victorian day

[Buelligan]

We had Cro-Magnon Day Standard School Trip where we got to throw rocks at the heads of large animals and carve erections on the wall in Manganese

28 years old, he was.

[dissolute ocelot]

The Victoria sponge was named to commemorate the invention of baking powder by legendary British hero Alfred Bird in 1843 during the reign of our second-best queen. Prior to that, sponge cakes were invented as a kind of biscuit possibly by the Spanish, but eggs and baking powder were later improvements.

Patriotic note: August Oetker did not invent baking powder, he just produced a popular brand and stole Bird's glory. As well as baking powder, Bird invented egg-free custard. Hurrah!

[Goldentony]

was this part of a government thing to keep kids from getting into pornotech music and 2CB and squatty pottys

[darth andy]

we had a 'Tudor Day' in my school, my mum who is a self proclaimed history buff went all out on me,  green tights, a 'silver' buckle made from tin foil attached to my PE plimsoles, and my top half was a velvet red little Lord Fauntleroy sort of get up. Also I had shit hair. I got to school and most of the other kids were just wearing potato sacks or brown vests with a bit of fake coal smudged on their faces. None of these things are particularly Tudor but I was the cunt who had to pose lying on a table pretending to eat fruit for everyone to draw for Tudor art class.

[Paul Calf]

[no_offenc]

We defo had this in primary school when I was in years 5 and 6. I'm sure one of the years coincided with a trip to Wigan pier and some old mill that still had stuff working (Trencherfield Mill, I think)

[idunnosomename]

wigan pier experience shut in 2007 but there's still a brown sign on the M6 for it

[Chollis]

I remember this. Had it in primary school and then again in junior school. Dressed up as a chimney sweep both times, got to take the big fuck off brush in with me. Teacher picked me as the most accomplished actor to go outside the class with her and cry out as she pretended to cane me. Right laugh.

[idunnosomename]

paedo

[Zero Gravitas]

The Squander Bug?

I'm almost disappointed he was real.

[Goldentony]

we had wigan pier day but when we got there we all discovered the joke that it was just a shite bit of railway on a canal

[Sony Walkman Prophecies]

I was schooled in the 90s, and this never happened. Did you actually go to school in Victorian times but forgot?

This never happened to me either. Then again, it didn't have to. Being a fee-paying cathedral school, we were firmly committed to our all year round cosplaying as 1950s school children, complete with mockingly small caps and ridiculously red blazers.

It was tough growing up in 1950s, early '90s.

[Ferris]

You sure you weren't in a school play? Or perhaps you'd had a breakdown.

Yeah it's a breakdown for me Clive.

[ishantbekeepingit]

I had one, a lady dressed up as a housewife or scullery maid or some other such thing showed us a tin bath and explained that she didn't have electricity, nor a gas hob.  I, being a clever dick, had already noticed the electric burglar alarm system up on the wall, and I was going to be a clever dick and ask about it, but then decided against it, so actually, this isn't a very interesting story at all.