One useful feature of public holidays is that workers worry less about bunking off if everyone else does the same.
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What he has done is the diplomatic equivalent of setting the school on fire while bunking off to smoke behind the bike shed.
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They even had a Friday lunchtime session that pulled in hundreds of kids, either bunking off school or college, or Oxford Street shop workers on extended lunch breaks.
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He excelled in English at school, but he wasn't interested in other academic subjects, bunking off to hang in an abandoned mental institution called Dykebar Hospital, where he smoked with his mates, watched hip-hop videos on their phones, and rode around on dirt bikes.
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Gone are the days of bunking off school to queue outside the venue from midday so you could get a spot against the barrier, in are the days of failing to check the set times and missing the first two songs because you were necking a pint in Wetherspoons.
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In Antigua and Barbuda, it is called skudding. In New Zealand and Australia truancy is called wagging, "jigging", ditching, or skipping school. It is called bunking (off) or skiving or wagging or “kipping” in the United Kingdom, mitching, twagging, "skiving" or on the knock. In Wales, mitching or sagging.
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Tracy tells Amy that she and Steve are reuniting, but witnesses Steve kissing his ex- girlfriend Michelle Connor (Kym Marsh). Upset and confused, she tells Deirdre. Amy eventually bonds with Michelle and accepts her and Steve's relationship. When Tracy begins a relationship with Rob Donovan (Marc Baylis), she starts bunking off to stay at his flat.
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Francis "Frankie" Brown was (originally) the second child in the Brown family. Frankie was the problem child; he was always getting into fights and bunking off school. However, at the end of the book The Chisellers, Frankie was gone and had taken everything, including Mark's new businessman's outfit. The family agreed to never speak of him again.
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Katy is worried for Faye, but sympathetic when Faye reveals she thinks smoking will make her thin. Katy agrees not to tell Anna, but Anna and Owen have already found out that Faye is bunking off school. Faye eventually confesses about the bullying, explaining she kept silent out of fear that Anna would "make a fuss about her". After looking up Faye's symptoms online to find out what's going on with her weight, Craig is suspicious that Faye may be pregnant.
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The Sex Pistols in Paradiso, Amsterdam in 1977. Cook was raised in Hammersmith and attended the Christopher Wren School, now Phoenix High School, London in White City Estate, Shepherds Bush, where he met Steve Jones. The pair became good friends and while bunking off school. In 1972–1973, Cook and Jones, along with their school friend Wally Nightingale, formed a band, The Strand.::THE LOOK – adventures in rock and pop fashion:: » Tom Salter joins the dots between Strummer and the Pistols. Rockpopfashion.
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Jordan starts to have suicidal thoughts, and is scene with a needle and vial among his possessions, but then decides against it. When Zoe does actually meet him, Jordan does not want to have anything to do with her. Eventually Jordan's condition deteriorates to the point where he has to be hospitalised, causing a very worried Zoe to start bunking off her hospital duties to be at his bedside. Eventually Jordan has the option to have the life-saving operation, which he was earlier offered, but declined because he believed it would leave him with brain damage, leaving him unable to practice medicine but he wants to die, and his consent has to be given.
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The Cold One Hundred first took shape when lead guitarist Jacob Ward and singer/lyricist Neish-Melling started bunking off University lectures to write songs, eventually roping in Harper, Walker and drummer Sam Dabrowski to complete the band line-up in February 2010. Within a month they were described as "A band with all the potential to break the mould of mundane Indie music". The band's first demos, recorded at Sandhills Studios in Liverpool, received local acclaim as the band were hotly tipped as 'ones to watch' by Manchester- based High Voltage and Ark Magazines. The band has played live sessions for both BBC Radio Lancashire and BBC Radio Manchester, and were featured as The Guardian's New Band of The Day in March 2012.
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