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how white, middle class in Leeds uni?

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I'm quite happy to 'account for my actions' but I gave you rep rather than posted here because this thread has already been a ****storm of ridiculousness so I'd rather not add to it. I just felt that your use of 'frogs' (and latterly 'yanks', which a lot of Brits think is just a catch-all term for Americans but it's actually a relic from the US Civil War and isn't very happily received by some) was pretty damn ignorant given the thread topic and given the point you were trying (?) to make.
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It was clearly meant in a tongue-in-cheek way, and did little to detract from my overall positive message about Leeds.

It's a shame some people have to throw their toys out of the pram when they don't like something.
It's a shame people have to resort to stereotypes and nicknames when other language fails them, right? Let's drop it.
Reply 63
A lot of native Leeds and West Yorkshire dwellers such as myself are applying to Leeds, or already go.
And if the current students are anything like myself, or the people I know applying, then it's definitely not middle class.

Quite annoyed about the "white" comment though...hankering after an apartheid style university? :rolleyes:
Reply 64
harlot
A lot of native Leeds and West Yorkshire dwellers such as myself are applying to Leeds, or already go.
And if the current students are anything like myself, or the people I know applying, then it's definitely not middle class.


A rather solipsistic post.

Middle class people also come from Leeds you know.
Reply 65
Jacket Potato
I went to Exeter uni and was surrounded entirely by white, middle class students. In terms of statistics, Leeds has a similar level of people from private schools and low numbers of people from the lower socio-economic groups. I HATED Exeter, am I wasting my time by going to Leeds or is it different?


Hello. You are in England you know. If you want the majority to be coloured people then move out of Europe!
Reply 66
In most of my classes i'm extremely out numbered by people who wen't to private schools. I don't mind, it just makes me laugh that they had to pay 200k to get to the same place in life. I do however find it annoying how many people wear ugg boots and nightwear, sun glasses in the dark and flip flops in the snow.
Reply 67
Elipsis
In most of my classes i'm extremely out numbered by people who wen't to private schools. I don't mind, it just makes me laugh that they had to pay 200k to get to the same place in life. I do however find it annoying how many people wear ugg boots and nightwear, sun glasses in the dark and flip flops in the snow.


Lmao yeah when I went up for the tour/open day in October, near to every girl I saw wore uggs :biggrin:

(Yes mixed race guy here, yes applying to leeds, yes firm)
Reply 68
Escorcio


(Yes mixed race guy here, yes applying to leeds, yes firm)


We don't take kindly to mixed race folk around here.:rolleyes:
Elipsis
In most of my classes i'm extremely out numbered by people who wen't to private schools. I don't mind, it just makes me laugh that they had to pay 200k to get to the same place in life. I do however find it annoying how many people wear ugg boots and nightwear, sun glasses in the dark and flip flops in the snow.


:rofl:
Reply 70
Elipsis
We don't take kindly to mixed race folk around here.:rolleyes:


I'll fawk you till you love me (no homo)
I think in the next referendum im going to suggest a ban on ugg boots.
Reply 72
:biggrin:
Fake plastic love, are there many people from London at Leeds uni?
When I went up in October met up with 2 who used to live here, but didn't see/talk to any others
There will be plenty from London. I know 3 people from the London area, if you really feel passionate about your City create a "London society" (Assuming there isn't already one............) :biggrin:
Reply 74
TheWizard
if you really feel passionate about your City create a "London society" (Assuming there isn't already one............) :biggrin:


There's a reason I'm leaving here and getting as far away as possible :biggrin:
Reply 75
fake plastic love
I think in the next referendum im going to suggest a ban on ugg boots.


best idea ever.
Reply 76
Lol. I'm sat in a cpu room at Warwick Uni and the girl next to me is wearing Ugg boots. She's also immacualtekly and expensively dressed and is on the phone to the train company trying to buy a 're-tarn teck-ett'. I love it.
Escorcio
:biggrin:
Fake plastic love, are there many people from London at Leeds uni?
When I went up in October met up with 2 who used to live here, but didn't see/talk to any others


Yeah, you definitely do meet quite a few londoners. Not as many as people from villages though, which to a londoner is very strange!
Gissing
Lol. I'm sat in a cpu room at Warwick Uni and the girl next to me is wearing Ugg boots. She's also immacualtekly and expensively dressed and is on the phone to the train company trying to buy a 're-tarn teck-ett'. I love it.


Only idiots buy tickets on the phone, it's cheaper online :biggrin:
Reply 79
EssexDan86
Only idiots buy tickets on the phone, it's cheaper online :biggrin:


To be fair to her, i think in retropect, she might have been consulting a friend while buying on-line. She was also very good-looking.

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