refused to attend any classes that bored me like Maths or PE or German, and in the end those teachers would just let me go to the music room to play piano or draw quietly in an art class - it was either that or I'd just bunk off.
Our school used to have music lessons which took place away from the main building. For two years, I pretended to take lessons in drums and keyboards that just so happened to be on the same days and at the same time as Maths and Chemistry. Nobody ever checked. I just went into town or hid in the toilets.
I remember there was one PE lesson module where we could sign up to one of a variety of things. Me and a few friends signed up to some module where we were supposed to bike in the countryside for the afternoon once a week, but instead we all just went home early. None of us even brought a bike in.
That's mental, what year was that in? Anything could have happene to you! Unless it was in the 6th form...