Can I make this *any* more vague?
I went to school with this other lad (and some 400 others). He was a nasty little rat-faced shit, by the way. And a bit of a mentalist. Somehow, he managed to get away with pulling a honest-to-goodness (and illegal even then) lock-knife on someone and stabbing them with it.

He claimed to be a member of a certain ethnic and religious group, although displaying none of the normal behaviour of his supposed co-religionists (and going to a church school from a different brand of god-botheryness).

One day, he was going on about how the country primarily associated with his particular claimed ethnic status was the best country in the world, and loads better than the dump that forms part of my dual heritage (no, not Wales, the other one).

I suggested that if it was so great, that perhaps he should try living there, to see if it lived up to his vision of it.

Well now. The following afternoon, I'm hauled up in front of the Head of House to explain my comments. I re-tell the story, mostly as above.

---- me, I discover a very small PTA meeting, to discuss the uncomfortable subject of my racist views. To give the headmaster credit, he managed to keep a straight face as my parents (one white, one black) march in, followed by me. We sit neatly in colour order, just to make it obvious, and politely listen to him explain the problem.

Then my Mom suggests that he discipline the other person involved too. Apparently he couldn't discipline the 'victim' as this would 'send the wrong message'.

My mom suggested that he might be mad.
(purplegod counting down for Christmas!, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:33, Reply)