Anybody on here have a friend/friends who went to Oxford University???

Not just Oxford but one particular course: PPE (philosophy, politics and economics).

Oxford PPE graduates include David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

And William Hague, Jeremy Hunt and Philip Hammond. And Danny Alexander. And Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper. And a host of former Prime Ministers and Presidents from around the Commonwealth (and the current Australian Prime Minister).

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/sep/23/ppe-passport-power-degree-oxford

Christ's Cambridge.
Lawyers one way politicians tuther, then fight over power between themselves.

A mate of my mine did a Chemistry Bsc and Msc there after getting a scholarship to Wellington college in Berkshire.
Plus I’ve met one of his mates that went on to do a Phd in Chemistry there.

I went to uni as well but not Oxford or Cambridge but he’s only on par with me jobs wise etc and he would have been as far behind as he was when we met if I hadn’t harangued him.

From what I’ve seen it’s not even just a case of going there, you have to be willing to push/apply yourself to reasonable degree afterwards.

My uncle went to Oxford.  He was so clever he was stupid.  Walked out on his family once his third kid was born.  he has barely been seen or heard of in the last 40 years.  Walking out on your missus is understandable but to not even make contact with your children, 2 of which you had at least partly seen grow up, is unforgiveable.  I never met him but apparently he was a right argumentative lefty political animal kind of tw@t.

From what I've been told he does sound a lot like Orioles.

I would have gone to Oxbridge but I couldn't do the latin.

I think he meant Latrine.

BRISTOL,LEEDS,SHEFFIELD AND YORK

I have a cousin who got rejected by Durham University because when they asked him why he wanted to go there, he informed them that he didn't, but it was a back up in case he didn't get into Cambridge.

He DID get into Cambridge, but he's still a plank. Spends much pf his time on facebook, ranting about the evils of religion, which is odd because when he was growing up he carried a bible everywhere. People lurch from one extreme to another.

I suppose every family has it's nutters but that side of mine are really special. My mum's sister is from Yorkshire, but like my mum grew up in India, so has that terribly proper accent that other people like Felicity Kendall, Joanna Lumley and Cliff Richard do. Other than being a terrible snob (actually told her daughter her partner wasn't a suitable class for her), she is relatively normal.

My uncle grew up in Lancashire, but feeling his regional accent would hold him back, took a language course, so also talks like the Queen. Together they travelled the world, teaching English to rich people in poor countries for lots of money, and going on about Jesus a bit. All this came to an end when, aged 65, he decided he was going to end the marriage and shack up with an 18 year old muslim girl in Uganda. After being shouted at by my nan, he came back home. They had a dog, but it jumped up and down a lot, so they killed it.

The two other cousins on that side, one has had something like 12 children by 10 different men. I've not met all of them, but those I have met have all been obviously dodgy. We are still waiting to hear back from Mick, who offered to get some jewellery valued for my mum...

The other, who as a child always seemed the most normal to me, has been battling anorexia for 35 years. It's a miracle she's still alive to be honest. She lives with rabbits. Lots of rabbits.

I worked with a chap who'd gone to Oxford with the aim of becoming a vicar but in the final year of his theology degree, slowly realised he no longer believed in God.

And in typing this, I've just realised this is also the backstory of the DS Hathaway character in Lewis (except he went to Cambridge).

Several.  All quite normal.

One worked for me briefly 20 odd years ago, told me she wanted to get into advertising, I gave her the benefit of my wisdom on the subject.   About 18 months later she's a director of a large London Ad agency being interviewed on Newsight.

RoyClaytonsTash    08 Dec 14 12:59 

No wonder you're pals with Tommy Toes he seems positively normal now.

You bugger, Stainer!

I don't think they meant the football club

Ramruma is correct, although I would replace 'high octane' with 'complacent'.

I've worked directly for two universities. One was only top third academically, but had a huge social scene, great students' union, and some ideal marketing opportunities. I thought I did pretty well selling stuff for them, but when I moved to a redbrick, employers and agencies who'd never even taken my calls before were falling over themselves to fire money at me, even for non-recruitment purposes. Thing is, even though we may have had more of their target market, we were far less capable of reaching them, because they were all sat in their rooms studying all the time. We did a thing called Keep The Jeep (a rip off of Touch The Truck) and I guess we got about 50 people to participate, whereas there would have been hundreds at the other place. It was sponsored by a mobile phone network, so wasn't even particularly targeted.

One thing I learned over the years is the more you charge for stuff, the more you sell. The people in charge of buying advertising/access etc just want to be able to go to their boss and say 'today' I have acquired 5 grands worth of advertising, I'm off to play golf now. Price that same package at 500 quid and it doesn't look like they have been doing anything.

I did go to the football ground once during my time there, they played at the Manor Ground in those days. Awful place. And to the greyhound stadium in Cowley, which sadly closed last year. That was decent, a proper dog track.