Things you like.

[KristianJ]

The Carlton Draft Tingle ad.

Man plums

[BrisVegas]

actually come to think of it. I really just like the ABC. I must be getting old.

[MegaWatty]

actually come to think of it. I really just like the ABC. I must be getting old.

Amen brother.

Also like that my kids got some big plastic golf clubs today. Better than those metal shafted kids ones!

[Eldrick]

actually come to think of it. I really just like the ABC. I must be getting old.

Do you enjoy watching the Bill and writing letters to Editors?

[ParMaster]

Bet Dad is not happy at having to get up at 3:15 to take you to work

Not at all mate. I'm a big boy now.

3K walk to Parra Station, catch train for an hour at 4:45 a.m, get to Killara at 5:45, walk 1.5K's to Greenkeepers shed.

[ParMaster]

The Carlton Draft Tingle ad.

I love their take on Nessun Dorma. It's a fantastic ad.

[AndyP]

Not at all mate. I'm a big boy now.

3K walk to Parra Station, catch train for an hour at 4:45 a.m, get to Killara at 5:45, walk 1.5K's to Greenkeepers shed.

Get a bike, Pup.

[Sydney Hacker]

Get a bike, Pup.

Skipping to and from the station will also speed things up, but you might have to wait for your first pay cheque to buy a new rope...

[henno]

actually come to think of it. I really just like the ABC. I must be getting old.

Me too, on both counts.

[just]

My sister is on teaching prac at a Catholic primary school.

She is teaching Year 3's. Today was dress as a character from a book day, most of the kids came as something from TV. It should probably be pop culture day.

Anyway one year 3 rocked up as the spitting image of Hitler. This raises some serious questions about his parents IMO. Moustache and everything.

There was then the obligatory parade of the kids in the uniform across the stage in the hall.

Naturally when it is this kids turn he gets up and gives the crowd the Nazi salute. Lovely.

As happens on these days a group is picked for the crowd to cheer for to decide a winner. By the Headmaster no less. No prizes for guessing one of those picked.

So a few kids go first to mild applause. Hitler strolls out.

No shit the kids start going "HITLER HITLER HITLER" the whole hall in unison. He apparently even raised both arms out to silence the crowd and be declared the winner.
Look for the next Australian dictator to rise from the suburbs of Perth.

No-one but my sister thought anything was remotely off about this.

The school has apologised!

[sms316]

What is the drama with it? Are they only allowed to dress up as nice characters?

It happened. It was real. No point pretending it didn't happen. Hitler was a real prick but I don't think it is illegal to acknowledge him.

[just]

Because it is in extremely poor taste. Taste is characteristic which you have demonstrated repeatedly you have none of, so it's no wonder you don't get it.

I'll make it simple for you:
1. Parents are mentally deficient for allowing their child to go as Hitler. That said I defend their right to send their kid as Hitler, as a free speech issue.
2. School is mentally deficient for allowing kids to cheer enthusiastically for Hitler kid. This is the most disturbing bit, where was the teachers common sense?

[sms316]

That is my point. You can't have selective freedom of speech/expression. It doesn't work.

[just]

That is my point. You can't have selective freedom of speech/expression. It doesn't work.

You can allow the kid to go to school. Freedom of speech preserved. Allowing kids within a school to cheers enthusiastically for Hitler isn't free speech, it's bad behaviour.

[sms316]

You can allow the kid to go to school. Freedom of speech preserved. Allowing kids within a school to cheers enthusiastically for Hitler isn't free speech, it's bad behaviour.

Really? By allowing the other kids to parade but not little Adolf, you are stopping the other kids from expressing their appreciation.

[just]

Really? By allowing the other kids to parade but not little Adolf, you are stopping the other kids from expressing their appreciation.

Who said anything about stopping Adolf parading? As to your other point, yelling out a name for which you have no proper understanding is not a free speech issue, it's just bad behaviour that wasn't properly controlled. Or are you suggesting this little Catholic school is a bastion of Neo Nazi's?

[sms316]

Who said anything about stopping Adolf parading? As to your other point, yelling out a name for which you have no proper understanding is not a free speech issue, it's just bad behaviour that wasn't properly controlled. Or are you suggesting this little Catholic school is a bastion of Neo Nazi's?

If they stopped the kid from parading then they would have stopped the cheering (which they surely would have suspected was coming). However misguided the kids would have been, they still have an opinion and a right to express it.

Let's be honest, pretty much every opinion of a young child is not an informed one.

[just]

If they stopped the kid from parading then they would have stopped the cheering (which they surely would have suspected was coming). However misguided the kids would have been, they still have an opinion and a right to express it.

My daughter's school had the Book Parade and yet they didn't have the vote which caused the problem. I repeat, letting kids yell enthusiastically over something of which they have no proper understanding isn't a free speech issue it's just a behavioural issue. I'm sorry you can't understand that.

[PeteyD]

Depends in why they are cheering.

[mike]

What is the drama with it? Are they only allowed to dress up as nice characters?

It happened. It was real. No point pretending it didn't happen. Hitler was a real prick but I don't think it is illegal to acknowledge him.

Absolutely.

Because it is in extremely poor taste.

Bullshit. As a catholc I'd be more concerned if the kid came dressed as Pontius Pilate.
My missus teaches at a Catholic school and e few years ago the staff went to the fancy dress parade dressed as devils.
In catholic circles there's no meaner dude than the devil.

Nobody complained.

[mike]

What is the drama with it? Are they only allowed to dress up as nice characters?

I hope none of the kids went dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. If you had a relative savaged to death by a wolf this would be quite distressing.

Political correctness gone mad.

[3oneday]

So does the devil look like Hitler ?

[just]

Absolutely.




Bullshit. As a catholc I'd be more concerned if the kid came dressed as Pontius Pilate.
My missus teaches at a Catholic school and e few years ago the staff went to the fancy dress parade dressed as devils.
In catholic circles there's no meaner dude than the devil.

Nobody complained.

I hope none of the kids went dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. If you had a relative savaged to death by a wolf this would be quite distressing.

Political correctness gone mad.

Mike
I've long held the belief that you were'nt bright. This just confirms it. Don't throw around terms like political correctness when you don't understand them, nor comment on free speech when you clearly don't understand it.

[Yossarian]

There is a difference between what adults who are technically able to make decisions for themselves should be allowed to do, versus 8 year olds having behaviour condoned that they don't fully understand or appreciate IMO. The parents were wrong to allow it as were the teachers who allowed it to continue.

[mike]

Mike
I've long held the belief that you were'nt bright. This just confirms it. Don't throw around terms like political correctness when you don't understand them, nor comment on free speech when you clearly don't understand it.

Political correctness. Look it up Einstein.