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Spare the rod and spoil the child.

GBS on corporal punishment:
"HOW TO BEAT CHILDREN
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk
of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be
forgiven.
If you beat children for pleasure, avow your object frankly, and play the
game according to the rules, as a foxhunter does; and you will do
comparatively little harm. No foxhunter is such a cad as to pretend that
he hunts the fox to teach it not to steal chickens, or that he suffers more
acutely than the fox at the death. Remember that even in childbeating
there is the sportsman’s way and the cad’s way."

As far as I know.

I'm sorry; I thought you were clearing your throat.

magoo wrote:
........any chance of me getting to Shields before sunset?

Yes, if you mean sunset tomorrow.
You are clearly a complete procrastinator.

Prophylactic? Rotavator? Propagator?

Liked the 'inter alia', BTW. Very classy.

Shite.
Wet, rainy, a bit more wet, windy, grey, wet again with a bit more wind
[that'll be the lucozade], some drizzle followed by a bit of blat, and a few
tired gusts of, you've guessed it, wind.