Jeremy Corbyn's favourite biscuit

Yes, you hit a nerve eloethan but only because I get tired of people mentioning the
bullingdon club as if it caused half the country's ills. There are yobs in all levels of society from the poorest to the richest, but some people seem completely hung up on a few rich yobs (does anyone know, btw, whether they or their rich daddies paid for the damage they cause while they were students?). Not that those they know of having belonged to the club are yobs any more, but don't let a bit of growing up get in the way of your judgmentalist reverse snobbery.

It"s actually the reverse snobbery that hits the nerve, the mention of the bullingdon clubites is just the medium through which the snobbery exudes.

I sometimes wonder if the virtuous and vociferous bullingdon yob critics have ever even been to Oxford or Cambridge, let alone know anything about the great universities that characterise those towns other than that they have a higher (though falling) proportion of fee-paying school educated students than most other unis.

I'd much rather be called an oik that an envious, bitter, resentful, automatically antagonistic twerp.

My grandparents (all except paternal grandma) were so oikish (in a nice way, obv) that they didn't even know teacup etiquette existed. Paternal grandpa drank tea out of the saucer, much to grandma's disgust. He used to wink at me when she commented.

Yes,I have it on good authority that parents or perpetrators always pay up for any damage done by members of the Bullingdon club as well as compensating for loss of business, stress, and any other occurrences. It's an unwritten rule that goes with the territory.

Good.

Oh thatbags so did my grandad and with a loud slurping noise.

Don't even have saucers these days do we. How oikish can we get?!

Speak for yourself jings I am very much a cup and saucer girl.

I mean, they might not match but........

@thatbags

This is beginning to sound like the 'Three Yorkshireman' sketch.

I think it's quite comical that people are judged on how they eat, drink tea or dunk biscuits.

By the way, I agree with you about Oxbridge students and grads.

We're a class-obsessed society.

I've still got some cups. Saucers long gone.

@gillybob

It's trendy not to have matching cups and saucers. It's called shabby chic.

Saucers are for the cats.

I sold my remaining tea set on EBay last year, so if I invite anybody round for tea, they'll have to drink out of (china) mugs. Not that I'd invite any of you lot round, because you're all dunking oiks!!

Just to clarify, my comment re Corbyn was in no way "class" related. My own definition of oikdom knows no boundaries with regard to education or background!

That's what I tell myself daphnedill . I am rather fond of china cake stands too. I guess that makes me posh.

Hmmm...so what's your definition of an oik, phoenix?

I only ever use it ironically to describe the attitude of people who think they're a cut above others towards those they perceive as lower in the pecking order.

"Dunking oiks" indeed. daphnedill was your mouth out !

I prefer china mugs (cups) because they seem to retain heat better. I don't like chunky mugs, but that's nothing to do with disliking oik drinking vessels.

Wash my mouth out...with tea?

I actually wrote "was your mouth out" by mistake daphnedill and half expected a cheeky reply of "no, my mouth was in its usual place"

For the record I prefer slimmer faces too.

From Cambridge dictionary: "a rude and unpleasant man from a low social class"

From Oxford dictionary: "an uncouth or obnoxious person"

The Cambridge lot are snobby!

jings

From the Tyneside dictionary "your brother,son, uncle or father"

From Welsh dictionary - people who are obsessed with dictionaries but not .jingle

You're absolutely right about the residue of biscuit (gunge) in the bottom of the mug being a 'revolting mess' trisha (page 6). I suppose I could be described as an organised dunker or a dunker with OCD as I always have a tea spoon to hand then, the moment a piece of the biscuit drops off due to excessive dunking it can be quickly retrieved and the gunge avoided or at least greatly reduced.

Didn't enjoy dunking my ginger nut at lunch time Anniebach as I was thinking of you.

getting so funny!