Thank you

[woolymonkey]

The proletariat were the ones who ran the country and the bourgeoisie were the ones merely raping it for all it was worth to them. All it needed was for someone to point this out.

From a student essay on Engels and the industrial revolution.


The classes of society fell into three main constitutes. The first being the head of everything (the country, the army, the church etc.) who was the Queen, an Empress who was prolific in parenthood and in enjoying her own life, but who fell in to a deep reclusive depression in the 1860s [… ] The second being those with money and power, the mill and factory owners, the parliamentarians, the aristocrats with inherited wealth; all the people who either through luck, birth or invention bought themselves to a place of austerity.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, dear....

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Quite.

[dbalthasar.livejournal.com]

Heh. Reminds me of a student who told me that Bastille Day was "the day the peasants overtook the Bastille at Versailles."

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

They chased it as far as Versailles before they could catch up and overtake.

[dbalthasar.livejournal.com]

All I could think of was a mob of pitchfork-waving peasants straight out of Monty Python, chasing the Bastille as it went galumphing up the road....

It did make grading midterms a lot more memorable than usual, though!

[penknife.livejournal.com]

All it needed was for someone to point this out.

Who knew it was that simple?

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

That's my favourite line too.

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee hee hee.

From a student essay a long time ago:

"One of the causes of World War I was that for many years the French kept the Holy Roman Emperor's lower passage plugged."

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Many many years! But something like was bound to cause trouble in the end.

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

I can see why the Holy Roman Emperor was upset!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oy, but that's lovely. Thank you for sharing.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

I am remarkably tempted to write something similar in my next social psychology assignment. The sad thing is that if I dress the language up enough I might even get away with it.

*despair*

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Would it cheer you up to hear she failed? Just this assignment, not the coursework as a whole. Though I feel the exam cannot go well...

The Working-Class were finally in the nineteenth century beginning to be seen as more than members of the lowest epsilon of society. (Yup. Same student.)

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

the lowest epsilon of society

*cries with laughter*

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Blakes 7 thought they were scraping the social barrel when they got to delta grades.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

*borrows your shoulder to cry on*

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

...well, at least you know she didn't plagarize?

[dharma-slut.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! We'll be seeing said student in fandom quite soon...

[lj_stowaway]

Oh my.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

[djarum99.livejournal.com]

No austerity for me, thank you, I believe I'll move on to the crullers.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

You're just saying that because you can't afford to buy yourself a place of austerity.

[djarum99.livejournal.com]

Ah, this is true; I assume I belong to that third constitute. Or perhaps I've fallen in to that deep well of depression to join the Empress. Does that represent an elevation in status by default, even though I'm not quite so prolific in parenthood?