Thread for the discerning conversationalist

[sasguru]

didn't you recently confess your father was a failed business man and you went to comp.

Since you plebs took over the country, us aristos have had a hard time.
Still we did a better job of running the country than you lot have done.

[Mich the Tester]

or look very obviously like a former public school boy....

I've spent 20 years doing my best to hide that and recently decided 'sod it, there's not that much to be ashamed of'.

[Mich the Tester]

Since you plebs took over the country, us aristos have had a hard time.

Quite. I take it your noble but destitute parents couldn't afford a school that taught grammar?

[norrahe]

Quite. I take it your noble but destitute parents couldn't afford a school that taught grammar?

Apparently you don't need it when you is well posh, innit!

[sasguru]

Apparently you don't need it when you is well posh, innit!

Innit, though!
Just like you don't need hygiene and central heating.

[cojak]

Jolly good show old bean! Indeed, these 'continentals' seem somewhat less predisposed to 'boom' and 'doom', much to their credit. Indeed one's impression is that the Bundesrepubliek is performing quite admirably in assuring the good cheer of her citizens, in no small way thanks to the competence of Mrs Merkel. Perchance she might advise Her Majesty's government on principles of good bookkeeping and fiduciary prudence?

And reluctance to pretend that they are a world power with all the baggage/debt that entails...

Most of the GB's problem is of midgets pretending to be giants.

World's policeman - Pah!

[BlackenedBiker]

Since you plebs took over the country, us aristos have had a hard time.
Still we did a better job of running the country than you lot have done.

Back to the coal face Blue Collar type

[OwlHoot]

Most of the^D GB's problem is of midgets pretending to be giants.

FTFY

(where GB = Gordon Brown)

[sasguru]

And reluctance to pretend that they are a world power with all the baggage/debt that entails...

Most of the GB's problem is of midgets pretending to be giants.

World's policeman - Pah!

WSS.

Isn't this need for status a deep cultural problem, though?

[Mich the Tester]

Apparently you don't need it when you is well posh, innit!

Public schools aren’t very posh any more anyway. They just have more ‘facilities’ like Olympic swimming pools, rowing lakes, indoor tennis courts and wireless networks. All the old fashioned posh things like beatings, sexual depravity and tyrannical ex army colonels who’d learned their pedagogical skills shooting fuzzy wuzzies in Bongobongoland have been abolished in the name of political correctness and Health and Safety.