Reply to: Public School

[Drewster]

Bushmills

Pish Shirley?

[Mich the Tester]

Oh dear, now I really understand why so you were so traumatised at your school.

They couldn't even give you a decent whisky to down awwww

Who cares as long as the funnel and hosepipe are clean?

[norrahe]

Bushmills

Oh dear, now I really understand why so you were so traumatised at your school.

They couldn't even give you a decent whisky to down awwww

[Mich the Tester]

Human beings have a constant need to feel that they have an identity or that they belong to a group. Mitch is obviously the rugger bu**er public school type who likes to belong to anything that enables him to drop his trousers and stand on his head whilst drinking a pint of beer.

Bushmills

[DodgyAgent]

Well I could care less about people who went to public school bit that would take effort

Is it really that much of a deal where you went to school???

I never understood the whole "where did you go to school lark" when I first moved over here, maybe the university I went had one too many fomer public school guys.

Human beings have a constant need to feel that they have an identity or that they belong to a group. Mitch is obviously the rugger bu**er public school type who likes to belong to anything that enables him to drop his trousers and stand on his head whilst drinking a pint of beer.

Old School associations are a strong example of this whether one keeps in touch with friends or not.

those of you who didnt go to public school obviously become football supporters where you can wear sh*t clothes, behave like animals and shout obscenities.

And worst of all is being Australian

[norrahe]

Well I could care less about people who went to public school bit that would take effort

Is it really that much of a deal where you went to school???

I never understood the whole "where did you go to school lark" when I first moved over here, maybe the university I went had one too many fomer public school guys.

[Mich the Tester]

Mich, one is beginning to think you feel you have to apologise for going to public school.

It’s a straight version of coming out.

[norrahe]

Mich, one is beginning to think you feel you have to apologise for going to public school.

[Mich the Tester]

You forgot to tell us all about The Buscuit Game.

The soggy biscuit. I don’t really know if it ever happened for real. I know that the threat was used by prefects as a means of frightening younger boys, and it did indeed scare us. I did however notice that one boy seemed to get off quite lightly when prefects dealt out early morning punishment runs; in fact I never saw him out running at 6 in the morning. He is now working ‘in the fashion industry’.

[DodgyAgent]

Actually I know one who’s quite a nice chap. He even reflected the downward pressure on rates by trading down to a 5 series.

From a passat?

[Mich the Tester]

All agents are scum

Actually I know one who’s quite a nice chap. He even reflected the downward pressure on rates by trading down to a 5 series.

[moorfield]

Any other myths you’d like me to dismantle?

You forgot to tell us all about The Buscuit Game.

[DodgyAgent]

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Any other myths you’d like me to dismantle?

All agents are scum

[Mich the Tester]

AGW.

Cheers.

AGW is a conspiracy of working class people who can’t afford decent cars to tax ordinary hard working classic Bentley owners into submission.

[shaunbhoy]

For the benefit of those who did not go to public school; I did, I didn’t really like it, but I’d like to try and destroy a few myths.

1 The old school tie will get you privilege and power and money and endear you to the upper classes
- no it won’t. Although you might have some worthwhile contacts left over from school days, if you’re an indolent, incapable halfwit then people will not employ you. That’s because the upper classes own businesses and want their businesses to be profitable. Businesses that choose nice-but-dim idiots over capable people with a state school background will go bust and leave their owners penniless. If you didn't go to public school and you want good business contacts then join an industry society and attend the events.

2 People at public school say ‘what, what’ and ‘old bean’ and like shooting fuzzy-wuzzies
- they don’t. In fact, if you were to talk like someone with a hot potato in his throat at public school, you’d probably have your head smashed up against a central heating pipe. If you’re a racist you’ll find very quickly that you have no friends.

3 People who went to public school know nothing about the real world and don’t care about the lot of the ‘average person’
- public schools are as real as any other schools. The kids who attend them are quite normal once you look beyond the accent. They enjoy partying, drinking and exploring their sexuality, as most adolescents do. As for caring about other people, you’ll find public school kids and their parents are much like anybody else; some care about others, some don’t and some are complete potnoodlers.

4 Public schools are full of upper class people who are a bunch of rarified wierdos, sexual deviants and fascists
- yes, there are members of the ‘aristocracy’ at public schools. Most of them are very normal, down to earth people and you would not recognize them as ‘toffs’ if you didn’t know. Some of them use certain patterns of language or behaviour or clothing to show each other their ‘social status’, but many don’t and don’t care. I have seen no more evidence of sexual deviance among them than among anybody else, and no more tendency to the extreme right than among others. In fact, a lot of them are a more than a bit left winged.


Any other myths you’d like me to dismantle?

Who said we needed you to dismantle it in the first place? This is not the CBeebies forum.