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Help... my views are under attack! It seems that something I arbitrarily claimed on someone else's LJ is very wrong.

My claim was: everyone (in the UK, for approximately accurate values of everyone) had the BCG jab (ie TB vaccine) at secondary school. It seems that this isn't true, though.

What we need is a poll.



[Poll #1789614]


In not-entirely-unrelated news, hjalfi and I concluded last week that the goverment's current welfare and NHS reforms are not an attempt to undermine the system, but a genuine desire to improve the quality of today's literature. The more starving, tubercular people we have in poor housing, the more poetry we get. Fact.

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[lnr]

We also had a tetanus booster which I think was another jab, at the same time as polio drops at some point too. I think that may have been between rubella (11) and BCG (13/14).

(And I had some non-routine jabs at school for a trip to Morocco at the end of the 5th year too).

Did anyone else have the thing of people deliberately punching each other on the manky arm because it hurt?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

We had that for the rubella jab. :(

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else have the thing of people deliberately punching each other on the manky arm because it hurt?
Aye. To the extent that a school edict went round saying that doing so could result in either or both a) a suspension and b) being bollocked by the (rather terrifying) deputy Head.

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

We constantly did this. Didn't the Mary Whitehouse Experience refer to it at one point?