I went to Bristol University
It has a relatively high proportion of public and privately educated people, very very many of whom are nowmal, functioning people who are more than welcome to keep breathing and deserve to keep their fingers.

But there were also quite a few people who think that because their parents have money the are entitled. Like the guy who couldn't be bothered to learn how to open a loaf of bread so he just tore the bag every time.

What sort of person asks "what public school did you go to?".

Of course as I was a 'Northern' I would be asked "what comprehensive did you go to". I always found that "I went to a gramar school, because I earnt my education, I didn't get daddy to buy it" was enough to get them to scamper away leaving a trail of posh wee.
(teebie jeebie, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 15:46, 9 replies)

I went to Reading, which is not a great university
and even I was laughed at by some arse when he found out I was educated at a comprehensive.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 15:54, closed)

I'm obviously having a dumb moment here
but haven't you got those the wrong way around?

I went to a comp, it was the bog standard everyone-goes school, the grammar schools were the ones that daddy paid for or you had to prove your adademic worth to attend
( Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 15:58, closed)

Grammar schools
are free, and you need to pass an entrance to get in.

I'm a private school survivor. If I ever have a daughter, I will not be sending her where I went, but to the school I refused to go because the uniform was hideous - brown skirt, with a white shirt covered in green dots! It's ok, they have a standard green one now.
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Tue 14 Oct 2008, 16:56, closed)

Ah, I see
I think the same terms have been used to mean different things depending on when you went to school. Grammar school sounds roughly the same in our interpretations but comp was actually a step down from that, you didn't need to prove anything, the idea was that they were 'comprehensive education for everyone', certainly no rich kids.
( Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 17:03, closed)

I think what you're saying is what I meant
Posho was saying "ah, you are a poor person, thus you must have been educated in a terribly bad school with pregnancies and turkey twizzlers and one-legged dinner ladies with wigs. I learnt how to play polo and select wine, but I'm sure they taught you the mastery of drawing genitalia crudely and put Daddies sauce on everything"

And I replied "Nope, I went to a decent school. And I got in on merit, which you didn't"


I was rather ignoring the fact that many public and private schools will have some sort of entrance exam.
(teebie jeebie, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 15:58, closed)

What, he just tore the bag open everytime?
Gadzooks!
( rofl harris, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 16:00, closed)

I hope he does that with condoms
as he'll get a dose.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 16:13, closed)

What?!
He couldn't open a loaf of bread properly? It's not exactly difficult! Or was the bread in Bristol packaged in a way only engineers could deal with?
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Tue 14 Oct 2008, 16:58, closed)

No, he was retarded
We all bought the bread in a kitty, and if someone reclosed the tag at the end he'd gran the bag in the middle with both hands and tear it apart
(teebie jeebie, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 15:53, closed)