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It all depends whether they are merely dim, or nasty with it.

I would just get up and go, torching the place on the way out.

Peter Cook once said "I met Anthony Newley once, and he said to me "who are you?""

Oh goody, Sunak can soon rid us of all that interference! Hooray!

Sunak in his press conference says the solution is to make a law to say it is safe, and to leave the European court of Human Rights. Apparently the EU controls the UK's supreme court. Already the talking heads on radio 5 are presenting this as a battle between the UK and the EU. Utter madness.

If you spell it like this, you can have it: Kerfuffléague

Yep. And being a bit dark she emboldened the racists, too; people who think the reason they don't have more money or a better job is because of discrimination against white people (proper English people 'going back generations'). Nothing more heartwarming than a dark person apparently sticking...

One of my pals at HGSB (also a former St Mary's boy) lived on Fairway Crescent. Haven't seen him for 50 year. Rick Harrington. Had an older brother he hero worshipped ('my brother Mart'). Rick (and I) were Leeds supporters (age 12). Mart was Chelsea. We were all Brighton. Ish. :wink:

Foredown Drive, me. Easthill Park was our nearest place to kick a football (pitch covered in dog shit 24/7 of course). Not conspicuously posh. That was weird about the free meals. It absolutely passed me by. There again, it may show I was a socialist, blind to the indignities of the...

I didn't notice it at all (whether kids were paying for school meals or not if that's what you mean). I was there from 69 to 76. There was certainly one lad in my class who would deffo have had free school meals (single mother, council house), but I never 'noticed' it. One of the smelliest boys...

You have provided plenty enough info. No need for more. I appreciate you had a terrible time. I'm sorry if I seemed facetious. It was a joke. Albeit the likelihood of thriving in a public school, when all other factors are accounted for, is likely to be genes, with pupils directed their by...

Merely a reach that exceeds her grasp, I suspect. (And, I mean, who hasn't dressed up to look like Margaret Thatcher? ???)

You didn't have the right genes for it :wink: Weirdly my grand dad and uncle were both freemasons and became chairman of the licensed victuallers association. The chain was probably broken when my dad saw Mosely and his blackshirts marching down Tooley street, and decided to become a communist...

Cosplay. Trouble is, even madness like this can come true:

I presume you read HGTTG? "Dent, Arthur Dent" and all that. The ruler of the universe was the one bloke among all those in the frame who didn't want the job. He lived in a shed, in the rain, with his cat (called 'The Lord' or somesuch), giving unfathomable advice to those who sought guidance...

It's OK. TL;DR is one of you tropes. I smiled. Possibly tittered. I bet uncle Jimmy never said that, though :wink:

Well....I suppose there are some 'kick them out' merchants on the left. But we are supposedly all terrorist-loving wokerati, over here, so the probability is likely to be lower than elsewhere on the political speculum. I mean spectrum. :wink:

Tall please. I should probably edit the florid nicompoopery.

Fancy that.....

As an old lefty, sorry to disagree. I don't think there is any evidence that 'public school charm' can be learned. With a different accent the supreme self belief manifests itself across society. One immediate example, a bloke I interviewed for doing my extension had it (partly the reason we...