Oxbridge rejects - a view

Actually saisburies did used to do a great deal on Port, so there was often Port too, but I think that habit filtered down from our public school friend lol.
A habit that I have come to regret many times :P

One can always try a nice Sauternes as an alternative to Port.

I believe there is some sort of traditional "hail the arrival of the cheese board" song or acclamation at some colleges. We don't have one at ours, which puts us firmly in the lower zone of the affectation chart.

We just tend to chant CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE!!! In the true manner of the lower classes

How are you distinguishing between those who have a contrived, compensatory poshness and those who are naturally posh? What nonsense

I wasn't trying to arbitrarily divide people's poshness- people at Oxford just seemed a lot more relaxed than those i've seen at York or Bristol, a lot less academically aggressive if that makes sense.

I thought the article was going to be very funny, but instead i think it just came across as taking itself way too seriously. Disappointed.

As so often, the comments are more interesting than the article. I do think there's some validity to the basic points he makes though.

I've never met a "rah" in real life before...should be interesting when I get to university.

It's a joke article.

(i.e. not to be used for snobbery)

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Is "rah" still in general usage? I haven't heard it for a bit.

Even still, you will have trouble distinguishing between those who are naturally 'academically aggressive' and those that behave like that as a way of compensating for their past academic failures

The article seems to rely solely on prejudicial stereotypes. It wasn't even that funny. Perversely, it was almost as if the author held bitterness against those universities immediately below Oxbridge

Hell I'm at Northumbria and we have genuinely academically aggressive people. They do my head in. I don't give two ****s what you got in your exam, I got 90% and I'm not asking everyone what they got in the hope I've beaten them!

York does have some really faux-posh students, I lived there and so bumping into them on nights out was inevitable. They're annoying, I've got no time for facades!

My question was how are you distinguishing between the posh and the compensatory, faux posh? And the academically aggressive and the compensatory academically aggressive?

But to the more important issue: why on earth does the Telegraph use the illogical American date format for its comments???