Official Match Thread Season 32 - Round 13: East Side Phoenix v Las Vegas Bears at The Eyrie

[Itsmyshow]

I've been a teacher for 18 months, can I have money?

It's still not #freedomday for me. That will only happen when I can send those damn kids back to school.

 

[Millky95]

How much of that would have been black money?

None, everyone there was white from what Insaw

 

[SM]

I've been a teacher for 18 months, can I have money?

It's still not #freedomday for me. That will only happen when I can send those damn kids back to school.

Yes parents are literally getting money for looking after their kids. You also haven't been a teacher, teachers still prepared your kids' lessons.

 

[Millky95]

I've been a teacher for 18 months, can I have money?

It's still not #freedomday for me. That will only happen when I can send those damn kids back to school.

Freedom Day is stupid. It'll be when the SOE ends

 

[SM]

None, everyone there was white from what Insaw

Holy shit..

 

[I Dont Care]

For the professionals, getting paid to stand around all day and do nothing seems like a pretty good gig. Can earns upwards of a couple of mil to do that for about 6 weeks a year

So not much different to a politician on the backbench

 

[I Dont Care]

I can't get enough of cricket. I love it. Watch it in winter.

You just don't appreciate the quality of the game. It's a fantastic sport.

I was forced to sit down when I was a kid and watch it, summer after summer. Aircon combined with a boring game = IDC dozing off. Then I would get growled to wake up...I missed the action of a wide or something. All I wanted to do was go outside and play with the other kids like any other normal 8 year old kid...but no. I had to keep my grandfather company whilst he 'appreciated the quality of the game' and I had to pretend to be excited by it all or face the wrath of an angry old man. It forever imprinted a disdain of cricket in my mind, so sorry, I will never appreciate it

 

[Agent93]

and of course assuming that paying teachers their worth is actually overpaying

Just like all other loss-leading professions in a capitalist society. Nurses, aged-care workers, hell even the public non-specialist doctors don't earn a hell of a lot for what they do.

 

[Agent93]

How much of that would have been black money?

Tax-free baby!

 

[Tommycash]

Sad to see the player I am most often mistaken for retire.

Now he's gone I suppose the mantle of most attractive player falls on my shoulders. A cross I must bear.

 

[Itsmyshow]

Yes parents are literally getting money for looking after their kids. You also haven't been a teacher, teachers still prepared your kids' lessons.

I absolutely acknowledge that teachers still worked and still prepared lessons, called in to lessons and earnt every cent in a very difficult time for everyone.

To be honest, the whole debate - teachers against parents, whether or not parents were teaching kids or whether the teachers did it, is insulting to both sides.

Parents - In many cases had to carry their own working requirements with coverage of their children and providing hands on instruction to assist them through the home schooling process, teachers have become offensive towards these people by flat out refusing to acknowledge their roles for their own benefit.

Teachers - Have prepared and maintained learning processes, have stayed available and active throughout the entire period, continuing to encourage the kids to keep pushing through and ensuring that learning levels are managed and suited to the kids current learning capacity and position. Parents/General Public have become offensive by flat out refusing to acknowledge their roles.

Both sides of the table have been as irresponsible, derisive and flat out offensive to the other sides and it's bullshit. Particularly as this whole situation is completely out of the control of both sides, we have all had to make the best of the individual situation we face.

And it's comments like yours here (and I am not trying to get offensive and single anyone out, merely addressing the "comment" which I have seen far too many times), are the flame to the fire. How am I literally getting money for looking after my kids? I am working full-time, assisting my kids with their home schooling, their mental issues related to lockdowns, their frustrations at not being able to go anywhere or see anyone in the most important years of their development. I have three kids home schooling, one in high school, two in primary and then a toddler who doesn't even know that going out into the world and making friends is a normal activity, having been in lockdown since he was one year old. I am managing time on social media and electronics, attempting to moderate how much time they spend on devices, knowing that the only method of contact they have with their friends is via social media and electronics. I am getting paid, I am getting paid by my employer, which due to the lockdown forces me to work at all times of the day and night, often starting work at 3am just to get everything I need to get done, done. This way it provides me with the opportunity to ensure the kids are ready and settled in for their school work requirements. I receive no other "payment" for doing this, nor do I care. It is the position that we are all in currently and it has been ****ing hard for all of us.

The best way to address this, is humour, keeping ourselves sane.

