Questiontime

[Anubis]

Isn't that Gotham General after The Joker bombed it?

[Stickman]

What year did you leave mate?

 

 

Probably would have been better off in Beirut, This blog is done by two lads about 15-20 years older than me who went, it's quite funny and horrifying in equal measures some of the shit that happened, not just in the school but in Netherley in general. Some excerpts:

 

http://www.granta.com/Archive/102/Netherley/Page-1

 

 

My dad used to tell me this story, he went to school around the same time as the two fellas who wrote the blog, and I always thought he was blagging me. Seems not.

 

 

 

Netherley Comp.

 

 

It changed it's name to Lee Manor High School for the last 6-7 years it was open to try and change it's image. Didn't work

 

 

Left in 87 what about yourself?

I was in C block and had Miss Billington for register for the 5 year sentence that I was there...

 

To be honest and I gonna stick up for my old school here in the 70's and 80's it wasn't that bad had great sport facilities, cricket nets, tennis courts, good indoor 5 a side pitch and on Sunday's the pitches on the fields were used for sunday league, which had a pretty good athletics track going around it

Also a not bad good library, language labs and great engineering workshop

Don't think those pics do it any justice as it was left to rot a for a fair bit, t was meant to be turned into some sort of sport village when the whole of the school and fields were going to be turned into I thnk a 9 hole golf course and fishing and sports complex.

Unfortunately as usual in Liverpool the money ran out and it is what it is today.

 

Still had some great times there though...but I guess if you go/live somewhere like Netherley you do, even if it has a bit of a reputation....

[Sugar Ape]

Left in '97. To be fair those pictures are near enough exactly what the school looked like when I went. Wasn't all bad there, but as you say, if you grow up in an area like Netherley then that is all you are used to and you acclimatise to it, I remember some lad called Carlos moved to Wavertree from Brazil and for some reason his parents put him in Netherley Comp. He only lasted about 3 weeks before he got moved from the school, he wasn't helped by the fact we all thought he would be like Pele coming from Brazil and he was terrible.

[lifetime fan]

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Liverpool, with Conservative education minister Liz Truss, Labour's shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint, president of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron, author of the book 'Chavs', Owen Jones and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Fuckin' hate Hitchens. Dislike Flint, too. 

[Dr Nowt]

I wonder if one of them will make a hilarious joke about Owen Jones looking young, to denigrate his point of view.

[lifetime fan]

Fuckin' hate Hitchens. Dislike Flint, too.

 

You would though.

[lifetime fan]

Everyone hates Hitchens. Even his brother hates him.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Imagine I'm sporting a bemused expression. 

[lifetime fan]

David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Liverpool, with Conservative education minister Liz Truss, Labour's shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint, president of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron, author of the book 'Chavs', Owen Jones and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens.

Jones, Flint and Fallon...might even be a few decent answers tonight.

[Scooby Dudek]

Fuckin' hate Hitchens. Dislike Flint, too.

I find Flint talks at you, rather than to you. Her style really annoys me.

[Tyler Durden]

Can't really explain why I dislike Caroline Flint but I do, she just comes across like she mesmerises a phrase book before she's wheeled out

[Scooby Dudek]

Can't really explain why I dislike Caroline Flint but I do, she just comes across like she mesmerises a phrase book before she's wheeled out

I was going to add, she says what she wishes to say, irrespective of the question that is asked. You have now explained why.

[Stickman]

She's a Blairite that's enough in my book to be labelled a twat.

[Faustus]

Ten seconds into Question Time and Hitchens comes out with standard Mail obnoxious shite. Got to be a record that.

 

Said it once and I'll say it again, I'm sure their columnists are on a massive wind up.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

That Tory cunt is driving me insane. She's one of the most vacuous twats I've seen on this program.

[Faustus]

That Tory cunt is driving me insane. She's one of the most vacuous twats I've seen on this program.

 

Aye. Daft bint her.

 

And I think I'm going to scream if I hear a Tory say the phrases 'switch providers' or 'lowest tariff' in relation to energy one more time.

[RedRazor]

I really like watching Peter Hitchens his breadth of knowledge is astounding,but....... he comes across as a right arrogant sod.

[lifetime fan]

I really like watching Peter Hitchens his breadth of knowledge is astounding,but....... he comes across as a right arrogant sod.

 

He's a prick.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I really like watching Peter Hitchens his breadth of knowledge is astounding,but....... he comes across as a right arrogant sod.

 

He has a little knowledge about a lot of subjects. He just presents one points strongly. Typical of the right wing in this country.

[lifetime fan]

It's a pity Owen Jones comes across as a bit of a dick as he speaks a hell of a lot of sense.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Hitchens is such a fucking wally. A clueless, out of touch, hate-filled shithead.

[RedRazor]

Owen Jones is impressing me more as the show goes on. I'd vote for him.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Tory woman has probably gone off to relearn what renewable means.

[stevebaby]

This book will be bigger than War and Peace. Simon will win the Nobel Prize with this epic tale. This I believe.