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Ghost Dog

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11. Very well put!

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 05:00 AM

Sep 2019

Only the poor need to study and to work hard to win scholarships to enter and leave with honours and all the right crony connections the elite UK school and 'varsity' system which produces and provides so many top Tory politicians and other 'leaders of society'.

'Swot' might be formally synonymous with 'studious', with 'nerdy' connotations, but the term is also contaminated, as is everything British, by the UK's persisting, unmerited, artificially sustained, socially-unjust class system.

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Boris Johnson calls David Cameron 'girly swot' in leaked note [View all] CottonBear Sep 2019 OP

What is a girly swot? dewsgirl Sep 2019 #1

Cambridge Dictionary: fleur-de-lisa Sep 2019 #2

Thank you. Odd that, this is an insult. dewsgirl Sep 2019 #3

IKR. How is that an insult? fleur-de-lisa Sep 2019 #7

Me too. dewsgirl Sep 2019 #8

I think its like saying boring pansy bookworm. honest.abe Sep 2019 #13

I've heard "swot" on its own geardaddy Sep 2019 #6

I've known that Boris "Ya doesn't have to call me" Johnson abqtommy Sep 2019 #4

What does that mean in American English? doc03 Sep 2019 #5

'Girly' means 'girly man'; 'sissy' LeftishBrit Sep 2019 #9

I'm as bothered by the sneering at academic effort ('swot') as the sexism LeftishBrit Sep 2019 #10

Very well put! Ghost Dog Sep 2019 #11

This is the "we are entitled to make no effort" attitude - about parliament meeting muriel_volestrangler Sep 2019 #12