This has veered a long way from corporal punishment!
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This has almost become a beer topic, hasn't it? Nothing wrong with that. It's a subject close to many of our hearts.palgsm93 wrote:We need a beer topic!
But seriously, you beat the Scottish ale:
Deuchars IPA from Caledonian Brewery
Wayfarer IPA from Atlas Brewery
now I'm thirsty and 400 miles away from the Scotland
What an unfortunate name for a beer...Deucharse features fairly regularly
It's on the industrial estate off Foundry Lane.Great Plum wrote:Weltons beer - i haven't heard of that one - where's their brewery?
Back to the beatings and buggery, then......rebel wrote:i thought this thread was supposed to be all about punishments and homosexuality and stuff like that which looks at the dark side of CH, which was all of it as far as I was concerned.
The bromide theory was still around in the 70s.menace wrote:The boys from the 50's (of whom I am one) had a theory that the school deliberately put bromide in the kiff to stop them thinking "impure thoughts"....... Sorry to hear about the attempted suicide - I cannot recollect the same event at Horsham - a murder yes, but not suicide.
That accounts for why the tea tasted so awful. The trouble with bromide is it only works on the mechanics, not the thought processes - a sort of anti-Viagra.The bromide theory
I'm curious as to why someone who was unhappy at school is picking at the scabs by partaking in a forum like this.the dark side of CH, which was all of it as far as I was concerned
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is / was a "dame school"?Lamma looker wrote:
My arrival at CH was unusually traumatic because I came from a small "dame school" in Derbyshire, mornings only, where the highest number of pupils had been 12. To find myself in a school of 850 was a bit of a shock.
Sorry, I'm digressing from the beatings and buggery again...