by Catriona Mills

The Existential Horror Of Boarding-School Life

Posted 2 March 2010 in by Catriona

Most of the horrors of boarding-school life are fairly well understood: horrible food, snoring roommates, abject bullying, indoctrination into a rigid and aggressively snobbish middle-class ideology . . .

Actually, that last one might just apply to Enid Blyton.

But have you considered these other, less well-known risks to boarding-school life?

Impromptu fiddle performances by sickeningly cherubic classmates:

Risk of shipwreck:

Compulsory victory parades:

Assessable antiquing:

And the greatest threat of all:

That’s right: uncontextualised pointing.

Share your thoughts [2]

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Heather wrote at Mar 2, 10:19 pm

Noooooo! Not Uncontextualised pointing!!!! Seriously, it looks as if she’s scolding a puppy for doing something ‘naughty’ on the floor. Maybe her roommates Vajazzled her when she was passed out and now she’s loosing jewels?

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Catriona wrote at Mar 2, 10:28 pm

But without the puppy (though with the floor).

Why, oh why did you have to bring Vajazzling over to the blog? Why?

;)

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