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>Hi all....Funny that i should find myself looking at >this forum, it just so happens that I have just >recently aquired the movie 'Scum'...I have now and >again told my wife the odd tale of my wayward past and >what life in Borstal was actually like. In my opinion, >after going through numerous approved schools (Essex >Home School...Redhill....Carlton...) and several >Borstals (Onley in Rugby...Feltham....and eventually >an open borstal whose name now eludes me), the film >'Scum' kind of encompasses it all, from shoveling coal >for the boiler house (did that at Onley), to seeing >someone get coshed with a snooker ball in a sock in >'South House' at Feltham(The victim lost 3 teeth and >needed 4 stitches in his mouth), all the way through >to sexual bullying through to loosing ones 'wages' to >the 'Daddy'. I personally think that yeh, 'Scum' is a >movie, but I have been there,I absconded at least 14 >times or more (Hence ending up at Feltham)so I know >what I saw and experienced, as anyone who has 'done >Borstal' will know....you don't forget! I think 'Scum' >represents Borstal life pretty well for those that >aren't that clued up and are interested. I saw quite a >few sadistic or bent screws too.....mainly at Feltham >I might add, dunno why that should have been, could >have been something to do with it being a psyciactric >Borstal too....maybe it needed a few psyco screws to >work there...it's a logical asumption...isn't it? >I guess that collectively, my lifes experiences >(Including Borstal) helped to make me who I am today, >I think I'm pretty Ok nowadays (I'm 49 now and did >Borstal 1974-1977 = 2 lots of 6-2 as it was known), >but there is the odd moment that I would just so love >to come face to face, one to one, with one or two >people that I have particular memories of, as they >say......it's always best served cold....you know what >I mean....thankfully it's just idle thinking....so >far...Lol...Besides, to lug it around with me all my >life would be really dumb and destructive, but such a >fate has befalled many an ex Borstal boy...I'm >sure...suffice to say 'twas a life changing >experience, luckily it changed me for the >better....Eventually!

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