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| 07:22.02 | hali | morning |
| 07:22.06 | hali | ffs, kids day in the office |
| 07:29.47 | bilarh | *gasp* |
| 07:29.51 | bilarh | gets hugely offended |
| 07:30.21 | bilarh | the unmentionable speaks :P |
| 07:37.54 | bilarh | wohoo, 3 hours 23 minutes to pub :D |
| 07:48.01 | hali | nice |
| 07:48.11 | hali | i have four bottles of vodka next to my desk |
| 07:48.16 | hali | just to help me get through kids day |
| 07:48.32 | bilarh | may i recommend some unconsciousness? |
| 07:49.04 | hali | thanks that sounds like a plan |
| 07:50.35 | bilarh | np, i'll send a bill for my life coach services :) |
| 08:00.37 | hali | i'll buy you a pint of london pride |
| 08:00.56 | bilarh | cool, sounds fair |
| 08:01.15 | bilarh | or that horrible pukeadil or whatever it was called |
| 08:01.35 | bilarh | hurlardier or soemthing |
| 08:04.38 | AndyMillar | hmm |
| 08:04.48 | AndyMillar | I live just down the road from that debian party location |
| 08:13.25 | antiphase | I wouldn't be proud of London Pride if i made it. It's dishwater |
| 08:14.13 | hali | http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phi/1755781713.html fairly sfw |
| 08:14.14 | bilarh | quite likes dishwater |
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| 08:27.20 | bilarh | oh, hi! |
| 08:28.03 | dick_turpin | bilarh: Hi I'm early for a reason |
| 08:28.11 | bilarh | you got fired? |
| 08:29.44 | dick_turpin | Anyone know anything about Essex University? Monique has been offered a place there but TBH its 2nd choice she lost her place at Wolverhampton uni but I have to drive her to Lancaster University for an interview tomorrow |
| 08:30.13 | bilarh | essex :S |
| 08:30.15 | dick_turpin | Just trying to get as much info for her as possible |
| 08:30.15 | antiphase | cpufreak went there I think |
| 08:30.39 | dick_turpin | Been up most of the night, its awful at home :'( |
| 08:30.56 | bilarh | dick_turpin: why's that then? |
| 08:31.07 | antiphase | I bet you've lost some sleep after upsetting that poor woman the other day with your dreadful judgement of modern society |
| 08:32.04 | dick_turpin | Wife dosen't want her to move away, boyfriend, sister. The only firm offer is Essex and the silly cow never accepted so she is desperately trying to ring this morning |
| 08:32.18 | bilarh | oh ffs, tell your wife to get a grip |
| 08:32.22 | bilarh | seriously |
| 08:32.34 | bilarh | i went to uni close enough to live at home |
| 08:32.37 | bilarh | and it *totally* fucking sucked |
| 08:32.55 | bilarh | my mum tried to make my brother do the same, but luckily i convinced him to move far enough away |
| 08:33.02 | bilarh | he's starting this year too |
| 08:33.13 | antiphase | Going to university near your parents would suck ass |
| 08:33.13 | bilarh | the reason it sucked for me was that i lived like an hour away |
| 08:33.28 | bilarh | so i wasn't allowed to get a student flat because they all went to people further away |
| 08:33.29 | antiphase | They'd come visiting all the time and find you pissed or hungover |
| 08:33.40 | bilarh | and, i couldn't stay at parties because i had to get the last bus home etc |
| 08:33.57 | bilarh | so i never really felt like i got on with the whole uni lifestyle as such |
| 08:34.24 | bilarh | plus it sucked balls getting up at 5:30 to get to class at 8, and then get home at 7pm after having had lectures up to 6pm |
| 08:34.34 | bilarh | get her to move the fuck out, it's better for her in the long run |
| 08:34.39 | bilarh | well, it would have been for *me* at least |
| 08:34.50 | bilarh | i only lasted half a year in the end, because it sucked so hard |
| 08:35.04 | bilarh | i'm not going to blame just the fact that i was't living locally, but it played a huge part at least |
| 08:35.41 | antiphase | If it's a campus university, you'd miss out on pretty much the entire social stuff if you didn't live on-campus for the first year |
| 08:35.44 | dick_turpin | News update |
| 08:35.53 | bilarh | antiphase: exactly |
| 08:35.56 | antiphase | It would just be like being at school, and subsequently suck the boaby |
| 08:36.06 | dick_turpin | She has phoned Essex and accepted phew |
| 08:36.14 | bilarh | dick_turpin: yay! :D :D |
| 08:36.24 | dick_turpin | We now need to get her to pass the interview at Lancaster |
| 08:36.26 | antiphase | Better fork over some dough for miniskirts and white stilletoes |
| 08:36.37 | bilarh | and get her an escort |
| 08:36.40 | bilarh | the car i mean |
| 08:36.47 | antiphase | With neons and spinners |
| 08:37.06 | bilarh | mmm, spinners :D |
