WTF! Wild Hogs?

[awayatc]

Wel conquiztador.....wonder no more......
How much is a clear concience worth?
What's the value of looking in the mirror for a shave without feeling shame?
Shame you couldn't see the same guy 30 years or so from now....
There are more ways then one to value somebodies "worth"....

Trust me most lowlives burn out and crash way before their time...

[Molly]

It's simple, it just takes the moral fortitude to hold on long enough to educate all of the kids going to school right now.

Mate. I've been teaching for years. Do you think we DON'T try to educate these kids? Do you think we don't try to instil decent values into them? I let nothing go by and take every opportunity to address respect for others' property, respect for the immediate and wider environment, respect for each other and for staff. But some (and I can only think of a handfull in recent years) struggle to see the big picture. For them gang culture can be very attractive and glamorous. I'm just glad that I teach at a good school. If I'm honest, I don't think I could deal with that crap day in - day out.

Yes, I was being serious. Re the unfairness of the world. Re the value of honesty and respectability. Re what has been installed in us re right and wrong. Re at times you wonder...

No arguments here.

[A_Mans_Ruin]

I'm going to start a Fork owners group, everyone that owns a fork can pay a fee and we can all get jackets and put Fork Owners Group on them, and then we can meet up amd compare forks, and sew little badges on our jackets to show how us Fork owners roll.

Nah Fork You

[caseye]

"Mate. I've been teaching for years. Do you think we DON'T try to educate these kids? Do you think we don't try to instil decent values into them? I let nothing go by and take every opportunity to address respect for others' property, respect for the immediate and wider environment, respect for each other and for staff. But some (and I can only think of a handfull in recent years) struggle to see the big picture. For them gang culture can be very attractive and glamorous. I'm just glad that I teach at a good school. If I'm honest, I don't think I could deal with that crap day in - day out."

Thanks for the honesty, that is unfortunately what actually happens to most teachers, good or bad,
My mum taught for many years and like you and many(but not enough) others she fought it all the way.
My apologies fro making it sound so easy, I know it's not, but if it were possible to hold onto them and make their damned parents responsible and take the rap for them , then it would actually work.
I did make allowance for the few,that's my own idea.Harsh perhaps, but it's time we looked after the rest of us not the criminals.
Many thanks for teaching the kids and for trying so hard, I'm sure you have great days and bad days like the rest of us out there working, but if like my mum you do it right for just one they come back and say hi and they show you what you did for them. I hope that goes along way to helping you keep going.

[Molly]

Cheers for that. Like most jobs there are good days and bad. I was a teacher's worst nightmare when I was a kid so whenever they're playing up I just think it's payback (can even laugh when I recognise myself in them).

In comparison to teaching in the UK (and it's a broad comparison) I find Kiwi kids more willing to work through a problem and they don't require as much spoon-feeding. School's just a much more positive environment here. I'd give up teaching if I had to go back to the UK.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand: Harleys are great but some of the owners are dicks. I think that's where we're up to? ;-)

[caseye]

No probs and yes the bikes are probably Ok if ya like them, but the owners well!

[scumdog]

No probs and yes the bikes are probably Ok if ya like them, but the owners well!

Where do the Harley owner who own other breeds of bike fit in??

[Molly]

Where do the Harley owner who own other breeds of bike fit in??

Dunno but I fit into that category (Guzzi too). When you find out, let me know. :-)

[caseye]

Lurking about in the background there huh scumdog, lol I was baiting me hook but didn't expect such a big fish, all jokes aside I've stopped to make sure harley guys are good to go on the side of the open road. they're Ok dudes as a rule.
As always some spoil it for the rest,all bike riders have that problem.

[scumdog]

Dunno but I fit into that category (Guzzi too). When you find out, let me know. :-)

Snap.

I fit that catagory as well.

[Storm]

So as well as the masculinity crisis, you dont even know which group you should be in ? How do you buggers make it through the day
















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[smoky]

Where do the Harley owner who own other breeds of bike fit in??

Bikophiles, cross-bikers or bi-bikerexual

[smoky]

Here's a bike gang I'd consider joining, depends on how fast they ride of course, they might leave me behind;

[caseye]

Na man, no engines on those bikes you'll probably be able to catch some of em up in a while!

[buellbabe]

"Mate. I've been teaching for years. Do you think we DON'T try to educate these kids? Do you think we don't try to instil decent values into them? .

I sympathise...some teachers must feel like they're wasting their time...they put so much effort into trying instil some morals and principles into kids that go home to a 'family' unit where none of those things exist...