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Speaker 1: We want to build a classic eighties and nineties school, Patsy,
Speaker 1: what has to go in?
Speaker 4: Well, we had You won't believe this, but we had
Speaker 4: an incinerator at our school. But not only did we
Speaker 4: have an incinerator, we had an incinerator monitor or two kids.
Speaker 4: I'm not talking high school either, I'm talking at primary school.
Speaker 4: This incinerator was a rusted old kids under the age
Speaker 4: of eleven.
Speaker 3: Absolutely charge of your furness. Absolutely what a country.
Speaker 4: It would burn all winter, not in the summer obviously,
Speaker 4: but all winter. And there would be two kids. It
Speaker 4: was the most coveted position.
Speaker 3: It was two k two persons jobs.
Speaker 1: Seriously, this will be property, well not mad, but young
Speaker 1: children will burn it.
Speaker 3: So Patty, forgive my ignorance. What goes in the incinerator? Everything?
Speaker 3: We had an incinerator as well.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, they used to you know everything stuff
Speaker 1: that plastic tires.
Speaker 3: No, really bad. It was there's that massive hole in.
Speaker 4: School single handedly, but there'd be two kids that would
Speaker 4: be nominated most coveted position in the play.
Speaker 3: How do you get the gig of when you take turns?
Speaker 4: You'd have to take turns, but the teacher, the principal
Speaker 4: would give you a box of matches, and so he'd
Speaker 4: be taking class totally different times, and it would be
Speaker 4: the monitor's job once once a day through the school,
Speaker 4: like not with an adult there.
Speaker 1: That thing was going constantly because obviously in the UK
Speaker 1: have already long cold winters. So the way that they
Speaker 1: would eat the school that was just burning everything. I
Speaker 1: remember like once in my would say, listen, if your
Speaker 1: parents only get rid of anything, tell them to drop
Speaker 1: it off tomorrow. Armchair, did you see the care taken?
Speaker 1: Like your pee teacher lugging and I'm not like a sofa?
Speaker 1: And then I saw that two teachers sawing a sofa
Speaker 1: up once in the Three Bits, chucking it into.
Speaker 3: His beach different time. But what about quality it wasnation,
Speaker 3: that's a fair question that was not asked back in
Speaker 3: the eighties.
Speaker 4: But it would be their responsibility to make sure that
Speaker 4: the fire didn't go out, so you'd see it, see them,
Speaker 4: they're you know, stoking it through the Oh.
Speaker 3: No, it was a fire god that everyone had to worship.
Speaker 1: The incinerator, even the phrase incinerator.
Speaker 4: But where it was as well, it wasn't like tucked away.
Speaker 3: Ours opened onto the plate because right next to the
Speaker 3: sand piece, Yeah, it would open up and everyone would go.
Speaker 1: You see that fire behind a metallic grill is a
Speaker 1: fire god.
Speaker 4: And everything went in there and all were just stand
Speaker 4: around and watch it.
Speaker 1: I even think a couple of bad kids went in
Speaker 1: there sometimes as well.
Speaker 3: You know the kids. You're like, whatever happened to Dave?
Speaker 3: I can't believe they gave kids boxes of.
Speaker 1: Match and let them are the sizes thing Patsy was huge,
Speaker 1: wasn't it.
Speaker 3: It was giant metallic.
Speaker 2: Doors, dumpster.
Speaker 3: It is huge.
Speaker 1: It was like so it was people's stot to constantly
Speaker 1: feed the fire. We didn't help from your mums and
Speaker 1: dads anything. Any car they're getting rid of the car,
Speaker 1: saw the car in home. Swear I'm not making this up.
Speaker 1: Once a bed got dropped off and again teachers sowed
Speaker 1: it into like three pieces and fed it to the incinerator.
Speaker 3: Teachers have better things to do than soaring.
Speaker 1: Never thought about that too, busy worrying about bees' knees.
Speaker 1: With One more thing that was in every single school.
Speaker 1: There's actually a method of erection and punishment was the
Speaker 1: classic chalk duster. Well, I remember if you were if
Speaker 1: you were bad, we were made to stand on a chair.
