 Poster: A snowHead
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According to today's T2 section of the Times people who leave private education to go into the state sector lose friends who have the "pony owning, ski-holidays" lifestyle.
Now, I'd like to have done this as a poll, but being state educated myself couldn't work out how to do it.
I'll admit to two of the above. Anybody got all three?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No ponies, state education.
Most of my friends from work & uni are state-educated as well - quite surprising, really.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Jackpot! Yeah I had ponies and private school- it was to stop me getting pregnant and addicted to crack with the local chav kids at the comp down the road. Having said that our school ski trips were to Meribel and Serre Che- theirs was to bloomin Whistler!
And before you all have a go- I know there are very nice state schools etc etc however- not in Reading
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I'm trying to think of a Pony Blair joke. No luck so far.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Chris Bish, there are actually four attributes mentioned in this article : the families were "Range-Rover driving, pony-keeping, skiing-holiday(ing)" as well as privately educating their children.
I admit to Private Education and Skiing Holidays.
Those with all four must have won the lottery! 
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Chris Bish, I'm a "none of the above".... could I possibly be the only one?
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PG, don't you go on the odd skiing holiday?
Or is life one big long skiing holiday for you these days? (just jealous  )
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David, pony Blair, I can't think of a joke at the moment, but didn't Caligula make his horse a senator in Rome?
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Jonpim,
No, I'm just the taxi driver... apparently I haven't even found the ladder yet before I can even think about climbing onto the first rung 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Looking at the size of the ex-missus, I think I married one
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Masque, Rover or pony?
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gettimg hard to tell, but I've not noticed any wheels or an abillity to travel at more than waking pace . . . nope that still doesn't mean there's a difference!
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You know it makes sense.
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Pony, range rover, ski holidays. State education and didn't go to university either. Only once have I been refused a job on the grounds of "I realise you are more than capable, but you don't have a degree". 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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No pony, Range Rover, and no private education.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Ditto. But we were 'appy then, although we were poor
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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All 3.
My children only get the skiing.
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it was to stop me getting pregnant and addicted to crack with the local chav kids at the comp down the road
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I too enjoyed the absolute freedom to roam wherever I wished on said pony; and of course you do meet a better class of ruffian among the horsy classes ...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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of course you do meet a better class of ruffian among the horsy classes ...
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Went to a children's race camp (training week followed by national races) a couple of times in Austria with a British race club. Not sure who were the biggest ruffians - the children themselves, or the parents! (I'm sure I was the only one there without either pony or Range Rover back home....)
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State education (was down for Haileybury but threatened to run away).
Have a few mates who went private, they are all "slightly strange".
No pony but had great fun riding other peoples, kids keep talking ponies, I keep saying "not in my lifetime".
Never went skiing until I'd left school.
Mercedes 320 now but looking at a Landcruiser.
Don't know where that puts me and don't really care. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Never been privately educated, never driven a range rover, never ridden a pony, never been on a ski holiday.
Okay, so I lied about one of them
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Damn, but I'm close.
Learned to drive in a series one Landy. Have eaten a horse (well part of one). I ski (though it's debateable). My son goes to a pre-school nursery.
I AM new labour.
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Marc. If you're New Labour you probably won't appreciate my Pony Blair joke, which I'm still working on.
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Nadenoodlee, How exactly does riding a horse prevent pregnancy? Does it have to be 24/7 as they say?
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marc gledhill, A series 1 Landy? Luxury! You could fit several of my 1970 Fiat 600s (car not bike) into your classmobile! grumble.... New Labour armchair liberals .... grumble..... mutter.....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Learned to drive in a series one Landy
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me too. the one with the petrol tank under the driver's seat? caused no end of amusement in petrol stations 
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Now, i went to a private school, but was refused a place on the school ski trip on the grounds that they didnt know i f i would be able to behave myself!!?? 
Was so upset, never truly recovered, scarred for life, hate all skiiers... Oh no, i remember, i got over it once i went to uni and joined thier ski club. They let me in no problem!!
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You know it makes sense.
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poma, that's the one  .My Dad got ours from a bloke who used to "rally" them so it had certain modifications to the body, although the engine was a 1600. It also had the steering wheel off a bus, which gave a two inch gap between the wheel and the seat, so you had to drive slightly bow legged.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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marc gledhill,
not me, I had to sit on a cushion just to see out!
did you have manual windscreen wipers? - you had to have a willing companion to wiggle the little handle from side to side (both at the same time was tricky, a bit like patting you head and rubbing your tummy simultaneously), or not go out in the rain (which, where we lived, would have meant not going out, full stop.)
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Poster: A snowHead
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I'm keeping quiet
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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poma, oh yes, but the motor inside worked too on the drivers side.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Well Chris Bish, obviously a pony alone cannot prevent pregnancy- otherwise the government would be handing them out with the giro
Pony, private school, ski trips = less free time= less time to hang around "dahhn the precinct" and thus less chance of getting pregnant etc
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I seem to only have the one vice. Although I have ridden horses and ponies in the past; my first lesson was agony because I mistakenly believed that you needed to continuously squeeze the creature between your legs in order to make it move...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ian Hopkinson, I always thought it moved by itself.
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PG, I know that now! Actually the biggest problems I had since my first lesson were getting them to stop moving and moving in the right direction...
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I've attended state/private/state education, always gone on skiing holyday, I once owned a third hand 7 yo Jeep Cherokee (now defunct)...I bleed a lot of my income
to send my children to a private school...
Can I please,please, please join the club?
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MY chief joke writer, who is known and loved by us all, has just suggested to me that the relationship of Pony Blair to his Texan rider is akin to donkey rides on Blackpool Beach, though in their minds it's more of a rodeo experience.
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Ian Hopkinson, Them? I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing at all....... I could only ever manage one at a time, myself.
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Nadenoodlee, I'm disappointed. I thought we had discovered the contraceptive properties of horses.
There again, they are a bit big to keep in your wallet....
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