Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[gentlegreen]

Even those two simple words, ‘tuck shop’, are redolent of the class hierarchy. Stamped on youngsters from infancy, evoking characters like Billy Bunter, Lord Snooty and Winker Watson, that we may be successful, but never be like them. The Rees-Moggs and chums.
United Kingdom? Oh my sides.

My suburban primary school had a tuck shop in the 60s

 

[Serge Forward]

My school (in Salford) also called it a "tuck shop" probably in a vain attempt to make us ferral bleeders "aspire" to be a bit more Winker Watson. It wasn't actually a shop, just a table run by volunteer kids.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

My school (in Salford) also called it a "tuck shop" probably in a vain attempt to make us ferral bleeders "aspire" to be a bit more Winker Watson. It wasn't actually a shop, just a table run by volunteer kids.

We had one of them in the youth club I used to attend.

 

[danny la rouge]

My school (in Salford) also called it a "tuck shop" probably in a vain attempt to make us ferral bleeders "aspire" to be a bit more Winker Watson. It wasn't actually a shop, just a table run by volunteer kids.

Yup, my state comp had a tuck shop too. We’d get cheap potato snacks you didn’t see anywhere else, like salt and vinegar potato straws; sugary drinks in flimsy, rubbed plastic cups with sealed foil-like lids you pierced with a stubby straw; penny dainties (McCowan’s toffee); and so on.

The local youth club also had a tuck shop.

I think it was just education sector lingo by then.

 

[gentlegreen]

I didn't understand the social context until I got chicken pox and was given a box of Beanos and Dandies ... didn't the Bash Street Kids have a tuck shop ?

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[eatmorecheese]

Tuck boxes, not tuck shops, are the real mark of the public school tosser

 

[Sprocket.]

What’s school?

 

[Pickman's model]

What’s school?

a group of fish

 

[danny la rouge]

What’s school?

Smoking. It’s very cool.

 

[andysays]

Tuck boxes, not tuck shops, are the real mark of the public school tosser

And tucked in shirts

 

[Sprocket.]

Being honest we did have a kind of tuck shop at school, but I was only in the second year at our secondary modern when they packed it in due to all the thieving from it.

 

[gentlegreen]

What’s school?

If you have to ask, you didn't go there ...

 

[brogdale]

Being honest we did have a kind of tuck shop at school, but I was only in the second year at our secondary modern when they packed it in due to all the thieving from it.

Same thing happened at my school because they couldn't persuade enough of the older kids "in charge" of it to act like capitalists...they just used to give the stuff away for free

 

[danny la rouge]

Tuck boxes, not tuck shops, are the real mark of the public school tosser

What’s a tuck box?

Hold on, searching...

 

[danny la rouge]

Holy fuck!

https://schooltuckboxes.co.uk/tuck-boxes/

 

[Sprocket.]

If you have to ask, you didn't go there ...

I did, it must have been good, it was approved.

ETA: I must admit though I was a late starter, I started at ten. I was back home at eleven thirty.

 

[Kaka Tim]

"well i say a tuck shop - but it were more like a pile of stale crisps on't floor"

 

[eatmorecheese]

Holy fuck!

Custom Made Wooden Tuck Boxes for Boarding School – Shop here

Someone I was at school with had his great grandfathers' tuck box. His grandfather and father had used it too. Like some sort of holy fucking relic.

 

[Pickman's model]

Holy fuck!

Custom Made Wooden Tuck Boxes for Boarding School – Shop here

more money than sense



you can get the sodding things for £85, £87 which in itself is very dear. but much better than £270

 

[Poi E]

Fucking hell. Guess they had lunches made for them.

 

[alsoknownas]

"well i say a tuck shop - but it were more like a pile of stale crisps on't floor

Floor? You had a floor? etc.

 

[Smangus]

Just get em a coffin, better value and they can use them for the designated purpose a lot earlier.

 

[MickiQ]

I remember we had a tuck shop at school but they're a thing of the past these days, the school where Mrs Q teaches doesn't have one and the canteen is banned from selling sweets and choccies, All that happens is that the kids sneak out and go the Co-Op around the corner. There are a couple of Y11's apparently who are future entrepeneurs/capitalists/drug dealers in the making who flog stuff from their satchels at a small markup to the other kids.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Fucking hell. Guess they had lunches made for them.

And a footman to chew it up for them and spit it down their throats.

 

[mojo pixy]

I had no idea such boxes were meant for food. Mine was always used for clothes. Latterly it's been used for storing recording equipment and dangerous tools. I have considered having it used as my coffin, as I still just about fit inside

 

[DotCommunist]

the canteen is banned from selling sweets and choccies

sugar fascism was a feature of megacity 1 in 2000ad, but in this timeline Jamie Olliver ushered it in early

 

[William of Walworth]

It's all very well celebrating the 882-page length of this thread, the longest ever in P & P!

But exclude all the Brexit-irrelevant posts and where does that leave you ......

<teacher surveys the class sternly ..... >

 

[brogdale]

It's all very well celebrating the 882-page length of this thread, the longest ever in P & P!

But exclude all the Brexit-irrelevant posts and where does that leave you ......

<teacher surveys the class sternly ..... >

Still in the EU, Sir?

 

[Libertad]

It's all very well celebrating the 882-page length of this thread, the longest ever in P & P!

But exclude all the Brexit-irrelevant posts and where does that leave you ......

<teacher surveys the class sternly ..... >

"It's your own time you're wasting."