Should we get into it? Let’s do it. Yeah, let’s do it. Okay, this is the continuum podcast. We’re back. It’s Adam and Kyle. How are you? Good. Yeah. Good. Good. Thanks. Is it good? So. So you’ve got some seagull stories to tell us about you? Well, yeah. As I was saying, I used to live in a seaside town.
For a number of years. Done. Devon. And one of the stories that kind of comes to mind was we lived in in a terraced house. So terrace. Now for those people that don’t know what a terraced house is, you know, in anywhere through one of those terraced houses. Oh, really? I had no when I moved over here, I had no idea what a terraced house was.
Okay. When people talk about a terraced house, it’s like, well, we’re trying to get rid of the terrace and we. That’s Jesus Christ terrace. Realizing. Yeah. A terrorist, a terrorist, not a terrorist house, I think. Yeah. Or is it, when one house is basically. Has what? Adjoining walls? Yeah. Well, on either side of us. Through to the next house.
So you know, I mean I used to live in another place back in South Africa, I mean a flat and it’s just what they used to call it. But, and it’s the same as a flat overhead. Yeah. Well kind of I mean I would probably say my flat was flat and South Africa was probably the same size as a house.
Yeah, but that’s that’s different. So anyway, then you say you lived in this, you lived in a terraced house. So, yeah, I lived in a terraced house three storeys. And the seagull population, like I said, was protected. And one year we kind of heard these noises and didn’t know what was going on because we slept. We slept on the third floor.
So it was obviously close to the roof for these noises to know what was going on. Only to find out that the seagulls had nested between our chimney and the the apex of the roof. So they kind of had this nest. Yeah. Rock where it joins anyway. So I mean, okay, it doesn’t bother me too much. Seagulls are annoying.
They sound annoying. But after, I’m going to say a few weeks or a month, whatever it was, the, fledglings, shall we call them once a day? And. And what? The younglings. Yeah, a young, young bird fledglings, I think. Yeah. They you’re asking the wrong person. But I’m going to agree with you. I’m going to say.
Yeah, you’re right. You know, the, you know, the bird fancier. Not. It depends what you mean. Let’s calm down. Calm down. I know I’m not an ornithologist of that sort, and it’s a mythologist. That’s a word ologist. Thank you. I don’t even know what that means to, you know, bird watcher. I think, you think?
So, Yeah, we we had these fledglings that then decided that they also wanted to kind of start moving off the nest and now, obviously, nature being nature, they’re not used to having to now walk out the nest onto the roof, which is fruit pitched roof. And this thing just basically slides down the roof. So this is a bit like three storeys high falls straight down on your patio, which is, I’ve got to say, probably a good eight meter drop.
Yeah. Thwack! Dead. Nothing just gets up and just stays on walking. There are no pets here. I could have been your first taste of seagull. These things are the most hardy birds I’ve the that I know. You think that’s why we don’t eat them? Then? Oh, I don’t, I don’t know. Yeah. Again, like we said, probably just because they taste like s probably based like the garbage they eat.
Yeah. Yeah. But, these, these things are so hardy that again, it lands it then decided it’s not going to occupy my entire patio area, which is now peak summer. I can’t go out and enjoy my patio because. Because of a little bird. Because the little birds are there. But then the mother and father then are basically coming down and sweeping.
You, trying to protect the young. Like I said this, I was going to say, when you were telling this story, is this going to further sort of back up my, my, naming of them as assholes? And it really does. Yeah. That there’s I don’t I don’t even think an ornithologist would disagree with, you know, maybe the name, the only good seagull is a dead seagull.
Absolutely. My grandad. No, my great granddad used to say that about the Welsh, but. Wow, it’s a did you know what the funniest part of that is? I’m pretty sure he married one. Oh, he married a Welsh woman. So. Yeah, that’s generally generally the way it goes. Yeah. You know, he always used to say the only good Welshman is a dead Welshman.
And then he ended up marrying a Welsh woman. So, yeah, I think they just kind of fall in the crowd and love to have heard the speeches at that wedding. That’s a long, long Welsh is one of those languages that I just. It doesn’t sound like anything else, does it? Sounds completely made up. I mean, I’m sure at the end of the day, all languages made up, but yeah, that that one.
