We used to use the term "town bike".

And that was a long time before welfare became a life style.

We had a girl like that in high school (well, not actually "had her", if you know what I mean...but others did !!).

Her nickname was "community chest", or "CC" for short.

There was no shortage of bikes in the rack at any school - it's probably worse these days.

Just imagine, if you gave birth at 12 you could be a grandmother by 24!

Back at the beginning of the Seventies I had a 32-year-old comptometer operator working for me, who was a grandmother. And she was gorgeous!!

(No, I was married with a small daughter at the time, so I didn't)

Leaving aside the reason that Mrs Saddlebags was your employee/subordinate... :D

E:T

She worked under me, yes ......

hard and to your satisfaction?

I always get the best out of my workers - then discard them like used sausage skins

There was no shortage of bikes in the rack at any school - it's probably worse these days.

I went to an all-boys school - we had rugby and the Army Cadet Force to keep us amused.

Although I seem to remember that there was a Boy Scout Troop .....

I've just read this thread again ......when I was in my early teens I had a fifteen gear racing bike and a pair of shoes with a compass in the heal .... and my parents thought I was living on the edge.

I never wanted to turn into my Dad, but Jeez, there are limits.

I've just read this thread again ......when I was in my early teens I had a fifteen gear racing bike and a pair of shoes with a compass in the heal .... and my parents thought I was living on the edge.

I never wanted to turn into my Dad, but Jeez, there are limits.

I think you'll find it's 'heel'. Living on the edge my arse!!!

I've just read this thread again ......when I was in my early teens I had a fifteen gear racing bike and a pair of shoes with a compass in the heal .... and my parents thought I was living on the edge.

I never wanted to turn into my Dad, but Jeez, there are limits.

I was trying to work out how you would check your shoe compass while riding your racing bike!!

You could end up accidently falling into Chantelle.

And wondering which bike to get on or off

I've just read this thread again ......when I was in my early teens I had a fifteen gear racing bike and a pair of shoes with a compass in the heal .... and my parents thought I was living on the edge.

I never wanted to turn into my Dad, but Jeez, there are limits.

I think you'll find it's 'heel'. Living on the edge my arse!!!

Chuckle away (and correct the odd typo, if it makes you happy) ....... that is the point I was trying to make, I wasn't living on the edge, far from it, the closest I got to sex when I was 13 or 14 was drawing beards and glasses on the diagrams of sperm in the biology books or getting sneaked a picture ripped out from Health & Efficiency of a topless, flabby arsed tart playing with a beach ball.

When a boy of 13 is proclaimed to be a new father, and then a queue of other boys not much older think that it may be them, there is definitely something wrong with society.

There always has been, and always with be, girls who's low self esteem cause them to do anything they're capable of to get the attention of the boys and young men who have always ignored them in the past.

In the past the error was often compounded by consequences like forced marriages or the resulting child being either locked up in an orphanage or adopted out into abusive families.

^Yes, and then there are just plain old tarts!

(Same applies to us blokes.)

The pic of the (grand) father in the devil mask is just taking it too far... When i was that age i was playing with my barbie dolls.

I started smoking at 15, drinking at 16, but didn't "lose it" until i was 17....

ps. Boo - your wee boy could be 20 now!!!!

I've just read this thread again ......when I was in my early teens I had a fifteen gear racing bike and a pair of shoes with a compass in the heal .... and my parents thought I was living on the edge.

I never wanted to turn into my Dad, but Jeez, there are limits.

I think you'll find it's 'heel'. Living on the edge my arse!!!

Chuckle away (and correct the odd typo, if it makes you happy) ....... that is the point I was trying to make, I wasn't living on the edge, far from it, the closest I got to sex when I was 13 or 14 was drawing beards and glasses on the diagrams of sperm in the biology books or getting sneaked a picture ripped out from Health & Efficiency of a topless, flabby arsed tart playing with a beach ball.

When a boy of 13 is proclaimed to be a new father, and then a queue of other boys not much older think that it may be them, there is definitely something wrong with society.

