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Has anyone actually come across "ex-poly bashing" in real life?

JW92

"Your dad works for my dad! Your dad works for my dad! Nana naaa naa!"
University of Sheffield students to their Sheffield Hallam (Polytechnic) counterparts during the annual 'Varsity' matches.

Sauce.

I know someone who goes to Plymouth and he said their chant towards Marjon is "We go somewhere you don't go! Uni! Uni!". Even the ex-polys like to have someone to look down on.

Reply 21

Mr Smurf

OP

20

Dnator

Have you seriously never been to a varsity game?

Nope

Reply 22

Bettina <3

Oh yeah all the time! But no one at my school would even consider going to an ex-poly for a second, so we always make fun of the people who go to them, especially as we have one in our town and we banter about people having to go there if they fail their exams.

Reply 23

d123

17

Not very much. A lot of people at my sixth form are going to ex-polys, because half of them want to do fashion or something like that, so I haven't seen much of it at school.

Reply 24

Owly

Haven't come across ex-poly bashing, but I've had a few snide comments from people when they ask where I study: "Warwick? Oh I suppose you think you're better than me." Err, no. :confused:

Reply 25

unknownpleasures

10

Only at a few open days for particular universities.

I haven't yet.

Only when my teachers are being snobby about which Nottingham I'm going to...

Reply 28

Mystic

1

Not properly but when I was out on a Wednesday (student night in Cambridge), I was in Wetherspoons with friends. A guy from one of the Cambridge colleges comes up and asks which college we were all from? Once we said we weren't, and from ARU instead. He went 'Oh' and walked off! How rude.

Reply 29

Anatheme

18

Every time I go on a night out and the bus is shared between Manchester University students and ManMet students. When everyone's sober, not so much.

Reply 30

chronic_fatigue

13

A lot of people at my school like to bash ex polys. They are so stuck up and annoying. At open days you get a lot of people making fun of ex polys for some reason.

Reply 31

MonsterMash

12

Mr Smurf

Or does it only happen on TSR?

I had never even heard of an ex-poly until I discovered TSR :biggrin:

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Newcastle Vs Northumbria.

Lots of Poly vs Posh bar crawls. Stan Calvert Cup is massive between the 2 uni's.

All in the name of banter though!!! except Newcastle consistently comes out on top.....

Typical poly bashing:

Your dad works for my dad.
Early Learning Centre <-when referring to Northumbria.
McDonald's official sponsors of Northumbria university. <-Personal favourite.

Reply 32

barrze

15

I used to waitress at Nottingham Uni... I've heard plenty.

Reply 33

Aj12

18

No but then i do not hangaround with stuck up pretentious cretins

Reply 34

truthandtragedy

16

ish90an

In a club in Glasgow, one of my friends: "He goes to Cali, all you need to get in is a ******* pencil and you get a degree for finding the power button"
In a mock presentation, this gem came up:"And to test usability for disabled people, we went to Cali"

Haha! I like this one. Weirdly enough, Caley seem to think they're the business this year. I got an offer of AA (including an already achieved AB) from them, whereas Edinburgh gave me a BB offer. Crazy stuff.

In answer to the OP, I've never heard of polytechnics or poly-bashing outside of TSR.
EDIT: Come to think of it, I've come across subtle bashing and definite snobbery, mostly between Abertay and Dundee. A few of my friends joke about having to go to Abertay if they muck up their exams, and imply that it's crap. So, yeah!

Reply 35

Ice_Queen

17

It can work the opposite way round at Varsity matches and the like.

Coventry University vs. University of Warwick!!!!!!!

Reply 36

Mithra

2

I go to Durham, I'm not sure there is anything I haven't heard people looking down on.

Reply 37

username221592

10

Only when it's a red-brick vs ex-poly student night.

JW92

"Your dad works for my dad! Your dad works for my dad! Nana naaa naa!"
University of Sheffield students to their Sheffield Hallam (Polytechnic) counterparts during the annual 'Varsity' matches.

Sauce.

It happens in towns where there are two universities. But it works the other way round "poly not posh", "rather be a poly than a ****" etc.

They're thick, they're scum, they're full of hallam cum. Uni girls, uni girls. :awesome:

Reply 38

elixira

14

When I told my friend I go to UWE and not Bristol Uni, she was like, "Why would you move four hours away to go to the crap uni?" :rolleyes:

but she's pretty conservative.

Reply 39

pamelaa

17

ish90an

In a club in Glasgow, one of my friends: "He goes to Cali, all you need to get in is a ******* pencil and you get a degree for finding the power button"
In a mock presentation, this gem came up:"And to test usability for disabled people, we went to Cali"

Sweet Caley High

Has anyone actually come across "ex-poly bashing" in real life?

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