#217

Peter Symonds College 2005-07 with long long time gone DiSer melesmeles - think he was at manchester at the same time as @anon82218317 and others? i was in his band when we were 18 and of the people in that band 3 appeared on University Challenge which is a pretty good hit rate

then i was at City University 2007-10 doing a music undergrad and towards the end acoulethic was doing a masters (pretty sure he’s been through at least 2 new names since that one)

didn’t spend much time at uni though, mostly i was either reading DiS or I was working in the same call centre as @pip

know quite a few people who went to oxford and loads who went to oxford brookes, can’t say any of the stories in this thread about elitism surprise me

1 Like
#218

Ah, yes! Languages/philosophy MA then? My first couple of years were in the philosophy department there, so know that building all too well.

#219

:+1: PSC! PSC!

1 Like
#221

oh yeah i remember reading that, good stuff

yo @still_here and @anon67149139 did you guys go to Symonds then? Hampshire is the best

#222

Yeah except I hate hampshire (sorry!)

#224

intruiging! why?

#225

I miss MelesMeles, but he seems like a very angry man now, having read that piece. My parents are from near said village, maybe I should ask him out for a maxibon next time I’m home.

#227

Just find it to be the embodiment of boring englishness. Doing something exciting in Hampshire = going to an upmarket, old-fashioned pub to eat a nice pie. Whilst waiting at the bar to pay you’ll end up talking to some 50 year-old guy in a gilet who fancies himself a man of the soil but drives a spotless new Land Rover. You studiously avoid saying anything that could prompt him to give his opinion on something.

4 Likes
#228

Nice. What were you studying?

#229

Yep, translation!

#230

where are you parents from? i grew up in swanmore which is small but had a school that served a large area as it’s the middle of knowhere

#231

My non-cycling work/social life summed up in one sentence.

GOD BLESS THE 'SHIRE

#232

I went to 6th form in Hampshire! Brockenhurst College. The comments about pubs and pies and gilets and Landrovers are pretty accurate but I still love the New Forest.

1 Like
#233

You were in my wife and brother’s year at college, and started when I finished!

#234

haslemere, which isn’t that close actually. we just used to play football all the time near Meles town.

#235

Hit the nail on the head there, hence me not living there anymore!

#236

Liverpool 2007-2010
Birmingham 2012-2016

Have you been fleeing from me?

1 Like
#237

the joys of politics & philosophy

#238

did you brother or wife do anything musical? if so i almost certainly know them

#239

They both did, actually, though not in terms of doing music at PSC - small, small world.