An old and prestigious university in the UK. Widely considered to be one of the two best British universities, along with Oxford. In most rankings of universities, Cambridge comes either first or second in the UK, and in the top 10 worldwide (along with the likes of Harvard, Yale and MIT). However, the traditional view of a clear hierarchy of British universities is increasingly being considered outmoded, with many other institutions (such as UCL, LSE, Durham and Imperial College London) being considered to rival Oxford and Cambridge in many respects.
Stereotypes surrounding Cambridge students include that they’re all from wealthy backgrounds, that they’re all nerds, that they’re all snobs and that they’re all from the South of England.
Stereotypes surrounding Cambridge students include that they’re all from wealthy backgrounds, that they’re all nerds, that they’re all snobs and that they’re all from the South of England.
Notable alumni of Cambridge University include Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Nick Griffin and Nick Clegg
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Defining characteristics of the “Cambridge attitude" include:
- total failure to acknowledge even the existence of co-workers considered to be of a lower status;
- feeling of complete superiority over everybody, particularly anybody judged to be non-“Cambridge”;
- utter inability to relate socially to those considered to be of a lower class;
- astonishment, confusion and nausea when somebody judged to be of a lower status turns out to be better than them at something;
- refusal to accept the value of degree courses at other institutions (apart from Oxford, known as The Other Place).
Defining characteristics of the “Cambridge attitude" include:
- total failure to acknowledge even the existence of co-workers considered to be of a lower status;
- feeling of complete superiority over everybody, particularly anybody judged to be non-“Cambridge”;
- utter inability to relate socially to those considered to be of a lower class;
- astonishment, confusion and nausea when somebody judged to be of a lower status turns out to be better than them at something;
- refusal to accept the value of degree courses at other institutions (apart from Oxford, known as The Other Place).
Janine: “Would you believe I have shared an office with Hermione for 14 years and yet she only said ‘Hello’ to me for the first time last Tuesday?”
Dave: “I did try to tell you that she has a bit of a Cambridge attitude, didn’t I? Only this morning she shut the lift door in my face, and yesterday she pushed in front of me at the photocopier.”
Janine: “Yes, but even so, I am the managing director…”
Dave: “I did try to tell you that she has a bit of a Cambridge attitude, didn’t I? Only this morning she shut the lift door in my face, and yesterday she pushed in front of me at the photocopier.”
Janine: “Yes, but even so, I am the managing director…”
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I went to Cambridge University of Neutron Technology and I still remember the day I graduated from CUNT University.
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Get the Cambridge University of Neutron Technology mug.cambridge university has a particular slant on a posh twat. The graduates of cambridge tend to be in love with their own success and are secretly jealous of anyone even vaguely more successful than them. For example any other cambridge graduate. The most successful moment for these people was getting into the college, graduating and then spending the rest of their lives "I went to cambridge", getting married in cambridge and marrying other cambridge graduates and then desperately spending their lives clawing onto their pocket of success and having to fund their superiority and status anxiety.
cambridge posh twats "I can't go to my cambridge reunion because I haven't achieved anything and no, a husband, children, successful career and my own home do not count as any palpable success, please don't call me a cambridge posh twat you chav".
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Get the cambridge posh twats mug.The surface residue of a sanctimonious turd that simply refuses to flush down the proverbial toilet of a millenium of otherwise staunch academic tradition. Also known as CICCU.
"Hi, I'm from Cambridge Inter-collegiate Christian Union. I support the clergy's prolific choir-boy molestation."
"You're going to hell. I should know, I'm from CICCU."
"I don't even believe in Jesus. I'm in it for the free lunches at CICCU."
"The revised 10 commandments of CICCU:
1) Thou shalt have thine cake and eat it.
2) Thou shalt have the cake of others and eat it even if you are full from aforementioned cake.
3) Thou shalt increase the greenhouse effect through fly-posting and leafleting.
4) Thou shalt be racist and homophobic.
5) Thou shalt slap thine wife about a bit for she hath remarkable regenerative powers.
6) Thou shalt steal from the poor and give to the rich.
7) Thou shalt get them out for the lads.
8) Thou shalt evicerate the proletariate.
9) Thou shalt kill members of all other faths.
10) Thou shalt play cricket."
"You're going to hell. I should know, I'm from CICCU."
"I don't even believe in Jesus. I'm in it for the free lunches at CICCU."
"The revised 10 commandments of CICCU:
1) Thou shalt have thine cake and eat it.
2) Thou shalt have the cake of others and eat it even if you are full from aforementioned cake.
3) Thou shalt increase the greenhouse effect through fly-posting and leafleting.
4) Thou shalt be racist and homophobic.
5) Thou shalt slap thine wife about a bit for she hath remarkable regenerative powers.
6) Thou shalt steal from the poor and give to the rich.
7) Thou shalt get them out for the lads.
8) Thou shalt evicerate the proletariate.
9) Thou shalt kill members of all other faths.
10) Thou shalt play cricket."
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2. The camp that brought M.A. Cubed together.
2. The camp that brought M.A. Cubed together.
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My and me boyfriend were dogging on the A14, alright, when he decide to try punting from the Cambridge end, like they do in the Fens!
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