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Say, Can One Of You Brits Translate This For Me
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/...rquharson/
Quote:Malia Obama's Harvard boyfriend revealed to be British student Rory Farquharson who was head boy at Rugby School I'm hoping that a "head boy" isn't what I think it is!  RE: Say, Can One Of You Brits Translate This For Me
November 22, 2017 at 8:33 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2017 at 8:36 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
It isn't. A roughly equivalent term would be 'class president'. Head boy at Rugby is a pretty big deal, actually. It means that of all those snobby, upper class piles of pus, he was the most pus-ish.
There's also 'head girl', a term which caused me many sleepless nights and wrist sprains when I was at school. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
I don't know about Rugby, but going by Oxbridge tradition it could be a flexible position.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (November 22, 2017 at 7:41 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/...rquharson/ I thought all the freshmen were head boys.
Muchas gracias, todos.
(November 22, 2017 at 9:05 pm)Cyberman Wrote: I don't know about Rugby, but going by Oxbridge tradition it could be a flexible position. Good point. Those Oxford and Eton lads are known to bend over backwards to help a fellow out. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
Isn't that where the battles of the British empire were won?
One couldn't rise through the gentlemanly ranks without being Eton.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Eaten?
Typical - take an innocent comment and make it sound rude...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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