Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

fatuous_philomath

uz_master - may I suggest Urban Dictionary? :smile:

cheers! altho seriously i kno alot of south london slang but i had never heard of "Dom" before!

Reply 7261

Mib

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snakes+on+a+plane

Classic.

Reply 7262

Mr. Jim

fatuous_philomath

It is indeed a sad day. :frown:

Steve Irwin was awesome. May he rest in peace.

i actually shouted "no" at the tv. i know it's a shame when these old actors and people die but this was completely out of the blue. and what a way to go! :frown:

Reply 7263

uz_master

cheers! altho seriously i kno alot of south london slang but i had never heard of "Dom" before!

You're welcome; Urban Dictionary has 'helped' me learn the definition of 'corrupt' words on more than one occasion.

There was this one time when I was about 14-15 and I was talking to two friends on MSN who were talking about girls (I think). They mentioned 'pink sock' and 'pearl necklace,' and I naively thought that these were things that females might wear, but after they started laughing at me Urban Dictionary corrected my erroneous belief.

Afterwards my fragile little mind was warped for life, and so I decided to become a Mathmo. :biggrin:

Reply 7264

sassygirl

Yeah, I hate it when I watch old movies and then I look up the actors on wiki and it has a section entitled 'Death'. It's so depressing! You know, chances are we'll live to see people like Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Jodie Foster etc . all die of old age. That's really quite terrifying.

Reply 7265

lol! ill a mathmo soon too, tho my mind is as of yet unwarped....

Reply 7266

uz_master

lol! ill a mathmo soon too

Have you finished the Mathematics Workbook yet? I managed to do two whole pages this evening, so I've now got to... the third page of questions. :rolleyes:

Reply 7267

Ditting Suck

Yep, I was sad to hear about Steve. Whatever you thought of his antics, he got an awful lot of people interested in animals and animal conservation - people who wouldn't have batted an eyelid otherwise. He will be sorely missed.

It was indeed quite a way to go, though - he is only the second Australian ever to have died from a stingray sting (the other being in 1945). The venom isn't sufficient to kill an human - he was just ridiculously unlucky in that it stung him through his chest, so the wound trauma was massive.

Reply 7268

yea i did the first few pages n snippets of the rest during my time in hospital, but i dnt think ill do anymore, because the answers are in the back n therefore im gambling that they dont mind if we dont do all/any of it!

Reply 7269

uz_master

im gambling that they dont mind if we dont do all/any of it!

Mathematics Workbook

It is not necessary to know all this material, but it would make your first term more comfortable if you did know it.

I suspect your gamble will pay off. :wink:

Reply 7270

KAISER_MOLE

7

uz_master

im gambling that they dont mind if we dont do (all/)any of it!

Reply 7271

which college are you going to, philomath? i kno kaiser's a st.johns' lad, grrr! lol

Reply 7272

I'm going to Sidney.

You're going to Magdalene aren't you? If so, Kaiser, yourself and I will be nearby come October. :smile:

Luke, how's the LaTeX coming on?

coolio!

sassygirl

Yeah, I hate it when I watch old movies and then I look up the actors on wiki and it has a section entitled 'Death'. It's so depressing! You know, chances are we'll live to see people like Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Jodie Foster etc . all die of old age. That's really quite terrifying.

No one has died of "old age" since... the 1930's. That's when the government decide that "old age" is not a cause for death...

instead, "ineffective treatment" is now the leading killer of man kind.

Reply 7275

Robob

17

Camford

No one has died of "old age" since... the 1930's. That's when the government decide that "old age" is not a cause for death...

instead, "ineffective treatment" is now the leading killer of man kind.

Tru dat!

Woooo, I eight balled a mate playing pool today :biggrin:

, the bint wouldnt go round the table in his boxers though :mad:

Reply 7276

sassygirl

Camford

No one has died of "old age" since... the 1930's. That's when the government decide that "old age" is not a cause for death...

instead, "ineffective treatment" is now the leading killer of man kind.

Maybe I should just say die instead.. or you could argue that old age is a condition, the symptoms of which are cancer, heart disease etc.

Reply 7277

what is a debate (esp philos ones) but merely a play on words?! but here i muse too much, for my time is running out...

Reply 7278

visesh

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uz_master

what is a debate (esp philos ones) but merely a play on words?! but here i muse too much, for my time is running out...

Have you been smoking something naughty?

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