Cambridge University Students Union.

smudge7946 said:

Posh students should stick to putting there podgers in pigs heads.

That was Oxford.

iainment said:

Do what you want. Wear a poppy or not. As long as you don't impose your point of view as being the only one possible.
Me, I won't wear a poppy or support the British Legion.
But I respect those who gave their lives actively or not for freedom.

Weird.

Stu_of_Kunming said:

iainment said:

Do what you want. Wear a poppy or not. As long as you don't impose your point of view as being the only one possible.
Me, I won't wear a poppy or support the British Legion.
But I respect those who gave their lives actively or not for freedom.

Weird.

Is it not better for individuals to think about their own relationship with the idea of Remembrance, rather than just going through the motions, without consideration?

You don't have to agree with the view that they come to about the iconography of Remembrance, but they are at least remembering - can the same be said of those appearing on the football field or TV where the Poppy is attached by employers?

Siv_in_Norfolk said:

Leuth has tried to draw attention to the dodgy way this story has come about

Getting played, people

Keith is a powerful force

Totally disagree with them but this seems like one of those stories doing the rounds just to wind people up, like ones that say a council banned Christmas or something. Surely there are more things to get angry about in the world than a bunch of students being predictably contrary.

My missus went to Cambridge (from state school so she was very much the exception) so I met quite a few of your typical Cambridge students.

Obviously they are very strong academically but that is all they know. They have been in a private school environment designed solely to get them to Oxbridge but at the expense of literally everything else. They have zero common sense, zero perspective, zero self awareness, zero life skills and absolutely zero knowledge of anything outside their bubble.

cantersaddick said:

My missus went to Cambridge (from state school so she was very much the exception) so I met quite a few of your typical Cambridge students.

Obviously they are very strong academically but that is all they know. They have been in a private school environment designed solely to get them to Oxbridge but at the expense of literally everything else. They have zero common sense, zero perspective, zero self awareness, zero life skills and absolutely zero knowledge of anything outside their bubble.

That applies to most students to be fair.

Ormiston Addick said:

cantersaddick said:

My missus went to Cambridge (from state school so she was very much the exception) so I met quite a few of your typical Cambridge students.

Obviously they are very strong academically but that is all they know. They have been in a private school environment designed solely to get them to Oxbridge but at the expense of literally everything else. They have zero common sense, zero perspective, zero self awareness, zero life skills and absolutely zero knowledge of anything outside their bubble.

That applies to most students to be fair.

On the most part I disagree. At my uni most people had a sense of perspective and had worked pretty hard to get there. Most had experience of the working world in some form or another and most had an element of common sense.

Spoilt brats .. a good spell in the trenches would do em the world of good .. but seriously .. we need to keep a sense of national pride without being jingoistic . The Cambridge students in theory will be amongst the leaders and trend setters of tomorrow. This kind of attitude does not auger well.
The impression given to me is that in a pretty comfortable world, there just MUST be something from the past for well off, probably well meaning but misguided middle class, young, egg heads to protest about

I thought the whole point of fighting for freedom was to allow people to have different opinions even if you don't agree with them.

Each individual has a choice about wearing a poppy and how they view Rememberance Sunday. Surely that's the point here?

Hastingsaddick said:

ValleyGary said:

Who gives a fuck? I’ll be remembering and paying my respects and that’s all that matters to me. Making the journey up town on November 11th with it being 100 years since armistice. Couldn’t give a shit what’s happening in Cambridge.

Spot on there Gary...down here (Hastings) our bonfire society will have 100 members carrying 100 lit torches from the beacon on the East Hill to the pier.

Never knew you were down that way, @Hastingsaddick . Learn summin new every day

shine166 said:

McBobbin said:

Has anyone actually read the whole article?

Don't be silly, that would stop people being offended by click bait

The journalistic scoop is 'All students are w@#,ers.'

The next article explains that water is wet.

Ormiston Addick said:

cantersaddick said:

My missus went to Cambridge (from state school so she was very much the exception) so I met quite a few of your typical Cambridge students.

Obviously they are very strong academically but that is all they know. They have been in a private school environment designed solely to get them to Oxbridge but at the expense of literally everything else. They have zero common sense, zero perspective, zero self awareness, zero life skills and absolutely zero knowledge of anything outside their bubble.

That applies to most students to be fair.

Does not apply to my son..

Uboat said:

Callumcafc said:

The retort that “ they would be able to voice these opinions if it weren’t for war/sacrifice/etc” has always been a weird one for me to grapple with.

So you want them to have those freedoms but not to put those freedoms into practice?

Also the Second World War is the only conflict we've ever been involved in where freedom of speech would have been under threat of we'd lost.

Not just freedom of speech. Our whole way of life would have changed. Just thinking about the possible outcome of a fascist victory gives me the shivers. The whole of Europe plunged into a "new dark age" as a famous Briton once said. (If you don't know who said that look it up!)

redbuttle said:

Ormiston Addick said:

cantersaddick said:

My missus went to Cambridge (from state school so she was very much the exception) so I met quite a few of your typical Cambridge students.

Obviously they are very strong academically but that is all they know. They have been in a private school environment designed solely to get them to Oxbridge but at the expense of literally everything else. They have zero common sense, zero perspective, zero self awareness, zero life skills and absolutely zero knowledge of anything outside their bubble.

That applies to most students to be fair.

Does not apply to my son..

Neither of my sons either.

Still you can't beat a good stereotype.