oh yeah i remember reading that, good stuff
yo @still_here and @anon67149139 did you guys go to Symonds then? Hampshire is the best
Yeah except I hate hampshire (sorry!)
intruiging! why?
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.
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.
Nice. What were you studying?
Yep, translation!
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
My non-cycling work/social life summed up in one sentence.
GOD BLESS THE 'SHIRE
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.
You were in my wife and brother’s year at college, and started when I finished!
haslemere, which isn’t that close actually. we just used to play football all the time near Meles town.
Hit the nail on the head there, hence me not living there anymore!
Liverpool 2007-2010 Birmingham 2012-2016
Have you been fleeing from me?
the joys of politics & philosophy
did you brother or wife do anything musical? if so i almost certainly know them
They both did, actually, though not in terms of doing music at PSC - small, small world.
Oh cool, my youngest brother studied Politics at Sheffield too - crossed over with you for a year or so as well.
That should go in assumptions thread. I did classics and it’s true, people assume you are super posh, dead clever, a super geek and much more. It’s bizzare.
At least people assume it makes you clever I guess.
