Is anyone else watching the new Sense and Sensebility atm?

[08aGreatYearForCarmenere]

It is good but quite odd as the casting is strangely similar to the film version, ie they all look and sound very alike.

Suebaroo/Onebat - Ladieeez. Purleeeeez. Who got a poncetastic First and who got a ponceteptable Upper Second and who got a whollywithoutponcemerit Lower Second?

oh bugger sue wins.
Till The Next Time.(in Vader voice)

Swedes, a Lower Second! Was it You?
I am very impressed. not poncetastic but you must certainly have been poncing about drinking absinthe, flirting with degeneracy, and tasting the fruits of dissipation.

I am anxiously over-acheevy eldest daughter and would never have had the nerve.

onebat - DP got lower second I am an upper second girl.

Onebat - you concede defeat too early. Do you not notice that Suebaroo has yet to reveal her class?

FIRST!!!!!!!!

I was in line for a first but I discovered snogging.

Snogging Swedes? At 20?

Was it in Austria or somewhere else very.. naif?

Or are you that Ruth person who got her BA at 12?

onebat - you got a first? {respect worship emoticon]

ye-es. But I suspect it was a pity-first as I had a doctor's note!

Your tutors must have thoroughly enjoyed your blowjobs dissertation.

Yes all the hard work I put in really paid off.

I'm still staggered they let you something as new fangled and indulgent as Feminist Critical Theory at Oxford onebat. All that sort of thing was nonsense in my day.

Onebat - A First, from Oxford Brookes surely? I feel honoured to be allowed on the same thread.

Not Oxford Ruty! Don't be insane!
Kings London. Very indulgent there in my day, but I hear they are now back to The Canon.

Swedes, likewise. Did dissipated DP go on to be a great success?

(whilst I failed, rather spectacularly, to climb any higher than the very mediocre lower-middle rungs of the Career Ladder)

if indeed it is possible to be spectacularly mediocre?

if it is that sums up my academic career rather well.

er, actually not just my academic career...

um, yes, it will be my Epitaph.

Here lies Onebat
She was spectacularly mediocre
except in the matter of corn-scraping
at which she excelled

Oh dear, we seem rather to have hijacked the thread ladies.

Who will get us back onto Oarsten (as my dear GM used to say)?

i'm just going to be an unbearably pushy mother to make up for my own failings. Only fair really.

oh dear, I'm even crap at pushyness!

Never mind! I am 1 month under forty. I am looking forward to it, with reservations. I believe it will be The Decade In Which I Will Shine.

Have I the stamina, though, do you think?

[i still prepare my Oscar speech for best screenplay from time to time ]

yeah but onebat how do you look in very small tights with leg warmers? Hmm?