Speaker 1: And mister Wilson, who I actually think hated children. He's
Speaker 1: in the war and clearly was suffering from some kind
Speaker 1: of part store apartment was still out in Europe like
Speaker 1: the Germans.
Speaker 3: He would make a stand on a chair, right, and
Speaker 3: he would throw a wooden duster at you.
Speaker 1: If you flinched, you'd have to stay up there until
Speaker 1: you didn't flinch, and he hit you with a wooden
Speaker 1: chalk duster.
Speaker 3: Crazy, no, crazy, This was a Catholic primary school.
Speaker 1: In the eyes of God, thisbe fell.
Speaker 3: Into the incinerator. I take that dust to mister Wilson.
Speaker 1: All right, so we're going to try and build an
Speaker 1: eighties or nineties school. Eighties and ninety school, we can
Speaker 1: try and build one. So far now we got the
Speaker 1: incinerator manned by children. Also, if we're going to build
Speaker 1: an eighties and nineties school, you need lou roll that
Speaker 1: is so thin you could use it as tracing paper.
Speaker 3: And am how cheap and thin it was and rough like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right, sandy exterior. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing as well. We had in
Speaker 1: the classroom. You had one of those pencil sharpeners. Oh yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: we could feed yes, you know, Peja Penson. We had
Speaker 1: to ask the teacher if you could get up because
Speaker 1: it was a real time killer because you would take
Speaker 1: your time dawdling up to it with you could easily
Speaker 1: waste out.
Speaker 3: Trust me, about five minutes, Connor. It doesn't take that
Speaker 3: long walk up.
Speaker 4: A favorite during maths class, don't you think?
Speaker 1: And I was just blunting the pencil. It's gone against,
Speaker 1: it's gone against. Okay, this don't be quicker.
Speaker 3: Run. We used to have one who had the c yes,
Speaker 3: drop like chopping always look like a cat's backside, Yes
Speaker 3: it does.
Speaker 1: Anyway, a lot of time day dreaming at school. What
Speaker 1: else has to go on our eighties and nineties school, I.
Speaker 5: Actually reckon this stuff was like a gateway drug. Those
Speaker 5: scratch and sniff stickers was the holy grail of something
Speaker 5: you could get from the teacher.
Speaker 3: Yes, what a great thing in the nineties.
Speaker 5: Brilliant if you if you you know, did your homework
Speaker 5: well or something you know missus.
Speaker 3: Collins would come on a strawberry and then you.
Speaker 4: Scratch it and I bet you got a lot to double.
Speaker 3: Degree monitor prefect. Yes, I was ding on them by
Speaker 3: the end. Can you still buy scratch and sniff stickers?
Speaker 1: I wanted?
Speaker 4: No, they don't. They don't even get we used to
Speaker 4: get the red smiley face that the stamp. I've never
Speaker 4: seen any of her work with well done or good try.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he I want to know, can
Speaker 1: you still buy scratch and sniff stickers? Ask the word
Speaker 1: you love God your husband? Because works would sell them
Speaker 1: because I tell you why, I'd like to get some.
Speaker 1: And then when you do good breaks, I'll give you
Speaker 1: a smiley face, a scratch and snicker. You get a
Speaker 1: little bus I reward the children, You reward the behavior
Speaker 1: you want. Yeah, okay, that's how we're going to dominate
Speaker 1: scratch and sniffs.
Speaker 5: That's going to be instead of pay rise scratch and sniffs.
Speaker 1: Also, I want to know how long does a scratch
Speaker 1: and sniff sticker retain its potency?
Speaker 3: Great question?
Speaker 1: That has anyone got one from the nineties but still
Speaker 1: smells of strawberry?
Speaker 5: Now you know, I'll ask my Mark I've still got
Speaker 5: a lot of my school textbook could you stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, please pease, please please, Christian.
Speaker 1: The school has to have a Commodore sixty four, just
Speaker 1: one for the entire school to share. Reject shop, Christian,
Speaker 1: I'm a teacher. They still sell the stick scratch and
Speaker 1: sniff stickers. I've actually just ordered a pack of thirty
Speaker 1: six sheets Wow scratch and sniff stickers, so show get
Speaker 1: ready to be rewarded, Christian two pounds for a pack
Speaker 1: of fifty from the reject shop.
