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Jimmy Big Nuts
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ever been to a school reunion? I've been invited to one. I said I'd got but I'm quite scared at the prospect of being 16 again. I'm sure I'll end up just acting like i did when I was a kid. Kind of quiet and depressed. But I really would like to meet up with some old friends again, so I think I'll brave it even if I end up fleeing the bar in tears and getting my mum to pick me up. Right now I'm like, what do I wear? Who do I hang out with? How do I act around people who haven't seen me as an adult? Straight away I'm back there again.

Anybody been to one? How did it go? Would you go if you got invited?

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Vogon Poetess

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We had a "reunion" during our first year at Uni, ie about 7 months after we'd left 6th Form. So most people were comparing the cost of drinks at their Union bars, and it wasn't that exciting.

I would go, because I'm nosy and want to hear about how other people have fucked their lives up, and see who's got fat and bald.

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Nathan Bleak
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I'd definitely go to my secondary school reunion, if such a thing ever happened (probably won't). I had a good time there and while I'm still in touch with a lot of my friends from there, there are a few people I'd like to catch up with. Teachers, too. There are a few I'd like to say hi to again, people who were encouraging and spent a lot of time organising extra curricular activities for the kids. I'm told that it's gone downhill in recent years, which is a shame, so maybe it'd be depressing to see that.

The other place, I went to though... fucking hell... I can't see myself wanting to go back there except as some kind of masochistic journey into hate. The only reason I'd want to be back there would be to re-enact the end scenes of If...

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herbs

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I'd be curious to know if my perceptions of how other saw me - bit weird, swottish, too keen to be liked - were correct. If they weren't it would make me feel better, but if they were it would be too depressing to contemplate. So, all in all, I'd rather live in blissful ignorance. I don't see anyone from school any more, and haven't for about 10 years.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall, however.

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sabian

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I happened to be back home when my 10 year high school reunion happened.

I went and got as far as the car park and whilst sitting smoking a cigarette (how I miss thee) and watching people I was forced to spend time with for 13 years who I haven't spoken to in 10 years walk through the doors of the stadium, I just couldn't be bothered.

So, I started my car and off I drove.

Then, a year later when I went home for my grandma's funeral, I went to a bar where a 'friend' from school was and we started chatting and he said that the reunion was as cliche as it could be with the old jocks trying to posture, snobs joining together, gossips going at it like it was study hall circa 1994... Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed I didn't go. My friends from school are the ones I still talk to today, everyone else was just 'there'.

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Abby
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The majority of people I was at school with seem to still live in the same town, so I see them about when I go and visit my mum. Obviously I pretend not to recognise most of them, although I couldn't resist a slightly smug hello when I ran into one of the scary girls with spiral perms and high-up ponytails working in the local petshop. I’m not quite sure why I was so smug - I was the one spending my holiday fitting a catflap.

Benway - you should have a good stack of vomiting in the bin/hangover stories handy for the occasion.

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Tilde
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Also, don't take any weapons.
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herbs

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There'd also be the jolly old cliche of feeling like a failure compared to those with millions of lovely children. Even though they work in the same bank they started work in at 17 and I'm a high-flying London Media Twat.
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Jimmy Big Nuts
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I don't think I'll be going in and comparing myself to them. I'm more concerned that it'll turn into Carrie.
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Jimmy Big Nuts
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by the way I don't always vomit in bins! [Mad] That only happened once at work.
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ben

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quote:
Originally posted by Vogon Poetess:
and see who's got fat and bald.

Sneak preview: everyone.

I look back on school as a really terrible period of my life - I'd even go so far as to say that I don't think I really started living properly until I'd left. I mean: double physics ffs - what kind of crazy soul-death is that to be visiting on a 14yo?

The few people I got on with at school I've kept in regular contact with. Of the rest, there's probably about one or two individuals out of twenty years' schooling that I wouldn't mind seeing again. There were only a couple of decent teachers and one of them had a nervous breakdown.

I would skip the reunion, Benway. Why not re-watch King of Comedy for the excellent sequence that reminds us that no good can come of fantasies of vindication and revenge in a high school setting.

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Jimmy Big Nuts
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maybe you're right. What good can come of it.
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squeegy
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Send Harlequin as yourself. He'd get a hug or two.

Initially...

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ben

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That would be fucking ace, actually - sending someone who looks nothing like you in your place to see if anyone is 'rude' enough to observe that 'you' have had a complete face and body transplant.

"Yeh a lot of people say I've changed. Been a hard couple of decades. Three divorces, a bankruptcy and a spell in jail does things to you, right?"

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ralph

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This was done on Taxi, Season One, Episode Seven:

High School Reunion: Louie is dreading his high school reunion because of a cruel trick played on him. Bobby offers to take his place at the reunion under the scheme that Louie grew after high school.

Remember that episode dang? Dang?

[ 22.05.2007, 08:15: Message edited by: ralph ]

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dang65
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No, but it sounds like a good one.
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Benny the Ball
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I used to watch Taxi - my parents with their lax morals, would allow us to sit up late and watch all kinds of stuff like V and Soap, which was always shown at about 10.30 in the olden days.

But I don't remember that one, sorry, ralph.

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ralph

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It was a classic. Bobby, being an aspiring actor, took the job as a sort of professional challenge. He started talking like Louie and everything. Good stuff. Hard to believe that was 29 years ago. I feel really old. [Frown]
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Samuelnorton
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Funny. We have our annual school reunion in a couple of weeks' time. Despite the fact that I have more or less single-handedly written the alumni website (or perhaps because of it) I have not managed to make one of the big shindigs, keeping things down to the occasional small gathering up - though saying that the last of these was in the spring of 2001.

For the past three years the annual gathering has taken place I have either been out of the country or just plain busy, but this time I am available. I am still deciding whether to go or not; one of my best mates whom I am still in touch with will definitely be there, while another feels slightly uncomfortable at the thought of meeting people who might have beat the crap out of him back in 1984.

Should I go, TMO?

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New Way Of Decay

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Wouldn't it be brilliant if it was fancy dress?

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omikin
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i'm not sure anyone gives a toss, sn.

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Samuelnorton
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Yeah, I figured that. Fucking useless c¥nts.

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mart
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I think you should go, Rick. One should do things in life. Not doing things means that things won't happen. The cheese aisles of life are there to be travelled down.
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Darryn.R
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All my year at school will be 40 this year, it'd be great to mark it with a reunion and see how we all are at 40, some 20 odd years later.

BUT apart from say, Geoff everyone I went to school with was a cunt.

[ 27.05.2007, 08:14: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]

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my own brother a god dam shit sucking vampire!!! you wait till mum finds out buddy!


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Samuelnorton
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quote:
Originally posted by mart:
I think you should go, Rick. One should do things in life. Not doing things means that things won't happen. The cheese aisles of life are there to be travelled down.

lol. I've bitten the bullet and put my name on the list. Roll on June 9th.

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Jimmy Big Nuts
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look, even darryn is using the workaround to write **** . Isn't it time the censorship was taken off?
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Ringo

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Yeah but where does it end, Benway? First **** , then what? *******? ***? or even **********? Yeah I know it's a big leap, but once you set the precedent, the boundaries of acceptable useage come tumbling down. It's a pandora's box, you mark my words.
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Jimmy Big Nuts
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bah, whatever. **** it is.
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