"TITTER YE NOT"
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How do they separate the
men from the boys at eton
college?
Buckets of water and
threats to call the police.
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The leader of Etons Horatio Chapple's Norway trip has told how his gun jammed
four times as he desperately tried to shoot the marauding Polar bear.
So much for the Eton Rifles.
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David Cameron says that rioters need 'tough love'.
Is that a eton code for anal sex?
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The two princes Will's and Harry are in the shower
room at eton circa
1998:
Will (looking at Harry's donkey dick and ginger pubes):
What the fuck have you got there H? This is against the laws of primogenitals.
Harry:
I inherited it. You got the short straw Will. You'll
be going bald soon.
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Osborne told the prime minister he was going to cut taxes for Bingo.
Cameron thought he was referring to an old Eton school chum.
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The Riot Club: inside Bullingdon
ETON COLLEGE
CREST
"The Eton Rifles" was the only single to be released from the
album Setting Sons by The Jam. Recorded at Townhouse
studios and released on the 3rd of November 1979, it became
the band's first top ten hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at
No. 3. It is also the only official Jam single for which a video
was not recorded.
The song was produced by Vic Coppersmith-Heaven and The
Jam and was backed by the B-side "See-Saw".
Eton College is a famous English public school in Berkshire
regarded as the epitome of Britain's privileged elite. Its cadet
corps is the Eton College Combined Cadet Force, which was
founded in 1860 as the Eton College Rifle Corps. The song
itself recounts the difficulties faced by the unemployed and
lower paid working class in protesting against a system
loaded against them.
The song recounts a street battle Paul Weller had read about
in the newspapers concerning elements of a Right To Work
march going through Slough in 1978 breaking off to attack
pupils from Eton who had been jeering the lunchtime marchers (hence Hello, Hooray, an
extremist scrape with the Eton Rifles).
The song's lyrics, in common with many Jam tracks, contain colloquial references to life in Britain,
including:
"Sup up your beer and collect your fags, There's a row going on down near Slough"
Literally, the first part of the line means "drink up your beer and collect your cigarettes", though in this case it is likely a double entendre referring both to a group of friends hurriedly leaving a pub, and to the British boarding school practice of fagging; a hierarchical authority structure in which younger students acted as personal servants to those in higher forms. With regard to the latter part, Slough is a town near to Eton. The two districts have a history of class conflict, with Slough in particular as a result of being used for various sociological experiments by urban planners and politicians throughout the 1960s through to the 1990s (a common target in Paul Weller's lyrics in The Jam).
"What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?" is a reference to school uniform and badges, particularly the influence of the "old school tie".
"There was a lot of class hatred in my songs at the time," said Weller. 'Eton Rifles ' would be the obvious example of that. We used to go on Sunday drives with my uncle and we'd drive through Eton, and I remember seeing these young chaps."
ETON COLLEGE TWIN
TOWERS
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DAVID CAMERON AND BORIS
JOHNSON ETON
BULLINGDON CLUB
In May 2008, Conservative leader and Old Etonian David Cameron named "The Eton Rifles" as one of his favourite songs. Cameron is reported to have said "I was one, in the corps. It meant a lot, some of those early Jam albums we used to listen to.
I don't see why the left should be the only ones allowed to listen to protest songs."
Cameron's praise for the song earned a scathing rejection from Paul Weller, who said, "Which part of it didn't he get? It wasn't intended as a jolly drinking song for the Eton cadet corps.
Ironically, in 1977 Weller had said in the New Musical Express that people should vote for the Conservatives, a comment intended to shock and which later came to haunt him during his long involvement with the Labour Party initiative Red Wedge.
He added, "I think I have pretty much nailed where I was at to the mast. But people come to
gigs for different reasons:
it isn't necessarily about what the person on stage is singing.
But at the same time, you do think, 'Well, maybe this'll change their minds.'"
In November 2011 Guardian music critic, Alexis Petridis, questioned Cameron further; "You
said the Jam's song Eton Rifles was important to you when you were at Eton. Paul Weller,
who wrote the song, was pretty incredulous to hear this, and claimed you couldn't
have understood the lyrics.
What did you think that song was about at the time? Be honest.' To which Cameron replied;
"I went to Eton in 1979, which was the time when the Jam, the Clash, the Sex Pistols were
producing some amazing music and everyone liked the song because of the title. But of
course I understood what it was about. It was taking the mick out of people running
around the cadet force. And he was poking a stick at us. But it was a great song with
brilliant lyrics. I've always thought that if you can only like music if you agree with the political
views of the person who wrote it, well, it'd be rather limiting."
