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> Well, er, I guess it depends on if you went to Eton or not… This is going in a direction I wasn’t anticipating - I thought “bum a fag” would realistically me

by bch 5y ago

> Well, er, I guess it depends on if you went to Eton or not… This is going in a direction I wasn’t anticipating - I thought “bum a fag” would realistically mean “ask for a cigarette”.

Lio 5y ago
That would be a good assumption in general to be fair. Those going to that kind of public school would be a tiny percentage of the population. Roald Dahl wrote extensively about "fagging" and all that went with it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/7932061/Roald-Dahls-schooldays.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoir...