Rural Racism
Some years ago I was with a group visiting a prep school in Lincolnshire. It has an interesting logo: a red and white matrix with a red circle on white above it. We were interested in this, and asked a member of staff what it meant.

"It was that little boy" we were told. "About thirty years ago. He climbed over a wall to get his ball (hence the logo), but the house was owned by Jews, so they killed him like Jews do and threw his body down a well." We were so shocked by this that we asked another member of staff and got almost precisely the same reply: little boy, ball, wall, Jews, dead.

After a bit of investigation, this turned out to be a version of the story of Little St Hugh of Lincoln, a child whose death - not at the hand of Jews - in 1255 was used as an excuse for a classic blood libel and a pogrom against the Jews of Lincoln. There has been a formal expression of regret for the whole horrible business in Lincoln Cathedral for almost sixty years, and yet the school still sees fit to celebrate and perpetuate an anti-semitic myth. I don't find that funny at all - I find it creepy and disturbing.


(ubergeekian, Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:00, 4 replies)

Logo
Looks kinda like the Death Star?
(Lip Up Fatty Fatty Reggae still loves BBQ food on, Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:09, closed)

thats no moon...

(magictorch, Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:18, closed)

Prep Schools....
...a breeding ground for bigotry if ever there was one. Simply by perpetuating this hilarious tale of chucklesome race hatred, the school is ensuring its own success and succession. As a state school teacher in Lincolnshire I, like you, find the whole thing morally reprehensible.

And have you ever tried to get into Lincoln Cathedral? The Mafia could learn a trick or two about extortion!

The tale of the little boy is pretty bad too.
( The Lone Groover has mal des nuts., Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:12, closed)

It's a Woodhall Spa thing
When I was there, a local car could be seen around town with the number plates tweaked to read "Adolf" (I think it was "ADO1LFE"). The local paper had an entire page of small ads from companies who fix mobility scooters, which says a lot about the age profile of the population.

Woodhall Spa's only claim to fame is that the Dambusters took off from the airfield there, and even then I imagine the locals lining the end of the runway with signs saying "Leave Germany Alone" and "Coventry's That Way"
(ubergeekian, Thu 28 Feb 2013, 11:26, closed)