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Snap, rugby boys are for example:

Professional rugby
Doctor
Lawyer
Barrister

Mathgeeks;

IT / Programming stuff, but three have set up together.

I don't really care too much, I just know all the above from catching up with the one lad i still talk to at Xmas. Most of them are alright but I don't do keeping in touch too well.

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Not open as such Meow. We had dormitories to sleep in. But yes, to an extent we could come and go as we wanted.

Although obviously not during lesson times. Or overnight. So basically we were somewhat screwed.

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The doctors, lawyers and barristers that my school produced have generally been more mathgeeks than rugbygeeks. We've produced relatively few programmers. I've always thought of IT/programming as more popular in the state sector (or among the Asian students) although I admittedly went to a fairy sporty boarding school so it can't be used as representative of the general scheme of things.

The successful rugbygeeks were more likely to go into finance - tons of the rugby players from my class are now bankers.

But almost everyone was an athlete of some type so I'm assuming your dividing line was based on whether you played rugby/hockey/football versus tennis/squash/running.

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My dividing line is much clearer.

Rugby/Football (to a lesser extent) or No Sport.

We didn't do other sports really. Some athletics but it was Rugby for Games and Running in PE. It ****ing blew.

Forgot to say, one of the Rugby boys was a mathgeek too and he's a banker.

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I'm with Scamps on organised sports. The school I went to in Aberdeen was on the highest hill, the sports field to the side of the TV mast. We had two teams for rugby/football/hockey, Tee's and skins.
I am a mountain leader and a x-country skier but don't do anything involving balls or sticks.

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The banking and corporate environments are popular among people who enjoyed playing team sports - there's a lot of similarities so people who thrive on team mentality and mindset naturally gravitate towards occupations where the same behavourial attitudes are prevalent.

Occupations that are more solitary - barristers, for example, have tons of tennis players. No surprise there.

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We played Cricket and rugby. Though captain of the football team that didn't grant me as much kudos as being average at Rugby and Cricket,

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Open in the sense of Ford Open Prison compared to Wormwood Scrubs.

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I understand the comparison however there were so many boys in there that had never ever commited a crime, were basically unwanted.

So comparing Ford Open Prison to Wormwood Scrubs Prison isn't really right.

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I loved rugby at school until it was taking up every Saturday instead of the odd one when fixtures couldn't be played after school. I also lost interest when teachers were suggesting we join the gym and dropped in the phrases 'have a shake' (protein) when we were all 14/15 yrs old. Got taken WAY too seriously.

We had reversible rugby shirts...very la-dee-da

INteresting, hadn't ever really considered it. Always seen rugby as a good thing - proper way into a sensible, middle class network....rather than into the proper toff Eton/Marlboro etc echelons of high society.

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our school was mixed and never played rugby

so no fat lads, turned up collars or gayers

*actually can think of 3 gay lads off the top of my head from our class of 30 so scrap that :lol:

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90% of them had collars up. Hated it. Especially when it was deemed good to wear two polo shirts of different colour with both collars up.

Wankers.

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it's unique to rugger fans, very weird

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I'm on your wavelength there...........

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Other unique thing to rugby is calling the ref 'Sir'.