"The Eton Rifles Lyrics"
Sup up your beer and collect your fags - There's a row going on down near Slough.
Get out your mat and pray to the West. I'll get out mine and pray for myself.
Thought you were smart when you took them on. But you didn't take a peep in their artillery
room.
All that rugby puts hairs on your chest. What chance have you got against a tie and a
crest?
Hello-Hurray - what a nice day for the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles.
Hello-Hurray - I hope rain stops play for the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles.
Thought you were clever when you lit the fuse, Tore down the house of commons in your
brand new shoes.
Composed a revolutionary symphony. Then went to bed with a charming young thing.
Hello-Hurray - cheers then mate. It's the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles.
Hello-Hurray - an extremist scrape with the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles.
What a catalyst you turned out to be. Loaded the guns, then you run off home for your tea -
Left me standing like a guilty schoolboy.
We came out of it naturally the worst Beaten and bloody, and I was sick down my shirt.
We were no match for their untamed wit. Though some of the lads said they'd be back next
week.
Hello-Hurray - it's the price to pay to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles.
Hello-Hurray - I'd prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles.
Hello-Hurray - it's the price to pay to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles.
Hello-Hurray - I'd prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles,
Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles! Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles!
Top Of The Pops
THE ETON RIFLES
THE JAM
THE JAM ETON RIFLES, DAVE THE RAVE CAMERONS FAVE SONG. HE STILL DOES NOT GET IT!
Eton College, often informally referred to simply as Eton, is an
English boys' independent boarding school located in Eton,
Berkshire, near Windsor. It educates over 1,300 pupils, aged 13 to
18 years. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's
College of Our Lady of Eton besides Windsor", making it the 18th oldest HMC school.
Eton is one of ten English Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference schools, commonly referred to as "public schools", regulated by the Public Schools Act of 1868. Following the public school tradition, Eton is a full boarding school, which means all pupils live at the school, and it is one of four such remaining single-sex boys' public schools in the United Kingdom (the others being Harrow, Radley, and Winchester) to continue this practice. Eton has educated 19 British prime ministers and generations of the aristocracy and has been referred to as the chief nurse of England's statesmen. Charging up to £11,478 per term (there are three terms per academic year) in 2014/15, Eton is the sixth most expensive HMC boarding school in he UK.
Eton has a long list of distinguished former pupils. David Cameron is the 19th British prime minister to have attended the school, and has recommended that Eton set up a school in the state sector to help drive up standards. Eton now co-sponsors a state sixth-form college in Newham, a deprived area of East London, called the London Academy of Excellence, opened in 2012, which is free of charge and aims to get all its students into higher education. In September 2014, Eton opened, and became the sole educational sponsor for, a new day school for around 500 pupils, Holyport College, in Maidenhead
in Berkshire, with construction costing around £15 million, in which a fifth of places for day pupils will be set aside for children from poor homes, 21 boarding places will go to youngsters on the verge of being taken into care, and a further 28 boarders will be funded or part-funded through bursaries.
In the past, Eton has educated generations of British and foreign aristocracy, and for the first time, members of the Royal family,
Prince William and his brother Prince Harry, in contrast to the Royal tradition of either a naval college or Gordonstoun, or by a Palace tutor. Registration at birth has been consigned to the past, and by the mid 1990s, Eton ranked among Britain'stop three schools in getting its pupils into Oxford and Cambridge.
The Spirit of the First World War
at Eton College.
Eton has traditionally been referred to as "the chief nurse of England's statesmen", and has been described as the most famous public school in the world. Early in the 20th century, a historian of Eton wrote, "No other school can claim to have sent forth such a cohort of distinguished figures to make their mark on the world."
The Good Schools Guide called the School "the number one boys' public school," adding, "The teaching and facilities are second to none." The School is a member of the G20 Schools Group.
Eton College was founded by King Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to seventy poor boys who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, founded by the same King in 1441. Henry took Winchester College as his model, visiting on many occasions and borrowing its Statutes and removing its Headmaster and some of the Scholars to start his new school.
For much of Eton's history, junior boys had to act as "fags", or servants,
to older boys. Their duties included cleaning, cooking, and running
errands. A Library member was entitled to yell at any time and without notice,
" Boy, Up !" or "Boy, Queue!", and all first -year boys had to come running.
The last boy to arrive was given the task. These practices, known as fagging,
were partially phased out of most houses in the 1970s. Captains of House
and Games still sometimes give tasks to first-year boys, such as
collecting the mail from the School Office.
