Boarding School - my memories
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Күн бұрынFor two years, I went to a British public boarding school, and recently, I attended a reunion. Some memories.
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This is the second of these, and it incorporates a few pieces to camera, about this and that. Mainly that. I have much more to say about these places, but this uses up all the footage I shot while I was there.
I don't feature the people there because this was a personal project, and it would be unfair to involve them in something they may find expresses opinions and ideas with which they disagree. Besides, I wanted to talk to old friends, not poke a camera in their faces.
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@violacrb 7 жыл бұрын
"I was doing stuff that there weren't rules against." I'll bet there are rules against them now.
@NourianPeters 7 жыл бұрын
Or they could be like : "Nah nobody else will come up with that, lets leave the rules as they are."
@IchKomentiereNur123 7 жыл бұрын
He wasnt a rebel, he was a troll
@AfferbeckBeats 7 жыл бұрын
You know you are truly cool when they make up rules specifically to stop you doing the stuff you were technically allowed to be doing.
@LadyLunarSatine 7 жыл бұрын
I think that line went something like you haven't lived until a sign was made in reference to your act.
@NoahWeisbrod 7 жыл бұрын
I once got an assignment from an English teacher that specified the topic and the length of 100 words. In no way did it specify the form, so, being a complete ass, I decided to write it as a poem. The next assignment actually said "100 words of prose, not poetry." I felt quite proud.
@highvis_supply 6 жыл бұрын
"I'm British but I don't drink tea" "nice but not one of us"
@MrCrowebobby 3 жыл бұрын
Now that's as British as you can get.
@SquireComedy 7 жыл бұрын
You don't drink tea? Scandalous.
@martinwest9172 7 жыл бұрын
Squire hello good sir. Can you play more Verdun please
@34darijusas 7 жыл бұрын
I wonder how he fuels his despise for the French if he doesn't drink tea?
@34darijusas 7 жыл бұрын
+Martin Westriseby you can't just ask Squire to play Verdun on a Lindybeige video. Have some heart, man!
@adamfrisk956 7 жыл бұрын
Anarchy is real!
@poonczey 7 жыл бұрын
No tea? Hph-hph. Please hand back your British card, thank you.
@vivianstanshall8121 7 жыл бұрын
My parents used bording school to scare me "we'll send you to boarding school if you dont behave" £36 grand says you wont :P
@particleman5893 3 жыл бұрын
There are cheap ones which are basically all of this except poor. In the States, they also have all of this except free; it's called military school.
@ktoth29 7 жыл бұрын
I would have liked to go to a boarding school back in the "pioneering" days where they basically just said, here's a book of inspirational poetry, go build a fort in the woods, we don't care what you learn because your going to get a military commission and die in a trench in belgium when you are 24.
@beth12svist 5 жыл бұрын
Nitpicking comment years after the fact: He said 1920s, so that was _after_ the trenches...
@whitmanpriceandhaddad3074 4 жыл бұрын
@@beth12svist How can such a well structured comment, from clearly a clever person, not spell 'you're' right? You even got 'commission' bang on!!? I AM nit-picking...but also come in peace.
@beth12svist 4 жыл бұрын
@@whitmanpriceandhaddad3074 You replied to the wrong person. I'm not the OP.
@stevenobrien557 4 жыл бұрын
@@beth12svist there was a war there again in 1940.
@beth12svist 4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenobrien557 Yeah, but that probably doesn't _quite_ line up with the age the OP stated. If they were 24 in 1940, they'd have been 14 in 1930. Admittedly I don't know enough about the British school system to know how old those students could be expected to be, but it seems to me a bit of a stretch from "the 1920s". Plus, trench warfare is commonly associated with the previous one. And I am not sure if there were any British soldiers in Belgium _that_ early in WW2. So, yeah, maybe the timeline might work, and maybe you can make an argument for it. But overall it seems to me a bit of a stretch for an easy punchline to jump to and the OP most likely did mean WW1 and simply forgot about the 1920s bit. :-)
@paulpeterson4216 7 жыл бұрын
You were not a rebel, you were a subversive. And don't drink tea? Definitely a subversive.
@BlueSpirit422 7 жыл бұрын
Paul Peterson A free thinker? An anarchist?! -Mr. Burns
@psemek8000 3 жыл бұрын
Nicholas: NOBODY FOUGHT because we all had to LIVE with each other. Also Nicholas: And then I THREW HIM OFF THE TABLE. He did not come back to the queue.
@Mr.KokoPudgeFudge 2 жыл бұрын
His name is Lloyd, not Nicholas.
@psemek8000 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mr.KokoPudgeFudge Nicholas Lloyd
@ginjaedgy49 7 жыл бұрын
Lindybeige got spotted by security near the end? most schools aren't too happy with a middle aged man with a scruffy beard holding a cam-recorder.
