Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
Oh god, I thought for a second OU's comment was a sign he was becoming a father, rather than a teacher!
Professionals send Brixton property prices surging by 15%
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Frumious B.
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Some of my rich City friends have ignored me since I became ill and poor and an angry leftie do-gooder with ethnic minority/disabled/LGBT friends. They don't know what to say to me. Perhaps they think we no longer have anything in common. And I can't afford to socialise with them when they are sailing, skiing, going to fancy restaurants etc. I think they find poverty in their own social circle to be awkward, embarrassing, shameful, a bit pathetic. The weak are just fodder - they only exist to be trodden on by the entitled alpha males.
It's dog eat dog, public schoolboy ethics. They never really grow up. Watch "If" to see how they were conditioned. It was on telly the other day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If....
It's dog eat dog, public schoolboy ethics. They never really grow up. Watch "If" to see how they were conditioned. It was on telly the other day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If....
Manter
Lunch Mob
Then they are cunts. There are cunts in all walks of life.... Tho probably a higher proportion among rich city types, true. But all public school kids and everyone that works in the city and all the rich aren't like that.
Frumious B.
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I know, it's only SOME of my rich City friends who are cunts.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
No Lindsay Anderson film "If" Frumious B link was incorrect.
Slightly dated. . But still worth a watch.
Malcolm McDowell was a pretty boy then. Also like Lindsay knew all about private schools:
Also spot on how the Public schools present a liberal modernising face (The Headmaster in the film ) whilst keeping the class structures intact.
Considering the number of privately educated people in the Cabinet not much has changed.
Gramsci
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Thats really crap. However "nice" some of them are it does not overcome the social apartheid of a society like this where wealth is distributed unequally.
Frumious B.
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I can't link to the right page - the url for the film page goes to the disambiguation page. So you have to scroll down and look for a 1968 Lindsay Anderson film. I went to the same school as the writer of the screenplay. Even the surreal bits of the film seem like entirely logical extensions of the school culture. In fact the whole thing seems just as accurate as my own memories of it all. Even the padre being in the special apology drawer in the headmaster's study http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonbridge_School
Gramsci
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Put link up on #1085
Frumious B.
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Yebbut that's the imdb page. Someone needs to repair the wiki link
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Always wondered what happened to McDowell's rather forward girlfriend in the film, billed only as 'The Girl' and never seen since.
MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
i play football with a load of bankers - and some of them are the most horrific people you can meet, some of them decent, some of them sound.
some people don't give a fuck about anyone, but you can find many "working class" people who are exactly the same.
i get on with people better who give a shit about the world, community, place and people they live in etc
some people don't give a fuck about anyone, but you can find many "working class" people who are exactly the same.
i get on with people better who give a shit about the world, community, place and people they live in etc
editor
hiraethified
I worked in Canary Wharf for a 'leading global financial services firm' for a while.
I have never, ever seen such a bunch of obnoxious wankers as some of the vile people I encountered there. The way they treated 'ordinary' people like waitresses and bar stuff was unbelievable.
I have never, ever seen such a bunch of obnoxious wankers as some of the vile people I encountered there. The way they treated 'ordinary' people like waitresses and bar stuff was unbelievable.
MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
they'll wake up one day to it, and realise they haven't got a soul. you end up cold and abusive with them attitudes. FACT.
Manter
Lunch Mob
I know a few like that. But also really lovely, kind, thoughtful people (it was two bankers that rescued us when we found ourselves homeless for 6 weeks)
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
If was written by my best mate from university's uncle. I met him a couple of times - very funny and charming.
