Durham General Chat Thread

I hate pretending to work - here I am 3 and a half weeks into the vacation and all I've done is typed up some notes from 4 lectures! I spent today just staring into space....well actually out of the window....instead of working, grrr! :frown:

And I've seen the Mr Bean movie, I actually went to the cinema to see it - the choice was that or 300, I chose Mr Bean, lol. It's funny in bits but mostly pretty crap because many of the jokes revolve around people OTHER than Mr Bean. Also, the plotline can get REALLY confusing at bits, seriously it's like following Donnie Darko or something! :biggrin:

Reply 5922

goldenbarnes

11

300 is awful. But I'd still recommend people to go and see it. It's a good......spectacle, but a terrible terrible film. If ya gets me.

P.S. Agbonlawhatsit - my last article is now officially the hottest on d21. And it wasn't even one of my best. I want a pay rise. Also, Tom's wanged in a new article but I won't be able to get to Durham till sometime early next week..... any chance I could stumble upon a backup copy of fireworks and dreamweaver? For the summer and all that jazz. I could email you this of course, but.... I don't want to.

Oooooh and I was thinking we should create a wikipedia entry for durham21. The Warwick Boar thing has one. Maybe link to it from the durham university main page (on wikipedia). I'll do it if you want, but I'd understand you not trusting me with it. Actually, doesn't TSR have a wiki? I'm full of ideas today. Double pay rise.

Edit: just took it upon myself to do the TSR wiki thing. Triple pay rise.

Reply 5923

paddy

14

Crap, I was really hoping 300 would be good. Better than Troy at any rate :mad:

Reply 5924

Itchynscratchy

10

Speaking of terrible films, Sunshine is pretty bad.

Perhaps it is quite entertaining if you are not a sciencey person, but I was just sat there squirming at all the nonsensicle plot holes.

Reply 5925

Agbonlaheto

goldenbarnes

300 is awful. But I'd still recommend people to go and see it. It's a good......spectacle, but a terrible terrible film. If ya gets me.

P.S. Agbonlawhatsit - my last article is now officially the hottest on d21. And it wasn't even one of my best. I want a pay rise. Also, Tom's wanged in a new article but I won't be able to get to Durham till sometime early next week..... any chance I could stumble upon a backup copy of fireworks and dreamweaver? For the summer and all that jazz. I could email you this of course, but.... I don't want to.

Oooooh and I was thinking we should create a wikipedia entry for durham21. The Warwick Boar thing has one. Maybe link to it from the durham university main page (on wikipedia). I'll do it if you want, but I'd understand you not trusting me with it. Actually, doesn't TSR have a wiki? I'm full of ideas today. Double pay rise.

Edit: just took it upon myself to do the TSR wiki thing. Triple pay rise.

goldenbarnes, I think you deserve the triple wage-rise. Your new paypacket is all of £0. I'll put a cheque in the post.

I'll email you bout the rest of it because....I want to.

Reply 5926

The Guru was probably the worst film ever, because it wasn't bad enough to be really entertaining (unlike Jeepers Creepers 2, which was laugh-a-minute).

Reading notes isn't REALLY pretending to work, because it's pretty much revision. Me, I've done nothing. Nil. Nada. I somehow managed to get a boring job just for the last week of the holidays but today I went shopping and somehow spent half of what I'll be earning. I don't even like shopping :frown:

Reply 5927

paddy

14

I love crappy horror movies! I´m just dumb enough to be scared by them;yes;

Reply 5928

Agbonlaheto

I think you'll find that there is a three-way tie for the worst film ever:

American Dreamz
Hostel
White Man's Burden

Complete and utter ****e

Reply 5929

My boyfriend really wants me to watch Hostel with him just because it's so horrible. He's like, "it's disgusting, heurgh heurgh heurgh" - he's a rugby player, so senseless violence appeals to him.

By the way, he doesn't *actually* laugh like that.

Reply 5930

Jelkin

Reading notes isn't REALLY pretending to work, because it's pretty much revision. Me, I've done nothing. Nil. Nada. I somehow managed to get a boring job just for the last week of the holidays but today I went shopping and somehow spent half of what I'll be earning. I don't even like shopping :frown:

Oh trust me it IS pretending to work because reading those notes are not going to help me at all - every year my exam feedback has been "relies too much on lecture material" and have been warned that I will get a lot less marks this year if I just do lecture stuff - which so far is all I've done.

Plus you're doing other stuff, instead of working, I'm just watching 24 and Scrubs. Yes, since the start of the Easter vacation I have watched series 4 and 5 of 24, and series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and all I can find of 6 of scrubs. Bugger :rolleyes:

Reply 5931

I seem to spend most of my days on the internet. Now THAT'S depressing.

It's all about Spaced :biggrin:

Reply 5932

goldenbarnes

11

Jelkin

I seem to spend most of my days on the internet. Now THAT'S depressing.

It's all about Spaced :biggrin:

Any excuse for a quote

Brian: Do you think I should maybe.......lose the waistcoat?

Tim: I think you should burn it. Cos.....if you lose it you might..... find it again.

Brilliant. Best comedy programme ever. FACT

Reply 5933

socialist cook

8

durhamdosser

Hooray for Tom! When are you in Durham til? I'm coming back on the 16th... Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease be around then. Please please please.

Hi Kathryn, I'm back in Plymouth now. I was only in Durham from Monday til today so I'm so sorry. :frown:

Tom's in the town, so he's quite important! Last summer he was working down the drift mine and I honestly don't know how he did it with all that stooping(he's the same height as me, so 5'11").... and it's at its lowest point 4'6" (the ideal height for pit ponies that's why)so as I said if you find yourself Beamish way you could do a Where's Wally style challenge and find Tom. (He's not hard to miss as you know. :wink:

)

Incidentally I went to Beamish for the first time ever yesterday and it was brilliant! You really do need to go back more than once though because the actual site is massive!! (and Kathryn WE need to go to the Black Country Living Museum as well).

dobbs

Though I have been to Beamish numerous other times, I love the trams!

The trams are brilliant. :biggrin:

Reply 5934

However the mines are really disappointing.

This does, however, come after the whole Year 3 thing where my friends came back and drew pictures of going down some massive mine underground. That was the thing I was annoyed at most - missing going down the mine!!

I then went with my family in probably around Year 8 and made it my mission to go to the mine. I went, it was crap. lol :rolleyes:

The trams are still the best! :biggrin:

Reply 5935

pikaboo

13

Health and safety is such a big issue that it saps all the fun out of the mines!

My boyfriend is evil because he's got me addicted to Scrubs AND Family Guy right at the busiest time of the year. Hmph.

Reading lecture notes is underrated...you can't understand all those academic papers and extra reading unless you get to grips with the basics first - or at least that's what I'm telling myself!

Reply 5936

goldenbarnes

Any excuse for a quote

Brian: Do you think I should maybe.......lose the waistcoat?

Tim: I think you should burn it. Cos.....if you lose it you might..... find it again.

Brilliant. Best comedy programme ever. FACT

I knew there was a reason I liked you. Besides all the obvious.

Daisy (thinking): It's times like this I wish I were telepathic. Don't you, Tim?
*looks at Tim, who doesn't move*
Daisy (thinking): Damn.

I am incredibly happy. I just booked tickets for a festival in Belgium that has the best line-up, ever, and is cheaper than Reading or Glastonbury, and just after I booked tickets I noticed the line-up has been updated and now RUFUS WAINWRIGHT is playing. I love him.

This summer is going to be so expensive but so worth it.

Reply 5937

hanadeka2002

I did lots of work today.Yay.

I can't sleep now though.Boo.

Reply 5938

Piggsil

16

dobbs

Oh trust me it IS pretending to work because reading those notes are not going to help me at all - every year my exam feedback has been "relies too much on lecture material" and have been warned that I will get a lot less marks this year if I just do lecture stuff - which so far is all I've done.

Plus you're doing other stuff, instead of working, I'm just watching 24 and Scrubs. Yes, since the start of the Easter vacation I have watched series 4 and 5 of 24, and series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and all I can find of 6 of scrubs. Bugger :rolleyes:

You get exam feedback? How?

Reply 5939