@deepsouthredneck1 7 жыл бұрын
over 40 check, single check, wears non stylish clothes check, abnormally white check, balding check, scraggly beard check, but he doesn't have the giant goofy glasses, that's the only thing saving him from the spray.
@Ninjamanhammer 7 жыл бұрын
+dreyrugr I'm pretty sure giant glasses would save him from the spray.
@deepsouthredneck1 7 жыл бұрын
Ninjamanhammer True but not wearing them makes the chances of him getting sprayed smaller.
@alexeysaranchev6118 7 жыл бұрын
Imegine him spinning around on that field for 20 minutes though as he recorded those 2 videos. Must be really interesting to watch.
@deepsouthredneck1 7 жыл бұрын
JoeRingo118 Well I'm abnormally white in a state where that gets you skin cancer and funny looks so maybe it's more normal in whitey's natural environment.
@Radimkiller 7 жыл бұрын
"to stop people from kidnapping children of Russian oligarchs" what?
@jklhjkhjl 7 жыл бұрын
some very important peoples children will go to many schools in england
@battlez9577 7 жыл бұрын
If your school is good enough you'll get the nobility of other countries going to it, the Duke of Lichenstein's son was the year above me at mine.
@dekutree64 7 жыл бұрын
This is one of the reasons autocratic governments go bad after a couple generations... the kids grow up with no freedom, and then are placed into power without having had to earn it, and with no concept of what real life is like.
@coolchannelnumber1 7 жыл бұрын
He's not joking. There have been reported cases of kids being kidnaped as leverage before.
@Munkenba 7 жыл бұрын
I went to a similar school until I graduated 3 years ago, he's not kidding, we had a Russian kid who's dad was allegedly assassinated (had some shady political ties). The kid was quickly after that withdrawn from the school and we never heard from them again. Some serious fucking people send their kids to boarding schools in England. My dad on the other hand is an architect, so we weren't all the children of bond villains.
@yaosio 7 жыл бұрын
British people that don't drink tea are rebels.
@MusketWalrus 7 жыл бұрын
Cats Man They're not rebels. They're heretics.
@lunncal5000 7 жыл бұрын
No, a heretic is someone who drinks the *wrong* tea. The correct term here is "heathen".
@BigBoss-sm9xj 7 жыл бұрын
lunncal5000 lol
@Laenthal 7 жыл бұрын
On the other hand, "teetotaling" only there could appear, and the term encompasses tea as well as other substances of habit.
@carbon1255 7 жыл бұрын
Actually, it is about replacing your habits with more tea.
@TalkingAboutGames 7 жыл бұрын
'Quite nice, but not one of us', well, that sounds like a pretty nice thing to say, how nice of him ;-)
@apropercuppa8612 7 жыл бұрын
Talking About Games Words could never be truer. He doesn't drink tea, for crying out loud!
@Britlurker 7 жыл бұрын
The minefield of the British class system!
@digadigado 7 жыл бұрын
People get angrier at you for bending rules than breaking them because usually if you stay on the right side of the letter of the law and can't get in trouble for it.
@grailknight6794 7 жыл бұрын
you threw that guy! thats why there where no bullies i guess they feared Loyds wrath!!! 😠
@neemshunter6951 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah,he probably was the bully but didn't realise it.
@koneal2000 7 жыл бұрын
neems hunter Nah, he's a defender of the public!
@mrguysnailz4907 7 жыл бұрын
Or maybe he was somewhat "bulliable" but he was just too damn tall for the bullies to bother him.
@sammycw2000 7 жыл бұрын
neems hunter I can't see Lindy being mean to anyone except the French.
@GrimFaceHunter 7 жыл бұрын
It is entirely possible that that guy was French.
@Uppernorwood976 4 жыл бұрын
"Quite nice, but not one of us" I couldn't think of a better appraisal to receive from the public school set.
@smackedinthejaw 7 жыл бұрын
2 videos reminiscing about boarding school.....and not one school photo of a youthful Lindybeige?
@Iris_n_Parti 3 жыл бұрын
They probably didn't have cameras or they weren't allowed to take photos or that they took photos but they always excluded him because they probably were trying to deny his existence (I used to be in a High School and was excluded from photos and doctored out of any that had me because the school denied having me)
@jackpemberthy3948 3 жыл бұрын
@@Iris_n_Parti why was that?
@fredbloggs8072 3 жыл бұрын
I imagine him looking exactly the same (complete with beard), only slightly shorter.
@Brave_Sir_Robin 3 жыл бұрын
@@Iris_n_Parti okay now you have to tell us what you did to be excluded from all school photographs!
@hoosierua 5 жыл бұрын
Kid: "Mrs.Amy" Teacher: "Yes Henry" Kid: "There's an old man moving in circles with a camera and talking"
@cherish78748 3 жыл бұрын
3:05 "I didn't rebel according to the rules" You weren't a rebel, you were a subversive
@ViceAdmiralHoratioNeIson 7 жыл бұрын
You made an eight minute video and only at the end did you mention your school had a TANK?
@AmirRosenzweig 7 жыл бұрын
I heard you get 10% off for twins.
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
Oh well - in that case the decision is made!
@dELTA13579111315 3 жыл бұрын
@SigmaTauri2 15%, 5% for each kid
@crazyrobots6565 3 жыл бұрын
@@dELTA13579111315 so if I have 20 kids..?
@jackpemberthy3948 3 жыл бұрын
@@crazyrobots6565 pay for 19 get 1 free
@r4fken 7 жыл бұрын
I went to a boarding school. We also had a war memorial for both wars. The walls had names from both sides.
@EnlightenedBro105 7 жыл бұрын
Lindybeige. A badass since the year 19something.
@JiiHooMan 7 жыл бұрын
My school had its own school salmon. One day it was run over by the school submarine.
@Derkiboi 7 жыл бұрын
Henri Nikula WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE
@gabo125 4 жыл бұрын
Greatest comment of the video
@Postcinct 7 жыл бұрын
Through a series of circumstances, I was placed in one of the worst schools of the country (In the UK) as ranked by Ofsted. Bottom 5 if I recall. I ended up dropping out which has pretty much ruined my future (Though honestly, staying would have been worse in my opinion. The whole place was terrible), but that's past me now so I just take an armchair approach to subjects I was enthusiastic about in my own time, mainly being history and theology. Menial jobs and manual labour are the toils of my life. Thanks world.
@panjul-g9h 7 жыл бұрын
Upfade good luck bro
@decus9544 7 жыл бұрын
My advice: Access Course (including Maths, Physics, and your own discretionary subject or two) > University (BEng) > Become an engineer. I too am interested in history but, being realistic, the opportunities in history for anything other than teaching history are a factor of having the 'proper' social network, which of course you don't have. This does of course require being good at Math; if that's not the case then the fallback option is Access Course (whichever courses are best for moving on to Project Management/ are in short supply relative to demand, this may very well still include Math, tbh) > University (Project Management BA) > Become a Project Manager at an SME somewhere (there's never a shortage of project manager jobs so social network shouldn't be critical). So long as you don't have a criminal record the ladder is still in place (even if a rather narrow and shaky one), even if you've been pushed away from it thus far.
@adamcrookedsmile 7 жыл бұрын
Open University? MOOC?
@MrLittlelawyer 7 жыл бұрын
+Decus Engineering student here. :( That is all I have to say.
@decus9544 7 жыл бұрын
MrLittlelawyer It pays off, coming from someone who graduated from engineering at post-grad level. It does help if you enjoy engineering and science for its own sake, however.
@Malicetheoriginal 7 жыл бұрын
As one of the very few girls who went to a boys boarding school this brought back many mixed memories. ( sisters of boys who were already at the school and whose parents were abroad could attend or like me daughters of any teachers ) A school of 400 boys and 6 girls was NOT fun. " girls ewe fleas " But it had its up side , learning to sail on the lake, rifle range, Latin, amazing library, a girls only wing. Hidden treasure of the fortescue fortune, films on Sunday's and fudge cake on Friday's the que out side the headmasters office on a Saturday waiting for the weekly dishing out of strokes ( caning ) but worst of all horrors was spam on a Saturday Good ol Buckland House, N Devon. I wonder what happened to them all. Though a claim to fame one of the girls, my best friend was a Rosolin Monpurgo of the "war horse" ect Monpurgo ( her dad )
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
Usually, I hear that girls at such schools rule the roost, as their great rarity means that they can get tremendous attention from the boys. My school was 2/3 boys 1/3 girls, which meant that due to inflation, the boy was devalued to half against the girl. The girls had bedrooms, carpets, double glazing, heating, kitchens, washing machines etc. and the boys had unheated dormitories.
@Zarosian_Ice 7 жыл бұрын
Rofl when I used to go to school (which was a former boarding school turned "public") thre were still a lot of woman on thatschool.. I felt so bad being the only boy in a class of 25 .. >,< the torment.. woman arn't nice!
@poopinatorish 7 жыл бұрын
Malice Bob
@jimsy5530 6 жыл бұрын
Adding girls ruins a good school, they just don't get it.... They seem averse to usual japery - won't shit in each others' beds, put toothpaste over their roommate's eyebrows whilst sleeping in forlorn efforts to bleach them white, pour Coke in to the opposite room's carpets at night, to make them permanently sticky thereafter, or collect nose-bleed blood in pint glasses on the window. Girls - boo hiss, dull as dishwater!
@impatientpatient8270 3 жыл бұрын
@@jimsy5530 this guy gets it. there isn't anything better than having fun with the lads
@sundown67 7 жыл бұрын
Love this stuff. As a middle age, boarding on old, Yank from right smack dab in the middle of the country I find this kind of thing fascinating. Thank you.
