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When I arrived in Oxford, I did realise there were some interesting characters around. One guy with a posh accent stuck waved his chequebook outside his room du
by cperciva 12y ago
When I arrived in Oxford, I did realise there were some interesting characters around. One guy with a posh accent stuck waved his chequebook outside his room during a tuition fee demonstration, offering to pay for everyone's tuition if he could just be allowed some peace. There are dudes walking the street in top hats. There are kids with sports cars.
When were you in Oxford? In my day I never saw any top hats, barring the occasional actor; and even the richest kids didn't have cars, because (a) there was nowhere to park them, and (b) you could walk faster than you could drive anywhere.
- lordnacho 12y ago99 to 03. You had to know which kids had the cars. There's not much in the way of parking, but now and again you'd see a flash car pull up outside a college. Top hats are an eccentric thing. Kids did it to get mentioned on HN years later.
- cperciva 12y agoWell, our time in Oxford overlapped (I was there 2001-05)... I guess you were just more observant than me. ;-) I did see some fancy cars, but they were always driven by college fellows or other "adults" -- never anyone of student age.
- lordnacho 12y agoThere was one particular Rolls driven by a prof who'd written THE book on Physical Chemistry, I remember seeing that quite often. Did you not think people wore some strange clothes? I was back last week and saw loads of kids in suits. These days it just screams "first day at work".
- cperciva 12y agoThere were always some students wearing sub fusc, but that hardly qualifies...