h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Binning - A758900
Author: Researcher 195387 - U195387

Binning is a strange phenomenon which developed in the Secondary Modern schools of the United Kingdom during the early 1980's. It is still unknown in some quarters of society but is remembered with fondness by the perpetrators and horror by it's victims.

It involved taking the smallest child in a class and inserting him, bum first, into the classroom bin. This results in the child sinking to his / her armpits and knees and is therefore unable to escape without assistance. This child is then considered "Binned."

A "Total Binning" would occur when the strongest pupils in the class then lifted the pupil, and attached bin, onto the teachers desk. The irony of this torture was that the teacher would evidently punish the pupil in the bin further adding to the humiliation of the "Binnee" and the amusement of the "Binners."

We like.

Considerably less painful than chinese burns or wedgies, but still distinctly embarrassing.

Maybe a footnote explaining Secondary Moderns to all youngsters/Americans/other weirdos might be useful.

B

Oh, by the way, write something in your personal space. It will enhance your h2g2 experience greatly.

B

Perhaps worth linking to 'Wedgies' at A491690.

Short and nice, into the Guide with it!

s/evidently/inevitably

Good writing - short entry, covers the subject well. Perhaps you should include some methods of escaping from the binned position, though?

-Martin

So glad I was never binned at school. Just one point you can use the tag if your entry is in GuideML, which is easier to read than having to go to the bottom of the entry to do so.

Great topic

SallyM

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