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"I stopped loving you since the miners' strike..."
Let me tell you about high school. It was kinda weird!
I'm from an area with infamously shitty schools. Let's just say I, uh, transferred schools a lot.
The stupidity hit paydirt when I was a high school senior. Our school had something completely idiotic that very few schools had: a level system. Think of what schools would be like if they had a Social Credit System. These levels dictated what "privileges" - known elsewhere as rights - you were allowed to have.
In order to move up a level, you had to write a big statement and grovel to the class. The class would gather around a table each week to decide levels. But teachers and administrators did of course have the ultimate say.
A string of classroom pranks led to me being stuck at level 1 for a ridiculously long time. One day, I applied to move up to level 2. In my statement that I read to the class, I borrowed a line from Soho and wrote, "I have been on level 1 since the miners' strike."
Needless to say, I wasn't raised to level 2. In fact, I don't think I moved up from level 1 ever again. I think this was around the time the school asked me to stop showing up on Wednesdays because I made Wednesdays my prank day. I'm probably still on level 1!
And what was this mysterious "miners' strike"? Many of us in America didn't know about it, but there was a major strike by coal miners in Britain in 1984-85. Margaret Thatcher fought against the miners and consolidated her power. Her regime seized the union's assets and banned strikers' dependents from getting welfare.
Also, Soho had nothing to do with Sohio.
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