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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Outspoken. We thought we'd take the chance
Speaker 1: today to do a little bit of a story time
Speaker 1: all about high school. I think we're going to need
Speaker 1: maybe a psychiatrist to talk to after. It's going to
Speaker 1: be quite traumatic because we were nerds at school, some
Speaker 1: would say losers. We didn't really have that many friends. Well,
Speaker 1: we really were each other's friends. So I think we
Speaker 1: probably need to set the scene. So we all had
Speaker 1: a great time at primary school, had a great group
Speaker 1: of friends. So when it came to going to high schoo,
Speaker 1: a lot of our friends went to different schools. And
Speaker 1: I suppose when you're going through those awkward, that awkward
Speaker 1: adolescent stage, people are always going to pick on people
Speaker 1: that there's something different about them, And to be honest,
Speaker 1: on the first day of year eight, we stood out
Speaker 1: like a saw sum because obviously, being triplets, we looked
Speaker 1: the same. We were in oversized uniforms, and we were
Speaker 1: just not loving life. That's something I felt like a
Speaker 1: lot of people can relate to is their parents buying
Speaker 1: them uniforms that are about ten sizes too big in
Speaker 1: the hope that they'll somewhat fit into them. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: no offense to mom. I know she'll be listening, but
Speaker 1: she bought us size sixteen jumpers and said we would
Speaker 1: grow into them. But we're only size eight now, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what she thought was going to be. Hay,
Speaker 1: maybe she predicted this very oversized jumper trend that's happening
Speaker 1: at the moment. Maybe they look quite good on now. Yeah. Maybe.
Speaker 1: Well they were the horrible jumpers that I think everyone
Speaker 1: has where they actually smell like wet dog when they
Speaker 1: get wet. So yeah, that wasn't fun. I also, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: was one of two girls at school in your eight
Speaker 1: that had brown leather shoes so you could get black
Speaker 1: or brown, and I made the stupid decision to get brown,
Speaker 1: which I regretted. Pretty sure they were spend less shoes,
Speaker 1: yes they were, and unfortunately, you know, you just don't
Speaker 1: want anything that stands out. And the fact that I
Speaker 1: had brown shoes and everyone had black, I was like,
Speaker 1: bloody hell. That would have been my one tip for
Speaker 1: anyone who might be listening that's going to high school
Speaker 1: as you really, as you say, you don't want to
Speaker 1: stand out from the crowd. You really want to be
Speaker 1: almost like a little sheep, which is terrible to say.
Speaker 1: I mean even at our school, we didn't have a
Speaker 1: set uniform with pants and just all it's something about
Speaker 1: popular people. They all seem to know the right thing
Speaker 1: to wear. Well, I think it's because they have older
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters who are wearing the pants. So the
Speaker 1: pants that were popular back in the day were face
Speaker 1: Off pants and we did not have those pants. We
Speaker 1: had pants from Katies. Does anyone we didn't make pants
Speaker 1: in your tent? Eventually we got the pants that we're in.
Speaker 1: Can we put this in our Facebook group? Though? In
Speaker 1: our community? Sorry? Does anyone to remember the brand face Off? Now?
Speaker 1: It was from a very very cheap LCM or one
Speaker 1: of those that's a that's a bar. It was something like,
Speaker 1: I don't know it. It's very some very cheap store
Speaker 1: that is still running at the moment in our local
Speaker 1: shopping center. It was like a soup Prey kind of shop. Basically,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. That that just reminded me. The other
Speaker 1: thing about high school, which again let's put it in
Speaker 1: the group. Does everyone remember carrying their gym gear around
Speaker 1: in like some sort of surf branded bag or it
Speaker 1: was well, I think a lot of people had sports
Speaker 1: Girl bags or soup Prey like it sort of said
Speaker 1: a lot about what bag you were holding. We felt
Speaker 1: so sorry for myself. I had like one tattered JJ
Speaker 1: bag that I kept like bringing around with JJ is
Speaker 1: not even a good brand. Or we should move on
Speaker 1: to Pe because Pe at high school you either love
Speaker 1: it or hate it, and we all grew up really sporty.
Speaker 1: But there was something different about Pe at high school. Well,
Speaker 1: I think is when they get the kids to pick
Speaker 1: who's in whose team, Like I thought that was quite
Speaker 1: an outdated polls that so brutal, and as we said,
Speaker 1: not being popular, we were often last picked, even though
Speaker 1: we were good at sports. I remember being picked last,
Speaker 1: and I remember beating everyone. So I was picked this
Speaker 1: guy and we were picked last, and we had to
Speaker 1: join up and play tennis together, and we smashed everybody
Speaker 1: because we played club tennis on the weekends. I think
Speaker 1: the other thing I remember about PE is that awkward
Speaker 1: moment in the change rooms when you're expected to like
Speaker 1: strip off in front of everyone. Yeah, so you're either
Speaker 1: the popular girl that's stripping off showing off her new bra,
Speaker 1: or you're the person in the cubicle that's too nervous
Speaker 1: to get change in front of everyone. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: safe to say we were all that person in the cubicle,
Speaker 1: or you could be the person in the boys room
Speaker 1: where there's the rogue pe teacher who's pretending to come
Speaker 1: into the room just to catch a glimpse of the guys.
Speaker 1: There's always one pegge teacher that gets accused of being
Speaker 1: a pedophile, isn't there. I think it's just a thing
Speaker 1: that comes with it, unfortunately. Well, talking about the change rooms,
Speaker 1: there was a time when one of the popular girls,
Speaker 1: she was dancing around in a new bra that she
Speaker 1: had outside of the cubicle, and I think I was
Speaker 1: inside the cubicle and it happened. But her bra actually
Speaker 1: popped off. No I was. I was like, yeah, but no,
Speaker 1: like it came boo popped out. Her boo popped out. Well,
Speaker 1: something came out. I was there, and then she ran
Speaker 1: into the cubicle. Was all very It was one of
Speaker 1: those stories that goes around the school. Another story that
Speaker 1: went around our school was there was a girl. I
Speaker 1: won't obviously name her, but she was a bit of
Speaker 1: a character at the school. And this I suppose dates
Speaker 1: dates us a little bit because she photo copied her
Speaker 1: chest and then emailed it to everybody because phones at
Speaker 1: the time weren't I don't think you had email. I
Speaker 1: think it got printed off and then it printed and
Speaker 1: put on everyone's lockers. Yeah. I never saw the photo,
Speaker 1: to be honest, but this said girl. She also in
Speaker 1: year twelve flashed in the year twelve formal photo, so
Speaker 1: she was kind of in the middle and they had
Speaker 1: to actually edit her out of the photo. I thought
Speaker 1: they put her in the crease. No, well yeah, she
Speaker 1: was no, No, they edited her out somehow. She did
Speaker 1: go on to appear on Farmer Once a Wife as
Speaker 1: well as well. She didn't make it fast. She did,
Speaker 1: funnily enough, get nominated for C grade celebrity almost likely
Speaker 1: to be a C grade celebrity really at a school formal? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: talking about the school formal. For some strange reason, Sophie,
Speaker 1: Amy and I nominated ourselves to be on the formal committee,
Speaker 1: and you were involved in, you know, creating the formal. Well,
Speaker 1: it was very political because the reason we were in
Speaker 1: the formal committee was a friend of mine. She wanted
Speaker 1: to be the head of the formal Committee and she
Speaker 1: needed to have us vote her as the president. So
Speaker 1: being a good friend, we decided we'd help love our losers.
Speaker 1: That's well, what's funny about being involved in the formal
Speaker 1: committee is one of our roles was to pick, well
Speaker 1: not to pick, but to do a vote of who
Speaker 1: would be nominated for an award. We had to count
Speaker 1: the votes, so yeah, we were tallying the votes and
Speaker 1: there were awards like the biggest Cadbury, who would be
Speaker 1: most likely to be a Z grade celebrity, And of
Speaker 1: course the girl who flashed in the school photo was
Speaker 1: voted C grade celebrity. So at the formal, she got
Speaker 1: up on stage and wasn't she swearing into the microphone
Speaker 1: and she was strong you've missed the kicker of that story.
Speaker 1: We might have had a bit to do with who won. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what I was getting into. So we actually decided
Speaker 1: on people that we didn't like to win awards that
Speaker 1: were probably not particularly nice. I mean, now I'll preface
Speaker 1: these people were awful to us. So a girl that
Speaker 1: we didn't like, we made her win the biggest Cadbury.
Speaker 1: But the strange thing is you could actually reject the
Speaker 1: award if you didn't want to win it, which I
Speaker 1: don't think that's right. Oh, I think it leads to
Speaker 1: you know, that's public humiliation, that's not right. But cheating
Speaker 1: in terms of who wins. Oh, look, it sounds bad,
Speaker 1: but these people did deserve. Now let's cast our minds
Speaker 1: further back to year eight. Now, that was a very
Speaker 1: difficult time for all of us. We were ridiculously bullied
Speaker 1: quite to a bad extent. I mean, on the daily
Speaker 1: we got called ABC. Yeah. I mean, it's always it's
Speaker 1: terrible because you do hear of people being badly bullied
Speaker 1: at school. And I don't want to go into it
Speaker 1: too much because we want this podcast to be quite funny.
