Just really wandering if any of you could have handled it...let me give you a quick run down and then let me know what would be completely unacceptable for you.
- Linen which occassionally burns your knees/elbows/nipples.
-Mattresses made from foam and are roughly 3 inches thick and put on bed boards. (slabs of MDF)
- 0630 -wake up
Cold showers. Bath houses are made from stone (this means you walk on a very cold floor in the morning)
-1700 - drill (marching for 1 hour)
-Lessons on a saturday morning
-Ceremonial parade and chapel on Sunday mornings
-Chapel every tuesday, thursday and friday aswell.
- after lessons between 0840 and 1730 with gaps on one or two days in week for sport you have 2 hours of compulsary work between 1830-2030.
-Lessons in how to use weapons, a variety of.
-small living space
-leave out twice a week for up to 2 hours 30 minutes at a time.
-Located on the top of a cliff (very windy)
-sloppy, shitty food
Can't really think of anything else....erm could you handle it?
I say so,
but it's the bummings that get to you
no
no
i wouldn't want to handle it either
I'd find all that time spent posting on drownedinsound a bit of a chore
i probably do about
3 or 4 posts a month when i was there.
Prob okay
the only thing I wouldn't enjoy would be the whole chapel shite.
It depends
If it was all I ever knew then I would roll with it but switching from 'normo' to military school would be harsh.
which is what i did
Can't be any worse thab the boarding school I went to from the ages of
7 - 13.
*than
i was thinking this
quite a lot of that isnt that far off standard boarding school stuff
i like how chapel is seen as such a burden though
Yes, 4 times a week seems a bit weak to me.....
we had to go to two services every single day each of which would be not less than 30 mins.
Saturday was our only respite from religion then on Sunday we'd have a 90 minute feature length session.
: (
"feature length" lol
Did they have trailers for upcoming sermons during the week?
Coming soon to a chapel near you: Numbers, Deuteronomy and Exodous 2: the Voyage Home!
did your school chaplain have that kinda old person's voice
that is kind of sleep inducing but eventually you realised he was trying to talk you into a slow death through the tone of his voice
my brother got my parents to write to our school and tell them he was an athiest so he didnt have to go to religious assemblies, what a legend huh
I wish I'd thought of that.
Yes, The Rev. Andrew Prince was a remarkably boring man, his voice had an anaesthetic quality.
you'd probably older
meaning cock would be more manageable to take
by the way
why did you go to military school?
i have no idea
you put yourself in?
well my dad asked me and i said yes.
my uncle went there in the 60s so we already knew about it.
what possessed you to say yes?
because i'm into that kind of stuff
no
and that's not someting i'm really very ashamed of
I think everybody could
see: world wars. I wouldn't choose to, though. And I do have respect for you for doing it.
thanks
i appreciate that
did he have a choice?
or was it his parents discesion?
You're probably better off asking him than me
: D
it was my choice.
why did you decide to go though?
was it the discipline?
no, discipline was the last thing on my mind
although it did me well. I don't think portsmouth could have done much more for me to be honest.
i couldn't
i do a full metal jacket and paint the walls with my brains. or leave, if that was an option
Don't think you're special
I'm sure 95% of people would handle it if their parents sent them there.
didn't say i was special
just wandering if people here could handle it....usually people handle it who go as they are service children (this is a required field to get in) and are used to that kind of stuff...equally, many crack.
Ah, if you mean could I do it
if I had the option not to, no. I'd have to really want it. But if I was forced to be there for some reason, I think I'd probably be able to adjust my mind to cope with it. Wouldn't be easy, though.
this is how most people react
I don't know what age you went?
I'd say pre 15 you sort of just do what you're told, adapt and get on with it.
yup.
I got in when i was 12, but went a month after i turned 13.
Maybe
I think I'd be much better-placed to get on with it now than I was when I was 15. I thought a lot of myself at 15.
Although
obviously until you've got some mad bloke screaming in your ear, and making you bury your beds because you didn't make them quite right, you can't know how you'd react.
yeah
ida thought this would be the kinda thing that would make military school harder to cope with rather than anything outlined above
nah that's just standard
quite a lot of the things
you mention above are fairly standard at a fair few boarding schools im not rly sure whats so hardcore about 'lessons on a saturday' and the hours you mention for example
the main differences are weapons training and marching i guess, is weapons training hard to cope with, maybe the beds as well, even then though, idk, i slept on a matress like that on a marble floor for about 3 months and it wasnt so bad, at least the mdf isnt solid huh...
well yeah lessons on a saturday are fine..
it's very different to normal boarding schools, mainly because of the facilities..
that much chapel is pretty normal at boarding school as well
i didnt go to boarding school and had to go that often, never really bothered me, fair enough i can appreciate it wouldnt be as comfortable though
that said
im not sure idve liked it if id had to do it, i doubt itd be for the reasons youve suggested though idk
Still think it's something to be proud of
imagine it takes a lot of mental strength, which is pretty useful.
Yep
Although four days a week in chapel would be a bit boring
I reckon I would be alright with it.
christ no
I was in
the army proper by the time I was your age so I reckon I could cope.
and you turned out alright,eh?
eh?
Something like that
I realised where I'd gone wrong and that what I really wanted to do was stay up late posting on music forums rather than shoot people to bits.
Better the evil you know
my eyes glazed over for a moment while reading that list
and for that moment I thought you had written
" - lessons in how to use a variety of space weapons"
that's the pay-off right there
then I realised my error
military school - not for me
Please could you give an exact location of this "school"
preferably with a google earth link?
why?
He wants to inspect your privates
literally amazing
I never noticed
how funny you were before.
he seems to have
a large arsenal of puns
Nope
I tried for ten minutes... nothing.
no, and i wouldnt try
lol
Is it the "very windy" conditions
that put you off, not good for indie kids.
?^
its the everything
what about
the GUNS?
I could cope with it
but I'm not stupid enough to ever bother putting myself through something like it.
No I know for a fact I couldn't
I have a bit of a problem with authority and any kind of disciplinarian environment in general. I'd probably end up just getting booted out if I went. Still I've not an ounce of shame in saying that, I just know I would not fit in a military environment. As for if there was a draft/national service, again I would avoid it and not feel any shame in it.
^ this
i was kicked out of school (decision got reversed), and that's pussy compared to the army
...
That sounds like my life now, except I have to use the tube more.
LOL
Was nipple burning really top of your list of hardships?
it's so annoying though
So... dayshift,
could YOU?
No
I'm an atheist. I spontaneously combust on contact with religious premises.
What happens if you refuse to go to chapel?
shot in the face
by God
and the Salvation Army
with Jesus bullets
"by God" as in God would do it, or "BY GOD!" as in you're aghast?
or am i pointing out the glaring ambiguity?
i wouldn't see the point in any of the abovementioned. So no.
I totally could
but I don't want to and there's no reason why I should, yups