July 3, 2025 • 3 mins
Children have safety scissors now, but we were totally allowed to use the classroom guillotine at 10-years-old.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gem Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Why it's so an interesting thing the other day because
remember we were speaking about how protected children are now,
and I know a lot of this is clickbait, that's
not true, but I saw this on the BBC. They're
talking about how kids going on, little kids three year
olds going on too, a puppet show and one of
the things I'm going to see was Hickory Dickory dock yep,
And they gave a trigger warning because Hickory Dickary Dock
the mouse ran up the clock, the strucks blah blah
(00:24):
blah blah blah. Ye, apparently there's a bit in it
where a cat's going to be chasing a mouse?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And they had to give a trigger warning because there
might be some tension around that for children. So, this
modern world where kids have safety scissors and all the
rest of it, I saw a picture and it took
me straight back to school. Have a look, Oh, the
school gilletine, the classroom guillotine. Every classroom had a guillotine.
And as they say here, kids have safety scissors now,
(00:51):
but we're allowed to use the classroom guillotine at the
age of ten. Yeah, now, the classroom guillotine.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It was a massive straight down and there's always a
story about some kid that lopped off his finger.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, but I know that was an urban myth.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We had a school incinerate.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, you were that. You were in charge of it,
won't you?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Not me? They wouldn't let me in charge.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You used it, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I chucked all sorts of junk in there. You could
burn anything you want it. Yeah, you know, just chuck everything.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
He could put bodies in there if you need it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And the teachers and stand there. I was talking to
the kids the other day. We're up. You know. They
fence all the train lines.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Off now to stop the kids, tag and trains and
all that sort of stuff. When we were kids, we
built this cabby house right near the train station at
Kronulla and we see it there and it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Anyway, this train stake worker was walking along. What did
you like to do it? Oh, we got this cabby house.
He comes down and.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Look yes, oh yeah, and he goes, just don't go
near the tracks and went okay.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The tracks were literally about ten feet away from covey.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Wow. Anyway, the guy goes, you want to see something
cool though? Yeah, he has anyone got twenty cent piece
on them? Then mate, he's in the twenty cent piece.
He puts it on the track and goes, now, stand
back and watch this train comes along, runs over the
twenty cent piece and then he goes there you go
flatt and twenty said piece And I went, oh, okay,
so he's wrecked our twenty said piece and he don't
(02:06):
let me catch you boys do it that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
This is after he showed us what a City Rail employee?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, what was in your cubby house?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
We had heaps and cool stuff, like like a corrigated
iron It was made out of that and bits of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And we had some office chairs. We had a TV,
a TV.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So what would you playing? You're playing house and we
do the washing up with.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Smoke in the thing and drink a KB.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And look at the occasional magazine.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We found a copy of Ryebald and you know what,
it scared me. It scared me because I thought that
scared me. I wonder about the kids today.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Christ kids can come across that stuff online. It's not
like flicking through a book and seeing something. You can
be looking up leather goods and something horrendous appears on
your screen. Yeah, look at you, come back back. Brendon
Ice at the front. Sydney Sweeney in a fridge Highs
in the front.
Jersey and Amanda gem Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Why it's so an interesting thing the other day because
remember we were speaking about how protected children are now,
and I know a lot of this is clickbait, that's
not true, but I saw this on the BBC. They're
talking about how kids going on, little kids three year
olds going on too, a puppet show and one of
the things I'm going to see was Hickory Dickory dock yep,
And they gave a trigger warning because Hickory Dickary Dock
the mouse ran up the clock, the strucks blah blah
(00:24):
blah blah blah. Ye, apparently there's a bit in it
where a cat's going to be chasing a mouse?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And they had to give a trigger warning because there
might be some tension around that for children. So, this
modern world where kids have safety scissors and all the
rest of it, I saw a picture and it took
me straight back to school. Have a look, Oh, the
school gilletine, the classroom guillotine. Every classroom had a guillotine.
And as they say here, kids have safety scissors now,
(00:51):
but we're allowed to use the classroom guillotine at the
age of ten. Yeah, now, the classroom guillotine.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It was a massive straight down and there's always a
story about some kid that lopped off his finger.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, but I know that was an urban myth.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We had a school incinerate.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, you were that. You were in charge of it,
won't you?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Not me? They wouldn't let me in charge.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You used it, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I chucked all sorts of junk in there. You could
burn anything you want it. Yeah, you know, just chuck everything.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
He could put bodies in there if you need it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And the teachers and stand there. I was talking to
the kids the other day. We're up. You know. They
fence all the train lines.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Off now to stop the kids, tag and trains and
all that sort of stuff. When we were kids, we
built this cabby house right near the train station at
Kronulla and we see it there and it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Anyway, this train stake worker was walking along. What did
you like to do it? Oh, we got this cabby house.
He comes down and.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Look yes, oh yeah, and he goes, just don't go
near the tracks and went okay.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The tracks were literally about ten feet away from covey.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Wow. Anyway, the guy goes, you want to see something
cool though? Yeah, he has anyone got twenty cent piece
on them? Then mate, he's in the twenty cent piece.
He puts it on the track and goes, now, stand
back and watch this train comes along, runs over the
twenty cent piece and then he goes there you go
flatt and twenty said piece And I went, oh, okay,
so he's wrecked our twenty said piece and he don't
(02:06):
let me catch you boys do it that.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
This is after he showed us what a City Rail employee?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, what was in your cubby house?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
We had heaps and cool stuff, like like a corrigated
iron It was made out of that and bits of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And we had some office chairs. We had a TV,
a TV.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So what would you playing? You're playing house and we
do the washing up with.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Smoke in the thing and drink a KB.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And look at the occasional magazine.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We found a copy of Ryebald and you know what,
it scared me. It scared me because I thought that
scared me. I wonder about the kids today.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Christ kids can come across that stuff online. It's not
like flicking through a book and seeing something. You can
be looking up leather goods and something horrendous appears on
your screen. Yeah, look at you, come back back. Brendon
Ice at the front. Sydney Sweeney in a fridge Highs
in the front.
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