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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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