So then like that means Tilds has lots of good things to say about mean lawyer people who are pale?

A lady formative in my life spent 12 years in boarding school and, more than 40 years later, is still in pain from it. I'm with Tilda.

She may children, but she desperately needs their souls to power her youth-preserving orgy machine.

I applaud her inability to find anything bad to say about proselytizing Christian authors, lawyers, Keanu Reeves, or horrid Scientoligist-starring remakes of fairly decent Spanish films.

@CodePink: It took me a while to figure out how to spell proselytize.

At least we know she loves slutty gay children with stalkerish boyfriends who accidentally kill themselves near boathouses.

hand to god, I loved boarding school. parietals, not so much, but yeah. not totally awful.

And here, I thought she only hated fauns, beavers and the occasional George Clooney.

Nothing bad to say about Turkish Delights?

I think I'd rather go to boarding school than have to deal with the weird state of my parent's relationship and my mother's studly travel companion on a daily basis.

Maybe she has English boarding schools in mind? For me, as a Yank, boarding school was awesome—a socially acceptable way to run away from home.

Reading Harry Potter is sooooo "Muggle".

Disliking Harry Potter seems pretty cool to me.

I'll admit it, I wish I could run away to Hogwarts to this day.

In all seriousness, I have no idea what the hell reading Harry Potter has to do with your ideas of the proper educational environment for one's formative years.

That being said? I've yet to meet anyone who's gone to boarding school that I didn't immediately want to throttle. Or medicate.
(Though I'm sure The Supergoddess would be a first!)

Team Tilda!

@semiserious: There's that too. Another two-evils situation.

@DorothyMantooth: Medication is always part of the package.

People in the U.K. connect boarding school w/ Harry Potter books (Hogwarts is a boarding school) Many Brits feel the books are elitist for that reason.

BroomTilda

@minx: I think the books are elitist 'cause all those wizards are so damn uppity!

(Kidding.)

She was at boarding school with Princess Diana.

@DorothyMantooth: I like the Ministry of Magic. It's like the Ministry of Silly Walks.

Nothing good to say about boarding school, but loads of praise for duplicitous, murdering legal counsel for earth-raping energy conglomerates. If the check's big enough...

@Michael Jahn: Ha! Yes!
I have to admit that the Python skit popped into my head on many an occasion when the Ministry was first introduced in the books.

@DorothyMantooth: I wouldn't be opposed to you medicating me.

One notch against Gawker! Take that!

@DorothyMantooth: I met boarding school kids in university - I'd never wanted to slap someone around as much as I wanted to when I met them.

Public school all the way!

@the supergoddess: Then it's a (fun, sexy) date, darlin'!

@PimpMyCouch: Aww! I'm a public school brat, too! (*cue "our song"*)

@minx:
And people in the UK go to boarding school MUCH younger than we do in the States. I lived with a girl in England who got sent off when she was 7.

Read "A Letter To A Boy From His Mother" on Swinton wrote for Vertigo magazine. I didn't think I could love this translucent Ginger bird-woman any more, but that did it.

@DorothyMantooth: I have two friends that went to a private school and they get horrified by my tales of public school antics. They haven't lived!

@PimpMyCouch: and I wouldn't be opposed to you slapping me, either. mantooth, shall we make it a threesome?

I went to boarding school at 15 and it was pretty much the best thing ever. (My life has been a downward trajectory ever since.) That said, I've never been into Harry Potter.

Swinton knows what she's talking about. Her school motto was "Rebuilding Damaged Lives." No lie.
The New School at West Heath (often referred to simply as The New School) is an independent school for children for whom mainstream schooling has broken down, for varying reasons. While many are not mentally or physically disabled, many have been through harsh circumstances and suffer from related things such as emotional trauma, which fits with the school's motto, "Rebuilding damaged lives."

There are two kinds of kids at boarding school, though: kids who are there because their parents are rich snobs and kids who are there because they or their parents are "working through some issues." The first kind grow up in awe of kids who went to public schools, the second just grow up bitter and insecure.

Mind you, the Pevensies went to boarding school, too, so she's a hypocrite as well.

@the supergoddess: Goodness! This went awfully far very quickly.

@PimpMyCouch: I must admit that I went to the smallest public high in my county. So I was... a teensy bit sheltered? But, um... I'm totally still a bad girl! I swear! (heh)

@the supergoddess: A thousand times yes, my pretty!

I was in boarding school in Baja California, Mexico when I was 12/13. I was in classes with high school kids and they taught me everything that I needed to know about weed, coke, surfing, and pre-calc.

@PimpMyCouch: indeed - I was an advanced placement nerd. overachieving in all things...

Careful, Richard, lest Tilda imprison you in her Chamber Of Secrets…

@PimpMyCouch: @the supergoddess: I thought we had moved past all those formalities, ladies!

@DorothyMantooth: I'm with you. Totally Team Tilda! On Channel 5, starts next Thursday!

@the supergoddess: Me too!

Neil Gaimon said something about how he went to boarding school and would have rather lived under the stairs.

@the supergoddess: @PimpMyCouch: Me, three! Obviously.
(heh)

@pufflehuff: Wow! With your commenter name, I think that's actually saying something!

@DorothyMantooth: I flipped around the name to sounds cutesy and all, but I'm not into those books at all.

It really annoys me when I see grown adults reading Potter. READ GROWN-UP BOOKS!!! C'MON! The plots aren't that gripping and, let's face it, gajillionaire or not, the Rowling is writing for DA KIDZ. It's all a bit too simple. File under "mystifyingly sheep-like behaviour."

So, er, to summarise: TEAM TILDA!1!1!!

Tilda-Mort!

@pufflehuff: I'm glad Balk's not here (and that's the only time I'm gonna say that, btw!) to ban me for what I'm about to admit, but I actually think the Potter books are great! The fact of the matter is, it's writing for kids that has a decidedly "adult" subtext that you can pick up on rather easily if you care to. I'm certainly not calling it Literature, by any stretch, but for "beach reading"? It beats the hell out of Judith Krantz and Danielle Steele! And those are "adult" books. I would far sooner roll my eyes at someone reading I'll Take Manhattan on the subway than someone reading Chamber of Secrets.

@DorothyMantooth: @the supergoddess: We should start a secret Sexy Nerds group or something.

@PimpMyCouch: But everyone already knows how sexy & nerdy we are.
We should start an out-in-the-open Sexy Nerds club! (And The Supergoddess certainly got the "out-in-the-open" going with her av!)

It's too bad she doesn't like Harry Potter, I think she would be perfect a Narcissa Malfoy, Draco's mother.

English boarding schools can be pretty horrible places to be, according to my co-worker from England who spent his entire youth in one.

@PimpMyCouch: @DorothyMantooth: @the supergoddess: All this book talk is completely killing the quality mood you ladies had going a bit early.

Please, put down the literature, grab a handful of each and resume the copulation.

I apologize for the interruption, but something had to be done. I'll return to the corner now.

@DorothyMantooth: That's true. And I'm bringing the beaver out everyday, so...
Supergoddess, what say you?