Catholic Nuns for me also Sofs I know.

Sister Bernadette was my Latin teacher

Edit : even for thread cred I refuse to have a spotty bum.

My best friend went to a Convent school - I was so jealous for some reason
I think it was the uniform.
I just went to the CofE Primary school which was a bit more dippy hippy and all about expressing yourself she was jealous of me as well. We did try to switch places but we couldn't fool anyone

It's a metaphorical spotty bum, mine is exceptionally smooth & well formed, but for the purposes of this thread my arse is spotty, cellulite ridden and saggy 😜

You have no idea, aggs!! The majority were absolute bastards and some of the things that went on would see them jailed nowadays. I got so many beatings, it was unreal.


It is very true what was said earlier . if you can master Latin, then it gives you a good sounding for other languages. I have worked all round Europe and the only languages I have struggled with badly are Polish and Portuguese. SWMBO was most shocked the first time we went to France on holiday ............ she just looked and said 'you have never said you could speak French' lol

Who can ever forget those immoral words ......... amo, amas, amat.

I have nothing but respect for the nuns in our local convent. A couple of years ago a section of our town was flooded. Much of the area was people on benefits and the nuns took in all the single mums and their families, they lived there completely free of charge for about 6 months. I was working on a project with one of the nuns at the time and the convent was noisy, messy and children running around everywhere, and the nuns seemed to be loving every minute of it.

Sorry but Georgia mentioned on ITT tonight she's got backing dancers who will be dressed as other characters from Beauty & the Beast... judging by Joe Varney's reaction I think that was meant to be a surprise though!

I hope we don't get a rumba with backing dancers but its probably going to happen.

She was my headmistress. Miserable bint.

And nobody would have been jealous of my uniform. Sh*t brown with peachy/beige blouses and ties with the school colours on (red/yellow and blue/green in double stripes - tasteful). The school badge was okay though.

The bane of my life was the school straw boater in summer, in the rain the ribbon dripped down your back and every girl in the school had a marroon splatter pattern down the back of their school summer dresses.

The winter bowlers were better you could tip your head forward to remove the rain from the gutter around it.

Woe betide you were caught outside school not wearing your hat, the Catholic priests from the boys school would also dob you in.

However, I work with a nun occasionally now and she is a completely different kettle of fish, to the holy terrors of my youth.

Just back from my Argentine Tango class where we practised that well known move the Al Reves (upside down)

Mmmh, not persuaded. Me and my smooth bum will have to be thread rebels

BIB Indeed - I took Latin 0 level (Grammar school not convent) and am ex-pat E. Yorkshire but I can read Welsh (keen on all the tenses and has propsitions corresponding to dative and ablative)

amabo, amabis, amabit...

By, with, from a table!

Once you get into Latin is magic. I loved it but always panic in the uni exams (not just Latin) and failed three times in a row. I am forever grateful to the movie Gladiator which I watched the day before my fourth (and last available) time retaking the exam.
The exam was a Seneca passage in which he described his house in Hispania, and just could picture the gladiators house in the movie, very similar. That calmed my nerves and I aced the exam. I got the only A that was awarded in classic Latin in the 5 years I was at uni. Forever grateful to that movie!


Only went to pre school with nuns. Our nun, sor Consuelo (sister consolation) was a Nasty DOT. Seriously. She would leave us alone (class of 15 4/5 year olds) for ten minutes to go to next door. Next door: a bar.
Not making this up!
Obviously she didn't last long as a nun.

It does you good! All that blood rushing to the head.

I wanted to do Latin in the Fourth/Fifth Form as my language choice instead of French or German but there were only two of us wanted to do the course they didn't put it on
Now my school's a bloody specialist language one and they do Latin as a matter of course along with about 20 other ones!

My niece is taking Latin now. She loves the literature but knows no vocab. She's very like her aunt. I hope the result will be similar (she has just got an A for her mock).

BiB - That sounds like my kind of nun! (Joke)

My R.E. teacher was a bit of a pervert. You can see why so many people take against religion.

Fantastic!

I had several RE non of them pervy, but one of them was the most handsome teacher I have ever had. He was hot! That year we were all into religion very much!

I meant for Jay. I'm imagining that all the rest have. I hope he hasn't though.

Lucky you. Unfortunately for us, Pepe le Perv looked like Gregg Wallace with a combover.

Damn you all to Hades!

Just seen the safety pins. Honestly, how can someone get an award for *that*? He was on last, give him a duff pair of trousers while he's in the Clauditorium, they'd have time to run up a decent pair (or, y'know, just a hem) during the show!

Two dirty huge safety pins on the bloody outside of the trousers. Disgusting.

And once seen...... did give me an excuse to watch it twice though, once to watch for pins, then to see if I could watch it without noticing them (I couldn't, must try harder )

Unappreciating that I seem to be the only one that can't remember anything much of Latin in spite of 7 years at school...and I was really good at it!
Understand a fair amount of French but vocabulary has gone AWOL, so speaking it is trying for the listener....

Hats off though to Jay for such an assured performance because that outfit sure wasn't inspiring any confidence.

I never did Latin (boo, always wanted to) but loooooved linguistics, especially socio-linguistics. I even read my uni textbook for fun from time to time...

Gleb needs less blood rushing to his head, then his lip might to down

Wonder if Anita will keep catching it with her knee as she's hurled upside down