Posh people things

[degsy]

No hate, just making the observations. My point on the Olympics is not that ordinary people are excluded by any means, it's just that fewer of such aspirational people can afford the coaching / time / kit if they are not posh. Ironically though, I also became aware that very much more posh voices appeared in recent Olympic events, since funding was increased by the government.

Look at the smooth path Sebastian Coe had from his public school to lordship via the Olympics. A true media darling who was always bigged up by his Media chums. Steve Ovett on the other hand, despite in my eyes being the superior athlete and sportsman, committed the crime of being common and we never heard of him again.

Holding a WR for 16 yrs, Olyimpc medals, 3 WR's in 41 days. Attended Tapton Secondary Modern Sheffield, then Loughbourough...hardly Eton and Oxford territory...more like Alf Tupper.

Ovett was good too, but anybody who quits a race because he's last in the field...what ever your upbringing, has something lacking...iirc he did that twice.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

I can think of plenty of altruistic, compassionate posh people.

Clement Atlee, William Wilberforce and Tony Benn stand out the most for me.

 

[ilikecheese]

Free food (gourmet cooking), ride to and from work (posh coaches), laundry (yes normal and dry cleaning), haircut, booze (I kid you not), gym (personal trainers included), for my client's employees.

 

[Zatara]

Job fairs for athletes/ Olympians

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics...mpians-go-after-glory-to-a-unique-kind-of-jo/

 

[brieverton]

What was the PHD in? Anything interesting?

Guy i know in Singapore is doing a Masters at UCLA which will lead to a PHD.

He told me that hes paying someone to write all his assignments....he also said that it wasnt discouraged.

It depends on what you call interesting I guess

It was on the politics and management of Science and Technology in the Soviet Union, most particularly focused on the members of the Academy of Sciences. I majored in Soviet and Russian government previously.

 

[chrismpw]

Holding a WR for 16 yrs, Olyimpc medals, 3 WR's in 41 days. Attended Tapton Secondary Modern Sheffield, then Loughbourough...hardly Eton and Oxford territory...more like Alf Tupper.

Ovett was good too, but anybody who quits a race because he's last in the field...what ever your upbringing, has something lacking...iirc he did that twice.

You're telling me a lad called Sebastian went to a secondary modern in Sheffield? Sheffield must be a lot more posh than I thought.
Ovett quit those races due to a lung condition. Pretty brave to enter them I'd say. Probably brought on from his upbringing in a cardboard box the poor lad.

 

[degsy]

You're telling me a lad called Sebastian went to a secondary modern in Sheffield? Sheffield must be a lot more posh than I thought.
Ovett quit those races due to a lung condition. Pretty brave to enter them I'd say. Probably brought on from his upbringing in a cardboard box the poor lad.

go on, I'll bite...

Cardboard box?
LUXURY!

 

[chrismpw]

If youre good then you get sponsors...when i was growing up we had the sports brands hovering around our teams after competitions.

go on, I'll bite...

Cardboard box?
LUXURY!

Only them boxes without hand holes were luxury.

 

[The Cowboy]

go on, I'll bite...

Cardboard box?
LUXURY!

We were lucky to get flaps cut off top of cardboard box. I used to haft fort do me 800 metres training downt middle of M62 int middle ot night, anything over 2 mins and father would thrash us within inch of us lives wit belt - IF WE WERE LUCKY!

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

go on, I'll bite...

Cardboard box?
LUXURY!

We used to dream of living in a corridor!

 

[degsy]

We were lucky to get flaps cut off top of cardboard box. I used to haft fort do me 800 metres training downt middle of M62 int middle ot night, anything over 2 mins and father would thrash us within inch of us lives wit belt - IF WE WERE LUCKY!

We were so poor we had cheap running shoes with the spikes on the Inside. and we all, all mind, not just me, even my baby sister of 5 mins old...If we couldn't do a Marathon (no snickers in them days) in 10secs. dead we had to flog ourselves with a pole vault pole...and not one of these namby pamby modern fibre glass ones, but a proper bamboo one...with the panda still chewin on it.

 

[The Cowboy]

We were so poor we had cheap running shoes with the spikes on the Inside. and we all, all mind, not just me, even my baby sister of 5 mins old...If we couldn't do a Marathon (no snickers in them days) in 10secs. dead we had to flog ourselves with a pole vault pole...and not one of these namby pamby modern fibre glass ones, but a proper bamboo one...with the panda still chewin on it.

Running shoes?! You were lucky. We had to just paint molten rubber ont soles of feet.

 

[degsy]

Running shoes?! You were lucky. We had to just paint molten rubber ont soles of feet.

Feet?
Luxury!
Our dad cut off all our feet to pay the rent on the lump of dog poo the 16 of us shared with the rest of Garston...and not that high class white poo either

 

[Zatara]

It depends on what you call interesting I guess

It was on the politics and management of Science and Technology in the Soviet Union, most particularly focused on the members of the Academy of Sciences. I majored in Soviet and Russian government previously.

Thats definitely unique.