The other big thing - which at one point got so out of control they had to call an emergency assembly on it - was attacking each other with paper pellets (folded paper really hurts, apparently) fired from improvised slingshots. It wasn't that bad until some kids went rogue and started adding paperclips to the pellets...
I am surprised that you are surprised. Having a PC enables me to keep up with things I am interested in and I keep in touch with several contemporaries by E-mail. I don't intend to go into a shell until I have to ( or peg out).
Oh it's not the fact that you're a gasroomer @wingnut (long may that continue), it's just 1943 is so long ago. That the gasroom can play a small part in keeping you in touch with the club warms my heart.
The stokenchurch bus got disciplined in my first year for throwing food every morning. Not sure why mothers in stokenchurch were so bad at packed lunches but a lot of lads didn't seem to like their food
I assume you mean William Roache who plays him, I looked him up and he was born almost exactly two months before me. I see he was an officer in the Army. I was in the RAF for my NS and didn't reach those heights but played an awful lot of sport.
I believe there is a hall of fame going to the Headmaster's office at RGS with Matt Dawson, Jimmy Carr & Sir Stephen Fry all featuring.
My brother played in the same football team as Christian Wade. The RGS staff called in his coach at Hughenden Valley as well as his parents and gave a poor 13 yr old boy an ultimatum. If you stop playing football, we'll make you great or keep playing football & you'll never play 1stXV Rugby for us
Fry was at school with Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Jackman and Jonathan Agnew. And my good friend Robin, they were both expelled from the same sixth form (for very different reasons!) yet both got into their Cambridge colleges of choice - which links neatly into earlier posts about privilege and entitlement.
Well Stephen Fry's portrait was there around 15 yrs ago when I met the Headmaster for a work experience interview. I thought it was there because he was a past student but I'm obviously wrong so I apologise.
As for the Christian Wade, 100% true. The coach called my dad straight after the meeting to find out if the FA could get involved and/or if they could disclose the conversation to whoever to highlight this but at the end of the day, they listened to Christian's parents views and respected them.
It didn't stop a member of the PE staff coming to their games as they needed to 'walk their dog' for the next 3 weekends to check that they hadn't been lied to & Christian was still playing. As soon as the club realised, the manager & chairman wrote to the school claiming their behaviour was causing a child protection issue and after that, they were left alone
Didn’t Wade pretty much flunk everything and they only kept him into sixth form to flex the fact they had a good sportsman amongst the ranks? The classic one rule for the rugby XV and another for the plebs.
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The other big thing - which at one point got so out of control they had to call an emergency assembly on it - was attacking each other with paper pellets (folded paper really hurts, apparently) fired from improvised slingshots. It wasn't that bad until some kids went rogue and started adding paperclips to the pellets...
I am surprised that you are surprised. Having a PC enables me to keep up with things I am interested in and I keep in touch with several contemporaries by E-mail. I don't intend to go into a shell until I have to ( or peg out).
Oh it's not the fact that you're a gasroomer @wingnut (long may that continue), it's just 1943 is so long ago. That the gasroom can play a small part in keeping you in touch with the club warms my heart.
We're you born before or after Ken Barlow?
The stokenchurch bus got disciplined in my first year for throwing food every morning. Not sure why mothers in stokenchurch were so bad at packed lunches but a lot of lads didn't seem to like their food
Yeah, we had plenty of food-throwing on buses. There was also an assembly telling lads to stop throwing poo at the ceiling (yes really).
I assume you mean William Roache who plays him, I looked him up and he was born almost exactly two months before me. I see he was an officer in the Army. I was in the RAF for my NS and didn't reach those heights but played an awful lot of sport.
Can you still buy stink bombs? Always had a few of them for the bus or for lobbing off the first floor of The Octagon.
I drove through Stevenage recently @arnos_grove and that experience would suggest that yes, you can still buy them.
Just checked on Amazon Stink bombs,, itching powder and fake dog poo are all still available so that’s my weekend taken care of.
I believe there is a hall of fame going to the Headmaster's office at RGS with Matt Dawson, Jimmy Carr & Sir Stephen Fry all featuring.
My brother played in the same football team as Christian Wade. The RGS staff called in his coach at Hughenden Valley as well as his parents and gave a poor 13 yr old boy an ultimatum. If you stop playing football, we'll make you great or keep playing football & you'll never play 1stXV Rugby for us
Stephen Fry?
I’m about 2 metres from that corridor right now. There is a Chris Grayling and a Howard Jones, but no Stephen Fry!
Imagine celebrating the fact that Chris Grayling was educated at your school. Should be embarrassed
Ian Dury an inexplicable omission?
That's disgusting if true.
During Dingle's brief reign was that?
I don't understand the Stephen Fry link
How does one throw poo at a ceiling?!?
Questions the legitimacy of the post doesn't it?
I don't know, but it soon got put a stop to when some shit hit the fan.
Or the lawnmower
Fry was at school with Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Jackman and Jonathan Agnew. And my good friend Robin, they were both expelled from the same sixth form (for very different reasons!) yet both got into their Cambridge colleges of choice - which links neatly into earlier posts about privilege and entitlement.
Well Stephen Fry's portrait was there around 15 yrs ago when I met the Headmaster for a work experience interview. I thought it was there because he was a past student but I'm obviously wrong so I apologise.
As for the Christian Wade, 100% true. The coach called my dad straight after the meeting to find out if the FA could get involved and/or if they could disclose the conversation to whoever to highlight this but at the end of the day, they listened to Christian's parents views and respected them.
It didn't stop a member of the PE staff coming to their games as they needed to 'walk their dog' for the next 3 weekends to check that they hadn't been lied to & Christian was still playing. As soon as the club realised, the manager & chairman wrote to the school claiming their behaviour was causing a child protection issue and after that, they were left alone
This kind of nonsense from RGS is exactly why I hate rugby
I was 'signed on' to Chelsea (or a Chelsea centre of excellence) whilst playing rugby for rgs.
The excellent rugby coach (Tattersall) never mentioned any of this. That's appalling
Tattersall was a great games master.
Obviously Wade was at rgs later than me. Appalling stuff
Didn’t Wade pretty much flunk everything and they only kept him into sixth form to flex the fact they had a good sportsman amongst the ranks? The classic one rule for the rugby XV and another for the plebs.
Why hasn't this been taken to court?