Speaker 1: But as we said, we were kind of I suppose
Speaker 1: targeted in a way because we were identical, and for
Speaker 1: some reason, the kids at our school didn't like the
Speaker 1: fact that we used to hang out with each other,
Speaker 1: and I think they got confused by the fact we
Speaker 1: looked so similar. And I remember one Actually, it's funny
Speaker 1: because sometimes you felt like you wanted to be invisible
Speaker 1: when people were staring at you, and then other times
Speaker 1: you felt completely visible. Because there was one instance where
Speaker 1: I was getting my bag out from my locker and
Speaker 1: these two boys started fighting and one of them had
Speaker 1: ice coffee in his hands. It was literally like I
Speaker 1: didn't exist. They were like fighting right near me, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the ice coffee got poured all
Speaker 1: over me, all over my white top, and they didn't
Speaker 1: even apologize. It was like I just didn't exist. I
Speaker 1: think that's the worst thing because a lot of people
Speaker 1: talk about exclusion, which is a really hard form of
Speaker 1: bullying to deal with, which is something that we unfortunately
Speaker 1: had to encounter at school. So it is that feeling
Speaker 1: of being invisible. It's being excluded from parties, from formal
Speaker 1: before and after party. So in year twelve, we didn't
Speaker 1: even get invited to the before and after party at
Speaker 1: our formal yet teachers were getting invited. So it's a
Speaker 1: really hard feeling, and I know it's probably one that
Speaker 1: a lot of other people have experienced, and it's something
Speaker 1: that takes a while to get over. I mean, we
Speaker 1: went to UNI and we had a great time at UNI,
Speaker 1: but it used to always play on my mind, why
Speaker 1: are people being nice to me? Because no one at
Speaker 1: high school was ever nice to us. And that's what
Speaker 1: breaks my heart though, because you know, it was difficult
Speaker 1: enough to put up with, Like we graduated two thousand
Speaker 1: and six and obviously there wasn't any social media around,
Speaker 1: and it breaks my heart to think that kids are
Speaker 1: probably going through this now and the form of exclusion
Speaker 1: is emphasized by social media, with people sharing instance, stories
Speaker 1: of the parties they're going to like and not being
Speaker 1: able to disconnect from that once your home would be
Speaker 1: really difficult. Well, the thing is, as well, you can
Speaker 1: make one wrong move at high school and that's your
Speaker 1: whole high school sort of disrupted. Because I remember there
Speaker 1: was a guy at our school and the first day,
Speaker 1: I think it was the induction day, he made the
Speaker 1: mistake of telling everybody that he loved cats. Well, this
Speaker 1: is what annoys me because during those inductions. You go
Speaker 1: around and you ask stupid questions like tell us something
Speaker 1: that you like, yeah, And I mean it's pretty hard
Speaker 1: to be put on the spot and come up with
Speaker 1: something yeah. And as Amy said, he said he liked cats,
Speaker 1: and from there on end he was bullied relentlessly. It
Speaker 1: was called cat boy. I mean, the funniest thing out
Speaker 1: of this scenario is that he's actually gone on to
Speaker 1: become a model and one of a quite successful person
Speaker 1: to come out of the school. So I suppose that's
Speaker 1: something for people to think about that might be going
Speaker 1: through a difficult time at the moment. Is just because
Speaker 1: you're experiencing something at high school, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: that's going to last forever. Oh definitely not. And looking back,
Speaker 1: I mean I remember standing Our school used to look
Speaker 1: on to another school. It was an agricultural school, and
Speaker 1: I remember I used to stand there waiting for the
Speaker 1: home group classroom to open. I have no idea we
Speaker 1: actually were early because our dad worked at the school
Speaker 1: and dropped us off. We never usually are on time.
Speaker 1: And I remember looking out and just thinking, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: there's another four years of this to go. But now
Speaker 1: looking back at just was so long ago. And it's
Speaker 1: quite funny because a lot of the people that are popular, sorry,
Speaker 1: that were popular at the school and now doing really
Speaker 1: dead end jobs, and it's quite funny to look back
Speaker 1: and think, Wow, well they were gods for like five
Speaker 1: years and then it's just been a decline for them.
