I'M FUCKING DONE

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I live in Cambridge for a couple of years, back when Dissensus was starting. I split up with my gf and left within a couple of weeks. Wide skies but narrow horizons for someone in their 30s, I couldn't wait to get back to London.

I never even bothered graduating from Oxford in the end, I'm not one for ceremony. I got the letter confirming my degree, that was enough. Didn't rate the place too highly, to be honest, apart from my philosophy tutors who were amazing, as you'd expect.

Seeing who rises, why and how, it makes you sick. Maybe 1% of any given cohort. A good 75-90% of Oxbridge are bright, pleasant conformists who do the actual running of the country.
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
i haven't seen it but considering you @craner nominate it i want to know how much of the original comics s&m theme does it keep alive. with WW being tied to stuff and whipped almost every issue.
 
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Mr. Tea

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craner said:
No, but this is no lie, I stood behind Douglas Murray on the way in, and we had a nice chat about Christopher Hitchens.
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I haven't heard of this Murray chap before, but I googled him and he looks just like the Broadsheet Journalist Byline Photo Monkey.

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woops said:
i haven't seen it but considering you @craner nominate it i want to know how much of the original comics s&m theme does it keep alive. with WW being tied to stuff and whipped almost every issue.
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It takes a completely different tack
 
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Mr. Tea said:
Honestly, I've never heard of the cunt! I don't read The Spectator, it's for mad people!
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How do you know if you don't read it? Someone gave me a year's subscription for Christmas (free bottle of Taittinger with it). It had lapsed for a year. I always turn to Jeremy Clarke ("Low Life", after Taki) first, to see how his cancer's getting on.

You're more of an Observer magazine fella, I assume. Something light and aspirational for a Sunday afternoon.
 
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IdleRich

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shakahislop said:
fascinating place oxfordshire. a long flat plain just north of the north downs with a genuinely ancient city just before you get up to the cotswolds. a clean division between the northern half and the southern half. the centre of oxford itself is a kind of entrepot of the english and increasingly global elite, where they rock up for a few years like backpackers in chaing mai before disappearing, maybe they've made a mate or two with the locals but mostly they've hung out with each other. all the old buildings look like they were designed for children - people say that the architecture is beautiful but to me it looks like a toy town. something about the buildings looks like its designed to appeal to the imaginations of 17 year olds, bits that look like castles, bits that look like ramparts. uniform yellow stone dug out of the ground by the locals. then that part is literally divided by a river and a bridge, which is almost taking the piss symbolism-wise, from the ex-industrial housing sprawl of east oxford which is about three times as big as the university bit of the city.

then the countryside is a mixture of abandoned US airbases that have been turned into housing estates, old farming villages, university boathouses proliferating outwards along the river, and truly cursed market towns. the locals with west country accents are slowly getting pushed out towards swindon and wycombe by new money, people coming in with new ways of speaking and an insatiable demand for lattes, cappucinos, flat whites.
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I quite like Oxford as a city, albeit one with very little to do in it once the pubs close. The old buildings and stupid one way systems remind me somewhat of my adoptive home of Lisbon. I'm sure I'm in an enormous minority here but I like those comfy olde worlde pubs such as the Kings Arms or The White Horse or.... whatever.
I was born in Swindon, the village I grew up in was in Berkshire then but they redrew the lines at least once and now it's in Oxfordshire. I guess that area.... Wantage, Didcot and so on will always be part of me, for better or worse. Like everywhere else some bits of it are really good if you're the right kind of person and in the right place to benefit from it. If you're not.... well....
 
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I got dragged on a lot of canal holidays as a kid, it's an "interesting" way to see the country - Oxford: I was expecting to see "gleaming spires", instead I saw meths drinkers huddled around fires, me and my brother had to run away down a towpath from a nonce telling us "look at the duckies" -.. admittedly good bookshops, escaped unharmed but bad memories - you see the worst from the canals, basically the "servants entrance"
 
luka

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dont let any of this dissuade you from going to oxford toko. they will definitely offer you a place and it will be the most important experience of your life. youll love it. and you will earn way more money and have way more opportunities as a result of going there too.
 
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