You might be able to make a nice chilli inside it. 
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Found out last night at the Sweet gig that the venue KK Steel Mill is owned by KK Downing, ex lead guitarist of Judas Priest.
random memory just surfaced.
Much like
the top year (12-13 yo) had a side room to use.
As time dragged on it became tradition in this room that occasionally one (self-selecting) boy would start to chant “Oxfam reject, Oxfam reject”.
Everyone else would pick it up “Oxfam REJECT, Oxfam REJECT”.
Then another (self-selecting) boy would lean back and be fed hand-over-hand by everyone else out of the (ground floor) window.
This is what happens when you have a load of 13 year olds with time on their hands and no stimuli.
TBH I strongly doubt that schools like this made it as far as the 90s. Years ago I went to a talk given by a later headmaster who basically said that they had all had to change radically after some sort of exposé by Esther Rantzen.
In what world ? Bunch of weirdo’s if you ask me.
Gormenghast ?
When my classmates got bored, and were out of sight/hearing of the masters, things pretty quickly descended into brawling. We must have been an unimaginative lot.
Groan !
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Hey that’s just mildly surreal.
In the 30s the place had “open dormitories”, rooms with only two walls, outward-facing - the boys slept in the open because healthy.
think you may have over packed the bong, that makes absolutely zero sense to me 
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Doors in the building that effectively lead out onto a flat roof. Beds for children are on this roof. No further walls or ceiling.
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Lol ! Shit, hadn’t seen that. Well, y’know ?
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“WeirDOH!”
Also, side-cockpunch to the English language for “i”-before-“e”-except-after-this-specific-fucking-“w”!!! 
Getting “kill the pig” vibes.
The rule-makers had to bolt “when the sound is eeeeeee” on, otherwise neither and eight and being and feign and, yes, weir(d) and a boatload more break the rule one way and science breaks it the other way.
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Did you all have TB? Old TB hospitals were like that. Possibly Muscular Christianity gone mad.
Pronunciation may have changed; spelling has solidified but was more flexible in the past. I have always benn a decent speller, but for me spelling is entirely visual, it looks right or it isn’t. I do have to think about i’s and e’s.
But poor proofreader.
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spellist?
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