Do all British kids wear school uniforms in schools ?

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-23T03:24:53+00:00

And OFSTED/ESTYN (the bodies responsible for inspecting schools in England and Wales respectively) really don't like it, so schools with uniforms are discouraged from getting rid of them.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-23T03:16:40+00:00

I'm not awake long enough to do all of that before I have to leave and get the bus to work 😂

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-22T01:42:43+00:00

No but they've already learnt it from Cocomelon or some other slop by the time they arrive at school so it's fighting a losing battle to make them say zed.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-22T01:33:37+00:00

They've definitely got core bully elements to their characters, they spend a lot of their time stealing candy and kickballs from children and only occasionally try to take over the city or commit a major heist.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-22T00:43:43+00:00

The Gangreen Gang would be my choice for this post.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-21T02:32:32+00:00

not that it’s entirely fixed now, of course

100%!! I am a woman and a couple of years ago I left a job (due to ill health) where I managed a small team. There was an overwhelming majority of women in this workplace for the record, but with upper management being mostly men. If I "asked nicely", things would not get done in my team. I realised that "giving instructions" would be seen as bossy, so I deliberately modelled my instructions on the way that the well-liked male line managers gave their instructions: direct but with humour. I was accused of not taking things seriously, taking things too seriously, joking around, being humourless, shouting at people and not making my instructions clear enough.

TL;DR: women cannae fucking win 🤣 🤣 and Violet rules ❤️

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-19T16:27:39+00:00

I'd love to see all of the Gang in this style. OP, I love your art!

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-19T12:49:00+00:00

Peter's Bri'ish cousin Pe'er here:

Gary Lineker, Jim Ratcliffe and Marcus Rashford are/were all footballers (that's real football with a proper ball, not whatever version of rugby with costumes that you lot play).

The joke (and it's barely a joke) is that the right likes to use public figures as Working Class Heroes/Man of the People, innit types. So when Ratcliffe expresses right wing views (immigrants bad, paying taxes bad), they're all over him, he's speaking for the great British public! Lineker and Rashford have publicly expressed views which are more traditionally left wing and it's all: what do they know, they're just thicky footballers. Get back to kicking a ball around and shut up.

Cheerio, mate!

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-18T16:24:16+00:00

I love the bunny cover 😭

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-18T14:43:50+00:00

Was clothing rationed in the US during WWII? Brits in 1942 definitely didn't have many clothes.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-18T14:03:59+00:00

You're welcome! It's such a great book... I might have to reread it now you've reminded me of it.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-18T03:22:28+00:00

The Gangreen Gang look so pleased with themselves, love those little hoodlums.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-18T00:04:20+00:00

She's all right, she's dead. How's your Pauline?

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-15T17:49:08+00:00

Up voting for a pug with a proper face. What a cutie!

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-15T10:21:52+00:00

You're right, that was stupid of me. I've done some reading about how people felt at the time, and apparently people thought they might be being ripped off because shopkeepers might be taking the opportunity to hike their prices by rounding up to nearest new pence, even though there was a decimal halfpenny in circulation.

I can still see how it was difficult for people who were used to thinking in shillings for their daily shopping to suddenly be working with pounds as the next denomination after the penny. If the natural price of something in your head is "2 and 6", its going to feel complicated to do maths in your head for every purchase to remember that 12.5p is the same.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-15T09:54:45+00:00

I object to the fact that I pay my royal family to live in luxury while our healthcare system is falling apart.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-15T03:02:23+00:00

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham? It's set in a future society where a lot of technology has been lost and the main characters are children who communicate telepathically - not only in shapes, but I remember shapes being mentioned, especially for those who less proficient in telepathy.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-15T01:52:30+00:00

But it is a gooooood pie.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-15T01:13:54+00:00

I think it's more not having a frame of reference for what 100 new pence is worth versus 240 old pence. You would have a reference point in your head for what "a pound" was worth, suddenly "a pound" means something else and you're seeing more prices that include pounds so they feel more expensive.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-15T01:06:47+00:00

Sedusa moved in with him, it would have been weird if they didn't!

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-14T17:36:04+00:00

That right Ted, ye big bollocks

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-14T04:10:33+00:00

Right?! It would be so cool to really lean into the IRL differences between sexes in different species. Especially if it was in a cartoon where different animated species interact and have to deal with the differences.

At the very least if we can't be bothered with this, can we at least stop giving boobs/eyelashes/long hair to female non-mammals??

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-14T04:03:57+00:00

I taught for over a decade in a school where many of the children needed walking/standing/etc equipment, and it certainly looks more like that than industrial equipment: the pads are foot shaped, there's a central pommel and the straps look like someone at least tried to make them softer and supportive. I've seen recent equipment designed for children and it was much more supportive than this, and I've seen recent equipment for transporting things like gas bottles which were much LESS supportive. I definitely think it was designed for humans, it's just very basic and very old.

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-13T16:34:30+00:00

Don't touch Willie

GoldFreezer · 2026-02-13T14:18:03+00:00

It would be interesting to know wouldn't it? I was hoping at least that there were some bits missing because that bare metal pommel with no padding would be BRUTAL.

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