What, may I ask, is wrong with my education?
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A superior cludgie !
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What, may I ask, is wrong with my education?
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I’m sure the education was excellent.
Maybe not so much that sort of nasty, gross, physical, potentially sexual, bullying. Or the adolescent, all boys together, let’s pick on the weakest, all jolly good fun Bullingdon club philosophy
Reminds me of how Johnson and the public school chumocracy still behave in Parliament
And I went to a girls public school myself 
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I had to Google cludgie… bloody hell, considering I’m hoping to move to Glasgow by the end of the year I might need to brush up on some of the more essential slang!
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Maybe “bog roll” ?
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Izal?
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I remember that a long time ago. Bog roll is slang for toilet paper.
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Indeed…I don’t think that there are many of us that have fond memories of Izal…a rather robust toilet tissue!
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I don’t know, I was a very artsy child and it made excellent tracing paper!
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Horrible stuff! Believe it or not it lasted until 2010.
Ah!
But did you fold a sheet over a steel comb and blow a merry tune?
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Yes, we did, but I’d forgotten until you said! I remember dad teaching us and it worked best with his old metal comb 
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Someone has written in the comments:
Toupee or not to pee?
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That did not apply to my seat of learning. I was always picked upon in state education establishments (the filthy stinking yid), but that all changed when, at 11yrs 5months I went to boarding school. Respect for each other was paramount and AFAIR everyone looked out for everyone else, especially the timid and hesitant types. That school brought the best in everyone, no matter who they were or where they came from including skin tone. Yes, discipline was very strict, but as soon as new intakes realised that excellent behaviour and respect for all was essential, the well honed machine ticked along well and without any abrupt intervention from staff. Absolutely no hint of any Bullingdon club philosophy during my years there.
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But you said the new boys were used to warm toilet seats? That’s classic bullying and not showing respect?
No, it teaches the new intake to realise that in this life there is a pecking order everywhere they will venture. In a years time, they too would have experience pre warmed seats and it was not compulsory, just a suggestion to slot into boarding life. Or it was, as that school is now only for day pupils so everyone will experience cold seats 
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No, I’m sorry, but I’m not convinced. I think teaching about pecking order by bare buttocked humiliation is bullying with sexual undertones, and the victims perpetuating it the next year, a bit sick
What would have happened to them if they hadn’t complied? Or challenged the pecking order?
Sounds as if it’s a good thing it’s day pupils only, now!
That is just your opinion and you were not there, I was. The ablutions episode was nothing to do with any staff and was created by prefects long before I became a pupil to help bolster the ‘house’ system.
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I’m glad I wasn’t there, I’m not good at accepting pecking orders!
I would hope it didn’t have anything to do with the staff because I would think they could be retrospectively sued for abuse?
But the adolescents claiming this sort of nasty, sleazy bullying was to bolster the ‘house’ system, rather than their own sadism and elitism? Really? Did anyone buy that even back then?
They have been dead for decades and also many my my year’s pupils … I’m 80+