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Yeah, and you can treat them as adults while doing this. Its no different to divvying out tasks in the workplace. The point of university education is to learn and develop. If you know the material but don't feel comfortable contributing, then you have to draw it out of them and show them that it isn't so bad. You don't have to "hammer" them for this, but you do need to get them out of their comfort zone.

I dunno, I can see that argument, but if you don't 'encourage' them to take part, then they aren't going to learn anything, and they aren't going to improve.

I'm currently editing a thesis for a student, and I've just caught myself writing "be very specific" in response to an unsupported statement. Damn you P&B.

Thats what I do. I tend to make a wee note of who is speaking and who isn't and try to ensure that everyone contributes over the weeks. But perhaps I'm just an amazing tutor?

If you're tutor is letting the rest of your group away with all that, then they are seriously not doing their job properly!

Too many people shouting at once?

Its like a flock of sheep. A couple people tend to make the decision, and then everyone agrees and does the same thing, but thats not important right now.

While I don't believe that the BBC has an agenda specifically with their weather, when you combine it with the prejudice against Scottish based shows, their biased political coverage, their explicit statements that they don't need to be balanced When it comes to the referendum,and their blatant shutting down of Scottish, and only Scottish, political discussion, you can be forgiven for Wondering...

If you do uni while living at home, in my view you're missing out on one of the most important things about uni. Its different for older folk, but for a youngster like you, youll get far more out if uni if you move away!

Yuk yuk yuk yuk. Eww. I hate eating fat. Im almost neurotic about cutting rinds off my food and grilling things to remove fat. The texture is just bogging. Gies me the boak so it does.

I'm almost proud of him! Mon the lichtie!

Have you tried standing up? I gather it works better than standing down.

Good going! So what we can conclude is that repeat golf days don't work, pool days don't work, holidays together (thanks for that DB62!) don't work, but pub crawls are a guaranteed and repeat winner! Its the Arbroath way.

Well done to all the subcrawlers! What sort of numbers were there in the end? Larger than last time?

You know, the fact you appeared when the crawl was still ongoing suggests that you failed to stay the course!

Sounds like it should be a good one, can't wait for the post match analysis!

...is anyone left alive out there? You must be nearly round, surely?

Actually, blink is a commonly used term for "broken down". On the "brink" means that it is still working, but is teetering on the edge of failure. And now I feel dirty inside for invoking my internal grammer nazi.

Nah, its not my sort of thing. I'm not much of a drinker these days...plus I normally work really long hours at the moment, so my time off is for sleeping or going out with my actual friends who I don't see enough! I'll give it a miss thanks, you've got young L4L instead of me. I gather he lived within a couple miles of where I grew up.

You all go to the pool afterwards and swim 40 lengths to work the alcohol off?

I suspect L4L is waiting for someone to say "no wait, please, we need you to join us".

God I hate that one! Mentally, I autocorrect it to hesitate each time I hear it.

To be honest, are you absolutely sure you're thinking of the right poster here? I was interested in how it would go, and I recall suggesting that people should take a test run first and have a plan, but I don't recall at any point hoping it would go badly or sneering at it!

Yes. I seem to spend a lot of time reading Xbox threads.

I was glad it went well for you all, its always nice to see cynics like me proved wrong!