@sundown67 7 жыл бұрын
RedEyes Unfortunately ;-) So far I am still at that stage where I mutter "Get off my lawn" instead of yelling it.
@llearch 7 жыл бұрын
I've been at that stage for years - and I'm a good few younger than you are. Go figure. ;-]
@jezzermeii 5 жыл бұрын
Something I have learned so far, as part of my early adult life, is how little all of this mattered. School really isn't as important as I was lead to believe as a child, and I am wholeheartedly grateful that I wasn't sent to a place like this. Of course, I wish that the quality of my schooling was better, as I quite enjoyed learning, but the restrictions on your freedoms and the disconnection from your family would have been so hard for me. As an adult, you do come to realise that your individual success is not dependent on your performance at school whatsoever. I have had some really good jobs. Not once was I asked what my academic achievements were. I simply interview well. So long as you learn how to play the game, you'll be fine no matter what school or, indeed, University was like.
@Tossphate 7 жыл бұрын
"I didn't rebel according to the rules" ooh how meta!! That line would make great lyrics.
@casdi2515 7 жыл бұрын
Are you not getting dizzy from spinning so much?
@EpicLuigi24 7 жыл бұрын
He's used to it.
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
Possibly Lindy hop helps.
@panjul-g9h 7 жыл бұрын
callum diaper it's the world spinning around him
@youtert 6 жыл бұрын
I'm dizzy just from watching it.
@coral__9854 6 жыл бұрын
youtert I'm still dizzy even after watching it...
@matty4912 7 жыл бұрын
British and doesn't drink tea! WHY I NEVER! *UNSUBSCRIBES*
@RealCadde 7 жыл бұрын
Glove slap my dear sir!
@boglenight1551 7 жыл бұрын
+Cadde What did your deer ever do to deserve a slapping?
@caracaes 7 жыл бұрын
He doesn't drink tea anymore because it reminds him of the first sun.
@BM-yy8db 7 жыл бұрын
So these short and satirical notes you left.. Were they the root for the outro messages that we know and love today?
@TimboSlice69420 7 жыл бұрын
I got a genuine little shock when Loyd said he doesn't drink tea
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
Everything is all right.
@mikesloan3924 7 жыл бұрын
Oh i'm sure everything is 'All right' But it would be damned well bloody spiffing Tee-riffic if tea were involved =]
@adventesia245 7 жыл бұрын
Bullying is not only "fights". Most of the time it's actually very surreptitious. I'm positive some of the worst kind of bullying happened in that hellhole.
@donaldasayers 6 жыл бұрын
At my school, which I later taught at, Ofsted wanted to go in the staffroom (a no, no) to find the ethos of the school. A stuffed piranha was placed on the staff room mantlepiece solemnly labelled "The Ethos".
@stevenobrien557 4 жыл бұрын
How is that a "no no"?
@donaldasayers 4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenobrien557 Staffroom is supposed to be off limits to school inspectors.
@FelicitasSews 7 жыл бұрын
I think the real bullying risk at a school like that is exclusion. I went to a somewhat small, but normal school in Canada, and a big part of the bullying was that no one in my class would talk to or play with me, unless it was to make fun of me. I can't even imagine what that would have been like if I had to live with my classmates 24/7.
@Trollygag 7 жыл бұрын
Likes weapons Doesn't take tea Honorary American
@d.ag.b1135 6 жыл бұрын
Not unless he also has a hatred for Communism and a love of greasy food.
@patrickharris8180 6 жыл бұрын
What is wrong with having a hatred of Communism?
@SorrowGoodchild 6 жыл бұрын
It shows the lack of a comprehensive historical, political and sociological education.
@puzzles7413 4 жыл бұрын
@@patrickharris8180 There's nothing wrong with hating communism-- if you hate it for the right reasons. Many people mistake communism for authoritarianism. The former is an economic system, the latter is a political system. There seems to be this idea that unregulated capitalism is a guarantee of democracy, due to excessive competition, but you can live in a democratic communist society. I'm not an economics expert and I won't pretend to be, but I can tell you that when people stereotype Americans (to be clear, I am an American) as communist-haters, it's with good reason. You've probably heard of Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare. The United States was afraid of the Soviet Union, and thus it was very easy for McCarthy to weaponize this fear, and turn it into a hatred for all things related to the Soviet Union, which of course included communism. He spread misinformation in order to demonize the system, and would arrest communists. There's a lot more to the story, but hatred of communism is deeply rooted in American culture for the wrong reasons.
