rgholmes,rgholmes wrote:Just watching this on a Charge! Network marathon today (Noon to Midnight).
They bleeped out “knob” when Troubshaw tells Jonathan “You silly little knob!” And again when adult Troubshaw walks in on him and Velma and calls him a knob.
Hilarious! If it’s that bad a word, I’m going to say it more often!
It can mean a homosexual or a penis. Or an insulting way to refer to a Noble(Nob/knob).
In the subtext of a English Public(meaning private) School, a knob is a classmate who was subservient and a whipping boy, or one
forced to give sexual favors, usually to much older students who typically preyed upon the younger grades.
Troubshaw undoubtedly meant the latter version as a dire insult or even to perhaps remind the diminutive Higgins of an actual assault.
The culture at the private schools was deeply weird, sexually assaulting the weak or much younger wasn't considered a crime, they even had it
coming for allowing it to happen to themselves.
The elites at these schools remained in the same social and business circles for their entire lives, maintaining the same pecking order.
Class entered in to it as well, 'jumped up' students from the so called crass families that had made it in business as opposed to the
titled classes, were picked on to remind them who their betters were.
The assailants didn't consider it being particularly homosexual in nature, most went on to marry etc.
It was an exercise in power by entitled, filled with raging hormones, teenage punks. Some of it still goes on today.
Any of you have the bread to send your kids to the finest world class private schools, skip the British ones.
Wellington said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Perhaps after surviving Eton, Napoleon didn't scare them.