You are a miserable twerp with a justifiable reputation for behaving thusly. Here's something that's a surprise to no one but you: your opinions manifestly lack all importance, relevance, interest. * (why is it y'all call what's private public? Like bars, you call 'em "public houses" when, in fact, they are privately owned public in American, with the exception of "joint-stock" companies-which are called public companies-always means government-owned.īernard Shaw had it right when he said, "Britain and American: two nations separated by a common language." And given the tradition, perhaps defunct now?, of "fagging", it doesn't seem impossible that in some schools things might be taken to ridiculous and preverted extremes.Įvery year, here, there are a dozen or more deaths of Frat pledges from doing dumb shit, usually alcohol-poisoning from "initiation" rituatls.Īnd even if we accept, for argument's sake, that it's all bullshit, the fact that someone would make it up, is pretty foul in and of itself!Īt least in my humble opinion. The odds that they are all untrue seems far-fetched to me.Īlso, there are a couple of dozens "public" schools* aren't there? So it's perfectly possible that something that went on in one or two-or a dozen-schools might not have gone on it the one you went to. Royal Navy sailors would appear to be luckier than their American counterparts in regards to this.Ģ.) I wasn't asserting the truth of it, only that I came across it in a Dictionary of Aussie Slang and also in Wikipedia and another source I can't remember.
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