@maxkronader5225 3 жыл бұрын
@@puzzles7413 That is, if you'll pardon the bluntness, simply bullshit. Apologists for communism have a million and one reasons why the most murderous ideology in human history isn't "really" communism; that "real" communism is simply an economic system existing in an ivory tower vacuum completely unrelated to the atrocities committed by every regime ever calling itself communist. News flash - real communism is precisely the authoritarian, intolerant, murderous system manifested in the real world; it is not some idealized fantasy version.
@stanleybrown2434 7 жыл бұрын
as a public boarding school pupil myself I'm finding this series very interesting and using it as a reverse to what I think what you ment it for. and seeing what state school children think about life at boarding schools. I am semi surprised you haven't mentioned chapel yet, some of the 'chapels are the size of churches!
@dralenvan 7 жыл бұрын
He actually showed the chapel in his previous video on boarding schools. It has the shape of a town's church, a small town that is.
@dyingsun23 7 жыл бұрын
Lloyd, I think you're probably the only person on Earth who can make a documentary about boarding school interesting!
@TheandroidR 7 жыл бұрын
lol 35k/year is more than my university tuition as an engineer.
@ThePussukka 7 жыл бұрын
That's more than my whole university education.
@BigBoss-sm9xj 7 жыл бұрын
Puse well shit
@42ouncesofPAIN 7 жыл бұрын
That is only half of my University Tuition. Fortunately however I have scholarships up the Wazzoo.
@TheandroidR 7 жыл бұрын
42Ounces what university do you go to where the tuition is 70k/year??? No degree is worth that much.
@Healermain15 7 жыл бұрын
Thats my entire university career, including books and whatnot. Twice over if you only count tuition.
@alpenjon 7 жыл бұрын
This has been very entertaining and insightful, thanks Lindybeige!
@Grubiantoll 7 жыл бұрын
Ah the old, common school problem of russian oligarc'sh children being kidnapped
@dordfnord6055 7 жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoy all your videos and thank you very much for sharing them! My one request would be if you would please consider another method of showing us the scenery around you. Rapidly spinning in place while keeping focus on yourself makes the background go by too quickly for the viewer to see it clearly, and -- while I can only speak for myself -- the constant, slightly blurry circular movement of the background induces enough dizziness and motion sickness that I must look away from the video or begin to feel ill. When a video forces me to look away from itself and just listen, that rather defeats the purpose of recording video in the first place. I don't want to miss a moment of your videos, so all I can say is that I would sincerely appreciate if you would try some alternative recording method such as turning to face another direction and letting us have a long, steady, still view of the background instead of spinning. Thank you again for sharing and for reading & considering this comment!
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
Message read and heeded. In my defence, most of the time, I'm not spinning.
@KudistosMegistos 7 жыл бұрын
I saw a play at Lindybeige's school's Greek theatre during a summer course there. It was Agamemnon, I believe. I also recall puking in the middle of the pathway on the way back to my dorm.
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
Ah - happy days.
@andyrmac7733 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting Lindybeige, some nice insight into the school with your usual good wit!
@briancoleman9330 7 жыл бұрын
As a pupil from America to a teacher in Britain, thank you for taking the time to make these history videos. Many people don't realize that history may and can repeat itself. Love your channel and your videos.
@M0T49 6 жыл бұрын
Avoiding tea is one form of defense against dying from KGB's polonium tea.
@zipp4everyone263 7 жыл бұрын
"I was a bit of a weird case" Im happy to see that fact hasn't changed! :)
@vladimirnotputin5617 4 жыл бұрын
I was born and raised in the United States but had the privilege of attending an American boarding school in the early 1960s. My school was one of the Southern military high schools that were quite popular at that time. My school’s system was based on that of the Virginia Military Institute and as you can imagine a little rigorous. The first few months was basically hell on earth, however after adapting to the system it became if not exactly pleasant at least very comfortable. The discipline and work ethic that acquired there, I believe, helped me to lead a very successful life. I wish we could return to those very solid values.
@garytwitchett9359 6 жыл бұрын
After watching the films "IF", "ANOTHER COUNTRY" & "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS" I became fascinated with the British Public School System. Thankyou for this insightful tour around your former School. You did well to 'Fit in' I think, after leaving State School.
@theCreativeAssemblymachinimas 7 жыл бұрын
I would like to know where the cool kids go when they grow up and what kind of adults they become. Cool adults? do they go back to normal? do they become drug addicted? never being very close with the cool people I have always wondered this.
@ThePussukka 7 жыл бұрын
Depends on the kind of cool but it's usually that they either become absolute human scum and start using drugs, not get educated and die when they're 30 or the exact opposite that they'll become leaders and other great people.
@fenlandghost993 7 жыл бұрын
They probably get drunk and fall out of windows...
