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Topic History of: I noticed at the football in Rome Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Green Man
Wyot wrote: Green Man wrote: We all know the best chubby person in books is Billy Bunter.
No Winnie The Pooh is; the bear of very little brain and a fondness for honey. Love reading those books to my youngest - pure lyrical genius and very funny.
Go read some Biggles.
Jess (Barney) I have never understood the concepts of boarding schools - it seems to be for rich parents who don't want their kids to stop them going on skiing holidays or their polo. Then again I don't get the idea of school either most forget what they were taught or indoctrinated. I think schools need to teach proper life lessons like how to assemble furniture, fix a tap, install a shelve and change a light bulb.
Green Man wrote: We all know the best chubby person in books is Billy Bunter.
No Winnie The Pooh is; the bear of very little brain and a fondness for honey. Love reading those books to my youngest - pure lyrical genius and very funny.
Green Man
We all know the best chubby person in books is Billy Bunter.
Wyot
md wrote: His response to the baby farm scandal of 1849 perhaps gives some indication of what he would have made of it all.
Thanks for posting md - enjoyed reading that. He had a great sense of social justice(or rather radar for injustice) and I think he would have a lot to say on the way we treat asylum seekers & detention camps, child exploitation and trafficking, county lines (using kids to sell drugs; how Fagin..). The language of outrage though is considered unfashionable (and is viewed suspiciously) at the moment; a cooler detachment is called for. More is the pity.