I wasn't having a go Taddy and I understood that you weren't living on the edge. People 'of our age' didn't live on the edge until later in life, for me it was late teens and early 20s and although we heard of cases like this they were very rare. There was also a certain amount of shame attached to it, shame doesn't even seem to come into it now. I agree there is definitely something wrong with society.

Trouble is with all this press coverage, it's omly a matter of time before the copycats looking for their own moment in the sun come out of the woodwork

Responsible Govt must take punative action soonest, to make the consequences of such foolishness unpalatable

ps. Boo - your wee boy could be 20 now!!!!

Gawd Patsy, how fkcued up would that be!!. 33 with a 20 year old son. "shudder" That said one of the girls I went to school with has just celebrated her eldest turning 15!!

This is how I want my baby to stay

One cute kid....................You must be very proud...........Lovely picture.

Makes your blood boil

Just read the little toe-rags family pull in 30,000 quid a year, all in benefits with not one of them working. This means that six average tax payers get themselves up every morning and slog their way to work so matey and his crew can stay in bed.

Yes and they're passing the 'bludger' gene down at an early age, too. Not to mention all the money they'll be making from the publicity and probable book and movie offers.

DNA test proves Alfie, 13, is not a dad

A boy who believed he'd impregnated his girlfriend at the age of 12 has been proven not to be a father by a DNA test.

Alfie Patten, now 13, took the test after six other teenagers came forward to claim they had also slept with Chantelle Steadman, the 15-year-old who gave birth to baby Maisie Roxanne last month.

The Daily Mirror reports the test has proven the infant is not Alfie's — a finding that is likely to leave the boy devastated.

"I didn’t know about DNA tests before but mum explained it's when they do a swab in your mouth and it tells if you're the dad," he was quoted as saying before undergoing the test.

"So if I have it, they can all shut up."

"It had not even crossed Alfie’s mind whether Chantelle had not been faithful to him," his mother Nicole said.

"He’s absolutely devastated that these lads say they slept with her."

Since the birth, Alfie has been a doting father who can’t bear to be separated from his daughter, welfare workers say.

Matters were complicated when Tyler Barker, 14, and Richard Goodsell, 16, came forward with claims they had also slept with Chantelle and could have fathered the baby.

Since then, four more boys claiming they had slept with Chantelle have also come forward.

And a family friend has previously alleged Alfie was a victim of a scam devised by his girlfriend's mother to cash in on publicity surrounding the young parents.

Teen mum Chantelle Steadman's mother told her 15-year-old daughter to say Alfie Patten was the father of Maisie Roxanne, according to Clive Sim.

He claims Penny Steadman had told her daughter Chantelle to keep quiet about other boys she had slept with because "she knew Alfie being the dad makes a better story".

"I think there's a big scam going on here" he was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying.

Both Chantelle's and Alfie's parents are thought to have already earned thousands of dollars in media deals since The Sun broke the story.

Maybe he wasn't really the father.

I hate to say I told you so, but...

So who is the real dad anyway? We may never know, after all she has had more pricks than a dartboard already.

Her parents should have been castrated at birth, and she should be snipped as well.

F*cking chavs.

The Daily Mirror reports the test has proven the infant is not Alfie's — a finding that is likely to leave the boy devastated.

"It had not even crossed Alfie’s mind whether Chantelle had not been faithful to him," his mother Nicole said.

"He’s absolutely devastated that these lads say they slept with her."

No doubt the poor little scumbag will be able to dodge work all his life claiming benefits because this experience has left him mentally scarred and unable to work.

Thank God I no longer pay UK tax.

"I think there's a big scam going on here" he was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying.

Both Chantelle's and Alfie's parents are thought to have already earned thousands of dollars in media deals since The Sun broke the story.

No, get away!

Still reporters for "newspapers" like The Sun are hardly the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Apparently there was a court ordered ban on further publicity in this case in Britain, including the results of the DNA tests.

The Sun breached this order in an early edition and may yet pay for their error.