Who here had the poorest upbringing?

[ASB]

I didn't think you could use voluntas as that sort of "will", but apparently you can and Pliny does that too.

Believe one can; and it's the only way I could make sense of it. But I think now would be a bloody good time to give up since I only ever did "new" Oxford and Cambridge >30 years ago. Hopeful but unlikely chance that I might have got stuck somewhere up the Orinoco and the only common language was Latin (dubious story from Latin master as to why it might one day turn out to be important).

Edit: Initial reaction was "going broke is our eventual wish"

[scooterscot]

Lived my life on council estates. Parents never owned a car, telephone or went abroad. Only luxury was a colour TV. I attended the worst state schools imaginable.


But look at me now. Living the high life in Swindon. Who'd have thought it?

Are you from Yorkshire per chance?

You woz lucky...

Well we had it bad of course when I say we live in a box it was more like a sheet of tarpaulin but tell that to them young ones today they'll not believe you..

[BrowneIssue]

Pah. Thah southern pooftah.

I used to get blisters from walking to school in my bare feet
But mother used to chide me 'You will be glad of them callouses when you need traction in the ice and snow, come winter time.'

Me Mam mithered "Thar'll be glad o' thy callouses in t'winter, when thee's proper clemmed". And she were reet.

[threaded]

Believe one can; and it's the only way I could make sense of it. But I think now would be a bloody good time to give up since I only ever did "new" Oxford and Cambridge >30 years ago. Hopeful but unlikely chance that I might have got stuck somewhere up the Orinoco and the only common language was Latin (dubious story from Latin master as to why it might one day turn out to be important).

Edit: Initial reaction was "going broke is our eventual wish"

I believe you can too. (I've studied a unit or two of Latin at undergraduate level )

And I've found the study of Latin has really come in useful on several occasions. For example, a few months ago I was commenting how much I prefer the Danish translation of The Aeneid to the English one.

[SallyAnne]

We weren't "poor", cause my dad worked. Between his overtime and my mam's clothes making and cooking skills, we had everything we needed and more.

I had a truly blessed childhood.

[Amiga500]

I used to get blisters from walking to school in my bare feet
But mother used to chide me 'You will be glad of them callouses when you need traction in the ice and snow, come winter time.'
Of course , she was right. In those days, it was a two mile hike uphill to get to school, then a two mile hike , uphill, to get back home

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

[DodgyAgent]

My upbringing was so poor I had to become a recruitment consultant

[SallyAnne]

My upbringing was so poor I had to become a recruitment consultant

Were you abused?

[Churchill]

My upbringing was so poor I had to become a recruitment consultant

Were you abused?

Not as much as he is now!

[Drewster]

Cue Pythonesque Yorkshiremen quotes.

[Northern Oik]

Eeeeeee wen I were young we never even 'ad 'kin deja 'kin vu!!!

[/Northern Oik]