Kids these days can just google the nonsense their parents tell them, so lucky
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Also, there never was a competition for the world record for how fast a kid could change into their pyjamas, either in the Olympics or in the Guinness Book of Records. It was all lies.
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@HollyMConnolly dad was lying!!!!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Borstals were succeeded by what we know as a YOI. Still exist just a different name.
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I don't think they closed, just changed their name to try and disassociate themselves from the accumulated bad press they got over the years...
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Dulwich College is a borstal
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In many ways, my life is a borstal
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I was 15, so the threat was completely justified on my mother’s part.
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I used to threaten my kids with Glen Parva... They thought it was center PARC's
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My Dad used to go as far as picking up the phone, pretend dialling Directory Enquiries and asking for the number for Social Services. Although tbf his mother 'sent him away' for real on several occasions so he may have not been pretending

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My mother used to be "on the phone" to the police if l came home late. I was 16! How was l that stupid? My only defence - it was 50 years ago.
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