The School is known for its traditions, including a uniform of black
tailcoat (or morning coat) and waistcoat, false-collar and pinstriped
trousers. Most pupils wear a white tie that is effectively a strip of cloth folded
over into a starched, detachable collar, but some senior boys are entitled to
wear a white bow tie and winged collar ( "Stick-Ups" ).
The long-standing claim that the present uniform was first worn as
mourning for the death of George III is unfounded. "Eton dress" has
undergone significant changes since its standardization in the 19th century.
Originally (along with a top hat and walking-cane), Etonian dress was
reserved for formal occasions, but boys wear it today for classes, which
are referred to as "divisions", or"divs". As stated above, King's Scholars
wear a black gown over the top of their tailcoats,and occasionally a surplice
in Chapel. Members of the teaching staff (known as Beaks) are required to
wear a form of school dress when teaching. From 1820 until 1967, boys
under the height of 5'4" were required to wear the 'Eton suit', which replaced the tailcoat with the cropped 'Eton jacket' (known colloquially as a "bum-freezer" and included an 'Eton collar', a large, stiff-starched, white collar. The Eton suit was copied by other schools and has remained in use in some, particularly choir schools.
Prince Henry (second from the left),
third son of King George V and
Queen Mary., marching in
the ranks of the Officers' Training Corps, at Eton
YOUNG TOFF'S AT ETON
Eton used to be renowned for its use of corporal punishment, generally known as "beating". In the 16th century, Friday was set aside as "flogging day". Beating was phased out in the 1980s. The film director Sebastian Doggart claims to have been the last boy caned at Eton, in 1984. Until 1964, offending boys could be summoned to the Head Master or the Lower Master, as appropriate, to receive a birching on the bare posterior, in a semi-public ceremony held in the Library, where there was a special wooden birching block over which the offender was held.
Anthony Chenevix-Trench, Head Master from 1964 to 1970, abolished the
birch and replaced it with caning, also applied to the bare posterior,
which he administered privately in his office. Chenevix-Trench also
abolished corporal punishment administered by senior boys. Previously,
House Captains were permitted to cane miscreants over the seat of the
trousers. This was a routine occurrence, carried out privately with the boy
bending over with his head under the edge of a table. Less common but
more severe were the canings administered by Pop in the form of a
"Pop-Tanning", in which a large number of hard strokes were inflicted
by the President of Pop in the presence of all Pop members (or, in
earlier times, each member of Pop took it in turns to inflict a stroke). The
culprit was summoned to appear in a pair of old trousers, as the caning
would cut the cloth to shreds. This was the most severe form of physical
punishment at Eton.
Chenevix-Trench's successor from 1970, Michael McCrum, retained private
corporal punishment by masters, but ended the practice of requiring
boys to take their trousers and underwear down when bending over
to be caned by the Head Master. By the mid-1970s, the only people
allowed to administer caning were the Head Master and the Lower
Master.
In addition to the masters, the following three categories of senior boys
are entitled to exercise School discipline. Boys who belong to any of
these categories, in addition to a limited number of other boy office
holders, are entitled to wear winged collars with bow ties.
commonly known as Pop. Over the years its power and
privileges have grown. Pop is the oldest self-electing society at
Eton. The rules were altered in 1987 and again in 2005 so that the new
intake are not elected solely by the existing year and a committee of
masters. Members of Pop are entitled to wear checked sponge bag
trousers, and a waistcoat designed as they wish. Historically, only
members of Pop were entitled to furl their umbrellas or sit on the wall on
the Long Walk, in front of the main building. However, this tradition has
died out. They perform roles at many of the routine events of the school
year, including School Plays, parents' evenings and other official events.
Notable ex-members of Pop include Prince William, Duke of
Cambridge, Eddie Redmayne and Boris Johnson.
Sixth Form Select:
an academically selected prefectorial group
consisting, by custom, of the 10 senior King's Scholars and the 10 senior
Oppidan Scholars. Members of Sixth Form Select are entitled to wear
silver buttons on their waistcoats. They also act as Praepostors:
they
enter classrooms and ask, "Is (family name) in this division?"
followed by "He's to see the Head Master at (time)" Members of Sixth
Form Select maintain dress codes, and perform "Speeches", a formal event
held five times a year.
The captains of each of the 25 boys' houses have disciplinary powers at
school level. House Captains are entitled to wear a mottled-grey waistcoat. It is possible
to belong to the Eton Society and Sixth Form Select at the same time.
In the era of Queen Elizabeth I there were two praepostors in every form, who noted down the
names of absentees. Until the late 19th century, there was a praepostor for every division
of the school.
The elite tradition is to send children away at a young age to be educated. But future politicians who suffer this 'privileged abandonment' often turn out as bullies or bumblers.
Typical examples are Boris Johnson and David Cameron.
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Sport is a feature of Eton; there is an extensive network of playing fields. Their names include Agar's Plough Dutchman's,
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Upper Club, Lower Club, Sixpenny The Field, and Mesopotamia (situated between two streams and often shortened to "Mespots").
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During the Michaelmas Half, the sport curriculum is dominated by football (called Association) and rugby union, with some
rowing for a smaller number of boys.
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During the Lent Half it is dominated by the field game, a code of football, but this is unique to Eton and cannot be played
against other schools. During this half, Collegers also play the Eton wall game; this game received national publicity when taken up by Prince Harry. Aided by Astro Tfield, field hockey has become a major Lent Half sport along with Rugby 7's.
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Elite rowers prepare for the Schools' Head of the River Race in late March.
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During the Summer Half, sporting boys divide into drybobs, who play cricket, tennisor athletics, and wetbobs, who row on the River Thames and the rowing lake in preparation for The National Schools Regatta and the Princess Elizabeth
Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.
The annual cricket match against Harrow at Lord's Cricket Ground is the oldest fixture of the cricketing calendar, having been played there since 1805. A staple of the society calendar since the 1800s, in 1914, its importance was such that over 38,000 people attended the two days 'the match made national headlines. But interest has since declined considerably, and the match is now a one day limited overs contest.
Eton's best-known holiday takes place on the so- called Fourth of June", a celebration of the birthday of King George III, Eton's greatest patron. This day is celebrate with the Procession of Boats, in which the top rowing crews from the top four years row past in vintage wooden rowing boats.
The Queen's Official Birthday, the "Fourth of June" is no longer celebrated on the 4th of June, but on the Wednesday before the first weekend of June. Eton also observes St. Andrew's Day, on which the Eton wall game is played.
Under the provisions of the Charities Act 2006, Eton is now an excepted charity, and fully registered with the Charities Commission, and is now one of the 10 largest charities in the UK. As a charity, it benefits from substantial tax breaks. It was calculated by the late David Jewell, former Master of Haileybury, that in 1992 such tax breaks saved the School about £1,945 per pupil per year, although he had no direct connection with the School. This subsidy has declined since the 2001, abolition by the Labor Government of state-funded scholarships (formerly known as "assisted places") to independent schools. However, no child attended Eton on this scheme, meaning that the actual level of state assistance to the School has always been lower.
Eton's retiring HeadMaster, Tony Little, has claimed that the benefits that Eton provides to the local community free of charge (use of its facilities, etc.) have a higher value than the tax breaks it receives as a result of its charitable status. The fee for
the academic year 2010-2011 was £29,862 (approximately US $48,600 or €35,100 as of March 2011), although the sum is considerably lower for those pupils on bursaries and scholarships.
Circa 1939 Eton students clad in traditional
topper & tails, as they present arms during Eton
Corps Drill to prepare for war.
A member of the Eton
public school O.T.C. (Officers Training Corps) practising shouting out orders.
Paul Weller on David Cameron
being a fan of 'Eton Rifles':
"Which part of it doesn't he get? It wasn't intended as a fucking jolly drinking song for
the Eton cadet corps.
In 1995 the National Lottery granted money for a £4.6m sports complex, to add to Eton's existing facilities of two swimming pools, 30 cricket squares, 24 football, rugby and hockey pitches and a gym. The College paid £200,000 and contributed 4.5 hectares of land in return for exclusive use of the facilities during the daytime only. The UK Sports Council defended the deal on the grounds that the whole community would benefit, while the bursar claimed that Windsor, Slough and Eton Athletic Club was "deprived" because local people (who were not pupils at the College) did not have a world-class running track and facilities to train with. Steve Osborn, director of the Safe Neighborhoods Unit, described the decision as "staggering"given the background of a substantial reduction in youth services by councils across the country, a matter over which, however, neither the College nor the UK Sports Council, had any control. The facility, which became the Thames Valley Athletics Center, opened in April 1999.
The Eton College CCF was founded in 1860 as the Eton College Rifle Corps at a time
when it was thought that
Napoleon III was threatening to invade Britain. It was the
first continuous school corps of its kind.
Boys can join the corps from D block upwards.The aim of the corps is to provide boys
with a wide range of military skills, adventurous pursuits, leadership experience and
the opportunity to complete the Duke of Edinburgh Award at silver level. The corps is
commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Wilcockson (a master at the school) who
is assisted by an Adjutant and two permanent CCF staff, both of whom have been
regular soldiers. There are several masters who are commissioned officers, as well as
regular Army officers and NCOs who often assist with training. The corps has its own
purpose-built building, the ‘Orderly Room’, which houses its stores, offices, mess and
training rooms.
Boys may choose to be members of the Army or the RAF sections but most of the
training is the same for both sections. Training moves rapidly through drill, weapon-
training, battle skills, signals, shooting, leadership exercises, and a range of
adventurous training activities. In every half there is a weekend exercise or ‘corps
scheme’ when training is much more intense, demanding and wide-ranging. In the
summer half there is a range weekend when live ammunition is fired. In addition to
basic infantry training, members of the RAF section have the opportunity to fly in the
Tutor aircraft at RAF Benson and glide in the Vigilant at Dalton Barracks.
More senior boys specialize in military
and survival skills and prepare as cadet
instructors through a cadre course. The
highlight of the year is the annual tattoo
for which boys prepare during the first part
of the summer half and perform on the
evening before the 'Fourth of June'. To an
audience of over 800 people the corps
parades and presents its colors,
and demonstrates activities from
precision drill to a light gun race
accompanied by the Eton College CCF
military band including the pipes and
drums. The evening concludes with a
small-scale battle scene.
Although the CCF is not designed to
recruit for the armed forces, a significant
number of boys do nevertheless take up
commissions. For example, an average of
six Old Etonians attend Royal Military
annually, with five OEs due to commence
training at RMAS at the beginning of 2013.
The Army is the biggest single
employer of OEs. There are a wide range of summer camps which boys are expected to attend. Some camps are abroad (Germany or Cyprus, for example); others are organised through Army contacts in the UK and
concentrate on specialised military skills and adventurous training.
In 2010, Her Majesty the Queen visited Eton to inspect the Corps on the occasion of its 150th anniversary, and unveiled a plaque commemorating those Old Etonians awarded the Victoria Cross and George Cross. Prince Henry of Wales KCVO (Henry Charles Albert David; born the 15th of September 1984), known as Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana,
Princess of Wales. His paternal grandparents are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was third in the line of succession to succeed his grandmother. He is currently fifth in line after his nephew George and niece Charlotte.
After an education at schools in the United Kingdom and spending parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho, Harry chose a military career, undergoing officer training at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned as a Cornet into the Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry Regiment, serving temporarily with his brother, and completed his training as a troop leader. In 2007–2008 he served for 77 days in Helmand, Afghanistan but he was pulled out following publication of his presence there by an Australian magazine. He returned to Afghanistan for a 20-week deployment in 2012–2013 with the Army Air Corps. He left the army in June 2015.
Prince Harry (Henry) was the Parade Commander of the 48 Strong Guard
of Honour at the Combined Cadet Forces Tattoo at Eton Collage 5/27/2003.
Setting Sons is the fourth studio album by British band The Jam. The group's critical and commercial favour, began with their third album, All Mod Cons, continued through this album. "The Eton Rifles" became the group's first top 10 UK hit, peaking at No. 3.
In contrast to its pop-oriented predecessor, this album
features a much harder, tougher production, albeit with
the overarching melodicism common throughout The Jam's discography. Arguably, this is the Jam's most thematically ambitious LP. Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Paul Weller originally conceived Setting Sons as a concept album detailing the lives of three boyhood friends who later reunite as adults after an unspecified war only to discover they have grown up and apart. This concept was never fully developed, and it remains unclear which tracks were originally intended as part of the story, though it is commonly agreed that " Thick As Thieves ", "Little Boy Soldiers", "Wasteland", and "Burning Sky" are likely constituents; extant
Jam bootlegs feature a version of "Little Boy Soldiers" split into three separate recordings, possible evidence that the song
was intended to serve as a recurring motif, with separate sections appearing between other songs on the album.
The album cover of Setting Sons features a photograph of Benjamin Clemens' bronze sculpture, 'The St John's Ambulance Bearers'. Cast in 1919, this sculpture depicts a wounded soldier being carried by two ambulance workers. This sculpture is currently in the possession of the Imperial War Museum in London.
Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's? talent, while I on the other hand, i am about the biggest idiot
on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house! 2 up, 2 down. Prince William
