Thisgirlcanrunfar #2 Gemma

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RunRunRun said:
The hypocrisy about being judgemental always gets me as well. Filming people and taking the piss. Then there’s the ‘Ooh the mums at the school gates weren’t very nice’ - they were most likely just thinking about themselves and the tit they had to deal with each day, not giving a thought to little miss princess.
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I suspect that it wasn’t the other mums at the school gates who weren’t very nice; it was little miss spoilt judgemental Princess.
 
I thought you didn’t have friends Jemma and you were a lone wolf or something? Also, please get something else to do other than focus your entire life around spring and autumn marathon blocks (🤢). Really, as someone who was a total bleeping running bore, life is much more fun when you don’t take yourself as seriously.

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zetta buttons said:
I thought you didn’t have friends Jemma and you were a lone wolf or something? Also, please get something else to do other than focus your entire life around spring and autumn marathon blocks (🤢). Really, as someone who was a total bleeping running bore, life is much more fun when you don’t take yourself as seriously.

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I literally can't think of anything worse than being in a perpetual marathon training cycle.
 
Camperfan said:
When she says friends she means Kel's doesn't she 🤣 maybe Runnerof4 too but she at least has more of a life outside running.
What a bloody bore, you ran a mara, got a PB, well done you but why the constant navel gazing gratitude posts about it all? Gives me AlexM vibes going on and on and on, totally over focusing on minutiae.
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This is the thing, she didn't even PB - I'm sure her PB is 3:20.
I get that she ran a strong race, but I imagine she'll be wanging on about it for months 🙄
 
Tell me how this reposted tweet is in ANY WAY relevant to Jemma’s experience of school?

Why do these people think so ducking highly of themselves?

Jemma, also when you are wanging on in the car about having nothing to do but “work”.Chatting to people on the phone about running is not work. Try teaching 34 Y9s about atomic structure and then come back to me about work.

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eyethinkyousuck said:
I knew plenty of people who were given financial incentives to do well in GCSEs and A-Levels back in the dark ages when I was at school (the year after she left). It’s nothing new, but it does incentivise some kids to work harder. I don’t see the issue.
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I agree. I taught since the early 2000s and incentives were there then. They were there in the mid 90s when I was sitting exams.


My issue with the post is that one day she boasts that she has no formal qualifications and the next she posts this with the implication (for those who don’t follow her like we do) that she got into Cambridge. As with everything she is so inconsistent.
 
zetta buttons said:
I agree. I taught since the early 2000s and incentives were there then. They were there in the mid 90s when I was sitting exams.


My issue with the post is that one day she boasts that she has no formal qualifications and the next she posts this with the implication (for those who don’t follow her like we do) that she got into Cambridge. As with everything she is so inconsistent.
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She's probably never even been on the bus to Cambridge.
 
I was reading that screen shot and thought, what Cambridge?!
I think, but can't say for sure, grade expectations are a lot higher than they were 20 years ago? That's how it feels to me as a parent with kids doing a levels and GCSEs next summer. I also think part time jobs for under 18s are a lot rarer now, loads of shop jobs, paper rounds etc just don't exist anymore or want 18+ so it's harder to earn a bit of cash so they really appreciate getting a bit of money for studying hard.
 
Camperfan said:
I was reading that screen shot and thought, what Cambridge?!
I think, but can't say for sure, grade expectations are a lot higher than they were 20 years ago? That's how it feels to me as a parent with kids doing a levels and GCSEs next summer. I also think part time jobs for under 18s are a lot rarer now, loads of shop jobs, paper rounds etc just don't exist anymore or want 18+ so it's harder to earn a bit of cash so they really appreciate getting a bit of money for studying hard.
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I think it's because more kids are going to university. I was the first person in my family to go to university, and I have 40 cousins, but all of my children and a lot of my cousins' kids have gone to university. Saying that, I checked my course and it has lower entry requirements than when I did it, many, many years ago, so I don't think it's any harder to get into university, just that kids expectations have changed. Part time job probably depends on where you live, my 3 all did paper rounds then when they were 17 went to work in the local supermarket, who let them transfer their jobs when they went to university, as our children had/have to support themselves through university.
 
My son got made redundant from his paperbound 😂 it was the free weekly one and it went digital only. He also got let go from his cafe job in Jan as it wasn't busy enough to need an extra person. None of the supermarkets seem to want under 18 at least round here as you have to sell/handle age restricted items.
 
Jemma’s on a trip to London.

✅ mix up with tickets because she never leaves Clevedon unless it’s for a mammoth solo trip for a marathon and therefore doesn’t know how to “do” public transport in the U.K.

✅ documenting personal conversations that people near her are having on public transport

✅ moaning about how expensive everything is outside Clevedon

✅ moaning about her kids in some way (in this case when they ask her to take photos)
 
Camperfan said:
My son got made redundant from his paperbound 😂 it was the free weekly one and it went digital only. He also got let go from his cafe job in Jan as it wasn't busy enough to need an extra person. None of the supermarkets seem to want under 18 at least round here as you have to sell/handle age restricted items.
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That's a shame, they take them on at 17 here but if they are on the till someone else has to authorise alcohol sales.
It's a shame when they want to work and can't find anything.
zetta buttons said:
Jemma’s on a trip to London.

✅ mix up with tickets because she never leaves Clevedon unless it’s for a mammoth solo trip for a marathon and therefore doesn’t know how to “do” public transport in the U.K.

✅ documenting personal conversations that people near her are having on public transport

✅ moaning about how expensive everything is outside Clevedon

✅ moaning about her kids in some way (in this case when they ask her to take photos)
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My youngest daughter travelled to London on her own from the north of Scotland when she was 16, my eldest travelled round Europe on her own at 18, how can she not manage to buy a ticket to London?? Is mummy not there to hold her hand?
 
In her stories, she’s moaning (surprise surprise) in that awful moaning tone of hers about her daughter not “calling her to let her know she’d spilt her drink and just leaving it for her to find”. At her daughters’ ages, if we spilt something, we just got a cloth and cleaned it up. We didn’t even think k to call for our mum - to clean it up for us? If this is how she was treated as a child (ie the same way her mum does everything for her now), no wonder she is the way she is. I had hope that her kids would not follow in her footsteps…
 
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