ARE YOU MADD?????!!!

Just had an email reminding me that I can vote for the new chancellor of the University of Cambridge. I usually bin such emails these days but this time….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-13640487

The candidates are:
Mr Abdul Arain
Mr Brian Blessed
Mr Michael Mansfield
Lord Sainsbury of Turville

Not withstanding that Michael Mansfield is a xxxxx xxx xxxx xxxxx very successful litigant and Lord Sainsbury gave far too much cash to the Labour Party that leaves local shop keeper Mr Arain and Brian Blessed.

Unfortunately I have to go and vote in person, which makes it pretty unlikely…but Mr Blessed would be teh AWESOME!

“Powder me down, slut!”

Wow did you go to Cambridge …..iirc you forgot to mention this last month.
Any chance of some shots of your big posh house in case we forget about the wine seller and the shed or the paddock?
Bloody noveau riche 🙄
I will let you decide how much is jest and how much is the politics of envy
Me earlier

nouveau riche

and how do you know Im not the 14th Earl of Malvern eh? Peasant!

Now he would make formal dinners entertaining!

“And now the Chancellor will say grace….”

if you were then the groom of the stool would post for you 😉

Please wait while My Lord composes a response.

Earls don’t have a groom of the stools, and I beleive the last monarch to have such a person was Henry VIII.
Really, the plebs should know better than to interupt a conversation about which they know nothing. Maybe if started using some long words the working classes would leave this thread to the rest of us?

But you only went to Girton Stoner…

My name is actually Margaret.

If you were there a very very long time ago…

Maybe if started using some long words the working classes would leave this thread to the rest of us?

Perhaps you should master the short ones first ,eh?

Maybe if started using some long words the working classes would leave this thread to the rest of us?

supercilious??

I no the words, I just can’t tipe.

Looks like I can vote as well. Just got to pop down to the Senate House, which shouldn’t be a problem.

OK, who should I vote for?

that leaves local shop keeper Mr Arain and Brian Blessed.

…but Mr Blessed would be teh AWESOME!

Why, what’s wrong with Abdul ?

Is it cos he is black ?

Racist.

Yes. yes it is. 🙄

Your subtleist troll yet, that is GG….

So tell us about Girton Stoner…

You forgotten what it was like already Matt?

Ha! Trying not to these days…

PM me off forum. Cant go round boring the plebs in here with our tales of whipping the local peasantry, eating Swan and rogering the toast racks.

rogering the toast racks each other.

*slow hand clap for DD*

😉

Will do

*bows*

Oh…

You want to keep upright round these parts if I were you DD…

Well, having looked at the candidates, Lord Sainsbury seems the obvious choice, as the person most likely to be able to persuade people with large amounts of money to donate some of it to the University for things like new lecture theatres (c.f. Bill Gates’ donation of £12M).

So that’s who I’ll vote for.

SWOOON! Stoner. Just catching the Brian Blessed meme now? haha! you are such a backward old fart!

Your subtleist troll yet, that is GG….

Well I’m not in your league when it comes to subtle trolling Stoner, that’s for sure 😀

This is a classic “look at me all you envious plebs, I’m proper posh, and, wait for it, I know this this bit will really stick in your gullet, I am proud of it” type Stoner thread. Like your (in)famous “look at these photos of me in my dandy hunting attire” thread.

All that was needed was a predictable response from ernie lynch 8)

And if you’re really lucky, Elfie will roll in later and give you some proper abuse.

I thought this was going to be a thread about nonsense degrees…but then again as it is about Stoner’s Land Economy degree (the sportsman’s degree alumni such as Gavin Hastings and Rob Andrew) from a girl’s college, I guess it is.

I was turned down by Cambridge when I applied to study Land Economy. Ended up at Reading doing finance and comercial real estate.
Thanks Mefty, I was turned down for a nonsense degree! Got to be even worse than doing one.

*Off to look up course at Univeristy of Luton where I can lean to speak klingon*

But were you any good at sport?

Not then. But I realised half-way through that I didn’t want to be a surveyor or investment banker, spent too much time on the bike but somehow came away with a 2:1 and have since done more riding and a succession of crap jobs. 1 World and 2 European champs* later I think this was the best idea, sod working I’m off riding. Yes, I know I’ll have no pension, but if the markets carry on like this neither will those who have worked hard and saved, and I bet I’ve had more fun.

* Participation in, not winning of!

Don’t pick on Stoner, you ruffians. He’s a decent thoughtful chap and looking out for all your minor plights and whims given his awesome power of teh Blessed.

And if you’re really lucky, Elfie will roll in later and give you some proper abuse.

If Elfie could be bothered. Truth is, I’ve just made a nice meal* and probbly going to settle in with some beer and iPlayer stuffs. Far more interesting than some pretentious willy-waving ‘look at me’ toss.

*Includes Elfin’s Famous Home-Made Tomatoes freshly picked today. how Middle Class is that? 🙂

how Middle Class is that?

That’ll be your independent school education.

I doubt it. I was expelled before we got onto gardening. That was only available from 4th form I think.

I was expelled ….

Expelled from public school eh ? I’ve always understood that that distinction has always been reserved for the most privileged spoilt brats in society.

Well there you go.

My tomatoes were delicious. 🙂