I've been reading all these recent Oxbridge topics, along with that Oxford copypasta, with some bemusement. I went to Oxford and did a PPE degree. I have also read a lot of bitter posts about poshness but I did see a grain of truth: that the public school upbringing shielded you from feeling offence. It's true. It's always jarring when I come across a Yea Forums type in real life, one of those fiercely attempting to climb the class ladder through erudition and intellect alone. It is embarrassing on both sides.
On the one hand, this person, so used to being the towering intellect in their Durham-LSE-UCL (oh spare me about English Literature rankings!)-Warwick social circle (Bristol, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews seem to produce only jolly clowns, not these types), is visibly mortified while realising how much the Oxbridge natural brilliance shines through. What's funny is that they are invariably better read than me. Tolstoy's lesser known works and so on. But they are still visibly insecure, in many cases shaking. Sometimes I use my 3-to-1 tutorial hewn bullshitting technique to pretend that I have read as much as them but I always reveal that I am joking and this terrifies them, as if realising I have been boxing with both hands behind my back. Please, you guys, DON'T come across so try hard.
I now float in and out of fashionable South Kensington, Russel Square, and, when I feel like knobbing that hipsterish girl you cooed over in your 30 person English tutorials as a Chinese teaching assistant failed to draw ANY original thoughts from the class, Camden mileus on these autumnal and winter Friday and Saturday nights. It's quite funny really, my friends and I were academically brilliant, on many occasions being invited for individual wine sessions with multiple tutors from Economics, Law, and English Literature, and being begged to continue on with further study- on one occasion my tutor postponed his meeting with the Presidents of the World Bank and IMF where he would advise them of the Venezuela situation, in order to plead with me to develop a Hegelian line of attack on the similarities of English common law and Constantinople law that I had mentioned in a throwaway comment- and yet, in these fashionable parties, the most easily brilliant and witty people were the Oxbridge colleagues among us who had done so academically badly. Lowly Atillas, lazy Desmonds, narcoleptic Douglases: who knew they were so brilliant? But I guess that's Oxbridge for you!
Honestly stopped reading this when you said knobbing. Why do brits use a synonym for cock when they talk about kissing a girl?
Cameron Ross
>South Kensington >Fashionable Topkek
Ian Williams
based af
Isaac Collins
based
Angel Morales
Shit, this is actually the Oxbridge lifestyle...
Oliver Harris
I hope you have at least been to a jolly good college. Nothing more disgusting than an Oxonian or a Cantab bragging about the education unless been matriculated in top 5 college.
Leo Cruz
should anglos be regarded as human beings?
Ethan Adams
Went to Durham and now live comfortably in london which is all I've ever wanted out of life
Juan Long
i went to downing cambridge
Charles Thomas
I'm not a fancy Oxbridge man myself. I just think it's adorable how the anglos *cling* to their outdated educational ideals. I haven't even been to Britain, actually, though I love their accents! Give me some Dickens, and that's about all the British culture I need.
Myself, I'm a UofS man. For the uncultured viewers, that stands for 'University of Saskatchewan' (Regina campus, to be specific). Class of '99. Tommy Douglas's grand-nephew taught one of my courses. Cool guy.
After graduation, I loaded up my truck and headed to Toronto. And not 'blah' Toronto, but 'cultured' Toronto: Chinatown, St. Catherines, YYZ...you get the gist (Ran into one of my UofS professors at YYZ once and, although he was on his way to Ottawa to lobby for potash subsidies, he *insisted* I buy him a Pilsner.
How do you feel about Durham and Standrews having better English lit programmes than Ox?
Charles Ramirez
I know, now I'll never be prime minister
Aiden Foster
I am an Etonian and could very easily have gone to Oxford like my father and his father before him, but in order to avoid the type of person you have parodied here (no doubt similar to my fellow Etonians) I elected to go to Edinburgh and then to Harvard for graduate studies.
Josiah Brooks
>"""""electing""""" to go Edinburgh over Oxford because of a """"""parody"""""" Pathetic.
Oxbridge is fucking weird in my experience I have met some fucking retards who went there but also some of the smartest people I know
Alexander Campbell
You can be either rich or smart; both, but never neither.
Jonathan Thompson
>tfw genuinely posh and can always detect people larping as posh because of the many things they get wrong about being genuinely posh OP is riddled with errors which expose him as pleb
Landon Torres
Not necessarily the case anymore considering the diversity initiatives they have now for minorities and such plus there's people doing utter meme degrees like pgce or whatever
Jordan Clark
No
t. great satan
Anthony Walker
OP is an obvious joke. Are you merely pretending?
Gabriel Flores
explain
Brayden Clark
The absolute state of the class divide in the United Kingdom. You lads are embarrassing to the rest of the anglosphere t b h.
Henry Allen
Can't give it all away old boy, but refering to 'fashionable South Kensington' is a howler. For a start, if he was posh he would neither call it South Kensington nor describe it as fashionable
David Robinson
you don't even have to be posh, but just to have spent any reasonable amount of time there, which op obviously hasn't even done
