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  1. Conceding 6 at home is embarrassing.
  2. Shop at aldi. I managed to spend £20 there last week for a fairly decent week's shopping. They do wonderful deals including quite big pizzas for 99p.
  3. Right that works well then. If all else fails I'll just get everyone in my flat to chip in for a mini fridge for all our alcoholic beverages.
  4. If I put several bottles of Magners/Bulmers/etc in a freezer, will they explode on me or will they stay delightfully cold? I have heard different answers from different people.
  5. Elvis Presley - The Wonder of You
  6. Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas [MTV Unplugged Version] It's irrelevant if her first album was shite overall, there were a couple of very likeable songs on the album and she released an unplugged album with a few of those songs on it. It's great, the songs are much better on the unplugged album than on the "normal" album. Next up:- Katy Perry - Thinking of You [MTV Unplugged Version] Cracking version of this song. Is that some subtle strings I here? Oh yes it is.
  7. Hmm that's what I thought. Although I don't need to actually study for Geography as I'm only in it until Christmas, so I'll just treat it as an opportunity to gain some additional knowledge without needing to work particularly hard. I'm going to use the Pegasus thing tomorrow to e-mail the adviser for the Business school faculty to find out if I can sign up for tutorials before Tuesday. ie - by e-mail. I can only hope.
  8. I finally registered today and I got my timetable yesterday. Apparently I can't sort out any HMR tutorials until next Tuesday after my first lecture I have to do 4 subjects for Semester 1 so I opted for Geography in addition to History, Politics and HMR. So far I have a whole Wednesday free but I'm sure that will change after next Tuesday. I start every other day at 10am. All is good in the first year hood.
  9. I might have some interest in playing 5s or 7s in Glasgow (depending on where about it is played). If that is alright with the people who organise it though.
  10. Thank you sir. That's a potential away trip to Dunfermline almost sorted then.
  11. I too have that problem sometimes Forehead7. I'll go months without a nosebleed and then one day I'll get hit by one out of the blue, but they are long lasting ones and it is hellish. Last year I was in the bathroom with my head over the sink for almost 90 minutes before the bleeding stopped, the day after it happened again (only 45 minutes that time though ) and then a couple of days after that another long nosebleed. Nasty stuff. Haven't had one in several months though so touch wood. Haven't been to the doctors about it though, I should probably go if it happens again. My quick question is, if I buy a day-return ticket on a train, does it mean that I can leave any time that day and return anytime that day?
  12. I might have a look at "Deception Point" some time in the future then. I'll probably stay away from "The Lost Symbol".
  13. As I've been sitting on my arse since the summer holidays ended waiting patiently to go to uni, I've stormed through a few books. Most recently: Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Tremendous read, I can't get enough of his books. Personally I found this to be as good as "Slaughterhouse 5" which was an exceptional book. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Very good read. Kept me engrossed enough to read it in a day. God Bless You, Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Took me a couple of chapters to get into it but I enjoyed reading it. Only got "Cat's Cradle" to read before I need to find some other Vonnegut books. So far I've read the three mentioned above, plus "Slaughterhouse 5", "Armageddon in Retrospect" and "Breakfast of Champions". One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Extremely interesting. Obviously some parts needed a few reads over to get the drift of what is being written due to the translation. I've got a list of books to read though before I bother looking at anymore: "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson "Crime & Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh "A Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's nest" by Ken Kesey "Tender Is The Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerlad "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy A few non-fiction as well, although I'm not going to press on with these, my main aim is to read Speer's book and Brown's book: "Inside The Third Reich" by Albert Speer "The Rise & Fall of Communism" by Archie Brown "The Candy Machine" by Tom Feiling "The State & Revolution" by Vladimir Lenin "Until The Final Hour" by Traudl Junge "Lenin, Stalin and Hitler" by Robert Gellately A number of books but I can usually read a book fully within a week, sometimes two a week depending on the size of the book. I may re-read both the LoTR books and The Silmarillion though as I read both of those in Primary 7 and I don't think I grasped the full content of Tolkein's work. Edited to add:- I enjoyed Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code", "Angels and Demons" and "Digital Fortress". Can anyone recommend "Deception Point" and "The Lost Symbol" or should I stay away from them?
  14. Thanks for the advice Gingapar, Spiders For Life and VikingTON. Sociology looks shit, I will not do that. I'm looking at doing either Economics or Human Resource Managment as apparently I could do those. I think this Findlay you speak of was there doing the lecture about History on an open day last year. He reminded me of a slightly drunk man rambling on about something he wasn't entirely sure of. In my book that made him a hero. I've heard great stories about these 12 hour Tuesdays. I hope to embrace them lovingly.
  15. What can I expect from History & Politics at Strathclyde? Other than an easier time than those doing "sciencey" things. I'm quite looking forward to this uni thing. Quite lucky that I know at least one other person doing the same course as me and that virtually everyone from my school is ending up in the Glasgow area. Although I can't register until Wednesday 22nd so that is quite annoying. What does an interview with an Adviser of Studies constitute? Will I be receving high praise and/or a cash prize, or will they say "Young sir, you only got in here on a conditional, we're watching your every academic movement"? Another question. Probably the most idiotic question I will ask on this thread. What are my chances of going through Fresher's Week without being ID'd at whichever place in the union I decide to quench my thirst?
  16. After failing to find this thread I have now found it thanks to the kind help of Ad Lib and Accies1. Both showed me up as a lazy tit. Anyone starting History and Politics at Strathclyde this year? Anyone in the James Young Halls at Strathclyde?
  17. The Editors - Push Your Head Towards The Air
  18. Paul Weller & Graham Coxon - This Old Town
  19. Was it on C4 a couple of years ago? Won a few BAFTAs? If so it was called Boy A. And it was tremendous.
  20. I had my Advanced Higher History exam today. I had to hold in a piss for 3 and a half hours whilst in the most unimaginable pain I have ever had the misfortune to suffer. I was close to tears.
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