| 08:37.10 | bilarh | i haven't seen any for a while now |
| 08:37.41 | dick_turpin | Thats it I've never been so insulted or abused "Where did I put that complaints department email address?" |
| 08:38.05 | bilarh | dick_turpin: let me know if she needs any "coaching" when she gets down here ;) |
| 08:38.27 | dick_turpin | ford cortina mkii |
| 08:41.04 | bilarh | i doubt a student cold afford one of them nowadays :-\ |
| 08:41.04 | antiphase | Orion |
| 08:41.04 | bilarh | i'd quite fancy a cortina myself, but the prices are jaw-dropping for anything that ins't a pile of rust |
| 08:41.05 | bilarh | antiphase: the horror :-O |
| 08:41.05 | antiphase | My old man had a brown Mk.3 for a while when I was little |
| 08:41.05 | antiphase | Cortina that is |
| 08:41.05 | antiphase | 1970s shitheaps |
| 08:41.05 | dick_turpin | I had a white Lotus Cortina with the go fast green stripe |
| 08:41.06 | antiphase | I can't remember the last time I actually saw a surviving one except on telly |
| 08:43.11 | bilarh | dick_turpin: no way a lotus cortina you bastard |
| 08:45.05 | dick_turpin | Yeah it was my uncles, he had (Wait for it) TR6, Spitfire, Austin healey frog eye, and a soft top Triumph herald which actually was a really nice car |
| 08:45.39 | antiphase | I'd flog them all and buy something decent |
| 08:46.44 | bilarh | i never really liked the triumphs, but a cortina i'd have any day of the week |
| 08:48.44 | dick_turpin | I also owned a dum dum da Morris Marina TC ooohhh |
| 08:49.37 | bilarh | sweet :) |
| 08:49.42 | hali | ah, good old beyerdynamics dt-100 headphones... perfect for kids day |
| 08:49.51 | bilarh | did it look like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Austin-Morris_Marina_Motor_caravan_at_Battlesbridge.JPG/250px-Austin-Morris_Marina_Motor_caravan_at_Battlesbridge.JPG |
| 08:50.42 | dick_turpin | Had a major car crash in 1980 with that in High Wycombe smashed myself to buggery bollox so bad they was going to cut what was left of my right foot off |
| 08:51.22 | bilarh | ouch |
| 08:51.27 | bilarh | not a 5star ncap rating then? |
| 08:52.43 | dick_turpin | You know these Universities are crap really, Wolverhampton after snatching her teaching course away from her have just offered her a Computer Studies course? But she isn't doing computer studies? |
| 08:52.59 | bilarh | hehe |
| 08:53.25 | wethrin | heh |
| 08:53.34 | dick_turpin | Do they only care about getting the students then regardless of what course they want or need? |
| 08:54.11 | bilarh | yeah she's just a number to them |
| 08:55.34 | dick_turpin | So I suppose she'll get offers of plumbing, social care and catering throughout the day? Nice |
| 09:01.59 | wethrin | Yes, they need to fill up courses |
| 09:02.00 | dick_turpin | Right thanks people be back later |
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| 09:02.07 | wethrin | otherwise they don't get all the funding they're eligible for |
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| 09:35.42 | bilarh | has one assignment left and one exam |
| 09:35.46 | bilarh | and then i'll have a bsc :) |
| 09:36.19 | bilarh | i'm thinking of doing a phd in something |
| 09:37.21 | bilarh | i'd be really interested in doing a philosophy diploma, though, but i doubt i can get time off work for that |
| 09:37.25 | hali | so you can say you are bette than that selfproclaimed ex-chav who was here yesterday? :) |
| 09:37.30 | hali | better* |
| 09:37.40 | bilarh | nah |
| 09:37.57 | bilarh | i did the bsc because my mum kept pressurising me |
| 09:38.04 | bilarh | the phd i'd actually *want* to do |
| 09:39.39 | hali | hm, kids day in the office is not too bad |
| 09:39.52 | hali | apperently is 25% teen day }:-) |
| 09:40.14 | bilarh | calls the police and the RSPCC |
| 09:41.20 | hali | well, they are looking at a-level papers so im assuming they are legal |
| 09:41.34 | hali | hm, the type of a-level papers you get from a school |
| 09:41.38 | hali | not the punternet ones |
| 09:44.46 | wethrin | bilarh: NSPCC? |
| 09:45.23 | bilarh | wethrin: you're just picking on me because you think you're better than me because you have a phd :( |
| 09:46.06 | wethrin | bilarh: Well, I am |
| 09:46.08 | wethrin | So nyerr |
| 09:46.17 | bilarh | hehe :P |
| 09:47.06 | bilarh | i wonder if i should do an mres instead |
| 09:48.20 | bilarh | wethrin: you're a bit of an academic, what would you do? |
| 09:48.26 | wethrin | A PhD :-) |
| 09:48.29 | bilarh | considering the following: |
| 09:48.37 | wethrin | Prod me later on today |
| 09:48.42 | bilarh | ok :) |
| 09:48.42 | wethrin | has to head off to a funeral now |
| 09:48.59 | bilarh | ah, ok :( |
