OXBRIDGE AND TOURISTS-Irritating or Ego boosting?

Come on, you know he's only pulling your leg with that. A bit of ribbalry between old rivals is quite fun, I find :smile:

Reply 63

visesh

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But pre-fresher "rivalry"? That's gotta piss people off...

Get here (or there...), matriculate, and then start mouthing off.

Reply 64

Drogue

Someone saying "sorry I have to go back early to write an essay" would be met with "ahh, okies, hope it goes well" more often than "nooo, you can't be that sad, you have to come out!".

Again, I feel you're being naive.

I have never heard that in my life.

Reply 65

manthi

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Platocrates

Again, I feel you're being naive.

I have never heard that in my life.

Seriously? Thats weird; I wouldve thought that thats the attitude most geeks/great work ethic individuals get during their highschool days...

Reply 66

Helenia

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manthi

Seriously? Thats weird; I wouldve thought that thats the attitude most geeks/great work ethic individuals get during their highschool days...

Nah, I just didn't get asked if I wanted to come out :rolleyes:

Reply 67

Platocrates

Again, I feel you're being naive.

I have never heard that in my life.

By definition not naive, since I've seen it happen many times. Naivity would involve me believing it without having experienced it. The amount of times I'm talking to a friend elsewhere and they say "such and such is being boring, won't come out as he's working" or something is quite a lot. It's not that it's massively pervasive, nor that it never happens here, it just seems that staying into work happens more often here, and is seen as more normal, since people who get here are generally quite academically driven.

Reply 68

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's probably because you and your cohorts are so geekish you don't actually realise.

And NAIVETY is definitely what resonates from you. People are academically driven everywhere, yet you seem to think it's exclusive to Oxford.

Your love affair with Oxford is too much.

Reply 69

Platocrates

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's probably because you and your cohorts are so geekish you don't actually realise.

They're not. Most of my friends really don't work, which is why some are failing. I'm hardly a geek either. Moreover, these friends would be coming largely from a rather large and rather party-based society that we run in 24 universities around the country. They're not geeks, by any means.

Platocrates

And NAIVETY is definitely what resonates from you. People are academically driven everywhere, yet you seem to think it's exclusive to Oxford.

As said, no I don't at all. I'm saying my friends at other unis, of which were talking well over 100, tend to use/get the saying about going out a lot less often than I've seen it happen here, because, as you've said, Oxford is more academically inclined than other places.

Please look up naivety. It means lacking in experience, not subject to evidence or showing lack of judgement. As I've shown, this is based on experience of knowing many people at many universities.

You admitted that Oxford is *more* academically driven than other places. I'm not at all saying there aren't people elsewhere who are, I'm saying there are more at Oxford, since it purposefully looks for academically driven people. Surely a university that attractes people passionate about one subject tends to have more people driven for that subject.

Platocrates

Your love affair with Oxford is too much.

As I've said, it's not all a good thing. What's such a love affair by saying it's more academically inclined, and thus, the people here are more academically inclined? Compare it to LSE - far more job focus, among university and students (they tend to go together), and less about pure academics.

I'm not saying it's good, I'm not making a value judgement, I'm saying people at Oxford *tend* to be more academically driven than at other universities, since the university itself is more academically pressurised and the people tend to be chosen because of passion for the subject. This leads, unsurprisingly, to people being more wary of doing academically well. It's not a good or a bad thing, since some people prefer this and others prefer a place that values other things more. So if you'd like to drop the ridiculous ad hominems and personal comments and look at the argument, I'd much appreciate it.

Reply 70

Forget ad hominem, this conversation is becoming ad nauseam.

Good day, Sir.

Reply 71

Someone neg repped me for this lol, saying I couldn't defend my argument.

I love the way people neg rep anonymously.

Big up your chest whoever it was.

Reply 72

Cexy

I dislike people who give negative reputation anonymously. That's just cowardly.

Reply 73

Agrippina

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Platocrates

Someone neg repped me for this lol, saying I couldn't defend my argument.

I love the way people neg rep anonymously.

Big up your chest whoever it was.

Drogue defended himself against your onslaught, and suddenly you decide to withdraw from the argument altogether, claiming it to be "ad nauseam". Looks very much as if you couldn't think of anything more to say that would enable you to win an argument you'd been losing all along because you kept labouring the same point. And yes, it was me who neg repped you. Getting a bit fed up of your argumentative posts, you seem to enjoy being unpleasant for the sake of it - you seem to have a bit of a bee in your bonnet about people who love Oxford, I've been on the receiving end of it as well.

Reply 74

White_redrose

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Rachel

Drogue defended himself against your onslaught, and suddenly you decide to withdraw from the argument altogether, claiming it to be "ad nauseam". Looks very much as if you couldn't think of anything more to say that would enable you to win an argument you'd been losing all along because you kept labouring the same point. And yes, it was me who neg repped you. Getting a bit fed up of your argumentative posts, you seem to enjoy being unpleasant for the sake of it - you seem to have a bit of a bee in your bonnet about people who love Oxford, I've been on the receiving end of it as well.

I was just thinking that myself but you posted before me! lol. :smile:

Fair enough, yes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion etc, but some posters seem to be hell-bent on criticising others who dare to say they are proud of being at the university they are. Is it an anti-Oxbridge thing in general I wonder? Should Oxbridgers head back off to their bubble and refrain from saying positive things about the university they attend lest they be (heaven forbid!) accused of expressing unseemly OTT remarks?

Reply 75