Re: Gym slips & hockey sticks

Ah girls hockey, where someone decided that the solution to the latent aggression in groups of hormonally charged teenage girls was to hand them all lumps of wood and have them learn to hit a small very hard ball at lethal velocity.

What (to coin a phrase) could possibly go wrong?

Re: Gym slips & hockey sticks

Ironically, the pupils at Plusgymnasiet are "helping build a safer environment for homeless people in Gothenburg". Presumably the slut list wasn't part of this initiative.

The name of said project is Lamp Post - though they may have to change that now that they have been kicked down.

FWIW Plusgymnasiet have 15 schools in all the major cities in Sweden, so there is plenty of scope to expand the slut list for nationwide mayhem and rioting.

They're a for profit commercial outfit, the kind the gubbermint wants to see more of here and often held up as an example of success. As an aside, the Swedes are far from happy that companies are profiting from education while Sweden's international table position is slipping in e.g. maths.

Intriguingly, their website says parents and "affected pupils" will be contacted shortly via "schoolsoft". So there's another IT angle if we need it. Schoolsoft's website www.schoolsoft.se disappointingly makes no mention of sluts or riots.

Re: Gym slips & hockey sticks

Well, there is also Camogie. It's alleged that the schools that play that, field those teams on inter-school hockey matches. The Hockey players think they are a little rough.

Then there is the REAL Man's sport. Very like ice hockey, but since there is no ice they use a ball in the air. It's called "Hurling". The US "football" armour might be appropriate.

Hockey is civilised.

Re: Gym slips & hockey sticks

@John Smith 19

to coin a phrase !== "use a cliché"

Re: Gym slips & hockey sticks

"As an aside, the Swedes are far from happy that companies are profiting from education while Sweden's international table position is slipping in e.g. maths."

First of all, kindly speak for yourself. Surely, there are many people here in Sweden who think like you, but not everybody is an envious social democrat or communist who misses the times when Olof Palme was flirting with the murderer Erich Honecker.

And please elaborate why making profit on education is inherently bad? Is it bad, for instance, if a printing works which prints text books makes profit? What about a paper mill which supplies it? Should everybody in the whole supply chain operate with losses merely because according to certain fanatics it is a mortal sin to make profit on education?

Re: Gym slips & hockey sticks

So you ARE happy the quality of Swedish secondary education is plummeting like a stone then? Of course you are - more unskilled, semi-literate knobs to populate minimum-wage jobs so Reinfeldt's and Borg's pals can siphon off the old Kr to the Cayman Islands - what's not to like?

Re: Gym slips & hockey sticks

"having been on a rugby team that ended up playing the school hockey team at hockey, I can say an awful lot can go wrong :-) Absolute blood bath. I expected the backs to get broken, a gentle breeze normall does that, but even a decent prop goes down after taking a hockey ball between the posts. We learnt a lot about hiding fouls from the ref that day."

I guess the "ladies" felt a little intimidated so decided to get their retaliation in early.

They're just not used to how vulnerable the male anatomy is (unless like a sumo you've practiced being able to retract them back into your body cavity, which is fairly rare).

Someone I suspected this was not going to end well.

Re: Funny...

Jonah! You're responsible!

How much do I have to pay you not to visit, or even plan to visit, my town?

Re: Tch!

I seem to remember having a life.

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Re: Tch!

I still have a life, after social media

Social media has a purpose, in keeping contact with friends around the world in different time zones,

but it is no substitute to real contact with friends!

Re: There's a lesson in that

"they formed a mob to hunt down a 17-year-old girl believed to be responsible."

I'm not sure how jumping on cars and breaking stuff moved them closer to that goal.

It might be more of a case of forming a mob to break shit and act like dicks.

Re: @psyx

I suspect there's probably a bunch of shakily-filmed close-ups on Youtube, and some sepia-toned shots on Instagram. Or 'evidence' as the authorities might call it.

I'd like to think that no matter how hacked off with an individual I was, I wouldn't use it as an excuse for vandalising nearby cars by jumping up and down on them. I never got the urge to as a child, either. I get angry, but spraying that wrath around like putrid vomit onto the lives of bystanders isn't really ever excusable.

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http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15953354.ab

"Sounds like a starting point for a BBC4 swedish detective series ... anyone called Saga Noren (Malmo Police) yet?"

Ms Noren's very special conversational skills demonstrated that even Swede's can be embarrassed to the point of wishing the ground would open up and swallow them.

I'm sort of hoping there will be a sequel.

The effects of her interrogation skills on a group of teenage girls should be quite profound.

Fixed it.

"...it's an American site, they are obsessed with nudity."

There, that's closer.

Re: Fixed it.

Obsessed and ashamed at the same time!

I think a good punishment would be the stocks!

Would that stock be in Playboy, Hustler, or Brazzers?

Re: Irresistable force?

"So why all the fuss about one poster, but no hunt for the person who originated the whole thing?"

Unless you refer to Zuckerberg et al as "the person who originated the whole thing", the which hunt IS for that person.

And you seem to forget that to hormone-filled teenagers anything concerning themselves or their friends is very serious. Especially slander and unwanted publication of "selfies".

Icon for obvious reasons.