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this is a photo from His Eton days, it's a pic of a drinking club, a sort of Junior skull and bones if you will.
number 2 is David Cameron, and number 8 Boris Johnson.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 06:54:04 PM EST
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Is this the club one of whose purposes is to trash restaurant dining halls?

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 06:56:03 PM EST
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Thats the one

I think the unnumbered one is Darius Guppy, but am not sure. It's not noted on the key, but I'd always been told hewas on this picture

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 06:57:55 PM EST
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That is an amazingly bad picture.  Jesus, it's every awful '80s pop video I've ever seen, all in one still.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:01:39 PM EST
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Only, not actually a pop video.

And they really do dress like that. Still.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:48:24 PM EST
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The outfits wouldn't be as bad if not for the hair styles.  The mullet alone should disqualify Cameron from ever entering 10 Downing St.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:57:43 PM EST
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Surely Oxford, no?

Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
by Ephemera on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 06:59:50 PM EST
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D'oh yes, post eton  what was I thinking, been reading too much onBoris today.

Cameron: from Eton drugs to Oxford excess - Telegraph

The Bullingdon Club, satirised by Evelyn Waugh as the Bollinger Club in Decline and Fall, is not the naughtiest club in Oxford. The Assassins is more eccentric, the Piers Gaveston more erotic and the Stoics more emetic.

But Buller is the most solidly, reassuringly, predictably, ritualistically naughty of the dining societies.

Over 150 years, it has evolved from a club devoted to the pleasures of hunting things and playing cricket, into a club devoted to breaking things and passing out and dinners that cost £100 a head and more.

Brasenose contemporaries say Mr Cameron was a fringe member of the sub-species Bullingdon Man.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:06:30 PM EST
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How can anyone with that in their CV be elected to public office? "I'm a spoiled yob."

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:11:49 PM EST
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simple, he's not the communist.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:15:18 PM EST
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Yeah, but I thought y'all were supposed to run shrieking with terror at the very mention of yobs?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:17:10 PM EST
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Maybe that's where Cameron's hoodie hugging comes from.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:18:54 PM EST
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Yobs are working-class. These thugs are upper-class.

Say what you like, but the English still know what goes in what drawer.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri May 2nd, 2008 at 02:09:39 AM EST
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WHy is Boris the only one with trousers a couple sizes too small?

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:00:15 PM EST
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I can just see his stuttering response to that question.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 07:35:57 PM EST
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