Are you going to vote for Boris Johnson? If so, WHY???????

[scampadoodle]

Because I know voting for Ken yet again is tantamount to inviting a benign dictatorship (wish Labour would field a different, viable candidate) but Boris Johnson ??? He is a buffoon with no relevant experience. At least Paddick has run a police force. (& no, editing the Spectator does NOT count).

But I am really really worried that he'll get in. Bye bye Oyster & cheap bus fares...

Why don't the tories parties put up proper candidates?

Going to Balliol is not a guarantee of being Cleverer Than Those Of Us Who Didn't

Also PMSL at the idea that having a degree makes you automatically an academic heavyweight.

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If all we need is an Oxford-educated prat, I could stand.

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Ah, that's true. I read Ladies' Books, as befits a Lady.

He probably did the Bloke Bit of the syllabus. The Yorkie Bar option.

[struggles to remember what that might have been]

Just because it takes them four years to do their degree instead of three, eh. Bleedin' waste of taxpayers' money, if you ask me.

well if it involved chocolate, there would have been no stopping him

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Four for Classics. It takes them longer. The books are more Manly.

I thought ox/cam degrees only 3 years too. Mine was glasgow, so 4 years.
Scottish universities and ox/cam = automatic MA. Yippee.

Also they call it Greats, in a chest-beating manner. Not classics.

4 for classics, eh? Wasn't in my mother's day. But then she went to cambridge. Oxford's a dump.

PMSL @ greats!

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Is that why they wear kilts, they are so Confident in the Manliness?

At Oxford, of course, one wore - for exams solely - gowns. Mine was particularly long and flapped around me.

Oh yes and for Dining In Hall, which was slightly counterweighed by the fact that if you were a vegetarian at my college you might be offered a Branston pickle pancake for your begowned Repast.

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I thought it was called Lit Hum.

Cor, is Greats just the plebby form of it, and then Classics is the plebby form of Greats?

So it's uber-nobby, wow.

Lit. Hum. Short for Literae Humaniores is the name given to the study of Classics at Oxford . Also known as Greats.

The name means literally "more humane letters", but is perhaps better rendered as "Advanced Studies", since humaniores has the sense of "more refined" or "more learned", and literae means "learning" or "liberal education". It is the archetypical Humanities course.

It always sounded fascinating to me, though I know neither Latin nor Greek.

Well, fennel, now you know the calibre of some of its male students, does it still sound as alluring