Comments on: Weird stuff: reward or punish for doing well in sports? https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:35:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/#comment-22866 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:56:00 +0000 #comment-22866 Isn’t it ridiculous, they will wear proper sportswear at the Olympics but not at home. I am not sure what the religion is in Malaysia, sounds like Muslim, but surely that’s the wrong part of the world? Oh, I just looked it up, Islam is predominant. Didn’t know that before.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/#comment-22865 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:56:00 +0000 #comment-22865 Oh dear, dunno whether to laugh or cry…

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/#comment-22864 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:08:00 +0000 #comment-22864 lol, it happens. I’m not sure that it’s completely concious half the time to be honest. The art teacher probably didn’t even consider that the kids would draw women in swim suits (because she’d never think of doing so) until it was too late.

Can’t remember any occasions from school so much, but at university doing a creative writing course, it was pretty much impossible to get higher than a 2i for anything but literary fiction, whereas it was just about impossible to get mid-low marks for literary stuff (I don’t understand it, therefore it must be good :P). There was also one tutor that it was something of a joke about – if you wanted to get top marks you wrote a script about a depressed, middle aged man – I forget the specifics that would alegedly get you top marks 😉

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/#comment-22863 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:35:00 +0000 #comment-22863 Ah, the Romulans go everywhere…

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/#comment-22862 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000 #comment-22862 I have left comments previously Glenda and they don’t appear. Great story. You are a real stirrer. I love it.

Also, about that Russian cover. It looks like romulans on Star Trek. What is it with those guys?

Donna

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/#comment-22861 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:23:00 +0000 #comment-22861 Covered, heh. But some men should be covered from head to toe…

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/#comment-22860 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:13:00 +0000 #comment-22860 No, they will all wear appropriate sport’s gear. I am not sure, though, what would happen if one of them wanted to wear headgear or long trousers…

BTW, men are supposed to be covered from waist to knee, so Islamic dress code covers men too. Oo, that was a nice pun.

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2008/01/weird-stuff-reward-or-punish-for-doing/#comment-22859 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:06:00 +0000 #comment-22859 The cross-country story I’m not famliar with … but the (British) schools I went to had a strict uniform code for sports, so if for example we had turned up for cross-country in our school football kit instead of the required athletics kit (white gym kit) we would have been penalised in some way.

The beach painting incident, I’m torn between laughing at the ridiculousness of it and being disturbed by shadows of oppression lurking behind it. Especially as there was no reason to lie about it at all. In fact the teacher ould have said from the start “Let’s paint the beach and the wildlife, but no people today” and avoided the problem (unless it was actually a sneaky underhand ploy to find out and promote those children who already displayed the approved ‘correct values’ in their work, and penalise the infidels…)

Question: at the Olympics, will your female team members (if there are any) be required to cover their heads while competing?

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