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“By those idiots manning the antiaircraft guns at the Cattercup barrage balloons. By our own gunners. Who the hell’s training them? Bloody daft trigger-happy morons! Wasting ammo and scaring the blue bleeding daylights out of everybody! Any school lad can spot the difference between a flying cigar and a flying pencil!”

In everyday life, you would not mistake him for a private school lad.

Photograph: Diyah Pera/AP Directed by a British film-maker with credits on such animated works as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away, this live-action is the third film based on a series of popular American children's books about the adventures of Greg, a middle-class Californian high school lad.

The high school lad who ran 100 yards in 9 3/5 seconds.

Relative values must be established; emphasis must be properly placed—life of distant regions should not be taught except as local material may not be available to illustrate some very essential point, yet too often a carefully pickled grasshopper is transported from Florida to California, there to be dissected by some unfortunate high school lad.