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How to tell a student from a "chav"

Reading the comments left on the Daily Echo's coverage of the Top Up Fees protest in Bitterne, I had to laugh when I saw this mini-thread in the comments...

Commenter 1: "... I finally managed to escape living in the Bedford Place area last year after putting up with student noise from parties and abuse when asking them to quieten down..."

Commenter 2: "How do you know which ones are students and which ones are chavs fron the flowers estate?"

Commenter 1: " Easy - the students' tattoos are spelt properly"

Easy enough then, apparently... <grin>

p.s. Thanks go to the NUS for the mention on Officeronline about our Top Up Fees protest! :o)

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Welcome to my online ramblings repository. As of Friday 16th March, I have been sentenced to serve an extra 18 months in Portsmouth as a Sabbatical officer at the Union. Until then, I have to get my degree and train up to be a Sabb while running UPSU.net

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about me

"Grumpy, geeky old grey-head"

'Ello! I'm Alex, and I'm one of the mysterious and slightly-shady figures know as "Sabbatical Officers" - my job title is something like Media Whore, and I divide my time equally between upsetting students, annoying staff members, tweaking the UP ... (read more).

my degree

BSc (Hons) eCommerce & Internet Systems (I got a Desmon)