Uni and Gap year
Sep 16th 2009, 4:53 pm
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Uni and Gap year
Any time I start an inflammatory thread off I always get the feeling that I'm dealing with a bunch of Left Wing, Pinko, Uni types... just to confirm my suspicions.... Which Uni did you go to and where/what did you do/go in your gap year. 
Sep 16th 2009, 5:01 pm
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Re: Uni and Gap year
he he he ok I'll play:
I went to Keele Uni (staffs) in the early 90's. I spent 4 glorious years there and aparently studied Politics and Music - my pinko left-wing philosphies were well and truly nutured and I left looking oddly like Neil from 'The Young Ones'..
I had no "Gap Year" prior to going to uni - but after I graduated I spent a year on the dole in Stoke-On-Trent enjoying my social life before giving up and returning to the South of England and starting gainful employment - Does that mean I spent my "gap year" in post-industrial staffordshire?
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The closest I had to a "Gap Year" travel experience would be the 6 weeks I spent trekking aorund the Andes between jobs a little while later - or perhaps other extended overland trips across Africa or SE Asia I've done since moving to Brisbane.
Close enough to stereotype for you?
I went to Keele Uni (staffs) in the early 90's. I spent 4 glorious years there and aparently studied Politics and Music - my pinko left-wing philosphies were well and truly nutured and I left looking oddly like Neil from 'The Young Ones'..
I had no "Gap Year" prior to going to uni - but after I graduated I spent a year on the dole in Stoke-On-Trent enjoying my social life before giving up and returning to the South of England and starting gainful employment - Does that mean I spent my "gap year" in post-industrial staffordshire?
.The closest I had to a "Gap Year" travel experience would be the 6 weeks I spent trekking aorund the Andes between jobs a little while later - or perhaps other extended overland trips across Africa or SE Asia I've done since moving to Brisbane.
Close enough to stereotype for you?
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Sep 16th 2009, 5:02 pm
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Re: Uni and Gap year
Didn't have a gap year to busy paying the bills.
Sep 16th 2009, 5:11 pm
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he he he ok I'll play:
I went to Keele Uni (staffs) in the early 90's. I spent 4 glorious years there and aparently studied Politics and Music - my pinko left-wing philosphies were well and truly nutured and I left looking oddly like Neil from 'The Young Ones'..
I had no "Gap Year" prior to going to uni - but after I graduated I spent a year on the dole in Stoke-On-Trent enjoying my social life before giving up and returning to the South of England and starting gainful employment - Does that mean I spent my "gap year" in post-industrial staffordshire?.
The closest I had to a "Gap Year" travel experience would be the 6 weeks I spent trekking aorund the Andes between jobs a little while later - or perhaps other extended overland trips across Africa or SE Asia I've done since moving to Brisbane.
Close enough to stereotype for you?
I went to Keele Uni (staffs) in the early 90's. I spent 4 glorious years there and aparently studied Politics and Music - my pinko left-wing philosphies were well and truly nutured and I left looking oddly like Neil from 'The Young Ones'..
I had no "Gap Year" prior to going to uni - but after I graduated I spent a year on the dole in Stoke-On-Trent enjoying my social life before giving up and returning to the South of England and starting gainful employment - Does that mean I spent my "gap year" in post-industrial staffordshire?
.The closest I had to a "Gap Year" travel experience would be the 6 weeks I spent trekking aorund the Andes between jobs a little while later - or perhaps other extended overland trips across Africa or SE Asia I've done since moving to Brisbane.
Close enough to stereotype for you?
Sep 16th 2009, 5:23 pm
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Re: Uni and Gap year
Sep 16th 2009, 5:32 pm
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Re: Uni and Gap year
You seem to be assuming that because I went to Oxford I come from a privilaged background.
Sep 16th 2009, 5:42 pm
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From where I stood anybody who went to Oxford was minted... you on the other hand will now no doubt tell me that you are from a poor family of Zeppelin repairers who only scraped up the cash to send you to Oxford by cutting back on their gas lamp use.
Sep 16th 2009, 5:49 pm
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You really do have a complex.
Sep 16th 2009, 8:00 pm
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There was no such thing as a "gap year" when I finished school. You either went to work or to uni. (The "gap year" is a more modern invention ... I missed out
)Nevertheless, even in those long gone days, I learned my left-wing, pinko tendencies from my parents. They thought that having a social conscience (rather than the "me, me" attitude of the Conservatives) was a positive thing and made sure they instilled this in us kids.
Parents also taught us not to discriminate against others on the grounds of gender, race, religion or sexuality.
Oh, and parents never went to university, so I have no idea where they got these left-wing, pinko attitudes from (not from the grand-parents that's for sure).
Maybe my parents (who grew up during WW2) thought a lot about the long-term future - and were clever enough to realise that a narrow-minded, exclusionary "me, me" attitude would not get us very far in the long run.
