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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I got all sortsBut - as below - I grew up in Barrow-in-Furness. Popular culture was forced upon us, and if you wanted to be different you had to get out.
Three of us went to Glasgow after school one weekend to see Lloyd Cole. Ok, we'd been a bit smartarsey about getting out of town etc. - but when we went to get our bags from the common room someone had written "posh twats" on them.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 23:16,
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I just checkedAnd I'm on last week's main qotw Best Of page TWICE.
BEAT THAT, FATBOY!!!
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You've attained the dizzying heights of Pooflake.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 23:28,
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Not really something I aspire to beat.Midge Ure lookalike.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 23:34,
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I was quite lucky in that the school I went to drew from a quite middle class, bohemian, lefty sort of areaSo there were kids there with cool older brothers or parents that smoked dope, etc.
But it took me until my fifth year to meet them.
There was still the twats who called you names if you had long hair, but it didn't really matter because there were enough alternative people to make it bearable.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 23:23,
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Age thing again.I passed my 11 plus and went to Grammar School. A year later it became a comprehensive but it was the closest school to home so I stayed there - ex Grammar School teachers forced to teach in a comp wasn't a happy mix at all.
They loved our year but even as a 15 year old I watched standards decline.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 11 Oct 2012, 23:30,
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