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To think this is chilling?

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Gorgeouslilgirl · 09/06/2021 10:28

Students in an Oxford college did what students do - questioned the status quo and decided to replace a picture that is political, ie a head of state. A measured and inclusive message accompanied this.

And the education secretary has waded in to criticise a student body for actions within their own space? And DM is publishing the student’s photo and family home and much his dad earns! Wtf?!

It reminds me of the Middle East or North Korea or perhaps Thailand where people have a photo of their beloved unelected leader as a sign of patriotism or else they are viewed unfavourably.

I mean, really?!!!

OP posts:
Mumoftwoinprimary · 09/06/2021 19:44

[quote OchonAgusOchonOh]**@Mumoftwoinprimary* - Or maybe to have a sit in in the bar. I went to a very political college. We had a lot of sit ins in the bar. Can’t remember why now but I remember they were rather good fun.*

Might it have been something to do with the availability of alcohol? Sit ins in the library weren't quite the same.

Students just don't know how to do a decent protest any more.[/quote]
It wasn’t just the alcohol availability that made us choose the bar for our sit ins. It was also about the level of comfiness of the seats! I have remembered one of the reasons for our bar sit in too - they were reducing the bar’s opening hours! Apparently that had a disproportionate impact on State School educated students. (I can’t remember why but there was a rousing speech and everything!)

Teddypicker · 09/06/2021 19:50

Here's a hanky to mop up your frothy mouth OP.

PS God Save The Queen Grin

OchonAgusOchonOh · 09/06/2021 19:52

@mustlovegin

He is a paying customer

Do you go into a bar and start to trash it because you have paid for your beer?

@mustlovegin - Doing his job as president of a group by tabling a motion he was asked to table is comparable to thrashing a bar? You're really going to have to explain that one as I don't see the equivalence.
OchonAgusOchonOh · 09/06/2021 19:53

@Mumoftwoinprimary - Apparently that had a disproportionate impact on State School educated students. (I can’t remember why but there was a rousing speech and everything!)

Price of beer presumably? Beer was cheaper in our uni bar.

TheKeatingFive · 09/06/2021 19:55

Do you go into a bar and start to trash it because you have paid for your beer?

No one trashed anything. Sheesh.

TheKeatingFive · 09/06/2021 19:56

You're really going to have to explain that one

Good luck with that Grin

dorangme · 09/06/2021 19:56

Do you go into a bar and start to trash it because you have paid for your beer?

It was a poster...

whoopsnomore · 09/06/2021 19:58

Do people think Her Majesty wants people to feel obliged to display her portrait in certain places?

OchonAgusOchonOh · 09/06/2021 19:59

@TheKeatingFive

You're really going to have to explain that one

Good luck with that Grin

Ah come on. We're obviously not thinking this through. Voting to remove a picture and store it with other "art" belonging to the group is equivalent to thrashing a bar because...

Nope. Sorry. I'm stumped.

Ireallydontknowimtired · 09/06/2021 20:00

Also, he is not a guest in the UK. He is a paying customer. He, and the many other international students, are keeping the UK university sector afloat.

Perfectly said. Some people really don't have a clue.

ddl1 · 09/06/2021 20:00

The 'poor kid' is an adult at 25. As a guest in the UK, he should mind his manners

An adult, yes.

A guest? Well, one who's paying through the nose to keep higher education in this country going!

Mind his manners? It would be very BAD manners for the president of a college student union to refuse to table a motion which has been proposed, and on which a majority of his fellow students agree.

dorangme · 09/06/2021 20:00

Do people think Her Majesty wants people to feel obliged to display her portrait in certain places?

Do people think it's their mum or gran hence why so offended? Tbf I don't even care if someone doesn't want a poster of my mum up.

jgw1 · 09/06/2021 20:03

@PrimulaPrimrose

Calling him a child and kid is the most ridiculous thing here.
Well dear Gav is going to insist on continuing to behave like a spoilt child, shouldn't we call him one?
BlueButtercups · 09/06/2021 20:11

@Teddypicker

Here's a hanky to mop up your frothy mouth OP.

PS God Save The Queen Grin

😂🤣 👑

ohforarainyday · 09/06/2021 20:22

Do you go into a bar and start to trash it because you have paid for your beer?

It's more like paying for a Premier Inn hotel room and putting that weird manky strip of purple fabric they put on the end of all their beds on the sofa, because you know it doesn't get washed between guests.

mustlovegin · 09/06/2021 20:29

ohforarainyday not sure what you're going on about

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dorangme · 09/06/2021 20:32

That you Andrew?

dorangme · 09/06/2021 20:33

Listen to Mummy & stop playing on the internet!

dorangme · 09/06/2021 20:33

putting that weird manky strip of purple fabric

Why do they bother with this strip?

OchonAgusOchonOh · 09/06/2021 20:54

@mustlovegin

ohforarainyday not sure what you're going on about
Given nobody gets your comparison of a person doing his job by tabling a motion and then following through to remove a picture that will be stored with other unused pictures, and somebody going into a bar, buying a drink and thrashing the place, it seems reasonable for others to try and come up with another, more appropriate analogy.
OchonAgusOchonOh · 09/06/2021 20:55

@ohforarainyday

Do you go into a bar and start to trash it because you have paid for your beer?

It's more like paying for a Premier Inn hotel room and putting that weird manky strip of purple fabric they put on the end of all their beds on the sofa, because you know it doesn't get washed between guests.

I put it on the group. I might sit on the sofa.
OchonAgusOchonOh · 09/06/2021 20:55

Ground, not group.

Shewalksinbeautylikethenight · 09/06/2021 21:08

Finding the opinions on this thread truly eye opening. I had no idea anyone could seriously have a problem with a group of private individuals agreeing to take down a cheap modern picture from a private space.

Either there’s a load of right wing trollery going on or perhaps people are imagining this was deliberate vandalism of a portrait in a public space?

I can’t see how the postgrads could have had a reasonable expectation of anyone knowing about this let alone giving a shit.
And the quacking on about cancel culture - the only person anyone’s trying to cancel is the poor bloke who tabled the committee’s motion.

dorangme · 09/06/2021 21:14

Finding the opinions on this thread truly eye opening. I had no idea anyone could seriously have a problem with a group of private individuals agreeing to take down a cheap modern picture from a private space.

It's madness!