Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE
Date	2025-08-16 11:37 +0100
Organization	A little, after lunch
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On 15/08/2025 23:57, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 'Stalky' sort of hinted about it and CS Lewis was slightly more
>> explicit in his autobiography but the British public school system
>> seemed to teach faggotry along with gamesmanship.
> 
> Many gay and other sexual deviate persons come out of all sorts of 
> schools but the use of fag by the Public Schools was something else
> and the title of a upper classman's fag was connected to the task of
> fetching firewood. Also check on faggotry as a decoration on
> clothing.  Engish is a difficult language with many synonyms for the
> same thing especially in slang. Stiil more precise than Japanese with
> a shortage of exact words.
> 
Oh. Yes. Fags were essentially younger boys used by  elder boys to do 
menial stuff. Some of it no doubt involving shirt lifting, but the word 
faggot or fagot is never used in the homosexual context in England

A fag is a person who does a menial job for an elder person or a menial 
job on itself, or a cigaqrette
A Faggot is a bundle of sticks or a meat ball.

> One thing that was worked into the ciriculum of many schools those in
> the USA. England and other nations in the 19th Century was flogging
> of school children which gave up a lot of masochism and sadism in
> public figures who of course hid it from the public.
> 
I got caned. Didnt make me any worse than I was already.

>> 'Public school' completely confuses Americans of course. Some
>> things don't translate well even in English to English.
> 
> Of course not but we Americans speak American and you guys speak 
> British. If I didn't read books about English people and enjoy
> English shows I would not realise the various differences.

Well exactly. We watch American soaps and giggle about 'fanny packs'.

Like an Iranian girlfriend who referred to teabags with a string on as 
'tampax tea.'


-- 
"I guess a rattlesnake ain't risponsible fer bein' a rattlesnake, but ah
puts mah heel on um jess the same if'n I catches him around mah chillun".

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