Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

sport! wrote:

Great Plum wrote:I never did - it was far more fun to watch the drunkards...

However, once I got into the club, that was a different matter as I could then drink legitamately...

I thought the illegitimacy was the fun part........

Indeed, but throwing up on Mrs Caincross's shoes on a Saturday night wasnn't my idea of fun... However, it may have been for my sister!

Leicester local 'Tiger beer' is quite tasty....

Even now, the smell of martini/cinzano makes me want to chunder. Quantity rather than quality being the key word. Is the Grecian's Club still going?

cj wrote:Even now, the smell of martini/cinzano makes me want to chunder. Quantity rather than quality being the key word. Is the Grecian's Club still going?

Woman, you are obsessed with reverse peristalsis.

the CAMRA crew have arrived! they're like the bl**dy masons, everywhere. but with dodgy beards . (female members excluded)

i agree with the 'down with euro-fizz' campaign. it's global, chemical, pyss. which makes chavs extra violent.
but quite a few members who i've met seem to think that it should be illegal to drink anything but a tiny number of 'real ales'.
What's wrong with a good Brains!? Or any good bitter for that matter.
for a beer to be drinkable, it doesn't have to be room temperature and slightly stale-tasting. does it? and what of real cider, perrys?

there is quite a number of real, chemical free, british bevvies which don't seem to make it onto their list. are these members representative? i hope not.

and yes, i thought the illegitimacy of doing stuff at CH was the whole point. drinking, smoking, night-walking, tube-walking...

Hendrik wrote:the CAMRA crew have arrived! they're like the bl**dy masons, everywhere. but with dodgy beards . (female members excluded)

i agree with the 'down with euro-fizz' campaign. it's global, chemical, pyss. which makes chavs extra violent.
but quite a few members who i've met seem to think that it should be illegal to drink anything but a tiny number of 'real ales'.
What's wrong with a good Brains!? Or any good bitter for that matter.
for a beer to be drinkable, it doesn't have to be room temperature and slightly stale-tasting. does it? and what of real cider, perrys?

there is quite a number of real, chemical free, british bevvies which don't seem to make it onto their list. are these members representative? i hope not.

and yes, i thought the illegitimacy of doing stuff at CH was the whole point. drinking, smoking, night-walking, tube-walking...

Hah! I am NOT part of the CAMRA - that would be sad! However, I do like the real stuff - and indeed Deuchars IPA is going cheap in Sainsbury's at the moment, along with Newky Brown - 4 for £5!

Ruthie-Baby wrote:Still can't remember the name, was a great teacher but you had to climb up the fire excape to get to his classroom. And he always spelt the word 'across' with 2 cs: 'accross'.

I only remember Dr Maddren's classroom being accessible via a fire escape.

Hendrik wrote:the CAMRA crew have arrived! they're like the bl**dy masons, everywhere. but with dodgy beards . (female members excluded)

Are you sure?

cj wrote:Even now, the smell of martini/cinzano makes me want to chunder. Quantity rather than quality being the key word. Is the Grecian's Club still going?

The Grecian's Club is still going but I have heard a rather unpleasant rumour that you have to be 18 now to enter and not 17...

No Matt-= All Deps and Grecians can become members of the Grecian`s club now - on payment of subscription , of course.
But alcohol is only available on certain evenings i believe.

Excellent, so I would have been eligible to join in the May of my final year when A levels were on. I always thought the Club was a brilliant idea (I was on the commitee - hence being called Canteen Cath) and one would have thought that it would have helped reduce the worry of illegitimate drinking binges.

Mrs C. wrote:No Matt-= All Deps and Grecians can become members of the Grecian`s club now - on payment of subscription , of course.
But alcohol is only available on certain evenings i believe.

It only ever was I think...

It really could do with a bit of a facelift now though - it looks run down inside...

and those hideous 'things' on the wall opposite Rosie's sunset - what are they all about?

I haven`t been in for some time - thought it had been given a facelift though - this year? New furniture etc

Alcohol is only available on "special" evenings now, I believe,... that`s what I meant... - most of the time its coffee, soft drinks etc.

No doubt someone will correct me if I`m wrong!!

Mrs C. wrote:I haven`t been in for some time - thought it had been given a facelift though - this year? New furniture etc

Alcohol is only available on "special" evenings now, I believe,... that`s what I meant... - most of the time its coffee, soft drinks etc.

No doubt someone will correct me if I`m wrong!!

Oh dear, well there goes the idea of the Club to be a decent place to go!

I could make coffee in my study with my coffee machine!

lvesey wrote:PARENTS: None of this stuff goes on, it's just bragging. Everything's warm and fluffy.


That should sort it out.


Julian, good call in raising the question first. I think if I was a parent I'd rather that my kids were finding out what makes a hangover, within the confines of the school, instead of in some shoddy chav filled wetherspoons.

C'mon I am a parent - whose son went to CH (for 3 yrs), he tehn went to Millfield and then spent the LandU6 at a day school close by - at 14 a child in a family court can make a decisive decision as to which parent they wish to live with. at 16 sex is allowed legally, and most chavs are doing it well before that and have a couple of sprogs already (well around here they do), smoking is also allowed - All schools regardless try to blank out sex drugs fags and everything else that sometimes makes a person survive where they are at. I had my son expelled for 1 day at Wycliffe College (don't even start me on it..... I have an entire book!) for possibly smoking one third of a joint with 2 others in Somerset at half term.

When I questioned the headmaster about this his words were along the line of "your child is owned by this college until the day they leave"

I got drunk once at CH - drove a car into a blackcurrant bush..... happy days!

Every school is goingto have those who have to test the limits, not only of the school ,but of themselves, and we would certainly disfavour them if this wasn't allowed.

So wake up everyone - rules are put in place to make the staff feel everything is under control. They know it isn't, but the rules tell them it is, the meaning of life is 42, and the mice knew that too. And all I have had to drink is a glass of OJ!