Youth Speaks
So, back in my school days the eponymous competition was for all the secondary schools in the area, who would send a team of three kids to speak about something for a few minutes - fair enough.

So it comes to pass that I'm doing the main speech for my school in this competition, so me and my two mates traipse off to the town hall for this thing and meet all the other kids from local schools, including the posh private school that forces the pupils to wear wicker hats at all times. School by school we all do our speeches and it comes to mine - I've chosen to rant about people blasting dance music from their cars and casually mention that my dad refers to it as 'garage' music, because it's made by spotty blokes in their garages. The fact that this is my dad's own term is important...

Speech goes fine, we don't win, naturally that goes to the wicker hat brigade. Afterwards, as the kids are milling around, one of the be-hatted pointy nosed little twunts comes up to me, tuts and announces very loudly in a cut-glass Queen's English accent: "It's not called garage music, it's called house music. EVERYONE knows that."

I wish I'd had a good retort at the time, but I was floored by the presumption. At that moment I was filled with more of an urge to start class-warfare than at any time before or since.

Stupid fucks in their wicker hats.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 9 Oct 2008, 17:15, 4 replies)

Those things are always rigged
Similarly: never trust anyone that came from a school that had plaid skirts.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 23:19, closed)

These ones had blazers, even though they were girl types...
Green blazers and wicker hats...

I shall heed your advice on the plaid skirt front...
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Fri 10 Oct 2008, 9:54, closed)

Was it St Mary's in Cambridge?
They had the whole green colour scheme with boaters.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 10:18, closed)

Wickham House in Fareham
Though that sounds lovely too...
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Mon 13 Oct 2008, 14:50, closed)