Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Orang Utan]

Posh schools have "houses", I believe they extend across from 1st years to 6th years.

Like in Harry Potter.

Not just posh schools. Both my middle school and high school had houses and they were state schools

 

[Elpenor]

Not just posh schools. Both my middle school and high school had houses and they were state schools

Another one for spitfire posh list

 

[spitfire]

Not just posh schools. Both my middle school and high school had houses and they were state schools

 

[Orang Utan]

They also had houses at the school I worked at in Thamesmead. I think it’s a feature of many big schools, posh or not.

 

[Artaxerxes]

They are getting absolutely rinsed on the Graun Twitter.

eta: If it is designed as rage bait then job done but fucking hell it is eye bleedingly awful.

And what a tell this is.

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I have no idea who St Ignatius was but I’m sure he was a dickhead.

(Standard Catholic secondary school)

 

[spitfire]

They also had houses at the school I worked at in Thamesmead. I think it’s a feature of many big schools, posh or not.

Shush Lord Fauntleroy.

I reckon most people associate houses with posh schools so whevs.

I do and that's what counts.

 

[lazythursday]

My (state) middle school had houses. But they weren't colonisers, they were the first headmaster (circa 1976), the building firm that knocked up the shoddy new school already falling apart in the 80s, the architect and some random local councillor who cut the ribbon.

 

[stavros]

We had British scientists.

 

[Rompipalle]

Posh schools have "houses", I believe they extend across from 1st years to 6th years.

Like in Harry Potter.

We had houses at my school (It was only moderately posh, back in the day) but they were just named after old local parishes or landowners.

 

[May Kasahara]

Same fella who wrote this nugget previously mocked on this very thread:

A moment that changed me: I watched a bomb-disposal robot from my window and my old life faded away

I grew up in rural Devon, but when I moved to London for university, I learned to embrace difference, modernity – and the unexpected

www.theguardian.com

I wonder if he’s related to the other Dylan Jones

I knew it would be this cunt the very second I clapped eyes on it. Anyone who celebrates things like saying Bucky P, devoed or holibobs is an utter, unmitigated arsewipe, and that's even before you get to the Jamie T reference or the fact that no one ever has spilled a drink on Miquita Oliver at a squat party in 2007 because all the squats had disappeared by then, bought up, developed and flogged off by rich country cuntbags like him. Also he's never eaten a Scampi Fry in his life unless it was in an ironic way. The cunt.

 

[Orang Utan]

We had houses at my school (It was only moderately posh, back in the day) but they were just named after old local parishes or landowners.

Ours were named after Yorkshire Dales and teachers

 

[spitfire]

Poshos everywhere.

 

[Orang Utan]

I can’t finish that article, despite several attempts. Haven’t got beyond the twenties. It makes me want to fight. I don’t fight.

 

[Orang Utan]

Poshos everywhere.

You’re obviously the real posho here, cos you must have been to a tiny school with only one small class to a year. Or did you just have a live-in governess like Mary Poppins?

 

[spitfire]

You’re obviously the real posho here, cos you must have been to a tiny school with only one small class to a year. Or did you just have a live-in governess like Mary Poppins?

I went to school in Ireland!

 

[Orang Utan]

I went to school in Ireland!

Villiers or Blackrock?

 

[spitfire]

Villiers or Blackrock?

lol. Good googling.

Mount Temple.

 

[spitfire]

wtf is villiers?

ETA googled. Never heard of it before.

 

[PTK]

The only reason that I glanced at the stupid article about British culture is because someone posted it here.

 

[Santino]

My primary school used the imaginative names Red, Yellow, Blue and Green for houses.

 

[PTK]

I have just remembered that at primary school, in Juniors, we had a house named after Captain Oates.

 

[Orang Utan]

I have just remembered that at primary school, in Juniors, we had a house named after Captain Oates.

Did you have to stand outside rather than do detention?

 

[mx wcfc]

I have just remembered that at primary school, in Juniors, we had a house named after Captain Oates.

We had Lions, Beavers, Eagles and Owls. I was a Beaver.

We had green football shirts.

I liked being a Beaver, but there was a “thing” about Lions being best.

 

[Chz]

I have no idea who St Ignatius was but I’m sure he was a dickhead.

(Standard Catholic secondary school)

Unlike most of the Catholic house names, he'll be responsible for a lot of trauma and murder. St. Ignatius was the founder of the Jesuit order.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Unlike most of the Catholic house names, he'll be responsible for a lot of trauma and murder. St. Ignatius was the founder of the Jesuit order.

Theory checks out then

 

[InArduisFouette]

Not just posh schools - My primary school (state school) it was the names of local stately home type places - Penshurst, Hever, Chartwell, Leeds, Scotney, Knole. Your house had nothing to do with the form class you were in (there were 6 classes per year)

My state secondary school had various renowned old boys from many centuries ago none of whom anyone would have heard of except perhaps for one who founded a famous university.

this kind of thing pervades

primary had Stamford / Grantham /Lincoln /Boston

secondary had Newton, Tennyson, Wesley and one other ( but not either of Banks or Boole)

probably pins down the county at least where i went to school

 

[bluescreen]

Heh, we had Tennyson, Banks, Stanhope and a fourth I've temporarily forgotten. Definitely not posh, though.

 

[Plumdaff]

My Catholic primary had houses named after English Catholic martyrs. My posher state grammar didn't have them.

My kid's very pro independence Welsh medium primary had houses, named after characters from the Mabinogion.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Marina Hyde, another rich posho, has done some good stuff, but this is ridiculous, and Private Eye is also pretending that it doesn't know that Charlotte Owen is another of Boris Johnsons kids he put in the House of Lords.

Here’s the real ‘enigma’ about Charlotte Owen: why we still take sexist gossip so seriously | Marina Hyde

OK, it’s not great to put a 29-year-old in the Lords – but trouser-rubbing ‘journalists’ spreading innuendo can’t back it up with a shred of evidence, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

 

[Orang Utan]

Marina Hyde, another rich posho, has done some good stuff, but this is ridiculous, and Private Eye is also pretending that it doesn't know that Charlotte Owen is another of Boris Johnsons kids he put in the House of Lords.

Here’s the real ‘enigma’ about Charlotte Owen: why we still take sexist gossip so seriously | Marina Hyde

OK, it’s not great to put a 29-year-old in the Lords – but trouser-rubbing ‘journalists’ spreading innuendo can’t back it up with a shred of evidence, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

Oh, so you know for sure that Owen is Johnson’s sexcrement then? I suppose you have evidence for this?