Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

By the time I was at CH the opt-out was colloquially known as Bocker Squad and I’m not sure it retained its noble origins, seeing as scouting (provided you could endure the scoutmaster) was on offer to anyone who didn’t want to wield a gun. It was more a sort of smoker’s collective. In the RN sectio...

rockfreak wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 7:03 pm What odds on the whole site ending up as flats for Russian oligarchs?

Three years later? Pretty likely, I’d have thought.

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Fitzsadou wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:31 am I’m clearly missing something, but quite apart from me there are surely others who don’t know Tucker’s Law. Please enlighten us?

No problem:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Tucker%27s+law

Great topic. Much better than doddering on about how often laundry was changed.

CH taught me puerile, entry-level swearing but I managed to build on that and now repeat Tucker's Law twice daily in the mirror to ensure my invective stays in tip-top condition.

Interestingly, 74 is the age at which you are legally required to stop writing conceited and broken-brained letters to the newspapers.

Well I look forward to one of those updates of cyber-vellum from the 1552 campaign.

I believe the FF % has been reduced from 26% to about 20%. But, apart from future planned percentages, there are other crucial questions. Have sufficient donations arrived to cover the resulting increase in costs, are some economies underway, and/or is there a current increased running deficit? Int...

That reminds me, do we know the FF mix for the 2017 intake yet?

It's Wahhabism that will do for the Balkans, not Putin.

Perhaps that explains his highly suspect habit of drawing the bone structure of the human skeleton on naked boys in class?

michael scuffil wrote:

Avon wrote:

MrEd wrote: (Can't comment on her cooking, but she was a dietician, so that doesn't bode well.)

She put Lucretia Borgia to shame. To this day there are household staples I can't eat owing to her ministrations.

MrEd wrote:Tom Keeley was widely rumoured to have narcolepsy by the 1980s.

It was a defence strategy against his wife's godawful cooking!

Returning five days later, I was interested to see some of this stuff. The knee-jerk reaction 'Look at Bishop Peter Ball' (or more news-worthily John Smythe, see Channel 4 News) simply won't do. Sadly, as we all know, church ministry attracts some very unattractive people for all the wrong reasons....

Presently my generation have to be slightly opaque about the quality of ministry at CH. However, alongside the Chaplaincy I would add that I didn't find much inspirational about the religious experience at the school; the HM was renowned as a bookish and unconvincing orator, and no particularly edif...