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2 hours ago, vintagelaureate said:

I'm hoping for some resale good karma, I've managed to bag twice for people off here in 2017 - @Yoghurt on a Stick and another - and came within a whisker last year only for the payment confirmation never to load. Hopefully, I didn't use all my luck up!!

I can confirm that this is true, and that I still owe vintagelaureate a pint for doing so, but our paths are yet to cross.

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4 hours ago, Big durbs said:

You WILL be fine Vinty 😉 so ARE So going 

Ah, I hope so Big D.

3 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Are any of us ever really here? I once had to do a 5,000 word essay on existentialism - that was a mind bender.

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2 minutes ago, vintagelaureate said:

Ah, I hope so Big D.

Are any of us ever really here? I once had to do a 5,000 word essay on existentialism - that was a mind bender.

We had prefects at our school (where certain pupils who were given certain powers). Not sure if it's the same for all schools or not. I once heard a prefect give another pupil an essay to write for having done some wrong doing. The essay was a long one and had to be handed in the next morning to the prefect (they had their own room).  The essay title - Tell me all there is to know about the inside of a ping pong ball. That prefect was obviously an A grade w*nker. They actually made one of my own mates a prefect, because he was academically at the top and also sporty. He is also the same person who introduced me to dope, acid, and extacy. I don't know, but suspect his prefect abilities were feeble. 

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3 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

We had prefects at our school (where certain pupils who were given certain powers). Not sure if it's the same for all schools or not. I once heard a prefect give another pupil an essay to write for having done some wrong doing. The essay was a long one and had to be handed in the next morning to the prefect (they had their own room).  The essay title - Tell me all there is to know about the inside of a ping pong ball. That prefect was obviously an A grade w*nker. They actually made one of my own mates a prefect, because he was academically at the top and also sporty. He is also the same person who introduced me to dope, acid, and extacy. I don't know, but suspect his prefect abilities were feeble. 

I actually had to research it! 

https://workingsbm.com/2018/05/13/the-inside-of-a-ping-pong-ball/ 

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4 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

We had prefects at our school (where certain pupils who were given certain powers). Not sure if it's the same for all schools or not. I once heard a prefect give another pupil an essay to write for having done some wrong doing. The essay was a long one and had to be handed in the next morning to the prefect (they had their own room).  The essay title - Tell me all there is to know about the inside of a ping pong ball. That prefect was obviously an A grade w*nker. They actually made one of my own mates a prefect, because he was academically at the top and also sporty. He is also the same person who introduced me to dope, acid, and extacy. I don't know, but suspect his prefect abilities were feeble. 

Coincidentally I went to school with somebody who wrote a story about The Inside of a Ping Pong Ball through choice. It was actually a rather brilliant look into another universe encapsulated inside the ball and the various goings on within. Thanks for digging up the memory!

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12 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

We got resales tickets it 2016. It was an incredible feeling, all of a sudden you are running around making plans, checking the clashes, arranging holiday time off, buying stuff and generally feeling euphoric.  Then there’s a little bit of regret that you’ve spent the winter thinking you weren’t going! Best of luck to all on here in the resales, plenty of helpers trying to get you all tickets! 

We got tickets in the resale last year and I concur! Obviously elated but also angry at all the missed excitement which is a big part of the festival for most of us on here. Unfortunately in the same boat again this year but I remain hopeful as I know it can be done!

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17 minutes ago, vintagelaureate said:

I guess it must have been a 'thing' back in the day to punish pupils with this task. However, I can say that it wasn't hearsay, as I was stood there when the other pupil was given this task. In addition, there was no internet in those days, so it would have had to be done the hard way.

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8 minutes ago, plot2pot said:

Coincidentally I went to school with somebody who wrote a story about The Inside of a Ping Pong Ball through choice. It was actually a rather brilliant look into another universe encapsulated inside the ball and the various goings on within. Thanks for digging up the memory!

Happy to have helped on the memory front. This site has (over the years) brought back many a happy memory for me too. I'd never have had remembered them without the 'triggers' that this site often brings. 

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I didn’t make prefect but was a mentor. I basically got them to run errands & carry my folders for me. Other mentors were absolutely awful human beings towards theirs, I can’t mention much but 101 was that they took the blame for anything the mentor did.

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9 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I guess it must have been a 'thing' back in the day to punish pupils with this task. However, I can say that it wasn't hearsay, as I was stood there when the other pupil was given this task. In addition, there was no internet in those days, so it would have had to be done the hard way.

I'd really love to know what 'Ping Pong Prefect' does now. Is there any way of finding out? What a tit.

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I'm keeping positive. Already have flights booked from Sydney. We haven't made any plans for the week over Glastonbury so fingers crossed it works out but if it doesn't maybe we will go camping somewhere else in the UK. 

 

Good luck in the resale 

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9 hours ago, danbailey80 said:

I'd really love to know what 'Ping Pong Prefect' does now. Is there any way of finding out? What a tit.

I wouldn't have a clue, as I don't even know his name. He was a few years above me at that time, and knowing older pupils wasn't a thing really. That said, one of the older pupils, and also a prefect, befriended someone in my year (in a natural way). Anyway, this prefect was tasked with emptying the money out of the drinks machine at school, for which he was given a special key. To cut a long story short, the prefect and the lad from our year went in to Birmingham city shopping centres and tried the key out on the drinks machines there. Low and behold, the key worked and they robbed all the money. I'm not sure how many times they did this, but they eventually got caught. 

It was an odd school in that it produced doctors, lawyers etc, but it also produced wasters like me too. Not only that but some lad two years above us murdered another bloke, another went on to be a gay porn star, and one lad from our year became very successful after co writing Jerry Springer The Opera. 

I'm still in touch with a handful of people from that school as they are among my dearest mates.

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30 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I wouldn't have a clue, as I don't even know his name. He was a few years above me at that time, and knowing older pupils wasn't a thing really. That said, one of the older pupils, and also a prefect, befriended someone in my year (in a natural way). Anyway, this prefect was tasked with emptying the money out of the drinks machine at school, for which he was given a special key. To cut a long story short, the prefect and the lad from our year went in to Birmingham city shopping centres and tried the key out on the drinks machines there. Low and behold, the key worked and they robbed all the money. I'm not sure how many times they did this, but they eventually got caught. 

It was an odd school in that it produced doctors, lawyers etc, but it also produced wasters like me too. Not only that but some lad two years above us murdered another bloke, another went on to be a gay porn star, and one lad from our year became very successful after co writing Jerry Springer The Opera. 

I'm still in touch with a handful of people from that school as they are among my dearest mates.

Wow. Interesting stuff. What school was this?!

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