Speaker 1: Well that's the rule of thumb, isn't it. You've always
Speaker 1: got to be nice to the nerdy people, Like everyone says, Oh,
Speaker 1: be nice to the nerdy guys. They're the ones that
Speaker 1: are going to go on and own the software companies
Speaker 1: and be mega rich. So it's not about being that
Speaker 1: mega rich, but nerdy girls as well. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to refer to ourselves here, but you know,
Speaker 1: some people blossom after high school. So I've got to say,
Speaker 1: And our best friends probably listening to this, but I
Speaker 1: do remember, I don't know why this is to remind me,
Speaker 1: but so we weren't as good a friends with our
Speaker 1: best friend at school our friendships that are blossomed out
Speaker 1: of school, But we were always friendly because we've bonded
Speaker 1: over Harry Potter, which we touched on another and our
Speaker 1: hatred of most of the people at the school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and maybe we mentioned this episode, but I loved it
Speaker 1: because she and her group of friends at the time
Speaker 1: they kind of didn't care what anyone thought. They'd go
Speaker 1: and have stick fights out the front of the school
Speaker 1: and all of that kind of thing. And I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be happy that you said that. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure we mentioned the other episode, but you know what,
Speaker 1: I would have preferred to be doing that than being
Speaker 1: too scared to say anything or do anything for fear
Speaker 1: of judgment. I mean, I don't I think we probably
Speaker 1: did somewhat didn't really care what people thought. Well. I
Speaker 1: did remind the others when we were reflecting on what
Speaker 1: we were going to talk about on today's episode that
Speaker 1: we in year nine started a petition to get Rob
Speaker 1: Mills back on Australian Idol and went around and got
Speaker 1: people to sign it. And we were reflecting on why
Speaker 1: we were not popular, and I was like, wow, that
Speaker 1: might have been one of the reasons why. Another not
Speaker 1: so fond memory of mine was school casual days. I
Speaker 1: feel like everyone can relate to this. I remember there
Speaker 1: used to be a Jean's Day. I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: charity it was for Jean's vajeens. Oh Jean's for Jean's,
Speaker 1: and you always found out that you had the wrong
Speaker 1: shade of jeans. I wasn't say what the spare thought
Speaker 1: for the poor kids who always forgot that it was
Speaker 1: casual dating up in the uniform. There were some kids
Speaker 1: that would prefer to wear the uniform and not pay
Speaker 1: the dollar or something. I remember that I was probably
Speaker 1: because don't want to put yourself out there. Well, moving
Speaker 1: on to a sort of a different topic crushes at school. Now,
Speaker 1: I think we've sort of described the population of the
Speaker 1: school we went to as being not very nice, you know,
Speaker 1: the boys. I don't really remember having too many crushes
Speaker 1: on any of those foul boys. It was more celebrities that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there were celebrity crushes like jod Michael Murray,
Speaker 1: Jesse McCartney, Milsy as we touched on before. But it
Speaker 1: was quite funny because after high school we found out
Speaker 1: that Sovie had a crush on one of the guys
Speaker 1: at school, which was the German exchange student. It blew
Speaker 1: out of mine. Yeah, you throwing me onto the bus
Speaker 1: with this. This is awkward to talk about it. It
Speaker 1: was like fifteen years ago. Yeah, I feel embarrassed by myself.
Speaker 1: It's funny talking about crushes because you always hear of
Speaker 1: kids having crushes on their teachers at school, and I
Speaker 1: don't ever remember having a crush and a teacher, but
Speaker 1: I did. I do remember there was a a teacher
Speaker 1: at our school. He was probably in his forties, and
Speaker 1: he had kids, and everyone seemed to love him because
Speaker 1: he was quite nice. And that's the thing. It's like,
Speaker 1: didn't you have a crush on him? So no, I
Speaker 1: did not have a crush on him. He was one
Speaker 1: of my favorite teachers. It doesn't mean i'd have a
Speaker 1: crush on him. Then was that volleyball teacher? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was better looking than I hated him.
Speaker 1: He was me He was a dick. But don't you
Speaker 1: think it's funny when you see these people that have
Speaker 1: been touted as like the hot teacher, and then when
Speaker 1: you're out of school, you realize, oh, they were just
Speaker 1: the only one that was sort of under thirty. Or
Speaker 1: it's the same with when people at school date uni
Speaker 1: students or older kids and you're like, oh, wow, that's
Speaker 1: so cool. They're being picked up in their car, and
Speaker 1: then you realize, wow, like that person's a bit of
Speaker 1: a loser for dating an underage student. We're talking about
Speaker 1: people dating at high school. And remember there were always
Speaker 1: those pregnancy scares or rumors that went around with some
Speaker 1: of the girls. Like there was one girl who I
Speaker 1: swear everyone said was pregnant for two years. She has
Speaker 1: she she has not had children. I think that's because
Speaker 1: her weight like fluctuated. I mean, and that's what's awkward.
