Oxford 2011 Freshers Chat Thread

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Reply 3920

deFossard

Original post by ChopinNocturne

Yep, St Anne's. Ahh yes Moody was great :biggrin:

Just nobody could compete with Pugh's buzzer speed (or his Girls Aloud knowledge...)

I was worried Paxo would penalise him for his stammer at one point, though.

Reply 3921

micky022

Katie Price? Is she capable of coherent speech that isn't PEEEEEEEEEEEETAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH or ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXX?

Reply 3922

deFossard

Original post by dbmag9

Yeah, I've read that, should be good. I'm hoping to get involved in the competitive side of debating too, although the amount of competition is a bit daunting. My dad nearly spoke in a debate on the two-state solution a year or two back. :p:

And just signed up! Ah, internet, you make spending £200 so easy.

Scary how it can do that. The members bar looks pretty good, too. I think that after buying somewhere between 150 and 200 pints there, at £1.50 each, I will have made the membership fee worth it.

Reply 3923

Mellete

Original post by deFossard

Scary how it can do that. The members bar looks pretty good, too. I think that after buying somewhere between 150 and 200 pints there, at £1.50 each, I will have made the membership fee worth it.

You're not going to speak for abolishing private schools, surely :eek:

Reply 3924

deFossard

Original post by Mellete

You're not going to speak for abolishing private schools, surely :eek:

I'd like to speak for their retention, despite my dislike of them.

Reply 3925

dbmag9

Original post by deFossard

Scary how it can do that. The members bar looks pretty good, too. I think that after buying somewhere between 150 and 200 pints there, at £1.50 each, I will have made the membership fee worth it.

Up for creating the "drink back your Union membership" society?

Reply 3926

deFossard

Original post by dbmag9

Up for creating the "drink back your Union membership" society?

I think so. Stuff debating. This'll make it worth it. We're saving nearly £2 per pint this way.

If you can pay with your Bod card then we don't even need to worry about how much it'll cost until the next term anyway.

Reply 3927

dbmag9

Original post by deFossard

IIf you can pay with your Bod card then we don't even need to worry about how much it'll cost until the next term anyway.

****, that could be even more dangerous than PayPal. :s-smilie:

Reply 3928

micky022

Original post by deFossard

The problem with kicking things into the long grass is that they inevitably come back, only now they're covered in mud.

Reply 3929

SamF1992

Original post by deFossard

I'd like to speak for their retention, despite my dislike of them.

Should be a very interesting debate that one.

Private schools should definitely, definitely be kept, even though I normally hate it when people use "penalising the rich for success etc etc" closing private schools would be the very definition of dragging the rich down in the name of equality.

Reply 3930

SamF1992

Original post by micky022

The problem with kicking things into the long grass is that they inevitably come back, only now they're covered in mud.

The idea of being able to charge everything to one card scares me :tongue:

Reply 3931

deFossard

Original post by micky022

The problem with kicking things into the long grass is that they inevitably come back, only now they're covered in mud.

Yeah but we don't have to worry about it until JANUARY! That's next year. Pretty much another decade.

Reply 3932

micky022

Original post by deFossard

Yeah but we don't have to worry about it until JANUARY! That's next year. Pretty much another decade.

Future Bankruptcy of the Year award goes to... :tongue:

Reply 3933

Incarnadine91

Original post by deFossard

Original post by dbmag9

****, that could be even more dangerous than PayPal. :s-smilie:

Original post by micky022

The problem with kicking things into the long grass is that they inevitably come back, only now they're covered in mud.

Bad news guys, as far as I know you can't do that at the Union. Most pay-with-bod-card schemes are run by individual colleges, and they're almost universally pay as you go. Sticking stuff on battels only really gets used for little things like printing and getting your post franked. Probably precisely for this reason :wink:

Also, £1.50 for a pint is pretty standard for most jcr bars - at Catz it's £1.19 for the cider. Hope that doesn't dampen your Union aspirations, it can be a really interesting place if you manage to avoid all the hacks. Somehow...

Reply 3934

Abstractineum

Original post by micky022

Original post by deFossard

Yeah but we don't have to worry about it until JANUARY! That's next year. Pretty much another decade.

Future Bankruptcy of the Year award goes to... :tongue:

I think you meant Future Prime Minister of Greece.

Reply 3935

The Anti-Hero

Original post by soutioirsim

Ha, I want ice cream!!

:sogood:

I love poker, I would love a casino night :colondollar:

Somebody really needs to hold regular poker nights...

Reply 3936

soutioirsim

Original post by The Anti-Hero

Somebody really needs to hold regular poker nights...

Just found this: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2378072534#!/group.php?gid=2378072534&v=wall

I couldn't find the poker society on the actual list but at least I know one exists now!

6pm every sunday at exeter college :smile: