As I've said before in conversation with Rik and @maria_ndrnh [at least those 2!] bluebricks are the worst. The more prestige the more BS.
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Replying to @o_guest @blahah404 and
you have the coolest slang but I'm not very hip :). bluebricks?
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Replying to @ctitusbrown @blahah404 and
Here's a Limerick on the blue bricks: https://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=blue%20brick%20university …
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
And a wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_university …
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
It's meant to be a way of segregating UK unis into blue and red bricks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_brick_university …
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
It's now customary to refer to Ox & Cam (and others!) as blue and Russel group as red, so both carry prestige — but obv the blues more so.
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Replying to @o_guest @blahah404 and
ahh kind of "ivy league" but with a few extra hundred years added on :)
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Replying to @ctitusbrown @blahah404 and
Kind of but probably with way more implicit (and explicit) classism as we're doing it British stylie.
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
After "Red Brick" universities we got "Plate Glass": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_glass_university …
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I went to York, the example in the image. Haha. I guess I have been to all three UK types mentioned so far.
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