Durham General Chat Thread

LastGrape

Durham University

Durham

Reply 7341

Maybe if Becca was a lesbian she would be attracted to Denise Richards? :wink:

(Ahh that's a bit of a blast from the past!)

Reply 7342

LastGrape

Awesomeness! :biggrin:

Reply 7343

Just showed my mum the "Lol Cats", and she said: "It's all in German or something isn't it?! :confused:

Reply 7344

loggins

Just showed my mum the "Lol Cats", and she said: "It's all in German or something isn't it?! :confused:

"

:Rofl:

Bless her <3

How are you today bro?

Reply 7345

Tufts

Bless her <3

How are you today bro?

I'm good thanks, very busy at the minute though, got the Great North Run tomorrow and that interview is on Monday. You alright?

Reply 7346

loggins

Just showed my mum the "Lol Cats", and she said: "It's all in German or something isn't it?! :confused:

I just showed it to my mum too! She loved it. The "I made you a cookie but I eated it" one was her favourite. :biggrin:

Reply 7347

LastGrape

loggins

I'm good thanks, very busy at the minute though, got the Great North Run tomorrow and that interview is on Monday. You alright?

You runiing loggins?

I'm in durham, wahooo!!!! :biggrin:

But downstairs in Refounders House computer room :frown:

and having to use IE with only one IE window (no tabs or any other program) :mad:

My attempts to get round have had poor results so far, but I hope to get sorted very soon rather than wait till my login on wednesday. :rolleyes:

Reply 7348

http://thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=464775

I have just written a rant about the X-Factor!

Please be reading it :biggrin:

Reply 7349

I agree with your rant 100% apart from the fact you include Strictly Come Dancing in the same category. I explain my feelings further in the actual thread. :biggrin:

Reply 7350

socialist cook

Why didn't I realise that buying so many books in the first and second years would mean that I ended up with a library?

I think I'm going to try and see if there are any eager freshers who would like to own some cheap course books when I finally get to Durham. (That'll be tomorrow, and Tuesday for college.)

Reply 7351

socialist cook

lol so true.

Reply 7352

LastGrape

anyone done computer science and what to give your first year books to me?
otherwise I'll need to go out and buy the two that I should 'hace access to' some time.

Reply 7353

loggins

I'm good thanks, very busy at the minute though, got the Great North Run tomorrow and that interview is on Monday. You alright?

I didn't know you were doing the Great North Run!!

I also did it today, and am in a surprisingly small amount of pain compared to the last time I did it! :biggrin:

Though the blisters on my feet beg to differ.... :frown:

But the good news is that I blasted my last time by 7 minutes with a time of 1 hour, 39 minutes and 39 seconds!!!! Am incredibly happy! :biggrin:

If anyone fancies sponsoring me (hehe) head over to www.justgiving.com/kevin-dobson - I ran for Traidcraft :smile:

Reply 7354

That's a really awesome time!
I want to do the GNR at some point in the future. Although I'm concentrating on my 5km times at the mo...i don't think I'm ready for a half marathon yet.... :redface:

Reply 7355

dobbs

I didn't know you were doing the Great North Run!!

I also did it today, and am in a surprisingly small amount of pain compared to the last time I did it! :biggrin:

Though the blisters on my feet beg to differ.... :frown:

But the good news is that I blasted my last time by 7 minutes with a time of 1 hour, 39 minutes and 39 seconds!!!! Am incredibly happy! :biggrin:

If anyone fancies sponsoring me (hehe) head over to www.justgiving.com/kevin-dobson - I ran for Traidcraft :smile:

Well done Kevin very good time (1hr40 was my target), but I finished about 10 mins after you, 1hr 50, I'm in a considerable amount of pain now, my achilles are a nightmare and the kness are just bleurgh. Next year I'm moving up a group or two to give myself a better chance of getting a good time...

Reply 7356

loggins

What zone did you start in? They put me in Zone B! I was quite scared being put right after the Elite Athletes! :redface:

But I made sure I was a little way back in that Zone. It was a nightmare trying to get through a lot of the runners at the start though - even in Zone B! I guess there were about 3,000 runners in front of me still though.

My knees are the worst at the moment - check your rucksack thingy you have some joint cream. Actually you have 2 sachets - each a different brand, so I put one on one knee and one on the other to see which one is better. So far my left knee is feeling much much better, which was the one called "Jointace" :smile:

Reply 7357

I wish I'd been in Zone B or C, I would have made 1hr40 then I reckon...I was in G, simply because when I signed up I was being pessemistic and put down 2hrs. Yeah, I used all that joint cream up about 10 mins after finishing :p:

, beginning to wish I hadn't, though I've got some "Deep Heat" which I might use.

Was it just me, or did the tenth mile seem to go on foreeever? :redface:

Reply 7358

G? That's crazy - my friend who was also running put down 2hrs as her estimated time and she ended up in Zone E! Oh well, not much you can do I guess!

10th mile? Hmmm where was that...oh yeah no that wasn't too bad for me. It was kinda between 7 - 9 miles that killed me because I got the biggest stitch I'd ever had in my life. Was lucky because just before 9 miles there were some portaloos so I had to jump into one and let it relax off whilst doing some business :wink:

...that sorted me out quite good actually and set off again feeling much better :smile:

The best part is like the first 4 miles, they went so quick! It was insane! Then I started to get bored :redface:

Things I like:
-Red Arrows
-People giving out segments of oranges
-The finish line

Things I dislike:
-Charvers wanting everyone to give them a hi-five and screaming at you if you don't
-First Aid people putting HUGE chunks of vaseline on their hands so that if you don't want to stop and carefully take a small bit you have to take the whole chunk and figure out what to do with all the crap then deciding to just rub it around your hands, making the bottle of water that you then grab at a station slip OUT of your hands, grrr :angry:

-Being forced to do a warm up by some random dude in lycra, when he was actually behind me, and the screens were set up so that I couldn't see any of them! :rolleyes:

Still, I loved it! Weather was awesome! Got a tan :biggrin:

Reply 7359