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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 35716, member: 25"]The school dinners at my primary school were edible only for the very hungry, like the poor people. The amount of education I missed by spending large chunks of the afternoon sitting by a plate of cold stodge and slime may account for my failure to rule the world by now.</p><p><br /></p><p>A single minded and stubborn boy can defeat the system by sheer bloody mindedness. Maybe that was the lesson I learned without knowing that that was what they were trying to teach me.</p><p>I also learned to resist moral blackmail, the poor children of Africa were more than welcome to my rejected dinner, and the somewhat outdated plea that sailors had given their lives to bring this food caused me to remark, in all innocence, that the war had in fact been over for several years now just led to further punishment for insolence. Nobody likes a smart kid.</p><p><br /></p><p>To this day I won't eat cooked greens and loathe the merest trace of onion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 35716, member: 25"]The school dinners at my primary school were edible only for the very hungry, like the poor people. The amount of education I missed by spending large chunks of the afternoon sitting by a plate of cold stodge and slime may account for my failure to rule the world by now. A single minded and stubborn boy can defeat the system by sheer bloody mindedness. Maybe that was the lesson I learned without knowing that that was what they were trying to teach me. I also learned to resist moral blackmail, the poor children of Africa were more than welcome to my rejected dinner, and the somewhat outdated plea that sailors had given their lives to bring this food caused me to remark, in all innocence, that the war had in fact been over for several years now just led to further punishment for insolence. Nobody likes a smart kid. To this day I won't eat cooked greens and loathe the merest trace of onion.[/QUOTE]
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