Speaker 1: It is you know, during puberty, your weight goes back
Speaker 1: and forward. But she was. It wasn't that she was
Speaker 1: a big girl. It was literally that she I think
Speaker 1: went really really thin and then she kind of it
Speaker 1: was just a normal way the poor girls probably just bloated.
Speaker 1: One day she was what about moving on to other students,
Speaker 1: and we we pinpointed this particular student we wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about. Now, should we just call her a fake
Speaker 1: name for this because it's kind of hard to okay,
Speaker 1: Chalie Sally. Okay, So Sally came to the school in
Speaker 1: year eleven, and she was put into my home group,
Speaker 1: and not having that many friends at the school, I
Speaker 1: was always super nice to the exchange students because you know,
Speaker 1: you want to manage oh sorry, not exchange to the
Speaker 1: new kids. So Anyway, I sort of took this girl
Speaker 1: under my wing and a few alarm bells started going,
Speaker 1: you know, in regards to some of the conversations she
Speaker 1: said talking about, Well, one was her hit list, wasn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so she basically had a hit list of all the
Speaker 1: people that she wanted dead that had wronged her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's completely normal. I mean, she was one of those
Speaker 1: people that you'd expect to come to school with gun
Speaker 1: one day, so it was better to sort of stay
Speaker 1: on her good side. I remember we had an art
Speaker 1: class with her, and she hated the art teacher, who
Speaker 1: was lovely. She even threw a paintbrush at him at
Speaker 1: one point. My favorite memory of her was her hairstyle.
Speaker 1: So you know, it was back in the day when
Speaker 1: you had I'm sorry, I don't know the other word,
Speaker 1: but slut strands what's the actually think correct word. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that strands of hair. And then she had this bottle
Speaker 1: that this squeezy bottle that she'd spray her hair. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: it not stay straight, so she'd wet it between lessons.
Speaker 1: I still remember her telling me, because it was in
Speaker 1: the day when they had hair straighteners, but they weren't
Speaker 1: as good, like I don't think people had GHD back then,
Speaker 1: and she had one of these were all She had
Speaker 1: one of those where I don't think you were actually
Speaker 1: meant to go from wet to dry, but she did anyway.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's like the girl who used to
Speaker 1: iron her hair. Remember a girl at school? Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: The other fashion mistakes. I feel like everyone just lived
Speaker 1: in like the surf branded big jumpers, and you'd always
Speaker 1: have the same one. I remember I had this beautiful
Speaker 1: pink Billabong hoodie and my friend also had it, and
Speaker 1: she wore it to my birthday party. I know we
Speaker 1: said we didn't have friends, but we did have a
Speaker 1: few handful. By year twelve we had none. But oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, because that reminds me. So we used to
Speaker 1: be really good friends with a girl at school and
Speaker 1: what shall we call her, Harriet? So we uspeak really
Speaker 1: good friends with random with Harriet, and so like the
Speaker 1: best of friends. She was. Probably the only good thing
Speaker 1: about being in that school, I suppose, was that initial
Speaker 1: friendship we had with her. And it turned out that
Speaker 1: we had a little bit of a falling out with her,
Speaker 1: and I feel bad, you know, throwing around the wet psycho.
Speaker 1: That the word psycho before, but it turned out that
Speaker 1: she in year twelve, when she stopped being friends with us,
Speaker 1: she created a fictitious boyfriend and a fictitious group of
Speaker 1: other friends to her new group of friends. That's completely normal,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah? Sor not normal? How we found out
Speaker 1: about it, which we won't be going into, but it
Speaker 1: turned out that she had actually created email addresses for
Speaker 1: the fake friends. She had even had a burner phone
Speaker 1: where she would text herself on with a different SIM card.
Speaker 1: It was actually insane. Let's just throw it out there.
Speaker 1: This guy wasn't just you know, a normal guy. It
Speaker 1: was like the fake boyfriend was this like super hot blonde,
Speaker 1: a professional surfer? So he was. He couldn't come to
Speaker 1: the formal because he was in a surfing accident in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Now can you believe that people actually believed it? And
Speaker 1: we were trying to tell people this is not true.
Speaker 1: This is a delusion that she has, and no one
Speaker 1: believed us. No, I mean, it all came out that
Speaker 1: it was a lie and then but yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was actually insane. Fun times. Well, that same girl,
Speaker 1: we used to play girls football with her and so
Speaker 1: we all decided to sign on for girls football because
Speaker 1: we found out one of the teachers at our school
Speaker 1: who we loved, her son used to play for the Crows.