@adamcrookedsmile 7 жыл бұрын
one of the cool girls had so many abortions that the gynecologist told her at the age of 19 that "if you have more abortions you risk sterility so my advice that you carry this child to term as the less risky option". She never went to Uni and still lives in the town she grew up. Another of the cool girls went to Brighton to "study", instead drank a lot got pregnant and dropped out. Cool dudes, I don't know. One of the "geek" dudes didn't get into engineering school because he had low grades in our native language but he had top grades in maths, physics and chemistry. He was also a very good racing cyclist so he got a scholarship to Harvard and stayed in the US for the better part of 2 decades. Got a PhD in Physics and postodoctoral positions at good institutions. Met some American chick and brought her back and now lives in his home country again.
@theCreativeAssemblymachinimas 7 жыл бұрын
adamcrookedsmile wow. But what is your standard for "cool"? I'm not talking about bullies for example
@adamcrookedsmile 7 жыл бұрын
the Creative Assembly machinimas well humans are the measure of humans. So in the examples "cool" is roughly equal to "popular, never eats alone gets invited to parties and has many friends or is part of the cool gang". What's your standard of "cool"?
@ParadoxialRepetition 7 жыл бұрын
I'm, sorry, man, but I am unable to retain the information presented in this video because I am just so shocked at the newly revealed fact that a man as British as you does not drink tea! Is this a sign of the end of days?!
@ScienceDiscoverer 7 жыл бұрын
TheVileDelinquent mb he drink no-caffeine tea?
@ChevyFan079 7 жыл бұрын
Loving these videos, very interesting. Thank you for sharing this with us.
@Lawman212 7 жыл бұрын
I love these stories! I hope you can expand the series.
@argenisjimenez8118 5 жыл бұрын
Lindybeige doesnt drink tea. Wow. Your teachers were right, you are a rebel
@AlienPball 7 жыл бұрын
You mentioned in your "Greaves" video that you made those sheep skin edged greaves when you were 17. Is this the place where you made them?
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
Yes, and in a great hurry.
@symetryrtemys2101 7 жыл бұрын
I like this mini series. A bit of balance and a change from the pro at all costs camp and the string up the posh gits camp.
@domeara1 Жыл бұрын
I loved your closing story. Gave a genuine 'laugh out loud' to it.
@Galdring 7 жыл бұрын
You _don't_ drink tea? But tea with milk is _beige_!
@admiralpercy 7 жыл бұрын
I grew up in very rigidly structured schools; I got quite good at being very well behaved until the staff liked & trusted me, at which point I would take full advantage of that and bend the rules as far as they would go, much further than others could get away with. I'd get far more warnings than punishments, even less punished than those I did things with. I questioned authority quite a bit, but not because I was a rebel, or hated authority, but because I generally didn't understand why most positions of authority existed. My data-seeking queries were not well appreciated generally.
@chancepaladin 7 жыл бұрын
thanks for doing this man, this was a great, great vid.
@Michael-me9jo 7 жыл бұрын
I like the fact that you are giving us some information on how boarding school work (at least the one you went to). As someone from the Netherlands I'm quite unfamiliar with them. The constant circles are making me sort of dizzy though :/ COFFEE RULES! Looking forward to the next video!
@LightRoll789 7 жыл бұрын
Oh hey! That's my university at @3:51 How cool. I'm at the library there at the moment.
@jaredsmith6495 7 жыл бұрын
thanks for the warning. i was eating a hamburger at the time and you very well may have saved my life
@kevinsullivan3448 7 жыл бұрын
Than ks you for sharing your school experiences. They are certainly different from most depictions of English boarding schol from Dickins and Pink Floyd... I suffered a humdrum rural upbringing which featured a lot of outdoorsy stuff like camping, fishing, hunting, trapping, High School JROTC, driving onto campus with loaded rifles or shotguns in your truck or jrrp and having a chat in the parking lot with a treacher about how many Dove you shot that morning while admiring each others shotgun. and equally boring things of that nature. It never ceases to amaze me how we talk about the, to us, mundane aspects of our lives when other people might be fascinated or appauled by the activities we engaged in.
@mr.svenson3406 7 жыл бұрын
Lloyd, I just want to say that I find you profoundly knowledgeable, interesting and intelligent, and I always enjoy hearing what you have to say, about any topic. Really wish I could meet you in person! You've introduced me to medieval history, tabletop games (my father and I love crossfire!), tactics and all kinds of strange facts and musings. Thanks for sharing all of your thoughts with us out here on KZfaq. All of that being said, would you ever consider doing a video detailing your time in the military?
@thiagodunadan 7 жыл бұрын
I know some people that would pay that amount of money to send their kids away for a year.
@alyssinclair8598 7 жыл бұрын
Thiago Monteiro I know people who would spend that amount of money for a month without their kids.
@gaia7240 3 жыл бұрын
I know people who would sell their kids for that amount of money
@kimberlysimmons3068 4 жыл бұрын
“Not many pairs of twins here” 😂
@MrH1207 7 ай бұрын
I absolutely love your videos Lindybeige ☺️
@jeffreyfloyd7806 7 жыл бұрын
I am American. I attended State schools from start to finish. I find these talks fascinating. My wife and I sent out daughters to a Private school in our city from start to finish. Their experience was only slightly different from mine. Baltimore, my city, has Private boarding schools similar to the one you described. Thanks for sharing.
