Worst drunken experience at CH

[Vonny]

I see that sh1te has now been added to the list of naughty words.

Well b****r me!

[jtaylor]

Come on guys/gals, enough already - otherwise I'll start getting emails from people saying that certain pages are undisplayable etc. etc. which will down to you lot trying to subvert the word censors!

J

[Richard Ruck]

Come on guys/gals, enough already - otherwise I'll start getting emails from people saying that certain pages are undisplayable etc. etc. which will down to you lot trying to subvert the word censors!

J

Nothing like a little linguistic challenge...!

However, don't worry, as we are all well brought up guys / gals who were taught never to say "bum" in front of the vicar, I'm sure none of us know any really bad words anyway......

[timpuk]

I just thought I'd add, to those who may not know - that it's not the whole school in general that has banned this site - it's the nice people working in the ICT department, who have condemned it as 'URL redirection.' I'm guessing that must be the bit at the beginning, where you have to click again to get into the forum itself. Although that reassuringly doesn't mean 'chat' or 'useless,' which are also categories that they use when filtering websites.

from my company network:
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The site you are trying to access has been blocked.

If you are trying to reach a dynamic DNS hosted site, this block is intentional and for security reasons.
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perhaps an example of throing the baby out with the bathwater, but due to the number of phishing sites that take advantage of dynamic dns allocation. this is a policy issue and does not take into account the content of an individual site

julian, would the offer of some more permanent hosting be useful?

[jtaylor]

julian, would the offer of some more permanent hosting be useful?

Yes, an offer of permanent hosting would be greatly appreciated. In order to keep costs down I'm using dyndns, a router in my study, and a box of my own at home. This has meant the hosting has been close to free.
If anyone can provide hosting which supports phpbb and mysql (or another database that's supported by phpbb) then that would be fantastic.
Any offers?

J

[richardb]

Amazing how this thread has digressed. Can't remember reading about scrotum polishing though

Illicit boozing was one of the great pluses of education at CH. Being caught was all part of the buzz.

I remember getting sh1tfaced in the club and Bomber Nicholson solemnly putting allegation that we had had "as much as three pints". An invitation to lie and grossly understate consumption which was readily accepted.

[Richard Ruck]

Amazing how this thread has digressed. Can't remember reading about scrotum polishing though

Illicit boozing was one of the great pluses of education at CH. Being caught was all part of the buzz.

I remember sh1t in the club and Bomber Nicholson solemnly putting allegation that we had had "as much as three pints". An invitation to lie and grossly understate consumption which was readily accepted.

The polishing of the wrinkly bits seems to have been a sort of initiation ritual from before our time -

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By the way, can you remember the club's opening hours? I can't seem to recall.......

[JamesF35]

Bomber Nicholson solemnly putting allegation that we had had "as much as three pints". An invitation to lie and grossly understate consumption which was readily accepted.

As your partner in crime (although not as ill as you were afterwards I seem to remember) our punishment was to be barred from the club until the end of term. This wasn't really much of a punishment as there was only one week left and we'd already blown all our pocket money on the binge night so we couldn't afford any more boozing anyway.

[richardb]

The memories just come flooding back !

The club was open from 8.45 pm until 10 pm, i.e after first prep and throughout second prep. Drinking was strictly controlled and limited to three halves a night with payment by chits. In those glorious days a pint cost 28p.

We decided to celebrate finished A levels by getting completely off our faces. I was drinking cider and dog [Newcastle Brown Ale] mixed in the same glass. We must have had an accomplice behind the bar because we managed to drink ourselves pretty senseless.

My recollection is that I was sick somewhere which drew official attention to our behaviour and we received a visit shortly after from Bomber when he confronted very solemnly with the suggestion that we had had as much as three pints. He must have heard us pissing ourselves with laughter when he closed the door on his way out. We hit the three pint mark at about 9 pm !

As already reported, we were banned from the club until the end of term which was no punishment as we wore it rather like a badge of honour. The first people EVER to be banned from the club for excessive drinking ! What would have been a punishment would have been to stop us going on our four day canoeing trip down the River Arun where we drank ourselves into oblivion or stop us going to London on the pretext of watching "Abba - The Movie" where we slid into a soft porn film instead.

