Are there any Eton boys on here ?

What's Feck got a problem with now?

yep.

Btw past or present ?

Old Etonians think they are a superior breed but in reality they are just the like the rest of us mere mortals...

Feck was an Etonian?

FAFH, Why would I want a word in someone's ear over something they had little control over? I'm sure there must be people who attended Eton who went on to become decent human beings.

Eton - serves well to demonstrate that there are some things money cannot buy.

Throw as much money at it as you like - but you cannot educate pork imo

Well your PM to be correct.

Could say the same about the top unis then ?

Can't argue there .

With the benefit of hindsight there are some cracking good laughs in the Lib Dem manifesto.

MORE LIKE STRANGEWAYS OR BORSTALL BOYS ON HERE

unfortunatley a lot of you guys see the confidence that a lot us Public Scoolers have as arrogance........

it may be because you havnt that much confidence yourselves and feel threatened and inadequate....and im not talking about the loud brash chavvy type "confidence" that seems all the rage in the modern world.....im talking about the quiet..self-assured deep confidence...

..being well educated...and not just academically goes a long way toward this quiet confidence of which i speak.

fat fingers im afraid..

Now I realize it doesn't apply to all  who attend Eton, but does inherited wealth play a large role in being deeply self assured and confident.
After all if it doesn't matter whether you are good at anything as required by most to earn a better than average living, or even have the basic need to earn a living at all, make life somewhat easier to handle ?
In other words, take away their family wealth, would so many Etonians be all that comfortable with their lot in life and thus within themselves ?

but does inherited wealth play a large role in being deeply self assured and confident..

i expect it does in that perhaps the financial element of fear of failure is removed.....and so with this as you say...the vagaries of life...(which certainly contribute a great deal to people being less than generous to others but also themselves) are cushioned somewhat..at least from the financial viewpoint.

...but by simply measuring ones abilities in financial terms is what denigrates the soul of so many in the world.....and anyway...many still make a decent living whether they are any good in their particular field or not...(banking profession springs to mind but best not go there)!!!!!!!

Is that why so many Public Schoolers seem apparently to go into public life.
They feel the need, or even the responsibilty, to give something back ?. To repay the world for their good fortune of being born wealthy ?
If so, them many would perhaps say, I wish they would stop.
In more cases than not, they seem to do more irreparable harm than good.
A case in point at the moment perhaps ?

...perhaps...

perhaps the more financially secure you are ...the more your thoughts turn outward to the wider comminity and the world......

..rather than the narrower but in practical terms essential and understandable...more narrow and pragnatic view of the daily grind of ensuring a living for yourself and those close to you.

as for the current....i think both the purportedly working class representatives of Labour for the last 14 years and the current Conservatives...who i guess are the main targets of this thread...have both questions to answer...

.i think in the main both tribes have the best of intentions to wider soceity wahtever their background...but as you say...humans...well educated or not...have the habit of making perfectly solvable problems even worse.!!!

i am looking to find a return on each investment...

on betfair you do not need to gamble......i wont elaborate further because i think Fecks name was mentioned earlier in this thread and if you put "Eton" together with "trader" i suspect i will have a visit from "Gatehouse"

Hey froggy, you got the argument you were after when you started up this thread out of boredom.
I like the way you started the thread saying
"Btw if there are any, is it perhaps because papa p!ssed away the inheritance by gambling recklessly and badly on the geegees ?"

Later on you said

"Very brave indeed on this forum inhabited by many rip your throat out type characters.
Also a forum which positively swarms with greed and envy."

And then there is that brilliant comment in the middle saying
"cidentally this was not ever meant to be an Eton bashing thread."

I'm sorry but i just don't believe you when you say that it was never meant to be an Eton bashing thread. Either you are lying or incredibly stupid. For what it's worth i personally think it's the lying option.

By the way you should bring in some connection to bankers if you really want the argument you are after.