So do I get paid to do this? Absolutely not.
Have I been teaching my kids? Absolutely I have.
Have the teachers been teaching my kids and preparing structured work for them to develop? Absolutely they have.
Have the teachers earnt their paycheck? Absolutely they have.

But lets not degrade the work done by anyone on either side of the debate in any situation during this pandemic, it's half the bloody issue we have right now, driving the community against one another and splitting the public into silos of thought.

In saying all of the above, I am ringing the schools tomorrow and ask to be assigned other children to teach next year, I don't want to teach my kids anymore, they are mean (This is a joke).

 

[por_please_ya]

Oh man IMS and others like you, hats off to you during this pandemic craziness. It wouldn't be easy to be trying to help your kids do their schoolwork whilst you've got a full-time job Face to face learning is SOOOO important for young minds.

 

[Agent93]

it's half the bloody issue we have right now, driving the community against one another

It's fantastic to see the duplicity of media outlets during this period as well. Really helps with the above.

As an aside, there's been 10x deaths from Covid in Australia since June, that from terrorist events ever. And 200x more deaths than from sharks since the start of 2020. But of course the NSW state government has been right all along, and are doing the best.

 

[por_please_ya]

Just saw this. As awesome as that picture looks I feel the same way about pulse pasta . Instead, I just have pasta a lot more rarely now , maybe more like once a month v the previous once a week now . And have the real thing.

Yeah, I might need to cut back on it a bit too. I don't know if I could last without it once a month, but maybe once a fortnight is do-able. Trying to find other options to cook too. Going to try and wean myself off snacking on crisps and chocolate (not that I do it THAT much but still), and not eating AS much white bread <-- that's a tough one. Also limit egg intake to two a day or not at all. Man it's hard to change your habits

 

[por_please_ya]

I'm fussy when it comes to bread. I hate rye, it's too dense and tastes gross. Multi-grain is marginally tolerable. Gluten free bread absolutely not - plus it costs the earth and I'm not a coeliac so would feel bad taking that away from someone who is. Sourdough is probably better than most other normal white bread types. Sigh.... I think I'm going to have to learn to love salads LOL. There's a really good salad place near my work - you get a protein (chicken or like, chickpea/lentil patties) and pick two salad types. Really tasty. But I can't eat that all the time!

 

[Itsmyshow]

Oh man IMS and others like you, hats off to you during this pandemic craziness. It wouldn't be easy to be trying to help your kids do their schoolwork whilst you've got a full-time job Face to face learning is SOOOO important for young minds.

Don't get me wrong, I have had the pleasure of looking at lockdowns in a completely different light. My job requires me to travel, a lot, and for 18 months I have been able to be present in the lives of my children, I have been in a position to watch the entire growth of my youngest from the age of one year old, something I did not have the pleasure of doing with my eldest three children. It's been a blessing in so many ways, despite the difficulties and the requirement to completely shuffle and adjust our lives, and all of us have had to do it. That's why I hate the split we see with people. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs and opinions and I don't believe that disrespecting anyones choices is the right way to go. But derisive comments are part of our environment these days, people can't help themselves.

Sorry for getting a bit too real

 

[NinjaSwan]

Bread is kinda like the barometer for how hungry I am, based on whether eating bread by itself tastes good.

 

[Itsmyshow]

If you are not eating fresh white bread from the bakery with butter and honey, you're doing it wrong.

 

[Millky95]

Bread is kinda like the barometer for how hungry I am, based on whether eating bread by itself tastes good.

Dad was a baker so we grew up with him coming home in the middle of the day after his shift finished with bread to be sold the next day

Absolutely spoiled us when it came to buying bread after

 

[Agent93]

If you are not eating fresh white bread from the oven

FTFY

 

[Itsmyshow]

FTFY

I mean, obviously

 

[Agent93]

I mean, obviously

You've had 18 months to learn how to bake your own shit IMS! Come on, you should be vlogging about sourdough starters and how ****ing awesome cob loaves are.

 

[Itsmyshow]

You've had 18 months to learn how to bake your own sh*t IMS! Come on, you should be vlogging about sourdough starters and how ******* awesome cob loaves are.

I've been focused on learning the art of the Weber and the spit to be honest.

 

[por_please_ya]

I've been focused on learning the art of the Weber and the spit to be honest.

A worthy venture.

 

[Agent93]

I've been focused on learning the art of the Weber and the spit to be honest.

Yeah, but have you put yourself on TikTok yet?