My confederate has done the honourable thing and admitted his guilt when confronted by my earlier confession, which prompts me to share two other drinking experiences in which we shared.

The first was our post O level celebration. Naturally we were not allowed in the club at that stage so we did the obvious thing and bought our own booze in town. We never were very clever at drinking and our illicit stuff was soon confiscated by the house captain.

Undeterred we stole it back from his study. Actually, we didn't think of it as stealing, simply the liberation of our property. Unfortunately the house captain thought of it as stealing and we were dispatched off to Toad [now I really am reminiscing]. DHN found no difficulty in administering the cane to all involved - and probably with great relish on the lad with blonde hair and blue eyes - except for me. I had had hip surgery and that somehow tugged on his conscience. Why he didn't just cut my hand to ribbons i'll never know.

By now we should have learned our lesson but we hadn't.

Following ban from the club, most of my pals left. I stay on for Michaelmas term and, being 18, decided against daft family visits on leave days. Instead I went to London to meet my mates who had left at the end of the previous term. Not surprisingly we got absolutely hammered.

This was before all day opening and I remember sitting in St. James' Park drinking from bottles. Not beer but sweet sherry. We really didn't have any style then !

On arriving back at school I was fine. Unfortunately I had been daft enough to take a younger lad with us who had never drunk before and he was sick everywhere. Cue for another stern talking to from RJL [or Zup as he was known then]. My final leave day was spent well away from London and not in the company of my pals.

I wonder if this had anything to do with me never becoming a monitor ?

[helen]

This would have been less nostalgically self indulgent and more witty in a limerick - or two - three? I've seen the Ancient Mariner in limerick form - a whole new perspective.

[malteaser]

hmmmm gettin smashed.... i can think of a number of times we bought stuff back to school(most recently saturday...)

i think our most subtle sneak in was 2 ltrs of vodka in some listerene bottles with green food dye, i ended up takeing care of 2 others who had less than me and got hammered to the poit of being sick.

other occasions.... fell in through the door and rolled round on the foor with my skirt completely ripped infront of miss mitchel, only to be told to go to bed...

still got a clean record, despite not remembering anything of the discos for the last year or so(or chappel the following day... )

[DavebytheSea]

I've seen the Ancient Mariner in limerick form - a whole new perspective.

Now, now Helen! No need for personal insults!!

[Jolyon]

Both my "most drunk" memories aren't strickly CH-drinking related.

1) Leave weekend and I had been at an event at St. Pauls Cathedral (where my brother sang at the time) and at a very very nice reception afterwards. Much much red wine had been consumed and the car journey back from london to school had not done much to help me sober up. My poor parents(!) talking to Mr Macdonald as they returned me to school nearly 2 hours late and blatently swaying, slurring and walking into furnishings. As I had been in my parents "care" while drinking, even though they had no idea how drunk I was getting, it seemed there wasn't anything MacD could do to me about the situation. But OMG, the horror of a red wine hangover and a 8:30 physics lesson!

2) The Romeo & Juliet Tour to Germany. Noel Patton had booked us on an over-night ferry which was to be followed by an all day coach drive to the south of Germany. We, in our wisdom, decided that the best way to be able to sleep all day on the coach was to pull an all-nighter on the ferry. Man, duty free booze + 30+ housey people who had just finished Xmas term.... AND a choppy sea. Those who managed the whole night without being ill once, we salute you!

[Euterpe13]

2) The Romeo & Juliet Tour to Germany. Noel Patton had booked us on an over-night ferry which was to be followed by an all day coach drive to the south of Germany. We, in our wisdom, decided that the best way to be able to sleep all day on the coach was to pull an all-nighter on the ferry. Man, duty free booze + 30+ housey people who had just finished Xmas term.... AND a choppy sea. Those who managed the whole night without being ill once, we salute you!

yes, my son had similar memories of that one... I'm surprised NP brought any of you back from Germany !

[Jolyon]

Well giving us all ticket to the Carvery on-board and then being shocked that we attempted to actually eat everything in sight was pure DNP.

I remember to my shame managing to eat an entire strawberry cheese cake.....