Speaker 3: Eighty.
Speaker 1: School has to have the o HP overhead projector. Christian.
Speaker 1: I still have a scratch and sniff sticker from twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: It still smells like a banana wow eron O'Connor. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Brody here to answer your questions re
Speaker 1: scratch and sniff stickers to retain the smell. I've got
Speaker 1: a bunch, Christian, our news one from two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: I just went and found them and had a sniff.
Speaker 1: They still work. If you've got to spare one, send
Speaker 1: them to me, Christian. I've got one from twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Steel smells, Christian are trolley on wheels at the school
Speaker 1: with a rank arena TV on top a VCR player
Speaker 1: that's from Vince Christian eighty. Every eighties and ninety school
Speaker 1: needs a walking sorry, a water drinking trough with only
Speaker 1: one of the five taps working properly.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the drink fountain?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they just shot straight, so it's really hard
Speaker 5: to get your mouth.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, Christian.
Speaker 1: What about the bag of sawdust when pupil threw up
Speaker 1: in the school yard the caretaker would come along cover
Speaker 1: up the vomit with the you're right, it was a
Speaker 1: it was a bucket of sand as well. Yeah, to
Speaker 1: put over kids that are chundered, Christian. They should retain
Speaker 1: their smell for years, depending on how much you scratch it.
Speaker 1: I excuse me, sir. I still have some. They're over
Speaker 1: ten years old and you can smell them.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mary Anne, good morning, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hi Christian, Hi guys. Hello, I've still got my stickers
Speaker 2: from the eighties.
Speaker 3: You are they still smell?
Speaker 2: They still smell?
Speaker 3: Wow forty years later.
Speaker 2: Yes, all these you my old primary school stuff in
Speaker 2: my suitcase. Oh, Brilli, I still smell. Eight year old
Speaker 2: daughter gets some at school now.
Speaker 3: Great, Marianne, thanksgiving us a call and showing that.
Speaker 2: Have a good day, Thanks Christian, Thanks.
Speaker 3: Guys, Veronica, Good morning.
Speaker 2: Veronica, Good morning Christian again.
Speaker 1: Morning Veronica. Okay, what needs to be on our eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties school? What do you reckon?
Speaker 2: It has to be just milly text?
Speaker 1: Oh blueberry black BlackBerry.
Speaker 2: Orange women.
Speaker 1: That was a bit yes, yes, great one Veronica. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, cool mat have a good day you too, Kristin,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Hello, Hey Kristin, So what needs
Speaker 1: to be in our eighties and ninety school?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: At my eighties school, I had a guillotine.
Speaker 1: Yes, slicing up the card and paper.
Speaker 3: In the in the god. Yes, was it not like
Speaker 3: a guillotine that you would see you know?
Speaker 1: No? No not someone will be dealt with it. No,
Speaker 1: this is your paper and card a desktop.
Speaker 3: One's still really sharp. Yes, you could either slide it
Speaker 3: from left to right, or you had one that was like.
Speaker 1: A slice of school, the old one that they're having
Speaker 1: a butcher for slicing up.
Speaker 3: Yes, scream right to use this I don't know.
Speaker 1: Again again with the incinerator. Yeah, that's a great one, Kristen,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, thanks for going on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, David. David, Hello, David, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: So what needs to be in our eighties and nineties?
Speaker 2: School mate, Now, I remember this from early eighties primary school.
Speaker 2: Patch you might remember this. It was a hand crank
Speaker 2: photo copier and it was like purple yes and the
Speaker 2: smell would be like, uh, chemically, but it was really good, everybody.
Speaker 3: I used to love it. I used to love that
Speaker 3: and it would be wet when it came out of it.
Speaker 3: I was was called the ban Dung machine or something, and.
Speaker 4: It was almost like fluorescent pink.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, purple, like purple yes.
Speaker 4: And it just put metho in it, was it? The smell?
Speaker 3: It was, yeah, that's yes.
Speaker 1: That's how we got kicks back in the day. There
Speaker 1: was no TikTok for us. We'll be snipping paper. You
Speaker 1: won't there, man. It was great, David, that's a great one.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You called buddy. Have a good day.
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