Speaker 1: And I think we can name him because he was
Speaker 1: a celebrity, James Begley. I would google him if I
Speaker 1: were you guys, because he used to be a Cleo
Speaker 1: Bachelor of the Year and that was a thing. He
Speaker 1: was hot. Yeah, so the year he came to coach.
Speaker 1: Oh fuck, I actually saw him the other day. Oh
Speaker 1: did you hopefully us? Yeah, he's working here as like
Speaker 1: a sports manager of some sort. I'm sure this isn't
Speaker 1: the podcast that he would listen to. Well, he's still
Speaker 1: pretty hot. So the thing is when he was coaching
Speaker 1: the girls football team, he was actually in Cleo Bachelor
Speaker 1: of the Year the awards. And remember there was this
Speaker 1: topless photo of him in the paper. Anyway, I digress.
Speaker 1: So of course we were massive Crows fans at the time,
Speaker 1: so we signed up to play in this football team.
Speaker 1: And I do love football. You may have heard all
Speaker 1: of our views on the women's football in a previous podcast,
Speaker 1: but my goodness, we thought it was non contact. I
Speaker 1: remember coming out to the football field and literally being
Speaker 1: hip and shouldered to the far and wed. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: are six foot five, sorry, not six five five, So
Speaker 1: we were up again some like six foot girls that
Speaker 1: were just like pushing us around. It really ended up
Speaker 1: backfiring on us because James Begley only coached like a
Speaker 1: handful of games and his friend was Blake coach the rest.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it was a bit of fun, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't worth being tackled by massive girls that were
Speaker 1: crushing us into the ground. I want to move on
Speaker 1: to muck Up Day because that was a momentous day
Speaker 1: at school because one it signaled the end of school
Speaker 1: really and two I feel like it was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun for us because I remember it was around
Speaker 1: the time that Big Brother was on and I think
Speaker 1: her name was Anna. She had that classic line of
Speaker 1: saying game on moles. And I remember we got to
Speaker 1: make our T shirts and we wrote game on moles
Speaker 1: our shirts. Do you guys remember that. Yes, it was
Speaker 1: lots of fun creating those shirts. And I remember we
Speaker 1: had some targets on muck Up Day for people that
Speaker 1: had wronged us during our five years at school, and
Speaker 1: it was quite funny because unfortunately the school had banned
Speaker 1: any sort of elaborate muck up plans, except you could
Speaker 1: do a water fight. So everyone was getting water pistols
Speaker 1: and water balloons. But that was because remember there was
Speaker 1: that that I don't know, I'm pretty sure it was
Speaker 1: actually true, because there's always those old wives stories about
Speaker 1: muck ups. I was at that rumor about at the
Speaker 1: agricultural school when someone took a cow upstairs and they
Speaker 1: couldn't get it down. That happened to our school. So
Speaker 1: they stole a cow from the next door school and
Speaker 1: then they yeah, they let it up the stairs. And
Speaker 1: the thing with cows is they can't actually walk down,
Speaker 1: they can only walk upstairs. I had to like, that
Speaker 1: didn't actually happen. Well, I don't know. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: other thing that all the wild rumors that you'd hear
Speaker 1: at school, like, for instance, at our school, unfortunately the
Speaker 1: wild rumors turned out to be true. There was a
Speaker 1: stabbing and oucnteine and there was also some pool person
Speaker 1: who was killed by a javelin. So we always heard
Speaker 1: those stories at school. We should go at the school
Speaker 1: when those incidents they were Well, I feel like everyone
Speaker 1: should go to our Facebook community and will start the
Speaker 1: sort of convo there about the odd rumors that you
Speaker 1: heard at school. Well, back to Markup Day, there was
Speaker 1: an epic moment where a girl we mentioned earlier, the
Speaker 1: one that was on Farmer Wants a Wife Will who
Speaker 1: made the first edition. She was so we were trying
Speaker 1: to I think you could only throw water, said before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think we were squirting someone else with pistols
Speaker 1: and she's like game on maules and then started spraying
Speaker 1: a water pistol at us. And as she was doing so,
Speaker 1: so she had got her school uniform and cut it
Speaker 1: all up and made it into a hole to neck.