That’s on another level. Yeah. And it does. It does amaze me. This is a reason I didn’t, we had to take language in school. And of the two languages that we did take was, well, this English and Afrikaans, no, Afrikaans was it’s a it’s very similar to Dutch as a language. So, before you get into it too much, when you’re talking about taking a language and taking English, is English not the first spoken language anyway?
Yeah. I mean, English is for domains. Yeah. English is the kind of the main domain language. So, it’s not so is that like, English? Like we would teach English over here and then as a language, we would teach our French or Spanish or German. Yeah. Yeah. So you would still learn English as a language wouldn’t you?
Yes. You mean so would you know. Yeah. But it’s a subject. You have language and literature. English literature, an English language and things. I at least when I went to school. This is we’re talking, what, 20 years ago now. So yeah, I doubt anything’s changed since then because I think regardless isn’t isn’t the curriculum. You know, we’ll get back on C to English now, but it hasn’t the curriculum for standard education been in place since like the 1900s or something or is not it’s just not changed.
And yeah, it’s, I mean, obviously you would imagine some of the controversial change or setting. Yeah, evolve. But the, the whole system is just kind of remained the same. And it’s, the some of those subjects that I think everyone agrees was that we should have scrapped science. Once you’ve once you’ve learned about science. Now I’m just thinking, you know, well, say science, science can be interesting, but I don’t need to know what a covalent bond is.
Yeah. I don’t need to know. In mathematics, when you start going into calculus or. I mean, I didn’t even don’t know. There are so many things in maths, I think. Yeah, most, most people that go to school, ever going to need that or use that in their life. No, I’m going to say like 90% of people.
But but science, you can’t get rid of science because of like experiments and things. Did you ever have a crazy science teacher like I did where they took like the biggest ball of light? I think it was. Is it sodium carbonate and dropped in water and it like, fizzes up and and explodes? I think that’s the chemical I can’t remember.
It’s they’re funny gags. Hey. No, no. All right. Okay. This is up anyway. And normally it just bangs. But this teacher put the biggest piece. It explode. It took the lights out of the ceiling. It was so funny. Everyone was like, whoa, that’s insane. But I remember that science teacher was was really, you know, he. I think he enjoyed his subject.
He actually always reminded me of Agent Smith from The Matrix. Oh, that’s kind of what he looked like for some reason. He also had, you know, those glasses. I mean, those, like, reading glasses that you get that also, they do have the real, like, little. No, they weren’t even, like, reacting lines. He, he used to have, I think the ones that used to, like, flick up as well.
Oh, God. That’s, like, between sunglasses and. Yeah. No, I think he had that. Or it could have been the ones that change color. You know, after this kind of time when your memories just trust your memories, it’s like you start combining things. Yeah, but he was one of these guys, for some reason. He he demanded. And he got respect from from kids.
No one called Dimension Smith. Them not to his face. Never. But again, he was very, very serious about his subjects and what he did on that. But, I do remember when the guys did some experiments that, they they had a thermometer inside. I think they’re using, like, ethanol or something like that, but they needed to drop a thermometer and see.
But obviously when you’re talking to I went in all boys school. And yeah of course when you’re like 16, 17 you’re dealing with ethanol. What’s the first thing you want to do. Are you going to try to drink it. Yeah. But they I believe that the guys actually cracked the thermometer inside this ethanol before they decided to drink it.
Oh, Jesus. So that also had mercury inside of it, which kind of made it even worse. So I think they got sent straight to the hospital. I think they’re fine in the end. Developed superpowers, but, yeah, that’s the way to do it. Definitely. So, I mean, you know, that’s a good origin story for the for for a marvel character.
What, like Captain Mercury? And it’s just like, at room temperature, you just like just Mercury. Mercury is a pretty cool name. The mercury is, but is it’s not really like Mercury. It just goes into, like, liquid when it’s at room temperature at night. Then you got what you can do, just like be a puddle. Well, I suppose you could give people mercury poisoning.
Yeah, yeah. There you go. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, just get it off once again. Get it off topic. Oh, yes. So what we do, but, yeah. When it comes to subjects, why do you not want to go back and finish off your English Afrikaans language story first? Oh, wow. That’s way back. Do you even remember what it was?
Kind of. But I was thinking when it came to, Afrikaans. Afrikaans was the second language. So if I can say you kind of needed to know it, but you could still pass the entire year by getting like 33%, like, if you know a third of the language, you were okay, that’s that’s how. Well, you know, I think I’d just about scraped through, that I was that rubbish.
Anyway, so you don’t know any Afrikaans now. Yeah. Yeah. No, no. What was that. Yeah, that was it. It’s a yeah. That’s known. Yeah. Well, that’s some Afrikaans so. Yeah. See 33%. The I feel like I’ve heard you say before that you understand it, but you can’t speak it. Yeah. Again, it’s getting it’s getting a lot worse the longer I’m here.
Yeah, I went to, a long time ago. I was a sales sales rep for, a company back in South Africa. And it was one of those awkward moments when I can’t speak Afrikaans. The buyer on his, you know, the buyer on his side refuses to speak English. Oh. Oh. Can, but refuses. I expect. Can, but refuses.
And he’s just talking to me in full on Afrikaans. I think I’m catching about every third word and need a sudden get the business like, you know, I don’t be a dick about this. Yeah. You know, if I don’t know the language, you don’t know the language. There’s a lot of dicks in the world, though. I think the French are a bit like that.
But then also the French addicts, you know, I like it is. It’s. What is it about? Because. Because we’ve got this thing about the French, and I think just about the whole world has got this thing about who’s got the British, the South Africans or the English. You’ve got. No, no, I’m, I’m English now. Yeah. Okay. So us Brits, us Brits have got this thing about the thing about the French.
Yeah, yeah. And yeah, the whole world hates us. Yeah. What. Why is it the. Oh, man. I think it goes back to the fact that we colonized most of the world. I say colonized. We didn’t really. We kind of did. But, because we’ve I read somewhere on Twitter somebody saying why? Why everyone hates the Brits and it’s something to do of us starting a war in every country in the world.
Yeah. But I think I also read like 90% of those wars were like 2000 years ago or something stupid like that. And you think, you know, get over it. Yeah. Hold a grudge match. Yeah, exactly. We didn’t do it. I personally, you know, I didn’t stop. Yeah. It’s just strange how people kind of hang on to this thing and.
Yeah, you build I mean, I don’t, I think I’ve met probably 2 or 3 French people in my life and all the last people, some some. Right. I mean, it’s like anywhere, I suppose I am. I remember going to, when I, when I went to Japan talking 15 years ago now, I bought some Saki. Yeah, I got rice.
Yeah. Rice wine. Bought some as a gift from my dad because I’ve been to Japan. He’s never been, I bought it in the duty free. Now, we had to have an adjoining flight to Paris before we could come home. Because I think we flew into Southampton. Should have just gone to Japan, to London. But we had to go to France first.
And I had a sealed bottle of Saki from Duty Free, and they took it the French to, they were like, you can’t, you can’t have that. It’s like this, but it’s sealed and it’s been brought in duty free. I’m sure it breaks rules, but, you know, I was like, you assholes. I can’t even put it in my bag.
You know, if I can put it in my bag, it wouldn’t be a problem. But I don’t plan on drinking it just. It’s like it was all boxed and sealed and, so that’s that’s out the way. My grudge for the French people comes just for one bottle of sucky. Like this. Could be worth. They stole about a tenner.
£30. Really? Back in 2008, I think it was called. You got pensive. You got some of the good stuff, then? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it’s a way to do it and try it. Try to. It tastes horrible. But when I tried it out, it didn’t taste great. You’re supposed to, you’re supposed to also drink it warm, though. And she,
Yeah, I think we did just. Yeah. No. Not less. Kind of. I think it’s got a bit of a whiskey sort of flavor to it. Yeah. Nice. Nice. And there the Chinese have that as well. My dad, I don’t for some reason, after a few drinks, my dad always brings out the Chinese rice. One. What did you think of it?
What else do you like here? No, listen, it’s not my drink of choice. I’m not going to. I’m not going to go to the pub and ask for some Chinese rice. One. No, no, of course not. Even even in my cut of. I just was thinking the other days how I don’t. I’ve got bottles of alcohol in my cupboard that I just have not touched.
Right. Yeah. This this a bottle of tequila back there. I’m like, I don’t even drink tequila. I’m not the rock. Yeah, I got no time for tequila in my life. Oh, I’m with you. Oh, yeah. It. I’m. I’ve been gifted bottles of things over my lifetime. And I’ve got a bottle of champagne that must be about 20 years old now.
