#20

Ah, an ex-poly alumnus. There’s no shame in it, mate.

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#21

It’s not limited to Oxbridge types, but it’s known as social assortative mating.

#22

Isn’t it more likely that a bunch of people just meet their partners at university?

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#23

I didn’t.

#24

That does happen, but it doesn’t account for the general phenomenon.

There are a surprisingly low number of people who stay together having met at university - a more important factor is that the people you meet at university tend to shape your social groups for the ten years after it.

#25

I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers for Oxbridge couples was a bit higher due to how hard it is to find someone who can tolerate all the chat about college life and rowing for the rest of their lives.

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#26

Plus they’re all fucking munters so are pulling at their own level.

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#27

Enough rowing chat.

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#28

Not quite sure of the derivation of munter… hopefully ok!

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#30

Phew!

#31

It’s certainly a weird place - it does very strange things to the minds of people who went there.

(I also think that it’s a lot harder to get a job in Cambridge or Oxford as a graduate from a non-Oxbridge place, because you’re competing against people who went to the local universities. A combination of competition and networking makes the professional class in those cities a bit of a closed shop)

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#33

I wouldn’t disagree with any of that.

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#35

Kiss of death in wrestlimg

#36

he’s really been banging out the Ralph Emerson quotes today, has Disky

#37

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#38

@discobot quote anything not by Ralph Emerson?

#39

:left_speech_bubble: Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. — Wayne Dyer

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