Speaker 1: And as she was squirting with us with the water pistol,
Speaker 1: her shirt fell off. So there seemed to be an
Speaker 1: on running theme with her and her boobs always coming out. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this said girl. Also she did a speech at school
Speaker 1: and we had to talk about our role model or
Speaker 1: our hero, and she did a it was a ten
Speaker 1: minute speech on Paris Hilton and why Paris Hilton was
Speaker 1: her role model that kind of summarized her. I think
Speaker 1: it would be fair. I mean we were all obsessed
Speaker 1: with celebrities as well. It's funny how it's now all
Speaker 1: YouTubers and influencers kids are obsessed with, but back in
Speaker 1: the day, for me, it was Hilary Duff. And moving
Speaker 1: on to I suppose some of the boys that it
Speaker 1: pains me to say this, but they were probably considered popular.
Speaker 1: There was one guy at school and I remember he
Speaker 1: used to sit across from us in art class, and
Speaker 1: he had these loud conversations about how many wanks he
Speaker 1: would have a day. And I remember sitting with our
Speaker 1: best friend Olwen, and we just couldn't believe the conversation
Speaker 1: coming from them. Yeah, And didn't he say he was
Speaker 1: gonna not wank until the formal Yeah? And it was
Speaker 1: just like he would update everyone how he was going
Speaker 1: at art. Art was such a great class like that
Speaker 1: was one of the only classes I enjoyed in terms
Speaker 1: of having people there. So we had our best friend
Speaker 1: Owen in the art class with us, and it would
Speaker 1: be so interesting, as you said, listening into other people's conversations.
Speaker 1: You'd find out so much about them. But then obviously
Speaker 1: you'd have your own great chats as well. But the
Speaker 1: crazy thing about art was I actually think art was
Speaker 1: one of the hardest subjects I did. In year twelve,
Speaker 1: the amount of work he had to do, but I
Speaker 1: know we still laugh about it to this day. It's
Speaker 1: like in art class you were awarded for not actually
Speaker 1: your artistic ability, but the load of crap story you
Speaker 1: can associate with your art piece. Because we had a
Speaker 1: kid that I think he got top marks in art
Speaker 1: because he did an installation. And his installation was an
Speaker 1: old TV that he smashed the window of and put
Speaker 1: a KFC box with chicken bones. I can't even remember
Speaker 1: what bullshit story he made up for it. There was
Speaker 1: another girl who made it a clothing line or a
Speaker 1: washing washing line full of clothes. It was so fud
Speaker 1: was that it was so annoying because Amy, Sophie and
Speaker 1: I have always loved art, and we are quite good,
Speaker 1: i'd say at port and we were doing that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff and our art teacher would always be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but what's the story behind it? And you'd be like, what,
Speaker 1: I didn't know? And so you had to make up
Speaker 1: some bullshit in order to get wank. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: an absolute wank fest in that class. Do you guys
Speaker 1: remember the time in year nine there was that sort
Speaker 1: of you know, there's always a sort of kid at
Speaker 1: school who I know this sounds terrible, but everyone thinks
Speaker 1: they're going to be a pedophile when they grow up
Speaker 1: or something, or a rapist. Yeah, and it sounds terrible,
Speaker 1: but I don't like. I don't know this one hundred
Speaker 1: percent as if this is true, but I've seen him recently.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised. He's a very scary, scary individual. Well,
Speaker 1: he was following a year seven student, So don't know
Speaker 1: if this happened to anyone else's school, but there was
Speaker 1: a whole school assembly about this guy because in year
Speaker 1: nine he started following some of the primary school girls
Speaker 1: who were across the road a different school. Obviously, he
Speaker 1: started following them home from school, and he started offering
Speaker 1: people massages. I remember they said, if he has offered
Speaker 1: anybody a massage and need to come forward and tell
Speaker 1: us what happened. He was erotic massage. Well no, he
Speaker 1: also used to ask people about their star signs and
Speaker 1: also stand So we had some stairs going up into
Speaker 1: one of the main buildings and it was those open stairs,
Speaker 1: so if you walked up with a skirt, you could
Speaker 1: see up your dress. So he used to stand under
Speaker 1: the stairs, and I mean we used to just tell
Speaker 1: him to fuck off. Basically. Yeah. I remember he used
Speaker 1: to stand over my locker, so you know when you
Speaker 1: have to stand up and then you sort of move
Speaker 1: into the person, and he used to do that and
Speaker 1: I would just be like, could you just get out
Speaker 1: of my way? And he'd be like, yes, such a snop. Hell,
Speaker 1: can we go back to uniforms for a second, because
Speaker 1: I feel like there's one thing we haven't covered now.
Speaker 1: Our school was a public school, but despite that, it
Speaker 1: acted like a private school. So it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: a price with some of the stories we're telling. Well,
Speaker 1: we had to wear ties and black and black or
Speaker 1: brown shoes, as Kate touched on, and it was always
Speaker 1: the popular people that seemed to get away with wearing
Speaker 1: their school uniform in the cool way, like if any
Speaker 1: nerds stepped out of line and didn't have their bloody
Speaker 1: tides done up to the fullest, you would get in trouble. Well,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. And I remember it was almost like
Speaker 1: some of the teachers wanted to be in the popular group.
Speaker 1: So I said, you know, as I mentioned earlier, some
Speaker 1: of the teachers got invited to the before and after
Speaker 1: formal parties when we didn't get invited, and it was
Speaker 1: so weird. And there was one teacher who was always
Speaker 1: a bit strange and he I remember one day he
Speaker 1: said something weird to us about how if he was
Speaker 1: our age, he would want to be friends with us,
Speaker 1: and then that says perfectly yeah, And then fast forward,
Speaker 1: you know, ten fifteen years, we found out that he
Speaker 1: I think he dated a student that was in a
Speaker 1: year year below us and they were actually I think
Speaker 1: they were pretty serious and living together and it's just
Speaker 1: funny recently broken up apparently. Yeah, And it's just so
Speaker 1: weird because sometimes your gut feeling about people are correct,
Speaker 1: and it's so funny that weird student teacher relationship and
Speaker 1: that environment. We're just going back to the formal. It
Speaker 1: was hilarious because each formal they would they would film
Speaker 1: it and then they would show it at the assembly.
Speaker 1: And I remember always having that sort of nervous feeling
Speaker 1: because we all didn't go with anyone to the formal.
Speaker 1: A lot of people, a lot of people did have partners,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people also didn't because you had
Speaker 1: to pay for the person to come, and and I
Speaker 1: mean that wasn't our issue. We just don't have anyone
Speaker 1: to take. But I remember, I remember walking in. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh god, I don't want to be filmed
Speaker 1: walking in alone. And we were on our best friend's
Speaker 1: table with some of her friends, and I remember that
Speaker 1: because we didn't have enough people on the table, they
Speaker 1: had to fill it out with like the leftover pup table.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, oh yes, yes, yes. Anyway, they ended up
Speaker 1: filling it out with like two of the hotties from school.
Speaker 1: One was Sophie's German exchange and crush, and the other
Speaker 1: was this no, no, he wasn't on the table. It
Speaker 1: was another German exchange to the other one, the one
Speaker 1: that was actually good looking. All these good looking German
Speaker 1: exchange Yeah. So there was this guy that we'd never
Speaker 1: really met him, but he was a German exchange student.
Speaker 1: And then this other guy that was new to the
Speaker 1: school that all the girls had a crush on, and
Speaker 1: he got sat on our table and then he you know,
Speaker 1: they all wanted photos with us for the like the
Speaker 1: year twelve formal photos, and everyone was so jealous. So
Speaker 1: that was the only time something went right at the
Speaker 1: at the school formal well, to be honest, the formal
Speaker 1: was a nightmare for the teachers. So one of the
Speaker 1: teachers who was on the formal committee actually ended up
Speaker 1: going home and crying because the So it's really unfair
Speaker 1: how the prefects at our school were picked. It wasn't
Speaker 1: on merit. It was just a popularity contest, So it
Speaker 1: wasn't that all. How that's how prefects up here. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: sadly we did apply for it and didn't make it.
Speaker 1: So the prey were just salty about that. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the prefects wrapped up all drunk. One of them vomited
Speaker 1: under a table. I mean these were at the pre
Speaker 1: formal parties that the teachers were at, so work that
Speaker 1: one out, but yeah, yea, it was a bit of
Speaker 1: a nightmare from there. And the worst thing was though,
Speaker 1: So there was this the girl that we're talking about before,
Speaker 1: the one who was the president of the formal committee.
Speaker 1: She is the nicest person and she's gone on to
Speaker 1: become a doctor, and she was one of the lovely
Speaker 1: people at school. And I remember when everyone was leaving,
Speaker 1: she ended up falling down the stairs and everyone was
Speaker 1: laughing because it looked like she was drunk, but she
Speaker 1: hadn't had a drop of alcohol at all. Oh, I
Speaker 1: felt so bad for her because everyone's like she's wrong
Speaker 1: and you're like she's not. She just fell Well. I
Speaker 1: think that's all we've got time for. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening or indulging us and listening to our
Speaker 1: high school stories. We'd love to hear some of your
Speaker 1: experiences at high school. As we said, we're going to
Speaker 1: put some discussion starters in our podcast community group so
Speaker 1: you can share some of your funny stories from high school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: please make us feel normal, because I think everyone has
Speaker 1: a crap time at high school, to be honest. Yeah,
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