Oxbridge FAQ!

I have to take issue with you here. There are plenty of people who, throughout history have NOT said 'Life ain't fair, you better get used to it'. They've said, 'Life isn't fair and I'm going to do something about it' and those are the kind of people who change the world. Imagine if the Suffragettes had sat back, shrugged their shoulders and said 'Life ain't fair. We'd better get used to it!' Thank God they didn't or you wouldn't be in a position to apply to Oxbridge at all.

What did the suffragettes have to do with getting state school pupils into Oxbridge?

It was an analogy.

Sounds a little more normal now, especially considering I'm sitting beside my school's residen crossdresser

Certainly. But not a very good one. It was analogous to the idea of people having differing political ideas but... unless I'm wrong... I think everyone understands the concept.

I should say that the private/state school divide is more analogous to the debate about inheritance.

To contextualize my comments, perhaps you should read the post to which I was responding in which Louise_1988 asserted, 'Life isn't fair. You better get used to it.'

He didn't by any chance teach English did he? One of my English teacher's best friends was a transvestite. ( The same one that taught Fran if you recall me mentioning him. Fascinating chap. Had shoes with a compass in the heel in high school. He also had on file - he claims a pupil wrote it but we suspect he created it himself - the worst composition of all time ).

Nah this was just a pupil. One of my group actually. Considers himself vaguely bisexual, but doesn't do things like that for such reasons, just for the amusement of those around him. Hence the reason we have a picture of him lying on a friend's bed in said friend's sister's underwear. Ewww the memories.

Which was such a cliché it hardly deserved a response.

And, if we sit back and do nothing (In this situation) what will happen then?

I have to take issue with you here. There are plenty of people who, throughout history have NOT said 'Life ain't fair, you better get used to it'. They've said, 'Life isn't fair and I'm going to do something about it' and those are the kind of people who change the world. Imagine if the Suffragettes had sat back, shrugged their shoulders and said 'Life ain't fair. We'd better get used to it!' Thank God they didn't or you wouldn't be in a position to apply to Oxbridge at all.

Oh,really? Well, I came to a very different conclusion: it was precisely the fact that it was a cliché, because we passively accept it - this 'banal truism' form the moment we are born - that I felt it was 'worthy of a response 'Life isn't fair' the final part of the sentence is inculcated into us from the moment we entered primary school. The final part of the sentence 'so you better get used to ' is left unsaid.