Or, you know, something like that. I think I won it in a raffle, and I was like, cool. I’ve got a bottle of champagne. Yeah, I know, back it back then it was great, but I’ve never drunk it. And I was like, I’ll save it for a really special occasion. I’ve since been married, had kids. I, I’ve done so many things and I’m still waiting for that special occasion.
It’s because I’ve won the, Monaco Grand Prix yet, so I’m going to hold on to it for a little bit. The problem is you’re still just you keep waiting and it’s like, at what point do you not drink it anymore? You’re like, oh my God, the stuff’s like 20 years old. And what can I have it now?
Yeah, but doesn’t, doesn’t all, old alcohol tastes better with age? I don’t know about all alcohol. That’s I mean, I would I would guess that I don’t think so. One wine does what one turns into vinegar, doesn’t it? But that’s when it’s open. Yeah. So this is an unopened bottle. So it could be quite, quite special one day.
This. Okay. Sainsbury’s champagne. I’ve got a warrant. Warrant? When we get to, a thousand listeners, I will, I’ll. I’ll share that bottle with you. It’s a good point. I’ll even do the magic sword openers. Okay. Yeah, I’ve seen that. I’ve seen that go wrong many a time. But I think it needs to be a higher value than a thousand listeners.
I think it needs to be solved to the point where we’re making a lot of money off of this before. That’s okay. About a 20 year old bottle of. Okay. Is it champagne or prosecco? It’s champagne. It’s okay. It’s going to be dank. Yeah. That. So does that mean good or bad? I forget what dank. Yeah. I feel like the kids these days say it is a good thing.
Well, because you got to rank. Yeah, well, right. Rank is bad. So dank was always bad. I thought originally. It’s like a bad smell. I can’t even say in English, because that sounds weird. It almost takes us back to the English. English language lessons, to the to to. These words start making their way into the lessons. You know, to go to the teachers, start getting a bit more modern with it.
Like, well, can I think what, what books or what books did you have to read at school? Dude, this is 20 years ago. I haven’t got a clue. 20 plus years books. I remember we had to. We had to read a Shakespeare of some sort. Yeah. Which again, why? I really don’t know if Shakespeare was the best writer of all time.
You know, I think I think the some better writers know of his day. I expect he was quite good. But yeah, there’s definitely better royals now. Yeah, there’s a reason we’re not making Shakespeare movies anymore. I think there’s a lot of stuff that’s, kind of stemmed from from Shakespeare. I think he probably came up with a lot of original ideas.
I think he wrote. He wrote Batman, didn’t he? Probably. Yeah. But yeah, I think as as it kind of goes on, it’s. Yeah, things just improve. You don’t go. It’s not the same thing with technology. And you go, oh, well, we need everyone to open up. I don’t know, Apple MacBook one or whatever else and appreciate it for its time.
And, you know, we need everyone to use them for you. Yeah. An Apple MacBook, one. I don’t even know if that’s a thing. Oh, you mean like in a lesson? They’re not making kids take old technology out and use it. So yeah. Yeah, yeah, that’s a fair point. So. So we read Shakespeare. Yeah. Read something decent. So I don’t know.
I mean I’m trying to think about it. I would read I don’t know no James Bond books. They could right. In fact even those are too old. Now again, I think there’s probably contents in there that’s just not good. Yeah. Not well, again, some of the, some of the books that, for some reason, remember, remember reading this like a couple Portugal.
Wow. This is a bit raunchy. Yeah. You know, we read more like. You have to go back. Yeah, probably. Yeah. And even, we had to watch a couple of films as well because you do this whole silly analysis and. Oh, really? We didn’t do that. The films was always like a last day of term type thing.
No, no, no, we had to do, like, full, full analysis on films and schools. You know, what the story was about. Why did they use these angles and what was that movie with just the one movie that I knew we watched? Well, the two, but there was one. I think it was Sean Penn where he was, Jesus Christ, he was like a, he’s only been in about 100 movies for.
I think it just one of the big ones where he was a, he was on death death row. And there was another lady trying to find whether or not his guilty or not. Yeah. Anyway. But, you know, they would say, well, why do you think the why do you think they’d have the two opposing people in the prison bars between them?
You know, it’s it’s basically showing you the barriers between the people and the key guys just looking. This is way too deep. It’s just a film. That’s just it’s because they once they’re close to the bars and they wouldn’t be able to get the camera close because they would be able to put his face in its face. The fact guys say, but then there was this one film where I think it was a, I want to say, a policeman or something, had to go protect some Amish people.
And he basically falls in love with this Amish woman. And there’s this one scene where she gets undressed and obviously she’s got boobs. And you can just imagine in a room full of guys. And so, yeah, an boys school as well was there for today, a female teachers, an all boys school. So yeah. Yeah, I wouldn’t even say probably even the majority.
But yeah, there were there was strict though, teachers who just did not. Yeah. They were just didn’t mess. I didn’t mess with although there were a couple, you know, you’re when you can sense out when you’re a kid and you can sense the weak ones that there was one teachers. Yeah. I went okay not I’m not a great student.
So I think you’ve kind of gathered this much since, you know, school history. But, when I went to the same school since I was 12. And then you finish when you’re 18, in South Africa and so when you’re 12, I think that’s grade seven. And grade eight is high school, as they call it. So it’s like that transition.
So you pretty much going into new school. And what they decided was they would start this new system. And in a way, when I’m looking back now, it kind of makes sense where they would take, these three classes that break everyone up into three, three groups. It lets it and but they would break the, you know, instead of I think someone is probably lazy instead of going, oh, well, let’s put all the, you know, let’s put Adam in this class and we’ll put Carl in that class and Charlie in that class and randomize it that way.
They decided, well, we’re going to separate that into what grades they’ve got. So A, B and C classes. So you got to get all the idiots together. Yeah. So you couldn’t get all the performing students together. Yeah. You know that averaging 90s and get all the you know people that haven’t got 90s in the B class. Yeah.
All the try hards. But Carl and then you got all the shitheads like me and the people that don’t give a damn in the C class. Did the C class make some teachers leave. Absolutely. Yes. Because they could not be bothered. Well the it looked something to be the thing that didn’t see the C classes together surely.
Because. Well yeah. You just put in all the like oh yeah. All the rambunctious kids. There’s that word rambunctious. I think that sounds pretty good, I like it. Well, we’ll be, all those kids together. Like the ones that are going to cause issues and and then and then you got, like, your thick kids in there as well.
It would just, you know, no one’s no one’s progressing with that. No. No one, no one progressing that school, if anything, kind of got worse. Just like, well, the school doesn’t care about me. They putting us all together, so I’m just going to get a crack on. As I said, that’s fine. But there was a situation where they,
I can’t remember if someone locked the teacher because they’ve, you know, in a, in some of the classrooms they used to have, like, a little. I don’t wanna call it like, cloak room, but like a room where they keep maybe some of the stationery and some books and textbooks and that kind of thing. And they come. But, yeah, I can’t remember if she locked herself in there at one point or a student locked her in there.
That. Is ridiculous. Oh, man, I just so that’s one job I, I could not do. God, my God, it’s, because, there was a show that I’ll watch, especially here in this country when. And of course, when you watch these shows or documentaries about these kids at these schools, they also going to pick probably the worst schools to make sure.
And then it’s going to be edited cleverly. So it looks even worse than it probably is. Yeah. And they just, I just don’t, I don’t know how the teachers can handle some of these kids, I promise. I, I would backhanded a few, a long time ago and taken them straight back to grade one. Just like the kid.
Yeah. The kids, the a like real naughty little buggers are, you know, they’re trying to fight the teacher, and the teacher’s not allowed to do anything about it. You know, the teachers should be allowed to just back and, like you say, they need a you start it. Yeah. What’s your, Because, I mean, it kind of phased out when we, when we left.
What did they actually call it when, when the teachers could discipline. Oh, like, gave him the cane. Yeah. Give them the cane. And there’s like an uncle. Yeah. There’s like a, there’s an actual, like word or, meeting parents and meeting for it, but yeah, some kind of discipline in, in schools and. Yeah getting the cane. But I remember when the other school that I was in got some his history to tell on schools as well.
Should we should we end up there in the next one? Yeah. I’m actually got a good, I’ve got a good story about, being a dysfunctional student and, sort of ties in with the teacher getting locked in the cupboard, but we’ll tell out on the next one. I think if you’re. If you want. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Go, go on the journey. Yeah. Excellent. Right. Or we’ll catch you on the next one. Thanks. That’s going to continue. See you later.