Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

Look, you both seem really sound, but is there any chance you could take it elsewhere if you're going to bicker? That's what PMs are for.

Reply 5361

tctc

i was gonna post a link to a video of me and some mates performing poorly on a train to try and lighten the thread up a bit... but yeah im not now.

in recent news, the un security council should reach a verdict at 00.00

Reply 5362

Tariqé

sorry everyone, i promise that is the last you hear of it from me :smile:

im gunna sound like such a traitor now... im off to oxford this weekend to meet up with a mate! if it helps, she applied to cambridge too!

awww please tctc post the link, sounds hilarious!

Reply 5363

JeremyC

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tctc

i was gonna post a link to a video of me and some mates performing poorly on a train to try and lighten the thread up a bit...

May I suggest watching this (or some of the related videos)?

Returning to the theme of pets, a friend of mine is looking after some geckos for somebody on holiday, and while at his house today I saw one of them eat a nice, tasty cricket, and lick its lips afterwards; crickets do look ever so scrumptious don't they? :biggrin:

This particular friend also has a ferret which bit me. :frown:

Reply 5364

Tariqé

geckos are cool, ive always wanted a rattle snake, or a giant tortoise. once my dad smuggled a scropion from mauritius, it died after a few days :frown:

i was crushed!

Reply 5365

The Albatross

12

fatuous_philomath

crickets do look ever so scrumptious don't they? :biggrin:

i've eaten them in Taiwan. Not bad actually. crunchy...

yummy!

Has anybody seen this treadmill dance ?

ahahah, the ice skating bit is genius (music's not bad either :wink:

)

Reply 5368

JeremyC

8

Aired

Has anybody seen this treadmill dance ?

Yep - it's a rather awesome video. It must have taken those guys so long to perfect that routine. :rolleyes:

Reply 5369

Duke Flipside

friendlyneutron

I'm skint too, quite depressing!

Club Tropicana's more expensive than it seems :confused:

*wishes the drinks were free...*

friendlyneutron

Aw, I love pets! Although I seriously think my cat thinks I'm his wife.

Ah, so this is the source of our earlier conv..? Suppose he might start getting a bit jealous then if you got a few dozen more...

fatuous_philomath

Returning to the theme of pets, a friend of mine is looking after some geckos for somebody on holiday, and while at his house today I saw one of them eat a nice, tasty cricket, and lick its lips afterwards...

This particular friend also has a ferret which bit me. :frown:

Aww man, I've always wanted a gecko! D'you know if they're easy/difficult to take care of?
And I've always wanted a ferret too...or maybe a mongoose...or a puffin...

Reply 5370

Liz150888

hey all! have return from the far side of the globe-rwanda (eventually; bloody terrorists, damn heathrow *shakes fist*). very freckly and tired. had a lovely time though, even though the whole genocide thing was pretty difficult to deal with. still hasnt really sunk in that ive got into ye olde cambo.

we had geckos in rwanda! they were well cool! we named one fred and one lived on our curtains bless. i couldve brought one home for u duke!

well maybe...customs in nairobi were very odd. they let my mate take a SWORD on the plane. A SWORD. and yet they refused to let me take a large crucifix on as hand luggage. i mean jesus?? a sword? where in the logic??

Reply 5371

JeremyC

8

Duke Flipside

Aww man, I've always wanted a gecko! D'you know if they're easy/difficult to take care of?

From my very limited knowledge (I suspect wikipedia/google could provide far more help):

My friend feeds the two he's looking after every two days - he gives them both six crickets (which are kept in little transparent boxes with what I presume is cricket food) each, which he picks up using tweezers. However, the crickets do not enjoy being picked up, so are liable to jump - which makes feeding time all the more amusing.

The geckos each have their own plastic cage with newspapers laid on the bottom so their cages can be cleaned more easily, and in each cage is a small log (which I presume is fake) or two, under which the geckos can hide.

I believe a light needs to be switched on over the cages every so often, presumably to warm them up.

All in all, keeping geckos doesn't seem particularly onerous. My friend also owns a dog, so if you like I could ask him to compare the difference between how easy it is to take care of a dog, and how easy it is to take care of a gecko (I imagine you have some knowledge of taking care of a dog), from which you could work out whether or not it'd be worth getting a gecko or not. :smile:

Reply 5372

Gravastar

11

If anyone's serious about this herpology (lizard-keeping) lark, I've got a mate in Chalfont St-Giles who's breeding his leopard geckos. Probably they'll be a lower price (and better quality) than you'd get at a non-specialist pet store

Let me know and I can find out his website address for you.

Reply 5373

Gravastar

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Liz150888

hey all! have return from the far side of the globe-rwanda (eventually; bloody terrorists, damn heathrow *shakes fist*). very freckly and tired. had a lovely time though, even though the whole genocide thing was pretty difficult to deal with. still hasnt really sunk in that ive got into ye olde cambo.

Have you seen 'Shooting Dogs'? Will totally destroy any vestige of faith you may still have left in the UN.

Reply 5374

friendlyneutron

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Liz150888

hey all! have return from the far side of the globe-rwanda (eventually; bloody terrorists, damn heathrow *shakes fist*). very freckly and tired. had a lovely time though, even though the whole genocide thing was pretty difficult to deal with. still hasnt really sunk in that ive got into ye olde cambo.

we had geckos in rwanda! they were well cool! we named one fred and one lived on our curtains bless. i couldve brought one home for u duke!

well maybe...customs in nairobi were very odd. they let my mate take a SWORD on the plane. A SWORD. and yet they refused to let me take a large crucifix on as hand luggage. i mean jesus?? a sword? where in the logic??

Hurrah, my fellow scottsy medic (of the '06 variety, loocy's '07 :wink:

) has returned! What did you get to do in rwanda? Besides sword/crucifix shopping :biggrin:

I know what you mean, it's really not sunk in about meeting my offer yet, eep.

Toast

eh?

Felt like being random i apoligise... the word was induced by thoughts of hunger and simplicity

Reply 5378

Gravastar

11

That's what the Food and Drink forum is for, surely?

Reply 5379

tctc

no, it was general chat, stop me if im wrong.
Maybe if i wrote an essay discussing the different types of bread one can toast to have the desired texture that stimulates ones respective tastebuds with maximum effect and crap like that then it would belong in that forum.
Its like saying when anyone mentions anything it should be in that respective thread. :wink:

Then this thread would be no more...

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