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Things I learned from Notes on a Scandal


Really beautiful people make good school teachers.
If you marry a man 20 years your senior, you're bound to have sex with a one of your students to know what you missed out on in your youth.
If you're a newcomer teaching at a school, beware of older female peers, they may become obsessed with you.
Be aware that dinner guests may be sensitive to Lasagne.
The coffee is sweet enough.
Inflation was invented, not coined.
Ronald Taylor was an exceptional man.
16-ish year old boys may or may not be innocent, depending on whom you ask.
Teaching is crowd control.
Teachers shop at Talbots.
Bringing fresh flowers to a simple lunch by a coworker invitation isn't a red flag, its normal.
Semi-professional drinkers don't keep dry sherry in stock.
Grown woman keep diaries with adornments and souvenirs.
If you are going to have an affair with a student, do not carry on in the classroom, your friend may be peeping in the window.

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This kind of list can be clever when the movie is bad. Not so much when the movie is as good as this one. Just sayin..

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Everyone has an opinion. I love my post, so bug off.

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I liked it too

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oh I get it! We're not supposed to post unless we agree with you! You sound like you're in jr high.

suzycreamcheese RIP Heath Ledger 1979-2008

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1. Teenage boys are towers of testosterone
2. Some students might even grow up to be terrorists
3. If having an illicit affair never leave your cell phone laying around
4. Never leave your diary unlocked either
5. Sticky gold stars cause trouble
6. Brits wear funny paper hats in public without embarrassment
7. When you invite someone to visit you on vacation they don't mean for you to actually visit
8. Rich people have cheap looking kitchens

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IKR What the heck with Number Seven? LOL

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Bringing fresh flowers to a simple lunch by a coworker invitation isn't a red flag, its normal.

It's called good manners. And it was taught that when accepting an invitation for a meal to someone's house that you brought something: flowers, a bottle of wine, or a bottle of something else like a gourmet oil, a dessert, etc. I've brought fresh flower, wine, dessert ------ but I have good manners which is more than I can for a lot of people including you based on your "bug off" comment which, I agree, does make you sound like you're in junior high.

After the meal, you followed up with a thank you card or note. (Though I do thank you emails or ecards nowadays for my first meal invite to a new acquaintance's home.)

my website -- http://maggieameanderings.com/Archive.htm

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First of all: maggiemeanderings, STFU and get off the thread.

When you have a dinner guest, ask if what you're cooking makes them farty.

If you're gonna cover up something on your plate with salad like a 5-year old, don't get busted by the teenager sitting next to you.

If someone tells you you're "poshed up", get embarrassed and lie about why.

It's perfectly normal to dance like aholes after lunch. Especially when your guest looks horrified.

Tweedy hobo coats are not cool.

Fifteen year old boys have the worst possible taste in jewelry.

Teachers in England don't get paid much and have to live in basement apartments.

Your son being in a play might not take precedence over a sick cat.

Old people in England wear creepy tissue paper hats on Christmas.

I'd give anything to have a private little cottage in my backyard.

People in England wipe from the back.

Next time you're about to lose it, smear black liner around your eyes.

Don't be dumb enough to sleep with your student. He'll do you like a kipper.










"So, what would you like to see on your honeymoon, Mrs. Cord?" "Lots of lovely ceilings."

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He'll do you like a Kipper. That was by far my favorite line in this film.

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Wow. You are really bullying the OP. Get a life.

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"Really beautiful people make good school teachers."
Wait, what? Did you missed the part where the really beautiful teacher screwed the student? Unless you consider that good teaching...in that case, carry on.

If you love Jesus Lizard and are 100% proud of it, copy this and make it your signature!

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Don't leave a torn page out of your journal in a waste basket, especially months after you have written it, because the person you're journaling about may come to live with you, discover it and trash your house looking for the rest of the journal.

Don't presume that when you call your secret lover, when the phone is picked up, she will be the one answering the phone.

Always, always, accompany an older friend to the vets office when a pet has died, no matter what else is going on. You'll regret it if you don't.

Don't ever invite a lonely, lesbian spinster to lunch and don't buy her expensive picture frame presents.

Don't allow your friends to gently massage your arms with their fingers in hopes of being relaxed.

Don't get all dressed up to go to an ordinary lunch because you'll be immediately suspect about something.

Don't leave a Christmas program right in the middle of it to go,look,for someone. You may discover something you don't like.

Don't sit on a park bench alone reading a tabloid. You might meet someone creepy who strikes up a conversation and DO NOT accept an invitation from that person 2 minutes after you've met.

Don't tell anyone with a sick pet the name of your vet, especially if he has an office close to where you live.

Don't invite your mother over for Christmas if you don't have a good relationship with her.

Don't open the door to,people you don't know. You may get attacked. Always ask who it is first.

Don't send wreaths to your friend's fiancé. It will come back to bite you later.

Always take your retirement early if you can so you will be spared the humiliation of being forced to take it.

Never make promises you can't keep.




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NK On that torn page bit.

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How do you know she was a good schoolteacher? I bet you keep souvenirs.

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