Are you folks SURE it wasn't BRA burning?...
Burning your bra was a very ''in and ''hip'' thing during the mid to late sixties. Are you sure that wasn't what was burning in the classroom fire place?
shareIt was a used sanitary napkin. The author made that very clear in the book. I don't think a bra would have elicited such disgust. Remember when this story takes place, and where! (It wasn't during the swinging sixties, although that seems to be when the story takes place in the movie.)
shareTHANK'S.....(And the movie was filmed in 1966 at the HEIGHT of Beatlemania & the ''swinging'' sixties...) The Beatles are even mentioned twice in the film....
shareIt was a used, "womanhood" napkin. (Bra burning wasn't popular until the 70's with women's lib).
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Nor is a bra considered a "disgusting thing".
"Tommy want wingy"
Once and for all; it was a bloodied sanitary towel (napkins as you Americans want to call it, weird!). I've read the book and even seen the un-cut version.
C'mon, the Wire's not that good...
<i>Once and for all; it was a bloodied sanitary towel (napkins as you Americans want to call it, weird!)</i>
No weirder than you Brits calling baby diapers "nappies". :)
No it's not, it's effin' nappies, and not 'MATH' it's 'MATHS' plural, you don't say MATHEMATIC, it's MATHEMATICS. Put the bloody 's' on at the end.
C'mon, the Wire's not that good...
Actually, in the U.S. we say Arithmetic. There is a distinct difference between British English and American English. Brits say "fishes" to indicate plurality. In America, "fish" can be singular or plural depending upon the context.
shareThough this is way off topic, I wanted to clarify that 'arithmetic' is just one basic mathmatitcal skill (algebra, calculus, geometry, trigonometry etc...are other examples of mathmatics).
In American English, 'math' is just an abbreviation of mathmatics. In our own country differences like this exist from region to region (purse/pocketbook, wallet/billfold). My grandpa called math 'cyphering'.
One of the charming aspects of 'To Sir, With Love' is learning the British slang of the era. I was so intrigued by the cockney rhyming slang; it has an interesting history.
"What do you want me to do, draw a picture? Spell it out!"
"...napkins as you Americans want to call it..."
Actually they're are called pads now.
"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!
Bra burning was pretty much an urban legend anyway. From what I've read, a few women burned a few bras in a barrel in NYC in 1969 after a women's lib march, and that is where the story caught fire, if you forgive the pun! Bu it never happened anywhere else that I can find, with the exception of maybe Atlantic City, aorund 1968, when about 20 women protested the Miss America pageant. Even there, it appears to be an apocryphal tale.
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