@chairio6212 7 жыл бұрын
The school tank? The school TANK. HIS SCHOOL HAD A TANK.
@jeremytaylorfrancisgleaves3854 5 жыл бұрын
"That's the cool thing about cool people ... t h e y ' r e v e r y e m b a r r a s s a b l e" xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
@Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaartin 7 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy these boarding school videos!
@Speederzzz 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the stop and chew alert, i was eating and that did shock me.
@Warmaka 7 жыл бұрын
This school is so decadent, I almost choked on my gold encrusted soufflé royale
@misssarahashplant31 3 жыл бұрын
That was funny!
@alexanderm9446 7 жыл бұрын
You seem to resent this school a lot, however, considering you attended it at a quite impressionable age, would you not agree it has (in part) shaped your personality to its pink fluffy amazing state now? Just an earnest chap here asking an honest question, thanks.
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
How formitive it was is very difficult to say. My accent changed not one jot. My personality was not moulded by it, but perhaps was thrown into relief in its context. It was a useful cultural exchange. I now understand the upper classes a great deal better than most.
@anoneemouse4516 5 жыл бұрын
Entertaining as always, with added nausea from continually spinning round
@vp21ct 7 жыл бұрын
I now want a book series about teenaged Lindybeige getting into hijinks in Boarding School, twisting the limits and generally being the sort of person we all actually wish we'd be if we common folk were thrown into the same place as the upper crust students.
@decannerlin5950 2 жыл бұрын
yeah
@steve24822 7 жыл бұрын
When you say there wasn't a single fight during your time there I think throwing someone off of a table might qualify.
@lindybeige 7 жыл бұрын
That was in no way a fight.
@steve24822 7 жыл бұрын
Lindybeige OK, it didn't involve a sword.
@Barrett49cal 7 жыл бұрын
Nevets a fight would involve two or more people attacking each other and one guy throwing another off a table would inly be one guy attacking another
@steve24822 7 жыл бұрын
Wyatt Barrett OK, that would be assault then. A fight sounds a lot better now..
@Barrett49cal 7 жыл бұрын
Nevets it would not even be assault. Thats like calling me bumping into another guy assault. He just pushed a guy and no damage was done so to call that assault is a little extreme
@jellyman1735 7 жыл бұрын
I want a school tank!
@ice9snowflake187 5 жыл бұрын
I spent two years at a California boarding school. I had my own (tiny) room in a dormitory, and I figured out that if I got up ten minutes early, I could have the shower to myself and get all the hot water I wanted. We were in the San Francisco Bay Area (1965-67), and we were allowed to wander off campus for a couple or three hours after classes, visiting record shops, bookstores, and pizza parlors, etc. before dinner. On weekends I was sometimes able to go to rock shows in San Francisco (staying with an aunt and uncle overnight). There was the formality of having to wear a blazer and tie for dinner every evening, and the general regimentation of it all, but it wasn't so bad (sometimes the food was).The place (Menlo School, Menlo Park, California) isn't a boarding school anymore, and it became co-ed, too. The general disdain for the creative arts in favor of sports is gone, and they actually have music and art classes, and a regular concert series, now. I almost thought of attending a reunion once, but the guy running the committee planning it was a guy who once sucker-punched me for no reason on my way to breakfast, so I didn't go.
@wickermanout 7 жыл бұрын
Lovely video, Lindybeige. I've recently moved to Ireland (I'm from Argentina originally) and was astonished to see one of my boyfriend's friends' boarding schools. My father went to one (run by jesuits) in Buenos Aires, where I guess the boarding culture might have been a bit different since it was largely catholic and he really enjoyed his time there. Myself I went to a private catholic "technical" high school (means that I got a degree in IT at the end of it, others could learn electronics, business administration, humanities and art, natural sciences, and in other schools you can get degrees in mechanics, electricity, construction, etc), which has more classes than a regular free public school. Although it was not a boarding school in my last year we had classes from 7.30 am to 6.30pm in the afternoon, so by that time there wasn't a lot of bullying as these were people you had to see everyday.
@misssarahashplant31 3 жыл бұрын
Did any of the priests pop round for a bit of how's your father? We all know what some Catholic priests are like.
@KarlKarsnark 7 жыл бұрын
Greetings Lloyd! How's the Punic Wars graphic novel coming along?
@Yunners 7 жыл бұрын
Lloyd doesn't drink tea? Everything I know is wrong.
@jamesbaseman7297 7 жыл бұрын
very cool to see your experiances...personal video...very nice!
