Brilliant 'Rah' article from the times

I got there before you!

And what exactly would that be like?

Pot, kettle and black, all in the space of 5 minutes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7041470.ece

Funny article about the influx of 'rahs' at Newcastle uni. I must admit I do go to a horrendously expensive public school, but by no means am I a 'rah.' The type of people talked about in the article are despicable and I know exactly who they are. Girls acting dumb, wearing jack wills, back-brushing their hair, fake tan etc. Boys... Well... my common room (yes very 'rah' I know) is filled with people exatly like that. Racist, bigoted, obtuse, narrow-minded, oblivious and frankly quite boring people. Their insular existance is one that I am lucky to have escaped...

I fail to see how I am being a hypocrite. I am white, I see many people in state schools, some of them I have had the pleasure of meeting, act like black people from pop culture. Thereby earning them the title 'Wiggas'.

You quite clearly are trying to demonstrate that you have a good vocabulary, but your time would be better spent ensuring your spelling is correct.

As it hasn't been thus far.

The hypocrisy is telling someone they shouldn't label all people as being the same, then overgeneralising massively about a group of people as you just did.

Not really cricket.

Then there are tales of gangs of rahs shouting, “Watch your wallets!” when they walk past a black guy in the street, and more than one tearful girl has been heard on the phone to Mummy wailing: “I’m surrounded by poverty!”

That article is certainly taking it a bit extreme. It's really not that full of rahs.

But OP, since when as a common room rah?

Typos are fairly common you know.

I haven't come across that many Rahs on my course, as they are all international students.

But yeh, Rahs are pretty annoying because they are at the top of the social chain. This culture pretty much continues throughout life, as we live in a pretty rigid class system, whether people want to believe it or not.

If you don't like, or fit into this culture, do yourself a favor and work abroad as an expat!

Indeed they are.
Hence why I refrained from commenting on the issue earlier.
But then you had to go and attempt to patronise the person with which you were conversing earlier (and I even did you the favour of assuming your condescending attitude to me earlier was accidental.)

And that's when I became overwhelmed with righteous indignation and decided to throw my gauntlet down.

And I'll be damned if you intend to pick it up.

Thats called being stupid, that is in no way at all correlated to being rich.

In the context of 'Because you are making stereotypes, so I am going to make the same because you are'.

'Throw down the gauntlet' : A challenge to a duel from the middle ages.

I accept your challenge sir, shall I use my dueling pistol or rapier?

:duel: