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Reply 3960
FWoodhouse
I got fed up of explaining what STEP is, so I just gave up and started saying "AA, plus decent grades in a couple of additional hard maths papers".

Yeah, I ended up doing that as well lol.
Saw an amusing sight today whilst out shopping in London. Walking along the road and see a shop called The Spy Shop - looks cool but keep on walking, three doors down I come acros the Counter Spy Shop - what's going on there!?!?!?!?

Also, anyone heard of the upcoming Sam Jackson film Snakes on a Plane? Worst plotline ever but looks hilarious - internet hype led to the inclusion of a typically Jacksonesque line - 'get the mother****ing snakes off the mother****ing plane'. Brilliant. Also video of some guy doing impressions of Christopher Walken, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson being auditioned for it on youtube. Search for auditions and snakes on a plane - brilliant comic value.
"We Brits make films like The Ghost Train while you Yanks make snakes on a plane..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l1F6BmKbO0&search=Lazy%20Sunday
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"We Brits make films like The Ghost Train while you Yanks make snakes on a plane..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l1F6BmKbO0&search=Lazy%20Sunday


That is jokes. Love it.
FWoodhouse
I got fed up of explaining what STEP is, so I just gave up and started saying "AA, plus decent grades in a couple of additional hard maths papers". Honestly, if the unwashed masses don't know about the Maths Tripos admissions process, how can we expect them to succeed in life?

:rolleyes:


I always say that they're 'Cambridge maths entrance exams'. And that I might or might not get it. And I'm about ready to throttle the next person who responds with 'oh, I'm sure you'll get in'.
wanderer
I always say that they're 'Cambridge maths entrance exams'. And that I might or might not get it. And I'm about ready to throttle the next person who responds with 'oh, I'm sure you'll get in'.

Thankfully I haven't had many people say things of that ilk to me. (Don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing, mind. :biggrin:)

I do remember being asked where I was going to uni by a cabbie taking me back from the local station. I said "hopefully Cambridge", and I could've sworn he then informed me that it wasn't the place to go if you wanted "a bit of crack". Whaaa...?
FWoodhouse
Thankfully I haven't had many people say things of that ilk to me. (Don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing, mind. :biggrin:)

I do remember being asked where I was going to uni by a cabbie taking me back from the local station. I said "hopefully Cambridge", and I could've sworn he then informed me that it wasn't the place to go if you wanted "a bit of crack". Whaaa...?


He could be Cumbrian, in which case 'crack' would mean 'conversation'.
wanderer
He could be Cumbrian, in which case 'crack' would mean 'conversation'.

You learn something every day. Although I'm not sure if that makes much sense in that context.
Reply 3968
Noooo, my mind, my sweet innocent mind
FWoodhouse
You learn something every day. Although I'm not sure if that makes much sense in that context.


It would round here. 'A bit of crack' meaning something like 'a good laugh' or 'a decent chat'. I thought of what Rpotter said first but was far too polite to say it. :wink:
only one month and 6 days left to wait!
Reply 3971
wanderer
It would round here. 'A bit of crack' meaning something like 'a good laugh' or 'a decent chat'. I thought of what Rpotter said first but was far too polite to say it. :wink:

"A bit of crack" could also mean a certain recreational drug...:rolleyes:
Reply 3972
crazynutter
only one month and 6 days left to wait!

37 days! :eek::frown:
Muffin Man
"A bit of crack" could also mean a certain recreational drug...:rolleyes:


Yes, I think everyone else was taking that one for granted, as per his original post. :p:
Reply 3974
wanderer
Yes, I think everyone else was taking that one for granted, as per his original post. :p:

I like stating the obvious :biggrin:. It did strike me as odd though, that no-one had mentioned it yet.
Muffin Man
37 days! :eek::frown:


And I'd been doing so well at not looking at the countdown!
Muffin Man
I like stating the obvious :biggrin:. It did strike me as odd though, that no-one had mentioned it yet.

Drugs're baaaaaaaad, man. *rolls up twenty quid note*

wanderer
It would round here. 'A bit of crack' meaning something like 'a good laugh' or 'a decent chat'. I thought of what Rpotter said first but was far too polite to say it. :wink:

Ah, okay. Bah, Cumbria, who'd have it. Well, apart from wanderer.

rpotter
I can think of another context in which it makes sense, but you people would call me sick if I were to say it.

Wash your brain out!
Reply 3977
wanderer
And I'd been doing so well at not looking at the countdown!

I had to check it lol. :redface:
Reply 3978
wanderer
And I'd been doing so well at not looking at the countdown!


Time is going so quickly! Rather than worrying, at the moment I seem to be in a state of euphoric denial or something :frown: I cant seem to come to terms with the fact that my exams are being marked and the results are coming soon

;danceboy; * music* ITs the final countdown...... *music* :musicus:
Reply 3979
Ruthie_J
Time is going so quickly! Rather than worrying, at the moment I seem to be in a state of euphoric denial or something :frown: I cant seem to come to terms with the fact that my exams are being marked and the results are coming soon

;danceboy; * music* ITs the final countdown...... *music* :musicus:

Have you seen this? :biggrin: