Judy, you do a great job in supporting the people on this site with information and encouragement in my opinion you weren't rude at all just genuinely trying to help........carry on the good work
Terese

Over the top is an integral part of British Humour. BH on the other hand stands for Brusthalter and is measured in centimetres.



No need to apologize, you are correct.


I think that's what I was saying.

Precisely.

Thanks for the clarification (if the clarification can be trusted and is not, itself, part of British Humour ).

I have added it to my growing notebook about British Humour.

Hold your breath for another Wiki.

Just kidding. That is one Wiki that I will never attempt.

OK, I think I owe a slightly less flippant response.

As Oak and a couple of other folk on here know, I "benefited" from what some might refer to as a privileged educational track.

Point one: this was never paid for from family resources, i.e merit (in their own terms) scholarships all the way.

Point the tooth, it has served me well...I'd be hypocritical to deny it.

Point three: I am still dealing with the traumas of the experience.

Point four: I have two grown sons both of whom have been educated in Canada in the public system, and who are both considerably more rounded individuals than I will ever be.

Point five: Canada would be much better off with a more highly developed class system.

BH again, Judy.

Since we somehow gotten on to the topic of flippancy, I would be remiss if I did not add my 2 cents here.

Some here see some merit in private schooling. I do for one.

However one of the benefits not mentioned so far, and for the life of me I fail to see why this has been overlooked, is that private schools will, under certain dire circumstances, act as a temporary safe haven for the offspring of despots who themselves are in the process of being overthrown by other would be despots.

Just imagine this scenario: Emperor, King, Head Honcho. Supreme Ruler, or president-for-life in some tin pot little country gets overthrown and while he rots in gaol, or is being disposed of (need I provide the gory details?), at least his pampered his kids are safe and sound thousands of miles away.

This represents a serious dilemma for the school administration which has just tearfully broken to these little darlings the grim news and thirty seconds later lets them know, in the most compassionate of tones, that henceforth they are in effect 'persona non grata' as the bills for their upkeep are no longer likely to be paid.

Problems, problems! But then again who says life is easy?