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#21
(Original post by MentallyIll)
I have heard stories that the Cambridge locals are somewhat more belligerent and confrontational than Oxford locals. I heard that bricks are thrown at boaties on the river and students are thrust off their bicycles in mid pedal-stroke, while gowns are tugged upon while students are about town during examination time. I expect this is much to do with the influence of the deprivation of the surrounding areas...........
I have heard stories that the Cambridge locals are somewhat more belligerent and confrontational than Oxford locals. I heard that bricks are thrown at boaties on the river and students are thrust off their bicycles in mid pedal-stroke, while gowns are tugged upon while students are about town during examination time. I expect this is much to do with the influence of the deprivation of the surrounding areas...........
You're having a laugh guv - inn't yer?
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#22
The advice I received from a Cambridge student is to buy a decent second hand bike - it's cheap, as good as you're goin to need, less likely to be stolen, and less important if it is.
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#23
(Original post by hitchhiker_13)
The advice I received from a Cambridge student is to buy a decent second hand bike - it's cheap, as good as you're goin to need, less likely to be stolen, and less important if it is.
The advice I received from a Cambridge student is to buy a decent second hand bike - it's cheap, as good as you're goin to need, less likely to be stolen, and less important if it is.
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(Original post by yawn1)
You're having a laugh guv - inn't yer?
You're having a laugh guv - inn't yer?
Ok, perhaps I was making it sound worse than it was described to me....but all those events have occured at least once
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#25
(Original post by MentallyIll)
I have heard stories that the Cambridge locals are somewhat more belligerent and confrontational than Oxford locals. I heard that bricks are thrown at boaties on the river and students are thrust off their bicycles in mid pedal-stroke, while gowns are tugged upon while students are about town during examination time. I expect this is much to do with the influence of the deprivation of the surrounding areas...........
I have heard stories that the Cambridge locals are somewhat more belligerent and confrontational than Oxford locals. I heard that bricks are thrown at boaties on the river and students are thrust off their bicycles in mid pedal-stroke, while gowns are tugged upon while students are about town during examination time. I expect this is much to do with the influence of the deprivation of the surrounding areas...........
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(Original post by Helenia)
Well, we don't wear gowns for exams any more, so that one's certainly not going to happen. There were a couple of incidents of some Clare students getting beaten up earlier in the year (one was on Midsomer common at night though, which is just asking for trouble) but seems to have quietened down last term.
Well, we don't wear gowns for exams any more, so that one's certainly not going to happen. There were a couple of incidents of some Clare students getting beaten up earlier in the year (one was on Midsomer common at night though, which is just asking for trouble) but seems to have quietened down last term.
Why were Clare students singled out? How perculiar.
What is Midsomer Common? Sounds like a gay cruising spot.......
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#27
(Original post by Helenia)
Well, we don't wear gowns for exams any more
Well, we don't wear gowns for exams any more
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#28
(Original post by MentallyIll)
Why were Clare students singled out? How perculiar.
What is Midsomer Common? Sounds like a gay cruising spot.......
Why were Clare students singled out? How perculiar.
What is Midsomer Common? Sounds like a gay cruising spot.......
Midsomer common is not somewhere you go at night on your own.
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(Original post by Helenia)
Midsomer common is not somewhere you go at night on your own.
Midsomer common is not somewhere you go at night on your own.
Why not? Please can you elaborate.
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#30
(Original post by grey faerie)
There was some organised crime circle that rounded up bikes in Ox, took them over to Cam and sold them to students beofre promptly nicking a load of Cam bikes and bringing them back to Ox to sell!!
There was some organised crime circle that rounded up bikes in Ox, took them over to Cam and sold them to students beofre promptly nicking a load of Cam bikes and bringing them back to Ox to sell!!
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#31
A multi-storey bicycle park.
And what I can only think is a "bicycle share" machine - it was actually parked outside an office.
Photos I took in AMsterdam
And what I can only think is a "bicycle share" machine - it was actually parked outside an office.
Photos I took in AMsterdam
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#32
(Original post by MentallyIll)
Why not? Please can you elaborate.
Why not? Please can you elaborate.
Hehe, funny pics blissy! And we thought Cambridge was full of bikes
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#33
New Hall has a big underground place to store bikes - a definite advantage of a new college
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#34
(Original post by blissy)
New Hall has a big underground place to store bikes - a definite advantage of a new college
New Hall has a big underground place to store bikes - a definite advantage of a new college
but I only keep mine down there in the holidays cos it's a pain in the arse to lug it down there and back up every time I want to use it.
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#35
(Original post by Helenia)
We have one too
but I only keep mine down there in the holidays cos it's a pain in the arse to lug it down there and back up every time I want to use it.
We have one too
but I only keep mine down there in the holidays cos it's a pain in the arse to lug it down there and back up every time I want to use it.
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#36
(Original post by MentallyIll)
I have heard stories that the Cambridge locals are somewhat more belligerent and confrontational than Oxford locals. I heard that bricks are thrown at boaties on the river and students are thrust off their bicycles in mid pedal-stroke, while gowns are tugged upon while students are about town during examination time. I expect this is much to do with the influence of the deprivation of the surrounding areas...........
I have heard stories that the Cambridge locals are somewhat more belligerent and confrontational than Oxford locals. I heard that bricks are thrown at boaties on the river and students are thrust off their bicycles in mid pedal-stroke, while gowns are tugged upon while students are about town during examination time. I expect this is much to do with the influence of the deprivation of the surrounding areas...........
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(Original post by katiyakat)
Oh man I have a nice 18th birthday present bike! Motorcycle chain lock here I come
Oh man I have a nice 18th birthday present bike! Motorcycle chain lock here I come
....will you not take heed of the advice of these wise people and buy a cheap second hand one for Cambridge - preferably one that might fold away? How will you travel everywhere with a hefty motorbike chain (which will possibly be cut through at some point by a Arbury or Kings Lynn thug)?
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#39
(Original post by MentallyIll)
Arbury or Kings Lynn thug
Arbury or Kings Lynn thug
lol!
Seriously, you do need to watch your bike but the crime rates are relatively low (although students are perceived as easy targets so you do need to be careful - thieves love student accommodation). There are no real deprived areas around Cambridge - the closest scary place, at least from the northern region (where I come from) is really St Neots - that's a total hole and I recommend you never go there, but it's a fair few miles away! You get far more crime in Oxford from what I've heard, especially against students (apparently it's getting quite nasty in areas - there was a student thrown off a bridge a few months ago, not sure if anyone saw the post on here).
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#40
Umm..why not just band up and fight them all off? I mean, there's more of you than them, and I can't see any of them actualy being hard. King's Lynn, Arbury or whatever. Have I been watching matrix revolutions and The Godfather too much? I'd say so.
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