Is Notts really full of rahs / toffs?

embarassingly there is one teacher at our school whose incharge of shooting and i was talking to him once after CCF and i actually couldn't understand his accent :/ my bro had to almost translate for me.... tho tbh his voice was really low and fast and i really wasn't thinking about what he was talking about....

"In my experience" is the same as saying "I'm not racist but..." as you're trying to justify some outlandish claim with a qualifying statement.

no we're still friends, i don't care how she talks or anything. was wierd going to see her at uni though because she acts really different and everyone calls her a different name

I have exactly that same problem with everyones accents, unless they speak like the Queen or with a really broad London accent. Pwopa sarf a la river types!

meeting new people will change you.... and i got fed up of having a posh name so i tell everyone to shorten it.... but i have so many nicknames now it's almost pointless!!

no if i'd said every single rah is southern because all of the ones i've met are then that would be "outlandish" but the majority of the rahs i have meant have been from the south. perfectly vaild point because it's true. and that is why my friend changed the way she pronounced her As which is the point of this conversation anyway

haha i love putting on really posh accents and walking through town with my friends where we all talk posh and confuse everyone walking by!!

"In my experience, Northerners have a chip on their shoulder when it comes to the south". I put that in quotation marks for ease of reference.

There is no real point to this conversation other than for pretentious working class people to have a dig at my university, while the real working class people knuckle down and get on with getting a-levels / degrees. The OP shot himself on the foot by quoting something his mate had grossly exaggerated as evidence of the class system here, instead of listening to those who had previously commented with experience of living here. Otherwise he may have been raising a valid point. Your whole point of posting here was to deliver an inversely snobby dig at my university, based largely on the exaggerations of your mate.

That's because in my experience, most Southern fairies wouldn't last a day in the proper North. Get out of your inherited estate into a council estate in Newcastle or somewhere similar ****ed over by Thatcher and think twice before you subscribe to champagne socialism Blair bullshyt.

The fact is most Southern counties (particularly the Home Counties) are blue, middle class areas with signifigantly different lifestyle to people who come from a working class background. When something as quick as clothes or accent is easy enough for someone to be branded a 'chav' it's no wonder some people are concerned that Rah's will judge them and exclude them for their elite socio-economic select group.

Most people are considered middle class by themselves. I once saw a tv programme about this, they asked a middle eastern immigrant taxi driver what cakes he though he was, while they were talking in his 'local' kebab shop. He said middle class. I mean sorry, no.

Of course fella. South London is a paradise, free from crime, unemployment and poverty. Where everyone votes Conservative and everyone's street looks like Wysteria Lane.

But well done for proving my point that this thread is just a breeding ground for the wannabe working classes to have a dig at those who are financially better off.

What part of when I said 'The fact is most Southern counties (particularly the Home Counties) are blue, middle class areas with signifigantly different lifestyle' did you fail to grasp?



And btw your post encompasses exactly what I would expect of a typical rah attitude: 'they're only criticising because they're jealous that our parent's are richer!' How dare the lowly proles question the status quo!

I knew Notts Uni was middle class but I wasn't expecting it to be more middle class than Exeter and St. Andrews. That makes me really worried now!!!!

Middle class doesn't necessarily equal rah. Why are you so worried?

I don't understand, what's so bad about being middle class?

Am I missing something?

On the open day all the people I met were more that way inclined than "Awwright mate wasssup!!" but they're all amazingly friendly and down to earth so I don't see why it even matters?

Yes a couple of guys were talking about their skiing trip and all sorts which must of cost alot, but its better than the alternative (I'm transferring from a university which has worse people than rahs).

The university I'm transferring from all I ever hear is

"So you out tonight??"

"You go out last night???"

Rinse and repeat throughout every single lecture, the way there and back...

out of curiousity what uni are you transferring too? :]