The younger brother of a friend got sent to military school. From Catholic schools to military schools...the mom preferred her oldest and youngest. That held true all through his life. I was threatened with an all girls school but I don't think I would have really been sent there as I had never been in trouble with the law and was a decent student. My mom preferred my younger sister and brother and wanted to get rid of me. I'd probably have been safer than I was at home.

(February 25, 2023 at 11:49 am)emjay Wrote: I'm my experience it did take off in the UK, me and my sister grew up on it in the 80's and 90's. I'm not quite sure how old we were when we watched it... I think we were too old for the learning/alphabet stuff etc, but not too old for the puppets. We loved it.

I don't think there's such a thing as too old for the Muppets.

Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of a girl who visits grandma in the woods and gets eaten by a wolf, but who the fuck lets (ill) grandma live alone in the woods in the first place?

(February 25, 2023 at 10:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of a girl who visits grandma in the woods and gets eaten by a wolf, but who the fuck lets (ill) grandma live alone in the woods in the first place?

Like the Eskimos sent their elderly away on floating glaciers, medieval Europe sent them into the deep dark woods.

(February 25, 2023 at 1:16 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The younger brother of a friend got sent to military school.  From Catholic schools to military schools...the mom preferred her oldest and youngest.  That held true all through his life.  I was threatened with an all girls school but I don't think I would have really been sent there as I had never been in trouble with the law and was a decent student.   My mom preferred my younger sister and brother and wanted to get rid of me.  I'd probably have been safer than I was at home.

As someone who's read and seen quite a bit about the Troubled Teen Industry, all I can say is you're lucky that you were likely too old for them. At least the Military Schools are actually teaching shit. At least they're regulated. At least their rules aren't designed to give the people in charge any excuse to punish them. And, from my understanding, kids sent to military schools don't get there by being kidnapped in the middle of the fucking night.

[Trigger Warning: Every Fucking Possible Trigger if you look deep enough into it]

For a bit more information to start off with, watch Nexpo's video "The Cult in a Boarding School," The Right Opinion's "The Dangers of Dr. Phil". Maybe chase that with Joe vs. Elan School. (At least that one's earning a happy ending.)

Elan in particular seems like the sort of school that, if I were to choose between it and Dachau, I'd be fucking pleading to be gassed. Not to trivialise the horrors of Nazi Germany, but if I have to choose between a group that wants me dead, and one that cares just enough about my well-being to not kill me and not one tittle more, I know what I'd pick.

(February 25, 2023 at 10:39 pm)Tomato Wrote:

(February 25, 2023 at 10:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of a girl who visits grandma in the woods and gets eaten by a wolf, but who the fuck lets (ill) grandma live alone in the woods in the first place?

Like the Eskimos sent their elderly away on floating glaciers, medieval Europe sent them into the deep dark woods.

Only in times of famine, only as a last resort, and not once since 1939.

Also, to distract from the heavy shit, it turns out water is absolutely metal now. And that pun was actually intentional.

(February 25, 2023 at 1:16 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The younger brother of a friend got sent to military school. From Catholic schools to military schools...the mom preferred her oldest and youngest. That held true all through his life. I was threatened with an all girls school but I don't think I would have really been sent there as I had never been in trouble with the law and was a decent student. My mom preferred my younger sister and brother and wanted to get rid of me. I'd probably have been safer than I was at home.

My father threatened me with it once. Just once. I didn't take it seriously, having never heard of it before and having no clear idea what all was entailed. Thinking back, I believe military school would have been preferable to remaining in the hell where my father ran the place like Satan himself (overexaggeration, but I'm also gay).

(February 25, 2023 at 10:21 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:

(February 25, 2023 at 11:49 am)emjay Wrote: I'm my experience it did take off in the UK, me and my sister grew up on it in the 80's and 90's. I'm not quite sure how old we were when we watched it... I think we were too old for the learning/alphabet stuff etc, but not too old for the puppets. We loved it.

I don't think there's such a thing as too old for the Muppets.

Yeah, especially (for me) Bert and Ernie... they were awesome... and apparently the quintessential gay couple I was later told

pon pon mos rumel blas.......

(I have to do a rumbly fart)