
It was practically part of the school uniform around 1983.
And if you tell that to kids today, they won't believe you
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And if you tell that to kids today, they won't believe you

then I was dragged up in front of the school assembly, and pointed at by the headmaster.
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Tue 18 Nov 2003, 16:37,
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being strict old-guard bastards (who'd died for us in three world wars, etc.) but I think they decided it would be better for us to have one bit of the uniform we could arse around with.
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