@wesselstienstra7020 7 жыл бұрын
I love these personal videos
@paulhudson6846 7 жыл бұрын
I imagine that spending 24/7 with a particular group of people meant that you would get to know people very well, i assumed that you would make very close, lasting friendships. Possibly not?
@alyssinclair8598 7 жыл бұрын
Pug Bandito or close and lasting hatereds.
@panjul-g9h 7 жыл бұрын
Pug Bandito maybe the school is so discipline they can't get enough freedom to make friends?
@paulhudson6846 7 жыл бұрын
World's Future Leader thats real sad :/
@panjul-g9h 7 жыл бұрын
Pug Bandito yeah, no wonder lindybeige doesn't fit there
@misssarahashplant31 3 жыл бұрын
To know people in the Biblical sense?
@gaiusjuliuscaesar8450 7 жыл бұрын
You should make a video on the history of tea (And Why you dislike it)
@JockStud 4 жыл бұрын
Man you’re a cool guy I like hearing stories about ya
@HeartDigger9 7 жыл бұрын
you are the best lindybeige
@skipeveryday7282 7 жыл бұрын
Prison for kids. What a great fucking idea eh!?
@connorsensenig4214 7 жыл бұрын
Ross Catto Sounds like an average American school
@skipeveryday7282 7 жыл бұрын
Haha He was probably fed a lot better than the American kids at least
@skipeveryday7282 7 жыл бұрын
Classism is a plague. That's not a positive thing in any way whatsoever.
@barryirlandi4217 7 жыл бұрын
Ross Catto the great James Johnson?
@skipeveryday7282 7 жыл бұрын
Barry Irlandi it's Jack Johnson.
@ccswelding1599 7 жыл бұрын
was it a french peacock..if so...NOT an accident
@TrevyBabe 4 жыл бұрын
Much better video than the first. Great stuff. I did a five year stretch at Bryanston - 1965-1970 - and if you read up about Boarding School Syndrome; then it's welcome to the dark side of Bryanston. The last two years were ok; but I remember the rebel smoking well. There were two school punishments for that, and I was so good at getting caught they had to invent a third level. Happy Days? Like hell, they were.
@iBlagg8 5 жыл бұрын
I've been watching your videos all this time and you don't DRINK TEA! what a fool I've been.
@Xylos144 7 жыл бұрын
Backup... School tank? British schools rock.
@Pibydd 7 жыл бұрын
My school, a comprehensive by the way, back in the early seventies had a hut out back for the cadets. It had an unlocked cupboard containing several rifles, a couple of non working sterling sub machine guns and a couple of fully functioning bren guns.
@Parkskigaming 7 жыл бұрын
Xylos144 not all schools, state schools are crap, with unqualified teachers
@raymondfair7822 7 жыл бұрын
Lindy never said how he rebelled?
@affalaffaa 7 жыл бұрын
Non tea drinker
@grommike3726 3 жыл бұрын
The spin in both videos was very effective
@yoco93cro 7 жыл бұрын
This 2 videos were very interesting, thank you sharing your experience with us (except that about tea, I will just ignore it)
@innesfinlay8932 7 жыл бұрын
me again, what would you have done for GSCEs and what do/did work as
@grizwoldmayor6671 7 жыл бұрын
Not sure about GCSEs, but I know Lindybeige is a professional dance instructor.
@AdamG56 7 жыл бұрын
It would have been CSEs/GCEs and O levels then I think..
@Lazyguy22 7 жыл бұрын
I think he says on his website that he's a lecturer at Newcastle University.
@RossHudsonMambo 7 жыл бұрын
Matilda aren't you forgetting the infamous force-feeding-vegetarians-lard incident?
@panjul-g9h 7 жыл бұрын
Ross Hudson what about that?
@devinrobinson1270 7 жыл бұрын
I went to a private christian school in America. I was similarly "Rebellious" without being a rule breaker. I retroactively decided that it was rebellion through self awareness. Understanding what made the whole situation odd and choosing to point it out in a satirical way. We had chapel assemblies on Wednesdays and Fridays, complete with a praise band that only seemed to know for songs. One day when I was giving the daily prayer I was sent to the principals office for asking God to teach the praise band a new song or two.
@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot 7 жыл бұрын
+++ :)))
@carolking6355 3 жыл бұрын
Loved your description. To me it was hell. But then I was 8 and 9. We did have masses of trees and climbing was allowed.Coming over from the school building you could smell the cabbage half a block away
@Shy-xm4kn Жыл бұрын
I was almost sent to a boarding school in America for “troubled teens”. It would have been like 60k a year. I was already in a private Catholic school so my dad didn’t see the price as an issue. The issue was my mom didn’t want me to go and she thought something was physically wrong with me. Turns out I had a genetic disease and was slowly dying without treatment. Being sick all the time made me moody. Once I got treatment my behavior completely changed. No need for boarding school.
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