Lurgy
The Lurgy is the English equivalent of that perennial American playground favourite cooties.
For the uninitiated, the game is played thus.
A child, usually from a poor family, with nervous excema, a lazy eye, a faint smell of wee and glue ear, is singled out by the others.
It is announced loudly that 'X has the Lurgy'.
It is the rule that anyone who subsequently touches X will catch the Lurgy thus reinforcing their loneliness, mortification, self-loathing and alienation.
The taunting should be carried out over a period of several months. If the child is not found hanging in the gym he usually goes on to become a personal effectiveness coach, a traffic warden, a pederast or a Tory.